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Cel Animator provides versatility that's unavailable 
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motion video tape equipment. With Cel Animator, 
your drawings are stored on a computer disk so each 
frame can be called up repeatedly and manipulated 
within a sequence after being "shot" only once. This 
is achieved because computer disk storage is 
"random access," meaning; any information stored 
on the disk can be cal led up at random , in wha tever 
order required, as often as necessary! 

BREAK THE "SEQUENTIAL" 
DILEMMA — 

Tape and film are "sequential" and require you to 
shoot a "cycle" over and over again until the required 
number of repetitions are completed, or re-expose a 
held drawing for many consecutive frames. Using 
Cel Animator, however, you may simply create each 
drawing once, and then create a list, identifying 
each frame by number, and the program will call up 
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CONTINUOUS PLAY OPTION— 

The program can also replay your sequence ol 
frames in a continuous loop, so you can sit back 
and review the action repeatedly without having to 
rewind and play a video tape over and over again, 
or without ever having to wail for film to be shot, 
processed, and edited. 

SOUND SYNCHRONIZATION— 

Cel Animator allows you to digitize your pre- 
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of frames to replay, enabling you to locate and 
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doing your animation drawings. Then, review your 
pose test or completed animation synchronized with 
your digitized sound track, and you can then print 
an exposure sheet, vowels and consonants paired 
with frame numbers. 

INTRODUCE COLOR! — 

Finally, if you own one of the many paint programs 
available such as Photon Paint, you can paint your 
pencil drawings right on your computer, and use 
Cel Animator to replay Ihem in full color, over any 
background you create. II is also possible to send 
your completed color scenes to video tape; thus 
producing a lull color animated sequence right in 
your own home on your VCR or you can use Photon 
Video's Transport Controller software. 



COMPATIBILITY — 

Photon Video Products are fully compatible with 
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TRANSPORT CONTROLLER — 

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Irame by frame to video tape, by way of popular 
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VOLUME 4, NUMBER 7 



JULY 1988 



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With prices of high-end printers Marling to come 
thmtn, individuals land not put institutions and 
businesses) can now afford some of the better dot 
and laser printers. 'Two grand, however, is still a 
lot of money — that's why we're issuing this "Spe- 
rial Printer Report," evaluating and computing 
n number of leading models in both categories, to 
help you make an informed choice if you 're look- 
ing for a high-i/uality black-and-white printer. 

And don't forget our CONTEST! Amiga- 
World':! Hummer '88 Treasure Hunt starts this 
month, and the Grand Prize is an Amiga 201)0 
and a Getaway Weekend for 2 with luxury ac- 
commodations ami airline tickets to and from the 
treasure site. 



FEATURES 

LASTING IMPRESSIONS Compiled by Linda Barrett, Bob Ryan, and Louis R. Wallace 25 

A growing number of 24-pin dot-matrix and laser printers are now within affordable reach 
for many Amiga users who want high-quality black-and-white printing. 

PRINTER TOOLKIT By Morton A. Kevelson and Louis R. Wallace 38 

There are dozens of special priming jobs that your bare-bones printer just can't accomplish 
by itself— and that's where this selection of dot-matrix and laser printer utilities should come 
in quite bandy. 

ARTICLES 

Three for the Load B y David t. McCieifan 45 

If you've been seriously considering the advantages of Modula-2 over C programming, (his 
comparative review of three popular Modula-2 compilers can help you start trtickin' in the 
right direction. 

SAY IT. . WITH VIDEO TEXT By Bryan D. Catlcry 50 

This nifty little BASIC) programming tutorial can help you spruce up your home video pro- 
ductions with imaginative tilling and presentation effects. 

COLUMNS 

ZEITGEIST , 6 

It's Happy Birthday #3 lor AmigaWorld and the editor has had a little too much cake and ice 
cream. Humor him by listening as he talks about both old times and new directions. 

BASIC By The Numbers By Bob Ryan 20 

Bob has a lot on his plate in this installment of our series on programming with Amiga 
Basic — and he'll show you how to handle menus with a gourmet touch. 

INFO.PHILE By Mark L. Van Name and Bill Catching! 54 

This month our columnists journey to "unassigued territory" to explore a group of 
AmigaDOS commands that will help you organize your disks and disk space more efficiently. 

DEPARTMENTS 

Repartee 8 

We read 'em and weep every month. 

Notepad 10 

We print all the news that fits. . .the Amiga market, that is. 

HORS D'OEUVRES 12 

Tips and techniques by the pound. . .from the best suppliers — our readers. 

Reviews 14 

Live! /Shakespeare / Micron Amiga Memory Board / SuperGen / InovaTools / Graphics Stu- 
dio. Games: Terrorpods. 

What's New? 81 

Nothing under the sun, maybe, but inside your local computer store plenty of new products 
have seen the light of day in recent weeks. 

Help Key 86 

"Can-Do Lou" is back again to talk technical turkey with readers in distress. 



COVER ILLUSTRATION BY TIM TEEBKEN 



Win an Amiga 2000! 

Plus a Getaway Weekend for 2. AmigaWorl/fa three-pan Summer '88 Treasure Hunt begins 
this month. Your first set of clues is wailing on page 60. Break out your maps and com- 
passes: The game is on! 



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Guy Wright, Editor-in-chief 

SHAWN LAFLAMME, Managing Editor 
ROBERT M. RYAN, Technical Editor 

Linda J. Barrett, Senior Editor 
Dan Sullivan, Senior Editor 

BARBARA GEFVERr, Review Editor 

Bill Catchings, David T. McClellan, 
Mark L. Van Name, Lou Wallace, Contributing Editors 

ROSSLYN A. PRICK, Art Director 
HOWARD G. HAPP, Assistant Art Director 

Anne Dillon, Designer 

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MICHAEL S. PERLIS, PresidenUCEO 

ROGER MURPHY, Vice-President/Ceneral Manager 

STEPHEN TWOMBLY, Group Publisher Consumer/Home Magazines 

DENNIS CHRISTENSEN, Director of Corporate Production 

LINDA PALMISANO, Typesetting Manager 

DOREEN MEANS, Typographer 

SUSAN GROSS, Manufacturing Manager 
LESLIE WALDEN, Assistant Manufacturing Manager 

FRANK S. SMITH, Director of Circulation 

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Birthday xmshesfor the Amiga and 
AmigaWorld. 



BACK IN THE dark ages, 
about three years ago, the 
Amiga computer was officially 
unveiled ill N'YC with a lot of 
hoopla and pomp and appro- 
priate circumstance. As people 
walked into the auditorium to 
get their fust look at the 
Amiga, they picked up a copy 
of a fairly slick magazine 
called AmigaWorld. 

Exactly how we managed to 
have our premiere issue ready 
in time for the Amiga launch 
is a confused and convoluted 
story. If you want to hear all 
the gory details, stop by some 
afternoon and we can spend a 
few hours reminiscing over a 
beer or five. I have related 
parts of the tale here and 
there, and when I retire to 
write The Book About the 
Magazine, the world will know 
the whole story about how 
much trouble and fun it was. 

That first issue came out in 
July '85, and we published one- 
more issue that year. Those 
first two issues contained 
enough solid information to 
fill about half an issue. The 
rest was padding, hype, pretty 
pictures, and wishful thinking. 
I admit that those early issues 
were more pastry than meat, 
but we didn't have a whole lot 
to work with. At least the maga- 
zine looked great and got peo- 
ple interested in the Amiga. 

We kicked off 1986 with one 
of our most talked about is- 
sues, the Andy Warhol issue. 
People still grimace or flinch 
or chuckle or kid me about 
that issue. Hey, I liked it. (I 



did die interview with Andy 
and wrote the story, so of 
course I think it was brilliant.) 
As 1986 wore on, we started to 
pick up the pace a bit. We 
were finally getting real au- 
thors to write real stories 
about real products. We were 
gathering more material to 
publish than we had room for 
in the magazine. We had gone 
from one extreme to the 
other. It was great to have all 
this material, but we quickly 
found ourselves constrained 
by the bi-monthly schedule. 
You wanted more information, 
and we had it, we just couldn't 
get it all to you. By the end of 
1986, we knew that it was time 
to push hard to become a 
monthly publication. 

The question was, were 
there enough advertisers out 
there to support a monthly 
Amiga magazine. (We had and 
still have more than enough 
readers, but as I have said be- 
fore, as long as we have all 
those ads in the magazine, we 
won't have to charge you S8.00 
a copy.) 

Throughout 1985 and '86, 
people told us that we weren't 
giving them enough hard-core 
information about the Amiga. 
That was true, and other mag- 
azines capitalized on that. 
Thev emerged right and left. 
claiming that they were for the 
"serious" Amiga user; they 
published more technical in- 
formation than we did, were 
more timely, etc. My feeling is 
that there is more than 
enough material, people, and 



interest in the Amiga market 
to support more than one 
magazine. If they can do a bet- 
ter job, then we don't deserve 
to be on top. But I'm not con- 
vinced that they have fulfilled 
their promise, and perhaps 
that is why some of them have 
stumbled and then vanished 
while AmigaWorld has kept get- 
ting stronger. 

In 19H7, we did two things 
to get more information out 
to you. We published our Spe- 
cial Issue, which sold out in 
record time, and by the end of 
the year, our management 
gave us the go-ahead lo pub- 
lish on a monthly basis. 

We did increase our techno- 
coverage in '87, and people 
appreciated it. Commodore 
started shipping two new 
Amiga models last year, which 
gave the Amiga and Amiga- 
World a real boost. The A2000 
and the A500 were proof that 
Commodore wasn't completely 
brain damaged. Somebody 
(perhaps Gail Wellington) 
knew that the Amiga was a 
great machine and didn't de- 
serve to die from neglect. 

1987 was a good year for 
AmigaWorld. We were finally on 
a monthly schedule, we had 
two new machines to write 
about, and lots of third-party 
developers were gelling 
charged up again. So far, 1988 
has already been a real tem- 
pest of activity for AmigaWorld 
(and for the Amiga). We found 
that our coverage was a bit 
too technical for all the A500 
owners who were starling lo 



read AmigaWorld. We changed 
gears a bit to give you what 
you wanted. Our C program- 
ming tutorials turned into BA- 
SIC tutorials. We have been 
taking advantage of our 
monthly schedule to give you 
more limely information 
through our Notepad section. 
We are publishing more re- 
views and new product an- 
nouncements, and we have 
been giving you more buyer's 
guides and lists and charts and 
comparative reviews than most 
other publications do in an 
entire year. 

During our first year, all we 
wanted to do was survive, and 
we wanted the Amiga to sur- 
vive. Our goal for the next 
year was to improve the maga- 
zine so that we weren't just 
fluff. We succeeded. Last year 
we wanted to go monthly. We 
did. In 1988, I would like to 
see the amount of pages in 
AmigaWorld double. Two- 
hundred or more pages every 
month ought to be a good 
start. So far we have achieved 
every goal that we have set for 
ourselves, and it might take a 
bit of whining, cajoling, black- 
mail, patience, and luck, but 
we'll give it a good try. The 
Amiga deserves it, you deserve 
it, and I w : ould certainly enjoy 
doing it. Happv third birthday 
m the Amiga and l«> Amiga- 
World. Now blow out the can- 
dles and let's eat. 



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REPARTEE 

Comments, complaints, and concerns 
from Amiga World readers. 



Quality-Control 
Dept. 

REGARDING THE LETTER 
from Fred Kuhlman ["Fat Ag- 
nus on the Loose," Repartee, 
May '88, p. 10], I've had simi- 
lar seating problems with Fat 
Agnus, and so have many Ami- 
gos I've talked to. In fact, I've 
had seating problems with half 
the chips in my Amiga. Yes, I 
did buy my system from a 
computer store. Yes, it was 
sealed in its original carton, in 
its original plastic wrapping 
when I bought it, so there 
can be no excuses from 
Commodore, 

The Amiga is a miraculous 
machine. However, Commo- 
dore must improve quality con- 
trol. They have really dropped 
the ball in this area. An Amiga 
500 that is under six months 
old should still act like it's 
brand new. Come on Com- 
modore! Let's get back to 
basics! 

Rick Vaida 
Grand Rapids, Ml 

I MUST AGREE with G.L. Is- 
dell ["Losing Faith," Repartee. 
April '88, p. 10]. I have owned 
three C-64's. The first one had 
to be replaced as soon as I 
took it out of the box. The 
second one lasted slightly 
longer. 

When the A 1000 was first 
introduced, Commodore chose 
to disassociate it somewhat 
from the Commodore name 
and the 8-bil machines. My 
first thought was that maybe 



Commodore was going to take 
the bull by the horns and pro- 
duce a top-notch, high-quality 
machine. Well, my A500 is 
three weeks old and it's in the 
shop. 

To add insult to injury, the 
first week I had my A500, I 
gave an impressive demonstra- 
tion to a relative who pur- 
chased a PC clone with half 
the features and a price tag 
|300 higher than that of the 
A500. He got the last 
laugh — he's using his machine. 

