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A NI IG A SCENE

7 LATESTNEWSHigh performance network. Who wonthe hard discs. Profile name change.Meet the new Nic and loads of othernews and gossip from the trenches,

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THE VERY LATESTGAMES NEWS

Ninja Warriors — Virgin pushes backbeat-em-up boundaries. Who isElyira? Sword of Twilight,Goldninner 3(1 and more.

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2 PRETTYSPEEDY HUH?The Third Coast Accelerator is notonly the cheapest speed up board forthe Amiga 500, it is one of the best.Rupert Goodwins sings its praises.

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the products behind the computersyou know and love. A detailedinsight into what the Amiga has tooffer. Plus an unbeatable chance towin one of three Commodore A590hard drives if you use our specialdiscount voucher for the CommodoreShow in November.

HINTS

11A new look for Max the Hacks doesnot mean he's had his hair cut.Loadsa tips for Archipelagos, IndyDragons Lair, Pop and more.

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11 YOUR RIGHTTO WRITE

The universal cure for sick discs,mice and programs. Did Angus getlost? Problems with icons and whowas who in last months magazine.

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Digital video effects are the key to aprofessional looking production. Withsome skill, patience and plenty ofmemory you can make the grade.

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Chess Player 2150 is the strongest and most versatile chess program yet. with the most advancedgraphics and widest range of features available, many of which have never before been implemented on apersonal computer.Chess Player 2150 has just defeated all opposition to win outright the British Open Chess Championship.Every possible feature is included: stunning 240/30 display, take-back move, massive openings library,simple mouse driven input, full menu control, save/load games, many classic games on disc, speech,learning, total on-screen information, special modes for beginners, actually rates your play on theinternational ELO scale and much, much more. C H E S S PLAYER 2150 1 . 2 4 . 9 5

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Joining thebig leagueCONNECTING computers isbig business. RS232 is finefor linking two machines toplay Populous, but whenyou want a really big net-work and have a lot of datato transfer something reallymeaty is needed.

The big boys use Ethernetto l i n k worksta tions tomainframes, PCs to PCs andmost industrial computers.

Hydra Systems, a Britishcompany. has developed anEthernet card for the Amigawhich provides compatibili-ty with Amiga and industrystandard file systems,

The l ink is up to 1,000times faster than other net-works, making i t an effec-tive way for a number o fAmigas — o r any o th e rmachine — to share a harddisc.

There is a card version forthe A2000 with a cheaperexternal unit for the A500.Such a set-up is ideal foreducational establishmentswhich often want to l inklarge numbers of computers.Ethernet can cope with upto 8,000 users at a time.

The software has beenwritten by Perihelion tointegrate we l l w i th theAmiga operating system,while Hydra has developedthe hardware wh i ch i salready installed at a num-ber of clients.

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Now your Amiga can talk at 10 megabaud

Hydra has a long historyof producing Commodorenetworks, which made thePet a sensible solution forbusinesses which needed amulti-user system.

Ethernet w i l l take theAmiga into advanced fieldswhere i t can be used as afully blown workstation.For more details contactHydra Systems on 0203471111.

Computer animation draws Festival crowds

Judging the entries

Track onnew tackAMIGA special ist TrackComputer Systems (0773531991) has moved in tomulti-format with the open-ing of its first retail outlet inDerby city centre. It hopesto obtain authorised statusfor business sales of Amiga2000s.

MARTIN LOWE of AmigaCentre Scotland is the driv-ing force behind an annualexhibition at the EdinburghInternational Festival whichaims to transform computerart from the static to thedynamic and give the pub-lic a chance to use the sametools as the artists.

The fi rst Exhibition o fComputer Animation washeld last year. and generat-ed so much publicity thatthis year's event took placewith more extensive adver-tising and better prizes. Itwas in three parts — an exhi-bition, a competition andworkshops.

The exhibition consistedof 10 animations running on

We namehard drivewinnersYOUR response to theVortex hard drive competi-tion was tremendous, withnearly 4.000 entries. Andwe had to open them al lbecause a fool of an editorforgot to ask for entries to bemarked wi th the name o fthe competition.

It was interesting to seehow far flung some readersare, Lots are in the armedforces, w e h a d a b i gresponse from Scandinaviaand one entry from Tehran.A large number o f formswere rejected for cheating.

All the entries were putinto a big plastic bag andjumbled up. The first onewe drew was wrong — IBMinvented the hard disc. Thewinners are:

Mark S . S m i th f r o mBelfast. Mr P. Lambert fromFakenham, N o r fo l k .Timson from Cl i theroe.Lancs.. Nigel L Jones fromGuilford, Surrey, Mr K. P.Gray from Bexleyheath.Kent. and Claes Svenssonfrom Sweden.

Congratulations to youall, 40 megabytes of joy willbe dispatched to you.

Commiserations to every-one else. Thank you fu rentering.

Amigas. On ly one, BusyBee, used an A2000. I tshowed a bee created withSculpt-Animate 4D flyingfigures of eight in front of aTom and Jerry cartoonstored on video disc. Tohelp this along, the A2000had 8 meg of ram.

The other animationsused A500s expanded to 1meg, and the favouredgraphics package seemed tobe Scu lp t-An imate 4D,Animations o f H e a thRobinson style machinesmoving bal ls around i nunlikely ways were popular.

Trek showed the StarshipEnterprise racing past Earthand firing laser guns. Luxo

November 1989 A MI G A COMPUTING 7

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Yes, for three exciting days inNovember, Computer Shopper willturn Alexandra Palace into theworld's greatest computer show.Everything you need for businessand leisure computing will beavailable under one roof w i t hexperts to help you make the rightchoice!

The Computer Shopper Show is yourchance to meet the dealers with thebargains, the manufacturers with thelatest machines — and to take awaythe things you buy on the day!

Auctions, demonstrations,competitions e v e r y th i n g thatyou've ever wanted from anexhibition will be happening at theComputer Shopper Show — the onlyshow for the direct buyer and theultimate computer shoppingexperience!

And, with Computer Shopper youknow you'll save money!

Why not start right here! By orderingyour tickets in advance you will saveEMI Simply complete and returnthe coupon with your payment ortelephone the Credit Card Hotline on051-357 2961 to place your order.

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Franklin Fly was the mostimaginative demo usingDeluxe Paint 111. It showed afly buzzing around land-scapes, through windows,and finally landing on theQueen's nose, causing her toroll her eyeballs.

The competition attracted20 entries on disc and videotape. Th e y were to bejudged by three expertsfrom different disciplines:Len Breen o f MiddlesexPolytechnic, which spe-cialises i n research in tocomputer graphics, NickMasters, a TV productioneditor, and lack Gramon, a

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New gameson MicroLinkNEWS of improved servicescame in thick and fast onthe run-up to October 1when communications ser-vice MicroLink left BritishTelecom for the indepen-dent Islet network.

They include the arrivalof two major mul ti -usergames.

Bloodstone has beenhailed as the first of a new

generation o f multi-usergames. I t is a huge role-playing adventure capableof supporting mil l ions o fcharacters. It combines lov-ing, killing, buying and sell-ing i n an envi ronmentwhich can be constantlychanged.

Federation I I has morethan 900 locations and hasbeen described as a crossbetween Monopoly and StarTrek.

Following the changeoveron October 1. 98 per cent ofpeople in the British Islescan now access MicroLinkfor the cost of a local tele-phone call.

Micro onthe air againAMIGA owners who missedthe first broadcast will havea second chance to listen toRadio Four's computerseries Applying The Micro

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graphic designer.The prizes were impres-

sive. including an A590from Commodore. a genlockfrom Marcam, a graphicstablet from Techex, s i xcopies of Photon Paint fromMicro Illusions, two copiesof DigiPaint 3 from Newtek,and a day in a video studiofrom Advanced V i d e oTechnology.

Despite suffering from theprogrammer's voice-over ina heavy German accent andthe after effects of NTSC toPAL conversion, an exhibi-tion program on video drewcrowds. Caligari is billed asthe first 3D graphics pro-gram w i t h a 3D (so l i dgraphics, not wireframe)

editor, rather than 2D win-dows. It looks fast, easy touse and effective.

Most o f the people whotook part in workshops hadnever used a computerbefore, so the shop's staffgave half hour courses onDeluxe Paint III. This wasenough for several people towave their chequebooks.

Despite the crampedpremises t h e s e c o n dExhibition o f ComputerAnimation was most enjoy-able. and should have per-suaded visi tors to th inkbeyond the Spectrum andaccept that the Amiga. aloneamong personal computers,can produce stunning, life-like animation.

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"This series looks at someof the newest practical usesfor micros i n business,music, education and in ourdaily lives and examinestheir potential", said pro-ducer Clive Williamson.

Transmission dates areSaturdays October 14, 21,28 and November 4 at 5pm.The four programme titlesare Computers Everywhere,Computers i n Business,Micros i n Education andThe Musical Micro.

Green joinsthe team

HELPING to keep AmigoComputing the best readaround is Nic Veitch. He hasbeen working freelance atthe magazine fo r somewhile, having written bothserious reviews, like the oneof Sculpt- Animate andloads o f games reviewsunder the pseudonym o fGreen. You can usually spotone of his reviews by thePink Floyd lyric buried inthe text. His favourite gameso far is Falcon, and hisleast favourite is Stag (easi-ly). Nic has already beensent on a number of mis-sions, including a visit tointerview Elvira. Soundsfun— read about it in AmigaArcade.

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M a r t in L o c k h a r t o fElmtec h t o l d A m i g aComputing: "ParSec for theAmiga is the next projec twe w il l be looking at. Oncewe go into fu ll productionfor the ST and get r id of alot of back orders, work willstart on the Amiga and weare confident that it w il l beready by the end of the year.We w i l l be s e l l ing i t f o rL918".

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Applic at ions c ur rent lyunder development inc ludea 3D CAD/CAM package, amolecular modelling pro-gram. a Unix shell with theposs ibility o f X-Windowsand an art program Chimeraf(x) wh ic h is intended tocompete with Quantel. Sunand the like.

Epyxdesignersmove onDAVE Morse and R. J. Mica].two of the original designersof the Amiga, have been laidoff by Epyx along w ith 85per cent of the staff. Thecompany was responsiblefor Summer Games and anumber of other Amiga hits.

Dave and RJ went to Epyxafter they left Commodore —which had then taken overthe former Amiga company— where they were responsi-ble for the development ofthe Amazing Lynx handheldgames machine, which is tobe manufactured and mar-keted by Atari.

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Sales Gun Manag i ng director lane Cavanagh believes that NiniaWarriors wi l l c limb to wear•,t - h e l i z i z , t h a n S i l k w o rm

VIRGIN'S big shot at theChristmas number one slotis The Sales Curve's conver-sion o f the Ninja Warriorscoin-op. It is being coded byRandom Access, the sameteam th a t b rought yo uSilkworm (96%, AmigaComputing, July 1989), andwi l l fea ture some veryadvanced features to keepthe action going at a break-neck pace.

Like most 16 bi t gamesthese days, backdrops andsprites will be loaded in asand when they are needed.Where Ninja Warriors wi l ldiffer from the rest, howev-er, is that i t w i l l load thenext sequence on that levelwhile you are still finishingoff the baddies on the cur-rent screen.

Incredibly the gameplaydoes not slow down whilethis is happening, Well, notso you'd notice. If you studythe sprites very carefullyyou may detect a slight hes-itation in movement, butthis is totally transparent tothe player in the heat of thebattle.

The game i s se t i n afuture world w i r e the evildictator Bangler controls thearmy, police and crimina!underworld_

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Each scene wi l l p i t youagainst Bangler's massedtroops - knifemen, gunmen,grenade launchers andfierce dogs - plus additionalenemies, i n c l u d i n g ahunchbacked ground spi-ripr, the ninia swordlady. a

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big dude called Iron Ar i,with an axe and ball an,chain, a fi re breather affe,ttionately known as DeathBreath, a sniper, some batsa few laser firing robots andof course, the giant tank.

The soundtrack is fronthe arcade machine, Iov inj.ly trans c r ibed on to t h,•Amiga by the programmer,Ronald Pieket Weeserick.us ing his ow n s of twar ewritten specially for the job.

The first level music hasbeen c ommis s ioned andwill definitely be there, thesecond level tune maybe. I fyou've played the coin-op,you k now how good themusic is. In Japan you canbuy the soundtrack on cas-sette.

So watch out for N in jaWarriors in the run up toChristmas. We t h ink it ' sgonna be hotter than July.

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DESPITE the poor sales o fG oldr unner I I , w h i c hMicrodeal blames on piracy,the c ompany is ex c itedabout i t s n e w r e leas e,G oldr unner 3 D , p r o -grammed by the same teamthat made Falcon a hugesuccess. ,

So i t ' l l come as no sur-pr ise t o y o u t h a tColdrunner 3D resembles aflight simulator.

Graphics h a v e b e e npushed well past their theo-retical l imits by use o f acunning screen s p l i t t ingtechnique involv ing a mix-ture of 32 and 16 c olourmodes, g i v i n g a w i d epalette yet retaining highanimation speed - 8 framesper second, enough to allowfi ve b ig 31) baddies on-screen at once.

Listen out for the sound-track - an ins pir ing 200krendition of the Mars themefrom Hoist's Planet Suite bythe popular ly acc laimedDavid Whittaker.

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FANCY infi l trating theRussian Red Army, bat-tling with dinosaurs andhaving a go at a mechani-cal ape? And all this inthe guise of a female? You

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what to expect. In a reversalof current trends , a l l thegraphics were developed onthe A m i g a a n d p o r t e dacross to the ST.

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tion sequences. The s hiphandles and feels much likethe F-16 in Falcon.

It looks good, i t soundsgood, but w ill it play good?Watch th is space to fi ndout.

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FIFTY years after the war toend all wars (part II). Britainis once again on the brink elfinvasion - this time onewhich she w i l l no doubtwelcome with open arms.

The threat comes from themulti-million dollar mediamachine that is Elvira, acult figure in the States andAustralia, whose worldwidepopularity exceeds that o fmany heads o f state. Shecertainly works harder thanmost of them.

After the offer of a rareone-to-one interview, themost expendable member ofthe s t a f f (Green) w a sdespatched Mayfairwards,equipped only wi th someessence of garlic and a l istof every Van Helsing in thetelephone book.

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the Elvira character devel-oped from a mixture of theterrible.script she was givenand Cassandra Peterson'snatural comic ability. Notquite what the TV companywanted, but with eight yearsof fantastic success i t isobviously what the publicwere after.

Enter stage left Tynesoftlooking for someone to pro-mote i t s wares i n th ecolonies. Seeking advicefrom a New York agency,Tynesoft was to l d th a tElyira was the star it needed(anyone who rates Attack ofthe Soft Woman as a goodfi lm can't be al l bad). Amutually beneficial dealwas struck.

From a simple endorse-ment o f H o r r o r s o f t ' sPersonal Nightmare, therelationship has developed

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I guess I took a wrong turning. Urghhh...to the point o f an Elyiragame, going under the sametitle as her fi lm, Elvira -Mistress o f the Dark -recently released on video1 ve r here.

So watch out for wavesupon waves of Elvira mer-chandise - comics, records,even a pinbal l machine.Elvira confesses to be a bitof a pinball freak.

The game takes someideas from the fi lm and re-works them into a differentplot. Elvira has inherited aring and a castle in Englandwhere, shortly after movingin. she experiences sometrouble with ghosts and theundead• The player assumesthe role o f a con man whohas been contracted to clearup the matter. •

I f y o u t h i n k t h a tCassandra Peterson took aback seat in al l this, thenyou are wrong. Never one tosi t back and re lax, sheinsisted on taking an activerole in the game's develop-ment.

"I re-wrote some o f thescript fo r my character",Cassandra to l d Ami g aComputing, "and I madethem change it from a neck-lace to a ring so it would tieIn w i th the fi lm better -things like that".

Expanding on the totallyicon-driven n a tu re o fPersonal Nightmare, theupdated user interface nowhas "fl uid" (as opposed torigid) selection panels andmore sensible control overobjects.

The realtime action fightsequences feature 12 framesof animation each and, saysTynesoft. u s e m o r e

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advanced combat rules thanmost current games.

In this land where adven-ture and role-play meet.more emphasis is placed ontactical advantage and theswings made rather than ona set o f numbers claimingyou are invincible.

TAKE one man whose soleaim in l i fe is to completethe mission on which hisfather perished and sprin-kle that wi th the savagedanger dwel l ing on theAfrican horizon - from rest-less nomads, angry nativesand hungry cannibals, tobloodthirsty dinosaurs,lecherous animal life (that'swhat is says here!) and veryunhappy witchdoctors.

Al l t h i s a d d s u p t oSystem 3 's new arcadeadventure, Thsker - a threelevel jaunt in search o f themuch fabled elephants'graveyard.

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A Mid i sound track isprovided, enabling ownerswith suitable hardware toget extra enjoyment. A ful land impressive four chan-nels have been constructedby leaz Woodroffe, ex o fBlack Sabbath and th eRobert Plant band — youremember them, they comeafter Pink Floyd i n thealbum racks.

Jezz is currently workingon a new album which willfeature a slightly re-mixedversion o f the Midi musicfrom the game.

All this on five discs (sofar) with a projected releasedate of Halloween.

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It looks like this and it'll be out in November on the US Gold labelHE is credited with thebiggest selling album of alltime — more than 40 millioncopies sold — and has woneight Grammies, sevenmusic awards, four videoawards plus the BPI awardfor best international artist.

He performs sell-out con-certs all over the world.Since 1980 he has achievednine number one hits onthe Billboard Hot 100 —more than any other artistthis decade.

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He's big, he's bad, andhe's signed with US Gold,

The question is: Who ishe. and what's the name ofthe game?

Answers on a postcardplease to: Michael Jackson'sMoon walker Competition,Amiga Computing, NorthHouse, 78-84 Ongar Road,Brentwood, Essex, CM159BG.

Bundles of T shirts andposters up for grabs. Closingdate October 31, 1989.

Nuvrmber 19811 AMI G A COMPUTING 2 7

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delinquentKEEF the Thief was aban-doned as a baby outside theTemple of Mem. All say ah.The priests attempted totrain Keef in the ways o fMem - goody-goody stufflike battle and magic and allthat - but he mastered noneof them. Instead he trainedhimself to be a tea-leaf.

He was banished from thetemple and left to survive inthe Tr-ci ty area, using hisskill at thieving and hisbasic training in the priestlyarts.

Exploring the ci ty, hehears rumours o f powerfulweapons, strange cities andof Telloc the god king whoonce ruled the city by virtueof a magic statue.

When he was overthrownthe statue was broken intosix p i eces a n d - y o uguessed i t - scattered aboutthe kingdom. Keel decidesto embark on a quest._

Electronic Arts PR personLesley Mansford told Amigacomputing: "Keef the Thieffeatures stunning graphics,great music and lo ts o fhumour".

Out i n October somet ime, pr ic e E24.99.

THE development o fMars Cops. the space agearcade adventure fromArcana. has been arrest-ed for the fourth time.

We t o l d y o u i nSeptember how two pro-grammers had walked offthe job and how companyboss and chief program-mer Ma x Taylo r hadlocked himself away in asecret Edinburgh hide-away to finish the game.Well, the situation haschanged yet again.

"We h a ve n o w go tsomeone else working onit". says Max. "We hopeto have i t ready by theend of the year".

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Ace guards his packed lunch in a scenefrom Don Bluth's animated epic

HOW can you possibly topDragon's Lair? Simple, thesame way as the arcadegame did. The sequel toDon B l u th 's an ima tedarcade antics was SpaceAce.

