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EditorialIn w i th the ne w as theysay, and in that spirit we'rekicking off our first issue of1997 with a look to the future.the A\Box. This exciting newmachine from Phase 5 looks

like it could have the same impact that theA1000 did when it was launched over tenyears ago. Take a look at our feature onpage 18 for an insight into what it may holdfor us all. As for the fate of the officialAmiga, see this month's news for details of

the latest twist in the long running saga,The concluding part of our Design For aLiving feature is also here with soundadvice for all budding professional 3D ani-mators. And don't forget our unrivalledgame reviews and technical tests, alongwith the ever-popular Workshop section.

Cover Feature2 2 A m a z i n g At Bo xRead all about the stunning new machine thatlooks set to kickstart a whole new era in creativestate of the art computing. Phase 5's A\Box shouldwipe the floor with the current crop of Mac andPC clones, But don't just take our word for it, findout what the big players on the Amiga scene thinkof it and the impact it could have_

2 9 De s i g n F o r a L iv in g P a r t 11The second and final part of our guide to get-ting a job in computer graphics. This month weconcentrate on the world of 3D computer ani-mation. What skills should you be honing? Howcan you make an impressive showreel? Wherecan you find out about job vacancies? Do theyuse Imagine in Hollywood? All these questionsand more are answered on page 29.

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8 M i n s k i e s F u rb al lsDrawing on the classic Tetris theme for inspi-ration, Minskies Furballs is one of thosegames you just can't put down. An addictivearcade-puzzler of the highest calibre.

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you'll have to have one formattedpreviously. The first screen gives you the option to select

your level of expertise, which allows you to have some controlof the installation process. Unless you have any good reasonto do otherwise, select an easy option as this will save youeffort. Click proceed until you are then asked where you wantthe Design Works directory installed. If you want to install tofloppy, insert the formatted disk and click on Show Drives.Now select the destination from the list of drives. Make sureyou don't select a disk with a space in its name as this mayconfuse the software! The installer will chug away for a fewmoments and then inform you that Design Works is ready touse. Single drive users will have a few disk swops to endure.

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The control is simple to get the hang of. Usingeither a joystick or the keyboard, the aim of the game is to get asmany of the little coloured cats in groups of four or more. To movethe blocks around use the cursor keys or right or left on your joy-stick. And to spoil your fun a little and makes things a bit trickier,your opponent will lob a few fish and grey bricks at you just to makethings difficult. You've also got some weapons and protectiondevices at your disposal. To access a weapon just press fire, up, ALTand Amiga.

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W h a t is Design Works?Design Works is wha t is known as a structured drawingpackage. I t differs from standard paint packages such asPersonal Pa int and DPaint in tha t instead of producing theimage pixel by pixel, i t produces i t mathematically. Wha tthis means is tha t you can display or print i t a t any size orresolution wi thout it losing detail and sharpness. I t is idealfor making maps and diagrams, which i f you've ever triedmaking on a standard paint program you will k now canlook abysmal when printed, however good they looked onthe screen. I t's also well suited to producing signs, sym-bols, banners, technical drawings and designs up to 50inches square. I t can use standard bi tmap graphics too,allowing shapes and tex t to be overlaid on them. Posters,invitations, presentations, tape cassette covers - the list ofuses is endless.

If you experimented wi th X -CAD 2000 which we gaveaway with our November 1996 issue, you will notice tha tDesign Works has certain similarities. Both work wi thobjects made up of lines. The difference is tha t while X-Cad 2000 specialises in precision and accuracy of scale,Design Works is all about presentation and ease of use.You wouldn't wa nt to design a house wi th Design Works,and X -CAD is not the best program for producing giantbirthday cards.

Design Works' real strength is in its user-friendliness.Almost every feature is available a t a couple of mouseclicks, and none are diffi cult to use. I f you are familiarwith similar design software, or DTP software, or even i fyou've used our cover mounted disk or CD of Wordworth,you are half way there. The basic idea is simple; you arepresented wi th a page on which you can draw, write , pasteimages to. You can then print i t out on your own printer oroutput the page to disk as an image for a repro house toprint Out for you on a superior type of printer. This tutorialwill introduce many of the basic features of the software.If you would a further tutoria l or have any specfic ques-tions about Design Works, please wri te in and we'l l do ourbest to answer queries through the pages of the magazine.

esign Works is easy touse but don't befooled by the simpledisplay into thinking

that t ere aren't very manyoptions. When you first load upDesign Works, you will see asmall toolbox menu and a blankpage. Each of the eight menuicons in the toolbox brings up itsown sub-menu when selected,so there are a lot more optionsthan appears at first glance.

The bars running along thetop and left edges of the blankpage are rulers - if you have

used any DTP packages or mod-ern word processors, the con-cept should be familiar. If not, allyou really need to know is thatthey show the exact dimensionsof the printed page, and bywatching the small red cursorson the two bars which track themouse pointer, you can preciselyalign your objects.

G e t t i n g s tar tedThe lus t thing t o do is to jumpright in and try it out. Select theDrawing toolbox icon, whichlooks like a small pencil, and you

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A The b St wey to tears what the drawing toolboo icons do is to toythem out

be made. Try each one arid findout what they do (see figure 1).Some of the options will go ondrawing Imes. Double-click onthe final point to exit draw mode.

OK, done that? Go to the firstmenu in the menu bar at the topof the screen and select the firstoption. New. which will bring up

a nice new sheet forus to work on. Draw arectangle in the mid-dle of the screen andthen click on theSelection icon in thetoolbox, which lookslike an arrow. This isthe option whichallows you to resize,move or generallymutilate anything youhave drawn. Click onyour rectangle at anypoint along the lineand you will see 12red dots appear

around the rectangle.Look closely and youwill see that thedots on the junctionsof the lines are round-ed and the dots sur-rounding the shapeare square. These twodifferent types ofdot serve verydifferent purposes.

A The pe style ream stirs called up from the palette menu It allowsyeti to change time love width, wits and lime ends

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of the square corner dots and trydragging that. These dots allowyou to stretch the object in anydirection, and if you move themfar enough, you can make theobject flip right over!

There is one more thing youcan do with the selection pointer.Click on any part of the line andhold the button down, The outlinewill go red. If you move themouse pointer around, you will

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drag the entire shape with you andcan reposition it where you like.

ColoursNext we are going to move intocolour. Now that you have thehang of the basic functions, itstime to do a simple project. Closedown any projects you no longerneed and start up a new one.Select the bottom left icon, theone which looks like a paintpalette. Select the first icon in thesub-menu, which looks like a pen-cil, to call up the pen stylerequester (figure 2).

Move the line width slideralong until the number 4 appearsby the side - this should be aboutthe right line width. Close therequester in the normal way, andclick on the black colour square inthe sub-menu to set the linecolour to black.

Now click on the Fill Patterntoolbox icon (next to the Paletteicon), and select the red square.From now until you change set-tings, shapes will be drawn in ablack line with a width of four andwill be filled in red.

Ready to start? OK! Back to thedrawing toolbox, select the closedpolygon icon and start drawing ashape like in figure 3. You don'thave to get the lines to join upyourself. because after you dou-ble-click to stop drawing theshape, the last and first dots youdrew will be joined.

As soon as you have finisheddrawing, it will automatically fill inthe shape and thicken the line.You should end up with some-thing very like figure 4. If you arenot totally happy with the way theshane has come out, remember

you can reshape it by dragging thedots about

Adding textClick on the Text toolbox icon 1,big A) and you will see a fairly self-explanatory sub-menu. By clickingon the disk icon you can load in afont. The other icons allow you toalign the text and select bold.underline or italic. Select afont preferably a CGFont toavoid blockiness - in a large size.40 point would be about rightClick the mouse pointer insidE•your shape where you want thetext to start and type in a shortmessage. The text will not wrap.so when you get to the edge ofthe shape. press return to contin-ue typing on the next line. You canhighlight text and select the centrealigning tool as I did for the short-er bottom line (figure 5) toimprove presentation.

Select your text as an object byclicking on it with the Selectionarrow pointer. Now go to thePalette and click on a colour, andthe text will change to that colourIf you select the Fill Pattern tool-box icon, it will change the back-ground colour of your text, but inthis case leave it as red.

Going fur therThere are of course a lot moreoptions we haven't looked at. Wehaven't even touched on theTransform, Zoom and Macrostools, and there are all sorts ofconfiguration and control optionsyou can select from the menubar. If you want to dive in and trythem, you should find them quiteintuitive and easyto understand.

Hints and tips1. Hold down shift key when drawing a line to lock i t to90 or 45 degrees. Use the Settings/Gridsnao andSettings/Gridsize options from the menu for accuratealignment of objects.2. To change screen mode, select the Settings menu. You'llfind the sub option there. Don't panic whe n i t seems toignore you - you have to select Settings/SaveSettings, then qui t the program and restart before thescreenmode changes.3. The pen style requester allows you to choose how yourlines s ta rt and end. Click on the end icon, change i t to thearrowhead, and from now on any lines you dra w willbecome arrows.4. Select Project/Drawing Size from the pul l -down menusand you can resize the drawing to make i t fi t on manypages by dragging the page shape which appears in therequester. Make i t one page down and seven along. Selecta very big font, and type a message across the page. Printit out for an instant banner.5. Insure your printer is properly set up wi th theProject/Page Setup menu. Design Works uses thePreferences printer driver.6. Select more than one object a t a time by shift-c lickingon the m or by drawing a square around the m wi th theSelection pointer (the arrow).7. Multiple objects can be joined toge ther by selecting theobjects you wa nt linked, and then clicking on the joinicon, the fourth one down on the le ft of the Selectionsub-menu. Joined objects are then treated as a singleobject and can all be moved, scaled or modifi ed together.8. Make shapes wi th no fi ll colour by selecting the null fillicon from the Fill Pattern menu - the 0 wi th a linethrough it. Alternatively, select a fill pa tte rn and the nullicon in the Palette menu for a fi lled shape wi th nocoloured outline.9. Change a colour in the Palette menu by double-clickingon i t to bring up an edit colour requester. Change fi ll pa t-terns by double clicking on the appropriate pa tte rn icon.You can draw into the fill pa tte rn wi th the currentlyselected palette colour to make your own fills.10. Use the Project/ Import option to load in images in IFF,JPEG, P CX and other image formats . These can then bereshaped and dragged like other objects.10. Have fun!

Importing imageThere is one very important fea-ture we haven't yet dealt with: theuse of bitmap graphics. Thisgreetings card project will intro-duce the subject to you.

Figure 1First set up the size of your pro-ject. Select the Projects/PageSetup option from the pull-downmenu. Select a custom paper sizeand type in the dimensions of thecard you are going to print on.have set up the page for standard6 by 4 inch card, which makespocket size greetings cards.

Now click on the white squareat the top left of the page (not thescreen!) where the two rulersmeet. Drag it half way along thetop ruler, and release. The ruler isnow centred on the middle of the

card where it will be folded. Drawa one point line down the centre.

Figure 2Select the Project/Import menuand choose a picture from the filerequester. Pictures will tend to betoo big when they load in,because Design Works uses 72dots per inch as default. Rescaleby clicking on the Transform tool-menu and then the scale buttonor by dragging the corner dots.Position the pictures, remember-ing that when the card is folded,the right half of the page will bethe front. Pictures can be flippedhorizontally or vertically.

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What's on Super,You w a n t a t o p qual i t y A mi g a C Dp acked ful l o f t h e b e s t so f t w ar e ,and t h a t ' s exac t l y w h a t you g e t .

H o w to use C U C D 7As with prior cover CDs, CUCD7 can be booted on AGA Amigas withCD32 emulation or simply a straight CD32. All other CD-equippedAmigas can use the CD after booting from Workbench. The CD will notboot under any Kickstart earlier than 3.0. If boot from Workbench or ahard drive, it's important to first click on the 'Init CD' icon. This sets upvarious assigns and makes MUI 3_6 temporarily available if it is notalready installed. Please note that running software directly from CD is atouch-and-go business. While we've gone to a lot of effort to make manyprograms run from the CD, others may have to be dragged to your harddrive either manually or by running an included installer. 'Init CD alsoruns the New Icons patch so don't be surprised if the icons change.

A w o r d o n D e m o s and g a m e sDemos and games are almost never coded in a so-called OS-legalway. That means that while they may work for us, they might notwork for you for several reasons. Either your hardware set-up isslightly different or some third party software running on your Amigamay upset the demo or consume resources that the demo/gamerequires. Please do not assume the CD is simply 'faulty' if any of thissoftware refuses to run.

It simply isn't possible for us to ensure everything on the CD runon every possible hardware/software configuration. The majority offiles will be fine on the majority of systems, but the further away yoursystem is from the norm, the more things it is likely to fall over on.Do not be too surprised if you find some software doesn't work onyour 512K Kickstart 1.2 A500 or your Power PC accelerated 40001The people who wrote the software probably didn't have a machinethe same as yours to test it on.

There are things you can do to make the software more likely torun_ Closing down any other software, screens and so on will free upresources. It might be better to cut to the chase and copy thedemo/game onto your hard drive and then boot with no startupsequence. This involves resetting and holding down both mouse but-tons, then click on "boot with no startup-sequence."

You'll then be placed into AmigaDOS so you'll need to knowenough about that aspect of your Amiga to navigate to where theoffending software is and run it. As a general rule, if the game ordemo still doesn't work then it's incompatible with your machine.Some demos will only ever work when run in this fashion. If you geta requester asking for a specific volume then the software needs'assigns' set up and so is fairly likely it has an installer that shouldhave been run.

Finally. if you are having problems getting anything to run, pleaseplease make sure you have read all the documentation before you eatyour CD in frustration!

Minskies FurballsThis month's cover game is the excellent Tetris inspired MinskiesFurballs from Binary Emotions. This addictive puzzle game demo pitsyou against the computer in a frenzy of fur-flying. brain-bending action.Swing coloured cats around as they fall (on their feet, don't worry) intoa surprisingly passive heap. Match up rows or columns of like colouredcats to lower your own heap and raise your opponent's!

Using C U C D 7 o n non-Amigas•If you don't have a CD-ROM for your Amiga but have access to aCD-ROM on another computer, then it may still be possible for youto get a lot Out of CUCD7. Files can be copied onto PC formatted720k disks, then loaded into your Amiga using Crossdos, which cameas standard with Workbench versions 2 and higher. If you don't knowhow to use Crossdos. you will find it fully explained in the Workbenchmanual. The programs on the CD will not run on PCs or Macs.

W h a t ' s in your d rawersReaders who haveused a CU AmigaCD-ROM before willfind everything fairlyfamiliar. CUCD7 is setup as a Workbenchdisk, and can be boot-ed from on an appro-priate system.Clicking the InitCDicon will set up yoursystem to run fromthe CD properly. Thefirst thing that youmay notice as a result of clicking on this is that all the icons change -don't panic, this is the the excellent NewIcons system, not someobscure virus.

The Workbench 3.1 drawers such as Preis, System, Utilities andTools are in the root directory. If you haven't seen our last couple ofCDs, then be warned there isn't a support drawer any more, andeverything previously found in this drawer has been moved intoTools, System and Utilities, as appropriate. The Magazine drawer hasalso moved into the CUCD drawer.

In the roo t d i rectory of c u c c a ;Design WorksThis month's fullapplication is DesignWorks, a highlyintuitive and easy touse design packagewhich will have youdesigning your ownbirthday cards, albumcovers, architecturalblueprints and morein no time. This pro-gram won't runstraight from the CD -it needs to beinstalled, simply done by clicking on the install icon. You will find ashort tutorial on Design Works on page 8,Worms - The Directors CutHere is the ultimate upgrade for owners of the utterly brilliant Worms- The Directors Cut. This directory is packed full of comedy annelidaction. A superior selection of custom levels exclusively for Worms --TDC, unique W - TDC soundtracks, and for the enjoyment of all andsundry, multiple megabytes of animated nematode nonsense to tickleyour funny bones. Please be warned - if you feel deeply for the

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Inside the C U C D drawer ;On-lineThe online section this month kicks off with the latest version ofAmiTCP HotListHandler helps take away those hotlist blues withAweb, [Browse and Voyager. Samba makes life a lot easier for thoseof you out there whose nightmares are filled with Amiga to PCnetworking and Anirri>GitAnim is just the ticket for makihg your website more animated.ProgrammingHex heads will be delighted to find thePhxAss 434 680x0 assembler inthis month's programming section - if all those letters and numbersmean nothing to you, you probably won't like it anyway! Aliexx usersare very well supported this month with the RexxEvent commodity,Pexxintuition and ZedRexx, an Arexx GUI front-end system.GraphicsA real bonanza awaits the graphice lover on CUCD7 with a large selec-tion of anims in IF and quicktime format, the latest GIF toolkit andCyberAVI. a collection of 3D objects to keep those of you who got lastmonth's Imagine4 giveaway busy for weeks (months on a 680001), anda bunch of backdrops and icons for smartening up your Workbench,including the latest AES NewIcons and the full Uberbench collection.You will also find the aMiPEG MPEG and QT quicktime animationplayers, with sample animations to try out.ReadersHere's the section you produce! I've been scanning through all yourcontributions through the month and there's some really good stuff tosee and hear. There are masses of mods, plenty of pics, gaggles ofgames and utilities unbounded, including the funniest card pairs stylegame I've ever seen and a superb collection of utilities which willmake life a lot easier for users of Wordworth 3+, as given away onour December 96 CD.

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Here you will find themost up-to-date version of the excellentAmiCDFS filing system for CD-ROMsand some useful information for CD32owners which will help them connect theirmachines to an Amiga and plug in A2000style keyboards.DemosAs usual we've included all the latest top'scene' demos. There's hours of demoviewing entertainment to be found here_Some of these require fairly powerful computers to run, so check any accompanying textfiles first.InformationThe latest version of the AmigaGuide to theAmiga's shared libraries. All those libraries

t h a t havebeenhangingaroundonyourharddrive for years that even Mulder and Scully

couldn't explain are fully documented. Also the latest updates onTeam Amiga.UtilitiesPower up your computer's foreign file format handling with the verylatest AK datatypes for G1E JPEG, PNG and SVG files_ HFNMountermounts virtual floppy disks on your hard drive, searchguide searchesAmigaguide documents to allow you to cut to the chase.There isalso a demo of PCx, the latest and possibly greatest software PCemulator, and the newest version of ClassActSoundAll sorts for audio junkies this month, with a big collection of playersand player utilities including BFEIPlaymaster, a library based multiformat modplayer; Splayer, a GUI front end for Play16: TREG real-time effects generator; Soundbox sampler converter and effects edi-tor; MaPlay MPEG audio player; a demo of MID1CONV and muchmuch mo,e .GamesEntertainment central with a collection of PD and demo games. Asalways we can't guarantee that they'll work on your particular Amigaso do read whatever documentation is provided, checking systemrequirements and so on. Lots of fun to be had here.

Driving C U C D sGenerally driving CUCDs is as simple as clicking on an icon ofsomething you want to run, play, see etc. You should find it willautomatically activate a player, viewer or run the program withoutfurther ado. Of course if you access CUCD from a directory utility,then you can use your own choice of players, viewers etc. on thespecific files.

We can't emphasise enough the importance of clicking on anyreadme or other documentation files inside each directory. There'ssimply too much material for us to detail here so you'll have toexplore, read the documentation and see if each program or what-ever is of use or interest to you.

So have fun exploring CUCD7 and don't forget to send us anywork of your own so we can include it on later CDs! Also feel fleeto write into the magazine and tell us what you'd like to see onfuture CDs or how you'd like to see them organised. Address allletters of this topic to CD Editor.

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VIScorp had been lined up to buythe technology and trademarks ofAmiga Technologies primarily foruse in its ED set-top box project,designed to combine Internetaccess with home TV viewing.The contract was cancelled asVIScorp failed to pay the agreedUSS20 million within the stipulat-ed time scale, reduced from an

Two new 16-bit sound cards aresoon to be released as finally thechoice of 16-bit audio upgradesstarts to pan out from the limitedselection that's been on offeruntil now. ACT in Germany arecurrently putting the finishingtouches to their Prelude card,while an alternative. Melody is inthe works from a band of GermanAmiga hardware developers.

Prelude is a Zorro card for allAmigas, including the A1000 andalso the A500 with a forthcominginterface. At the moment it'sawaiting a full suite of software.