What good is a low price if 
the lack of quality frustrates 
customers and damages Com- 
modore's name? 

B. Witowski 
Kalkaska, MI 

Bronx Cheers for 
Dr. Tim 

GOLLY! I THOUGHT I had 
you folks straightened out 
when I last wrote to you a cou- 
ple of years ago after vou pub- 
lished that tripe on Andy 
Warhol, and here you go 
again! 

AmigaWorld is probably the 
best Amiga magazine on the 
newsstand, but now you go 
and publish an article on Tim- 
othy Leary ["Cyberpunk and 
Psvchedelia," Notepad, May 
'88, p. 12], the most infamous 
and despicable of all the advo- 
cates of narcotics in our his- 
tory. I only wish you had 
printed his picture as he 
looked in his "prime." This 
character is probably responsi- 
ble for the drug deaths of 



more young people than any 
other drug advocate of the pe- 
riod. I urge everyone to boy- 
cott any product that bears his 
name, or those of his 
confederates! 

Fred W. Little 
Prescott, AZ 

IF COMPUTERS ARE one tool 
for the salvation of human- 
kind, it is frightening to think 
that the Amiga is Timothy 
Leary's favorite. 

Richard Allen 
Navasota, TX 

Cable Amiga 

I RECENTLY PURCHASED 
what I now feel is the best 
home computer on the market 
today, the Amiga 500. 

The other day, while watch- 
ing a movie on HBO, some- 
thing happened to my 
hometown's cable signal. Much 
to my irritation {I was watch- 
ing a great movie), the screen 
turned black. Quickly, I 
switched through all of the 
channels to see if anything was 
still on. The only cable chan- 
nel that was giving out a pic- 
ture was the cable TV-guide 
channel. But 1 noticed that it 
was not giving out the usual 
TV information — instead, it 
was displaying the title bar of 
Workbench 1.2. 

I was stunned. I had heard 
that the Amiga is being used 
in some business applications 
and that some TV stations 
were using it for its excep- 
tional graphics capabilities, 



but I had never thought it 
would be used in something as 
widespread as cable TV. This 
experience has doubled my 
faith in this terrific home 
computer. 

Jeffrey Doolillle 
Nashua, ;VH 

3000 Wish List 

I RECENTLY READ a maga- 
zine article containing a Lotus 
1-2-3 wish list. Then I thought, 
why not have an Amiga 3000 
wish list? Here is mine: 

1. 20 Mhz 68020 (or (58030!). 

2. 20 Mhz 68881 math pro- 
cessor (or 68882). 

3. 1MB RAM (expandable to 
about 16MB). 

4. Five A2000-compatible ex- 
pansion slots. 

5. 640x512 pixels non-inter- 
laced (PAL version). 

6. Possible resolutions of 
1280x1024 pixels. 

7. Non-HAM video modes 
capable of 256 colors from a 
palette of 16777216 different 
hues. 

8. Coprocessors addressing 
all system memory (no 51 2K 
limit). 

9. No standard MS-DOS 
compatibility. An Amiga 
should be an Amiga! 

Bring it to life, Commodore! 

Mikael Ohlsson 

Stockholm, Sweden 

Send your letters to: Repartee. 
AmigaWorld Editorial, 80 Elm 
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Commodore put the accent on video at the N.A.B. convention. 



WHEN ERIC GRAHAM ray- 
traced his dazzling animations 
in Commodore's booth at the 
National Association of Broad- 
casters Convention in Las Ve- 
gas, video manufacturers began 
to get nervous. The question 



buzzing through the multitude 
of onlookers was whether it was 
worth investing in high-end sys- 
tems now that the Amiga was on 
the scene. Video systems costing 
from $40,000 to S/0,000 touted 
ray tracing, but their algorithms 



were simply warmed-over re- 
flectance routines lacking the el- 
egant shadows and absorption 
algorithms found in Eric Gra- 
ham's Sculpt 3-D (marketed by 
Byte by Byte). The only systems 
with the capacity to do "true" 
ray tracing were priced well 
above $100,000. Ironically, none 
of these systems were capable of 
running their animations in 
real time. 

Amigas dotted the show floor. 
Ncriki Image Master built a 
complete turnkey system 
around the Amiga 2000 with the 
Polaroid Palette for instant 
35mm slides, negatives, prints, 
and overhead transparen- 
cies — a true professional system 
at the right price. A serious con- 
tender in the professional video 
market, Neriki's Pro-Genlock 
supports both the NTSC and 
PAL standards. The 4000 series 
genlocks from Magni Systems 
Inc. offer a General Purpose In- 
terface (RS-422) for SMPTE 
time code, plugging into the 



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A demo ot Neriki Image Master's 
slide-maker program. 

video communications stan- 
dard. Digital Creations demon- 
strated the Super Gen, a solid 
performer (see review p. 66). For 
the cable industry, Compu-Ca- 
ble-Systems bundled its soft- 
ware with the A1000, dubbing 
the package the Elite 1000. As- 
sociated Computer Sri vices' 
Accu-Wealher, a weather graph- 
ics system, looked better than 
some of the high-end systems, 
especially when you considered 
the price. 

The Amiga's combination of 
price and performance is ex- 
actly what has sent high-end 
video manufacturers reeling. 

—Joel Tessler 




IN SAN FRANCISCO last April, the main attraction at the West Coast Computer Faire was the show's comprehensive 
seminars. The most fascinating, as always, were the Masters In Residence series, in which seminar leaders demostrate 
artistic applications for microcomputers. The main attraction of the Masters series this year was the Amiga. 

Chris Palomino, an Amiga artist with Prism Computer Graphics, conducted the Master's Demo for Computer-Aided 
Art. According to Palomino, "The Amiga represents the state of the art in low-cost computer graphics." At the Master's 
Demo for Special Effects, Jeff Bruette, Prism's President, demonstrated Very Vivid's Mandala system and an Amiga- 
based controller for the Fairlight CVI (Computer Video Instrument). 



W July 1988 



Al Hospers, of Dr. T's Music Software, conducted The Master's Demo lor Computer-Aided Music, demonstrating 
the Amiga 2000's role in composition and performance. Pulling down the screen on which his keyboard sequencer 
was running, Hospers accessed a voice librarian program, Informing the audience "Many computers can control MIDI 
synthesizers, but the multitasking Amiga Is the only one that lets me change the sounds of my Instruments at the 
same time that it plays them." 

The Master's Demo for Desktop Video was a crowd pleaser, with NewTek's Video Toaster and A-Squared's LIVE! 
video digitizer. 

Basking in the seminar spotlight, the Amiga proved It Is truly a Renaissance computer, proficient In music, video, 
and graphics, as well as a host of scientific applications. 

— Michael Brown 



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THE SIX TEAMS of developers 
gathered at C Ltd headquarters, 
amassing a powerful, integrated 
Amiga package — a complete 
300 dot-per-tnch laser system, 
an ultra-fast printer driver, a 
SCSI interface, an optional 
scanner, a FAX/modem, plus 
CAD, paint, and desktop-pub- 
lishing programs. Selling for 




less than S2500, Laser-X-Press 
(codenamed the Cassiopeia 
Project) promises to be a "com- 
plete solution" for the creative 
professional market. 

If the level of excitement at 
the mini developers' conference 
in March was any indication, de- 
signers should have had little 
trouble making the scheduled 




TIRED OF RE-INVENTING the wheel? Is your program just one little routine 
away from completion? The C Programmers Association (C-PRO) may be able 
to help. 

C-PRO gives Its members access to hundreds of general and machine- 
specific C routines. You can purchase any quantity, from a single routine to 
an entire group, and order them through C-PRO's 24-hour bulletin board 
distribution system. 

C-PRO tests all Its C routines for usability, efficiency, and bug-free operation. 
The routines are licensed to C-PRO members only, and only members can 
include them In programs intended for commercial distribution. 

You can also submit your own C routines to C-PRO. Upon favorable review, 
C-PRO will distribute your routines and give you a percentage of the profit 
from sales. For more information, call or write to: C Programmers Association, 
10668 Ellen St., Suite A, El Monte, CA 91731, 816/442-1522. 

—SL 




JEFF WILLETTE of Grand 
ven, Ml discovered the foil 
ing Freudian slip in 
classified ad section of The Mus 
kegon Chronicle. 







Comdex unveiling. General 
Computer Corp. is supplying 
the laser printer; the driver 
comes courtesy of Avant Garde 
Software. Associated Computer 
Services is perfecting a custom 
version of their scanner-driver 
software, while Soft Logic Corp. 
is working on a special version 
of its Publishing Partner desk- 
top-publishing program. PAR 
Software Inc. will supply Ex- 
press Paint, and Soft Circuits 
will furnish PCLO and QCAD 
(a printed circuit board layout 
program and CAD package). 
Most important to eager con- 
sumers, Southern Technologies 
will distribute the system. 
What makes LaserX-Press 



unique is that all of the com- 
ponents can use one, giant bit- 
mapped image area in the 
Amiga, meaning each program 
can write to or modify the same 
image. Once the image is fin- 
ished, you can save it or dump 
it to the laser printer. 

Beyond the basic system, C 
Ltd will be selling a 300-dpi op- 
tical scanner and a 9600-baud 
modem card with FAX capabil- 
ities. If that isn't enough, C Ltd 
and the other manufacturers 
are exploring the possibilities of 
networking several Amigas to 
the system. 

Contact C Ltd, 723 East Skin- 
ner, Wichita, KS 6721 1, 316/267- 
6322. — GSW 




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THE AMIGA WAS R UBB/NG key- 
boards with the big boys earlier this 
year in San Francisco at the 10th 
annual Video Expo. The week-long 
trade show, covering all aspects of 
professional video production, fea- 
tured exhibits by such industry 
giants as Sony, Ampex, Panasonic, 
and JVC. In addition to drawing big 
crowds on the main floor, the Amiga 
starred in a desktop-video seminar. 
The video industry is beginning to 
recognize the Amiga as a useful toot, 
but will it be satisfied? At the show, 



everyone familiar with the computer 
agreed: If the Amiga produced 
higher-resolution graphics and used 
a faster microprocessor, it could be- 
come a phenomenal success in the 
video production market. The ques- 
tion becomes, itntl Commodore spend 
the research and development dollars 
needed to meet the challenge'? 

With the Macintosh II and Atari 
ST turning their monitors towards 
desktop video, can Commodore afford 
not to? 

— Michael Brown 



AmigaWorld II 



HORS D'OEUVRES 



Hints, tips and techniques 
from your fellow Amiga users. 



Sound Filters 

I'VE BEEN READING lately about how 
the filter on the sound channels can be 
turned off. Well, if you are using BASIC, 
you can do this with a POKE statement. 
POKE 12574721,254 turns off the filter 
and poke 12574721,252 turns it back on, 
I have written a program that lets you do 
this on the fly while you plav a music 
program in the background: 

10 A = 12574721 
20 ONFIL = 252 
30OFFIL = 254 
40 KS = INKEYS 
50 IF SWITCH S = "" THEN 

GOTO 40 
60 POKE A.ONFIL 

70 IF KS = "\" THEN POKE A.OFFIL 
80 GOTO 40 
90 END 

Obviously, this program could have 
been written a number of different ways 
(even without the line numbers). As long 
as you keep the numbers straight, it 
should work on the 500 and most 2000s 
(otherwise expect to crash the machine). 
I was told that it makes the red light 
dim, but on my 500 it goes out com- 
pletely. Does anyone know why this 
happens? 

Brian Akey 
Sycamore, IL 

Transparency Sketcher 

WHEN SKETCHING ON the screen with 
DeluxePaint, I find it difficult to keep 
the various parts of my sketch in propor- 
tion. To make this job easier, I use a 
technique that I worked out on the C-64. 
Draw your picture on a piece of trans- 
parent plastic, such as an overhead pro- 
jector transparency, using a marker 
designed for use on this kind of mate- 



rial, A piece of white paper underneath 
the transparency makes it similar to 
drawing on a blank piece of paper. Or 
you can trace an existing picture. Then, 
tape the plastic to the monitor screen. Us- 
ing the transparency as a guide, draw 
your picture on the screen with the 
mouse. Then, remove the transparency 
and use the mouse to color and shade 
the picture. 

Use a light-colored marker (1 like red) 
so that, as you copy your sketch onto the 
screen, you will be able to see the lines 
of your on-screen drawing underneath 
the transparency. This method is a bit 
cheaper than a drawing tablet and gives 
similar results. 

Jo-Anne Park 
Toronto, Ont., Canada 

CTRL Keys 

HERE ARE SOME key combinations that 
you might find useful: 

CTRL-g (ascii 7) flashes the screen 
CTRL-k (ascii 11) cursor up 
CTRL-1 (ascii 12) clear screen 
CTRL-n (ascii 14) Alt lock 
CTRl.-o (ascii 15) Alt unlock 

LeftA-n moves Workbench screen to 

From 
LeftA-m moves Workbench screen 

behind 
LeftA-v Retry on system request 
LeftA-u Cancel on system request 

You can. for example, use the CTRL 
combinations in text files or in ECHO or 
PROMPT commands. Try this example 
in the CLI. Type: 

PROMPT " 

Then hold CTRL and press k 23 times. 
Then type: 

1>" 



and press the Return key. Now try some 

CI. I commands and see what happens. 

Commands with long output will make 

the screen messy. 