Predictably this has fol-lowed Dragon's Lair to theAmiga. The program hasbeen written for Readysoft,the people who brought youDragon's, and wi l l be sold

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The plot is one of a bravespace adventurer (you), apretty girl ie, and an evi lman (no, not Nigel Lawson).

Rescue girl from dragon -sorry, man - and make offin your spaceship.

Expect i t to cost squil-lions and use more discsthan Sony makes in a goodmonth. well six actually.

The ultimate golf

GOLF has always been adifficult game to simulateaccurately on a computer.It's the huge number of fac-tors that does it. In real lifeeven the simplest thing -the fl i g h t o f a ba l l , fo rinstance - is affected by amultitude of parameters, inthis case ranging from thephysical characteristics ofthe ball itself through to theatmospheric conditions atthe time of flight.

When designing GregNorman's Shark Attack -Ultimate Golf, the program-mers at Gremlin Graphicsdecided that the only wayto produce a truly realisticsimulation was to includeas many of these factors aspossible.

They took real holes andreal courses and createdaccurate 3D models fromthem, including height andvegetation information.They simulated globalweather conditions for all12 months of the year. Thenthey took professionaladvice on how to create, notonly a golf game, but ateaching aid as well.

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The realtime animationsof the golfer are digitisedsequences of Greg Normantaking shots. D ig i ti sedsound effects accompanythe action. And arguably themost important feature ofany go l f simulation, thescreen update time, is fasterthan all i ts rivals - some-thing of which the program-ming team is particularlyproud.

The game features a mul-titude of levels, from a sim-ple arcade style swipe-aboutto very accurate simulationsof foursomes, greensomes,fourball and normal singlegames. Both matchplay andstrokeplay scoring methodsare implemented.

A computer caddy cangive you advice on whatclub to select and how touse it. There are many dif-ferent swing styles andspins to choose from, alongwith diagrams showing howthe ball wi l l travel. A true-to- life handicapping systemensures that the game getsharder as you get better.

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the scenery there is the abil-i ty to w a l k around thecourse to visit every tree.bush, bunker, lake or pieceof rough land.

Computer con tro l l edplayers can be set at anyrank from novice to profes-sional. If you're feeling reallazy, just sit hack and watchthe game being played byfour Greg Normans.

To top i t off, a disc-baseddatabase will hold up to 100players and their personalattributes, "Al l that is miss-ing", says programmer PaulBlythe. "i s the birdsong.And i f we had more room.we'd have stuck that i ntoo". I t ' l l b e o u t i nNovember, so you'l l haveplenty of time to practise forthe 1990 Ryder Cup team.

El A M I G A A R C A D E 11

Walk like an Egyptian

110MEWHERE i n t h elabyrinths o f the Eye o fHorus, the new arcadeadventure from Logotron,lies the awesome presenceof your evil half-brother,Set. Such is Set's powerthat he can animate hiero-glyphics, which peel off themurals and attack you.

Your quest is to search

out the seven pieces of thelate but great Osiris (yourfather) and return them tothe proper burial chamber.

As i f that p lo t wasn'tenough to make you buythe game, Logotron i sputting an entry form inevery Eye of Horus to win atrip to Cairo. Yes, sevendays (and nights) for two

people, flight and three starhotel included, Can't bebad.

Jane Smith, Logotron'snewly appointed marketingperson, t o l d A m i g aComputing: "We choseEgypt because we fe l t i twas more appropriate toEye o f H o r u s t h a nBlackpool",

VIN• pretty. hut tvill it have French gameplay?

FOR three years French pro-grammer Paul Cuisset hasbeen quietly working on anew type of computer game.

He worked out, a l l byhimsel f mind you, th a tmore people would enjoyplaying adventure games i fthey didn't have to type inso m u c h t e x t . S o h einvented a new system thatuses the adventure stylewithin an animated game.

Obviously Paul has not

heard o f Cinemaware - asimilar system from theUSA w h i c h sp a w n e dDefender o f the Crown a tthe dawn of the Amiga.

Anyway, Paul has sold hissystem - Cinematique - toDelphine Software, and thefirst game to be developedon i t is Future Wars: TimeTmvellers.

We think you can guessthe plot. Look out fo r i tabout PC Show time.

The Ultimate Golf team - Richard Hill takes a swing at Paul Blythewhile Clive Bran well and Simon Blake ponder their personal handicaps

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Harlem to play basketball. Thisseems to be the message fromSportTime in this release. whichaims to combine action with coach-ing strategy.

The game claims to offer a newsystem of simulation programswhere additional modules can beadded to your existing system by"clipping the coupon" and sendingit to Uncle Sam (don't forget thezip code). A very interesting ploy.getting people to pay for additionalfeatures which should have beenincluded in the original game.

The game setup is under theguise of installing separate mod-ules - these are the modules thatyou have to pay extra for.Admittedly it may have been diffi-cult to fit all those features inmemory simultaneously, but it isstill a bit much to ask people topay for the same game more thanonce, no matter if you can view thecourt from above, from the side orfrom inside a cheerleader's T shirt.

SportTime claims that this is astep forward in games technology.as is its system of flow control,where instead of controlling yourteam at all times you merely takeover at a crucial moment.

This makes it easier for them toprogram and harder for you to play.as your star player suddenly haltsunderneath the basket and standsmotionless before disappearingunder a tonne of opposing players.Should've been ready, shouldn'tyou,• Admittedly there are advantagesto this system. It is possible to getused to it after a while, and havingthe computer do half of yourmoves does mean you can last outa match without the inevitable joy-stick wounds.

Aside from chasing the initialteam, the coach has other impor-tant duties to perform. Strategicuse of timeouts can swing thegame, not only by giving you thechance to make team changes, butalso by breaking up your oppo-nents' attack. A keen eye for a bar-gain, and the willingness to tortureyour team in the training camp, arealso useful,

Do well in the league and youget to travel all over the place forthe playoffs. Which way isWyoming? But the competition istight for the glory spot at the top.

Twos company. Three's a basketball game

Players' performances also seemsto depend on how important thematch is -a very realistic feature.

Other features include recruitingyour team from the various collegeleagues, so exploitation is the nameof the game, conning poor studentsto come and play for you and thenchucking them out when they getinjured beyond repair. That's theway of the world - well at least itis in America.

By far the most entertaining partof the game is the pre-match pre-view and half-time roundup hostedby those two lovable rogues, Nickand Bob. A well animated anddetailed synopsis of the state of theteams, and roughly how badlybeaten you will be, follows.

Someone certainly went throughhoops to write the manual - 56'

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pages full of diagrams. every menuitem explained in the most exactdetail and the worst spelling.

There is an overall polish to thegame which is hard not to respect -except. that is, for the game dis-play. The bottom 56 lines are alter-nately filled with garbage or thetop of the referee, waiting to popup. Obviously on an NTSC screenthis doesn't matter, but we are notAirstrip One yet.

Aside from that, everything isgraphically good, though some ofthe action is a little on the smallside.

As a simulation, Basketball fallsdown on playability. There isn'tenough range or depth to theaction, the experience being morelike watching a game being playedrather than rnmpetine yourself.

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Dudley Moore, this is Arthuras in the ancient Saxon king. No,not Arthur Negus. Look s ta r tfrom the beginning, shall I?

There are many versions of theArthurian legends, but all of themhave one or two things in common

Lancelot, jousting, a round table,Camelot and, of course, a magicalsword called Excalibur.

But here the tales begin to differ.For instance, one school of thoughttalks of the "sword in the stone"being Excalibur. whereas Geoff ofMonmouth insists that the magicalsword was given to Arthur by theLady of the Lake at a later date.

In actual historical fact therewas no jousting, Camelot was prob-ably a collection of tents ratherthan a stone castle, and the table? -yes. it was more probably square.

As for Arthur himself, muchmystery and debate surrounds thelegend, as it doe, the life of Christ,and it is contested with an almostreligious fervour.

In its version of the legend,Infocom has compromised. weav-ing most of these stories into theplot. Some of the other mythicalfigures and places that emergedfrom this period are drawn into thestory.

This is quite pleasing as it givesthe player the real feel of this mostmagical of times without giving theanswers away if he or she alreadyknows the mythology. In fact, thisadventure concentrates on the peri-od leading up to Arthur becomingking, of which not very much is.known, historically or otherwise.

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yard where the sword in the stoneis being kept. The local bad guy.King Lot, is determined that hewill be High King of England, so hehalf-inches the stone and pretendshe has pulled the sword out. Heplans to be crowned High King onChristmas Day, in 72 hours time.With the help of Merlin, Arthurmust find some way to stop him.

Unfortunately Merlin reckonsthat Arthur isn't yet ready to beKing. First he must prove that he iswise, brave, chivalrous and experi-enced enough to be leader of allEngland. He also must find a wayinto Lot's castle to find out whatthe evil person is up to.

Various mini-quests will takeArthur into_ the surrounding coun-tryside to face magical knights.wild animals, mythical beasts and

enchanted forests.The usual Infocom Help menu is

included, probably the best helpsystem in the world. Clues arerevealed ranging from the soobscure that the author didn't real-ly know what was going on, to thethunderingly obvious which every-one's pet hamster, or even mother,would twig to.

Some problems are merely aquestion of having the correctobjects or having previously com-pleted some other part of theadventure, others require a greatdeal of logic and, I venture to say,at least one peek at the hints.

There is a variety of screenmodes, incorporating text only,graphics or a rather useful mappingmode which allows you to use themouse to click on any adjacent

You are standing at the edge of a river. To the west lies the paback into the bog. Passage across the ford to the east is blockedby a fearsome looking knight in black armour.

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location or to choose a directionfrom the on-screen compass. Thisis a great aid to rapid travel, espe-cially in later stages where youmay find yourself rushing back-wards and forwards quite a bit,

Parsing is very good throughout,with the exception of the "say"command, which is a bit strange inits usage. But it's seldom needed,anyway. Graphics are pleasingthroughout, although I belong tothe school of thought that you onlylook at the picture once, so it is abit ore waste of space.

Infocom is quite good about thissince there are only three full-frame pictures, the rest being con-fined to a small, but neverthelessattractive, graphic in the top cen-tre, They do say, after all, that sizedoesn't matter it's where you putit that counts.

Arthur, like most games fromInfocom, is a highly polishedexample of the state of the art inadventures. Yet unless one is verycareful with the hints, it can beover far too quickly.

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new board for Europeanscreens? Oh, you mean Paladin asin Paladin and the Lamp? No?Hang on, ru look it up in the dic-tionary... Ah. Paladin: A knighterrant, a paragon of knighthood.Hmmm. doesn't say anythitig inhere about running around killingand maiming and relieving peopleof their wealth.

As a young hopeful, you arestriving to become a fully fledgedknight in Arthur's court. In order toprove your worth you must tacklehazardous quests, rescuing damsels- some of whom look more wantonthan distressed — and fighting offdragons. all in the interests of self-improvement.

Wouldn't it have been easier todo a course with the OLP

To aid you in your quests youwill always have a small band ofwitless comrades-in-arms, or can-non fodder, depending on how

honest you want to be. Their job isto do all the dirty and dangerouswork while you reap all the glory.Well, that's what being a knight isall about, isn't it?

However, the first puzzle anyaspiring Galahad must solve is howto get the game started. Not as easyas it sounds. First of all, unless youwant your gallant hero to be calledBrandon, you have to call up thequest designer and create a newPaladin with a decent name likeBonecrusher. Once saved, youmust quit back to Workbench andclick on Paladin proper.

After battling with the obligatorycopy-protection password. nothinghappens. Time to look at the manu-al again. Select New from the firstpull-down menu and your quest isbegun. Or rather, your quest tobegin your quest has begun.

Now do battle with the fearsomerequesters. which want to knoweverything about all the files

Nothing acts faster than Paladin

Paladin seems to need. Theserequesters lack the simplicity withwhich they are normally endowedand can become quite a chore.alternating incessantly betweenusing the keyboard and the mouseinstead of the option of one or theother.

The quests range in difficulty

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GARFIELD, the feline fatso

with the sardonic smirk, isdreaming about all the royalties hecould get for appearing in a com-puter game, all the lasange hecould buy with the money.

Garfield has a big smile on hiswide chops. But wait, a cloudRass-es over his face. Something is

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amiss. Deep in dreamworldGarfield has signed up with TheEdge, but notices that TimLangdell, the boss of the company.doesn't smell quite right. A firstinkling of the horror to come.

Then Garfield notices that thereare holes in Tim's jumper, and thathe's wearing a tatty old hat. Oa

but it gets odder when Tim showsGarfield how the game is progress-ing some months later.

There's a scrolling section. ascene in a chocolate factory and askating part. But where's theGarfield, the plump one asks,bemused. Right where we wanthim, snarls Tim, six-inch blades

from Easy (read quite hard) to VeryHard (read impossible) and aredesigned so your character cangradually improve over each questuntil he tries out for his knight-hood.

The improvement made eachtime depends on how active thecharacter has been, so pop out from

flashing across the office, glintingin the moonlight streaming throughthe window.

Garfield meows in surprise andfinds himself catapulted into thegame. becoming the computer ver-sion of himself.

Tim has vanished as Garfieldpeers out from under a blanket.There's the open fridge and part ofhis home. but he can only see greynothingness extending beyond theedge of the room. Garfield realisesthat there is no way out of thisscreen, unless.., unless he plays thegame.

But to do that he needs to beasleep. Thinking of oceans oflasagne and planets of chocolate heeventually nods off. Floating abovein a dream-thought bubble is thechoice of the three adventures.completion of which in the rightorder leads to the fourth and, justmaybe, freedom.

He selects the alpine racerchoice and a dream version of him-self wanders off the screen insearch of escape.

Finding himself on a pair of skisis quite frightening for an over-weight cat. especially, as in all

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behind your human shield everynow and then and kill a half-deadmonster just to keep up appear-ances,

The quests are entertaining andthe graphics are generally good.Some sound effects are relativelypleasant, but being subjected tothem constantly would give even

the most patient of knights cause toreach for the volume control.

Various aspects of your knight-hood are tested — like your abilityto bounce swords off your barechest, laugh in the face of dragon'sbreath and, most vitally, how faston your feet you are.

One of the most important

Unfortunately no sooner doesGarfield see the nosh than theholder of it has scrolled past out ofsight. There's nothing for it but tokeep jumping. Even if he can't hearthe sound of skiing or very littleelse except for some tuneless dirgein the background.

Eventually Garfield finishes thecourse and staggers into a lasagnefactory. As he sits down to scoff. heknows that he's more like theMartin Bells of the skiing worldthan the Franz Klammers,

Then Garfield finds himselfwandering around a very blandlypainted factory, trying to turnvalves so that a supply of feed getsthrough to various chocolate egg-laying chickens.

Up conveyor belts and downpoles. up and down in lifts, and

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dreams, his movement is terriblyslow. It's like skiing through trea-cle.

Logs, trees, bushes, shrubs andother obstructions scroll up all tobe avoided. It isn't too easy swerv-ing out of the way, so jumping isthe best het. Going over the rampswith a lump sends him flyingthrough the air, a much quickerand safer way than skiing along theground.

On the bottom of the dreamscreen a little vignette of Garfieldlooks sleepier and sleepier eachtime he falls foul of an obstruction.To keep his dreamself awake,Garfield must swerve violentlytowards the edge of the screen withhis mouth open in order to inter-cept the local villagers who standwith plates of cake and food.

things to master is the deploymentof your minions and making surethey take out a fair number of bad-dies before they get it as they morethan likely will.

Amulets, potions, weapons andthe rest of the department store listof objects which litter dank hovelsand enemy castles are present incornicopial plenty. all waiting to bepicked up and horribly visitedupon their former owners.Encumberance rules are properlyapplied to movement.

The icon-driven system of manmanagement is unnecessarily com-plicated by the addition of com-mand combinations, such as Altplus left mouse button, in order tochange a character's direction.Someone should've told Artronicthat a mouse was meant to makethings easier.

The quest builder gives thescope to design new adventures foryour friends or alter the present

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more jumping and trying to turnthose infernal valves, and thenwandering all the way over to theone screen which tells you howmany chickens out of four you'vefed.

All the while Garfield is gettingsleepier. and although there's bitsof food around, there isn't enoughsince a randomly appearing Odiekeeps pinching it.

Poor Garfield. even if the lack offood wasn't making him sleepy, theboredom of the factory would. Timwatches on. and cackles manically.

But now he finds himself on iceskates, tearing around a pond lit-tered with snow. tyres, and half ofthe sprites from the first game.Only he's going too fast and hecan't slow down unless... Crunch!

He's stopped now, but as soon as

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ones to make them easier or harderto your preference. Subsequentdata discs are planned which willinterface to the present system.

While dispensing with some ofthe raw randomness of true role-playing, there is more of the feel ofactually participating in a properadventure. So if any man would bea knight and follow a king, followPaladin.

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he starts up again in the quest tofind the missing chocolate egg-lay-ing chicken, he's racing along.Even the ability to turn go degreesinstantly doesn't help when youhardly have time to see. Oh no, adead end... Crunch!

That's it for poor Garfield, hisalter ego from dreamland returns tohis captive computerised torso andshivers under the blanket. Garfieldcan only sit and wait, and hopethat some talented individual withthe patience of lob can finish thegame and rescue him from thisnightmare that The Edge created.

Duncan Evans

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NUCLEAR missiles are rather

annoying; all they ever seemto do is cost a lot of money, I mean,you could use a pair of them asclothes poles, tomato supports orpost-modernist garden ornaments.

That's what happened in BattleValley. The local terrorist com-mune simply couldn't get theirfatigues the kind of greenish khakithat they liked. What they neededwas a proper drying facility, andsince the nearby nuke base wasbeing dismantled, they borrowed acouple of medium-rangers for theback lawn.

They weren't any use - the ropekept slipping off the nose cones -so they had to find a new use forthem. They hit on the ingeniousidea of holding the western worldto ransom. Since all the othernukes had gone. they had somebargaining power.

This is Not On; apart from thefact that its not sporting, there'd bezilcho game otherwise. In theirusual way. the Pentagon can't han-dle it, so they call in a mercenary -you.

You've got to destroy all the ter-rorist bases and get the missilesinto as many pieces as a tank shellcan render, You've got a helicopterto do the ground work and a tankto do the rest. Slightly unconven-tional. true, but it seems to work.

So you fly along, taking out any-thing which could harm the tank,and winching in new bridge sec-tions to allow the tank to cross therivers.

The chopper's missiles make-short work of the gun emplace-ments and SAM launchers, buthave no effect on the outposts.

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That's why you must use the tank.Otherwise il would be a Silkwormclone. Except Silkworm doesn'thave a narrowed down screen -Battle Valley does.

It isn't plain sailing in the tank.Some surface installations are toohidden for the helicopter to get sothey need a little working overbefore they see the merit in explod-ing.

The terrorists have thoughtfullyleft piles of ammo just where acareful pilot or driver might findthem - how fortuitous.

It's not that straightforward.though. You have to use the winchfrom the helicopter or a complexcrane arrangement from the tank. Itcan prove a little difficult. It'smuch easier just to crash andrestart, with full ammo, but with

500 seconds less.Battle Valley was originally a

budget release on the oldermachines, and to say that you cantell is a bit cruel. Multi-layerscenery scroll, with very fine detailand good perspective, doesn'tcome cheap. Nor does wellplanned and executed soundeffects and a bearable tune, eventhough the latter started life on theC64's

It's just that the the gameplay ismissing the elusive spark that is sorare at the E2.99 price point. But ifwe splash out £20 on a game wewant - unless we're on a tax lossbinge - a bit of lasting enjoyment,or at least a high that no volume ofblack coffee could ever produce.Well, maybe not, but hopefully youget the idea.