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original $40 million price from ini-tial negotiations. This means theAmiga name and its technology isnow open to new bidders.However, VIScorp are by nomeans out of the picture. Theyhave stated that they will continueto work towards the purchase ofthe Amiga technology.

VIScorp say that they no longerbelieve the assets are worth theagreed price. They say a majorfactor was the loss of Escom as aguaranteed distributor for

although it already has AHI(Audio Hardware Interface) dri-vers which ensure compatibilitywith a number of existing audioprograms, including HippoPlayer,Play16 and DeliTracker.

Likewise, Melody is a Zorrocard but it features a DSP withspecific features for playingMPEG audio. Digital input andoutput are promised alongsideanalogue equivalents. Specificsupport for the Melody card viaOctaMED SoundStudio is appar-ently in the works_ More news aswe get it.

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VIScorp's set-top and Amiga prod-ucts since Escom filed for bank-ruptcy in July. Further. VIScorpclaims that a large and valuableinventory has not been securedby Escom's trustee. Finally,VIScorp referred to unnamed pira-cies of the Amiga technology by'small and large companies alike'reducing the value of the owner-ship of the technology.

VIScorp reaffirmed that theywould continue to work towardsthe purchase of the Amiga

technology. Until October 31,VIScorp directly funded the opera-tion of Amiga Technologies fromcompany resources.

It has been suggested thatOuikPak are a favourite to acquirethe Amiga rights. QuikPak are aCanadian company currently pro-ducing A4000T motherboards andselling complete A4000T systemsAt the time of going to press thesituation has not been resolved,so the state of limbo continues.CU will keep you updated.

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VIScorp: All ChangeCarl Sassenrath, original Amiga OSdesigner, has resigned as Directorof Software for VIScorp. Citingintolerable management, amongother things, Mr Sassenrath hassince set out a broad list of goalsfor a future computer platform thatwould rectify the inefficiencies ofmodern computing.

In less dramatic fashion, Iresigned as CommunicationsManager for VIScorp in mid-December. David Rosen, VP ofBusiness Development, will takeover the handling of Amigainquiries for the company. Mr.Rosen is reachable atdrosen@ix.netcom.com.

New Toaster MagA new Newtek-endorsed quarterlypublication is currently in theworks. Details are currentlysketchy, but the launch of themagazine is planned for early1997, and it should be bi-monthlywithin a year.

The new magazine will be wel-comed by the Amiga communityas the long-running Amiga videomagazines Video Toaster User andUghtWave Pro have ceased publi-cation. However, there has beenthe promise of a six-month insertof Video Toaster news and infor-mation in existing Miller Freemanvideo and graphics publications.

Already some new publicationsare appearing to plug the gap.Visual Inspirations of Tampa.Florida has announced a new, freeonline magazine to support usersof the Video Toaster/Flyer systemand Amiga Lightwave artists. VI isa long-standing developer of toolsfor Video Toaster users. Moreinformation on their upcomingpublication is available athttp:/Nionline,com/newtek.

Canada S h o w SuccessAmiga i-et '96 went ahead asplanned in London, Toronto.boasting exhibitors such asNewTek, Nova Design andAmiTrix. CU Amiga Magazine areglad to say that it enjoyed alarge degree of success.

Amiga Fest '96, a subset ofthe larger, PC-dominatedComputer Fest '96 in Toronto,drew a host of North Americanexhibitors including a strong con-tingent of Canadian Amiga retail-ers. Notable among these wasNational Amiga, which recentlyexpanded its status as one of thepremier Amiga dealerships bymerging with a London, Ontariohighstreet dealer under theNational Amiga name.

Phase 5 was on hand toshow off the PowerUP accelera-tor card as seen recently at theCologne Computer '96 show inNovember (see last month'snews section for more details),and to promote their A\ Boxcomputer, still in early develop-ment in Germany. DirectoryOpus 5 developer JonathanPotter and his puhlisher, Greg

High Spec GamesA new player. Aurora Works Inc,has entered the Amiga gamesscene, dedicated to developingquality products aimed at highspec machines.

Aurora Works Inc. hasannounced two titles for 1997.The first. Zone 99, is a strategy/action genre title with 99 levelsof play and head-to-head action.The goal is to explore the game-world in search of Zone 99 bycompleting challenges and over-coming obstacles, sometimeswith the help of your opponent. Ashareware demo is scheduled for

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Perry of GPSott, were at theshow all the way from Australiaon the last leg oftheir worldwide tour. Paul Nolanwas also at the show tohelp extol the virtues of theSiamese System.

The talk of the show wasOuikPak, North American manu-facturers of the Amiga A4000T.In addition to promoting theirnew 68060 accelerator card, theA4060, they had a pair of 'con-cept machines' on display: theA4060L and A5050T

The 4060L is a developmentof the portable Amiga conceptfirst introduced in August byVIScorp on behalf of OuikPak atan Atlanta user group meeting.

The 450501 is based on theEagle Pentitrator system withseamless switching betweenthe Amiga running 68060 andthe PC side running at Pentiumspeeds, all in an 440001 case.This show model had an LCDbolted into its side, allowing youto use it as a flat desktopmachine (albeit a rather largeone) with a built-in b u t

January, while the full commercialrelease is set for March The sec-ond, Betrayed, is to be anaction/adventure set in a darkfuture. Details are sketchy but therelease is planned for Autumn '97.

Aurora Works are aiming theirtitles at high-spec Amigamachines with 030 larocessors asa minimum. They also plan fullsupport for the CyberGraphXvideo card standard and to takefull advantage of the AGAchipset. More information onAurora Works is available atw•NpA, a u ro ra wo rk s. co rn .

is unclear if this innovation willmake it to market.

OuikPak indicated to anumber of people at theshow that they were activelypursuing a bid for the Amigaassets from Escom's bankruptcytrustee, Dr. Hembach.

The organisers of AmigaFest, Amazing Software can bereached online at www.cyg.net/--amazing. OuikPak can bereached online at wwwamiga-support.corniquikpak..

The World of Amiga '96show, bizarrely scheduled totake place two weeks after theNovember Amiga Fest at thesame venue, was cancelled•.'hen it became apparent that--le two c;L,ews would clash.

AM]. GA FEST '96US Gets MultisyncSoftware Hut, a large andlongtime Amiga dealer ariddistributor, have a significantquantity of Amiga Technologies/Microvitek multisync monitorsfor sale.

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what Phase 5's stunning A\13ox will looklike when rt rolls off the production linelater this year, What you can't see from thispicture is the absolutely awesome technical specification it boasts. Take a look atthe Tech Specs panel on page 25 for a rundown of the best bits. It's a beast of com-puter that sets out to deliver high end pro-fessional power to the masses. Realtimevideo editing, mind-blowing audio facilitie,picture in picture displays and a lightningfast internal CPU and internal structure areall on the menu. And the price for all thisand more? Phase 5 expect to give us allthat for the amazingly low price of [1,300.

A\Box isn't a cheap do-it-all home com-puter to sit by the TV and run a few gamesand the occasional paint program It hasthe potential to become a complete audioitsual workstation for the price of a lowend PC. It's planned to run the Amiga'soperating system, which should ensurecompatibility with Amiga software. It'sbeen designed from the ground up, sounlike current PCs, its software won'twaste resources trying to get around limit.,tons set by ancient hardware designs.

With a design like that, if it gets the soft-ware support and interest from third partyhardware developers it could revolutionise3 string of computer-based industries,

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.Norking its w,iy into TV and computergraphics production companies, music stu-dios, professional video systems, DIPbureaus t h e list is endless. So far that'sall speculation though. Whether or not itcan fulfill its potential relies to a degree onthe actions of its creators, Phase 5. Sowhere has this machine come from, andjust what is the philosophy behind it all?

Phase a c t i o nPhase 5.5 o u ts p ok e n MD, Wolf D ie tr ich ,

has never made any secret of the fact thatthey were prepared to go it alone with anext generation computer in the spirit ofthe Amiga, whatever the fate of the officialAmiga hardware. They've been beaveringaway behind the scenes on their secretA\Box project for some time now. MrDietrich summed up his commitment tothe kBox:

"The A\13ox project is the realisation ofour vision of computing in the next centurywhich is driven by and dedicated to thevision of the Amiga itself. We do believecomputers still can be real cool stuff."

To get a feel for the kind of reception itwill receive, we spoke to a number ofprominent players in the current Amigascene. From our conversations with Amigaenthusiasts and software developers, thehardware specifications have certainlyimpressed. Almost everyone agrees that ifthe A\ Box is delivered as Phase 5 promise,they would make the move across to thenow platform. Understandably there's

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some reservation concerning vital detailssuch as the degree of Amiga compatibilityand third party developer support.Hopefully the machine can avoid the chick-en and egg situation that other new plat-forms are faced with by being able to runthe extensive catalogue of Amiga softwareat improved performance over real Amigas.

D T P des ignsIndividuals involved in various areas ofAmiga computing have expressed greatenthusiasm for the hardware power direct-ed at their particular interests. LarryHickmott from LH Publishing had some par-ticular thoughts about the A\13ox and itspotential as a desktop publishing system:

"The NBox should revolutionise DIP forAmiga owners. Gone will be the ever soslow AGA 8-bit screens to be replaced by a

" F u n n y t h i n ga b o u t t h e A l 3 o x ist h a t f o r year s Iused t o ' des ign 'd r e a m m a c h i n e slike i t i n m y mi n d .It is t r u l y ad r e a m m a c h i n e . . . "Cad Sassenrath - Creator of Amiga'Exec', Ex Software head of VIScorp(see news).

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A Right: theCyherstoimOM Amiga' sfirst 511050acelletator.was developedby Phase 5.This is typicalof Phase 5'sconstael tech•nical innova-tion. whichbodes well lothe Imbue ofthe Alter:

A Right:Newlek playeda big tole inthe Amiga'ssuccess le theUSA with theirAmiga-hasedWiden boaster.The Altailooks like theideal base hera similarconcept.

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lo those in the know, while the Phase 5announcement of the A \Box specifica-tion was stunning, it wasn't surprising.The German based Oberursel firm (nearFrankfurt) has plodded on with devel-oping high-powered expansion systemsall through both of the two Amiga buy-out dramas.

A relatively recent newcomer to theAmiga market, Phase 5 started outmaking the Amiga's first Zorro III SCSIcard, the Z3 Fastlane. However theymoved swiftly on to producing the first68030 card for the Al200 with DMA-SCSI capability They were also first toprovide 68060 accelerators for theAmiga. Their Blizzard range of accelera-tors also didn't stop at the 030 andmoved on up to the incredible 68060with the Blizzard 1260. They also creat-ed the Amiga's first 64-bit graphicsboard, the CyberVision.

Statistically, Phase 5 shipped Amigahardware products to the value of E5.5million in 1995 and since Christmas1995 30.000 hardware products havebeen delivered. Their meteoric risefrom a minor developer to a majorplayer in the Amiga market lies firmlyat the hands of the two owner/direc-tors Gerald Carda and Wolf Dietrichracking up over 20 'product of the year'style awards from international Amigajournals. They've also clinched their fairshare of CU Amiga Superstar ratings.More recently and behind the scenes.Phase 5 have been working on a planto move to the Amiga from the 680x0CPU to the powerful RISC Power PCjust like the Apple Macintosh has done.Phase 5 are also Macintosh developerswhich explains some of their experi-ence with this type of technology.

At one stage, Phase 5 had anarrangement with Amiga Technologiesto provide a drop-in Power PC upgradefor the ill-fated 'Walker'. Though AmigaTechnologies wound down with thefinancial failure of Escom, Phase 5 con-tinued to work on the Power PC.

Recently Phase 5 started shippingthe so-called 'PowerUp' upgrades toAmiga developers. Initially anupgrade to Cyberstorm 680401060accelerators, even the later low-endAl200 units possess both an 680x0CPU of some kind in addition to themighty Power PC. This approachallows both professional and amateurAmiga developers to port their soft-ware gradually across to Power PC.

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flexible system where you can choose adisplay up to 24-bits containing video datain RGB. CMYK and YUV formats. Combinethis with the processing power of such abeast, its unified memory system, and any-one involved in DTP or graphics work will a.,last have a machine to take care of themost demanding tasks. providing Amigasoftware is still available to run on it whenthe NBox is released. I can't wait..."

The Macintosh running the industrystandard DTP software. Quark Express, hasentrenched the machine into a profitableniche. However the Mac hardware is fairlyprimitive and the operating system is a lessproductive non-multitasking affair. TheA\13ox will have video display hardware and

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m a c h i n e w h i c h Ic a n b e l i e v e in f o rt h e f u t u re . P h a s e 5m a y n o t b e t h ef a s t e s t in b r i n g i n g ap r o d u c t t o t h em a r k e t , b u t t h e ya l w a y s d i d w h a tt h e y a n n o u n c e d . "Michael Hohmann, Ex Developer SupportManager for Amiga Technologies

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networking capabilities to put even the topof the range Power Mac to shame, and fora better price according to Phase 5, What'smore, there'll be an Amiga style operatingsystem to boot, increasing productivitythrough multitasking and a better userinterface. All that's needed then is a port ofQuark Express or at least some other DIPpackage with the same level of power. Itremains to be seen if the N.Box will capti-vate the big developers in the same way asit has Amiga enthusiasts.

Eager a n t i c i p a t i o nThings are already looking good, though,with the Amiga's major remaining develop-ers keenly interested in porting theirpackages initially to the PowerUpupgrades for standard Amigas and thenlater to the A\Box. Kermit Woodall of NovaDesign Inc., creators of the superbImageFX image processing software hadthis to say.

"The announced hardware specificationare exciting. Speaking as just anotherAmiga owner I think the biggest issues willbe Amiga compatibility - either true com-patibility or design philosophies. We areconsidering porting ImageFX to the A\Boxbut it's still too early to know what moveNova Design might make."

Mr Woodall reflects many of our con-cerns but finishes on a positive note bygoing on to say:

''We're also quite interested in backingPhase 5's PowerUp PPC board, This boardaddresses current Amigas quite nicely. Welook forward to these as well since theycan provide a path for present Amigas to

So what 's i t go t then?' P o w e r P C C P UUp to a theoretical 500MHz maximum,the A" Box is well poised to move withMotorola's Pentium beater. MultipleCPUs are even possible.

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*64-bit p rocessor busPentium PCs get by with a processorbus clock of 33MHz (not the CPU clockrate), the A, Box starts with 100MHz forblistering access to the system.

*Two 24-bit video D M A sNot one but two video output systems,one for extremely high true-colourresolutions and the other for videowork which may be genlocked. On-screen windows can be viewed fromeither using different image types (RGBDr CMYK etc)

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achieve PPC speeds without sacrificingbackwards compatibility."

Sharing a l ikeWith the A\Box's basic compatibility withthe Amiga and the existing enthusiastbase, shareware authors should find itstraightforward to port and create newsoftware on the platform. Understandablythe developers we asked voiced concernsover developers tools being made avail-able. In particular Magic User Interface wasmentioned. If developer's support materialsuch as the MU graphical user interfacelibrary is ported to the A\Box then the samehigh level of Amiga shareware support isvirtually guaranteed. We tracked down theauthor of MUI, Stefan Stuntz, to ask himabout a port to the A\Box.

As far as MUI goes, I do intend to portMI to every important successor ofAmigaDS."

So will others follow suit? It's assumedthat Phase 5's Amiga graphics retarg sys-tem, CyberGraphX, will form the basis ofthe graphics API (Application ProgrammersInterface). This should ensure compatibilitywith the Amiga's existing 24-bit softwarewith CyberGraphX compatibility. For exam-ple, programmers contracted to Phase 5have already extended the AmigaOSdatatypes capability to 24-bit.

The capability of the A\Box to housevery fast high-end Power PC CPUs andeven multiple CPUs and the incrediblegraphics specification (and video output),

Here are the technical specifi cat ionsmixed channels per output. The FAMEDSP-RISC can be used to further processthe audio.

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• LCD ( I I- d i s p l a y cont ro llerAs standard can drive LCD screens likelaptops pointing towards a portableA..13ox being constructed with ease, Alsohandy for the desktop front-panel LCDidea as per our cover concept render.

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means that Phase 5 could target the graph-ics workstation market the Amiga oncedominated. Silicon Graphics workstationsmay be seen as being too expensive andwith an inferior operating system, not tomention the lack of third party PD tools thatAmiga compatibility brings to the task.

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And then of course there's Toy Story,the Steamboat Willy of computer anima-tion. and the relentless march of the sci-fiepic sucti as the Star Trek movies andIndependence Day.

Maybe you'd like to get in on theaction yourself? There's no reason whyyou shouldn't if you've got the necessaryskills and talent. All you need is determi-nations and some pointers

LivingSuggested systemsYou've probably already got all i ttakes to script, model, render andrecord your first video showreel,even i f you don't k now it. One ofthe Amiga's most useful aspects isits video output. Ne we r Amigashave a colour composite videooutput and all Amigas have ahigher quality RGB video out toconnect to a video recorder. Thismeans you can record animationsto video from any Amiga. Utilitiessuch as Viewtek can play anima-tions direct from a hard drive, soyou don't need a lot of RAM but i thelps. Both suggested systemsbelow will be able to output large3D animations to video tape.

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If you want to earn a living from 3Dcomputer graphics, you should have fig-ured this one out already. Your Amiga is ofcourse an ideal tool on which to cut yourrendering teeth. Using last month'sImagine 4.0 cover disk give away (com-plete with FPU version, we wouldn't holdyou back with only an integer version)you can emulate just about anything you'llsee on the silver screen, even if youwould need a fair bit of RAM and prefer-ably a digital video hard disk editing sys-tem to pump out full video resolutionsequences in realtime (not such a pipedream in fact).

Imagine 4.0 can handle every part of the

process, from wireframe modelling.through texturing with its own proceduralfeatures and brush maps, toanimating with inverse kine-matics, bones, and automatedmotion paths. While we can'tclaim Imagine is an industrystandard with the moviebusiness, it's the ideal sys-tem with which to learnthe ropes and craftjaw-droppingshowreels topresent to thebig players inHollywood andother leadingproduction companies.

Even the power oflesser Amiga set-ups canbe harnessed to producesequences that aresufficient to show off yourtalents. If you're trying toget a foot in the door of acomputer animationproduction company. it'sthe underlying techniquesAnd skills you should bedisplaying rather than thehardware you used to makeyour showreel. See the 'Suggestedsystems' box on page 29 for some exam-ple set-ups

Perfect combinat ionAll the best 3D graphics you see in themovies (and anywhere else for that matter)are the product of a combination of the pro-ducer's knowledge and use of the soft-ware/hardware and traditional animation andcinematography techniques.

Think about it how many names do yousee scrolling up the screen during theclosing credits of an average movie? Lots,because no one person can be expected tobe an expert in acting, storyboarding,directing, producing, make up, wardrobe,photography, editing. sound recording,scripting, catering

However, all of these skills and moreare required to put together a major leaguemovie, and if the computer generated

sequences are to fit seemlessly with thelive footage, they too must be planned and'filmed' according to the same set of cine-matic 'rules'. To this end, it's worth trying toapply many of these traditional movie mak-ing techniques to your own sequences.

Computer animation opens up loads ofnew options which previously would have

been too dangerous, too expensive orjust plain impossible to achieve

with conventional filmingmethods. If you're making

your own brand ofanimations and 3Dmovies, you cando what the hellyou like, but if youwant to be snappedup by the movie •industry you shouldbe careful not to get

too unrealistic withyour lighting, camera

motion paths and so on.Not every 3Dsequence hasto resemble aride in the frocar of a roller-coaster. Even

so, if you were tobe taken on board

such a production com-pany, it would probably be your modellingand animating skills that would be of inter-est. Specific direction of the 3Dsequences, including its photography,would not mecessarily be your concern. bit won't hurt to show an understanding ofthe bigger picture.

The r ight skillsModelling and character animation are thetwo main skills to acquire and display.Unlike 3D work for games, which forcesthe use of very few polygons and simplis-tic structures (in a game everything mustbe re-rendered up to 50 times every sec-ond). 3D modelling for TV and the moviesgives you more freedom to develop yourobjects with finer details, both in terms ofthe underlying wireframe mesh, and thetextures and bump maps that adorn them.