Fitter Urkedal 
Vatne, Norway 

WordPerfect Printer 
Changes 

IF YOU USE WordPerfect, here is a little 
piece of information that will become 
valuable if you buy another printer. As 
you know, WordPerfect lets you set up 
your printer choices once, and then you 
don't have to worry about it again. But if 
you start using another printer, the pro- 
gram won't let you add the new printer 
to the primer choices you made the first 
time around. The manual doesn't help, 
but it does state that your primer 
choices are saved in three files on your 
WordPerfect disk (not the printer disk!). 

To add your new printer to your 
choices, load the Workbench disk and 
enter the CLI. Put (he WordPerfect disk 
in DEI: and type: 

Cd dfl : 

delete sfeed.pi't 
delete sfont.prt 
delete sprinlcr.prt 

Then reboot using the WordPerfect disk. 
When you select anything from lite Print 
Menu, WordPerfect will search for these 
files, and, not finding any, it will then 
ask for the printer disk. Insert the disk 
and select your new printer choices. 

Bob Robinson 
London, Ont., Canada 

If you liave an idea you'd like to share with 
our readers, send it to Hors d'oeuvres, 
AmigaWorld Editorial, 80 Elm St., B'lerbor- 
otiglt, NH 03458. If your idea gets published, 
you'll reeeivean AmigaWorld .surjiri.se gift. ■ 



IZfuly 1988 



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AND SPECIAL EFFECTS, AND YOU WANT IT 



ALL AT ONCE. INVISION^GIVES IT TO YOU. 



S. 



YOU'VE GOT IMAGINATION. AND NOW YOU'VE GOT SOMETHING IT CAN RACE WITH. YOU PRESS A KEY, MOVE THE MOUSE AND 

WATCH THE IMAGE HAPPEN. YOUR CREATIVE POWERS ARE GETTING A WORKOUT LIKE NEVER BEFORE. SOME LIVE ACTION 

HERE. ..SOME SPECIAL EFFECTS THERE. MIX IN SOME IMAGES AND YOU'VE GOT SOMETHING 

WILD AND WONDERFUL. IN VIVID COLOR. THIS IS IN VISION- WORKING WITH YOU, YOUR AMIGA. 

VCR AND YOUR LIVE!" VIDEO DIGITIZER TO CREATE ANY IMAGE YOU WANT. EVEN GODZILLA 

AND DAN RATHER. INVISION SOFTWARE FROM ELAN DESIGN. S129. ASK YOUR DEALER OR 

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INVISIOF 



REVIEWS 



LIVE! 

Worth waiting for. 

By Ted Salamone 

LIVE! IS A real-time digitizer and frame 
grabber for the Amiga 1000. It produces 
black-and-white, colorized, and true-color 
displays. Color output isn't limited to 16 
or 32 colors either, as Live! offers a very 
flexible Hold-and-Modify (HAM) mode. 

The few requirements include an 
NTSC (National Television Standards 
Committee) video signal and a cable to 
link the video source. Though 512K of 
memory gets you into the club, addi- 
tional RAM brings rewards such as ex- 
tended capture capabilities and faster 
processing and playback speeds. 

You can draw the NTSC RS-170 video 
source from any VCR, laser disk, or cam- 
era rated for use in the United Stales 
(standards such as PAL and SKCAM will 
not work with Live!). Video cables should 
be shielded to prevent destructive inter- 
ference, and standard male RCA audio/ 
video connections are required. 

Live! snaps into the side expansion 
port. In my tests Live! performed flaw- 
lesslv hooked up to a two-megabyte RAM 
device with pass-through. The digitizer it- 
self does not have a port for adding 
other devices. Live! draws its power from 
the Amiga. The front of the unit has 
non-gold-plated video in and video out 
female RCA connections; one accepts the 
NTSC signal, the other drives it to a gen- 
lock, monitor, or VCR. 

Docs in Need of doctoring 

The manual is error ridden; menu and 
command descriptions arc completely in- 
accurate in many instances, and organi- 
zation is lacking. 

The poor coordination between what 



is written in the manual and what ap- 
pears on screen had me going in circles. 
Representative of this is a menu that is 
called Settings in the manual, but re- 
ferred to as Controls on the screen. 
Within this menu, the Adjust Levels com- 
mand described in the documentation 
appears on screen as Video Signals; 
Mouse Tinting and No Mouse Tinting 
commands are replaced by a toggle, and 
the two Info commands aren't even 
noted in the manual. 

The Quickstart section, intended to 
get you up to speed quickly, leads you 
to believe that the Live! disk autoboots. 
It doesn't. You must open the disk 
icon and select the Live! icon from 
within. 

Save, Place, and Show 

The non-copy-protected Live! disk con- 



tains programming information and re- 
lated details so you can build your own 
Live! software, plus the main program, a 
public-domain utility called I'layi iff, and 
files to explain things not covered in the 
manual. 

The main program allows Live! to dis- 
play, save, and capture images in black- 
and-white, color, or HAM modes. With it 
you can change color palettes, create 
special coloring effects via mouse or key- 
board, colorize black-and-white images, 
and save IFF images to disk.The ability 
to save color and level settings to disk 
ensures the integrity of a project; each 
image can be done on a separate disk so 
that changes to one won't effect others. 

The default resolution is 320x200, 
though 320 x 400 is just a click away. A 
Setlace (interlace) command is included, 
just as in the CLI. The user-definable dis-i 




Live! can capture your image in a number of ways. 



14 July 1988 



WHAT'S A TAITO? 



That's a very good question. Taito (pronounced 
Tie-toe) is one of the oldest and biggest names in the arcade 
industry. We're the world's largest manufacturer and operator 
of arcade games. Taito's been in the business since 1953. 

And that's just the beginning. Taito practically started 
the video game industry with our classic arcade hit, Space 
Invaders!" And over the years, Taito has created more than 
1,000 other great action games for arcade and home play. 

Now Taito has something equally exciting for you to slip 
into your home computer. Taito is bringing the same pioneering 
spirit, technical quality and excitement that made us the arcade 
leader to your Commodore, Amiga, IBM, Apple and Atari 
computers. Home computers will never be the same. 

Taito is the arcade leader for a very good reason. We 
consistently make great video games that bring more action and 
value to the people who play our games. And literall y millions of 




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play defaults arc set at 15 frames per sec- 
ond in black-and-white and 12 frames 
per second in simple-color mode. A 
Smooth Images command achieves anti- 
aliasing; other commands switch between 
the 1 6-gray-levet black-and-white mode, 
32-color mode, and the 4096-color 
(HAM) mode. 

Through the Settings menu you can 
adjust the video signals, alter the color 
palette for use with a genlock, and color- 
ize. Colorizing lets you control lumi- 
nance (brightness), saturation (density), 
and hue (RGB cycling). Color maps, ac- 
cessible via the left mouse button, intro- 
duce a wild series of mixed effects. The 
12 maps range from light zebra blues to 
garish crayon and gray negative. 

The Pause function enables you to pull 
the screen down to access the CLI. Work- 
bench, or whatever is below. There are a 
good number of command-key alterna- 
tives in the software. 

The Capture menu provides the 
means to save images or animation se- 
quences to memory or to disk, play them 
back (from RAM only), designate the 
number of frames to capture, and free 
the RAM for another use. Saved to mem- 
ory, each frame takes 40K; with 512K of 
RAM, you can save four frames. To give 
you an idea of the duration of such ani- 
mation sequences, 55 frames will run for 
3.6 seconds. When saved to disk, the 
Playriff utility compresses the data by 
50% or more. 

Playriff will replay the file one frame 
at a time or in a non-stop sequential 
mode. The utility also lets you append 
one captured sequence to another, dou- 
bling the playtime. (You can view se- 
quences without Live! by including 
Playriff on the video-image disk.) An- 
other option allows you to change 
images, one frame at a time from 
the utility's format to standard-IFF, 
for inclusion in any Amiga paint 
program. 

Live! performed admirably. Connected 
to an 8mm Sony CCDV3, the digitizer 
worked its magic from black-and-white to 
colorizing to HAM, from 320 x 200 color 
to 320 X 400, and from smooth to fast 
images. Most amazing though, was cap- 
turing a sequence in RIFF mode and re- 
playing it. Other advanced features make 
use of genlock devices. Pointing a video 
camera at the monitor connected to 
Live! (thus filming yourself filming) puts 
you in what the manual calls the Feed- 



back Zone. The result is unusual, to say 
the least. 

Live! is a remarkable piece of equip- 
ment for a few hundred dollars. The 
manual needs an overhaul, but construc- 
tion and performance run from very 
good to excellent, and Playriff is an ex- 
citing and valuable bonus. 

Live! 

A-Squared Distributions 

6114 La Salle Ave., Suite 326 

Oakland, CA 94611 

415/339-0339 

800/452-4455 

800/626-9541 in California 

S299 

512K required. 



Shakespeare 

Dramatist? Poet? No, desktop 

publisher! 

By Chris Dickman 

WHAT'S BEEN MISSING from the desk- 
top-publishing world is a program to 
produce pages of color text and graph- 
ics. The curiously named Shakespeare, 
by Infinity Software, is such a program. 
Shakespeare lets you combine text and 
Interchange File Format (IFF) graphics, 
manipulate and then print them on a 
color or PostScript-laser printer. 

Color inkjet and thermal primers are 
suitable for creating fairly good-quality 
pages in limited quantities. If you have a 
PostScript printer though, the situation 
is different. Shakespeare lets you use 
high-quality PostScript fonts, and con- 
verts all IFF graphics into gray-scaled im- 
ages (which the manual mistakenly calls 
halftones). Shakespeare's handling of 
type verges on primitive, but the ability 
to firing IFF graphics into the PostScript 
environment will endear it to many. 
Professional Page (The Gold Disk) also 
has this capability, but at more than 
twice the price. 

The Shakespeare screen is similar to 
most desktop-publishing applications. 
The display is bordered on the top and 
left by rulers that can measure by inches 
or picas. To the right and bottom are 
scroll bars for navigating the page. You 



can perform operations with (he aid of 
menus, or by using the icons in the on- 
screen toolbox for such common tasks as 
moving and resizing objects. 

Look at It This Way 

A key to creating with a desktop-publish- 
ing program is die ability to move easily 
between diverse views of the page. Usu- 
ally these include an overall view and a 
handful of magnifications. Shakespeare 
is a bit peculiar, in effect providing only 
two options. The default view depends 
on which of four screen resolutions 
you've selected. For those using non-in- 
terlaced monitors, thai means tired old 
600x200, producing an extreme three- 
to-one aspect ratio — reducing the "what- 
you-see-is-whal-you-get" principle to rub- 
ble. Other views are obtainable only bv 
changing resolutions, a jarring experi- 
ence that doesn't really compensate. 

The method for surveying an entire 
page, on the other hand, is elegant. You 
can pop up a small window at any time 
to display the page in miniature, with an 
outline denoting the section currently on 
screen. Even belter is the ability to dis- 
play any other page in this window, and 
resize or move it. 

At the heart of any desktop-publishing 
program is the ability to combine text 
and graphics files. Shakespeare accepts 
files from most Amiga word processors 
by stripping them of control codes, leav- 
ing text in ASCII form. The drawback is 
that any formatting entered with a word 
processor, such as tabs or underlining, 
will be lost. Fillers should be added In 
Shakespeare to keep popular formatting 
intact. 

What distinguishes Shakespeare from 
the other programs thai attempt to mix 
text and color graphics is the way it tran- 
scends the Amiga's ability to display only 
a subset of the potential 4096 colors at 
Workbench resolutions. Shakespeare re- 
members each image's palette informa- 
tion. If you have graphics with different 
palettes on one page, as you click on 
each, it (and the rest of the screen) will 
be displayed using that particular set of 
colors. Even though you can only display 
one palette at a time on screen, each 
graphic will print in its own colors. 

This is an ingenious way around the 
Amiga's limitations (although it is diffi- 
cult to visualize your page because not 
all images appear correctly colored on 
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Shakespeare uses the frame technique 
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Whether rainbow-hued or basic black, 
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document. When you load a text file 
into Shakespeare and create a frame on 
the page, the frame fills with text. Create 
another frame and it picks up where the 
first leaves off, so that resizing any frame 
affects the texl in subsequent ones. This 
principle, known as dynamic linking, is 
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worthy of the name. So far so good. 

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a frame with the usual cut, copy, and 
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bold, italics, or underlined, or alter the 
type face and size. Shakespeare displays 
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spacing, but Shakespeare measures in 
screen pixels instead of the more accu- 
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printer fonts. (Infinity says that a sepa- 
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font-width tables, and is forced to guess 
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dow. On a brighter note, you can save 
your document as a pure PostScript file 
and have it printed by a laser service. 
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BASIC By The Numbers 

If you think event trapping has something to do with little 
furry animals, read on as we examine menus and events. 