Hewson could have done us alla favour and converted Anarchy itsother famous budget game, whichdidn't have graphics, but did havecaptivating gameplay. Battle Valleyisn't actually bad: it's quite cleverinside. but dull on the outside, andconsequently unremarkable,

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Dungeons and Dragons butdon't fancy spending their timecollecting multi-sided dice general-ly progress on to computers, whichhave their own set of dice and areless likely to accidentally misreadthem at a critical moment - anunderstandable excuse in the semi-darkened hovels such people tendto frequent.

Software houses, although per-haps a bit slow on the uptake, nowknock out DsED type games by thebasketfull - they know a goodthing when they see one (Ohyeah?) and they also know a goodthing when they see a had one. •

Most of these games have a sec-tion for character generation fol-lowed by the main part of thegame, an adventure of some sort.usually some quest randomlypunctuated by sending lots ofhappy-go- lucky monsters whichfrolic across your path to whereverit is they go when they have beendismembered and trounced upon.

Demon's Winter, unfortunately,is no exception.

To start with, you must create aparty with five members. If yourname's David Owen you alreadyhave one. The party can be madeup of any of the usual characterclasses - paladin. ranger. barbarian.monk, wizard, thief, cleric and soon,

Each character must also choosehis race, but unfortunately no indi-cation is made of which race is


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suited to which type of persona. !Characters may be added to or

removed from this list at any timebut there must always be five mem-bers of the party before you canenter the adventure, even if someof them are dead. Once again, a bitlike the SDP.

Death is but a mild inconve-nience, a slight malady that caneasily be cured for around 90 goldpieces. no questions asked, nomoney back, no guarantee. Healersskilled in the art of resurrectionabound, which is just as well. 'costhe Reaper is outside and he's inhis working clothes.

You begin in some ruins. It is agood idea to visit the nearby villageand buy some fearsome weaponsbefore you run into anything nasty.

Monks can be quite good atkarate, but anyone else without aweapon would best spend theirattack period looking for somethingbig and solid to hide behind - likethe monk.

Wizards are pretty good guys toget to know, too. They may berather weak, but even the lowestnovice can unleash horriblydestructive power with a softlyspoken magic spell.

Once suitably equipped you areprepared for, well, exploring andthings I suppose. or whatever elseit is that archetypal heroes do.When you enter a village a series ofgadgets appears with all the possi-ble moves you can make. You canvisit the pub, go to chtuch, have a

kip in the inn...Similar gadgets appear when

you make camp. You can go hunt-ing, pray, go to sleep, along with awhole host of other options. It isannoying that you have to makecamp to examine the characteris-tics of your characters or to equipthem with weapons.

There are objectives, things toobtain, places to explore and asmall number of puzzles to solve,but most of your time will be spentbeating off random assortments of3ad guys who are out to spoil yourday.

The fight scenes are the mostdisappointing part of the game.The graphics could have been donebetter on a Spectrum. the soundeffects are easily surpassed bythose of the Oric. Basically you areleft with a program that would runmore happily on an 8 bit machine.

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interested in either beer, sci- 1ence fiction, IRRR Tolkein, or all lthree. This means that if they can'twork an alcoholic spaceman into agame, they will turn to the mysteri-ous and occult, as in the case ofthis latest offering from Tomahawk, 1the French software house respon-sible for Emmanuel. French pro-grammers are obviously interestedin one more subject.

The use of wizards and magic toform the basis of a plot is not whatyou might call startlingly original;even the early adventure games onthe first mainframes used magic as 1an major plot device.

It was therefore with totallyunbaited breath that I switched offmy extra memory and re-bootedLegend of Djel to see what sort ofmagical mystery tour I was lettingmyself in for.

The booklet accompanying thegame is a wonderful example ofwhat 1992 holds in store for us. itattempts to set an atmosphericscene, and fails miserably.

Why do our European friendsinsist of translating instructionsthemselves? Would i t cost toomuch to ask someone who had atleast glanced at an English-to-French dictionary or listened toBBC World Service to look over theinstructions? Here is one of thebest lines:

"At the moment of confronta-tion you will be projected into".

Sounds very painful, and proba-bly illegal.

The story eventually forthcom-ing from under this Euro-mountainof mismatched prose is the usualsoap opera set in a land in the farfuture.

You play the part of a wizardcalled Diet - pronounced gel, as inthe stuff Green puts on his hair -and your career goals are to rescuea girly, save a country from starva-tion and cure a major outbreak offoot-and-mage disease.

Every self-respecting wizardkeeps abreast of new technology,and Djel is no exception. He hasthe latest version of Workbench,which is covered in many up-to-the-moment utilities.

Comms are handled by the mostmodern multi-rate crystal ball,IA it h hardware error correction.The database system is managed bythe latest version of dBrain(Dragon's Brain).

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Many more systems tasks arealso covered, all accessed by click-ing on the easv-to-use rat, en,mouse, using the standard Wimpsystem — Wizards, Icons, Magic andPotions,

By clicking on the various icons.Djel can check up on his status, oreven pop out to a different country.This is achieved by playing withan animated icon on the far wall,

A problem presents itself onceeach new location has been tire-somely loaded from disc. Theseproblems are usually little morethan doing the right thing at theright lime, but occasionally you are

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thrust into combat with a hideousmonster from another dimension.

Combat may be of a physical ora mental nature. Being a devoutcoward, when Djel is under mycommand he always tries to out-think his opponent. This isattempted on a small grid whereDiet and his enemy take it in turnsto move a playing piece and placeblocking moves. Whoever getstotally blocked first. loses,

The other action sequences arefar from state-of-the-art, Althoughthe graphics are occasionally won-derful, their animation isn't. It istherefore best to think of them as

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little breaks from the puzzling sideof the adventure,

This is, of course, where it allfalls down, because the adventureside is not particularly mind-shat-tering. The use of the mouse auto-matically limits the player'sactions, and can lead to the veryunscientific approach of clickingeverything in sight. To try to solvethis problem your total number ofclicks is limited. What a cop out.

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What a depressingly stupid rebut

STEEL is a blend of pig iron

and carbon which can bemanipulated by temperature togive the desired qualities — highcarbon content for strength. lowcontent for flexibility. Steel, it alsotranspires, is a new game fromHewson.

If you were cool and hard with-out a hole in the middle then youwould probably be a steel comman-do, a man with a mission — sorry, arobot with a mission.

Your task, should you decide toaccept it (this review will selfdestruct in five seconds — or soonerif the editor gets his hands on it) isto board a spaceship whose roboticcrew has gone rogue.

Shut down the system by deacti-vating the Lrminals (this is -b,igblyirregular, Dave) and plugging insome cartridges that you'll find atvarious points about the ship.Exactly why you should do this isnever explained, nor why you inparticular should do i t. Anandroid's lot is not a happy one.

To deactivate each terminal youmust play a sub-game. These are allexactly the same, shooting holes inmoving conveyor belts, against theclock. All very reminiscent of anold arcade classic called Phoenix.

These sub-games are not particu-larly taxing and not fatal i f youshould manage somehow to lose,they just knock a bit off your ener-gy and let you get on with it_

Aside from insidious sub-games,rogue robots patrol the corridorwaiting to deal out summary jus-tice to any infiltrator. Thesemechanical meanies come in threeflavours — big ones that bounce off


you, little ones that shoot at youand medium sized ones that shootat you and then bounce off you.

And remember, bouncing suremeans trouncing — they'll kickseven shades of alloys out of you ifyou let them. That's what you getfor pretending the danger's notreal.

When you're feeling down thereare frequent fuel stops wherepoints make energy increases.However, i t is rare that thedenizens of such areas will leaveyou in peace for a complete refuel.

Control of your man of steel isvery frustrating. OK, he moves upand down corridors pretty well.but just try shooting something.You have to be moving towardsthem. And why are you trying toshoot them? Yes, it's to stop themfrom crashing into you. Very clever.

Hazardous assignments are onething. but trying to complete them

Move alongthe bus now

Ding ding

with a Itunbering hunk of junk is acomplete no-brains volunteer job.

If there is one thing that makes agame metamorphise from a chal-lenge into that great spectre of frus-tration, it is gameplay purposelydesigned to make the game harder.It is equally an admission of failureon the programmer's part i f hecan't make the game tough enoughwithout imposing seemingly sense-less limitations on the player.

Agreed, it's quite hard, but so isbuilding a Ferrari out of Swisscheese. And at least you'd get on toWogan if you did that.

The game is not too bad graphi-cally. Excellence in this depart-ment is really the hallmark ofHewson games, and although thisone looks a little strained in places,it's still well above average. Thereisn't much by way of animation,but then there isn't all that much toanimate.

The wandering monsters play noreal part in the plot, they're justthere to get in the way. They're noteven consistent, because they don'ttravel from one screen to the next —they're just random annoyance.

With a plot similar to Paradroid,and from the same software house,you are forgiven for thinking that itmay be more than just the sametired old maze stuff but it's not.

Green

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Wis it like to run Waterloo

Station? Can your ticketcollectors halt the advance of thefare dodgers or will they be able toregroup under the clock? In anexciting new wargame from PSS...What? Nothing to do with trains?Oh, that Waterloo.

Ahem. Napoleon was famousnot only for his brandy, but also forhis Waterloo. of which it has beensaid that all great men will meettheirs (and not only by Abbe).

So it was that on the 18th June1815, Wellington found himself ontop of a hill in central Belgiumlooking across a very narrow valleyat the massed guns and troops ofNapoleon's army. An awesomesight, for Napoleon had arrangedhis larger number of men on theopposite face so as to be clearlyvisible, thus gaining the maximumpsychological advantage.

Wellington faced the mostuncertain battle of his careen He

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UMOUR has i t that theJapanese intended to call this

game Continental Circuit. But fol-lowing an ancient oriental tradi-tion, established by mis-namingMonkey Kong as Donkey Kong,Circuit begat Circus.

And given the size of the teamsof mechanics, engineers and him-has who follow Murray Walkerfrom country to country, perhapsthe term circus is better suited.

As racing games evolved fromPole Position they earned more car-like characteristics. Visit an arcadeto see how realistic they havebecome - Ferrari F1 style gearbox-es, hydraulic seats and machineswhich make the earth move.

The magic spark plug in CC'sengine was a pair of 3D glassesbolted on to the cabinet. Whilethese are available for the Amiga atE80 a pair. not many people willown them. It's a shame, becausethey are spectacularly effective.

Recreating on-track antics is dif-ficult on a computer. and a numberof approaches have been tried.Some games like Grand PrixCircuit and Ferrari Formula 1 aim

32 A MI G A COMPUTING Nov ember ISI89

could not count on the Prussianreinforcements arriving in timemuch of his army was made up ofsemi-skilled militia forces, andarguably the greatest general of theperiod had his HQ some two milessouth of him.

What would you have done?How would you have fared in oneof the greatest battles of all time,where defeat and victory dependedas much on reacting quickly tochance and providence as it did towell laid battle plans?

PSS has produced a packagewhich attempts to mimmick faith-fully the conditions and atmo-sphere of that most historic ofmoments.

You may take charge of eitherthe French or the Allied armies tosee if you could have changed his-tory.

What sets this apart from otherbattle simulations is that there isno godlike overview of the entire

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to be accurate simulators. Some.like Crazy Cars and Outrun, arejust a simple blast down the high-way. Continental Circus straddlesthe central reservation between thetwo.

The fun is certainly there. Youryellow Lotus squeals away from

field of combat - you can only seefrom a ground perspective. If youwant to make things even morerealistic you can choose only iD seethe field from your HQ, meaningyou will have to move around a lot,which is dangerous and time-wast-ing.

Another way in which Waterloosurpasses other wargames is theintelligence of the company com-manders. In the early 19th century,due to lack of efficient communica-tions most company commandersfelt free to "interpret" orders from ahigher authority in cases whenthey felt the order was out of dateor where they had a special localknowledge not possessed by theirgeneral.

This means that Wellington andNapoleon did not directly com-mand their troops, more sort ofrequest them to do something. Thiscan get very frustrating whentroops refuse to advance, or worse,

the grid. The aim is to finish therace further up the rankings. Thisdoes not mean winning, just over-taking enough cars. You start intooth place and have to make it to80th in the first race.

The circuits mirror the realGrand Prix circus, starting in Brazil

Graphics are OK, but can beIpainfully slow in places. They are

by the time information isrecieved, if it is received, it maywell be too late or hopelessly out ofdate. I once received a battle reportfrom a front-line general more thansix hours after I asked him for it.

Clearly a lot of important deci-sioris have to be made intuitivelywith little or no knowledge of thecurrent situation.

The command parser is fairlyintelligent. All the orders are gra-matically correct. but it can be a lit-tle pernickety about the spelling ofobscure village names.

go charging unsupported into theenemy strength.

It becomes easy to understandhow certain generals were morefavoured and given command oflarger numbers of troops or moreimportant positions on the field.

Messages, orders and battlereports must all be sent by rider. So

visiting Monaco, Germany andmost of the major venues. Being amere island off Europe. Britaindoesn't merit an entry. but then thedesigners would probably haveused Silverstone, which doesn'tmerit an entry.

Each race is started by a bimbo.She is probably a mathematician -with a figure like that she shouldbe. It is the same girl for every race.She must own the card which says5 seconds.

To get the smoothest start, accel-erate while the first (red) light isshowing, ease off for the secondand then floor it as the green lightcomes on. A technique you will seepractised every Saturday night inRom ford.

It can rain. That's the way of theworld. While a downpour makesflowers grow and birdies sing. italso makes Pirellis spin. This dras-tically effects the handling of thecar - you have to enter cornerswider and slower. In some coun-tries you can take liberties andbump over the curbs. In otherplaces you must stick to the road. Ifit rains in Monaco you are done

Today we send football hooligans

more than adequate to play thegame, and a nice touch is the rov-ing mouse, which can identifymost buildings and troops. A

Where are the elephants?

for. Part of the skill of the game liesin knowing the circuits. In Americathe first section is very short. Youmust get there without incident toearn the extra time, You need tomake firm decisions. Dither about,unsure as to which side to overtakea slower car, and you'll end upcrawling over his gearbox.

The accidents are fun to watch —an idea which will appat true racefans. Your first bump will set your

shame the pointer couldn't havebeen used for giving movementorders.

If you only ever buy one corn-

engine smoking. a short while laterit will burst into flames. I had a carlike that once. If you don't make itto the pits to get the inferno extin-guished the car will blow up.

The pits aren't as detailed asthose in the arcade, which is notsurprising. The explosions are agood deal more feeble, which is ashame.

The gameplay has been accu-rately carried across from the Simon Rodman

O r der :O R A N G E O R D E R PO N SO N B Y T O A T T A C HTHE E N E MY I M I L E S O U T H O F L A - H A I E A T12 A M *

puter battle sim, make it this one.This is the most complete and real-istic wargame I have played.

Lucinda Orr

arcade, along with the graphics andsound which were ported from thecoin-op.

This is the best game Teque hasproduced. I'm sure this is partlydown to The Sales Curve, whichmanaged the project for Virgin. Thegraphics are great. This is a fineexample of how an arcade gameshould be converted to a homecomputer.

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E N E O I L IMPERNIUMJA, M t , J OHE walks through the swing-

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"G'morning GR. I've got thepresident on line one for you."

"Put him on hold Marybeth, Ihave to put out a contract on thehead of Roclunan Oil and then I'mjettin' out to Oman to show thoseJohnny- Arabs how a Texan putsout a rig fire".

It's just another Monday morn-ing in the life of one of those breedof men whose wealth comes out ahole in the ground, or sometimesthe sea bed. He's rich, he's mean.he's got big boots and he's notafraid of stomping all over peoplewith them.

With the moral judgment of aPershing missile and the playful-ness of a rattlesnake, he meansbusiness and he is mean business.He is an Oil Man.

With five million greenbacks atyour disposal you take over as MDof a newly formed oil business.hoping to forge a dynasty fromDallas to wherever i t was theColbys came from. And why stopthere when there is a whole worldto exploit. er, explore? Buy upparts of Europe. Malaysia, theMiddle East. Turn Alaska into onegiant well, grab that cash with bothhands and make a stash.

But be careful. In the oil busi-ness everybody is a slippery cus-tomer. You may find you're out inthe Ukraine putting out malidusfires when you discover someoneback east is stealing your money.Get back home and put the screwson before they put you to the wall.

The opening sequence deter-mines your preferences for corpo-rate logos and office furnishing,which provide the backdrops forthe rest of the game, so make sureyou pick one you like. It is notcompulsory to smoke cheroots. butan ashtray is provided anyway.

Activating the computer icontreats you to a very nice simulatedAmiga Workbench, where most ofyour transactions take place. Youcan buy and sell the world fromhere, provided you have the neces-sary. Everything done by modem.Perhaps Microkink will open anOffnet gateway soon.

After prospecting around andfinding a suitable site for your first

34 AM I G A COMPUTING November 1989

lust like the STUse office

(Nobody home!)

black gold mine, you can elect tofarm out the actual drilling to sub-contractors or get the bit betweenyour teeth, or rather into theground, yourself. This leads intoone of the three arcade sequencesin 01. the drilling scene.

It looks quite pretty, with lots ofstuff going on and numerousgauges telling you everything youwanted to know about drill bits butwere too cool to ask.

Actually this is one of the sim-plest parts of the game. Just keepthe drill bit in the middle of thecircles displayed top right andeverything should come up rosy, ormore preferably black, since red oilmight be difficult to unload, exceptmaybe to make pink paraffin. Andyou've saved yourself around 5t.5million into the bargain.

Op t% your desk drawer and youwill find papers enabling you tocontract a little subterfuge. Think

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those guys are getting too big fortheir cowboy boots over at AllAmerican Oil? Go see how theylike their storage tanks being blownup!

If your own rigs catch fire youcan either jet out there yourself,saving some cash, or give the job tothe strangely familiar sounding TedRedhair. Doing it yourself meansparachuting out of an WI trans-port plane into the affected area.Obviously more than just a nose forhydrocarbons is required to be asuccessful oilman.

This second arcade sequencehas you nmning up and down toss-ing sticks of dynamite down boreholes and running for cover beforethey blow.

Soap fans will be disappointed• to note that the final arcade

sequence is nothing to do with kid-napping rivals' children, nor isthere any provision for alcoholism

or killing your own grandfather topay back your cousin for runningaway with your wife. Please, this isa serious simulation.

No, you have to connect twosides of the screen by puttingtogether pieces of prefabricatedplastic piping.

Occasionally someone willphone up and offer you a contractFor supplying a particular region.Long term contracts can be verylucrative and may mean the differ-ence between survival and corpo-rate takeover, but the penalties canbe great.

Graphically stunning, this gameexhibits a degree of polish which isfar beyond that of the average offer-ing, while the gameplay - taking apoor second place - is sufficient tosustain interest at a reasonableqlevel. The only major failing is thetime taken between screens and thebad structuring of some of themenus.

ReLine, after their last hit,Hollywood Poker Pro, proves onceagain that a mixture of good graph-ics and loose morals can produce ahighly playable product.

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The fi rst tough cave isBlow Out, screen D. Youonly have a l imited time,which means taking somerisks, picking up some Jew-els while others are falling.

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The bubbles will rise, floatinto the meanies and show-er back as jewels. As soon asyou have 99 red baubles,hot-foot it to the exit.

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The inanimate denizens ofthe underground are strange.Bubbles float to the top ofthe screen when released.These ki l l purple meanies.which die in a shower o fjewels, but just get eaten bygreenies.