Building up a complex animated modelfrom scratch can be a daunting prospectfor the beginner. It's not easy and neitheris it something you're likely to pick upovernight It can be tempting to take anice big object from a CD-ROM and justuse that in your own animations, but ifyou can't model your own then you're notgoing to have much to offer any prospec-tive employer. Anyone can load an object,position it and hit the render button,However, if you want an insight into howmodels are built, then examining andmodifying existing objects is a good placeto start.

It's worth taking time and testing your-self to see if you can really cut when itcomes to making highly realistic models. Itmight be a painful process, especially ifyour Amiga is on the slow side, but there'sno point presenting anyone with a bunchof half baked characters and objects thathave visible seams, stray polygons andedges that don't match up. It would bebetter to fine tune a couple of reallyimpressive pieces that are more likely toget people to take notice.

Rich in textureGood texturing can make the differencebetween an object that looks like a•bit ofcomputer graphics and something that'stotally convincing. Procedural textures aregreat and can be perfect for some jobs.especially for very large scale renders oforganic objects, but don't forget brushmaps though.

The main problem with using brushmaps is that they pixelate when viewedtoo close up. but they do give you theadvantage of being able to scan or grabimages and patterns from any sourcesyou have available. If you're working on ashowreel project to go Onto VHS videoyou should be able to work around theseproblems. Brush maps are very useful.especially if you want to 'cheat' by mak-ing up some objects as part of the back-ground scenery: just build a simple planeobject and wallpaper it with your brushmap. Make sure the camera doesn't gettoo close or view it from the side.

Brush maps are just as useful for those

big showcase objects too. Rememberthat you can make your own brush mapsfrom scratch, modify existing images oreven render procedural textures tosurfaces and then enhance them fromwithin a paint package or image proces-sor, to be re-applied to an object withinyour :30 software

Real is t ic a n i m a t i o nThe third and possibly most importantskill is animating your objects. This does-n't mean putting an object in a scene andsetting a path for the camera to zoomaround as it tracks the central object. Thisis real animation, in which the various fea-tures of the object move realistically, withconvincing inertia, speed, interplay witheach other and a natural fluidity.

Depending on whether you're animat-ing fictional cartoon type characters orgoing for convincing monsters (or evenhumans), you'll need to use different ani-mation styles. For cartoons, get somebooks from the library that explain theconcepts of bendy, stretchy animation.For real life creatures you're best offexamining filmed footage of the realthings, or at best close relatives (youmight want to study lizards for examplepreparation for a dinosaur animation).

If you're really confident you couldhave a crack at modelling and animating ahuman. Now that's a challenge and a half.Beware though, if you can't pull it off,don't expect people to tell you 'it's good,considering...". No-one is going to beimpressed by a sequence that stars acrash test dummy playing the part ofArnold Schwartzenegger (although the 3Dmodel's acting might be a be of animprovement - only joking Arnie).

O r i g i n a l i t yWhen you're starting out, mimickingthose at the top of the trade is a naturalthing to do. and can be a valuable part oflearning the ropes. However, it's originalideas that witl get you noticed. Look at itfrom a prospective employer's point ofview. If they get a showreel through thepost and it apes all the effects and tricksseen in their latest production or uses theflavour of the month theme, why shouldthey be interested in you? They could dothat themselves.lf you can impress themwith a trick or an effect they've not seenbefore, or do something much better thanit's been done before you'll get theirattention and immediately commandsome respect.

Spinning corporate logos probablywon't raise many eyebrows. Any render-ing system worth its salt can import afont, texture it, bevel it and warp itthrough a set of gymnastic moves with lit-tle more than a couple of mouse clicks.

Above all, stick with it and if you reallyare sure this is what you want to do,you'll probably get there in the end.

Thanks to Jeff Ranasinghe and PureArtwork for their help with this feature. •Tony Horgan

Your best f o o t f o r w a r dThe wa y you present yourself and your workis critical. Even when someone is activelyrecruiting ne w staff, the chances are tha tthey will not have much spare time to spendto look through applicants' work . Make i teasy for them. VHS video tape is the bestway to present a showreel. Don't string outyour showreel w i th long credits and intro-ductions tha t fade up and down over thecourse of a fe w minutes. Cut all tha t out, bara fe w seconds containing all your details(don't worry, they will have a pause buttonon the ir VCR) and cut to the chase wi th shortand snappy sequences tha t show off all thebest points of your models and animations.

Render your showreel to ful l screen size i fyou have the time, CPU power and memory,but i f not then don't be too concerned aboutusing a smaller screen size. VHS won't makeperfect copies of your animations, so usingHAM or HAM-8 screenmodes will be fine, andallow for a high output frame rate and goodcolour depth.

Colour print-outs of your work should alsoaccompany your showreel and covering le t-ter. These will have an instant impact andcan be especially important i f you are sub-mitting work 'cold' in a situation where therecipient may not be able to watch yourshowreel there and then. Remember to putyour name, address, phone number and anyEmail details on everything you submit.

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DOSS looks like the game thatwill take over from where its pre-decessors left oft The main aimof the game (just like Utopia andK240) is for you to build, expandand explore the far reaches ofspace and for your intrepid colonyto develop on one of 100 planetsacross more than 20 star sys-tems. With that in mind youmust be successful inco-ordinating yourresources by buildingstructures, giving yourpeople suitable employ-ment, defending yourselfagainst alien onslaughts andtracking astronomical eventslike comets, meteors, and worm-holes, just like the ones found inTV's Babylon 5! Most of allthe hard stuff is being done by

fully will prove exactlywhat Vulcan arecapable of. A500 owners don'tdespair though. Vulcan are notabandoning you just yet, it's just

that their latest game,Burnout looks like it is

, going to be very highspec. A futuristic car

racing game itpromises lot offast paced actionas well as multi-player delights. Upto four playerswill be able to bat-tle against oneother in one of thespace-age race

tracks_ There shouldalso be a shop facilityfor you to soup upyour car, (incidentallyVulcan are planing to

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before we see it 'in its finalform', as it's a long way off fromcompletion. It looks like DOSScould well give Amiga gamesplayers what they want, as this is

release expansiondisks at a later datewith different typesof cars.)

Burnout looks good,graphically, so far. We're lookingforward to getting the finishedversion in for review very soon. In

possibly their most ambitiousproject yet. CU Amiga Magazinewill definitely find out more overthe next few months when weshall uncover the rest in a fullreview as soon as possible. •Mark Forbes

the meantime thereis a demo of the

game on this month'scover disk CD so you

can have a look at it yourself.'And Remember: clunk, clickevery trip. •Lisa Collins

o g r a t s• Price: E12.99 • Publisher: Vulcan Software (C) 01105 610269Vulcan S o f t w a r e h a v e p r o d u c e d s o m e o f t h emost add ict ive g a m e s f o r t h e A m i g a o verlast f ew years. C a n t h e y d o i t again?

•ooking back, it would

seem as though — aswell as becoming aclassic in its own life-

time - Lemmings has done asmuch for the world of games asany other puzzler you can think oflet ... like Tetris. And that's it!)

Though it's always hard todescribe exactly what sort of agame Lemmings was (no simplebeat 'em up or RPG-like monikerscan easily be attached) the key ele-ment was the fact that you wereno longer controlling the maincharacter (or characters) on thescreen but rather the environmentin which they lived. Sure, you'Lind-of' controlled the little lems,but you weren't doing it in the tra-ditional 'move joystick left to makethem go left' way. If anything,you'd have to refer to Lemmings,and subsequent copies such asTroddlers, as protect 'em-ups sim-ply because the purpose in eachgame always seemed to revolvedaround getting a set number ofsomethings to a particular safearea on the screen.

Psygnosis themselves followedLemmings with Benefactor, a sortof cross between Lemmings and aLode Runner-esque platformgame, and now (he said, conve-niently forgetting about a thousandother copies and linking weakly)we find ourselves once more at

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the doors to the everinventive VulcanSoftware, ready to forgetcharacters that say annoyingthings like "it's in my pocket" andinstead welcome the Bograts -the new Lemmings!

BogrollUnlike Lemmings, you do have aphysical character on-screen inBograts; taking on the role ofMummy Bograt, charged with pro-tecting her two offspring and (yes,you guessed) getting them to asafe location on over 60 levels.

This involves muchpulling of levers to acti-vate ladders, movingblocks to either clearthe way or neutralisehaz ar ds-s uc h a s fi e ry

pits and spikey holes,and lots and lots of for-ward planning.Exactly how the gameworks is quite hard,but it's down to lots oftrial and error, with•

tons of forward planningto boot. The two Bograt

children have differentskills; one being able to eat

baddies and the other collectingand using keys, so controlling theirdirection also needs to be animportant part of your thinking.You yourself have a number ofbombs to blow up blocks, butoften you'll (all too late) realise thatyou've destroyed a necessarypiece of landscape and have torestart (d'ohl) but that's not assimple as it sounds -

Begin againWhereas most puzzle games willlet you make as many mistakes asyou like. Bograts is actually quiteharsh as you can only leave amessed up level to return to thevery beginning or to one of fivesaved game positions. However,though you may think that soundsOK, you have to earn the right tosave games by collecting twentyhearts left around the platforms.This means that you're constantly

A %I've oot to be a bit of a forward duller ii yourant to e l intywkete in this p m .

risking wasting your hearts on aneasy level, or getting right to theend, suffering a right old cock-up,and then having to go back to thebeginning of the last saved level.Now you might think this is agood, longevity-enhancing feature,or a right nightmare. I'm not sure,but it certainly adds an element ofdanger to the proceedings!

BogntrtsAnd that's your lot! It costs E13,should last you quite a while andis actually quite a well-thought outlittle game. The graphics aren'tparticularly conducive to good visi-bility (with the Vulcan trademarkbrown and grey giving it the largeone throughout!) and it's often dif-ficult to know what's background.what's foreground, and what's anobject, but other than that gripe,it's pretty user-friendly. A nice littleeffort, and no mistakin'l •Matt Broughton

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I t a u t I s a w p u d d y ca t , I d id , I d id .Too r ight you d id m a t e . Y ou s a wlots o f d i f f e r en t co l o u r ed o n es inthis excel len t Tet r is c lone.

0 etris fans - all your

birthdays have comeat once. And even ifyou're not a Tetris fan

you will be one after a few boutsof this game. Minskies Furballs isone excellent Tetris clone. Eventhe NMS boys (who we share anoffice with) seemed a little bitimpressed by it and kept mutter-ing something about Kirby'sAvalanche on the SNIFS

Choose yourw e a p o n sIt's brignt, s colourful and it'seasy to play. All you've got to do

is manipulate theoncomingcolouredblocks (littlepuddy catscalled gor-bils) intomatchinggroups of fouror more. Eachtime you do thisyou send a fish symbolor little grey blocks down on youropponent's side mucking up theirarrangements so they've got toget rid of them.

As well as grouping yourblocks together you've got a vari-ety of weapons at your disposal.There are three offensiveweapons and three defensiveones. A red bar at the bottomincreases-as you progressthrough the game and so does

A loser: yeti cam alter tire shill level ler each pl -edo-pl ayet mode The settiag eeeds to be sorted outdumb Abuse. there is oily this tabs in two-pial el iiue.

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A It's time ter a bomb. Mire the target around tight you're happy you want to blow that section away But bequick you've only a colotdown oh hue to do in it.

your weapon status. Weaponsbegin with the bomb and then goon to items such as phaser,avalanche and shield. To selectone lust push up and fire. Gettingrid of the grey blocks is the mainway to get any weapons and itwill flash up on screen which oneyou've currently got. Bombs arehandy for getting yoarself out oftrouble and freeing up somespace. I am disappointed though,that there isn't a way to send abomb over to your opponent soyou could mess up their game.

That gripe aside, control iseasy enough, press down on thejoystick to speed up the blocks,up to select weapons and left andright to move the blocks around.Likewise on the keyboard use leftand cursor keys to move eitherway, right Amiga and right alt torotate the blocks,

Some of the weapon selectionis also a bit hit and miss though.When you select a bomb it's quitestraightforward - target appearsand you get a countdown of fiveto select the part you want to

obliterate. The phaser weapon,which blitzes in straight lines, isharder to find. It seems to beslightly off screen so a bit of guesswork is needed here

A bit o f acharac te rThere are eleven tables in all tocomplete and each table has itsown figurehead. This doesn't real-ly affect the game much but addsa bit of variety to the levels. Theone with the three bears is a bitstrange and off putting as the littlepicture of the bears keeps zoom-ing in and out for some unex-plained reason. This is a bit hardof the eyes.

The avalanche weapon thatyour opponent sends your wayevery now and then doesn't helpyour eyesight either as it shakesthe screen around vigorously for afew minutes. In addition, on somelevels, the background graphicsblurs in a bit too much with theblocks. I found myself missingconnections because I couldn't

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A bit fruityAs a bonus, a t the end ofevery level or so you ge tthe chance to have a go ona mini fruit machine. Aswell as being a bi t o f anovelty you can also rackup some handy extra pointshere. I f Lady Luck is w i thyou, you can accrue some welcome goodies: thre elemons gets you tw o continues, three grapes 4 ,000points and three bananas 2 0 coins. Press fi re on thejoystick or right Amiga on the keyboard to play. Youskip it a ltogether i f you wish by pressing Right a lt. Buywhy miss out on these lovely extra frui ty points? Otherways to score extra points are the number of connec-tions you've made in any one go and how many blocksyou used up in each game.

make out some of thecoloured blocks.

In two-player mode,confusingly called mul-hplayer, however, you only haveone table to play on. There's achoice of three, five and ninebouts and you can also alter eachplayer's skill level. The two-playergame is a bit tricky as thethe skill level for play-er two seems stuckat ultra fast mode.However, AndrewJolhe from BinaryEmotions saidthat that thisproblem will becorrected by th(time of Press.

TotallyaddictiveMinskies is totally addictive andgreat fun to play. The ingame tuneand the little shouts of "here wego- and "you're in trouble now"

add to the overall enjoyment. Theonly problem I have with it wasthat, at times, there didn't seem tobe much difference between easymedium and hard mode. Yourcomputer opponent's logic alsoseems a bit warped occasionallyand behaves strangely by eithernot making any connectionsat all or by sending downmountain loads of littlegrey blocks all at oncetotally wrecking anychance you had of

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enough of a decent game inthere to make you want

to go back to it timeand time again. I loveit, At E19_99 it's abargain especiallywhen there is an ECSversion included. This

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ment. Once the two-playermode is sorted it'll be a worthypurchase indeed. •Lisa Collins

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I did get some enjoyment outof TG. However, it was too easy insome places and stupidly hard inothers, so there was no way toplan any strategy. I also didn't likethe lack of a difficulty curve, it really could have done with gettingmore and more difficult as youprogressed through. Also, in two-player mode, the scrolling natureof the game made it too restricted

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A fighting Spirit ICS differs very lit t le from the AGAmin Ikea own manse (lining styles end special medoubt have read wan some interest Lisa Collin's review, last issue,of a European Street Fighterwannabe going by the nameof Fighting Spirit. Thoughit scored reasonablywell, its proving diffi-cult to actually getyour handson thanks to a lackof UK distributionlhowever, DirectSoftware may bestocking it very soon,we'll let you know assoon as we find out when)and was also only available forenhanced machines — ah, untilnow this is

SimplicityYes the non AGA version is here,boasting less presentationalgoodies and loading in at on€.

verities: as still Ilan yout ten characters completerec.

disk lighter but remaining thank-fully similar. You still have yourten main characters to chose

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1 1 11Along w i th the ECS version o f Fighting Spirit, we 'v e also •

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Sadly, as always seems to bethe case, the like of FightingSpirit will never come anywherenear troubling the best consolebeat 'em up of the world, but it'scertainly one of the better offer-ings violent Amiga owners havehad over the last twelve months.

I can't pretend that I'll be com-ing back to this time and timeagain, but compared to like of USGold's heinous Street Fighterconversion, you can't help butcommend the producers on afine effort, •Matt Broughton

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by Matt Broughton. Games Consultant.

W O R M STeam 17Stephen Ingham from Lancashirehas found a secret menu for thisincredible multi-player game.Simply press escape with thegame paused and you engageSudden Death mode (which themanual says is PC-only) as wellas make the game a draw, replaythe game, and quit.

This cheat can be very usefulif you're in a bit of a rush as,instead of setting a timer foreach round, you can simply allowas much time as you want, andthen take it into Sudden Deathmode. CooHo.

Ola A miga amigos! A bit o f Spanish sunshinether e for no reason w hatsoever . A nd nonforget imo, there' s a f ree H i t Squad g ame t o anypr inted t ipsters. Esta complet ement e babido!

C I V I L I Z AT I O NMicroProseJohn Collins from Springfield(and I bet THAT'S getting a rightold laugh now that The Simpsonsis on telly!) has a smart-if-techycheat for the excellent anddown-right absorbing God-sim.However, this cheat only seemsto work for the Warlord, Prince,King and Emperor games but notthe chieftain.

Anyway a s is always thecase in games like these, there's..never enough money to sortyour cities out properly, givingthe computer the edge but withthe following cheat you're laugh-ing. If you've built two or threecities with the power of four ormore, and have opened a fairamount of land space aroundyou, save the game to an emptydisk and take note of whetherit's ' c i v i 1 2 . s v e ' , etc.and the year.

Now examine the save filewith a hex editor !Mr Collinsused Newzap himself) and find

Sn1position 13C in the first sector.Now change all positions from13C to 148 to '7's lie type in a 7for each position. WARNING! DONOT do this on your hard drive,use a spare floppy.

Save your file back out to flop-py and the next time you loadyour save file you should have anamazing 30,000 credits. Now buyeverything for your cities as fastas you can to gain the advantageover your enemies and reduceyour taxes to zero to get techni-cal advances much quicker.Basically, SPEND SPEND SPEND!ignore messages such as'London can't support militia'because as you get stronger andricher these will disappear.

Once you've gained confi-dence using this cheat youcan use it on older saved gamesthat you may have abandonedin frustration.

Another tip is to keepgoing until you are able to buy

A Special cheats or tbe nueltiplayer pus cooling in

diplomats, then use these to buyopposing armies or incite entirecities to revolt and come overto your side. This makes thegame less frustrating and muchmore satisfying

A L F R E DC H I C K E NMindscapeNow here's a cracking little plat-former I'd forgotten all about!Unlike Mr S James of Kent,who'd like to remind us all thatby typing HELPMARK on the titlescreen, keys 1-9 select the levelyou want. Nice one!

F R O N T I E RGametekAh, me old chum Frontier. Wehaven't had one of these for awhile, but Craig Rooney fromLinlithgow has such a corkingcheat that I just had to tell you

about it! Right, go to any planetwith a docking station and buyone tonne of rubbish. Leave theplanet and hyperspace to anoth•er system (this is just to avoidbeing fined for illegal dumping.Now make sure that you're infree flight and move your cursorto just below the icon for jetti-soning rubbish BUT DON'TCLICK ON THE ACTUAL RUB-BISH ICON. By clicking here theon-board computer thinks you'rejettisoning water when in factyou aren't jettisoning anything atall! As a result, your ship getsloads of extra cargo space and,when used with the various otherFrontier cheats, allows you toarm up with Large PlasmaAccelerators and thousands ofShield Generators - making youvirtually indestructible. The read-out for your current cargo holdwill go up the spout, but hey,who cares! •

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A N D THAT'SYOUR LOT!Indeed, tha t's all you're get-ting this month, but thanksas always to those of youhave been sending in allyour corking cheats -keep i t up! And don't forget,there's a free Hi t Squadgame for every tipster whogets the ir cheat printed,so le t me k now wha tmachine you have and whatgame you might like. Untilnext month

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KGBam stuck in the stuffy room

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Your kinky KGB Agent!

kinky or not it would have beenhelpful if you had at least told mewhat chapter you are referring to!Let's guess that we are in chaptertwo, the room you are talking aboutis the hotel room and the man isChapkin. In which case you mustuse the tape-recorder to savevoursell Set it to the 'voice-activat-ed' option and when Chapkin wakesyou in the morning and tells you todo something, do as you are told.When you are talking to him in thebathroom use a dialogue option thatcontains a word which activates thetape recorder. When the tape starts itwill distract the had guy for enoughtime for you to slug him. Take thesyringe in his pocket and inject himwith the contents.