By Bob Ryan 




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FIRST POPULARIZED ON the Apple Macintosh, pull-clown 
menus provide an easy way for people to interact with and con- 
trol computer programs. Your Amiga provides support for 
menus through the Intuition library, which is used by most com- 
mercial C and assembly-language programs. Amiga Basic's 
MENU commands and functions use these same Intuition func- 
tions, giving you the ability to write programs that rival commer- 
cial packages in their ease of use. 

Before you use a menu in Amiga Basic, you have to define it. 
This is the purpose of the MENU statement, which has the 
syntax: 

MENU menu-id, Item-Id, state, title 

Menu-id identifies the menu. The first menu on the menu bar is 
numbered 1. Item-id refers to the items within the menu. Item 
is the name of the menu; subsequent items are options you can 
choose when you access the menu. The state is a number from 
through 2. A menu item with state zero is disabled — you cannot 
access that item. If the item disabled is item 0, the entire menu 
is disabled. Items with state 1 are accessible by the user. Items 
with state 2 arc also accessible, and appear with a check mark to 
the left of their title. You must leave a couple of Spaces to the 
left of your title if you use state 2 items. Note that you cannot 
use state 2 with menu items numbered 0. Here is a short pro- 
gram that defines two menus. Try it out. 

MENU 1,0,1, "My First Menu" 
MENU 1,1,1, "Item 1 of my first menu" 
MENU 1,2,0, "Item 2, and it's disabled" 
MENU 1,3,2," Item 3, with a check mark" 

MENU 2,0,0,"My Second Menu" 
MENU 2,1,2," Everything is disabled" 

Loop: 
GOTO Loop 

END 



This program doesn't do anything but create two new menus 
on your output window. Use your mouse to look at the menus. 
Active menus are complemented when you move the mouse 
over them; disabled menus are hashed out. Note also that al- 
though you have overwritten the first two default menus on the 
output window, the last two are still displayed and still active. 
You can use Stop from the Run Menu to stop the program. You 
can restore the default menus completely by entering .MENU RE- 
SET into the output window. 

In addition to demonstrating menus, this program points up 
some of the idiosyncrasies of Amiga Basic menus. These menus 
are not tied to any window or screen. If your program opens 
multiple windows and screens, you will get the same menus no 
matter what window is current or active. Also note thai you 
must overwrite a preexisting menu in order to get rid of it. 
Many times, you will define dummy menus with null strings ("") 
for titles in order to overwrite the default menus. 

One final caution: You will gel some very strange effects if 
you don't watch the width of your menus. You may find your 
menus wrapping around the screen if you make them wide or 
use them on a 320-pixel-wide custom screen. 




Event Trapping 



DEFINING MENUS IS nice, but you 
need more information to actually 
use them. The Amiga Basic manual 
gives two methods for getting input 
from menus: polling and event trap- 
ping. I'm going to ignore polling, as 
should you. The proper way to pro- 
gram the Amiga in any language Is 
to use event trapping. 

Event trapping is a very important 
concept. Using it, your programs do 
not have to constantly check to see 
if the user has selected a menu 



item or clicked the mouse button. 
The Amiga system checks these 
things for you and reports them 
when they occur. Your program can 
then handle the event— perform 
some action based upon a menu 
selection, for example— before re- 
turning to normal processing. As 
you learn more Amiga Basic, you 
will find yourself writing programs 
that do nothing but wait for events 
and then respond to these events 
as they occur. »- 



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Working Menus 



TO DEMONSTRATE HOW 
menus and event trapping 
works, I've written a short pro- 
gram called Sentence Maker. 
The program sets up five 
menus and then waits in a 
WHILE. . WEND loop for 
you to choose items from the 
menus. When you select a 
menu, the program branches 
to the corresponding subrou- 
tine, performs the activity- 
specified by the menu selec- 
tion, and returns to the wait 
loop. Try the program your- 
self. 

REM Sentence Maker 
MENU 1,0,1, "Articles" 
MENU 1,1,1, "the" 
MENU 1,2,1, "a" 

MENU 2,0,1, "Nouns" 
MENU 2, 1,1, "boy" 
MENU 2,2,1, "dog" 
MENU 2,3,1, "ball" 

MENU 3,0,1, "Verbs" 
MENU 3, 1,1, "chased" 
MENU 3,2,1,"h!t" 

MENU 4, 0,1, "Punctuation" 
MENU 4,1,1,"." 

MENU 5,0,1,"Quit" 
MENU 5,1,1, "Yes" 
MENU 5,2,1, "No" 

ON MENU GOSUB checkmenu 

MENU ON 

x = 1:WHILE x = 1:WEND 

MENU RESET 
END 

checkmenu: 
Z-MENU(O) 

ON Z GOSUB M1, M2, M3, M4, M5 
RETURN 

M1: 

IF MENU(1)= 1 THEN 
PRINT "the "j 

ELSE 

PRINT "a "; 
END IF 
RETURN 



M2: 

IF MENU(1)= 1 THEN 

PRINT "boy "; 
ELSEIF MENU(1)= 2 THEN 

PRINT "dog "; 
ELSE 

PRINT "ball "; 
END IF 
RETURN 

M3: 

IF MENU(1)= 1 THEN 

PRINT "chased "; 
ELSE 

PRINT "hit "j 
END IF 
RETURN 

M4: 

PRINT CHRS(B);"." 
RETURN 



M5: 

IF MENU(1) = 
RETURN 



1 THEN X : 



The First part of the pro- 
gram sets up the five menus. 
Notice that the zero item of 
any menu is the name that ap- 
pears in the menu bar. The 
other items are the contents of 
the menu. Once the menus are 
set up, the program indicates 
the name of the routine that 
will handle menu events with 
the ON MENU GOSUB state- 
ment, turns on menu event 
trapping with the MENU ON 
statement, and then settles 
into a seemingly infinite 
WHILE. . .WEND loop, wait 
ing for some input. 

You supply the input by 
choosing items from the 
mentis. This program takes the 
words and punctuation you se- 
lect from the menu and 
strings them together into sen- 
tences. When you select a 
menu item, the program 
jumps from the 
WHILE. . .WEND loop to the 
checkmenu routine specified 
by the ON MENU GOSUB 



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statement Here, the program 
uses the MEXU(O) function to 
see which menu was chosen. It 
uses a standard ON GOSUB 
statement to branch to 
the correct menu-handling 
routine. 

Once in the proper menu- 
handling routine, the program 
uses the MENU(l) function to 
discover which item from the 
menu was selected. It then 
takes the appropriate ac- 
tion — in this case, printing the 
proper word or character on 
the screen. Notice that when 
the period is selected, the 
PRINT statement issues a 
backspace before printing 
the character and a carriage 
return afterwards. All the 
menu routines return to the 
checkmenu routine, which 
returns control to the 



Insomnia 



WHILE. . .WEND loop. 

The WHILE. . .WEND loop 
will not end (and consequently 
the program will not end) 
while the value of x is 1. The 
only place this value changes 
is in the MS routine. If item 1 
(Quit) is selected from menu 
5, the value of x is changed to 
0. This causes the program to 
exit the WHILE. . .WEND 
loop when the program re- 
turns from the checkmenu 
routine. Once out of the loop, 
the program resets the default 
Amiga Basic menus with 
MENU RESET and ends. 

This program demonstates 
the basics of menu handling 
and event trapping. In future 
issues, as programs become 
more complex, we'll be using 
event trapping more and more 
frequently. 



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ONE PROBLEM WITH my Sentence Maker Is the fact that the program 
spends a lot of Its time doing nothing. Most of the processing in the pro- 
gram consists of running through the empty WHILE . WEND loop. This 
ties up system resources— a high crime (or at least a misdemeanor) on the 
Amiga. Amiga Basic does provide a statement, SLEEP, that shuts down a 
program until a trappable event occurs. I had no problems using SLEEP in 
my WHILE. WEND loop until I wanted to quit the program. Then, SLEEP 
required an extra event— another menu selection or a mouse click— In order 
to reactivate and exit the program. Because I do not want the user to have 
to enter exlra events, I dispensed with the SLEEP statement. 




Wrap-up 



A NUMBER OF readers have 
pointed out a mistake I made in 
the March '88 installment (see 
"Basic By The Numbers," p. 17, in 
the March '88 issue of Amiga- 
World). In Number 16, I me an 
array called name$. This doesn't 
work. Because NAME is an Amiga 
Basic command, you cannot use it 
as a variable name. As I never use 



the NAME command, I didn't 
know this. I do now. Thanks to 
those of you who set me straight. 

Next time, I'll take a look at the 
Amiga Basic's object-animation 
commands. Until then, direct your 
questions and comments (and cor- 
rections) to Basic By The Num- 
bers, AmigaWorld, 80 Elm St., 
Peterborough, NH 03458. ■ 



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The black level of the Amiga graphics 
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IDEALLY, YOU WOULD like 
to buy a printer that produces 
beautiful color graphics and 
typeset-quality text. Ideally, 
you'd have the cash to buy such a printer. But this isn't 
an ideal world, so buying a printer involves making a 
series of compromises that would impress Henry Clay. 
Do you want easy control or advanced capabilities? Is 
speed more important than quality? Do your printing 
needs lean towards graphics or text? Dot-matrix or 
daisy wheel or ink jet or laser? 

We won't be able to answer all those questions in a 
single article, so we will limit the comparative reviews 
that form the major emphasis of this feature to high- 
quality but generally affordable black-and-white print- 
ers that can handle fairly sophisticated text and graph- 
ics needs. This will narrow the focus down to 24-pin 
dot-matrix and laser printers. By way of introduction, 
however, we will look at these two in relation to other 
printer technologies to help you understand the wide 
variety of printer capabilities and make the right 
choice for your printing needs. >■ 

BY LINDA BARRETT, BOB RYAN, AND LOUIS WALLACE 



PHOTOGRAPHED BY PAUL AVIS / STYLED BY JANE SUTTON 



AmigaWorld 25 



Enough Impact 

Printers are classified by how they form text and graphics on the 
page. On the low end are nine-pin impact dot-matrix printers. Best 
exemplified by the Epson MX series, these printers have a column 
of nine pins that strike the ribbon against the paper, forming 
different characters or images depending upon which pins strike. 
Nine-pin dot-matrix printers are popular because they are cheap, 
fast, dependable, and can print graphics. For home use, you can 
get by with a nine-pin dot-matrix printer, although you should be 
aware that reading nine-pin generated text has been shown to 
cause blindness in laboratory mice. 

Offering improved speed and output over the nine-pins, 24-pin 
dot-matrix printers have two rows of 12 pins each. As one row is 
slightly offset from the other, the printer in effect has 24 vertical 
pins to form text and graphics. More pins means better quality 
and more speed in draft mode. With retail prices of some 24-pin 
dot-matrix printers dropping below S500. the days of nine-pin 
printers are surely numbered. Software developers who spend 



hours pouring over listings in search of elusive bugs will appreciate 
the speed and quality of the 24-pin printers. 

If you need letter-quality output and do not mind waiting, daisy- 
wheel printers have fully-formed characters arrayed at the end of 
spokes on a wheel. The wheel rotates the proper character into 
position where a hammer pounds it into the ribbon, similar to 
many popular typewriters. Daisy-wheels, also called letter-quality 
printers, were once the top of the line printers, but they have 
generally been supplanted by faster lasers and 24-pin dot-matrix 
printers. 

The Heat Is Oi* 

Thermal-transfer printers and ink-jet printers form characters and 
images from dots, but they differ from impact dot-matrix printers 
in that they do not have pins that strike a ribbon. Thermal-transfer 
printers, such as the Okimate 20, are similar to nine-pin dot-matrix 
printers, but instead of striking the ribbon, the heated pins push 
the ribbon close to the paper. Physics does the rest in transferring 



ADJUSTED PREFERENCES 



WITH VERSION 1 .3, Commodore 
gave Workbench a tuneup and 
many of the Improvements are un- 
der the hood in Preferences. The 
software mechanics exterminated 
several bugs, turbo-charged the 
printer drivers, and rebuilt the 
Graphics 2 screen. 

Depending on the printer and the 
type of graphic dump involved, you 
can expect speed increases of three 
to 20 times faster than 1.2 drivers. 
Output speed should now be limited 
only by the printer and not the 
Amiga. The new Printer Device can 
support screen sizes up to 
2048x2048 pixels with up to 12 bit 
planes, well beyond the Amiga's 
display capabilities. Perhaps this Is 



an indication of things to come. 

For those interested In accuracy 
over speed, the Graphics 2 screen 
contains a number of gadgets that 
let you customize graphic dumps. 
The Left Offset and Center toggles 
align the image on the page, while 
the effect of the Density gadget's 
seven buttons is dependent on your 
printer. Some printers, such as the 
Canon PJ-1080A, have only one set- 
ting, in this case 83 dots per Inch 
(dpi). For common nine-pin dot-ma- 
trix printers, button one selects 120 
dpi while button two selects 240 
dpi. Four buttons are active with 
the 24-pln Epson compatibles, set- 
ting the dots per inch to 90, 120, 
180, and 360. In all cases, the verti- 



cal pin spacing of the printer limits 
the vertical density. You can cheat 
the system for Epson and IBM 
graphics compatibles and set them 
to vertically overlap by vb of a dot 
on successive printhead passes. On 
the first Preferences printer screen, 
set the Paper Type gadget to Single 
as opposed to Fanfold. 