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Cave Runnerwhich get trapped insidewalls tu r n i n to rocks,although this is a rare occur-rence. And i f the fungusgrows to 256 squares. i texplodes into nothingness.Watch out for falling jewels.

If you get trapped by thefunguses, press T to advancethe time and end the screen.Press Q i f you want to quit.P lets you visit the bathroom— and you thought i t stoodfor Pause.

Amiga Computing is priv-ileged to have such a profes-sional game on the coverdisc. It was written in puremachine code by RudiMartin and Neil Cooper.third year computing stu-dents at Glasgow University,with help from Gaz Dickson,who designed a lot o f thescreens as well as makingsilly suggestions. Gaz hasjust finished his second yearof an electrical engineeringcourse.

They got their Amigas 11,8 and 4 months ago. Neilhas had a Spectrum andAmstrad 464 before andRudi a Spectrum for aboutfive years. The Amiga isGaz's first computer.

Well done lads, we can'twait to see your next offer-ing.

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Track Record

IF your interests include

fast cars, bendy roadsand Sweden, then not onlyare you very strange but youare also in luck because hereis a brand new hot-off-the-press PD game dealing withat least two o f those sub-jects.

Starting off somewhere inthe north of Sweden, fabledhome of Abba and Volvos,and ending up down at thebottom, you can choose torace at any one of 10 tracks.

Using a joystick. move theflag up and down the tracksand press Fire to see that

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highlighted circuit (i t wi l lload from disc). Push thejoystick right to the Go posi-tion and press Fire to playthat track.

Control o f the car is byjoystick only. Hold Fire andpush forward to accelerate.pull back to brake, In orderto maintain some sense ofadventure here, we'll leaveyou to work out how to steerleft and right by yourselves.

Due to typical interven-tion by the Norse gods, someof the tracks are icebound,which wi l l seriously effectyour traction. Your tyres

will no longer grip the tar-mac like gunmetal magnets.

Other problems to get togrips w i th are the usualassortment of bends, sneakychicanes and the odd spot ofastro turf tha t someoneseems to have le ft lyingaround.

All races are against theclock, wi th the best timesfor each track kept andsaved to disc for posteritywhen you quit. Times arecounted i n some strangeunits which defy being relat-ed to anything meaningful.This may explain a fewthings about Sweden.

So i f you want fun excite-ment and really wild thingsthen jo in the RomanianCossacks. But i f you want toburn rubber, play this.

Track Record was writtenin La tti ce C (v5.02) byAnders Bierin, who is resid-ing in Richmond at the mo.We wanted to pay h i mmoney for the game, butAnders wants it in the pub-lic domain. "It hurts to losethe money,'' he says. "since I

TheheavydemoHOLY ZARQUON, the

singing fish are inthe demo! This month thehard working Jolyon Ralphshows the less enlightenedhow to use spri tes — awhole teaming shoal of thethings.

The demo gets i ts namefrom the heavy music trackwri tten by Steve Hogg.Hook i t up to your h i -fiNOW.

The scrolly seems to havebeen designed to give youretina damage. We assureyou that can read i t i f youconcentrate hard enough.

Finally, which of jolyon'sdemos would be complete

without spurious commentsabout Poland? You too willbe able to make mysteriousremarks about Eastern Bloccountries i f you follow histutorials and examine thesource code on this disc.

TRACK RECORD is trulypublic domain software.No payment is asked orexpected in return. Youmay copy and distributethis program freely, butmay not exchange it formoney without prior per-miss ion f r om Ander sBierin, whose copyrightthe program remains.

would then be able to buy avideo digitiser. Maybe I'mcrazy."

Your not crazy, Anders,just extremely philanthrop-ic. Can't wait to see v2, bythe way.

Wow!L AI KE . hey man. If all

that arcade stu ff isleaving you feeling uncooland heavy, why not let yourmind slip into somethingmore mellow and get togrips with the Wow! experi-ence?

Instigating this incrediblyawesome sequence o fpsychedelic delights is sur-prisingly easy — just clickon the most obvious icon.Turn on, tune in, but likehey brother, don't drop out'cos you'll be needing somevague remnants of intelli-gence to work the controls.

OK man, take a picture ofthis: Abandoned room, thelights are down. listnin toMeddle o r maybe DarkSide. Get comfortable, lookaround, fi n d your ownground.

Now you w i l l have tocommunicate w i th themouse. The really cool catsmay be able to use someastral inference or telekine-sis here, but for the moregreen and submarine youcan just push i t around.however much this may goagainst your tendenciestowards non-aggression.

Feel the vibes permeatingyour, for want of a more hipterm, essence.

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GalleryEVERY now and then.

space and quality o fmaterial permitting, we willbe including some readersubmissions of artwork inthe Gallery — giving our tal-ented readers a chance toshow off to their mates andbecome incredibly famous.We might even pay you.

Following this philosophywe have three examples ofthe standard you wil l haveto achieve.

Messenger of Death is an

atmospheric and h igh lydetailed offering from EuanSey in Bucks. He has anA500 with extra memory. a1084S moni tor and usesPhoton Paint and DPaintfor al l h is artwork. Thisamazing pic was producedwith DPaint in 16 colourmedium resolution mode.

Next we come to theexcellent Face o f 88 fromJason Gee. Jason, who isstudying at art college, pro-duced this wonderful por-

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When you feel the time thright, press the left mousebutton. This will unleash a,shall we say, p i c to r i a lexpression o f sound andspace stretching into infini-ty.

Further manipulation o fthe numbers on the key-board w i l l a l low you tochange the basic elementsof the screen, while yourpreference for some sort o fenvironmentally aware pat-tern can be indicated via thefunction keys.

Let t he mus ic fl o wthrough you and throughthe mouse creating l ightdreamy sequences. thenrapidly change patterns andelements for a crescendo.

For the totally ultimateexperience, sell off all yourflares to Oxfam and equip

your pad with wall-to-wallmonitors. Far out.

Oh, *and remember — don'tput washing up liquid in it.

The dude who createdthis cognisential interface isone Dug Bartham fromLincoln. who started out onthe road to enlightenmentwith a ZX81 aged 13.

Since then he's agedseven years, moved for awhile to a QL, but now usesan expanded A500 whichcommunes w i t h aCentronics GLP printer.

Dug's outlook on l i fe isinfluenced by Fat Freddy'sCat and the yearning to ridea spadehead. He related hisheavy concept to his Amigawith the help o f Lattice C(v4.00). This his first ever Cprogram. We dig, Dug. Realcool.

trait to prove that you don'tneed a digitiser to get a life-like image. Drawn w i thDPaint 111. interlaced and in32 shades of grey.

Last up is a submission byPaul Smith of Twickenham.which w e have ca l l edShaken and Stirred. Paul isnot very forthcoming onhow he managed to produce

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this masterpiece so we canonly guess. i t is 16 colours,overscan and interlaced.

That's i t for this month'sgallery. Don't forget i f youhave some work you'd liketo see on our cover disc, usethe submissions form and besure to include details aboutyourself and the equipmentyou use.

Vote! Vote! VOK. you've had four coverdiscs now, and we've hadfour chances to show youwhat we think you want,

Every month there's ahuge box of demos, readercontributions and sharewareto sort through. We want toknow i f we are rejecting theright ones.

Score each category belowfrom 0 (waste of space) to 10

Article tie-ins(Eg: Playing with Printers)

Game pokeslEg: Cheats for top games)

Music to listen tolEgt Erm, nothing as yet)

Playable commercialgames demosEg: Chariots of Wroth)

Full shareware gamesfEg.. Thick Record)

Gallery(Ek Messenger of Death)

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(gimme more). Below eachcategory there is a cover discexample of the sort of pro-gram we are talking about,Please don't be a dunce andscore the example program,it's your marks for the gener-al category we're interestedin,

It's your disc. Tell us whatyou want on it, and we'll doour very best to oblige.

Hacker demos(Es; Zowee. The Heavy Demo)

Reader submissionslEg: Motion Maker. COLW Runner)

Shareware CIA utilitieslEg: DiskSalv, Atreel

Shareware applicationslEg: konMaster, PowerParkert

Listings from the magazinelEgt The Model Universe)

Usable commercialapplications demoslEg: Protext. ! lamp Accounts)

Post your ballot form to: Cover Disc Survey, AmigaComputing, Nor th House, 78-84 Ongar Road,Brentwood, Essex, CM15 9BG. To reach us byOctober 31.

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WHEN you need to

copy a lot of files,or even just one, aren't youappalled by the way the taskcan turn into a nightmare.Wrestling with the vagueriesof AmigaDos, even for expe-rienced veterans, can be amajor pain. This is just oneof the areas where Atree canhelp.

It is an advanced disc filemanagement system whichtriumphs over other offer-ings in this field by its suit-ability for single and dualdrive users as well as thoselucky enough to have wonhard drive competitions.

It must be run from theCU. If you want you can listcurrent devices as parame-ters and Atree will automati-cally take a d i rectory o fthem. Perhaps somethinglike this:

Run Atree DFO: RAM:

You can type this into theCLI the cover disc leavesopen for you.

If you try to run Atreehaving booted off any discother than the cover disc, i tw i l l r e sp o n d w i t h arequester telling you i t isunable to find an importantfile. This is because the fileit requires needs to be in theSYS:S directory, in otherwords the S directory onyour boot-up disc.

Also saved in the configu-ration file are the paths andnames for any utilities youmight want to use with your

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IFfiles. This means you cancombine fi le reading util i-ties and the like with Atree,using them wi thout everleaving the Atree environ-ment.

For example, i f you lookin the menu Configs:Set

of the program. tel l ing i twhere various things shouldgo, what colours to use andso on, rather like a mixtureof a standard s ta r tup -sequence and Preferences.

Details for setting up aconfig fi le are explained

Paths under Text Readeryou wi l l see that we haveentered Qview. Using thehot key F2 you can nowread the currently highlight-ed file.

There are slots for manyapplications such as EFTdisplay programs a n darchive utilities.

The configuration file inquestion is Atree.config,which handles the startup

Problems with your disc?• IF you are not a sub-scriber and your discdoes not work, pleasesend i t — w i th i n tw omonths p lease — to :Protoscan L td . Am ig aCover Disc, Burrel Road,St Ives, PE17 4LE, Youwill be sent a new discwith our compliments.

fully in the documentation,but i f you are happy withthe way we have set i t upthen you can just copy thefile from the S directory onthe cover disc to whereveryou need it.

One of the salient featuresof Atree is a graphical rep-resentation of the directorytree, displayed down theleft hand side of the screen.Enabling you to view your

• IF you damage yourdisc — for instance i f thedog has chewed it or yourmum has washed it — youcan get a new one bysending E 1 . 5 0 t oProtoscan Ltd. Pleasemake your cheque orpostal order payable toProtoscan Ltd.

directory structure at aglance, i t wil l also providethe inexperienced wi th avaluable insight as to whatis really happening on theirdiscs.

Meanwhile, down theright hand side of the screenis a l ist o f the files in thecurrently highlighted direc-tory. Changing directories isachieved by cl icking thepointer under the relevantentry in the graphical tree.

This makes access to low-level directories faster and alot easier, especially i f youare in the habit of namingdirectories Even_more_stuff_Part _1 or whatever.

One point to note here isthat although Atree w i l lrecognise these long directo-ry names. they will be trun-cated to eight characters inthe display. Similarly, file-names in the right hand sideof the screen will be truncat-ed to 25 characters.

This may seem like a bitof a limitation, but i t makesthe tree a lot easier to deci-pher, which is the wholepoint of the thing.

Taking up at least look ofmemory. Atree may seem abit of an extravagant wasteof ram. But bear in mind theacres of features involved —although some of them aredisabled in this demo (you'llget them when and i f youregister).

Basically you can doalmost any kind o f fi l emanipulation you want.And since this is the mainreason for using the CLI,much of the tedium can bebypassed.

Manipulation of flags andnames and all of those sortof things is possible, a l lcommands being performedon a single fi le, or i f youprefer on a whole series offiles which you have pre-pared earlier by "tagging"them.

If you need a managementsystem to fi nd your wayaround the management sys-tem. you can set up to threeplace markers — very usefulfor fl i tt i n g between thesqualid depths of directoriesso deep they were consid-

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Don't be asoftwaresponger!

THIS vers ion o f Atreesupercedes vers ion 1.1and c on ta ins a gr eatmany o f t h e f u t u r eenhancements lis ted atthe end o f the doc fi leaccompanying that ver-sion. However, mos t o fthe new routines havebeen rendered non fund:(lanai — you w il l have tobecome a registered userto get the fully functionalversion of Atree v l

Atree is freeware at thistime. It may be freely dis-tributed, but not sold, byanyone. I f you l ik e it ,please support the authorand become a registereduser by sending $20 to:Don S c h m i d t , 9 4 2 5Stanfield Court, Stockton,California 95209.

A fully functional ver-sion of Atree v1.3 w ill ber e tur ned t o y o u .Registered users w i l l beentitled to one free ver-s ion u p d a t e a n d t oreduced rates on all sub-sequent versions,

ered as the fourth option forthe Channel

One o f the features towatch ou t fo r is Prune,which w i l l cu t o f f thebranch o f the tree you aresitting on. Make sure youreally want to do this. I tsaves time — you can deletea load o f stuff all at oncewi thout h a v i n g t o g othrough and delete all thefiles in a directory first, butit also leaves you without asafety net.

Atree is a very powerfulutility, giving fast and easyaccess to all your files. Readthe instructions on the coverdisk and give i t a go. It'smore than a uti l i ty — it's away of life.

Win uptOE 1,000WE are always looking for original con-tributions for the Amiga Computingcover disc. I f vou think something youhave written or drawn is good enoughto share with everybody else who readsthe magazine, send it along and we willhave a look.

If we like what we see, i t could earnyou up to E1,000.

Please let us know which files, i f any,your submission needs from theWorkbench disc. I f it is clickable, feelfree to design an original icon. But don'tmake i t too big. And please use thestandard Workbench colours.

Bear in mind that a program whichdoes not run on a 51.2k machine wouldhave to be exceptionally good to make iton to the disc.

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Please enclose this coupon, or a pho-tocopy o f i t, w i th your submission.Include a file on the disc with full doc-umentation, your name, address, phonenumber and a few details about you andyour kit. A mugshot would be nice, butisn't essential.

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INKTETS are the Arnigas of the

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Since nothing solid actually hits thepaper, inkjet printers are very quiet.They have no pins or ribbon to wearout. All in all, they're a different classof beast from the humble impact dotmatrix.

You may not be immediatelyfamiliar with the name Diconix,which is part of Kodak — which isbetter known for paying Jimmy Naillots of money for adverts. The printeritself uses a trusty Hewlett Packardcartridge system, so the device isn't abodge job by some fly-by-nightmanufacturer.

It's a compact unit (358 by 233 by73 mm) and light at 4.5 kg. About athird of the unit is empty space, sincethe power supply is external and theinkjet unit doesn't require much inthe way of cabling.

The back quarter contains the usualtractor and platen unit, which alwayslooks as i f it would jam. but rarely

Diconix 300 InkjetPrinter doesn't trytoo hard to make animpression. StewartC. Russell looks atthe strong silent type

does. As with most newer printers.the fanfold paper can be parked out ofthe way to allow the use of singlesheets,

The fairly-accessible DIP switchesallow the printer to think it's an EpsonFX 100+ or an IBM graphics printer.running at 060 or 1280 dots per line.The front panel gives you the chanceto form feed, forward and reverselinefeed, and change the font.

Five fonts can be selected from thefront panel — Quality, NLQ. Draft,Script and Condensed. Quality isbetter than you'll ever get from a ninepin printer, and on good paper rivalsthe best 24-pins.

NLQ is very nearly as good asQuality, but is half as fast again. Draft

and Condensed are both very speedy.but suffer from being rather dotty.They're legible, and that's whatmatters. Script is that awful mockhandwriting NLQ font that annoyingmailshots and people with ageingIBM typewriters use.

As ever, the printer's speed isquoted in cps. a rather misleadingfigure where paper handling is nottaken into account. Diconix quote 258cps for Pica Draft print; on average(including line and form feeds) Imanaged 104 characters per secondout of it. This is fast considering thatit can chunter away at that speed allday.

NLQ gave a healthy 40 charactersper second, while Quality managed27, These are still good, and still wayunder what Diconix would have youbelieve, Condensed mode and Scriptare well nigh the speeds of Draft andNLQ respectively. Paper feeds areespecially fast, even in high-resgraphics mode.

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fonts. Elite (12 characters per inchinstead of Pica's 10). Doublewidth,Double Height, Italic (in Epson mode),Bold, Doublestrike, Underscore andOverscore are all possible. and can allbe mixed.

Unfortunately. the AmigaDos Ansiprinter driver doesn't recognise half ofthese. so they are only available viadirect programming of the parallelport, which can be done with somejiggery pokery from AmigaBasic. Witha full specification driver, the textoutput capability could rival adedicated text formatting system.

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Time and technology havechanged. mostly due to HewlettPackard's research anddevelopment work in Drop OnDemand print mechanisms.

Drop On Demand printers use atiny electrical signal to fire an inkparticle at the page. The jets arefine enough that no ink will leakout unless the jet is activated.

than the Diconix printing at full tilt.If a new driver was written for it, i t

would be the perfect choice forAmigans everywhere. As is. only most(not all) of its functions are availableto you.

INKjETS are famed for their

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The IBM driver (or MPS-1000 as itis called) works when the printer isswitched to IBM mode — one of life'spieces of inescapable logic.

Unfortunately, the driver trims thelast 20 (or so) pixels off the edge of thescreen if the printer is set to 960 dotsper line. Normality is regained byswitching to 1280 dots per line mode,but then the whole dump is about halfthe area of a full size image.

Dumps are produced remarkablyquickly with good contrast at thelowest resolution. Six passes are madeat highest resolution; this gets thepaper really wet, and can sometimesget smudged by the bail-bar rollers.

Unless you are doing purelymonochrome work, there's very littlepoint in using the higher resolutions —sometimes they come out as a near-uniform shade of black. WithPreferences' Smoothing on in highresolution. Notepad output becomes athing of great beauty.

Unfortunately, using IBM mode hasits disadvantages. Some programs.notably X-CAD Designer. bypassPreferences and drive an Epsondirectly. Epson and IBM commandsare usually pretty close, but they dodiffer wildly where graphics areconcerned. so X-CAD doesn't plotproperly. The IBM mode cannothandle italicised text; Epson can, butthe loss is not major since you coulduse the Script font instead.

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HARDWARE sprites are very

similar to bitplanes, the maindifference being that they can only be16 pixels wide and can only use threecolours, although you can combinetwo to make one sprite with up to 15colours.

You may wonder i f there are anypossible uses for something that isonly 16 pixels wide. Well, there are —plenty. The mouse pointer, forexample, is a hardware sprite. Indeed,this month's cover disc demo usesadvanced techniques to display morethan 100 of them.

You have to do a lot of messingaround with pointers and other suchthings to move a bitplEtne around thescreen. With sprites it's much easier —at its simplest you put the horizontalposition in one memory location, thevertical byte in another and, HeyPresto, your sprite has moved toanother part of the screen.

Now for the meaty bit. How dosprites work, and how are they used?

The Amiga has eight hardwaresprites. used by accessing registers.The hardware has to be told thehorizontal position of the sprite andthe actual data to be displayed. It hasto be told this for each and every lineof your display that the sprite is on.

How can you tell the hardware whatit needs to know for each scanline?