M o n k e y I s l a n dI am stuck in part one of MonkeyIsland, I've made it past the poo-dles and into the mansion. I'vebeen shot out of the cannon, hada sword lesson and talked with7ne prisoner. I don't know what I

rld do now?

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The key to your predicament is theprisoner in the cell. Give him thebreath mints and ask him if he has afile. Give him the gopher repellentand he'll give you a piece of cakewith a file in it. Take the file to theGovernor's mansion and walk to thegaping hole.

F l a s h b a c kHow do you get through thedoors at the centre of the earth?

R.G. Clapton, Market Harbor°.

For the life of me I can't remember.However, just to prove that! doknow something about this gamehere are the level codes whichshould go a long way towards mak-ing life a lot easier for you:JAGUAR, BANTHA, TOHOLD,COMBEL, SHIVA, PICOLO,ANTIC, KASYYK, FUGU, NOLAN,SARLAC, CAPSUL, ARTHUR,MAENOC, ZZZAP, SHIRYU,SULUST, MANIAC, RENDER,NEPTUN, NO WAY, BELUGA.

D r e a m w e bcan kill Dianne Underwood but

then I don't know wIlere to go orwhat to do. Please give me ahelping hand so that I can finishthe game?

J.A. Phillips, Staffs

Once again I'm not getting muchhelp from you lot. Assuming thatyou have gotten past the Boathousesection. walk to Underwood, talk toher and then use the gun. Return tothe Dream web and talk to the keeperfor the latest gossip. Go to the bot-tom left corridor and use the far leftcorridor. Use the plinth with the keyagain. Return to the travel screenand go to the ruined church. Walk tothe gale, examine it, then use thewire cutters on it. You're in!

K ings Q u e s t I I II can't seem to get spell number3, The Cat Spell, right. I 'm on

page XXV in the spell book butthe spell goes wrong at the end.

E.O. Roberts, Clwyd.

Then you are a lousy wizard! Youmust create the Cat Spell becauseyou need it to get rid of the peskywizard. In fact you will need tocrumble the cat cookie into a bowlof porridge before the wizard will eatit but that's another story. All I cansay, is that you must have all of theingredients before you start and youmust follow the spell directionsEXACTLY or it will go wrong andyou will die. It isn't that hard, even Imanaged to follow the recipe and!can't boil water without burning it!

While I'm talking about thisgame, let me help out DaleMcCarthy who can't find the magicwand that you need to create spells.The wand is in the safe and the keyto the safe is on top of the wardrobein the Wizard's bedroom.

C u r s e o fE n c h a n t i aI am stuck in the ice-fields ofEnchantia. I've got money, apaperclip, two snowballs, a fish-ing rod and a magnet on a rope.How to I get out of the ice-fieldsand back to the village?

C. lovery, Dublin.

You poor darling, wandering aroundin the ice-fields with two snowballsis not a lot of fun is it? You needsomeone to take you home and tuckyou up in a warm coffin and 1"mjust the girl to do it.

Here is what you must do in thesnow world. Pick up plank and godown to the next screen. Throw theplank, pick up the fish and go downto the next screen. Go right, pick upthe deodorant, wear the deodorant.Go right and up to the next screen.Give the fish to the Eskimo and pickup the rod. Go to the screen withblock of ice and fight with the fish-ing rod.

Pick up the stone. Wander around

GAME TIPS

screens until you get to the Iceman.Pick up the snowballs and fight withthe snowballs. Go back to the firstscreen and find the sleeping sea-lion. Walk over the sea-lion to theother side and shout help. After exit-ing from the cave, go to the boat,and jump in it.

When you are back on the shore,throw the stone and the friendlydragon will give you a lift to thenext world.

Beneath aSteel SkyI have entered the subway andbeen devoured by the monster inthe wall. I also can't get past theknight that protects the doorwhen you are connected to the!inc. What should I do?

Stephen Branch, Barnet.

Just like me, the monster likes thedark. Ail those bright lights are verybad for the complexion, and whenyou are scaly and covered in warts,you worry about things like that. I fyou search the wall nearby you'llfind a light switch you can use toscare him away. Don't worryabout the crusader knight as you donot have the object you need to gelpass him just yet. What you need isthe Divine Wrath. •

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54 W o r d w o r t h 6 O f fi c eOigita's latest word processor offering reviewed, in and out of theWordworth 6 Office application CD bundle.

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60 B l i t z S u p p o r t S u i t eThe popular Blitz Basic games and application development packagegets a boost from this third party upgrade Full review here.

61 S X 3 2 P r oNo longer is the CD32 limited to a 68020. We check out the SX32Pro expansion which includes a nippy built-in 50MHz 68030.

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64 T u r b o C a l c 4 - 0The latest Turbo Calc upgrade challenges Final Calc for the throneas best spreadsheet on the Amiga. Just how does it shape up?

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ers_ It seems like almosteveryone has one nowadays.Software publishers are realisingthis and are starting to put ourfavourite programs on CD. Oneof the first to do so, is long timeAmiga supporter, DigitaInternational, Their CDWordworth 6 Office is also avail-able on floppy disk, although forthis review we'll look at at theCD version.

W h a t ' s on it?No prizes for guessing that theOffice pack is based around ver-sion 6 of Wordworth, but there's alot more than many people'sfavourite word processor on theCD. You also get Datastore 2,Organiser 2 and Money Matters 4.

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N e w featuresPolygon Drawing ToolRegular Polygon Drawing ToolCome Drawing ToolFreehand Drawing ToolWatermarksPassword ProtectionImproved RIF SupportMore ARess commands

A Fenny laces like this can be created esing IkePolygon tool but it is a shame that yen' can't edit tileshape other than resizing it.

All this for an upgrade price ofjust under E35 seems like unbe-lievable value. But is it? Keepreading and you can make upyour own mind_

As already mentioned, theWordworth 6 Office pack comeswith four highly rated programs,most of which have been aroundfor a year or two on floppy disk.The only new upgrade on thedisc is Wordworth 6. The OfficeCD has two versions of the sameprograms, one in German, theother in English. All these pro-grams will only run from harddisk. They do not run from CDarid there is no mention made ofinstalling them onto floppy disk.The latter isn't perhaps importantbecause if you have a CD, thechances are, you'll also have ahard drive,

The reason, I guess, theprograms don't run from CD isbecause a number of files haveto be installed onto theWorkbench partition of your harddrive and these files will differfrom person to person. In otherwords, although Digita couldhave partly installed the programon CD, there would still havebeen a substantial amount offiles that needed to go onto harddrive, so it makes sense to place

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The fonts can stay on the CDand be installed for use withWordworth or better still, can becopied onto your hard drive andused from there. Luckily, thebonus fonts drawer is under 4Mbso it's convenient to keep themon the hard drive where they'llalways be available to Wordworth.The same couldn't be said if thefonts were left on CD onlybecause you never know what CDyou might want to have in the CDdrive when you run Wordworth.

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As well as the 50 outline fonts,there is also a compilation of allthe bitmap clip art ever releasedby Digita as well as around 10%of the scalable clip art currentlyavailable in various volumes.

On-line manualsThere are no printed tTIL1111.1iliSaccompanying the CD. so whereare they? On the CD of course!These are ASCII text files but it istoo awkward to read them onscreen. You'll need to importthem into Wordworth and printthem out or even better, ring upDigita and ask for a manual. Ibelieve they are charging aroundC5 for it.

All the programs also have on-line help to answer most ques-tions about using the applications.This AmigaGuide based file popsup on the screen of the programyou are using, saving you thebother of having to swopbet'vveen help and the program.

H o w n e w is it?The only new upgrade (or newanything from what I could see)on the Office CD is Wordworth 6which has had a number of newfeatures added. None of thesecould really be classed as beingmajor but then Wordworth is apretty complete word processoralready and adding headline grab-bing functions would perhaps justcreate extra bulk which may haveslowed the program down.

The most important of the newfunctions is the four new drawingtools: two polygon tools and twoothers for doing bezier curves andfreehand drawings. The new toolsare a mixed bag though. As Digitahave just released DrawStudio (adrawing program), maybe I expect-ed too much of Wordworth's draw-ing tools, but they don't work quitethe way I anticipated.

The freehand tool for example.lets you draw freehand but pointson the line cannot be editedafterwards although you canchange the line colour and thick-ness, Using the bezier curve is abit hard to describe but imagineselecting a tool, dragging out a tri-angle and then watching the pro-gram create a curved line inbetween the points and you'resome way to knowing what it'slike. Unlike a drawing program.the bezier curve points don't havecontrol points, but line length andShape can be adjusted, sort of.

To create shapes, you havepolygon and regular polygontools. The polygon tool works byletting you drag out a line andthen placing a point on the page

by pressing the control key. Un-conventional yes, but it workswell enough once you get used toit. You cannot however, unlike inFinal Writer, edit the points on thepolygon. The regular polygon toolis simple enough in that once youhave drawn the box, the numberof sides can be edited from theobject's information requester.

Another very worthwhile cre-ative addition to Wordworth iswatermarks. These are simply ob-jects that can be placed behindnormal text blocks. In the exam-ple I used to review Wordworth6, I wanted a bitmapped drop capfrom DrawStudio to start a line oftext. With Wordworth 6, thiswasn't a problem although to behonest, I could have done it inWordworth 5 using Text frames.Watermarks just makes it easier.

Support for RTF (Rich TextFormat), a common cross-plat-form WP file format, has beenboosted with files for fontmapping. These are ASCII textfiles that let you stipulate whichfonts are used by Wordworth toreplace those used to create theRTF document file in anotherapplication. As well asfont mapping, RIF hasbeen re-written so it'smore compatible withlots of different RTFfiles as well as sup-porting a few new for-matting functions.

The other new fea-tures, file encryptionand new ARexx com-mands, add to an oth-erwise already fineword processor butdon't significantlyboost the program to anew level. This begs

the question, will publishers likeSoftwood and Digita continue toput a lot of development timeinto programs like Wordworth andFinal Writer, or simply adjustthings to slightly enhance theprogram rather than radicallyimprove them? Only time will tellus the answers.

Final thoughtsOverall. the Office CD and thefloppy disk pack for that matter,are great value when you con-sider what you get. The questionon value for money will dependon whether you have any or all ofthe auxiliary programs aside fromWordworth 6. which is the onlynew upgrade on the disc. Thepack almost has the feel of a clos-ing down sale, where existingstock is cleared Out at silly prices.We may see a Wordwonh 7 but Idon't expect any of the otherapplications to be upgraded. Thismay change, because I hearDigita are doing very well withthis package so far and they mayre-invest some of it in futureupgrades. I hope they do. •Larry Hickmott

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Organiser 2 is a P IMwhich isn't some fancydrink but a PersonalInformation Manager.Looking like a fi b-fa x , thisis one accessory you w on'tbe ashamed to be seenwith. The program helpsyou keep track of namesand addresses, importantevents and even has a hostof supplements which willprovide lots of interestingreading on everything fromangling to wine. A verymuch under rated programthat is intuitive and darnuseful. More than tha t, i t'sfun to use.

The four th application isMoney Matte rs , a homeaccounts program tha t hasbeen around since the yeardot. I s tarted out w i th thefirst version, whic h a t thetime was called HomeAccounts. This la testincarnation, has a similarlook and feel to the othe rDigita applications, andcan handle multipleaccounts tha t work likemost bank accounts on acredit and de bi t basis.Money Ma tte rs also hastools like a loan calculator,insurance inventory,currency calculator andeven gr a phs for thevisually enlightened. Auseful tool for wa tchingthose pennies.

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I printed my standard fax doc-ument from Final Writer to GPFax and AVM. After faxing bothto our office fax machine, theoutput quality was identical,Ilthough AVM's fax was slightlynarrower in dimension.

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on the other end than a tradition-ol f a x machine. Eventhe CU Amiga Magazine graphicDanner at the top of my fax docu-ment was nicely dithered as FinalWriter prints to AVM.

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abysmal. Before going topress. I'd had numerous commu-nications with the Canadianauthor, Alberto %/Mance, toresolve many of the problemsthat I encountered, The biggestone was that support for theSportster Vi was only just imple-mented, which is a significantoversight as other voice modemsare rare in the UK.

N o soundsThere is no audio compressionCODEC for the Sportster Viwhich means that the voicemailprompts and incoming messagescan't be played by the Amiga.OK' normally you can listen tothem through the speaker on themodem. Nope, you can't do thateither (unless you want a dial-tone or to unplug the modem),The Sporster Vi also lets theshow down as the externalspeaker output jack hardlyseemed to work even on maxi-mum volume. So it's either useheadphones or plug in some kindof amplified speaker. This isvery annoying and needs to besorted out.

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/ it 's just as well as it'sjust about impossibleto use and totallyundocumented.The bottom line is that AVMworks as a fax package for sure.It also half works as a voice mailsystem on the Sportster Vi butthere are crippling problems andit takes quite some time to figureout what's going on. I did man-age to get a basic answeringmachine working, the Amigachimed 'You have messages' in akspy female voice. Also, havingto play messages into head-phones was acceptable thougha nuisance.

More w o r kOverall, AVM needs a lot more.,vork. We must have a compres-sion CODEC for the Sportster Vi

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has been a long time coming. Untilnow most of us have relied onBUM (Blitz User Magazine - stopgiggling at the back) to fix bugsand add new commands to thelanguage. However, this systemleaves a lot to be desired as itcrashes regularly and doesn't havethat many frequent releases. Somost of the die-hard fans rely ondedicated Blitz clubs and newsgroups for things like new com-mand libraries and tools. Guildhall,having seen a gap for a killerupdate to Blitz, called in the boysfrom 'Red When Excited' - one ofthe biggest supporters and cre-ators of many Blitz extensions - todo the business. The Blitz SupportSuite is vvhat they came up.

Tidy toolsOn three disks Blitz Support offersa new set of libraries for adding to

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multiple document editing fromthe same window and a user-definable GUI tool bar for sendingARexx commands to Ted.

There is also an updated debug-ger to stop your programs runningamok as well as a heap of examplesource code files which show offthe new commands in the BSSlibraries. Extensive support forARexx and Commodity commandsare provided along with encryptionand powerful file I/O commands.There's no doubt that theselibraries will make programmingyour own stuff much easier. I man-aged to convert a simple programinto a commodity with an Arexx-port within 12alf an hour ofinstalling the new suite, thanks tothe AmigaGuide online help sys-tem and the example source code.

The Shapes and Map Editor areboth powerful tools designed tomake easier the tiresome tasks of

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Light readingBSS fails down when it comes todocumentation. Presumably tosave cost everything is document-ed on disk. The Blitz help system,while not brilliant, will pop up theappropriate Amiga guide docu-mentation if prompted. It's anacceptable solution but its not asgood as having a printed manual.It's easy to use though, certainbuttons will load example filesand iffs for you to view althoughsome of the links are broken.However, the inclusion of updatedguide documentation for the origi-nal commands and not just what

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Fitting of the SX32 Pro is asproblematic as its predecessorswas if there's a hard drive fitted_Once again, the CD32 must beopened to fit the unit into the rearexpansion bay no matter howsmall the 2.5" HD fitted. However,Eyetech have provided a nippy720Mb IBM drive which showsthat the 2.5" hard drive situationhas improved greatly from thepast. The lack of room for a 3.5"unit is not such a crippling prob-lem. A cheaper/faster/bigger 3.5-hard drive could always be housedexternally if it were an issue

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The disk drive, paralleland serial ports performs as peran Al200 which is no surprise asthe SX32 Pro has two CSG(Commodore's chip manufacturer)8520 ClAs to drive the wholeshow. An external floppy driveappears as NO: and the SX32seems happy to load even copyprotected games. What does let itdown is the ROB video output.The video level (brightness) isquite low on the AmigaTechnologies 1438 and 1764 mon-itors. This is not a terminal prob-lem but is annoying just thesame. Luckily. AT's 1764 monitorhas a 15 pin VGA style socket sono adapter is needed.

A 1 0 0 0 keyboardThe omission of a PC AT keyboardsocket would have been a seriousproblem but thankfully Eyetechhave sourced some Amiga 1000keyboards (the wonderful smallones with the old coloured ticklogo) with a lead to jack straightinto the CD32's PS2 style key-board connector. At E35, for agenuine 89 key Amiga keyboard,its fantastic, now if only I couldwire one up to my 4000TI

The SX32 Pro will accept up to64Mb of memory on a single ordouble sided sided SIMM.Benchmarks showed that it Walb1 WO slower than the leading50MHz accelerators for theAl200, This is a shame since i t ,not cheap. I would have liked tohave seen better performance forthis sort of money. Eyetech pro-vided an IDE EZ135 Syquest drivefor testing and this worked wellwith an IDE ribbon trailing into theback of the CD32.

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AHI is currently in Beta -although it works and is availablefor developers and end usersalike, it has a little way to gobefore it is the finished article.The Amiga audio scene reallyneeds something like this, and thereception to AHI has been enthu-siastic. Martin Blom is continuingdevelopment on the AHI system,but is dependent on other pro-grammers to support AHI in theirsoftware. The list of cards andsoftware with AHI support is con-tinually growing as more andmore developers jump onto thebandwagon. After all it makes lifea I t easier for them too. BAndrew Korn

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A You cam use TorboCalc for a lot more them haancial spreadshmeting. This demonstration shows how it camused to chart rhe form of premier league strikers,

packages, a feature of enormoususe if you want to handle outsizesheets, which saves a lot of ham-mering at the cursor keys and mul-tiple screen refreshes. Automationis also significantly improved withthe addition of fills, a clever sys-tem to allow the user to paint inlists of increasing value. If, forinstance, you wished to define asheet with several hundredcolumns sorted by date in a fourday period, you need-only set thefirst date, select the cells you wantdates in. inform the fill requesterthat you want increments of fourdays, and the cells will be appro-priately filled_ FinalCalc's tills werenever so flexible or easy to use.

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SceneSliders 2Puzzle gameThis is a nice professionally produced version of a type ofgame I've always found tedious but some people like. InSliders 2 you have a jumbled grid of squares wi th onespace in i t so tha t by sliding the squares about you canunjumble the grid. The presentation is high quality, wi thwith lots of options including one to load your owngraphics in to be jumbled up. I f you are a fte r a sliderstype game, you should look a t this.

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Orb AlbumsSlideshowIf you're an Orb fan and youlike a bi t of psychedelic art,this two-disk slideshowshould be just your cup ofherbal tea. Wha t you ge t foryour money is a string ofpretty high quality scans ofjust about every album andsingle cover the Orb haveever released and a ratherdecent mod of one of their tracks whichbackground. A relaxing experience.

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Shoemaker-Levy 9SlideshowIf your idea of fun is watch-ing massive chunks of rockand ice hurtl ing a t incrediblespeeds through space andthen falling screaming intothe atmosphere of a dis tantgas giant, tearing holes inits very atmosphere andstaining the cloud-coverwith dark, brooding wounds,then you'll probably enjoythis disk. When Shoemaker-Levy crashed into Jupiter in July of '94 , thetelescope was busy taking snaps and here areresults in all the ir JPegged, 2 4 -bi t glory.The images are all accessed via their Workbench icons,which is an effective i f simplistic front end. The tex t fileshave to be loaded into your own file reader which seemsa bi t shoddy, but then they are pre tty boring, so it's nogreat loss.

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VulcanD o o m c lone d e m o'My doom clone engine is faster thanyours' one-upmanship is dying off, butthis game offers an interesting lateentry. I t's initially breathtaking. Stick i t ona reasonably accelerated machine and you can enjoy anatmospheric background whizzing past at lightspeed. Afte ra few moments you realise tha t it is actually a ratherClever bodge. The background is identical wherever youlook and you can only move forwards in straight lines - itisn't possible to bump into a wall, for example. The usualguns and monsters formula is there and there are a fe wbarricades pasted on the screen to make it a bi t moremaze-like. However, there isn't a whole lot in it beyondthose initial impressions. A decent PD blast, but moreZombie Apocalypse than AB3D.

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IngenuousAdventureFrom the mome nt this gamestarts you k now you are inthe presence of somethingtruly dire. Your character, afat mud-encrusted ha lf-Womble, ha lf-s lug hybrid lifeform, waddles across thescreen like a penguin wi th a club foot. You are, allegedly,a prisoner in a high security prison from which you mustescape. But it's all so simple. The guards just warn you offpolitely whe n you hit them and doors are never locked.The prisoner in the cell next door has a security pass and abloke down the corridor has a gun he doesn't mind givingyou because you once talked to a mate of his.