No longer are you locked Into an 
Ordered Dithering pattern for gray 
scale or color printing. Besides the 
version 1.2 standby, you can 
choose Halftone Dithering, which 
creates an effect similar to that 
used for newsprint graphics, or 
Floyd-Steinberg (F-S) Dithering, 
which generates a random appear- 
ance especially suited for fleshtones 



In digitized Images. The new dither- 
ing techniques work best with high- 
resolution printers. Turning on Anti- 
aliasing minimizes the staircasing 
effect of square pixels on a diago- 
nal line, but decreases printing 
speed by a factor of two. 

For color printing, the balance of 
the printer inks makes it impossible 
to reproduce accurately all 4096 on- 
screen colors with Ordered Dither- 
ing. Most color printers will get the 
reds and greens right at the ex- 
pense of the blues. The Color Cor- 
rect gadget lets you ad|ust the 
dithering patterns for the Ink colors. 
You must, however, trade off the 
number of colors that can be ren- 
dered uniquely for accurate hues. 



26 July 1988 



the melted ribbon to the paper. 

Inkjet printers (Xerox 4020, Hewlett-Packard PaintJet, Canon 
PJ-1080A) form images by spraying dots of ink onto paper. The 
forte of ink jets, however, is color printing. While color dot-matrix 
printers tend to produce streaky, washed-out graphics, the graphics 
output from color ink-jet printers is usually excellent. Although 
ink-jet printers are fast, quiet, and produce quality output, they 
are expensive and have greater maintenance requirements. 

Laser Letters 

At the top of the line in printer technology are the laser printers, 
which resemble photocopying machines in operation as well as 
looks. A laser beam inside the printer changes the charge on a 
drum, which causes the drum to attract toner to the areas the laser 
strikes. The toner is then transferred from the drum and bonded 
to paper. Lasers offer a superior combination of speed, quality, 
versatility, quiet operation, and high-density graphics. Of course, 
you pay for what you get. 



When all three of the correction 
buttons are turned on, the software 
can generate only 3172 unique 
colors. 

To control the size and aspect of 
graphic dumps, you can still use 
the old system, based on the mar- 
gin settings In the first printer 
screen. Choose the Fraction gadget 
under Scaling and the Ignore 
gadget under Limits. Choosing the 
Integer gadget under Scaling in- 
sures that every screen pixel will 
have an even number of dots when 
printed. 

The Interpretation of the values 
entered into the Width Limit and 
Height Limit requesters depends on 
the Limits gadget you select. 



Bounded sets a maximum size for 
the printout as per the number of 
inches in the requesters, but the 
actual size of the graphic dump 
may be smaller than what has been 
entered. The Absolute gadget takes 
the values In the requesters as the 
actual size of the graphic dump In 
inches. Pixels interprets the values 
as the absolute size of the graphic 
dump in printer pixels. The Multiply 
gadget uses the values to control 
the number of pixels to be printed 
for every screen pixel. Refer to the 
accompanying sidebar, "Dots 
Enough", for a specific example of 
how you can use these settings to 
get the best printed image possible. 
— Morton Kevelsan 



Lasers come in two major styles: Hewlett-Packard (HP)-compat- 
ibles and Postscript machines. Hewlett-Packard produced the first 
desktop lasers and continues to dominate the market. The HP 
LaserJet and compatibles couple multiple fonts and styles with 
excellent graphics and text quality. In effect, they are super 
letter-quality printers. Given their versatility and prices starting 
around $1500, they have just about killed the high-end daisy- 
wheel market. 

PostScript lasers such as the Apple LaserWriter IINT are actually 
low-end typesetting machines. PostScript, a page-description lan- 
guage, lets you control all the elements of a printed page. With 
PostScript, you can scale your fonts to just about any size, incor- 
porate rules and boxes into the page, and mix text and graphics 
easily on the same page. Although PostScript is notoriously slow 
printing bitmapped graphics, PostScript printers are far more 
versatile, powerful, and expensive than non-PostScript lasers. 

Unlike odier lasers, PostScript printers are normally controlled di- 
rectly from an application program; you can't access the power of 
PostScript from an ordinary Workbench printer driver. Because they 
are software controlled, you cannot do better than a PostScript-com- 
patible laser for desktop publishing. You also will be hard-pressed to 
find a more expensive printer. HP-compatible printers are cheaper, 
but they don't give you the same control over the printed page. 

Down to Cases 

Once you know the type of printer you want, you'll still have scores 
of models to choose from. Be sure you select a printer that works 
with one of the Amiga Workbench printer drivers. Your printer 
should either be listed in Preferences or emulate a printer that is 
listed in Preferences. For PostScript lasers, be sure your desktop- 
publishing software supports the page-description language. 

Now that you know the proper questions to ask, you need some 
answers. In the past, AmigaWorld has published a round-up of color 
printers (see "Graphic Hardcopy and the Amiga," p. 36, in the 
March/April '87 issue of AmigaWorld) and reviews of high-quality 
color printers (Okimate 20, p. 79, May/June '86; Xerox 4020 Color 
InkJet, p. 69, September/October *87; HP PaintJet, p. 18, April '88). 
This time around, we will focus on the black-and-white scene. In 
the next two sections, we examine five popular 24-pin dot-matrix 
printers and four laser printers, respectively. Between the reviews 
and some informed shopping, you should be ready to join the 
ranks of those who have something to show for all the long hours 
spent in front of their Amigas. ►- 



AmigaWorld 27 



24-PIN 
DOT- 
MATRIX 
PRINTERS 



DECIDING WHICH PRINTERS to eval- 
uate was no mean task. Prices vary con- 
siderably, as do speed, features, and 
durability. In the end, we decided — with 
the exception of the Okidata Microline 
393 — to concentrate on popular mid- 
range printers. These models, priced 
from S700 to SI 200, are not a terrible 
financial burden for home users and are 
rugged enough to stand up to heavy of- 
fice use. The five printers we chose to 
evaluate were the ones we've received 
the most questions about from readers. 
The information falls into four parts: a 
short description of each printer, a spec- 
ifications chart, speed comparison 
graphs, and examples of graphics 
output. 

FOOTNOTES 

WE INCLUDED THE Okidata Micro- 
line 393 as a ringer: We wanted to see 
how the mid-range printers performed 
in comparision toa high-end 24-pin dot- 
matrix printer. If you can afford a top- 
end printer like the 393 or an Epson 
LQ-2500, buy it. 

In the mid-range itself, you cannot 
beat Epson for supplying quality, per- 
formance and features for a reasonable 
price. Epson sets the standard in more 
ways than one. 



NEC PINWRITER 
P6 AND P7 

THE NEC PIN WRITERS were comparatively 
sluggish In the speed tests. As far as paper 
handling Is concerned, the P6 ($699) and P7 
(S995) were not favorites. The Plnwrlters are 
the only printers we looked at that did not 
come with some sort of built-in tractor-feed 




unit, rendering them pretty useless for print- 
ing (straight) on continuous-form paper. The 
cheapest optional tractor for the Plnwrlters 
costs S60. 

Both Plnwrlters have excellent front-panel 
control over mode, font, and pitch, although 
the control setup Is a little weird. The front 
panel sports only four buttons. You use one 
of them to scroll through the print options, 
which are displayed on an LED in front of 
the platen. 

The Plnwrlters offer good quality printing, 
but are stingy on the extras. Be prepared to 
pay more for decent paper handling. 



EPSON LQ-850 
AND LQ-1050 

THE EPSON L.Q series sets the standard for 
24-pln dot-matrix printers— the software stan- 
dard, that Is. All the 24-pin dot-matrix print- 
ers we tested are either Epson LO 
compatible or offered LQ emulation as an 



option. As always, Epson printers set a stan- 
dard of features that other manufacturers 
feel obliged to meet or surpass In order to 
compete. We looked at the 10-Inch wide Ep- 
son LQ-850 ($849) and the 15-Inch LQ-1050 
(S1199). 

We timed the Epson LQ-850 at 122 char- 
acters per second (cps) In 10 characters-par- 
Inch (cpl) draft mode and at 64 cps In 12-cpl 
letter-quality mode. That put It second In 




text speed to the more expensive Okidata 
Microline 393. The Epson matched the Oki- 
data In graphics speed. 

You can control the Epson directly 
through a combination of DIP switches and 
front panel buttons. The DIP switches con- 
trol things you should have to set only 
once; the Iront panel controls things you 
will vary more often, such as font and pitch. 
We like this combination better than other 
arrangements that eliminate DIP switches en- 
tirely. Too many front panel controls can be 
confusing, rather then convenient. The only 
complaint we have about the Epson front 
panel Is that It doesn't let you reset the top 
of form. You still have to turn the printer off 
and on again to reset top of form. 

Epson offers a nice paper-handling fea- 
ture. Like many other printers, the Epson of- 
fers en auto-feed feature; unlike most 
others, however, It also offers auto e|ect. 
When you are using continuous-form paper, 
you can simply hit the eject button to back 
the form paper out of the way ol the single- 



2Sjniy 1988 



sheet teed. When you're through using sin- 
gle-sheet paper, a touch of a button reloads 
the continuous form paper, a real time saver. 



execute them at any time. If you need such 
extensive front-panel control, you will love 
the Okidata Microllne 393. 



a wide-carriage printer. If you can get by 
with a narrow carriage, you will find better 
quality for less. 



OKIDATA 
MICROLINE 393 

AT $1399 LIST and 37 pounds, the 15-inch 
Okidata Microline 393 is a certified heavy- 




weight. (Okidata promises a 10-Inch model 
soon.) As far as performance was con- 
cerned, the 393 was the best printer we 
tested, producing draft -quality text at 153 
cps and letter quality at 91 cps. Because we 
used the Okidata 393 with the Epson per- 
sonality module installed, we were not able 
to take advantage of some 393-specific fea- 
tures such as triple-height and triple-width 
printing. The printer worked perfectly, how- 
ever, with the EpsonQ driver. 

The 393 front panel Is more extensive 
than Epson's. We greatly appreciated being 
able to set top of form with the touch of a 
button. The controls for setting mode, font, 
and pitch are also clear and simple to use. 
The Okidata lets you control many other 
printer functions from the front panel. Some. 
such as emphasized or enhanced mode, are 
normally accessible only from software. Oth- 
ers, such as changing the characteristics of 
the serial interface, are normally set with 
DIP switches. You can even program four 
command macros from the front panel and 



PANASONIC 
KX-P1524 

AT $949, THE Panasonic KX-P1524 has the 
cheapest list price of any wide-carriage 




printer we looked at. In some respects, its 
price Is reflected In Its performance. At 98 
cps for draft and 43 for letter quality, It was 
not a stellar performer in our AmlgaDOS text 
file speed printing test. The Panasonic also 
took twice as long as the Epson and Okidata 
printers to produce a graphic Image. 

On the plus side, the KX-P1524 is the 
least expensive widebody. It gives you a lot 
of printer controls on the front panel, as 
well as providing DIP switches for seldom- 
accessed features. One of the front-panel 
switches lets you set the paper's form 
length. 

Like the Epson LQs, the KX-P1 524 offers 
a very convenient way to switch between 
continuous-form and single-sheet paper. Hit 
a button, and the tractor feed retracts the 
continuous-form paper, letting you use the 
friction feed lor single-sheet paper. The next 
time you want continuous-form paper, 
tug the paper bail to reload ft from the 
tractor. 

The KX-P1524 Is a good deal If you need 



STAR INB24-10 
AND NB24-15 

STAR-MICRON ICS has been making less-ex- 
pensive Epson compatibles about as long as 




Epson has been making printers. The NB24- 
10 ($749) and NBZ4-15 ($999) are no excep- 
tion. Both printers offer good text quality (a 
definite improvement over Star's old Gemini 
10s) and reasonable speed. Only the graph- 
ics output is not up to snuff. Although the 
speed Is decent, the quality was not quite 
as high as with the other printers. 

In our opinion, the NB24s have the best 
front-panel control. While not as high-tech 
looking as the NECs', it has everything we 
want In a front panel Including a two-button 
combination to set top of form. One feature 
of particular interest to Amiga owners is the 
ability to block software commands. Since 
most Amiga software resets the printer to 
default mode before sending other codes 
and data, this control-lock feature lets you 
preset print functions that are not supported 
by your software. 

If you don't need very high-quality graph- 
ics output, the NB24s are a good choice. 
The front panel controls make them espe- 
cially attractive. *■ 



AmigaWorld 29 



PRIIN 

Printer 


TER 

Epson LQ-850 


SPECIFI 

NEC Plnwrlter P7 


CATIONS 

Okldata Microllne 393 






y. 24-F 

Panasonic KX-P1524 


*m do 

Star NB 24-10 


r 


1 


Manufacturer 


Epson America Inc. 
2780 Lomita Blvd. 