One way is to set up an enormouscopper list with lots of data, likeFigure I. However, as you may haveguessed, there is a much easier way to

Machine codemaestro Jolyon Ralphshows you how to getit on the screen, andshake it all about

display sprites. What you do is set upa direct memory access (DMA)channel for them.

Anything that is moved to and frommemory ane external devices, or both— such as the screen, disc drive, audioports and so on — can be transferredby one of two methods. The first is touse the 68000 — by reading a wordfrom memory and sending it to anaudio port, for example. The secondmethod is by using the co-processors,which is invariably the fastest wayand frees the 68000 to do more •

There's so much you can do...

• P R O G R A M M I N G I I

The actionstarts here

interesting things than moving dataaround.

SETTING up a DMA channel is

simple. You tell it where yourdata is, what you want to do with it —which in our case is to display asprite — when to stop, and Bob's yourunicorn. Your sprite appears as i f bymagic.

The Amiga has eight dedicatedsprite DMA channels, one for eachhardware sprite. However, i f you are

WAIT for the beginning of tine X.ROVE the horizontal sprite position(only needs to be done once).MOVE the data for sprite image.WAIT for the beginning of tine X41.MOVE the data for sprite image.WAIT for the beginning of Line X42.MOVE and so on...

Figure I: The data list for a simplehardware sprite

using an overscan screen — one with awidth greater than 320 in lo-res or 640in hi-res — the co-processors have toget the extra time needed to displaymore of the screen from somewhere,so you lose the last four sprites.

Each pixel in the sprite can be oneof three colours, or transparent so itshows the bitplane, or other sprites,underneath. So, each pixel needs twobits of colour information.

And because a sprite is 16 pixelsacross, 32 bits of colour information —or two words in programmers' lingo —need to be read from memory eachscanline.

The colour of each pixel iscalculated by taking thecorresponding bits from each word.Look at Figure II to see the address of

November 1.98•9 AMIGA COMPUTING 53

41the colour registers that correspond tothe bit patterns in the sprite data foreach of the eight sprites. numbered 0to 7.

Sprites are grouped into pairs forthe colour allocation, so you can havefour different colour combinations.

The sprites take their colours fromthe standard palette, using colournumbers in the range 17 to 31, whichmeans they can have independentcolours from the rest of the screenonly i f a screen of four or lessbitplanes is used. Colours 16, 20, 24and 28 are not used because these arethe ones which correspond to thetransparent elements in the sprite.

Now that you know how the spritecolour data works you can convertyour graphics to the correct format foruse with it. The easiest way to do thisis to use the UT Converter programsupplied on last month's cover disc.Load in the UT picture containing thesprite you want to create — make sure,for the moment, that you only have atwo bitplane (four colour) picture —and choose the Save Sprite option.

You can save the sprite either as abinary file, which you can include inyour program with the INCBINstatement, or as a source file, whichcan be incorporated into your sourcecode.

Note that the source code which IFFConverter generates is meant for theK-Seka assembler. To modify it towork with HiSoft Devpac you willneed to add a space before each DC.Winstruction. Do a global search andreplace for "DC.W" with " DC.W".

OK. Back to actually setting up theDMA channel. You have to create a—data list somewhere in chip memoryand point the sprite DMA register toits start address. We'll come to that in

COLOUR REGISTERS (+4df f000)

Bi tfromwordtwo

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54 AMIGA COMPUTING November 1989

a minute. but first a word about thedata list, which consists of twocontrol words followed by the spritedata. The format of the control wordsis shown in Figure

Ho to H§ is the horizontal positionof the sprite, FO to F8 is the firstscanline that the sprite is to bedisplayed on (the vertical start) andNo to N8 is the scanline after the lastline of the sprite is displayed (thevertical end + 1). Note that each ofthese values is nine bits long. This is amessy number of bits to work with.

Very often programmers ignore thethree end bits in control word two.This has the achantage of ease of use— you only have to change one bytefor horizontal or vertical positions —but has the disadvantage of onlyhaving a two-pixel accuracy forhorizontal positioning.

For fast moving sprites this is not aproblem. You only need to set bits F8and N8 if your sprite is displayed inthe PAL area — the bottom 56scanlines that are never used in ST-ported games.

Bit 7 in control word 2 is thespecial attachment bit. This cancombine two sprites together to form asingle 15 colour sprite.

Now for an example of how to set

Figure 11: Thecolour registersthat correspondto the bit

patterns in the r 1 4-1

sprite data foreach of thesprites 0 to 7

up a rough sprite in the middle of thescreen. First, calculate your graphicsdata. We will use a simple spaceshipsprite, three lines deep. Our spaceshipwill have the following data, where 1,2 and 3 are different colours:

11 0001111111111000011232 32323231100001111111111000

This needs to be converted intoproper sprite data. In practice you'drarely do it by band. You would drawyour sprite using DPaint or the like,save it as a screen, load that into IFFConverter, choose Save Sprite fromthe Project menu and cut the spriteout.

Pretend we've done all that and thesprite data comes out like this:

0001111111111000,000000D0000000000110101010101110,00011111111119090001111111111000,0000000000000000

Next we calculate the controlwords. Let's say the sprite's verticalstart will be at $90. This is thescariline number — the same numberyou would put in a copper list WAITinstruction.

Our sprite is three lines deep, so the

Figure 111: Thecontrol wordsformat for thesprite DMAchannel

vertical end value will be one linelower than that, at $93. We will notbother with one-pixel accuracy, andwe are not using the PAL area, so wewill choose a horizontal start value forH1 to 118 of $5b, a position roughly inthe centre of the screen. (Note thatthis will be half the value for theequivalent full horizontal start valuebecause we are ignoring bit 0 andstarting with bit L)

This gives a control word 1 of $905band a control word 2 of $9300 — 93because that is the end value and 00because the last byte in control word 2is only used in special circumstances,which we'll cover in a future article.

We then create a data list, like thatin Figure IV, containing this data.Remember to allocate this to chipmemory with a SECTIONxxx.DATA_C command:

The sprite list must have two zeroson the end otherwise the DMAchannel thinks you are setting upanother sprite for it to display. Youcan display as many sprites as youwant with one DMA channel as longas there is a gap of one scanline

between each of them. This gap is thescanline where the control words areread in by the DMA, so no graphicsdata can be read that line.

When you have your data list youmust put its address into theequivalent sprite DMA pointer, whichis a hardware register. As the addressfor your sprite data is a 32 bit value itwill be have to be split into two wordsfor the registers to be set from thecopper list, which have to be updatedevery vertical blank period — every1/50th of a second on a PAL machine.

These sprite DMA pointers start at$dff120. The register is namedSPROPT and is split into SPROPTH($120) and SPROPTL ($122). Set upyour copper list to put your data listaddress into these registers at thebeginning of every frame, and yoursprite will then appear.

• P R O G R A M M I N G •

dc.w $9051),$9300 ; control wordsdc.w U 0 01 11 1 1 1 11 1 1 0 00 , I 0 0 00 0 0 0 00 0 0 0 00 0 0

dc.w 1/40110101010101110,%0001111111111000dc.w % 0 0 01111 1 1 1 1 11 0 0 0 , %0 0 0 0 0 00 0 0 0 0 00 0 0 0

dc.w 0,0 ; end Figure IV: The data list for asimple hardware sprite

Moving the sprite is easy. you onlyhave to change the control word. Allthe weird objects moving horizontallyon this month's cover disc demo aremoved by adding or subtracting avalue from the second byte of the firstcontrol word. This is all that isneeded if the first bit of the horizontalposition register is ignored.

Moving vertically is slightly moreinvolved because you must changeboth the vertical start and the verticalend position.

Now you've set up one sprite, tryyour hand at setting up all eight andand moving them around the screenin different directions. No listing thismonth, this is your first solo flight.Any probs. write to me care of theEditor.

• NEXT MONTH: Collision detection.

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grading& Under the Elo system,a player who has played sufficientcompetitive games is given a number,known as a grade, which is areasonably accurate description of hisplaying strength. Elo grades rangefrom 700 for the beginner to 2.800 fora world champion.

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SARGON III is a small program.

only taking up 105k. Evenbetter, it runs from Workbench andcan multi-task. On a 512k Amiga youcan have three games of chessrunning at the same time. And it hasan impressive pedigree, having beenwritten by Dan and Kathe Spracklen,the people who wrote the software forthe first commercially available chesscomputer back in 1977.

Because of its size, Sargon isdefinitely no-frills, There is no 3Dboard, but a very clear 2D one makesup for this, with colours set byPreferences.

Presentation is excellent. Full use ismade of pull-down menus andrequesters. The pieces move quicklyand smoothly, rotation of the boardthrough 180 degrees being almostinstant. Moves can be spoken as theyare played, and the voice used is morepleasant than most Amiga speech.

The game has nine playing levels,with only the lowest three — 5seconds, 15 seconds and 30 secondsper move — giving a reasonable lengthof game, as these times are veryapproximate. One time it took almosttwo minutes to make a move on thelowest level.

A 68,000 move opening book hasplenty of variety and some dubiouslines. The full board editor is the bestI've seen on the Amiga, and there isan "infinite" playing level which, inprinciple, allows mates of any lengthto be solved, given enough time andpatience.

No printer facilities are providedbut games can be saved and loadedvia either a dialogue box from withinthe program or an icon on theWorkbench screen. The moves canalso be saved as an Ascii file, ready tobe loaded into a word processor.

There are 107 "great games" andvarious other positions ready to beloaded in and replayed. although thecomments in the manual about themare very terse given that Sargon HI istargeted at beginners.

A very elegant program whichpacks a lot into a small space.

COLOSSUS X is an upgrade from

the 8 bit Colossus IV, written byMartin Bryant, an expert with 12years' experience of computer chessprogramming.

No multitasking, but four sets ofchessmen (standard, oriental,futuristic, mediaeval), a good 3Dboard which can be tilted and rotated,and a very poor 2D board which issmall and over elaborate compared tothe clear black and white board inColossus Chess VI.

Sprite movement is jerky. There is abug in which part of the display isobliterated when a piece moves alongthe eighth rank. Non-Intuition andsuspiciously Gem-like menus areused, with hot-key shortcuts. Silence,beeps, voices or continuous music canaccompany your moves, and theprogram can speak in five languages,with all text altered to suit.

An infinite number of playing levelsare available with six different timecontrols, including "all moves in xminutes" and "y moves in z hours",all chosen from foolproof menus. Afull board editor, albeit with clumsycontrol, is provided. Mates in five, aswell as selfmates and helpmates, canbe solved.

There is an 11,000 move openingbook. The program, more often thannot, plays unusual and dubiousdefences. The book can be altered viaa crude text editor — certainly notrecommended because the master discis altered and a crash while accessingthe disc may corrupt it. Thishappened to me. CDS replaced mydisc.

If you play an opening which is notin the book your next fe.,...w moves willbe saved to disc for future'reference7

Sargon III S definitely "no frills". There is no 3D board

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Colossus X's 3D board can be rotated or tilted to view from many angles

This slows the program down to asnail's pace, and again there is adanger of crashes.

Endgame play is very good, but thatopening book needs revision toeliminate some of the bad lines.

Games can be saved and loaded.The disc directory is not displayed onscreen, so if you forget a filenameyou'll have to fish out your CU disc toread it. There are 29 human vcomputer games and 10 problems onthe disc. Moves and the boardposition can be printed.

All sorts of extra weird andwonderful options round the programoff, including Blindfold Chess, whereyou hide one or both sets of pieces,and Play to Lose, an easy mode forbeginners.

Colossus X is a reasonable programwhich could have been much better.The graphics are so-so and the

program is strangely sluggish, taking afew seconds even to clear the screenand set up the starting position. Itgives the impression of being a badlyported ST program. Gimmicks like thefancy chess pieces and continuousmusic would be better removed.

CHESSMASTER 2000 is the best

presented chess program I'veseen on the Amiga, with large, clear2D and 3D boards, full use ofIntuition, hot-key shortcuts, smoothsprite movement and silence, speech,beeps or bursts of music toaccompany your moves,

Unlike Colossus X, which uses aseparate screen to display the list ofmoves and its train of thought.Chessmaster 2000 uses smallwindows which overlay the mainboard and which can be closed in thenormal manner. Open several of thesewindows at once on a vanilla A500and you may get to meet the guru.

There are 12 playing levels, all ofthe form "x moves in y minutes", anda full board editor — up to mates in 10can be solved. There is a 20,000 moveopening book. One interesting featureis that there is a Coffeehouse mode,for interesting but possibly unsoundplay.

Best Move suffers from a lack ofrandomisation — once Chessmaster2000 and my FDE chess computerplayed two identical 60 move gamesin a row, the probability of thishappening by chance being over onein ten thousand.

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The league table after a two-month round robin, each match consistingof six games. One for a win, half for a draw

MATE I N . . .CM2000 FOE Col x Sargon TOTAL

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FOE 00* 100 sec110**1 f111* 1 10*

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Col ossus X 3 sec 5 sec 467 sec

Chessm aster 3 sec 54 sec 518 sec

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well as erased or renamed. Moves canbe printed: Chessmaster uses properalgebraic notation (Bg2 or Nxe5) asopposed to Colossus's over-fussynotation (Bfl-g2 or Nf3xe5) orSaigon's mediaeval notation (F1-G2 orF3xE5).

There are 100 grandmaster games tolook at, including some recentKasparov-Karpov battles.

Chessmaster 2000 is the bestpresented and the strongest programof the three on trial here. Its onlyweakness is its endgame. Theupgraded Chessmaster 2100, which ispresumably even stronger, is due forrelease any moment.

ALL three programs obey the

laws of chess, includingunderpromotion and draws bythreefold repetition of position andthe 50 move rule. They can all forcethe standard mates, including thedifficult King. Bishop and Knightagainst King.

All three programs announce mate.Colossus X and Sargon III resigngracefully in lost positions. Sargon IIIallows you to offer draws, and willdeclare a draw when there. is not . .enough material to force a win — Kingand Knight versus King. fur example.

I decided to set up an all-play-alltournament between the programs tofind the strongest. FDE is my FidelityDesigner Excellence, a dedicatedchess computer which cost E155 andwhich has an advertised US ChessFederation grade of 2.081 Eachchallenge consisted of a match of sixgames at 30 seconds per move ornearest equivalent.

The result, as shown in Figure I,leaves little doubt as to whichprogram is the strongest player.

Chessmaster 2000 has a goodopening book and a very powerfulmiddlegame in which it frequentlybuilds up strong attacks from nothing.All three of its losses were in theendgame, in which Colossus X. if it

managed to survive, outplayed it.Colossus X would have done better

if it had desisted from playing oddopenings which gave it poormiddlegame positions, made worse bya stolid and unadventurous playingstyle — three of its games againstSargon III were over 100 moves.

Sargon III's style is attacking. ratherlike Chessmaster 2000, but lesssuccessful because it is unable to planin depth. All three of its draws wereby repetition, when it had a superiorposition but ran out of ideas.

The Fidelity computer did well,except against Chessmaster 2000when it repeatedly lost in themiddlegame. After a long bookopening — up to move 20 in both cases

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neglected his queenside and howquickly Chessmaster 2000 tookadvantage.

To test processing speed I set upmates in two, three and four, andasked the programs to solve them. Theresults are shown in Figure II. Theblank in Sargon 111's results is where,despite prodding. it refused to findmate in two. It took four seconds tofind mate in three instead.

The FDE dedicated computer, asyou would expect, is the fastest. Thereis not much to choose between thethree Amiga programs in speed.

All three programs will give mostplayers a good game, and are about afifth of the price of a chess computerof similar playing strength. A bargainin anyone's book.

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The hardware was designed in Sil iconValley to produce a combination of customchips wh ich would share the burden o frunning a program. Most small computers canonly do one thing at one time. So i f i t isplaytng a tune i t cannot clear the screen, oradd two numbers.

The Amiga designers reasoned l ike this:Why not have special chips to do the specialjobs. This good idea was not original. Butputting such technology into a home computerwas. Previously multi-processing had been theprovince o f b i g a n d expensive m i n icomputers.

The software was written in England. Againit represents a radical advancement i ntechnology. The AmigaDos operating systemhas a pedigree which evolved from mainframecomputers: the Amiga was the fi rst homemachine which was powerful enough to runit.

The biggest feather in the AmigaDos cap ismulti-tasking. I t treats the machine as acollection of parts, not as a whole computer.Programs decide which parts they need at anyone time and share the resources. The result ismore than one program can be run at once.

For a while rival manufacturers poo-pooedthe need to do this. Today they are luststarting to produce software which multi-

tasks. The IBM version is sti l l incomplete.needs a very expensive machine and has littlesoftware to go with i t. Apple has announcedsome software for next spring: it will also needan expensive computer.

The Amiga is still the only computer whichcan multi-task and share the burden of soundand graphics w i th separate chips. Thehardware which makes the Amiga the world'sbest games machine i s the platform forsoftware which makes i t the world's bestbusiness machine. So i t is not surprising thatthe computer which does everything betterthan its rivals suffers a bit of an identity crisis.

The two identities are reflected by the twomachines. although deep down they have acommon heart, the uses to which they arecommonly put reflect the diversity o f theAmiga's abilities.

The Amiga A500THE baby Amiga i s the machine mostschoolboys dream o f — a 16 b i t 68000processor, synthesiser quality sound and apalette of 4,096 colours. With 512k which caneasily be doubled to a megabyte using a slot incard, the A500 is a powerful games engine.

The w o rk o f manipulating th e h ighresolution graphics is eased by advancedcustom chips. These provide sprites — imageswhich ckn be moved over a picture on thescreen _without interfering wi th the maindisplay — hardware scrolling which allowsthe view on the picture to tilt and pan withoutthe need for complicated calculation. antisounds stored as digital waveforms which cangive compact disc quality speach or music.

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The unique Amiga Workbench is a friendlyway to use the machine. By keeping files andprograms in drawers even large capacity discsare easy to handle. Programs can be run, filescopied deleted and shuffled all without a jotof typing. Running more than one program issimple thanks to Workbench's windowingSystem.

The protocols for using Workbench arecarried through to the programs themselves.Commodore h a s issued guidel ines t oprogrammers which mean that once you havemastered the use of one package the rest areeasy to learn.

The Amiga 500 is expandable. There is ahuge selection o f add-ons f r o m b o thCommodore and independent manufacturers —graphics tablets, processor cards, hard discs.memory expansions, v ideo and sounddigitisers and a some weird and wonderfultools such as 3D glasses.

The A500 is an amazing home computer, yetit needs no extras, The machine can beplugged i n to the fami ly te l l y using thesupplied modulator unit to get you up andrunning.

The Amiga A2000WHILE the Amiga 500 is a powerful homemachine the A2000 fi nds i ts place i nbusinesses. It shares all the powerful featuresof the A500 bu t adds more scope fo rexpansion. The machine comes wi th onemegabyte o f memory and can easi ly beexpanded to nine megabytes. The 16 h i tprocessor can be upgraded to a 32 bit 68020

with a plug-in card. This quadruples theperforneince of the Amiga. with substantiallygreater improvements in maths-intensivework.

A number of hard disc controllers give youthe choice between price and performance.Hard or floppy drives can be fi tted in theArniga's 3.5in and 5.25in mounting bays.

The Amiga 2000 can b e made IB Mcompatible. With either the 8088 XT to 80286AT bridgeboard installed the Amiga wil l runthe vast array of PC programs: It does thiswithout losing the Amiga's ability to Multi-task. While only one PC program can be run atany one time, the Amiga can run as manyprograms as you can fit in memory. Datum caneven be shared between PC and Amigasoftware.

The Amiga 2000 will accept PC-compatiblecards to give a complete emulation. Not onlydo you have two machines in the box, you canuse both of them at the same time.