It took me only 10 minutes to complete. At least thepuzzles make sense, a rarity even in commercial games.Not without comedy value but puzzle solvers should give i ta wide berth.

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Stephen Birch, the author, promises the final game willhave a s trong tactical element, the opponents battl ingeach other not only for supremacy of the sky but also ofthe ground, where mines, roads and oil rigs can be builtto a llow the upgrading of your aircraft.

If the final game is half as good as i t sounds, i t'l l be ablinder. Even in its present state, you can still a tte mptthat sneaky Immelman turn which takes you through therotating blades of the windmill and onto your opponent'stail while you watch in satisfaction as he sees wha t youare doing on your half of the split screen!

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Total Dominat ionG a m eTotal Domination is just alittle reminiscent of an oldgame called K240. The ideais to challenge your rivals fordomination of an asteroidbelt. You can build variousstructures on your asteroid,and eventually build yourown ships and missiles toseek out new asteroids to colonise and new civilisations todestroy. The presentation is reasonable for a PD game butnothing spectacular. The gameplay is slow and a littlelacking in variation, but will amuse bored God game fansfor a little while. Unfortunate ly the full version is licence-ware and the ES charge places i t in competition with somepretty decent old commercial titles like Powermonger orGenesia which you can often pick up for a similar price onbudget labels these days.

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The cheats are all l isted in a useful AmigaGuide for -mat; jus t look for the game tha t is troubl ing you in thealphabetical index and you are bound to fi nd a tip toget you on your way. I f you check out Alien Breed 3 D2you are in for an extra tre a t - there 's a saved gameseditor which wil l ge t you through to the end like no tipever could.

The thing tha t impressed me most about this disk isthe wonderful bonus file. You'll only fi nd i t i f you lookfor it, because i t has no icon. I t's called 'Steamed Trout'and is indeed a recipe for steamed trout. More hiddenrecipes on PD disks, please.

Available from: Online PD, 1 TheCloisters, Halsall Lane, Formby,Liverpool L3 3PX. Tel: 0 1 7 0 4 834335Price: disk 75p plus 75p P+P.

Nost rodamusDisk encykmaediaFrom the moment this disk boots up youknow you are witnessing somethingawful. An abysmal title page pops upwith wha t I assume is meant to beNostrodamus but is clearly a Portuguesebarman in an M I A nylon shirt. This glo-rious title sequence is accompanied by apiece of flamenco music, which would hardly be appropri-ate even i f it was any good. Then we get to the meat, ahuge 18k of AmigaGuide files covering 101 o fNostrodamus' predictions. Only of course they aren't actual-ly his predictions, they are 'translations' of his predictions.

Translations of Nostrodamus are usually pre tty dodgy,making pre tty liberal interpreta tions of the originalFrench. Nostrodamus wrote in a deliberately obtuse lan-guage - presumably because he was, in fac t, not wri tingpredictions but political satire, which was a dangerousoccupation a t the time . This makes i t very easy to inte r-pret any way you like, but I would really love to k nowthe original French which this compiler translates as acluster orbita l nuclear fi re weapon for l ight a tmosphereignition', and i t's hard to give much credence to the pre -diction tha t the allies wil l reconquer Spain from theChinese in March of 1996. As a bonus there is a pointlessnumber slider game.

The only value in this disk is the amusement of seeinganything this bad. Cut out the middlemen and buy a blankdisk instead.

Available from: Classic AmigaSoftware, 11 Deansgate, Radcliffe,Manchester M2 6 9YJ. Tel: 0161 7 2 31638. Price: E l plus 70 P+P.

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Until reviewing this disk I hadnever played Klondike before.After trying it out Ifeel notemptation to change my habits.Klondike is. for all its popularity, apretty basic patience game andin this it is inferior to any numberof much smaller, moreWorkbench friendly options. Thereason behind its popularity isthe presentation - lots of colourand music and most importantly,interchangeable cardsets,

When I'm playing a cardgame, the most important thingiibout the cardset to me is thatthe cards should be immediatelyidentifiable, which Klondike cardsets often aren't. The emphasisis on the illustration, whichseems to be an unnecessarydilution of the core purpose of acard game. I don't like to look

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The main attraction of ARK isDisksalv4, which is an extremelypowerful disk repair utility writtenby David Haynie, an originalCommodore systems engineerwho worked on the old C128.Disksalv has been around in one

R M Scenefor the little number and sym-bol tucked in the corner of thecard, and if I want to see a pic-ture of a Hawaiian beach, I'll geta postcard. But the popularity ofalternative cardsets is amplytestified to by the huge PublicDomain selection collectedhere. There are around 250of them, almost all cartoons,science fiction TV shows orpolitically incorrect picturesof women.

Despite this, all the ones Ilooked at were pretty wellmade, the Sandman deck basedon Dave McKean's cover art par-ticularly impressed me. Thedetail you can get into 88 by130 pixel images is surprising.

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CD are mostly not cardgames. There are lots of Chessprograms including the excellentUchess, about a million master-mind type games, and a fairassortment of Othellos, GOs,Maltdongs etc. I even found abridge programme which works,and a half decent Monopolygame. A little user friendlinesswould have been good - a textfile telling you how to unarchivefrom a l is a little poor, but youshould find enough here to keepyourself amused on a rainy day

ditional territory of programmeslike OuarterBack tools.

Also on the disc are RDB-Salv1.1 and DSBackup which areRigid Disk Block backup utilities;Upper Disk Tools, which has avery unusual file recoveryprogram that treats damaged vol-umes as files in a virtual 'recov-ery:' device and a small and notparticularly interesting selectionof freely distributables.

The odd thing about this discis that it looks like shovelwaredespite the fact that the disc hasonly 28Mb on it. Disksalv4 isaccompanied by Disksalves 3and 2 and although there isabout 3Mb of Disksalves on theCD your final HD install is just400k. RDB-Salv is 11Mb, 95% ofwhich is documentation which isa pretty large chunk of that28Mb even if it hadn't been puton the CD twice, and the freely

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This is not a cheap disc, andyou don't get a lot of Mb foryour money. Having said that, inUpper Disk Tools and Disksalvyou have two very powerfulpieces of software. If this wasbit cheaper or had a decentrange of supplementary PD, Iwould, recommend it. In this pre-sent package I would look forthe software elsewhere.

Available from: WeirdScience, 1 RowlandsonClose, Leicester,Leicestershire LE4 2SE,Tel: 0 1 1 6 234 0682.Price E49.95 plus Cl Pi-P.

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Unsurprisingly, given the namethis CD is aimed squarely at theAmiga Euro scene. Whichmeans all the software is sohacky it will crash your systemand the documentation is all inGerman or Italian.

Well OK then, not all of it. Youwill come across the odd pro-gram without English documertation, but English is pretty muchthe lingua franca, and if you can'texcuse the odd Dutchmanwhose English is less than per-fect then you don't deserve thisdisc anyway.

The idea behind this disc is topresent the work of Amigaartists, musicians and program-mers from around Europe. Thereare a hundred-odd Mbs of pic-tures, including some reallyimpressive work, dozens ofgames, masses of modules anda few hours worth of demo andanimation viewing. There is anassortment of utilities, someshareware, some commercialdemos, including a couple ofwebpage makers, an IFF to EPSconverter, a demo version ofCinema4D and hundreds ofsmaller tools but if you want

This disc contains somewhere inthe region of 2,000 assorted pro-grams for improving your system.There are no games, no demos,no graphics files, no mods, justpure. 100% utilities, There iseverything from improved monitordrivers (handle with care) throughmiddle mouse button commodi-iies to caching software.

As good as the bog standardWorkbench has become withWB3, there is work to be done,and the beauty of the Amiga isthere is always someone willingto do it and make it available asPD, saving you the wait for thenext KSAA/B update from whoevr.•does eventually buy out theAmiga. System Booster is a hugecompilation of these programs.

Some of the programs arecosmetic such as improvementslike NewIcons, an ingeniousreplacement icon system whichworks happily alongside iconswith entirely different palettes.It's time to ditch the old four-colour standard and this is a verygood way forwards.

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utilities you are better offlooking elsewhere.

If it is graphics, demos andmusic you are after, you will bebetter served. The demos runfrom disc, which is nice,although be warned the combi-nation of system crashes andboring demos which cling limpet-like to your system resourcesand refuse to go away will meanplenty of reboots as you workyour way through the demosdirectory. Compared to any otherway of trying out this manydemos however, it is relatively

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painless. The pictures and modsall similarly play direct from disc,the appropriate viewers/playersset up on the CD to allow every-thing to be viewed direct fromtheir Workbench Icons. If all thatEuro-scene 'my workbench isbigger than yours' stuff irritatesyou, you'll hate disc. If you'rewilling to put up with it to seelots of great art and demos,you'll love it.

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There is a fair amount of soft-ware which isn't the latestrelease - MU! is there in version3.3. VirusZ in V1.3 and so on, butthat isn't really the point of theCD. If you want up-to-date, getthe latest Aminet collection or

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8 8download the software yours.lf.This disc is about giving youeverything. Pretty much any Ittletweak or utility you are after cbe found here complete withAmigaGuide documentation.

How useful this collection isto you depends a little on hov„technical you are. Anyone w1-3 isprepared to read the instructLmswill find enough on this disc togive their system a real boost,but the more technical you arthe more you will get out of it. Ifyou are proficient with a s older -ing iron, there are even instnio-tions for pj.itting a 1200 in atower case, making a PC key-board connector and more.

Available from: WeirdScience, 1 RowlandsonClose, Leicester,Leicestershire LE4 2SE.Tel: 0 1 1 6 234 0682.Price E49.95 plus E l P + P

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Women of the Web, the appro-priately named SadenessSoftware inform us, is an'Interactive MultimediaEncyclopedia of FemaleCelebrities'. They go on to informus that this is NOT an adult title,and that not one nude picturecan be found on this CD. Onceyou open the jewel case thoughyou find a cheeky upgrade cardwhich you can send off with atenner to 'upgrade' to the uncut18 certificate version.

What the 'of the Web' bit inthe title means is that the data ispresented in HTML, and you willfind a copy of AWeb on the discso that you can run WOTW with-out installation. Well in theory,anyway. In practice this meansserious interlace flicker, as theon-disc AWeb faults to a PALinterlace display, and the onlyway of changing the displaymode is to install AWeb to yourhard drive. Fortunately Sadenesshave put an installer on the disc.However, AWeb doesn't handleANIMGits, which the disc hasplenty of. Using !Browse makesthe presentation much better.

Once you get your browser

sorted out and find your i n t , • •the index, you arefaced with a simplebut effective titlepage with an A-Z ofindex links. Selectinga link takes you to alist of women whosenames start with thatletter, each oneaccompanied with alittle mug-shot. Select the nameor mug-shot and you get to avariable number of pages cover-ing the woman in question,these pages consisting of a fewsmall, often rather low qualityJPEGs and very occasionally abrief biography where you canlearn useful things like favouritecolours and pop stars.

It is a bit hard to see exactlywhat the point of all this is.There's not enough here toappeal to the baser instincts, youcan't stick it on your bedroomwall, and despite the multimediaencyclopedia tag, there is littleby way of encyclopedic informa-tion beyond the photos and theodd short movie clip or sample.The disc is like a compilation ofhundreds of those obsessive fan

Last month I reviewed WeirdScience's Multimedia BackdropsCD collection. This one has 3,000assorted backdrops and textures.including most all of the imageson the last disc.

The texture images on thisdisc vary significantly. Some arefull screen backdrops, whilst

others are tessellating tilepatterns ideal for backgrounddecoration on your Workbench oron HTML pages as well as the tit-ular use as texture maps for ren-dering more realistic objects.

The choice of JPEG format isone some may object to, asimages will have to be converted

Websites that every major mediastar seems to have - but obses-sives by definition are interestedin only a few people, not thismany_ I guess this disc must befor indecisive obsessives; thesuggestion around the office isthat this is a kind of mail-ordercatalogue for stalkers. If you real-ly want this sort of thing, buy acopy of Loaded - the pictures arehigher resolution. Alternatively,

into IFFs for many Amiga applica-tions. Personally I think it is verysensible. A filewpe converter or agraphics package with a decentrange of loaders such as ImageFXor PPaint will happily turn thoseJPEGs into IFFs of whatevercolour depth you choose, or intoGIFs for faster web pages, andthe advantage in file size com-pactness means'You get a lotmore data for your money.

Using the disc is prettystraightforward if you use a filemanager or can get by in CLI, buttry opening it on Workbench andyou'll get nowhere. Its not a bigpoint, but there's enough spaceon the disc for at least a little file

go out and get some fresh air.

Available from: SadenessSoftware, 13 Russell Terrace,Mundesley. Norfolk NR118L-I. Tel: 01263 722169Price E24.95 including P +R

4 6 0,0viewer utility. The images are allreproduced in thumbnails, whichis pretty essential if you want tofind what you want but don'thave a year to waste looking.

There are a limited number oftextures in this world. The upside is that this disc has most ofthem; the down side is that sodo a lot of other discs. If youhave any other texture discs,you'll find a lot of repetition. TheImagine PD3D CD reviewed lastmonth had about a quarter ofthe textures on this disc in IFF24format, for example. But if youare short of texture files andlooking for a full disc, this is avery good collection.

Available from: WeirdScience, 1 RowlandsonClose, Leicester,Leicestershire 1E4 2SE.Tel: 0116 234 0682Price E14.99 plus El P + R

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8 4 W i r e d Wo r l dWrapping up the HIM_ series, Mat Bettinson puts all the previouslyexamined techniques to work and produces a web shrine to the 70's.

8 7 N e t G o dNews and gossip from the Net God this month include a rant aboutjunk mail and good news in the form of widespread PNG support.

8 8 S u r f o f t h e M o n t hDipping once again into that limitless resource of the world wide webwe uncover a range of useful, and not so useful web sites.

9 6 M a s t e r c l a s sCommodities are wonderful little tools that can transform yourWorkbench but what are they and how do they work?

9 8 C I E P AOur new staff writer Andrew Korn joins forces with Mat as they wadethrough all your queries and do their best to answer them.

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ance of an object, by giving theimpression of a particular material orfinish. However, let's look at howmost image rendering programs can

go a stage further to aid realism by means of'textures'. A texture is usually applied to anobject or surface and can achieve two things:first of all, it can alter the surface appearanceof an object, and secondly it can alter theshape. For example, think of an orange: thecolour is obviously orange but the surface iscovered in tiny dimples. It's possible to spendmonths adding these tiny dimples to a spherebut a texture will greatly simplify this process.By wrapping an image of dots around thesphere and defining it to be a 'bumpmap'. thesphere will appear dimpled when rendered.(see pic 1)

Tw o to choose fromThere are two main types of texture, and whichyou can use depends on your rendering pro-gram. These two methods are procedural andbrushmaps. A procedural texture is a specialmathematical formula which is applied to thesurface of an object. For example. Imagine hasa procedural texture called 'bumpnoize' andthis texture alters the appearance of arl object,making it appear bumpy. Like all textures, it

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The other type of texture is a brushmap, onthe Amiga that usually means an IFF image,such as a drawing saved by Personal Paint or adigitised frame of video created by ProGrab.The IF is loaded by the rendering program andapplied to the surface of the object Both typesof texture can be classified as belonging to oneor more of the following categories:

Colour brushmapThis type of texture applies a pattern or an IFimage to an object, as though painting it. Itcan be used to apply details to an object, orjust to make it more interesting. For example,

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the Imagine Agate texture will give an objectan instant wonderful marble texture which wadd life to any object.

Bump or altitude map-This texture makes the surface of the object

appear to pop out or indent. The dimples onan orange object are a good example. A spe-cial IFF image is created consisting of dots ona plain background. Where there is a dot, therendering program clauses a dimple to appear.

Attribute textureThis texture can affect different aspects of theobject. Depending on how the renderingprogram works, the image or texture will influ-

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Some rendering programs can morphbetween states: in an animation, an objectcan start with one texture and change to asecond over time. A sphere could start off assmooth as glass and turn into a dimpledorange. (see pic 2)

A brushmap is often used as a decal, ratherthan simply a way of applying a texture. Forexample, if you are building an aeroplaneobject, you will probably want to add nationalmarkings, or even windows and companynames. Instead of trying to create detailed 3Dobjects, draw (or scan) a suitable image andmake it into a brush map. Apply the map to the4

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same object and this can be used to give theimpression of extra detail. Applying a brushmapof a window to a plane might look very flat andunrealistic. The same brushmap (or a slightlydifferent one) could be re-applied as aburripmap. The result is that the windows willall appear to have an extra depth.

It's also important how you go aboutapplying a brushmap. If the object is curved orspherical, you need to inform the renderingprogram so it can make allowances. A goodexample is wrapping a scan of an atlas arounda sphere to make a globe: you must make surethat it's wrapped in both X and Y directions to

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achieve the desired effect. On the other hand,the label of a baked bean can is wrapped inonly one direction.

Procedural textures have the advantage thatthey animate well - in fact, some can animateall by themselves by altering some set-up val-ues between start and end frames. Proceduraltextures are also generated 'on the fly' and willalways contain the same amount of detail nomatter the resolution of the final image. Asseen in this tutorial's PC project, a brushmapcan quickly become too 'blocky' when usedclose up. Worse, when animated there cansometimes be a shimmer due to ditheringeffects. Unlike Brushmaps, procedural texturestake up little memory. Brushmaps do howeverhave the advantage of speed: they are usuallyquicker to render than procedural textures.

Brushmaps can also be animated. Forexample, a series of frames from an animation(or grabs from video created with ProGrab orVideoMaster) can be applied one frame at atime to an object in a scene. The object couldbe a television screen, or something more com-plicated such as a human head. As the ren-dered animation is created, the different framesare applied one after the other.

Build y o u r o w n P CAlthough Imagine allows objects to be con-structed from primitive shapes, such as planes,cones or spheres, this is far from the only wayto create models. Every Imagine object (expectCSG sphere) is composed of various faceswhich are triangles constructed from threeedges, drawn between three points. Imagineallows each point, edge and face to be dealtwith individually and this is how it's possible tobuild accurate and realistic models. To illustratewe going to create an object (a mini-tower PCcase) dealing with it on a point-by-point basis.

The first step in creating the PC object is todefine a large box which forms the main com-ponent of the computer. This is easily done bydefining a single plane of suitable dimensions,and then use the Mold/Extrude tool to give itdepth. This creates a three dimensional shapefrom our flat plane and it's the easiest way tocreate cubes and other solid shapes. To keepsmoothing of the edges to a minimum. I'veused a plane with a large number of sectionsas this produces a realistic curved effect at

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Putt ing u p a f ron tThe most important part of the case is the frontpanel so it's worth spending a little time on it.I've created the panel as a separate object fromthe rest of the case, from a plane with multiplesections, and extruded a few units to give itdepth. However, this time I applied scaling tothe plane as it was extruded: this made itslightly larger at the back than at the front. Thisis where you switch to Imagine's point editor.Once 'Pick Points' is selected, the front panelobject is redrawn as a series of points, linkedby edges. These points can be selected individ-ually and then moved or deleted. There is nopoint trying to rotate or scale a point, as theydon't have any real 'size'.

You can see from plc 4 how the front panelwas altered. Using 'Pick Points' I, first of all,deleted the points which formed the back sur-face of the front panel, deeming them unnec-essary. Then I deleted the points where thedrive bays were located: this created a largehole in the front panel. The plan was to fill thegaps with another object, maybe a blankingpanel or something more detailed such as aCD-ROM drive.