NEC Information 

Systems Inc. 
1414 Massachusetts Ave. 
Boxborough, MA 01719 
600/343-4416 
617/264-8635 


Okldata 

532 Fellowship Rd. 

Mount Laurel, NJ 

08054 
609/235-2600 


Panasonic Industrial Co. 


Star Micronics 


Antarira Inr- 




i. Panasonic way 
Secaucus, NJ 07094 

BOO/PIC-8085 


M1MCI iLU llltr. 

*>f\n Darfr Ai/n M^^lfl 




Torrance, CA 90505 

800/421-5426 

213/539-9140 


iUU rilTK Ave. ffoSIU 


New York, NY 10166 


201/348-7000 


212/986-6770 










Dimensions 


17x14.2x5.6 in. 


22.4x13.1x4.9 in. 


22,4x16.4x7.1 in. 


24x15.25x6.1 In. 


15.7x14x4.3 in. 




Weight 






37 lbs. 


34.B lbs. 






28.2 lbs. 


19.8 lbs. 


25.4 lbs. 








Price 


S849 


$995 (S1075 with serial port) 


$1399 


$949 


$749 




Paper Feeding 


Tractor, friction; 
options: cut-sheet 
feeder, pull tractor 


Friction; options: 
unl/bldlrectlonal tractor, 
cut-sheet feeder 


Tractor, friction; options: 
bottom-feed tractor, cut- 
sheet feeder 


Tractor, friction; 
options: bottom-feed 
tractor, auto-sheet 


Tractor, friction; 




options: auto-sheet 

feeder 




feeder 




Type Attributes/ 
Styles 

Pitch 


Emphasized, 
doublestrike, italics, 
super/subscript, 
double width, 
condensed, double 
height 


Doublestrike, Italics, bold, 
underline, super/subscript, 
triple/double width, double 
height, condensed 


Emphasized, doublestrike, 
italics, underline, super/ 
subscript, triple/double 
width, triple/double height, 
compressed 


Emphasized, 
doublestrike, italics, 
underline, super/ 
subscript, compressed, 
elongated 


Emphasized, italic, 
underline, overllne, 
bold, super/subscript, 
semi-condensed, 
condensed, expanded 




10, 12, 15, 
proportional 


10, 12, 15, 17, 20, 

proportional 


10, 12, 15, 17.1, 18, 20 


10, 12, 15, 17, 

proportional 


10 15 1*> 17 20 


proportional 






Line Spacing 


St, % n/60, 
n/180 


X, %, 54, 54, n/60, 
n/180, n/360 


% 51, n/60, n/180, n/360 


<i, 54, n/60, n/180 


54, 54, n/60, n/180 




Butter Size 


6K 


8K 


30K, 32K optional 


13.5K, optional 
expansion to 45.5K 


8K, optional 
expansion cartridge 




Typetaces 


Roman, draft, Sans 
Serif, 13 int. char. 
sets, downloading 
supported; optional: 
Courier, Prestige, 
script, OCR-B 


Gothic, Courier, 12 int. 
char, sets, user-defined 
character sets; optional: 
Prestige, Super Focus, 
bold Italic 


Courier, 14 Int. char, sets, 
up to 2 downloadable fonts; 
optional: Prestige, Letter 
Gothic 


Courier, downloading 
supported, 8 int. char, 
sets; optional cards: 
Roman, Prestige, 
Gothic, Sans Serif, 
Orator, Script, bold 
proportional spacing 


Prestige, 13 int. char. 
sets, downloading 
supported; optional 
cartridges: Gothic, 
Orator 




Preferences Driver 


EpsonQ 


EpsonQ 


EpsonQ 


EpsonQ 


EpsonQ 




Interface 


Centronics parallel, 
RS-232 serial 


Centronics parallel 


Centronics parallel, RS-232 

serial 


Centronics parallel, 
RS-232 serial 


Centronics parallel, 
RS-232 serial 




Ribbon 


Fabric cartridge 


Fabric cartridge 


Fabric cartridge 


Fabric cassette 


Fabric cartridge 




30 July 1988 















MATRIX 









&$i ■ 







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Epson LQ-850 

...jp 



■' M ■>> 




NEC P7 




Okldata 393 

Figure 1. 24-Pin Dot-Matrix Graphics Out- 
put. These screen dumps were performed 
using the EpsonQ driver and with Prefer- 
ences set to density 1 . Note that the 
dumps will appear darker in the magazine 
than they actually are. 



.HP'^fiESSHaiSift!.' 
Panasonic KX-P1524 



Draft-Quality 

Text 



Letter-Quality 
Text 



CPS 




Epson LQ NECP6/P7 Okidata Panasonic Star NB24 



393 



KX-PI524 



120 



60 " 



SECONDS 




Epson LQ NEC PS/P7 Okidata Panasonic Star NB24 

393 KX-P1524 



Figure 2. 24-Pin Dot-Matrix Text Speed Test. We created a 10,050- 
character text file to test the speed of these printers. We set the 
proper mode and pitch from the front panels of the printers (10 cpl 
draft and 12 cpl letter-quality) and outputted the test file with the 
AmlgaDOS TYPE command. The results are not absolutes— other soft- 
ware arrangements will yield other results — but rather as a basis to 
compare the relative speeds of the printers. 



Figure 3. 24-Pin Dot-Matrix Graphics Speed Test. AmlgaWoiid staffer 
Roger Goode supplied the 640 x 200 graphic for the speed test. We 
dumped ft using the Workbench 1.3 GraphlcDump program, with Pref- 
erences density set to 1. Once again, note that the speeds are rela- 
tive. Other software and other pictures will yield different results. 



AmigaWorld SI 



LASER PRINTERS 



HEWLETT-PACKARD 
LASERJET 
SERIES II 



THE FOUR PRINTERS under review 
here cannot, strictly speaking, be com- 
pared equally because one of them — 
the QMS-PS 810— supports PostScript 
output as well as the Hewlett-Packard- 
emulation mode. Of course, you pay 
for what you get; the PS 810 costs about 
S5500, while the others are priced in 
the S2000-S2600 range. More expen- 
sive as a whole than the 24-pin dot- 
malrix printers reviewed in the pre- 
vious section, the lasers provide supe- 

FOOTNOTES 

WITH LASER PRINTERS, as with just 
about anything else, you get what you 
pay for. Unlike the situation with the 
24-pin dot-matrix printers, we did not 
find a laser printer that, like the Epson 
LQ, offered a serious price/perfrom- 
ance advantage over its rivals. For in- 
stance, all the lasers we tested printed 
four pages of Amiga text in about the 
same amount of time (about a minute 
and a half). Generally, the more a laser 
costs, the more features it has. 

The consequence of this straightfor- 
ward relationship is that buying a laser 
is relatively simple: You buy the laser 
that suits your needs. If excellent quality 
text is all you seek in a laser, buy the 



rior printed output in a page-oriented 
fashion — offering multiple fonts and 
styles and excellent graphics and text 
quality. 

The information here is comprised 
of short descriptions of each printer, a 
specifications chart, a graphics-speed 
comparison graph, and examples of 
graphics output. We found that text 
speeds for all four models were basically 
equal — approximately 2.6 pages per 
minute. 



Laserline 6. If you want quality text plus 
full-page graphics, get the Ricoh. For 
full-page graphics plus more fonts and 
options than you ever thought possible, 
get the HP LaserJet. Finally, if you want 
the utmost control over the printed 
page and you have PostScript-compat- 
ible software, you need something like 
the Laser Connections QMS-PS 810. 

Lasers have become much easier to 
maintain and use since HP introduced 
the original LaserJet. Toner cartridges 
are effortless to install and replace; pa- 
per feeds hardly everjam. If you have the 
money, don't hesitate to get a laser over 
an expensive 24-pin dot-matrix printer. 
The eardrums you save may be your own. 



THE HEWLETT-PACKARD LaserJet Series II 
($2595) sets the standard for non-PostScript 
laser printers. The printer comes with 
512K ol RAM, but can be expanded by 
one, two, or lour megabytes. The LaserJet 
driver in Workbench 1.3 gives you full 




control over output density, from 75 dpi 
to 300 dpi. 

The output speed of the HP LaserJet Is 
even more Impressive, with a 320x200 five- 
bltplane image printing in under 20 seconds. 
Text rolls off the drum at 2.6 pages per 
minute. 

You receive only one set of fonts— Cour- 
ier — although the two front slots allow for 
easy installation of the optional cartridge 
fonts. To save money, you can download ad- 
ditional fonts from your Amiga. 

The front control panel has membrane- 
style buttons and a one-line LCD display for 
control inlormation and error messages. 
From the control panel, you can select the 
font type, font source, page length, and the 
number of copies to print. On the rear of 
the printer are the parallel, serial, and op- 
tional I/O Interfaces. 

We found the HP very easy to use and 
compatible with nearly all Amiga software. If 
you do not need PostScript support, the HP 
LaserJet is hard to beat. 



32 July 1988 



OKIDATA 
LASERLINE 6 

AS YOU WOULD expect from the lowest- 
priced laser tested, the Laserllne 6 (S2145) 
does not have all the features of higher- 
priced models. Don't let that turn you off, 
however; the Laserline 6 is a great way to 
break into laser printing, especially when 
you purchase its optional HP LaserJet-emu- 
lation module and consider that you can use 




all HP LaserJet font cartridges with It. 

Like all lasers, the Laserline 6 offers near- 
typeset text and graphics. In Its base config- 
uration, however, the Laserline does not 
have enough memory to print a complete 
Amiga screen at its best output density. In 
fact, its memory is not sufficient to output a 
full screen at the second-best density, crop- 
ping one-half inch off the bottom of the im- 
age. You can expand the memory of the 
Laserline 6 to 512K, allowing you to print an 
Amiga screen at 300 dots per inch, but even 
this extra RAM will not let you print an en- 
tire page of graphics. 

Another shortcoming of the Laserline 
6 is Its front panel. You cannot control 
manually such print variables as font and 
density. Everything is under software 
control. 

Despite its shortcomings, we like the La- 
serline 6. Its text and graphics output are 
superb. If you don't need a laser printer to 
output a full page of high-density, the Laser- 
line 6 Is a great value. 



QMS-PS 810 

IF YOU LIKE having plenty of choices, you 
will like the QMS-PS 810 (S5495). A multipur- 
pose laser printer, the PS 810 supports HP- 
emulation mode as well as PostScript out- 
put. In addition, it can emulate a Diablo 
printer and a Hewlett-Packard GL Plotter. For 
interfaces, you can choose from parallel, se- 
rial, and Appletalk 9 pin. 

Alternating among modes and Interfaces, 




however, is inconvenient at best. The push- 
button switch is located in the lower back of 
the printer, an annoying position for the 
most important control on the printer. You 
must either set up the printer so you can 
access the rear, or move the 42-pound ma- 
chine whenever you want to change modes. 

The brains of the QMS 810, the fonts and 
printer emulations, are In the personality 
module, a small circuit board that installs in- 
ternally. With the manual's straightforward 
Instructions, installation Is fairly simple. Add- 
ing extra memory is as simple as a trip to 
your local dealer. The PS 810 comes with 
two megabytes of RAM, but a registered 
dealer can install a third Internally. 

Instead of a control panel, the QMS-PS 
810 has four symbols with lights to indicate 
the current status of the printer. All control 
information (outside of emulation mode) 
must be sent to the printer from the Amiga. 

Testing it In HP-emulation mode, we 
found the PS 810 worked as well as the HP 
LaserJet Series II with all software we tried. 



For PostScript, the printer functioned as ex- 
pected, with very impressive results. The 
QMS-PS 810 proves you can have your 
PostScript and HP too. 



RICOH PC LASER 
6000 

DON'T LET TH£ name fool you— the PC La- 
ser 6000 ($2495) will work just fine with 




your Amiga. A step up from the Laserline 6, 
the PC Laser 6000 contains one megabyte of 
memory and can output an entire page of 
Amiga graphics at 300 dpi. Of course, you 
can only print graphics If you also buy the HP 
LaserJet-emulation card. In default mode, the 
PC Laser 6000 emulates the lowly Diablo 630. 

The front panel of the PC Laser 6000 is 
also an improvement over the Laserline. It 
lets you control manually many more print 
options, Including font selection. If your 
software does not let you select fonts, you 
can use the front panel to use a font other 
than the default. One catch Is that using the 
front panel Is not as easy as It could be be- 
cause of cryptic Icons and the convoluted 
menu access. 

If you need the ability to print an entire 
page of graphics, the Ricoh, with Its one 
megabyte of memory and optional 51 2K car- 
tridge, is a great choice. Although it 
does not offer all the text options of the 
HP LaserJet Series II, Its text quality is 
excellent. «- 



AmigaWorld 3) 



PRINTER SPECIFICATIONS: LASERS 



Printer 


Hewlett-Packard LaserJet Series 11 


Laser Connection QMS-PS 810 


Okidata Laserllne 6 


Ricoh PC User 6000 


Manufacturer 


Hewlett-Packard 




The Laser Connection 
PO Box 850296 
Mobile, AL 36685 
205/633-7223 


Okidata 


Ricoh Corp. 