The Amiga 2000 is the professional videouser's fi rst choice. The vast array o f videotitling programs and hardware to interface toTV equipment means that i t i s used i ntelevision studios throughout the world,Commodore and independent companies areworking on special effects peripherals whichmanipulate images.

The Amiga 2000 boasts a custom videosocket which allows high resolution monitorsto be connected, These are ideal for desktoppublishing and spreadsheet work. Industrystandard Ethernet cards allow the Amiga to benetworked to most other computers. from thebiggest mainframe to the humblest PC, sharingdata and making you more productive.

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The UK renaissancefor the 1990s has no bet-ter focus than Jeff, whohas worked for App leand more recently forToshiba, where he spear-headed that company'sgrowth from nothing tobeing the major manu-facturer of IBM portablesand Desktop portables.

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While software houses used to write for theST and then consider a port. more and morenow view the Amiga as the lead system. It w illbe interesting to see i f there is a move amongsoftware houses to support -1 m e g m a c h i n e s .The A601 ram pack suffered when ram pricesrose early in the year. With the problem sub-siding, we may see the price reviewed. "It w il ldepend on supply and demand". says Jeff.

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to the advantages of the A2000. Workbench1.4 and future Amiga machines are the toolswith which they will do this.

The Amiga will become a very differentcomputer when it runs Unix. It is an operatingsystem fraught with politics. In a s imilar wayto the Workbench upgrade from 1.3 to 1,4.Unix is about to be upgraded from v3,2 to v4 —pronounced five point four. •

Amiga Unix, which is called Amix, will be avery polished program. "You can't go in with aproduct which looks right but falls over". saysJeff. While techies may be happy with some ofthe fundamental parts of a system, Amix w il lgo beyond this and provide a fr iendly. Mac-like environment.

This philosophy of getting the product rightextends to all future Amiga developments. It isthe reason why we w i l l not see Workbench1.4, the enhanced chip set, nor some of thehardware Amiga Computing has talked aboutrecently, until the New Year.

Part of the reason for this delay is to allowdevelopers to get to grips with the new sys-tems and reduce the problems inherent inmaking changes to an established computer.

There is going to be an amazing changebetween now and next July, predicts Jeff Earl.who has tremendous confidence in the hard-ware designers, Commodore is look ing forgrowth in four areas — the leisure industry,with PCs, where it wants to be a leading sup-plier of high power 80486/80386 machines,with Unix systems and w ith desktop porta-bles.

With Atar i on the run. Commodore is gun-ning for Apple and Compaq. Jeff Earl is one ofthe team which will make it happen.

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second fl oppy to their A500 w i l l knowthat it makes a big difference to the useablityof the system. That change is ins ignifi cantcompared w ith the advantages offered by ahard drive.

The A590 is smar t, c oloured to matc hrecent, cream A500s — early ones were nearerto white . The s ty ling matches that o f thecomputer and i t is s mall and neat, par t lybecause the footwarmer power supply sits onthe floor like the A500 unit.

The front has lights which show when thedr ive has pow er and w h e n i t i s be ingaccessed. The back has an RS232 lookalikeconnector w h i c h i s a c t u a l l y a SC SI(pronounced scuzzy) port for connecting moredrives, tape spoolers or even some laserprinters. There is a socket for connection tothe power supply br ick , and a row o f fourlittle DIP switches. Two switches look after thedevice numbers for adding extra dr ives, athird is reserved for future expansion and thelast one sets the system to autoboot i f youhave a 1.3 Kickstad rum in your Amiga.

Fitting a special c lip, then slotting the driveon to the side of the computer needs a bit ofcourage and a hearty shove. It means that thewhole un it is solid, Assuming you have a

Kickstart 1.3 rem and the switch is set on thedrive, power to the computer sets the unithumming no is e lv i n t o l i f e . Wor k benc happears in about 15 seconds depending onwhat Startup-Sequence has to do. Kickstart 1.2owners w i l l have to boot from floppy. Fromthen on your Amiga is transformed.

Buying an A590 nets you three separateunits in one box — a ram expansion, a harddrive controller and the 20 meg hard drive. Upuntil now getting this k ind of kit together wasa tec hno junk ie 's dream and sane user'snightmare.

Ram expans ion is the s imples t feature;getting to the sockets the hardest par t o finstallation. The outer casing, the dr ive andthen a metal cage have to be removed beforeyou can get to the slots. This jigsaw puzzle is aresult o f keeping the unit small. Since youonly install ram once it is worth it.

Memory can be expanded by adding chipsto give 512k, one or two meg in addition to theram Fitted in your computer. It is worth notingthat the memory in the drive runs faster thaneither the ram in the computer or the A501expansion unit.

Speed costs: The chips whic h need to beFitted are rated at 120 nanoseconds. This ispretty fast. Size counts: Each chip stores 256

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Commodore is proud of the design work ithas put in to the inter face — lessons werelearned with the A2090 and A2090a. The newinterface w il l cope with big drives up to 600megs. and you can attach eight drives at a timeusing SCSI. There is no through bus, so youcan't plug any peripherals into the A590.

Getting data to and from the computer asfast as possible is the interface card's primaryjob. For this reason i t uses direc t memoryaccess ( DMA) . N on- D MA dr iv es use thecentral processor to read bytes from the discand shove them into ram. A DMA drive usesits own custom chippery . This is not onlyquicker, i t allows any other programs yourAmiga may be running to work at normalspeed.

Two types of drive can be connected. XT or

SCSI. Both are better than the ST-506 soldwith A2000s and IBM type PCs. UnfortunatelySCSI dr ives are expensive, par t ly becausethere are so many IBM clones in the world ST-506 drives benefi t from economies of scale,par tly because SCSI dr ives are made to ahigher spec.

A 45 meg SCSI drive without controller cardw i l l set y ou back E500. Commodore hascompromised and fi tted a cheaper 20 meg XTdrive. This ser ious ly affects performancewhen compared with more expensive systems.

Speed freaks can either whip out the X Iunit and raid the piggy bank to fi t a SCSI drive— bye-bye warranty — or add an extra dr iveexternally. This should see the performanceimprove from a data transfer rate of around150k per second to a theoretical rate of morethan a megabyte per second, but for that youwill be paying over C1.000.

What makes the A590 special is the carewith which it has been designed. Any faultsare the result o f hay ing to keep the pr icedown, s omething Commodore s hould bepraised for.

There is a rash of hard drives appearing atthe moment, most of them are at least 40 meg.but they w i l l a l l have to go some to beatCommodore's Real Thing.


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THE PC Show is a great place to see what thecomputer world has to offer. But wouldn't itbe nice i f there was a show which did notsplit up the interesting Commodore machinewith boring Apricots, Acorns and Ataris?

Have no fear, the Commodore Show is here.IVO!. not here exactly, it's at the Novotel inHammersmith. The show runs from November17 to 19 and is the ideal place to pick up somebargains with only 30 shopping days left untilChristmas.

Details of the attractions are s t ill sketchy.but you can be sure Commodore will layon something special. This is the latestin a long tradition of Commo-dore Shows which date backto the time when computerswore short trousers. You pro-bably won't fi nd a copyof the Supersoft Guideto Peek and Poke on thePet, but you will fi ndthe very latest games.peripherals andutilities all at knockdown prices.

The exhibitors forma 1,Vho's Who of theAmiga world, so of cote-seAmiga Computing will be thereto answer your questions andtake your money.

But the best news is that Commodore isrunning a competition for readers. Take theform below along to the show and you w i l lsave Sop on the admission price of E5. Youwill also be entered for a free draw to win aCommodore 20 megabyte A590 Hard Dr ivePlus.

At the end of each day all the entries w ill becollected and a w inner picked at random.Only one entry is allowed per person. butphotocopies are acceptable. Winners w i l l benotified by post.

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COMMODORE'S A2620 is a neat, densely

packed expansion card that plugs into theCo-Processor socket in an A2000. It w i l l notwork in an A500,

Ins talling a CBM 68020 card is a t r iv ia lmatter. Power up. and i f all goes well, youshould be welcomed by that familiar left handholding that familiar disc? Why is that guy lefthanded? The artis t who drew i t was r ighthanded, copy ing his lef t hand holding thedisc, so they say.

Holding both mouse buttons down w ithyour r ight hand and pressing various otherpointy-parts of your anatomy on Orl-Amiga-Amiga you get a menu of three configurations.You can either boot into a vanilla AmigaDos68000, supa-doopa AmigaDos 68020, or even68020 Unix i f you have the software. I f youdon't bother h o ld in g dow n y our mousebuttons on startup, the machine will default toAmigaDos 68020, unles s y ou have beenplay ing w ith your jumper switches on themain board.

The A2620 board comes in its min imumc onfi gurat ion w i t h a 14.3MHz 68020, 2megabytes o f fas t 32 b i t r am (100ns) . a14.3MHz 68881 (that's a math coprocessor toyou and me) and a 14.3MHz 68851. The lastchip is a memory management unit (MMU).These perform v ir tual memory, and addresstranslation tricks required by Unix and otherpower-operating systems. I f your 613020 cardhasn't got it, then you can't run Unix,

Maths freaks can change t h e-1 4 . 3 M H z 6 8 8 8 1

for a 25MHz one and move a jumper on theboard. This w i l l speed up things l ik e raytracing, but i f you have looked at the price of25MHz 68881s you are likely to have decidedit is better to grow old waiting than blow yoursavings on one chip.

The 68020, being a 32 bit processor, isn'tbeing nut at full t ilt unless it finds 32 bit ram.The Commodore's A2620 runs its c lock attwice the standard speed of an Amiga. makingit tw ic e as fas t, bu t the 32 b i t r am andsophisticated cache ins ide a 68020 ends upquadrupling the speed of a standard Amiga.

For mathematical applications this w i l l beeven better, as the 68881 can do some things at10 or 20 times the speed of the normal Amigamath routines can manage, and i f you useWorkbench 1.3 the improvements w i l l oftenbe transparent. Ali. the advantages of a properoperating system.

Commodore's 32 bit ram is autoconfiguredto reside in the system's 24 bit address range.What that means in lavman's terms is that itw ill work with existing hardware devices likeDMA hard disc controllers and video boards,The A2620 design is flawless.

The public domain benchmark SI c laimsthat Commodore's 68020 runs at 4.5 to 4.8times the speed o f a standard Amiga. They

also claim that equates to 15 times the speedof an IBM PC, though I 'd argue how theyworked that one out. Lies, damned lies, andbenchmarks.

I tr ied a few of my own k ludged togetherbenchmarks. Lik e putt ing indiv idual 68000instructions in a tight loop and seeing theirrelative performance compared to a normalAmiga. In most cases my tests proved a figureof four to fi ve times the speedup. With real

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world programs like assemblers and compilersthe difference is staggering.

Ignoring the unchanged disc performance.most programs show a three or four timesspeed improvement overall. Even programsthat r u n s o le ly f r om c h lp memor y l i k eStarGlider 2 show significant improvements,although only about two or three fold. Thisthing really flies. But then, you get what youpay for.

During my one-month testing of the CBMA2620 I found that most programs would runperfectly on it . Some self-booting games maysuffer problems due to the Amiga runningunexpectedly fast. The good thing about theCommodore card is that i f vou fi nd a programthat _doesn't r un, y ou s imply do the fi v efingered salute — both mouse buttons, and the

normal three fingered one — and-you can bootinto a 68000 minus the 68020 and 32 bit ram.A v e r y e f f e c t iv e b r i d g e ac r os s t h ecompatibility gap w ith some games, thoughwith business or produc tiv ity applicationsthere should be no compatibility woes.

Today t h e A2620 m a y s eem l i k e a nexpensive luxury, but i t points the way forAmigas of the future. Chip costs mean that wewon't see 68020 based A500s for a long while.But when it comes the upgrade will be simple.Then there w il l be room for the next power-users card — a 25MHz 68030, which is alreadyat the prototype stage,

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WHO would you want on your side in abundle? The Caped Crusader seems a goodchoice. Commodore and Ocean haveteamed up the Amiga with Batman to pro-duce an amazing Christmas bundle.

This is the first time an unreleased pro-gram has been put into a bundle and itlooks to be a winner. Some computer manu-facturers stick whatever they can get cheapinto bundles. Commodore has concentratedon quality.

Still Batman is not alone. The pack con

sists of a modulator which lets you connectthe Amiga to an ordinary TV and four pro-grams, Batman, Interceptor, New ZealandStory and Deluxe Paint

BATMANTHE biggest fi lm of the year has spawnedthe biggest project for Ocean. A large teamof programmers. artists and games design-ers has been assembled to work on the dif-ferent levels. Experience the danger of tak-ing on the Joker within his chemical works.Fly the Batwing to take out the poison bal-loons and drive the Batmobile for all youare worth to get to the church on time,Nvhere the flat faced felon who put the funinto funeral is tolling a hell — for you.

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REACH for the sky is the best-selling Amigaonly game of all time, Based on one of themost modern attack aircraft the US has tooffer you have to stop some F-16s fromdefecting. protect the President and takeout some MiGs.

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DELUXE PAINT IIEVERY computer has one program which is alynchpin in i ts development. The BBC hadElite, the Archimedes had Zarch and theAmiga has Deluxe Paint from Electronic Arts.This i s the program Andy Warhol used todemonstrate the Amiga at i ts New Yorklaunch. This is the program which is used to

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Dare you fl y under the Golden Gatebridge? Can you land on the carrier? Takean F-16 up for a spin or even shoot downthe President, Interceptor offers the perfectcross between a game and a simulator.

You guide a character around the islandsof New Zealand. Armed with a bow andarrow you can pick up extra weapons withwhich to fend off bats. fl y ing cats and ev ilfrogs. Well no one asked for realism in com-puter games.

design a mil l ion alien sprites. This was theprogram every Amiga owner should have had.

Then things changed. Deluxe Paint got bet-ter. I h e program whic h was fi rst wr itten toshow off the Amiga when i t was launchedgrew up with the machine. The result wasDeluxe Paint IL A fine and polished art pro-gram which provides everything you need todraw, design and paint on the screen.

Beyond this there is animation, a featureoffered by Deluxe Paint III which needs anexpanded Amiga.

Deluxe Paint II is more than a fun tool. It isan introduction to using the Amiga. The rulesyou learn for loading and saving pictures. forselecting colours and brushes and for runningthe program are all carried through to otherAmiga programs. Learning is fun

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It is a big. big show, so this is your guide towhere the very best Amiga goodies are to befound.

The ma in at t r ac t ion, o f course, is theCommodore stand.

loin the throng in the arcade to sample someof the latest games. Your admission fee of 501)will go to the Save the Children fund.

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sellotaping a disc to the frontcover we've become aware of just howneglected CLI is. Most Amiga ownerswould be surprised to discover thatlots of programmers never useWorkbench. This is because they havelearned that by using the CLI-they canbe much more productive.

If you have come to the Amiga froma C64 or Spectrum, an awkwardconcept you have to grasp is that of anoperating system (OS), which is a sortof management language for thecomputer. In the same way you mayhave used Basic to create a filehandling program, the OS will handleall your Basic programs, as well asany data files, script files and otherlanguages.

It acts as a middleman between youand the hardware of the Amiga. andwithout it that's all the Amiga is — aheap of hardware, By having a multi-tasking OS. the Amiga has more incommon with mainframes than itdoes with feebler micros. Indeed,AmigaDos is based on Tripos, anoperating system pioneered on a small

mainframe computer at CambridgeUniversity.

Your way into this OS is through theFrom WB you can order your

programs by putting them intodifferent drawers. All your picturesshould go into a DPaint Spritz orPhoton drawer, depending uponwhich program you use. Basicprograms should go into a Basicdrawer. This makes finding everythingso much easier.

Even i f you are the type of personwho tidies up by pushing things underthe bed, and thinks the best way toorganise a bedroom is to have the mostoften played records on top of themost often worn clothes, you shouldkeep your discs tidy.

OU can read a directory of thewhole bedroom by standing in

the middle of the room and lookingaround. To look at everything on adisc means examining everything, andthis is tiresome. A pair of Reeboks isphysical, a letter to your pen friend in

• A M I G A D O S E

Boston invisible,But i f the letter is in a drawer on

the disc called Letters-to-Lucy, you'llfind it straight away. The CLI way todo this is by creating a directory.Drawers and directories are the samething, the only difference is that adrawer has an icon to he seen byWorkbench. One thing you soon learnis to keep directory names short. Soinstead of calling the directoryLetters-to-Lucy. call it just Lucy.

Remember, you can access drawersfrom the CLI but you cannot accessplain directories from Workbenchbecause they have no icon.

To create the directory you mustuse a CLI command. Makedir Lucywill create a directory whichbranches off from the directory youare in. But it does not put you intothat directory. To look at any fileswhich are there you need to use theCD. change directory. command_

Enter the Dir command and youwill see Lucy (dir) listed on the disc.

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Type CD Lucy and you will be movedto inside the Lucy directory. If youtype Dir again you will see no fileslisted. You can get back to theprevious directory by typing CD I.which will change "up" to the parentdirectory, the directory whichcontains the current directory.

All disc manipulation is easiestwith two drives. Pop your day-to- daycopy of Workbench — not the original,which should be in a safe place — intothe internal drive, known as DFO:. Putthis month's Amiga Computing coverdisc into the external drive. D171: .Open your Workbench disc and clickon the CLI icon. This will put you inthe top directory of the internal disc,which computer techies call the rootdirectory. because all the otherdirectories branch out from it.

Using the CD command you canexplore the cover disc. Type CD DF1:.including the colon. The colon tellsthe OS that you are talking about adevice and not just the name of a fi lein the current directory. Now type Dir.This w ill show you what directoriesare there. You can CD to any of them.Use the mouse to re-size the CLIwindow if it is too small.

It may look primitive, but in itsincarnation as a Shell withWorkbench 1,3. CLI can be yourfriend. The reason it is called a Shellis because it covers the CLI. making iteasier to use.

AmigaShell users can replace a longseries of opening drawers and mouseclicks with a line of type. They canstart a program and get going withouthaving to wait for the program to loadand then summoning up the right fi le.

I'm writing this article-u§ingProtext. Now I won't be able to finishthe whole lot in one go. so I'll need toreload the article at some time. I caneither click on the Protext drawer,click on the Pretext icon, call up theProject menu, select Edit mode,catalogue the files, highlight theNovember sub-directory, changedirectories, lis t the files, highlightLITIN (which is the name of this fi le)and then load it. Or I can go into CLI,assuming I didn't startup in CLI, andtype l'rotext/Protext FastHD:Protext/November/UTW. It works. I've justdone it.

The computer knows where to lookfor everything because I've told it.Protext/Protext means look in the sub-directory and run a program calledProtext. The next bit is the name ofthe file. It is called IITW in the

94 A MI G A COMPUTING NOVVM r 1989

November sub-directory of the Protextsub-directory.

SHELL is more than just a quick

way of getting into programs, itoffers access to the AmigaDoscommands which allow you to viewor delete files and directoriesregardless of whether they have icons.

In addition to this housekeeping,you can do some weird things. Fromthe sensible List >PRT: IWO:, whichlists the contents of a disc to theprinter, to the silly Type >SPEAK:DFO:sistartup-sequence. which getsthe computer to read out what is inthe startup-sequence file.