Then came the finishing touch.Using the 'drag box' to selectpoints. I highlighted a section in themiddle and dragged all the pointsbackwards very slightly. With Phongshading on, this causes a dimple to appear inthe casing. This stops it from looking flat andadds a degree more detail. Manipulating thepoints which make up the object is the key. IfPhong shading was turned oft the face wouldlook too angular. If more sections were used inthe original front panel plane object, thesmoothing would be more subtle. There isplenty of scope for experimentation. (see pic 4)

Other objects such as the blanking panel,buttons and feet are easily created from primi-tive objects. The buttons for example, arespheres which are cut and positioned so theyare just poking out of the front panel slightly.There's no need trying to hide the jaggededges as they are hidden: what the eye does-n't see, the 3D rendering artists gets awaywith_ On closer inspection, you may see a fewcracks: the solution is to use CGS spheres,and render in Ray Trace mode. (see pic 5)- N o w that we have the basic shapedefined, we can cheat a little. Using a digitalcamera I photographed the front panel of a realPC and stole the display of the clock panel, andthe front of the CD-ROM drive. I converted

these into 256 colour IF images,and pasted them onto suitableplane objects. These were thenpositioned in the right places. Givenmore time (and some artistic ability)there is no reason why these could-n't be drawn from scratch in an artprogram of course. (see plc 5)There are plenty of disadvantages tocheating and making use of bitmapimages. First of all, they take morememory than a simple drawing.Secondly they have no depth: a pic-ture of a floppy disk drive is not thesame as a modelled one, wherethere will be a button projectingin the Y axis, This can result in

W h o made that phong?Phong shading is an important a ttribute inImagine, and one which is often overlooked.When an object has the Phong shadingattribute switched on, Imagine effectivelysmoothes any hard edges. This is great for cre-ating a realistic-looking sphere but ruins yourchances rendering a crisp cube. The bottomline is to remember to use Phong shading onlywhen you wa nt a smoothing effect.

There's slightly more to i t than tha t though.If you create a cube from a plane wi th ten sec-tions , then the smoothly e ffect will be moresubtle than i f you used a similarly sized cubemade wi th only two sections. In fact, as youcan see from the image below, the tw o sec-tioned cube starts to look very strange indeed.

unrealistic shadows and other weird-lookinglighting effects. Thirdly, the resolution of thebitmap you're using can dictate the resolutionof the final render.

M e r g i n g a s o n ePutting the final computer together is a matterof loading all the sub-parts (the box, the frontpanel, the fake CD-ROM drive) and positioningthem accurately in the Detail Editor. Pick oneobject (I used the Front Panel), select it andthen select all the other objects (use Amiga-A).Now use 'Group' from the States menu and theentire computer is saved out as one object. Itcan then be loaded into the Stage Editor andeven though composed of dozens of smallerparts, can be moved around and scaled asthough it were one. (see pic 7)

As there are no transparent objects or needfor accurate shadows, a scanline render is per-fectly adequate for creating the final image. Allthat is needed is the addition of the ground andsome background colour to make the scenecomplete - not forgetting a light source arid Asome ambient lighting added in the Action edi-tor of course.

After a few renders experimenting with tex-tures, I decided that the 'metals2' texture wasnot suitable for the case of the computer. Asyou can see, it introduces some unwantedreflections. Instead, the default man materialworked very well. Perhaps a slight noise orbump would give the correct power-painted firished, but overall I was quite pleased with thefinal image.John Kennedy

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covered every HTML aspect that Amig,-,browsers support. With this tutorialwe'll say goodbye to HTML techniquesonly to return once the current crop of

browsers catch up. So for our HTML finale weare going to put together an amazing web pageusing as many of the techniques we havelearned from previous tutorials.

First things first: one of the most importantrules of creating web pages is to know whatyou want beforehand, Chaotically evolved site:,are often messy and difficult to follow. So, forour example we chose 70's music as ourtheme. Psychotic colours, lava lamps andmusic artists sporting bell bottomed trousersall sprang to mind.

That's entertainmentTo keep anyone checking out your web siteamused its best to use in-line pictures asheadings and illustrations so long as the pageisn't much over 64K. For our web site, I decid-ed to use a black background which instantlychanges the page into a more visual experi-ence than reams of text. To do this, here's theinitial HTML code: --

<HTML>< H E A D > < T I T L E > M a t ' s 7 0 ' s m u s i cp a g e < / T I T L E > < / H E A D ><BODY B A C K G R O U N D = ba c k . g i f BO CO Le4O R o" # 0 0 0 0 0 0 " T E X T m " # F F F F 1 F NLI NK="41FFO FFO " V L I N X = " # 117 0 0 0 0 " ›You should be familiar with this by now.We've also used the BACKGROUND attriputeto set a background image to be tiled onto thr:browser. In this case it's some images putthrough ImageFX's liquid distort.

Bad taste approachAmiga browsers have implemented supportfor TEXT, LINK and VLINK since we started theHTML tutorial series, Here's a quick rundownof what they do. TEXT sets the colour of thetext rendered, LINK sets the colour of linkswhich have not been visited and VLINK forlinks which have. As before all colours arespecified in 24-bit RGB with the R, G and B asa Hex number from 0 to FF (0 to 255 in deci-mal). For example, pure green would be 00, FFand 00. For the purpose of our 70's site we've

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set the text to a bright yellow, unvisited linksto pink and visited links to red. We're going forthe low on style approach.

It's extremely important to make the back-ground image low key so it will not to conflictwith the foreground. Either make sure thepalettes are totally different or use an imagewhich has been darkened considerably as wedid with ImageFX and its balance control.

Next we're going to need some headersand pictures, Since CU Amiga Magazine

readers have the brilliant Imagine 4.0 3D ren-dering package at their disposal, why not useit for our web page?

For our banner, 70's Music, we've used theBell Bottom postscript font from CUCD6 withthe tie dye texture applied. This 24-bit imagewas cropped with ImageFX, converted to 64colours (which is a good compromise) andsaved as a transparent GIE The GIP' loader/saver for ImageFX is on the Aminet. The resultis an original and great looking header.

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Light noly fi reImagine 4.0 was also used for the 'NEW'flash at the top of our page. Using fiveframes of a global map with an increasingnumber of 'flames' courtesy of ImageFX didthe trick Finally the image was composedinto an AnimGIF via WhirIGIF, not forgettingthe -trans 0 argument to make it transparent.We also reversed the order so the first frameis the brightest for browsers withoutAnimGIF support.

Our web site is going to kick off with a100 x 500 picture which will be positioned bythe left border using the attribute ALIGN=left. Our new Staff Writer Andrew Kornalready proved his worth by finding a 3D lavalamp object for this image. This piece of retroparaphernalia was rendered using a screengrab of the web page as a global map.

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dimensions so it can be laid outbefore loading. It's aligned to theleft so all further material shouldwrap to the right of it. The ALTattributes are there just in case any-one wants to drift by without load-ing the pictures. They don't knowwhat they're missing. We also needto change the font to a headingsize 2 as that's most appropriatehere. The AmmGIF NEW pic is thenslapped in followed by some nicecentred text justified to the right.hence the align=left attribute.

Next we include a form and atable. Experiments with iBrowseand AWeb 2.1 showed that itworked best to justify the table to

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Bordering on cheesyWe've also included a table of data rating the'cheesiness' scores for key musical acts ofthe 1970's from each member of the team.We've used a border but some nice tiny bul-let point images and no border could alsohave done nicely.

To get the table in the right position we'vemade the The WIDTH-•50%" which makesthe table 50% of the width left and AFTERmakes the table fit between the lava lampimage and the right border. The 50% of thatspace left goes to the form.

The form example here uses InternetFCI'scgi-bins script for mailing the data tocheesePou-amiga.co. uk;

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Later we included two form elements, oneis a SELECT option for the surfer to choosewhat they believe their musical taste to be andthe other is to ask if there's any HTML tagsthat we haven't covered enough in this seriesof tutorials. For this we used the<TEXTAREA> command and pre-filled insome text by including text before the</TEXTAREA> terminator. Finally we add acompact single line to reset or post the format the end. The VAL attribute sets the text forthis button.

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In our example, we've started an unorderedlist (without numbers) with the <UL> tag;

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Since AWeb insists on using a listview forthe form SELECT, we don't quite know how fardown the table the form has come. After theUL is started, a heading size 3 is defined andthe title of the list specified. Most likely thiswill still be far enough up to wrap between thelava lamp and the table. The <LI> tag speci-fies the start of a list item. I've seen somepeople terminate this with an </Ll> but nobrowser I tested seemed to care. The Imageon the <LI> is a rotating AnimGIF arrow fromfrom www.sasg.com's excellent site.

Ideal l e n g t hSo far the page is about the ideal length.Twenty-page-long home pages are mostannoying. Splitting a site up into severalpages is a far better idea. Normally youwouldn't have your !inks on the main pageand there's no cooler way of sending thesurfer elsewhere within your own pages thanthe image map. After getting some nice 70'srelated pictures from one of the sites in thelinks, these were used to construct the back-ground, a button bank also using a texture offthe 1078 Weird Textures CD.

The button bank was framed nicely bypicking up in PPaint and stamping down indark blue and light green either side of themain image. Since the edges were transpar-ent there are neat looking gaps in the framewhere there are gaps in the image.

We need to define the client side imaoe

map code: this can either be doneby hand by moving the pointeraround in a paint package and writ-ing down the co-ords or a via neatArexx script such as supplied withPPaint 7.0. I used an ImageFXscript again from the AminetHere's the final code.

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centre of the screen, The button bank imageuses the special USEMAP attribute telling thebrowser that the picture is an image map andwhere to get the MAP definition from. Nextthe MAP code starts with AREA tags definingrectangular regions of co-ordinates to matchthe buttons. The HREFs would normally pointto other pages, obviously

Just so we don't leave out users of less,browsers, all of the links are stated again jrtext underneath the button bank.

The finished effect looks cool, all we neednow is to finish off the page with the web-master details as follows.

<ADDRESS><BR c l e a r = a 1 1 ><HR><H3>

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The <BR clear=all> makes sure this sec-tion doesn't wrap around anything just incase the surfer has a ridiculously wide dis-play. Next <HR> gives a horizontal line andthen the credits for the page.

Note the mailto: link on the webmaster.Previously we'd included the subject after theaddress but !Browse seems to stick it all onthe Email line so it's best left out.

H a p p y H T M LThat's it! We hope you like it. Rememberwhat our site lacks in taste it makes up for intechnical content. Also please note that whileit's easy to lift graphics from other people'ssites and this is a valuable resource, it's farmore fun to roll your own. Given the Amiga'sstrength in graphics packages, we can easilymake up for Frames and Java by creatingsome stonking original graphics and the solidtechniques learnt here.

So where does Wired World go from here?It's your choice, drop me an Email tomat@mats.net and give me your thoughts. Orwrite in to me at CU Amiga Magazine, PrioryCourt, 30-32 Farringdon Lane, London EC1R3ALI. Also, if you've created some amazingweb site, why not let us know? We can put iton our CD and add to the links on CU AmigaMagazine's Web site. Until then, happy web.bing to one and all! •Mat Bettinson

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PNG (Portable NetworkGraphics pronounced 'PiNG')image format is a copyright-freesystem which supports from 1 to48-bit depth images. And whenused with 256 colours or less it issmaller than GIE 24-bit and TIFF-LZW. PNG will also feature muchbetter interlaced/progressive load-ing, transparency, builttin platformspecific gamma-correction and-much more

Regular readers of the Net Godcolumn will remember how muchwe raved about this new format afew months ago. CU AmigaMagazine saw PNG as an end tothe fact that we are forced to use•GIF to support PC browsers, PNGwill put an end to that, so theAmiga was quick off the markwith a PNG datatype.

CU Amiga Magazine's site andmany others will welcome sup-port for PNG and will change overas soon as possible to make themost of the faster loading time.

New V43 picture datatypesAndreas Kleinert, author of theSupervievv system has created anew set of V43 datatypes for theV43 picture datatype replacement.

The new set are on the Aminet

in the utilicitypes drawerunder the filenamesthat begin with 'ak'.Considerably optimised,these datatypes arefaster than the originalones and sport prefer-ences settings fordithering and suchforth. You can evenchoose to have aprogress bar whichappears every time apicture is decoded. Sofar there's GIE JPEG,

SVG and PNG. And you don't haveto use them with the V43datatype system either so getthem now!

Most Amiga Web browsersuse datatypes to decode the in.line graphics. So it's important toat least have good GIF and JPEGdatatypes installed. Normallydatatypes are limited to 256colours but not so with the so-called V43 picture datatypereplacement. The V43 replace-ment is on Phase 5's FIE' site atftp.phase5.de/pub/phase5/cgx/PictDT43. lha, though be warned ittimes out after a few months soyou need to keep updating it.

However, the V43 compatibledatatypes provided with thereplacement are quite basic andslow so Mr Kelinert's new versionare very welcome.

USR 5 6 K upgradesUSR's new'X2' tech-nology, announced lastmonth, which promis-es to bring 56Kbpsdownload rates to themarket will rely solelyon a fully digitalexchange to the desti-nation This means

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The current crop of V34+33600 bps modems from USAincluding the Courier andSportster can be upgraded whenthe standard becomes availablewhich should be by the time youare reading this.

What's more, a few Internetproviders have lined up to supportthe standard including UUnet Pipexand Cable Online in the UK. Withmany providers dragging their feetto the V34+ 33600 standard alone(X2 uploads at 336001, X2 is goingto become a selling point soon andISPs without will lose Out. We sayroll on X2, yum yum.

ProDAD's site growsGerman developers ProDAD havemade some significant additionsto their Web site. In the Englishsection there are now details oftheir new operating system P-OS.P-OS will be cross-platform com-patible and is said to be veryAmiga like, In fact, Amiga pro-grams can be re-compiled to rununder P-OS in order to run onPowerPC based platforms. Thereare more details in the News thisissue. Also Drop in to http://wwwprodad.de/ eng/ index.html formore information. •

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without fear of tedious references towetsuits and all that stuff. Well that'salmost true_ If you'll forgive me, westart our surfing session with a bit of

ound advice for anyone who's venturing outinto the briney. What to do if you areattacked by a venomous sea creature turns apiece of serious education into a bit of fun asyou play 'spot the fish that will sting you' andfind out how to avoid dying if such a thingshould happen. Granted, fish around the UKare more likely to be toxic than venomous, butit could be valuable reading if you're planning atropical holiday.

Talking of cheese (how's that for a link?) Ithought it was time we revealed The CheesePage, This will be a haven for cheese loversand a highly educational spot for anyone whowants to swot up on the many varieties of thispopular and practical foodstuff. There are 44JPEG images for you to download, eachdepicting a specific type of cheese with aparticular emphasis on Italian varieties. Theinteresting sounding 'World of Cheese' sectionis still under construction but there's still more

fun to be had with a transcript ofthe Monty Python Cheese Shopsketch and links to other sites of afermented milk curd persuasion.

You'll probably be in need ofsome light entertainment after allthat cheese, so how about TheWorst Knock Knock Jokes Ever,which actually goes under a slightlydifferent title but that one is closetto the truth. Try this one for size.Knock knock. Who's there? Banana. Bananawho? Banana split. That gem comes fromBeth Corkem aged 7. Alternatively enter thewords 'bad'. 'taste' and 'joke' into your pre-ferred search engine for a more spicy selec-tion of humour sites.

Our fast silty site rhis month is theBreakfast Cereal Hall of Fame, which plotsthe history of the North American breakfastcereal. You never know when it might comein handy.

Following up last month's Sound Lab specialreview of Philips Digital Compact Cassette, youcan find out more from the Philips DCC website, which we forgot to tell you about lastmonth. Shame on us. There's loads of informa-tion on the site, including all the technical bitsthat we didn't have room for in the magazine.

If you think your kids need a bit of educa-tion but they want something more fun, howabout some 'edutainment'? Yes, that cringe-worthy ,buzzword from the States is quite aptin this case, as kids Did This in Science! is abig list of links to all kinds of science relatedweb sites, recommended by kids. Point yourkids here and they can surf around for hours(phone bill permitting) having fun and learningat the s,m e t i me . Wow !

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Workbench (or maybe stillon the Extras disk) are acollection of really usefullittle programs called

Commodities. Designed toimprove upon Workbench, theywere Commodore's attempt toclean up the act of the multitude ofWorkbench 'hacks' around andpackage them all into one consis-tent form.

There are hundreds availablefrom Public Domain libraries andfrom the Aminet Internet site andit's worth your time to have a lookthrough them.

As s tandardThe following is a list ofCommodities that you'd expect tosee in any set-up.

AutoPointThis Commodity will cause theAmiga to make active anythingunder the pointer. For example,as you move the pointer aroundthe screen any Window which itpasses over will become active.Some people find this useful,others irritating. It can be helpfulif you are swopping betweendifferent screens a lot and wantto get typing straightawayinstead of having to click withthe mouse.

BlankerIf you don't touch the mouseor press a key, this Commoditywill suddenly clear the screenand move some coloured squig-gles around. It's supposed to pre-vent the monitor from 'burning in'or becoming damaged if thesame static screen is displayedfor a period of time, but practically

all monitors are capable ofsurviving without it.

Oi ckToFrontThis is quite similar to AutoPointbut borrows a concept from theApple or PC. On these platforms,you don't need to click on thewindow's depth gadget to bring itto the top: you only need toselect the Window and up itpops. This gives the Amiga thesame facility. Try it: you mightlike it.

CrossDosDon't confuse this with theCrossDos device:. This is aCommodity which changes theway in which the standardCrossDos device FCC: works. Asyou may know, by using PCO: theAmiga can read or write to PC(MSDOS) format floppy disks.When this Commodity is running,it tries to 'fi lter' any files whichare being copied. This can bevery useful when loading or sav-ing text files which are some-times filled with extra carriagereturns when copied from onemachine to another.

ExchangeThis Commodity is a special one:it manages all the otherCommodities which are running.Run it and a window appearswhich contains details of theCommodities and provides a shortcut for bringing up or hiding theassociated user interface.

I:KeyEver wondered what the point isof all those Function keys onyour keyboard? Wonder no more:now you can assign the functions

to various Amiga operations.Using FKey you can cyclethrough Windows, run a programor execute an ARexx script. Thismakes it easy to customise yourAmiga so you can launch all yourfavourite applications by pressinga function key.

M o u s e Bl ankerMouseBlanker will hide themouse pointer when you starttyping until you move the mouse.This can be very useful whenusing a Word Processor forexample, when you don't wantan arrow obscuring the first fewletters you type.

No Cap sL o ckUm t h e r e must be a use forthis program, there must be.NoCapsLock simply stops theCaps Lock key from operating.Perhaps if you suffer from -finger-stubbiness and keep hitting theCaps Lock key by mistake youmight find it useful. Maybe youwant to avoid confusing a childusing the Amiga. There you are:two uses already. You can proba-bly think of millions more. You

can still get upper case using theShift Key in the usual way.

So simpleUsing a Commodity is pretty easy.The standard convention is to clickon them once to start them run-ning and a second time to stopthem. Most of them will run invisi-bly in the background, you might-n't even know they are working.

If you are more a Shell personthan a WIMP fan, it's also possi-ble to run Commodities directlyfrom the Shell. For example, ifeverything is set up properly, youshould be able to enter: AUTO-POINT at the Shell and theCommodity will run. Like almostall programs run in this way, itwon't automatically return controlto the Shell until you quit it. If theutility is running in the back-ground there won't be a windowQuit gadget to click: you'll have topress Control and C or Controland E to stop it. It's therefore bet-ter to run it, like this: RUN AUTO-POINT. This will let Autopoint runin the background, allowing theShell to be used or even closed.Even though the Shell which

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For example, the ScreenBlanker commodity will wait forControl and B: press the keystogether and up pops the specialwindow from where the varioussettings can be adjusted. It's usu-ally possible to redefine the HotKeys in case they clash.

Making a Commodity startautomatically is easy too: all youneed to do is drag theCommodity's icon from where itis stored into the WBStartupdrawer. All programs in this draw-er will be launched every time theAmiga loads its Workbench.

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C X P OP U PIf this is set to 'yes' then the pro-gram will start up and display itsuser-interface if it has one). If it'sset to 'no' it won't appear. If youare starting programs in theWBStartup drawer, you will proba-bly want this set to "nq".