19310 Pruneridge Ave. 
Cupertino, CA 95014 
600/367-4772 




532 Fellowship Rd. 
Mount Laurel, NJ O8054 
800/654-3282 
609/235-2600 


Peripheral Products Division 
3001 Orchard Parkway 
San Jose, CA 95134 






408/432-8800 






Price 


S2595 




$5495 


S2145 


$2495 


Dimensions 


18x19x8.5 in. 




18x18.5x9.1 In. 


16.1x16.5x9 in. 


16.1x16.5x8.1 in. 








Weight 


50 lbs. 




41.9 lbs. 


37.8 lbs. 


37.5 lbs. 


Type Attributes 


Bold, compressed, underline 


Bold, Halle, underline 


Bold, Italic, compressed, 
underline 


Bold, underline, compressed 






Pitch 


10, 16.66 




Software defined 


8, 10, 12 


10, 12, 15, font delined 


Lines Per Inch 


1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 24, 


48 


Software delined 


- 1 q ; c a 1 O IK 


3 6 8, font defined 


1, <-• w, 4, D, O, If, ID, 

24, 48 




Buffer Size 


512K, optional expansion 
modules 




2MB, optional 
expansion modules 


113K page, 128K print, 
optional expansion modules 


1MB, optional expansion 

modules 


Typefaces 


Courier, Llneprlnter, 19 int. char, 
sets, 23 optional font cartridges 


Courier, Times, Helvetica, 
Helvetica-Narrow, Avant 


Courier, Times, Llneprlnter, 
Helvetica, 7 int. char, sets. 


Century, Courier, Prestige 
Elite, Letter Gothic, 15 int. 






phar cote rtiMi final fnntQ 






Garde-Book, Avant Garde- 
Demi, Bookman-Demi, 


optional fonts, supports 
downloadable fonts 


dial. acLa^ UJJIIUI Ifli iwnt5 






Bookman-Light, Hew Century 
Schoolbook, Palatino, Zap! 
Chancery Medium Italic, 
Symbol Set, Zapf Dingbats 










Preferences Driver 


HP LaserJet 




Diablo 630, HP LaserJet 


HP LaserJet 


Diablo 630 standard, HP 
LaserJet emulation 


Emulations 


HP 




HP, PostScript 


HP 


HP 


Engine 


Canon 




Canon 


Ricoh 


Ricoh 


Interface 


Centronics parallel, RS-232 serial 


Appletalk, Centronics parallel, 
RS-232 serial 


Centronics parallel, RS-232 
serial 


Centronics parallel, RS-232 
serial 



34 July 1988 




Okidata Lasertlne 6 



240 



WO 



120 



SECONDS 



Density 1 
Screen Dump 



Density 4 
' Screen Dump 







HP Laser Jet Laser Connection Okidata 

Series II QMS PS-S10 Laserline 6 



Ricoh 
PC User 6000 



Figure 5. Laser Graphics Speed Test. The lasers printed text at nearly 
Identical speeds, but graphics-printing speeds were more varied. We 
dumped trie screen with GraphlcDump using density 1 and density 4 
from Preferences. To dump density 4 graphics to the Laserilne 6, we 
Installed the optional memory module. We did not time a PostScript 
bitmap dump with the QMS-PS 810 (we didn't have the patience). 




Ricoh PC Laser 6000 

Figure 4. Laser Printer Graphics Output. These pictures were pro- 
duced using the HP LaserJet driver and a Preferences density of 4. 
Once again, the pictures as reproduced here appear darker than they 
actually are. 



AmigaWorld 35 



DOTS ENOUGH 



AS IN MOST aspects of life, with 
printing graphics, absolute resolu- 
tion is not the final word. To wring 
the most from your printer, you 
need a thorough understanding of 
its capabilities and how they relate 
to the Amiga's display modes and 
Preferences. 

Most popular nine-pin dot-matrix 
printers have horizontal resolutions 
of 60, 120, and 240 dots per Inch 
(dpi). Preferences supports a verti- 
cal resolution of 72 dpi based on 
the pin spacing of the prlnthead. 
The Amiga's screen display, without 
overscan, ranges In size from 320 
horizontal by 200 vertical pixels up 
to 640x400 pixels. At 120 dpi, a 
nine-pin printer can place 960 dots 
across an eight-inch page. At 72 
dpi, It can print up to 792 dots on 
an 11-inch sheet. For black-and- 
white screens, the dot combination 
is more than adequate to produce a 
pixel-for-dot dump of any size 
Amiga screen. 

A gray-scale dump uses a four- 
by-four dot matrix to translate the 
screen colors into 16 shades of 
gray. Using this square matrix re- 
duces the printer's resolution to 30 
dpi horizontally and 18 dpi verti- 
cally. For an 8 x 11-Inch page, the 
total comes to 240x198 gray-scale 
pixels, which is insufficient to accu- 
rately reproduce even the lowest 
resolution Amiga screen. Even the 
300 dpi resolution of a laser printer 
Is not good enough to generate the 

36 July 19S8 



2S60 horizontal dots needed to re- 
solve a 640-pixel image as a gray- 
scale dump. Because most images 
have large areas of uniform color, 
you can work around the resolution 
and create an acceptable 8 x 11-inch 
printout despite the loss of detail. 

Color printers have a similar 
problem representing all 4096 colors 
of the Amiga's palette with a four- 
by-four matrix and three Ink colors. 
Under these restrictions, even the 
180x180 dpi resolution of the Hew- 
lett-Packard PaintJet printer drops 
to only 45 dpi. With a basic resolu- 
tion of 63 x 83 and a printed line of 
less than eight Inches, the Canon 
PJ-1080A has a net resolving power 
of less than 21 dpi. To reproduce 
every single pixel of the on-screen 
image, you must increase the size 



.- 



of the printed image. A quick calcu- 
lation shows that a 640-pixel wide 
Amiga screen corresponds to a 31- 
Inch wide color page on the Canon 
PJ-1080A, without any duplication 
of screen pixels. As a result, the 
enlarged graphics look fine when 
viewed from a short distance. 

For a perfect printed image, you 
should match the aspect ratio of 
the printed image and the original 
screen Image, The ratio of the 
width to the height of the entire im- 
age less the screen borders should 
be approximately 1.3. The Amiga's 
printer driver will generate automati- 
cally an image with the proper as- 
pect ratio by duplicating some (but 
not all) of the pixel rows or col- 
umns as required. The resulting im- 
age sacrifices pixel accuracy to 




maintain the proper proportions. 
With Preferences 1.3 you can spec- 
ify the vertical and horizontal printer 
scaling factors to generate the 
proper proportions and retain pixel 
accuracy. The formula tor calculat- 
ing the scaling factors Is: 

H/V = Ar x (Pv x Vdpl) + (Ph x Hdpl) 
H = horizontal scaling factor 
V- vertical scaling factor 
Ar= aspect ratio [1.3] 
Pv = no. of vertical screen pixels [400 1 
Vdpi= printer vertical dpi [3] 
Ph = number of horizontal screen 

pixels [640] 
Hdp/ = printer horizontal dpi [83] 

The bracketed values are for an 
example using the Canon PJ-1080A 
and a 640x400 pixel screen Image. 
The ratio of H to V is 0.B125, or ap- 
proximately 4 to 5. If you use a 
nine-pin dot-matrix printer with Vdpl 
equal to 72 and Hdpi equal to 120, 
then the ratio of H to V is 0.4875, 
or approximately 1 to 2. For over- 
scan Images and non-standard 
screen formats, you may have to 
adjust the aspect ratio. In most 
cases, you will have to use a mural 
printer, such as HUGEprint or The 
Big Picture (see p. 40), to print the 
oversized image. In Preferences' 
Graphic 2 screen, set Scaling to In- 
teger, set the Limits to Multiply, and 
enter the calculated vertical and 
horizontal scale factors In the Width 
Limit and Height Limit gadgets. 
From here your printing program 
takes over. — Morton Kevelson • 



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SPECIAL 

PRlfrER 

REPORT-2 



PrinterToolkit 



We're taking a trip to the toolshed (no, not the one where you went 

for the proverbial "whupping" back in Grandfather's day). Instead, 

you'll find a handy toolkit of printer utilities there 

to help you with your special printing jobs. 

BY M R T I A . K E V E L S \ A \ D LOUIS R . IV A L L A C E 

IF YOU'VE BEEN able to get your hands on a copy of the new version 1.3 of the Amiga's 
operating system, you were probably impressed with the vastly enhanced printer support 
it offers. Yet, even with the dramatic increase in custom printer drivers now available to 
the Amiga, there will always be numerous specialized applications for which the standard 
equipment just won't do. That's why the following trip to our toolshed of printer utilities 

is a must visit. 
Whether your printer is dot matrix or laser, whether you need screen dumps, window 
printouts, segmented blowups or detailed reductions, sideways-style spreadsheet printouts, 
high-resolution printed output from a CAD program, or whatever, the utilities outlined 

here should help you get the job done. 



DOT-MATRIX PRINTER UTILITIES 



T 



he ability to print the current contents of your 
screen is a useful, and often necessary option. 
Although the Amiga's multitasking capabili- 
ties let you open up as many windows as 
needed to preserve the output from a variety 



of tasks, the actual display is still limited to approx- 
imately 2000 text characters at one time. AmigaDOS' 
DIR > PRT: command will redirect text output to the 
printer, as in the case where you wish to send a listing 
of the current directory to the printer. AmigaDOS. 



ILLUSTRATED BY DEV1S GREBU 



AmigaWvrld 39 



however, has no built-in means of gelling what is on 
the screen to the printer once it is on display. This 
is where screen dumpers come into play. 

Screen Dumper Utilities 

Vour choices run the gamut from a limited utility on 
your Workbench disk, to public-domain/shareware 
offerings, and finally commercial-quality utility pro- 
grams. (For a descriplion of two shareware screen 
dumpers, see the accompanying sidebar "Public 
Dumping Permitted.") 

The System drawer on your Workbench 1.2 disk 
contains a screen-dumper utility. To use it, either 
double click its icon on the Workbench screen or 
invoke it from the CLI. Once GraphicDump is ini- 
tiated, you have approximately ten seconds to move 
things around, such as by clicking on front-to-back 
gadgets, manipulating the sizing gadgets and drag 
bars, and so forth, until the screen is organized to 
your satisfaction. Needless to say, this is not the best 
way to get a screen dump, but in many situations it 
can get the job done. 

Among the commercial offerings is Discovery Soft- 
ware's Grabbit. Unlike many screen dumpers, it lurks 
in the background until activated by the appropriate 
hot-key combination. Grabbit will then take the front 
screen, place it into a RAM buffer, and send it to the 
printer according to the current settings in Prefer- 
ences. Because it runs in the background, you can 
continue using your Amiga for other tasks during 
printing. If there is not enough free memory in which 
to set up a buffer, Grabbit will lock the front screen 
until the printout is complete. A second hot-key se- 
quence lets you save the front screen to disk in the 
form of a compressed IFF-image file. The Grabbit 
disk contains AnyTime, another HotKey-driven util- 
ity, which will bring up a color palette with the ap- 
propriate number of colors for the current screen. 
You can then adjust the screen colors for improved 
viewing or for subsequent processing with Grabbit. 

Although not really a screen dumper, Meridian 
Software's ZinglKeys contains a screen dumper 
among its myriad functions. The bulk of the program 
is a collection of keyboard macros and hot keys, with 
a facility for designing your own macros and hot-key 
functions. But at S49.95, it does offer two utilities of 
interest: ZPDUMP, which sends the current screen to 
the printer, and ZSAVEIFF, which sends it to the disk 
as an IFF-image file. You can scale your printer dumps 
at 33/,%, 50%, or 100% of full size. 

Computer Toolsmith's WindowPrintll differs from 
the other screen dumpers because it does not limit 
its attention to an entire screen. Instead, it lets you 
work with the contents of individual windows and 
portions of windows, as well as with the entire screen. 
WindowPrint provides you with complete dimen- 
sional control of your printouts; you can set them to 
fill automatically the entire width of the page or 
restrict them to pixel-for-pixel representation of the 
screen. You can adjust the height and the width of 



the dump independently, from to 200 percent of 
the screen size. WindowPrint II will also save selected 
windows to an IFF file for subsequent processing. 
There are also several useful supplementary utilities, 
including .Snatch, which saves (he current screen to 
disk when triggered by a hot-key sequence, and IFF- 
Icon, which lets you create Workbench program icons 
from IFF-image files. 

Mural Makers 

Under normal circumstances, the size of a printer 
graphic dump is limited to the width of the printer. 
But if you want a larger printout, it is possible to 
break up an image into a series of expanded image 
segments from within a paint program. DeluxePaint 
II, for example, allows you to "stretch" and then 
divide into such segments. The process, however, 
tends to be tedious and time-consuming. Fortunately, 
there is an easier way, as the following programs will 
demonstrate. These utilities let you blow up an image 
printout over several sheets for subsequent paste up. 