The ">" symbol is a re-direction.Think of it as meaning "to". SPEAK:is a device, Remember thatAmigaDos's heritage dates back to thetime when computers and allperipherals were big expensive boxes.It thinks the printer, the screen andeven indiv idual windows are separateunits,

You can use the Copy command tomove data between these units. UsingWorkbench 1.3 the keyboard is adevice called NEWCON:. You canmake a simple typewriter with thecommand Copy NEWCON: TO PRT:.To stop everything that you typeappearing on the printer, hold downthe Ctrl key and press \. This Ctrl— \is the AmigaDos character for the endof a fi le — it tells the Copy commandthat it has reached the end of thedocument you are typing and canstop.

Sceptics should bear in mind thatsome commands just aren't availablefrom Workbench at the present time.like the quick formatting option. Ifyou want to re-format a disc, that istotally erase a disc which has alreadybeen formatted, it is much quicker todo so in the CLI using:

Format DRIVE d l l : NARE MyDisk QUICK

The QUICK option tells the OS justto rewrite the boot and root blocks ofthe disc, and not to bother layingdown tracks for the actual data sincethey already exist. Another option.NOICONS, which you can type beforeor after QUICK, prevents a Trashcandrawer from being created, somethingelse you cannot do from Workbench.

The Shell also allows commands tobecome permanently resident inmemory, which frees single-driveusers from the "Please replace volumeWorkbench in dfo:" syndrome. Tomake the most common commands,

CD and List, reside in memory enterthe following:

aliasaliasal iasal iasal iasalias

Resident c:CDResident c : L i s t

The c: before the command name isvery important because it tells the OSwhere to look for the file — in the cdirectory on the disc you hooted with,

Another useful feature of the Shell,and something which WB 1.2 usershaven't got, is the Alias command.This not only allows you to rename acommand to something with whichyou are more familiar — for example,PC owners may wish to use:

Alias Oct Oelete

in order to make the Delete commandthe same as its MSdos counterpart —but it can also be used to substitute fora long string of parameters. I I I wantedto list only those filenames with a.doc extension for instance. I couldcreate the alias:

Alias DocLis t L i s t Ni. doc

Now typing DocList will let me tosee all the docs without lookingthrough the whole directory, andwithout having to remember theunconventional AmigaDos patternmatching symbols. hash and questionmark.

Additional parameters may bepassed to the alias by use of squarebrackets. To abbreviate the Typecommand, for example:

atlas T Type (1

This allows you to enter T Filenameto get the same result as TypeFilename.

The proper place to put all youraliases is in the s:Shell-Startup fi le. Infact, have a quick look — Type s:Shell-Startup — and you'll fi nd a few alreadyset up. I've added these to mine:

bye endc l idel de let ead makedirIs l i s t nodatesdump type EJ hexpr int t ype t o prt:

Get to know the CLI. By learning allthe clever tricks hidden within thecommands you can become muchmore productive. Why work so hardwhen you have a computer aspowerful as an Amiga to take thestrain?

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US I N G

pRIN•I'ERS are important. Why

did you get Protext? Why did weall get it? Why did we get computers?It's a well known fact, so well knownthat it might even be true, that morecomputers are bought for wordprocessing than for any other use.

And Protext. the Amy, the seconddrive, the mouse, the rat's nest ofwires and the list of commands blu-tacked to the wall are all s imply waysof talking to the printer. Then theprinter talks to the outside world. Andthat's the way it ' ll be t ill we gostraight into the cerebral cortex.

If you want to know what that willhe like, read Neuromancer and CountZero by William Gibson. But t ill then,thank heavens, only printers count.

Nobody real reads anything off ascreen. I f you're in any doubt about

Playingwithrinterslintersrinxer5Fill W M11I mmimiffolo

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>LS 0 ; L I NE SPACING ZEROFor i n s t a n c e , t o go i n t o Souv en i r he re ,)0C 27 102 6 ; SWITCH SOUVENIR ON

Ah! Do l o r e s on t h e Py ramids !>LS 1 : L I NE SPACING BACK TO ONE

Figure I: Switching to Souvenir font mid-line on the NEC P2200

this, ask yourself why fax has takenoff the way it has, and why onlyfreaks like journalists or people likeus use Email or post discs.

So, the printer is more importantthan the computer. Definitely. By yourprintout shall you be judged.

If you use a Cray XMP and aDMP-1, then everyone will knowyou're a nerd. But with a Vic 20,Postscript and a Laserjet, you couldwrite to Mikail Gorbachov. Or even toRaise.

So the thought is this; if you want todo something, work out if the printer

Printing issuch sweetsorrow..Or rather,it's not...Peter Ceresoleshows youhow printingcan be fun

can do it. if necessary by going backand overprinting the last character, orby going into — shudder! — graphicsmode. If the printer can do it, you cando it with Protext. It may not alwaysbe wysiwyg, but that's the price youpay for speed.

Protext. like all good wordpros. isterrific at talking to printers. Forinstance, printers come with manualsof varying opacity, but they all seemto include Basic programs to sendcodes to the printer. Forget it. Protextmakes it a hundred times easier.

The direct way is to use the >OCstored command. For instance, Ialways fancied printing somethingreally small. This trick will work withany Epson compatible. It was lastmonth.s p a rt i ng s ho t, and it goes:

>ec 27 65 6 15 21 831

To save you looking it up in theprinter manual, which could be aboring laplish experience, the codes27 65 6 change the printer to halflinefeeds, 15 switches on condensedmode and 27 83 1 goes into subscript.The result needs a magnifying glass toread, is quite useless except forfootnotes of an obscure kind, and israther fun.

To unwind the effect, you put in theopposite codes.

Now you can do this another way.The subscript and the condensedcodes are supplied in the printerdrivers. So you could go Ctri_xs andCtri_xc and have a stored command>1..F 0.5. No sweat. But I find it easierto have the >0C line stored as a fi lecalled TINYPRINT_ON, and merge itwhere I want it.

There are other things. On the NECP2200 that I use there are variousfonts like Souvenir. OCR—B (the fontwe use for listings in AmigaComputing) and Super Focus, whichkind of SHOUTS at you. They allhave their codes, and you can switchthem on with >0C. But that onlyworks well lithe) ' run from the startof a line.

There is a way of using >OC codesto make something happen in the

middle of a line. It involves splittingthe line at the change, putting the>0C command on the next line andthen, below that, starting the new textat the correct column across the page.

If you set the line spacing to zero —>LS 0 — before, and reset it to one, orwhatever you're on, after, then itworks. Have a look at Figure

Geddit? It can be useful. But ingeneral life's too short for that sort ofthing. No, it's time to hack the printerdriver.

The manual's useful here. What amI saying! It's always useful. Especiallyif you load your printer driver intoProtext and sit there with the printermanual and the Protext manualtogether, having a good old stare. Forexample, I see that under "f" inNECP2200.13PD. w h i c h i s t h e o ne f or

me, is the sheet feeder code. Now I'mnot that rich, so in my case "r• isspare.

You can edit the printer driver filejust like an ordinary text file, which itis, except that it's in Program mode, Inthis case I make the line:

00100110 = 10201100110 . 10201100110 = 10211100111 . 231

= 011100111 = 23101100110 . 10201100110 = 102

cc ' f1:2 7 ,1 02 , 6 ;21,102,1

So now Ctri—xl toggles betweenSouvenir (27,102,6) and Courier(27.102,1). But only on my NECP2200, of course.

You can do exactly the same to addcodes for your favourite printermanoeuvres. A good trick is to keepthe original printer driver savedsomewhere — it's on the master disc —and then experiment.

You don't have to get it right all atonce, you can experiment bit by bit.Browse through the printer manual tosee i f there are things you'd Hite ,to do.and try them out with an >OC code, Ifyou like it, bung it into the printerdriver.

You can, of course, change thecodes using the >CC "change codes"option. building up a file that youload each time to modify your printerdriver. I've always felt that i f youreally want these changes. then putthem straight into the driver.

One of the nicest tricks is to get theprinter to draw the IBM double linebox characters. The Amy supportssingle line graphic box drawing onscreen, but I feel the double boxes aremuch, much nicer. If you look in aprinter driver that supports the IBMcharacters —EPSON24.11PD f o rinstance, on the September cover disc— there's a clearly labelled section thatlooks like Figure Ha.

Wig

Converting theEPSON24.PPDprinter driver todo IBM doublelinf' graphics

rem Amiga linerc a954b3rc 119601b4rc 097.Abfrc 098:1c0rc 099=aclrc 19a4c2rc 19b4c3rc 19c4c4rc 19d4c5rc 09e.#(19

graphics

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The numbers on the right are thehex values for the IBM line characters.About the only thing I hold againstArnor is that it does everything in hex.

guess Mark Tilley must have funnyhands.

Anyway, i f you change the numbersso they look like those in Figure libyou can use Protext's line drawingabilities to draw better boxes. rvesaved the modified printer driverunder the original name BOX,PPD, It'son this month's cover disc in thePlaying-with-Printers drawer.

Next up is drawing the double linebox characters on screen. Might aswell keep this contemporary andwysiwyg and things like that...

Use the Symbol command, and anExec file. Symbol defines screencharacters. It's very simple to useindeed, but it helps to do a littlepreparation.

Take, as an example, the characterthat represents two lines crossing(generally called a cross, Brian). It ischaracter #9d on the Amiga, which issent to the printer as #ce, or 206 incivilised numbers.

It looks like the cross in Figure IIIand it is defined on screen with the 8x 8 grid it is drawn on, It's worthmaking a file which is a pageful ofthese grids, about 12 of them, whichyou print and use to design anycharacters you want to get on screen.

The extensions to the right are toenter the numbers for each row of thecharacter. A black square is a one, anempty square a zero. So the top row ofthe cross character is 01100110, whichis binary for 102. The next two rowsare the same, but the fourth is11100111. which is 231. And so on.

It helps i f you've got a programmer'scalculator for the binary-to-decimalconversion. If not, never fear, there'sone called PCALC in my drawer onthis month's cover disc, along with aGRID I prepared earlier...

So the way to get that cross drawn

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on screen, instead of a simple cross, isto type:

symbol •9d 102 102 102 231 0 231 102102

at the command line, and pressReturn. But you want to get a wholelot of characters redefined this way,and you want to do it without typingmore than the strict minimum of stuff,so make up an Exec file.

Create a file in Program mode withall Your Symbol commands, each on aseparate line, with a carriage return atthe end of each, not forgetting the lastone. Guess who fell into that trap afew times. If you save it with thename, say BOXEX, then whenever youExec, or better still just x, BOXEX atthe command line, it will executeeach line in the file in turn.

And because you want-to load thenew printer driver to print the newcharacters, you can add "pr box" asthe last command. The completelisting is in Figure IV.

Now Protext will draw IBM doublebox characters on screen, and printthem i f your printer supports thosecharacters.

If you want to revert to the standardscreen presentation. you'll either haveto reboot, which doesn't bear thinkingabout, or make up an equivalent file ofSymbol commands called LINBOXwhich redraws the normal characters

Figure III: Working out the Symbolnumbers for the IBM double line cross

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on screen. You can't mix the singleand double boxes on screen unlessyou reassign a second set of keys to doit.

What you can do is mix them inprinting by using the stored command>PR BOX when you want the doubleboxes, and (say) >PR NECP2200 whenyou want to revert to normal.

In the meantime, the sky's the limit.Try typing in Figure V, saving it inProgram mode as ABC and theneXecuting it. Note that I've abandonedhex in the interests of sanity.

Then type your alphabet, anappropriate term here. If you want toprint this lot, change the printingcodes by using >RC stored commands.Like this:

>rc "a" 224>rc "b" 225>rc "c" 226

and so on>rc la" 239

Those stored codes cah be saved asa file that is merged by an extra lineon the end of Figure V.

By the way, there's a reason why Iprefer to send the new box charactersby modifying the printer driver - mostof the key strokes have already beenput in there by the bod wrote thedriver for Amor, so there's less workto do.

In the case of the "abc.„" the Amigacodes are the same as the printercodes, so they're not in the printerdriver. In that case, it's just as easy touse >RC.

If you're using the demo version ofl'rotext, however, you'll have to go the>RC route because the printer drivermay be too big to load,

You'll appreciate that to get back tothe standard screen font you'll have to

38 AMIGA a9MPUTING November 1989

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have an Exec file that restores thestandard characters. This is not trivial,but Figure VI should get everythingback to normal.

Finally... oder endlich, as they sayin Prowort... graphics in Protext. Yeah!Although Protext has this wonderfulrelationship with printers, graphics bynumbers are frankly hell.

In quad density they're justridiculous. But on the right day theycan be rather fun. I think it needs a lotof time, rather like re-reading all ofHardy's novels on holiday. Doesanybody really do that? I know someof my friends claim to....

As a straight bit of vainglory I didmy signature. in double density. Icould have had a go in quad density.using all 24 pins, but so far no day hasappeared on which it might be fun.

It requires preparation, again.Print a grid, as before. This time it

Figure VI

Figure VII: The grid for preparing your printer signature

symbol 97 0 0 120symbol 98 224 96symbol 99 0 0 60symbol 100 28 12symbol 101 0 0 60symbol 102 28 54 48 120 48 48 120 0symbol 103 0 0 62 102 102 62 6 124symbol 104 224 96 124 102 102 102 230 0symbol 105 24 0 56 24 24 24 60 0symbol 106 6 0 14 6 6 102 102 60symbol 107 224 96 102 108 120 108 230 0symbol 108 56 24 24 24 24 24 60 0symbol 109 0 0 108 254 214 214 198 0symbol 110 0 0 220 102 102 102 102 0symbol 111 00 60 101 102 102 60 0symbol 112 0 0 220 102 102 124 06 224pr necp2200

has to be bigger, but that's OK becauseI've done it for you. It's in my drawercalled BIG-GRID. If your printer can'thandle IBM line graphics, you'll haveto photocopy Figure VII instead.

The lines to write the numbers onstick down instead of sidewaysbecause that's the way the printerreads the bytes. Now, you drawwhatever you want to reproduce overthe grid, remembering that it will turnout two characters high in this case,and be as long as you have thepatience to make it. The grid in FigureVII is nine characters long.

After you've drawn yourmasterpiece or signed your name verybig, work out the binary numbersrepresented by the black squares, incolumns rather than rows, and writethem down. You'll have two numbersin each column, one for the top eightsquares, the other for the lower eight.

Then send the codes to the printerline by line.

When it came to do a signature Ichickened out and kept it small, oneline high. The codes in Figure VIII arefor an Epson compatible, in 24 pinmode. You need to load it in and print

>oc 27 64>oc 27 36 120 0>oc 27 42 33 110 0

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it.The first code is a gentle printer

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All this could be in one damn great>0C statement, hut that's a nightmareto enter, so I prefer to break things up.

As you can see, it's a terrific sweat.The result is shown in Figure IX.

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Filled with frustration whileDPaint fills with a pattern?Worried by caffeineconsumption during raytracing? Perhaps the answeris an accelerator. RupertGoodwins looks at one go-faster board that gives anyAmiga a boost up thebenchmarks

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BACK in the days when computers were sci-

ence fiction, a man called Parkinson formu-lated a law: "Work expands to fi t the timeavailable". He would be pleased to note that thesame holds true in the Silicon Ago — as manufac-tumrs churn nut faster machines, the software thatuses them eats every ounce of performance andstill leaves us poor users asking for more.

While 10 years ago. micro owners sat aroundwaiting for their Pets to reformat a page of text,nowadays we all make coffee while the computerrotates a complex. three-dimensional picture of anaardvark. It's true of all computers. but on a graph-ically superb, multi-tasking Amiga it's even easierto run out of processor steam.

The official cure for the wait-a-bit woes is amore expensive, faster computer. UnfortunatelyCommodore has been just as tardy in producinganything with more Whizz than the 7.1MHz 68000for the Amiga 500. The MHz is the indication ofspeed — one MHz (megahertz) is one million"ticks" a second.

THE (moo processor can take anything from

4 to 158 ticks to do one machine codeinstruction, but the average is somewhere between8 and 16. Thus a 68000 at Amiga speeds can man-age rather under a million instructions a second.although in practice the video and audio bits canslow things down more than a little.

So how about buying a faster processor chip?The Third Coast Technologies accelerator is justthat — a board with a 16MHz 68000. some extrabits to link it into an Amiga and to generate the 14million pulses that drive the whole lot along. It

comes with a discful of software, and a rathersmall manual.

Like all accelerators, it requires you todisembowel your Amiga — and thusyour guarantee — so it's not suitablefor those with screwdriverphobia.However, for those bold enoughto wield a 10 Torx (the specialtool needed to prise an A500apart). installation is fairlysimple.

Once the top of thecase is off , and theextensive tin sheetingthat shields the circuitboard removed, theexisting 68000 chiphas to be extracted.Commodore has so farsocketted a l l i t s68000s. so it's just amatter of taking asmall screwdriver andlevering out the chip.

The acceleratorboard plugs i n itsplace: the only problemI encountered was that anumber of componentson the board around thesocket were as tall as theoriginal 68000 and wouldshort against the new board.

My solution was to carefullybend away as many of the compo-nents as could be so bent, and pro-vide a sheet of plastic to insulate the

A A.bottom of the board — but there'snothing in the manual about thisand if I hadn't spotted the problemthere could have been a veryexpensive firework display.

Once plugged in, the Amigashould work as before. Untilyou run the special softwareprovided, the board runs at thesame speed as the originalchip and this should meanthat all software works asbefore.

Certainly, with the accel-erator installed but notactivated, all my games.

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utility and general purpose software workedas i f nothing had changed. Compatibility.

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board that successfully emulatesa slow 68000 though, so the

next step is to kick in thehigh-speed mode. To this

end, a program called PAis provided. Click on i tfrom y o u r no rma lWorkbench screenand the chip switch-es over to 14Mhz.Click again, and thechip goes back tothe normal. slow.compatible rate.If you use the CL1to run PA. you cangive i t s o m eparameters. whichproduce informa-tion about the sys-tem, contro l thespeed or the option-

al mathematics chip.The maths ch ip

option — not providedwith the review board —

is designed for peoplewho intend to do a lot of

floating point mathematicson the i r Amiga. I t uses a

Motorola 68881/2 chip, whichdoes in hardware what the Amiga

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In some cases it'spossible to go hundredsof times faster, but onlyw i th so ftware tha tspends most o f i ts

time squirting very precise numbers through for-mulae.

Most people don't need a 68881: for those thatdo. the fact that this board makes i t possible toplug one into an Amiga should be reason enoughto buy i t. Be warned, though, that there are nodetails about the hardware installation in theinstruction book, so you'll need to get in contactwith the distributors first.

There's plenty about the software implicationsof installing the chip, however, so you should beable to work out whether your software will workfaster or not.

Other software on the disc includes a few demosand a couple of tests. The demos are simple andunexciting, apart from a PD Mandlebrot program(MandFXP) which is as beautiful and intriguing asthe mathematics it demonstrates.

The Mandelbrot set shows a whirling, contortedpattern that gets more detailed as you zoom in ona feature — it's an excellent test of a computer'sgraphical and computational prowess, With theaccelerator board in. the Amiga Finishes a screenbetween 30 to 40 per cent faster than before,

The computer doesn't go exactly twice as fast,because the processor has to share the memoryfrom which i t reads instructions with all o f theother special Amiga chips.

These chips control sound, display, disc drivesand other parts of the computer, and all of theseneed to be able to override the processor in effectturning it off while they do their jobs.

FrrrING everything together is one of the big

problems o f computer design, and theAmiga does i t rather well. This does mean thatincreasing the speed of just one part of the systemwon't speed everything up. and that the most youshould expect from the processor accelerator isaround a 40 per cent increase.

Lots o f software won't exhib i t even this,although anything that waits for the processor towork things out will benefit.