C X POPK EYThis is the key combination whichwill bring the user-interface (if any)to the front. The key combinationcan use non-alphanumeric keys,such as 'Ishift' for the left shiftkey, 'control' for the control keyand 'reit' for the right alt key.- Commodities take up very littlein the way or memory or proces-sor power, so don't be afraid tokeep them running all the time.Several other utilities which youmight r,D t fi r st t hi nk of as

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Other useful commoditiesThere are hundreds of Commodities written by Amiga programmersavailable from PD libraries from the Internet. Here are some of theones which I have found most useful over the years.CycloToMonoThis is a useful little program which changes the way in which cyclegadgets work. Instead of cycling through the entire list, a small win-dow pops up making it simple to select the option you want.MogicColoursIf you use Magic Workbench icons, with a Workbench set to 256colours you may find the colours are all wonky, This utility keeps set-ting the colours back to normal, so your icons remain in the correctshades of grey.NowModoThis is very useful if you have a graphics card this. NewMode willintercept an application's request to open a screen display and, ifnecessary, force it to open up on your graphics card instead.DclockOnce of the neatest little digital clock programs I've found.MiddleButtonIf your replacement mouse has three buttons, this utility lets the thirdbutton operate as a shift key. This is handy for selecting multipleicons without having to use the keyboard.PoworSoopOne of the old faithfuls: this program allows text displayed anywhereon screen to be copied to the clipboard. You can then paste it intoanother application, It makes it possible to snap text from an applica-tion and copy it to a Shell for example. It's surprising how useful thisprogram is.OpoquolinovoAnother program for graphics card users. With OpaqueMove running,you can drag entire windows around the Workbench, rather thanmere outlines. Useless, but if like me you might want reassurancethat you haven't spent all that money on a graphics card for nothing.

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The reason for this is linked tothe way Commodities work. Anyutility which wants to be aCommodity makes use ofthe commodities libraryfile. This enables the program to make use of theCommodities InputHandler - part of the operating system which existsjust before Intuition's ownInput Handler. The

Commodities Input Handler looksafter any special Hot Key combina-tions, and makes sure there are noclashes for key presses.

And that's if for Commodities,next month it's mergers, shareflotations and the like. No serious-ly, we're back next issue withsome more useful nuggets ofinformation on your Workbench. •John Kennedy

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GAFF S I M M sMy systemconsists of anAl200 and GVP1230 II seriesaccelerator (EC30,no FPU) with 4Mb

RAM fitted. I recently tried tele-phoning around some companiesto find extra RAM for the accelera-tor, only to find that a) it isn't easyto come by, and b) it is extremelyexpensive. I was quoted E159 for4Mb from the only place I foundthat had any.

Is there any other way ofadding 72 pin industry standardSIMMs to my system without hav-ing to discard the accelerator ?

In the May 1994 issue, therewas a feature on an Al291 SCSIcard to add on to the Al230. Isthis still available? If so. is it still auseful and reasonable way to getSCSI access? Also what otheroptions are available, consideringmy set-up?

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0 i , I a m so brawny.Once I've crushedyour Amiga problemsto a pulp, I 'd like tosee world peace.

For some reason which no doubtseemed sensible at the time, GVPchose to use a non standard SIMMformat which has lately become thebane of many an Amiga user, SinceGVP went under, these have becomepretty scarce, and have gone up inprice whilst industry standardSiMMs have plummeted. For exam-ple a standard 4Mb S AM costsaround C25.

No there isn't way around this,Your best bet if you are serious aboutupgrading would be to sell your cur-rent board and buy a new one. Thereare plenty of Amiga users out therewho would be satisfied with 6MbRAM, see if you can find one of themto take it off your hands. .tdd thekind of money you've been quoted

for the SIMM and you could almostafford an 8Mb WO card.

The GVP Al291 was a greatSCSI solution at the time. Howeverother options would be the Squirreland the Datallyer as they will stillwork if you change accelerator.

W o r d W o r t h C DI am experiencingproblems withWordworth 3.1SE,on CUCD5 fromthe Decemberissue. Am I alone

in this or should I send off reamsof enquiries to Digita? My set-upconsists of Amiga 4000/EC30with 6Mb RAM with a CitizenSwift 90c printer.

When I try to installWord Worth to hard disk it followsthe installation satisfactorily untilit tries to install the printer thenthe following requester appears:Copy i ng F i l eEpson XTo Dr a w e rWW3.1 I n s t a l l -1 : De v s / P r i n t e r sVol ume I n s t a l l - 1 i s f u l l sThis looks like it is trying to installthe printer back on the first floppyinstall disk!

Accepting that I probably havethe installation complete apartfrom the printer driver, when I tryto open the Wordworth 3 programon my hard disk (having rebootedthe system), I get 'Could notopen Shannon Book 14pt font"followed by "unable to initialisedocument". Please help?

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Brian Titchener, Winchester.

II sounds like you have booted upfrom Install disk I rather than yourhard drive. When the installer pro-gram is run, it copies files to various

Yes and af ter I've lef t allthose puzzlers in heap, I 'dlike to travel the world ,wo rk wi th small childrenand help the needy.

directories on your system disk. Thesystem disk is not necessarily yourhard drive — it is whatever disk youbooted up front. I f you boot up fromthe floppies, the installer has no ideathat your hard drive is your normalsystem disk and assumes that installdisk I is in fact your hard drive.Whenever you are installing some-thing to your hard drive, make sureyou boot up from it unless you aretold otherwise.

There is a Teatime file on installdisk 1. In this file there is an explana-tion of what to do if you are presentedwith the "could not open Shannonbook..." message. I f re-installing WWdoesn't remove this problem, lookthere first.

To o m a n y fontsI have installedVVVVSE3,1 onto myhard disk and havemanaged with theaid of DirectoryOpus to transfer

fonts from the extrafont Drawer onthe CD. When I delete them theystill appear on the font list butwhen called respond with a state-ment that they cannot be opened!How do I delete from this font list?Alsohow do Fget WVV3.1SE toread my font list like the other pro-grammes on my hard drive?

I got my Amiga primarily forvideo production but cannot findmuch good software apart fromScala to assist in producing graph-ics/animation/titling. Can you help?

Mullard, Cheshire.

Wordworth uses outline rather thanbitmap fonts because bitmap fontsare of no use for large type printouts,There are hundreds of PD outlinefonts, so if your collection isn't bigenough, get some more. WW3,ISE

generates its own internal jOnt list. I fyou delete afoul from the directory,it will still appear in the fontlist. Thesolution is to delete the fontlist file,which can be found in WWFONTSIUFST. You then make a new one byclicking on the INSTALLOUTLINESicon in the WWTOOLS dlr.

There are some good video pack-ages available apart from Scala. Twonew ones from ProDAD, MonumentDesigner and A almage, werereviewed in our December 96 issue.Our March 96 issue had the excel-lent Video Stage Pro on the coverdisks and is still available from ourback issues department.

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use of myRAM:TEMP direc-tory to shift dataaround fromarchives. I leave it

out on the Workbench regularly,and it occurred to me that it wouldbe excellent to be able to do thisautomatically from the startup-sequence. Is this possible? I havean 41200 030 WB3.1 KS3.1.

Stephen Ralph, Hampshire.

It is indeed. When Workbench startsup it checks any disk it can find for afile called '.backdrop' which tells itwhat to leave out. To solve your prob-lem, when Workbench loads it wouldneed to find a '.backdrop' file inRAM:, which will need to be putthere in the startup sequence. Firstcreate an ASCII file which reads:: temp and save it in your S direc-tory as "BACKDROP". Then edityour startup sequence. Just after theline which reads something like:C : M a k e d i r R A M : TE M PRAM: CLIPBOARDS R A M : ENVInsert the lines:C: c opy e y e : u t i l i t ism'. i n f ot o r a m : te m p. i n f oThis copies the utilities draw icon forthe RAM:temp directory. Then add:C: copy eye:a/backdrop t oRAN: b a c k d r o pThis sets up your backdrop file.Reboot your computer and voila theTEMP drawer is on the Workbench.

To w e r p o w e rI have a standard.Amiga 1200 whichI am looking toexpand with aTower. Pleasecould you answer

some of my questions.1. I recently saw an offer by HiC1for upgrading to a tower/desktopoption with CD-ROM, powersupply and Squirrel SCSI. With anaccelerator in mind would I need

to purchase the optional SCSI kitfor the accelerator or purchasethe Hi0 offer on the SCSI kit?2. What's the difference betweena desktop and a tower conversion?3. Do I need the maths co-proces-sor with an accelerator and is aSIMM RAM Fast RAM?

Gareth Graham, Caerphilly.

I. The Squirrel interface should workperfectly with all modern accelerators.2. Desktop normally means a squatbox you stick under your monitorwhile the tower is an upright columnyou stick next to your monitor.3. I f you want an accelerator to makeyour machine go a bit faster you don'tneed a co-processor. I f you plan onusing math intensive software such asImagine the co-processor is highlyrecommended, All RAM you add toyour machine is Fast RAM. SLIMrefers to the type of chip module used.

Questions about tower conver-sions are coming in thick and fast. Atower makes it easy to add extra stor-age devices and solves power supplyproblems in a stroke. We are think-ing about doing an article on DIYtower conversions for the more tech-nically minded reader. I f you have anopinion or idea about this, pleasewrite to us.

C D - R O M D I YI was delighted byyour article in theDecember 96issue on fitting aCD-ROM and Iwould like to go

ahead and 'do it myself', howeverI'd like a little advice first.1. I have a Western Digital 2420hard drive. Is this 2.5 or 3.5 inch?2. If it is 3.5 inch I would opt for amini tower to house both it andthe Golden Image CD-ROM kit.

• The tower Lhave in mind is onefrom a local PC outlet with a 200wpower supply. Is this sufficient?3. IS the Golden Image kit doublespeed or quad speed?4. I envisage connecting the itemsvia an adaptor consisting of a 44

--pin input and two 40 pin outputsfor the appropriate cables to con-nect to. Is this a viable solution?5. If I move the hard drive to aTower, is it just a matter ofunplugging it. unscrewing it, andrefitting it in the tower?

L.Kemp, York.

I. The simple way of finding out is tomeasure it. As a rough guide, if it issmall enough to stick in a cigarettebox, it's a 2.5 inch.2. 200w is more than enough.3. We think you may be a little mixed

up here. The Golden Image kit is notu(I)-ROM drive, but a cheap

mounting system which comes withall the cables you need and a metalcase. The speed depends an whatdrive mechanism is fined to it.4. Thai's about it, but it would be apain to make. Golden Image will sellyou an Alfa Quatro. which is basical-ly the same thing.5. Yep you're right there.

Mythical beastsI wish to purchasean HP Deskjet870cxi but am hav-ing problems get-ting a printer driver.I've been in touch

with Hewlett Packard but didn'thave much joy. Can you help?

No name or address supplied.

Hewlett Packard gave up supportingthe Amiga some time ago and areunlikely to be of any help. Write tothem and tell them they are losingcustomers. Print Studio or Turboprintmay have a compatible driver: phonea stockist (check ads) and ask. Itwould be worth asking HP if the870cri is compatible with one of theirother printers; an 11P850c driverwould be easier to get_

M o r e questions1.1 have an

0 Al200HD magic

pack. I heard thatEscom used a highdensity driveinstead of a normal

Amiga drive, merely disabling thehigh-density mechanism! Thiscauses a lot of games to becomeincompatible. Is there a solution?2. I want to buy an accelerator,preferably a 68040. Bearing inmind that I also want extra memo-ry and cannot afford much morethan E300, what is my best option?3. On opening the trapdoor to findout where the accelerator shouldgo, I could not find any kind ofinterface. On my A500 there was afemale port but I can't find one onthe Al200. Where should I look?4. I have an M1348s monitor. Theimage cannot be moved vertically.

Or • !retched and is not cen-t r a l,, a The re is an annoying black

gap at the top. Any solutions?5. Despite these setback I'm still adedicated Amiga owner and wouldlike to buy a CD-ROM drive in thefuture_ I was thinking of buying aSCSI device. If I did this would Istill be able to use other SCSIdevices such as a ZIP drive? Whatis the best SCSI interface to buy?6. Could I connect an Ultra internalIDE drive? I cannot see where itwould fit. If it cannot be fitted,should I buy an Alfa Quatro?7_ My guarantee is still valid.However, is it valid with AmigaTechnologies, Viscorp, Escom orthe shop I bought it from?

James Greville, Mid Glamorgan.

I. Things are a bit confused here. The'HD' reference in 1200H1) refers tothe hard drive in it. Ilmvever, thosemachines also have high density flop-py disk drives also known as HD dri-ves. These floppy drives have beenaltered to act like old Amiga doubledensity (DD) drives, but some gameswith custom file formats will not work.Sometimes this is because the gamesare duplicated on high density disks,in which case you can simply coverthe open notch that signifies a highdensity floppy. See the Info drawer onthis month's Cl) for a hardware fix tothe problem.2. Scan the ads for the best deal, BOOshould get you a cheap '040 with 8Mb.3. It slides onto the edge of the circuitboard inside the trapdoor.4. Getting a perfect display on anMI438s is near impossible, but byusing the vertical stretch in combina-tion with the overscan and screen-mode prefs utils, you should be able tominimise your problem.5. The Dalaflyer and the Squirrel arethe ones to consider. SCSI interfacesare good at handling multiple devices.6, There is no space inside an Al200for an internal CD ROM. OurDecember 96 issue had a feature onusing IDE drives with the Amiga.7, Amiga guarantees are currentlycovered by a company called Digitech,BM Limited, Unit E7, Mallards Park4, Telford, Shropshire, TF3 311A, Tel:01952 277 711.11

Send yo u r C litA p ro b lems t oYou can send your technical problems (or answers - Ed]to CU Amiga by the following means:By letter to ObA, CU Amiga. Priory Court, 30-32 Farringdon Lane,London, EC1REmail: 0-o-APcu Amiga.co.uk.NO SAES PLEASE We regret that we can't respond toreaders' questions by post or over the phone. Please do notinclude a stamped addressed envelope with your letters as wesimply don't have time to answer the thousands we receive.Responses are only available through the pages of this magazine.

W i t h o v e r 6 0 0 fl o p p y d isks w o r t h o fstuf f , i t ' d b e si l ly n o t t o m a k e t h em o s t o f C U C D s w h e t h e r you h a v e aC D - R O M dr ive o r no t .• Q . I d o n ' t ha v e a C D -R O M dr iv e on m y Am i gay e t, wi l l I s ti l l be a ble t ous e m y C u Am i g aMa g a z i n e C D - R O M on aP C or Appl e M a c ?

• A. Yes, but in a limited way.You will be able to access all thedata on it. You'll see file directo-ries and you will be able to viewany pictures or read any textwhich is stored in plain or cross-platform formats.

A perfect example is HTMLfiles: using a Web browser suchas Netscape Navigator or InternetExplorer you can read any HTMLdocuments on the CU AmigaMagazine disk. This includes read-ing the text, viewing the picturesand using the links.

• CI- C a n I us e th epr ogr a m s th o u g h ?

• A- No, you can't. Amiga pro-grams run on Amigas and won'trun on PCs or Apple Macs.

• Q . C a n ' t I ge t a n Am i gae m u l a to r fo r the P C a ndr un th e pr ogr a m s th a tw a y ? Afte r all, I c a n e m u -l a te a P C a nd a n Appl eM a c o n m y Am i ga ?

• A- Well, yes, there is UAE. Ifsnot very fast though and to behonest it's still an A500 emulatoreven on an P120. Although tech-nically impressive, it's not anideal solution.

• Q . i s the r e a h a r d w a r eba s e d Arniga e m ul a to r fo r

e i the r o f the s e ma c hine s ?

EA - No and it is unlikely thatthere ever will be. At the momentthe best piece of hardware forrunning Amiga programs remainsan Amiga.

• Q . I d o n ' t ha v e aC D - R O M driv e on m yAm i ga b u t I ha v e one o nm y P C a t w or k . Wi l l I beable to c opy the fi lesa c ros s to m y Ami ga ?

• A. In theory yes, as thesame standard is used to recorddata on PC and Amiga CD-ROMs.However, you may have someproblems, such as the fact thatthe Amiga can cope withlong filenames and the PC some-times can't.

Windows95 (or NT) solves thefilename problem, as it can dealwith filenames other than thosein MSDOS format. However, youstill can't copy those directly tofloppy disk because floppies arestill in MSDOS format. One solu-tion is to use an archiving utilitysuch as PKZIP which will pack upall the files on the PC, move thearchive to the Amiga and un-ZIPit. The result is that the filenamesare preserved.

• 0 . H o w c a n I m ov eth e fi les f r o m th e P C t oth e Ami ga ?

NIA- To move the files, you havetwo options: use a removabledisk which both systems can reador link the two platforms together.Using the Amiga's built in

CrossDos device (PCO:) it canread floppy disks formatted bythe PC but only double density,not high density (unless you havean A4000 or special floppy drive).It's also possible to use Syquestor ZIP drives if you have the nec-essary hardware. You cannot useparallel port versions of the Zipdrive on the Amiga though.

The best way is to networkthe machines using Ethernetbut this is overkill for file transfer,not to mention virtually impossi-ble on the Al200 (go on, proveme wrong - please). The bestway is to connect the PC andAmiga together using a NullModem cable, run a terminalprogram and use ZModem totransfer files.

If your machines are a long dis-tance apart, you may have toresort to using modems and ter-minal software. If you only haveone modem, it's possible to use aBulletin Board or Internet FTP siteto temporarily store data: you canupload it from the PC and down-load to the Amiga.

• CI. D o e s the oppos i tehold true ? Ca n I us e P CC D - R O M s on m y Ami ga ?

• A. You can read PC CD-ROMS but you cannot run theprograms. Yes, it is possible toemulate a PC on an Amiga butit's not very fast and so games orsophisticated Windows applica-tions won't work. If you see aprogram only available on PC CD-ROM then resist the temptationto buy it, even if you have a CD-ROM drive and a PC emulator foryour Amiga. Ask for an Amigaversion instead.

C l . • I s i t pos s ible m a k e aC D - R O M dis c w h i c h wi l lw o r k on b o t h a n Am i gaa nd a C D - R O M ?

• A. Yes. Both platforms canread the CD-ROMs perfectly, soit's only a matter of storing soft-ware for both machines.

For example, you could have aCD-ROM full of pictures whichhas viewer programs for both thePC and the Amiga. The picturescould then be stored in a formatwhich both viewers can read,such as JPEG or GIF

The result is that one CD-ROMis of use to both the Amiga andthe PC.

Another example are the CD-ROMs which contain objects for3D rendering programs, AnImagine object can be read direct-ly by both PC and Amiga versionsof Imagine.

In any case, there are manyAmiga utilities for reading PCstyle graphics (e.g. GIF BMP), ani-mation (e.g. AVI, FLC, CLI) andsound files (e.g. WAV). There isusually some way of making useof data stored on a CD-ROM.

•Q. Can I play any of

m y c o l l e c t i o n o fV i d e o C D s o n m yA m i g a 's C D - R O M dr i v e ?

• A. Yes, but apart from somevery slow software, only if youhave an SMD100 decoder fromHiSoft and if your CD-ROM driveis compatible.

• Cl. I ha v e a C D 3 2 / C D T V— c a n I us e th e C D - R O Mdrive w i th m y A l 2 0 0 ?

• A - Yes, it's possible to createa limited network which links theCD32 or CDTV to the Amiga com-puter. The CD-ROM drive willappear on the Workbench asthough it were connected directlyto the Al200.

OK now you have no excusefor using CUCDs. •John Kennedy

M a k i n g m u s i c on your A mi g an eed n ' t c o s t a for tune. S o m es h a r e w a r e aud io p a c k a g e s p u t t he i rc o m m e r c i a l co mp et i t o r s t o sh ame .

There's loads of good new

audio and music softwareavailable for your Amiga,but much of it rarely getsany press because its

shareware. This month we'lluncover some of the best exam-ples of exciting, interesting andplain useful audio shareware.

Leaping aheadOne of the most promising bits ofsoftware to have come to ourattention recently is Camouflage.It comes in two versions, straightCamouflage and Camouflage AB.Both versions are MIDI sequencersthat use a very attractive cus-tomised GUI system that's bestsuited to a large screen mode,such as Productivity, interlace (ifyou can handle it) or a graphicscard, What's brilliant aboutCamouflage AB is that it can pre-tend to be Cubase Audio by corn-bining MIDI sequencing with 16-bitstereo hard disk recording. For thisyou need a Toccata or a Maestrosound card (available fromMacroSystem in Germany or WhiteKnight Technologies in the UK).