Programs that work better include Pixel Paint,Deluxe Paint III, Amigallasic, Devpac. anythingthat writes a lot of text on to the screen. Sculptand others of similar i lk. Games don't benefitmuch, both because they tend to use their ownloader programs — and thus never give the user achance to run PA — and also because they can betied to the speed of the computer's video display.

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Tipsandcheats

EXPLORE brave new islands with the Archipelagos cheat. You haveto solve Archipelagos one and two. Press return to select anarchipelago and type 8421 and press Return. Press Return again andyou can select any archipelagofrom I to 9999.

Every fi fth archipelago in thefirst 100 is the must interesting.as these have been pre-designedby the programmers. There aremany very tricky and highlycomplex island complexes tobe seen.

HERE'S a way to make that crusadefor the Holy Grail more than a little biteasier. Remember the bit in the fi lmwhere Indy has to walk across acrumbling floor? The letters that aresafe to tread on spell out IEHOVA.Type this string into one of theloading screens.

You only have a short time to do itand, like Indy, only one chance.Getting this right is more than a littletricky. If it does work — and it isunlikely that it will first time around— you will have infi nite lives.

To get the icons press I and to skip alevel press L. You can fast forwardthrough a level by pressing 2. Use thisand the quest is more like a stroll inthe park.

GET further in US 1 1Gold's over-ratedscrolly blast with thistip from B. Mitchell:Type ARC then pressthe Help key while onthe title screen. Thiswill load up a twoplayer game. Duringplay press the S keyto go straight to theshop and the N keyto skip to the nextlevel.

MARTIN Hemmingfrom Redditch haswritten in with anobservation aboutThe Krystal. If youmake Sir DancisFrake face awayfrom you and leavethe machine alonefor 30 seconds histrousers will falldown. ThanksMartin. A gameand a Speedking arein the post to you.

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KARL Donovan from Berkshire haswritten in with a complete solutionfor Dragon's Lair. It isn't one of thoselong-winded solutions that gives aload of joystick movements, simply akey combination.

Press ESC R / L N 7 simultaneouslyjust after the credits finish loadingand the screen will flash, then pressthe joystick button. This produces ademo mode which runs the game fromstart to finish, letting you see thoselast few screens,

'THIS tip from Mr Mitchell is a long list of Populousworlds, which brings to a close the tips on Populous. I ' lljust list the last few: 451 Timoxiug. 455 Killuing, 460Bilemet, 467 Bugikeend, 470 Bindeond, 478 Suzylow,486 Swakoppal, 493 Ringapal and fi nally 494 Weavuspert.There is also a special level: 999 Killuspal.

RESCUING a princess is all in a day's work for the player in Chariots ofWrath. So what do you do if you want to skive off? Well princesses stillhave to be rescued, but with infi nite lives it is so much easier, andgetting those infi nitelives is not at alldiffi cult, as Mr l Gowerfound out.

Push the joystickforward when youare first asked to presstire and you will havemore lives than youknow what to do with.

SPEEDING along in the fast lane isfun, but it can be even better with thistip from Mr Mitchell: During playtype RED BARCHETTA, inc luding thespace. Now you can press S and go tothe next stage. or press T for moretime.

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Write to MaxGAME Killer is always on thelookout for hot tips, so if you havefound a cheat mode. bug or writtena poke then drop it in the post — ondisc if it is a long listing. If yourwork is used s e n d you a gamedrawn at random from the goodiebox and a Konix Speedkingjoystick.

To speed up getting the prize toyou please cut out, photocopy orcopy this form. It will be used asthe address label to send out yourparcel. Send the form to Max "TheHacks" Tennant, Game Killer.Amiga Computing, Second Floor.North House. 78-84 Ongar Road.Brentwood, Essex. CM15 9BG.

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Chariots of Wrat h combines the best features of some of thegreatest games ever to have been writ t en, result ing in anact ion-packed mega adventure.Each phase of the game features impressively des igned graphics,superb sound effects and highly addict ive game play.As you traverse through the levels, amass ing fi repower and points, you' ll fi nd you justhave to keep coming back to complete that next level.

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E34.90Home Accounts has been des igned to make fulluse of the Amiga's features, giving you thewidest range of home accounting facilitiesavailable at this price.The program lets you set budgets and cont rol up to 13 separateaccounts, wit h opt ional printouts of any data. Within seconds ofloading your data disc you can check your budget or any account,and even display or print the data in bar or pie charts.

Day by Day replaces your manual system for diary,business organiser, notepad, planner, reminder and so oIt's suitable for both business and home applicat ions, inc ludingnumerous useful funct ions which serve every requirement .Among its many features are.'

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Both of these powerful programs are excellent value on theirown, but if you buy this exclusive combinat ion package we'llknock £20 off the combined retail price.

This blockbuster combines the bestfeatures of some of the mos t populargames ever to haye appeared on theAmiga.It features five act ion-packed levelswith dif ferent variet ies of scrollingand gameplay , wit h the fi fth level guaranteed to raiseyour joystick's temperature by a f ew degrees i f notyour own)."Trained Assassin is of a standard that could probablysurvive unaltered in a real arcade - few games couldmanage that". - Stewart Russel, Amiga Computing.

Raider

Skill and det erminat ionare the qualities you'llneed in vast amounts ifyou're going to fullymaster this game.

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E12.95Your miss ion consists of collect ing pods byhovering above them and switching onyour t ractor beam, but all the t ime youhave to take into account the effects ofinert ia and gravity, cont rolling your ship assmoothly as possible - to avoid collidingwith the planet below."The graphics are wonderfully drawn andsmoothly scrolled in all directions. Everylandscape is a joy to look at and explore_delicate, addictive gameplay" - JohnKennedy, Amiga Computing.

The dreaded lurgiRECENTLY my Amiga has been doingstrange things. Tell me if this is thework of a new virus. After a whileprograms on the disc — generally inthe c and libs directories — start todevelop read/write errors. If I install adisc with the noboot option, a boottrack is re-written.

VirusX 110 cannot detect any virusand nor can Virus Killer, and InstallCheck says its legal. Surprisingly itseems to have no effect on non-standard discs, such as games.

Paul Kerrigan.Coventry.

Sounds like an attack of MQ. A copyof ilirusX 3.20 will fix that. There is asimilar, non-boot block virus whichVirusX cannot spot. This producesmessages about Green peace. andyou'll need to be something of aprogramming wizard to get r id of it.

Wrong routeFAT Angus (Sweet PD. July 1989Amiga Computing) must have been onsomething stronger than Britvic if hebelieves that his Londonward railjourney from Birmingham New Streettook him to Kings Cross.

Perhaps he should take up trainspotting.

Glyn Williams.Sinfin, Derby.

Brilliant! Well spotted. There are twogames in the post to you.

Sick mouse and slipped discIF you have problems with thebuttons on your mouse, open the caseand put a 1 mm piece of card, cut tothe approximate size of the silvercontact, on the leaf contacts, thenreplace the screws.

This works because the upper leafsometimes becomes indented fromwhere the point of the button iscontinually pressing down on it. Thepiece of card ensures that the wholeleaf is pushed down instead of just asingle point.

Recently I bought some "lifetimeguaranteed unbranded" discs, only tofind that half came up with read/writeerrors when I tried to format them.

Diskdoctor didn't have any effect,so I tried the Discwipe function foundon the Project D utility followed byDiskdoctor, and they all formattedwithout a problem.

V S Kirby.Stanmore, Middx.

Thanks for the tips. Some discs areformatted as part of the testingprocess. Because this is not the sameas an AmigaDos format it can causeproblems. A few attempts at usingformat might erase all the unwantedinformation.

Beware false IconsI WANT to use IconX. I have made anicon image. changed the default toolto c/iconX, copied IconX into my cdirectory. When I boot up from thedisc and double click on the icon itloads IconX but does not execute mybatch file.

If I boot up with Workbench withthe disc in the other drive everythingworks correctly. Please could you tellme i f there is something else I need ofthe Workbench to make IconX work.

I am very pleased that you nowoffer a disc on the front of themagazine. Here are my ideas on whatyou should include:

A game demo (one is enough). adark blue Workbench screen. some

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better icons, another text file viewer, abit more documentation on theprograms, one or two public domainprograms on disc.

Any chance of an assemblylanguage course? The overallmagazine is very good.

Andrew Wood,Sittingbourne, Kent.

Well, if you will persist in readingother magazines you'll be fed duffinformation on how to use k ora. Theprogram needs BUN and CD copiedfrom your Workbench disc. Youshould either put them in the root orthe C directory. Thanks for thecomments on the disc.

Suffering CIAHAVING only owned my Amiga for afew months I am having somedifficulty understanding the manuals.I can't understand CU, apart from thesimplest commands. If you could do aseries covering it I would be mostgrateful. I find my Workbench 1,3manual impossible to understand.

How do I use the utilities and Basicprogram on the disc that came withthe August issue?

Duncan Hayes.Higher Blackley, Manchester.

If everything on the disc was geared tonew users it would soon get boring, asnew users became old hands. The bestbet is to get hold of the bookAmigados by Mark Burgess. It ispublished by Dabs Press at E14.95.

Your bookshop should be able toorder it if you quote ISBN 1-870336-47-X, or contact The Computer Storeon 021-770 0468. You may be havingproblems finding programs on thedisc because they are in directories.You'll need to use the CD command toget to them.

The Basic program is also in a


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subdisrctory on the disc. TheAmigaBasic manual is quite good.read up on how to use the Chdir andFiles commands, then load theprogram from the cover disc intoAmigaBosic.

There are a few lines which causesyntax errors. I f you delete themeverything will be lickerty-boo.

Digging through discs is very muchsimpler if you have a second drive.and answering your questions iseasier if you tell us what k it you areusing.

Mastering graphicsWHEN I was at school I wrote a horseracing game on a BBC Master. I havesince converted it to my Amiga. I useda user-defined character for a horse,and progressively moved it from oneprint position to another across thescreen.

I have the whole game, addictive asever, working fine, except that I havestars running about. I would prefer tohave all the realism of having realhorses losing me money.

Ralph Bolton,Guildford, Surrey.

Programming the Amiga is a fair bitharder than programming a Beeb, butthe results are worth it. Pages 88 to 94in chapter 8 of the AmigaBasicmanual detail the Object command.

You will have to use the Objecteditor to draw the horse. b i l l thenfrom inside the program you canmake all the horses move smoothly.

Lost for wordsHAVE collected more than 70 extrafonts on two discs and use them withthe Workbench Notepad with goodresults.

However, I cannot fi nd a way ofincorporating these extra fonts whenusing KindWords2. I would like to usethem via the external disc drive butcannot get KW2 to read fonts.

Derek Oakley.Middlesbrough. Cleveland.

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Notepad before. Kind Words onlysupports its own Superfonts. To useproper Amiga fonts have a look atExcellence or Pen Pal.

Who was that?YOU don't know your left from yourright! The picture on Page 37 of theSeptember issue looked a lot like lezSan and not Dave Parkinson, And theone on Page 36 looked just like Daveand not lez. I think you have made amistake.

Joining forces

Wendy Mountford.Mill Hill, London.

Yes, guilty, slap on the 'cuffs, sorry, I'dsend you a prize for being soobservant, but as you have been goingout with fez for nearly two years I'dhope you could tell the difference.

VERY good mag. the August issue,plus a good disc on the cover. Whatsort of lead would I have to use toconnect two Amigas to playPopulous? Where would I get hold ofone? I believe you have to use theserial port.

Secondly. in the,Gauntlet II packageit describes the use of the printer portto control two more joysticks with thegame. I rang the people at US Goldbut they said it was just an Atari STfeature,

Does anyone know a way to use thison an Amiga and if so where to get asuitable interface to control the four ofus who want to play?

Cpl Elston, Coldstream Guards.Camp Administration Staff,

Moscow Camp.

Wow we've never had a letter fromMoscow before. Thiogic does asuitable lead for connecting twoAmigos, and had an advertisement onPage 81 of the September issue whereit was listed as an RS5 costing E7.99.You can call Trilogic on 0274 691115.Sorry, can't help with the Gauntletproblem.

Bound overSINCE I bought the first issue ofAmiga Computing when visitingLondon, which sure is bigger but notnearly as beautiful as Helsinki, I'vebeen a subscriber to it (not London,the mag). Amiga Computing isdefinitely the best Amiga specialisedmag available.

But where have the great binders ofyours vanished to? I haven't seen anyadvertisements for them despite the41 pages of ads, is this a trick to sellback issues when readers have losttheir old ones?

My first little problem is a lead. I'dlove to use my monitor A1081 as a TVset, and managed to do this via avideo recorder. But because I don'tneed a video. I'd like to have a littletuner for selecting channels and a leadfrom the antenna socket to mymonitor. Is this reasonable, or should Ibuy a cheap video?

The second problem is somewhatstrange, As I recently made a littleBasic program. I needed to use myprinter, NEC CP6, which usually isgreat — more dots than most lasers.with colour,

But when I tried to guide it withescape codes, nothing happened.Word processors can do it andgraphics programs can do it, I can't.

Kalle Saariaho,Kirkkonummi. Finland.

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1pJohn Kennedy createssome special effectswith Animagic, butfinds that hismemory lets himdown again

0 NLY on the Amiga could thishappen. Here is an art packagethat needs at least one megabyte ofmemory to run, but won't let youdraw anything. Here is an animationpackage that won't do tweening. Hereis a large box containing two discsand a 90 page manual. So what does itdo'?

Animagic is an editing package foranimation files. It takes pictures andanimations created with otherpackages and puts them through adigital effects unit.

Through the wonders of interchangefile format (DT), Animagic can beused with any of the animationpackages available for the Amigawhich save data using the Animprotocol. Such programs includeVideoScape 3D, Lights! Camera!Action! and Deluxe Paint Ill,

Zoetrope, which received a rave

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Animagic lets you loadin an an a n dedit individual frames

review several issues ago, comes witha program to turn its animations intoAunt' format. MovieSetter uses itsown format and is not compatible.

Animagic allows you to load in ananimation and edit individual frames.You can take the last few frames ofthat huge cartoon you rendered with a3D package, and instead of re-doingthe entire thing, which could takeseveral days, you can adjust framesindividually.

Or what about adding titles to youranimation? Easy, just append the textframes. You can also adjust thecolours and create colour- cyclinganimation.

Although editing animations isuseful, the really fun part of thepackage comes when you start playingwith the digital effects editor. Youcan't have failed to notice digitalvideo effects (DVE) on television. Takea look at the opening logos of thevarious ITV stations for example. It alogo zooms in from the left orconstructs itself out of tiny squares,then you're looking at a DVE.

Top of the Pops would be sunkwithout its DVE machine. As thevarious camera images all peel back toreveal the latest appalling numberone, busy in the background severalthousand pounds worth of electronics

1111 D E S K T O P V I D E O I I

is beavering away, folding KylieMinogue's face into small pieces.

The Channel Four logo, where lotsof pieces fly in to form the shape ofthe numeral four, is a computeranimation rather than an effect.

A digital video effect machine takesa finished drawing and manipulates itelectronically, usually through a veryexpensive mixture of both analogueand digital computer technology. It isthis machine that Animagic tries toemulate, using your beloved Amigaand as much bolt-on memory as youcan afford.

You are supplied with a fixednumber of DVEs, all stored on disc.This may seem limiting, but the hugenumber of possible variations willmean that you are rarely stuck for aneffect. Once you have tailored theeffect to exact requirements, you maysave it back to disc for future use.

One of simplest DVEs is the slide-in. The picture moves in fromunderneath in a slanted perspectiveview and expands into the centre ofthe screen. By selecting the Gridoption from the DVE menu screen youcan split the initial image into fourseparate screens that slide in, Thenyou can give each a progressive delay,


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so first the top left quarter slides-in,then the top-right and so on.

Or would you rather they slid infrom the top of the screen? Noproblem, just click this littleunidentifiable icon and they float inover your head in exactly the sameway that bricks don't.

A preview option will display youreffect in wire frame, which avoidswasted afternoons as the computerrenders you'r animation after whichyou decide you don't really like it.

Other DVEs include spinning andexpanding routines. And you can liftaway one picture in a page-likefashion revealing another imageunderneath.

Shadows can be added, so all thelittle parts of the image flying aroundwill have little boxes of colourfollowing them. A strobe effect is alsoavailable, where each frame carries avestage of the previous drawing. Thismakes movement appear muchsmoother and interesting, although ittakes a lot longer to draw in the firstplace.

VARIOUS three-dimensional

effects are available, such as arotating box with two of yourdrawings appearing on the inside andoutside faces. When turned into acontinuously looping animation, thissort of spinning effect is ideal for amoving company logo at the start of afilm, or even just sitting in a shopwindow.

Where the DVEs become reallycunning is that instead 411 loading irkastill picture to process, you load inanother animation. This means theoriginal moving pictures will be dealtwith as though they were a staticdisplay, which results in someseriously weird and wonderfulanimations.

Using Animagic is a little dauntingto start with, When it first boots upyou are greeted with an openingscreen and an error message to theeffect that you haven't specified astart drawing or animation. Thisdoesn't really seem fair, but afterapologising you can load your dataand the program will grudgingly letyou use the main control bay.

This Huston mission controllookalike is littered with tiny icons.The designers of the Wimpenvironment would turn in their

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mouse houses i f they could see thisdisplay. because rather thansimplifying things all the controls dois intimidate the user. What is thepoint of several icons which all lookthe same performing differentfunctions?

Eventually you get the hang of what

a particular left pointing arrow does,but it takes time and a lot of lookingup in the manual. As such, themanual is very satisfactory, with lotsof step-by-step examples and theobligatory American telephone helphotline. It might be marginallycheaper to fly out and discuss yourproblem with the programmers thanuse this phone number, but it isalways nice to have the option.

Memory is a real problem. Althoughthe animations are buffered to disc asthey are created, the finished productmust be able to exist in the computer'smemory to be played back. If youwant to play with an interlaced HAMdigitised picture, then I meg isn'tenough.

If you are the sort of person who isable to afford vast quantities of ram,then you will probably also own a68020/68881 accelerator board. Thisbeing the case, you will therefore becompletely overjoyed to hear that aversion of the program is supplied tomake full use of this hardware, whichwill speed things up accordingly.

Unfortunately the program does nothave a robust feel to it. It crashed notjust once, but several times, because

clicked too quickly on an e \pandingicon. Single drive users will gnashtheir teeth as the program gurus yetagain simply because they forgot toswap discs before selecting an option,

This is nothing more than sloppyprogramming and should have beensorted out well before the packagewent on sale.

It won't crash straight away ofcourse. First it will spend 15 minutesdoing 99 per cent of the animation,then it crashes. Why do programs likethis rarely look ahead to see i f enoughmemory is available? The answer isbecause they don't know exactly howmuch memory they will need. Butthey could make a good guess,couldn't they? And give us the optionto continue or try for something lessambitious.

THE average A500 user could

have some fun with all thespecial effects, but will never be ableto use the program to its bestadvantage without several megabytesof ram. a genlock and access to somehi-tech video editing equipment.

Nevertheless, for those who want tosmash Uncle Fred's face into 255spinning pieces, Animagic could beworth the asking price. It emulates apiece of television studio hardwarecalled a digital video effects unit thatcosts several thousand pounds, and atthe moment there is no softwarearound that produces comparableresults.

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EASE OF USEWith hieroglyphic icons and dodgy discand memory handling, things could he alot better,

SPEEDNot fast, Add 3 to the score if you havean accelerator board.

VALUEVaal) spend a lot of time with thispackage. But for the money it could domore, and do what it does better.

OVERALL 5 1 " 0Good fun and potentially useful foranimation freaks who want to pmducestunning special effects. Add 20% if youhave 2 megs or more.

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