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anything like this was a combina-tion of Bars and Pipes and aSunrize AD516 sound card, thepair of which would have set youback a tidy sum. For the record,while Sunrize have ditched Amigasupport, Bars and Pipes is free toall Compusenie customers.

Sample-x fi lesMusic X users will be aware of thebasic level of control the programoffers over Amiga samples com-pared to MIDI instruments.Sample-X is a clever program thatsolves the problem_ It sits in thebackground while Music X is run-ning and intercepts MIDI datainternally. From within Sample-Xyou can set up a bank of samples,each responding to a specific MIDIchannel. When Sample-X seesdata transmitted on the relevantchannel from Music X, it plays thesamples accordingly. This meansyou can replay up to four Amigasamples from within your Music Xsequences, applying all the normal'MIDI controllers to your samples.The MIDI data is passed throughto the serial port as normal for usewith MIDI instruments.

Sample-X is not limited to usewith Music X. It can be set up to

receive its MIDI datafrom the serial port viaa MIDI interlace, soyou could set up yourAmiga as a four voicesample replay modulecontrolled by an exter.nal MIDI device, suchas a keyboard or asequencer.

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many have developed into impres-sive beasts featuring realtime DSPfunctions and all kinds of fancywidgets, there's still room forsmaller, simpler alternatives.Digibooster is just such a tracker,offering eight channels with verygood mixing and output soundquality even on a basic Al200. Theoutput is 14-bit, and you can makeyour music from any combinationof 8-bit IFFs, 16-bit IFFs or 16-bitWAV samples,

For those used to the traditionaltracker layout, moving to some-thing like SoundStudio can be a bitof a mission (although it really ismuch easier to use after a short

while), so if you can't contemplatetoo much of a change from yourcurrent tracker the familiarity ofDigibooster will be important_ Newplayer commands are quite rarethese days so it's good to seesome in Digibooster, like 'Robot'which adds a variable phase/echoeffect to the specified sample,Planned future additions toDigibooster include support for 16bit cards such as Toccata andMaestro and more available tracks.The PD version has its saveoptions disabled, so if you wantthe full version you'll need toupgrade from the author. •Tony Horgan

Where to get them •This wonderful software is not available in any shops. The sharewareversions can be found on this month's cover CD. For those without aCD drive, you'll be able to get hold of shareware demos of these pro-grams from your Aminet source, or any good PD houses. Here areEmail address for the authors of the packages mentioned here•

CamouflageAuthor: Martin Endres, Osterfeldweg 41, 21077 Hamburg,040/7001187, Germany. Email: endres®work.cleSample-XAuthor; Shaun Olatunbosun, 11 Leywick Street, Stra tford,London, E IS 3D13. Email: sheun@soi.city.ac.ukDigiboosterAuthors: Tap and Walt, ul. Poprzeczna 66/6, 5 1 -1 6 7Wroclaw, Poland. Email: waldek©zakucita.pwr.wroc.pl

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H o w could you?Having purchased the December issue of CUAmiga, I thought I would be treating myself toa good positive Amiga read. The magazinewas to its usual good standard but I found onearticle that completely degraded the calibre ofCU Amiga Magazine, Public Domain users andPublic Domain programmers.

In the article 'The Best of Both Worlds', thelast few paragraphs by Mark Forbes of EffigySoftware define the Public Domain on theAmiga as being useless. Quoting him "We alsobelieve that demos that people create and putinto Public Domain are useless and not theway forward." This is a bit of a bold statementisn't it Mr Forbes?

Was this article really a good way to boostthe Amiga? I am shocked that CU AmigaMagazine who use public domain as a sourcefor their magazine, both on the cover disk andon pages within the magazine, would agree toprint such a false and inaccurate statement.Let me point Out a few FACTS:1. If it was not for the Public Domain scenekeeping the Amiga going through its roughpatches, you would not have your Amiga infront of you right now. The Amiga would havecollapsed completely, a long time ago_2. Public Domain is the backbone to theAmiga. It is a strong and dedicated source ofsoftware, which is sometimes better thanwhat is commercially released e.g. Termand NComm.3. The demo scene is whathelps sell the Amiga.Demos are the mainsource of graphics andsound promotion.4. Public Domain on theAmiga has the largestfollowing of anyother platform.

So Mr Forbes, I have aquestion. If Public Domainon the Amiga is souseless, why is Aminetso popular? Do I makemy point? In the nextparagraph, MrForbes goes on toexplain that the

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Power PC chip is the way to go. Readingthrough the article, it sounds as if Mr Forbes issaying that because Public Domain is so use-less and that there is no profit in it, the PowerPC chip is required. Oh really. So a Power PCchip is going to create better quality PublicDomain software, and make it profitable?Could you just explain this to me? In PublicDomain you get good quality as well as bad,but this is the same in the commercial world,The idea of Public Domain is public free soft-ware so it will not be profitable,

I am a dedicated Amiga follower and PCowner. I love my Amiga and would hate to seeit die. Even if it did, I would never sell themachine and I don't think any other Amigalover would do either. The Amiga is a state-of-the-art piece of kit and dumbfounded remarksmade by Mr Forbes are obviously impulsivethoughts. If he looked into the Amiga, andpushed the pound sign from his eyes he mightJust see what a stupid remark he made. TheAmiga programmers need encouragement andthanking for helping keep the Amiga alive, neg-ative remarks like this are an insult and of nouse to the Amiga at all.

Frorrt my conclusion of Effigy Software,they are just interested in money, not theAmiga community. I understand they have tomake money to survive the cut-throat marketof the software industry, but they proclaim to -be dedicated Amigans Rubbis h! !

As you can guess, you have hit a sore pointin this article, I believe I have possibly spoken

out for MANY Amiga users and I expect Ihave their backing.

Matthew Tillett, Emailand

First things first Mark Forbes did not makeany of the remarks you are referring too, he

was simply interviewing Ian Jenkins from EffigySoftware who is responsible for the statements inthe article. Perhaps you could have read the article

a bit more closely than you did. Just becauseMark reports someone's opinions verbatim

does not mean that he or a l AmigaMagazine agrees with them. CU Amiga

Magazine does not have a policy of vettingpeople's opinions and because we printthem it does not mean that we necessarily

agree with them. cv Amiga Magazine supportspublic domain wholeheartedly. As we understand it,the comment Ian Jenkins made was referring to thepractice of promoting commercial games by releas-ing limited demos of the games into the publicdomain. His point seems to be that this doesn't workas a promotional tool. He wasn't slagging off thewhole PD scene,

C D oversightConcerning your excellent article telling every-one how to get CD-ROMs for next to nothing(December 96). I think there is quite a seriouspoint which you skipped over When connect-ing drives like this, there is a risk you maydamage the CPU in your machine. The IDEport on the Al200 is, unlike the A4000,unbuffered and connected directly to theCPU. Furthermore it was only ever designedto connect one 2.5" hard drive ona very short cable. Commodore used to sup-ply cables around two inches long at onepoint. As you can see, loading it up withpower-hungry 15" and 5.25" drives can causesome harm.

A better alternative is to have a bufferedcable. Golden Image sell one that can reliablytake three devices and Eyetech will sell you afour-device cable (for less money!). Thisdoesn't risk your CPU and has the advantagethat you can take your cables just aboutanywhere. A friend has histwirling around the back ofhis desk into a mini-towercase, a distance ofabout a metre, withno problems.

I'm not denying thatyou can rely on just the origi-nal port, indeed my self- builtAl200T has half a metre of unbufferedcable going into a hard drive and a CD butpeople should be-aware of the risk of irre-versible damage. I'm going to swop mine for abuffered device so I can use one of the nowsuper-cheap Syquest EZ135 drives. Nowthere's an idea for a feature!

Chris Appleton (Pure Amiga),chrisgfuchal.demon_co.uk, Pure Amiga -hftp://www.pureamiga.co.uk

You are correct in saying that the Amiga I200'sinterface is unbuffered. There is some risk ofdevices not working with longer IDE cables,However, the concerns of damage resulting fromlonger cables and 3.5" hard drivesICD-ROMs havebeen overstated and such combinations work for

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of view article (Dec issue) regard-ing the worth of cover disks. Iwas compelled by an inner forceto write and agree whole heart-

or of the month. e d l y with Lisa that to covermount any program, game or utilityonly incite people to buy the full unrestricted ver-

*on.i Apar t from being an incentive to buy the magazine

e same also applies to the program on the cover'sk. I have, in the past, purchased full programs and' mes and the likes of Wordworth and Worms on therength of a preview of the program on a cover disk.

.- I suppose it's comparable to test driving a car priorto purchase or testing a sample of new chocolate bis-cuit at the supermarket before stocking your cup-boards full of stuff. Sure there are certain demos ofprograms which get used but are never upgraded to the tuil version. The old 'suck it and

I nasee ' principal applies here. A potential purchaser needs an idea of what a product is capa

e of before opening his/her wallet/purse. Don't deprive your loyal readers of a chance tomole a product on a cover disk because of some software house sceptic.

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thousands of Amiga users. There is no doubt that abuffered interface is the better option andEyetech's unit is indeed good value for money forthe guarantee of reliability that it will bring. Forthose looking to connect several devices to theAl200's IDE port, it represents a good buy andoffers sound peace of mind,

Amiga-Apple d i lemmaAfter reading your November Issue I found avery funny two page advert from 'GordonHarwood Computers' advertising AppleMachines. It's sad how companies which areselling Amiga computers and products can beso low as to use the actual Amiga situation tosell another platform but the worse bit is theadvert itself. I could go on about all the

A tew days following the King Kong14•14, Y or to st s return In business as usual.

incredible claims that the ad makes but Iwon't waste time on an ad like this.

If Amiga is dead, why do companies likeViscorp, Eagle or Phase5 want to buy it afterEscom? Netscape E Microsoft are also plan-ning to develop their Web Browsers (Explore'and Navigator) for the Amiga. Why are theyare so interested?

To any undecided and worried Amigausers out there: before buying a new andexpensive system, don't throw Out yourbeloved Amiga. Wait until the PPC Amigafrom Phase 5 arrives, we'll see which com-puter needs to make such a crap advert togain users

Miguel Ramos, Spain,

Everyone is free to make their own buying deci-_sions, but we feel that CU Amiga readers areknowledgeable enough to know that an AppleMac is certainly not an ideal replacement for anAmiga. You may be surprised to hear we useApple Macs at the CV Amiga offices. We usethem because we are part of a large publishingcompany which runs a totally Mac-based publish-ing system, Yes, for DTP they are the industrystandard. However, the Mac's infuriating operat-ing system is a million miles from that of theAmiga, Did you know a Mac won't even let youopen up a CU or Shell window or use anythingapproaching a DOS shell? That's because Macsare made for people who don't like computers.The Amiga is made for computer lovers! Wecould fill an entire magazine with examples ofhow the amigo outshines the Mac in so manyareas, but that would be rather negative in itselfThere really is no comparison, so don't be fooled.

G r o w upIt's all very well people writing to the maga-zines such as CU telling users to grow up and

get with the real world. I believe it is VIScorpwho need to get with it. They cannot afford toplay the spoilt brat any longer and continueto mess potential licensees about overwhether they can have licences or not, orwhether they can put the Amiga name totheir product.

A prime example is the new machineunder development by Phase 5. If Viscorpkeep ignoring this system and throwing hur-dles in Phase 5's way, delaying its comple-tion, one of two things will happen. (1) Theywill develop the system and sell it to a com-petitor, Apple Mac for instance, or (2) theywill produce it themselves under their ownname and develop a system that is in thestyle of the Amiga but without the name.One example of this is the BeBox, even if it isa bit expensive at the E2000 mark (see anyMac magazine!!)

So in short, VIScorp:1) Do riot offend the third party developers.They keep the Amiga alive as you messabout and without their support we don'tstand a chance.2) You must look at other systems with anopen mind and remember time is short. WeNEED a new machine arid fast, and if Phase5 do get their machine off the ground forabout E1000 - E1500 I for one will buy it,whether it an Amiga or not.3) STOP thinking that the Amiga is so goodthat people will wait indefinitely for a newone and that the Amiga community will putup with your behaviour. We won't as Escomknow to their peril!!!

Spencer Gibson, Loughborough, Leics.Email:GibsongEnterprise.net

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If there's anything that 1996 proved,it demonstrated just how big theAmiga community is. I don't think anyother platform could have survivedthe past year. The combination ofsporadic ownership changes (whichseem to be still continuing), no newmachines coming out and little or nogames software would have damp-ened even the most dedicated com-puter enthusiast's ardour. But theAmiga breed are made of sternerstuff. Users as well as the remainingcompanies are still incredibly loyal tothe platform.

Despite all the pitfalls that 1996threw our way we still saw somegreat games coming out on theAmiga when others had written it offas a games platform. Worms and,more recently, Chaos Engine 2proved that the Amiga is very viableand capable as a games platform.And the fact that ChampionshipManager 2 already has tons of pre-

p a i d ordersshowsthattheAmiga

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by Tony HorganYou might think it rather strange to bereading a retrospective piece about1996 when we're already a couple ofweeks into '97. The reason for thistiming is because most similar articles

by Lisa Collins

4 4 In t he fa c e o f a ll t he pit fa lls t ha t 1 9 9 6t h r e w our w a y w e still s a w s om e gr e a tga m e s c om ing o u t on t he A m iga .

that appear in monthly mags duringDecember will have been writtenaround about October due to the longproduction and distribution timesinvolved, so most of those are takingcomplete guesses at what might havehappened over the two most impor-tant months of the year. which is a bitrubbish really. Anyway, on with theeary-eyed stroll down short termmemory lane.

Overall it's been a much betteryear for the Amiga scene than mosthad envisaged. Not only did we seethe continued development of somekey software titles (Image FX,OctaMED SoundStudio, Photogenicsand Personal Paint to name a few) butwe've actually been witness to sometotally new software packages. ArtEffect and Draw Studio have beennotable examples.

On the hardware side there's alsobeen healthy development from thirdparties with numerous CD-ROMsolutions, a stream of ever-cheaperand faster accelerators, a couple ofnew 16-bit sound cards, not to men-tion all kinds of little widgets fromsmall developers across the globe.

Games-wise things have beenmore sedate, but there have certainlybeen some highlights along the way,

like Worms TDC, Alien Breed 3D 2,Chaos Engine 2 and XTReme Racing.

Phase 5's announcement of theirA\Box project has given new hope toall who are sceptical of any worth-while outcome from the AmigaTechnologiesNIScorp deal.

Perhaps the best aspect of 96 wasthe 'carry on regardless' attitude of usall despite the Amiga's continual mis-management. Oh, and the increasingCD-equipped readership telling us ourCU Super CDs are wonderful. Thatmeans a lot to us.

And so we come to the downers ofthe year. You don't need me to tell youthe Amiga's perpetual state of limbohas cast a shadow over the wholescene, but I just did anyway. For onereason or another, sales of top Amigagames have not matched their poten-tial this year. XTreme Racing is oneexample: it should have sold by thetruckload but in the end it never reallydid. And then of course there was theWalker, the new Amiga that nevermade it further than a single proto-type displayed at a couple of comput-er shows.

But hey, just take a look at all those'uppers' and you'll see that really, 96was a pretty good year all in all. I cer-tainly enjoyed it. I hope you did tool•

games community is still out therewaiting to snap up any decent gamesthat are due out.

Perhaps, one drawback to 1996was that some companies saw thedeparture of other bigger players inthe software industry as a chance tocash in on a games-starved market.This entrepreneurial activity wouldnot have been such a bad thing if thegames that, some of these compa-nies churned out were of any quality.Unfortunately, 1996 saw lots ofgames that really shouldn't havebeen released onto the commercialmarket. Thankfully, we had somestonking good games to make upfor this and Minskies Furballs camein just at the end of 1996 to prove tous that all is not lost yet.

Finally, the announcement of anew machine at the end of 1996,hopefully heralds good things for1997. Rest assured CU AmigaMagazine will be there to chartits progress.

POINTS OF VIEW

by Mat BattinsonIt's difficult to sum up my thoughtson the last year. On one hand itrepresented another major let downfor the Amiga; Amiga Technologiespromised the Walker only to fall foulof the parent company Escom'sliquidation before we ever even gotto see the machine in all its finishedand final glory.

We all saw machines being brieflyremanufactured, only to fail at thelast hurdle. More promises made andthen snatched away. This seemed tobe the recurring theme of '96,Increasing numbers of commercialsoftware developers gave up the

by Andrew Corn1996 has not been good to theAmiga. More and more softwarecompanies have abandoned themachine, magazines are falling bythe wayside, and support for theplatform in the high-street has almostgone. There seems less and lessreason for optimism as the weeks go

ghost as we all sat and waited forthe Amiga to enter into yet anotherage of darkness_

Yet amazingly I can't be gloomyabout the year gone by and here'swhy. The shareware and commsscene kept up as it always had. Wesaw an explosion of Amiga users get-ting on-line and a resurgence ofdevelopment of Internet softwaresuch as Web browsers.

The massive success of the June1996 issue Internet book/deal wasmore than I could have hoped for.The Amiga and the Internet suddenlybecame a major part of the market,not a niche. Now my phone lies quieton my desk (well, almost) while myEmail folders absolutely bulge withincoming mail.

The Internet wasn't the onlygrowth area for the Amiga. there wasalso the CD phenomenon. What westarted with the Aminet CD cover-mount on our November '95 issueled the entire market into somethingnobody, least of all us, saw coming.Monthly CDs! We started off withpainstakingly hand-crafted CDs, I stilllaugh when reading the hiddenmatreadme files. And from thesehumble beginnings we grew the CDside of our magazine into a thrivingand booming industry. Now withmonthly CDs it's a much morestreamlined operation. With the helpof Neil Bothwick our CD compiler,

by. But in an odd sort of way thismay be exactly why the Amigacontinues to survive.

The Amiga's previous success hasalways s been due to its cheap entrylevel price. Marx would haveapproved of the Amiga; he would nodoubt hayie considered it the peo-ple's computer. Want to some DIP?DTV? Make music? Do 3D graphics?It's all there and ready to go for anamount you can afford. Puttingpower in the hands of the massesand all that

The problem is that it isn't ascheap as it used to be. Mass produc-tion in the PC market has made thisthe platform of cheap computingpower, For the cost of an Al200 witha decent hard drive and monitor youcan buy a Pentium which is compara-ble in speed to an '060, and they'llthrow in 8Mb or so, a larger harddrive, CD-ROM, sound card etc.

Escom probably had this in mindwhen they designed the Walker.Amiga die-hards complained aboutthe low specs by today'sstandards, but it was never meant to

4 4 For w h a t t he foolis h we r e c a lling ade a d m a r k e t the r e w a s c e r ta inly e nough

t o k e e p m e busy. 4) ,the Amiga now has the best cover-mounts of any platform ever. Forwhat the foolish were calling a deadmarket there was certainly enough tokeep me busy!

Overall, in 1996, Amiga users gotwired to the Internet. boughtCD-ROM drives and powerful accel-erators. Now we face a new yearwith our hot-rod Amigas - a year thatlooks set to promise new hope in theform of Phase 5's unbelievably pow-erful A\BOX. This machine had medrooling over the specs just as I didwhen I first read about the Amigain 1986.

So for 1997 we have to look for-ward to replacing the aged 680x0with the mighty Power PC. Clockspeeds in the hundreds of megahertzand the Siamese FITG system meld-ing our machine to PC so we canagain be a part of the mass market,Yet more brilliant affordable commer-cial and shareware software and onthe glowing horizon, the mightyA\BOX looms; threatening to teleportus to a new dimension of computingecstasy. Gosh it's enough to bring atear to my eye.

compete with PCs as it was meant tosell for half the cost. People nolonger expect computers to becheap. The Amiga users of tomorroware the people who have stuck withthe machine through the last fewlean years, the ones who are willingto put up with the inconvenience of

4 4 The A-Box m ight jus t be t he m a c hinew e ha v e be e n wa i t ing f or a n A m igaf o r t h e s e r i o u s A m i g a u s e r .

high-street invisibility and poorsoftware support because they knowif they put in the money and effort,their Amiga will do things for themthat would be a nightmare to getanother machine to do.

The A\13ox might just be themachine we have all been waitingfor, a niche machine, an Amiga forthe serious Amiga user, not for thepeople. It's a pity it isn't the people'scomputer any more, but that's theway things go. •

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