HUGEPrint, by Hugh Crawford ol Hugh's Software 
Ranch, allows you to partition an image in up to It) 
strips. You set the width of each strip in Preferences, 
which also controls the characteristics of the printout. 
The total width of all the strips can be up to eight- 
andone-half feet. Strips can be printed individually 
in the event a section of the mural is damaged and 
has to be replaced, or if the printer fails to complete 
the operation for some reason. You can also set the 
aspect ratio to generate either square pixels or video- 
proportioned pixels. (See the sidebar "Dots Enough" 
in the article "Lasting Impressions" in this issue for 
a specific application that uses HUGEPrint.) 

Lightning Publishing^ The Big Picture is a collec- 
tion of 15 versions of itself — each of which is for a 
different printer. To set the size of the printout, 
specify the number of pixels in each direction, up to 
9999 of them horizontally and vertically. The pro- 
gram determines automatically the number of strips 
required for the mural. The height and width values 
can be set independently. A height of zero results in 
a screen-proportioned print. The Big Picture does 
not display the image being printed; instead, the 
image data is pulled directly from the disk, processed, 
and sent to the printer. To avoid tying up a disk drive 
for what may very well be a lengthy printing task, it 
is a good idea to transfer the image to RAM: before 
using The Big Picture. Because the program does not 
use Preferences, it will not benefit from the new- 
features in version 1.3. As a direct consequence, we 
found that only color murals could be made on our 
Canon PJ1080A. The Big Picture's working window 
contains gadgets for entering the size parameters, a 
file name, and the number of copies. Although the 
program was able to multitask, it tended to tie up 
the printer port even when it was not printing. We 
were also unable to close The Big Picture until it had 
the chance to actually print something. 

There are several full-featured graphics packages 



■10 July 1988 



that also provide facilities for generating mural-size 
printouts. Because these are actually graphics pro- 
grams rather than printer utilities, we will only make 
mention of them here. Consult the manufacturers 
directly (see the "Product Information" box) for fur- 
ther information about PAR Software's Express Paint 
2.0, Electronic Arts' DeluxePrint II, and Unison 
World's Print Master Plus. 

Designlab'5 Fine Print is an unusual program pro- 
viding a use for one of the by-products of microcom- 
puting — the well-worn printer ribbon. Although it 
was not ready in lime for this roundup, we did see 
a preliminary version in action at AmiExpo in New 
York. Fine Print generates highly-detailed gray-scale 
graphics dumps of Amiga images by overstriking each 
dot as many as 15 times. The overstriking requires 
the use of the worn ribbons, as fresh ribbons will 
produce a solid black image. Because many nine-pin 
dot-matrix printers have resolutions as high as 240 
dots per inch, it is possible to make fully-detailed, 
postLige-stamp-si/.ed printouts using a low-cost impact 
printer. (A Fine Print image will, of course, take some 
time to print.) Fine Print falls in our "Mural Makers" 
category, as it will print images over 100 feet tall. So 
start saving those old printer ribbons — there may be 
a use for them yet. 

Odds and Ends 

The remaining printer-support utilities are very spe- 
cialized and thus fall into this final "miscellaneous" 
category. 

For some reason, the width of a spreadsheet always 
manages to exceed its height, usually by substantial 



amounts. The traditional solution is to print out the 
spreadsheet in chunks and then cul and paste the 
pieces into the proper order. Micro-Systems Soft- 
ware's Flipside!, a sideways-style printing program, 
provides an alternative to this lime-consuming pro- 
cess and is now available on the Amiga. All you need 
is a spreadsheet program that can save its data to 
disk as an ASCII file. Flipside! reads in the data from 
the disk file and, by using your dot-matrix printer's 
graphics capabilities, prints out ihe text sideways. 

Hi-Tech Graphics' Plot-to-Print is intended for use 
with Aegis Draw or Draw Plus, MCAD, and Dynamic- 
CAD. CAD programs generally use plotters to obtain 
the detail required for engineering drawings. The 
resolution of a typical plotter exceeds 1000 dots per 
inch. Because plotters are expensive as compared to 
dot-matrix printers, very few users can justify their 
cost. Popular and relatively inexpensive CAD pack- 
ages like the ones mentioned above support dot- 
matrix printers. Unfortunately, the dot-matrix printer 
support consists of no more than a bitmap-graphics 
dump of the image currently displayed — not a very 
satisfactory solution. 

Plot-to-Print lets you utilize the full resolution of 
your dot-matrix printer with your CAD program. For 
Epson-compatible printers, the resolution can range 
from GO horizontal by 72 vertical dots per inch to as 
many as 240 horizontal by 216 vertical dots per inch. 
To use Plot-to-Print, you must first persuade your 
CAD program to save its output as a disk file in the 
Hewlett-Packard Craphics Language (HPGL), Once 
the data is in HPCI. format, you use one of the Plot- 
to-Print utility programs to convert (he HPGL file to i 



Public Dumping Permitted 



THERE ARE A number of useful, 
and of course much less expen- 
sive, screen dumper utilities in 
the public domain or available as 
shareware (where you pay a vol- 
untary donation to the author if 
you find the program of use to 
you). Several utilities contained 
in the Amicus public-domain col- 
lection of disks are shareware 
screen-dumper programs. Ami- 
cus disk number 8 contains three 
such programs, including Ned 
Konz' ScrecnDurnp 1.1. When ac- 
tivated, ScreenDump opens at the 
bottom of the screen a window 
whose height is only that of a 
menu bar. When the screen you 
wish to print is on the display, 



simply click on the menu bar to 
send it on to the printer. The 
hardcopy format is controlled 
from l'ri-fi-rciH es. 

Brian Conrad's SHOWPRINT 
II.3, contained on Amicus disk 
number 22, is not, strictly speak- 
ing, a screen dumper. It is de- 
signed to load and display any 
IFF-image file and send it to the 
printer. It offers you complete 
control of the size, aspect, aspect 
ratio, and mode of the printout 
from within the program. Be- 
cause it runs in the background, 
both the program and the dis- 
played image can be placed out 
of sight once the dump is started. 
SHOWPRINT supports overscan 



mode for images larger than the 
display screen. The program is 
menu-driven and easy to use. Ad- 
ditional documentation and a tip 
sheet will be provided to regis- 
tered users. 

ScreenDump 1.1 

Ned Konz 

210 Oleeta Street 

Ormond Beach, FL 32074 

904/756-2983 

$10 

SHOWPRINT II.3 
DalaWise Technologies 
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Touchet, WA 99360 
$5 

MK 



AmigaWorld 41 



a series of bitmaps on disk scaled to your specifica- 
tions. Finally, using another Plot-to-Print utility pro- 
gram, dump these bitmaps to a printer. Although the 
package is a bit cumbersome, it does get the job done 
and the results are impressive. HiTech Graphics is 
presently working on a more user-friendly version of 
the program. Plot-to-Print currently supports several 
printers, including the Epson nine-pin and compat- 
ibles, the Epson 24-pin, the Toshiba 24-pin, the NEC 
24-pin, and the Canon PJ-1080A. 



LASER 
H T I L 



PRINTER 
I T I E S 



As you undoubtedly know if you already have 
one, a laser printer is an expensive acquisition. 
Yes, they are sophisticated printing power- 
houses, but yes too, you want to get the most 
um of i hem for the least additional cost. Many 
software packages ideally suited to laser printers- 
such as desktop-publishing programs — are, unfortu- 
nately, also fairly expensive. But here's some good 
news for laser owners: There is inexpensive software 
that really does help you utilize your laser printer to 
its full capabilities — printer utility programs. 

Traveling with the "Jet Set" 

The laser printers most often used on personal com- 
puter are the HP LaserJet series (and their numerous 
clones). Unfortunately, the HP is not a PostScript 
printer, meaning it does not have the special com- 
mand language most often used for desktop publish- 
ing. Yet it does have its own commands, and, with 
careful planning, you can use them to create very 
impressive professional quality documents. (See the 
article "Lasting Impressions," in this issue for a more 
detailed description of the HP LaserJet printer.) To 
make this task easier, C Ltd has developed the jet Set 
laser-printer utilities. 

Jet Set provides you with an easy-to-use CLI-based 
interface for issuing commands to control the HP 
printer. With it you can download fonts to the printer, 
control the placement and appearance of your text, 
and even create many types of forms. The commands 
can be executed directly from the keyboard or from 
within a text file created by any text editor or word 
processor that allows you to save ASCII Tiles. 

The command set is quite extensive, with over 90 
different commands available. These range from mar- 
gin and page controls, to more standard printer com- 
mands like form and line feeds. There are commands 
to draw boxes, lines, and rules of various sizes and 
shades. You can also use Jet Set to download fonts to 



the HP, and select them from within your document. 
You can position the cursor anywhere on the page 
at any lime from within your document itself. Other 
features include mode-selection for switching be- 
tween the various dot densities the printer can gen- 
erate, and the ability to change from portrait (normal) 
printed output to landscape (rotated) output. 

Another advantage to Jet Set will be apparent to 
users of Scribble! and Textcraft. By combining Jet Set 
commands with the documents generated t>v these 
widely used word processors, you can take advantage 
of the high-quality fonts that can be downloaded to 
your HP laser printer. 

PostScript Utilities from the "Studio" 

If you do have a PostScript-based laser printer, such 
as the Apple LaserWriter or the QMS-PS 810, you 
might wonder why you would need or want laser 
utilities, seeing that your printer already has com- 
mands for formatting. In this case, the utility software 
makes it easier to access the PostScript features from 
within your documents, again without the expenses 
of a PostScript-based page-layout program. 

Scott Anthony Studios has three different Post- 
Script laser-utility programs. The first. LaserUtilitics. 
Vol 1.2, is in many ways similar to Jet Set, as it allows 
you to turn your word-processing or ASCII text-editor 
files into a highly polished printed document by 
including embedded PostScript control commands 
within the document. These are easy-to-use, two-digit 
commands — such as (FS nn def (which defines a font- 
scale of size nn). Others are margin- and page-control 
commands that simplify the desiguand layout pro- 
cess. Text can be centered and boxed automatically, 
usingvarioussizes of fonts and lines, with boxes filled 
with varying levels of gray shades. You can create 
circles and ellipses, and place btdlets anywhere in 
the text in either plain- or filled-circlc format, or as 
stars of varied size. 

A second S. Anthony Studios PostScript utility, 
LaserUp! Print 1.2, is a useful picture-printing pro- 
gram that can take any IFF-compatible bitmap image 
and print it on a PostScript page. The program is 
entirely menu- and mouse-driven, and it allows you 
to scale and position the image any way you wish on 
the page. A very simple pixel editor is included for 
fine detail "brush tips" of the pictvire. You can select 
any rectangular region of the image by placing a box 
around it and print only that region. You can wrap 
the image in any of a large number of border styles 
(included) and convert it to any of several different 
halftone types. You can add text to the picture if you 
wish. 

Once defined, the picture can be printed to ilk- 
PostScript printer in up to 48 shades of gray or saved 
as an ASCII text file that can be used with other 
PostScript packages, even on other computers. Fi- 
nally LaserUp! Printl.2 offers the ability to perform 
a four-color separation of the graphic image, printing 
or saving the separations as desired. The only draw- 



42 July 19S8 



Product Information 



D T H .4 T R I X 

PRINTER 
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The Big Picture 

Lightning Publishing Consultants 

1821 N.Ohio St. 

Arlington, VA 22205 

703/534-8030 

$29.95 

No special requirements 

DeluxePrint II 
Electronic Arts 
1820 Gateway Dr. 
San Mateo, CA 94404 
415/571-7171 
$79.95 
512K required 

Express Paint 2.0 

PAR Software Inc. 

PO Box 1089 

Elevator Way, Terminal #2 

Vancouver, WA 98666 

206/694-1539 

800/433-8433 

$99.95 

512K required 

Fine Print 

Design lab 

PO Box 419 

Owego, NY 13827 

607/687-5740 

$49.95 

No special requirements 



Flipside! 

Micro-Systems Software 

distributed by Brown-Wagk 

Publishing 

16795 Lark Ave., Suite 210 

Los Gatos, CA 95030 

800/451-0900 

408/395-3838 

$59.95 

No special requirements 

Grabbit 

Discovery Software International 

163 Conduit St. 

Annapolis, MD 21401 

301/268-9877 

$29.95 

No special requirements 

HUGEPrint 

Hugh's Software Ranch 

232 East 8th Street #1B 

New York, NY 10009 

212/353-2465 

$49.95 

No special requirements 

Plot-to-Print 
Hi-Tech Graphics 
PO Box 446 
Tallmadge, OH 44278 
Canon 320 
Epson 9-pin $25 
24-pin S35 
No special requirements 

Print Master Plus 

Unison World 

2150 Shattuck Ave., Suite 902 

Berkeley, CA 94704 

415/848-6670 
$49.95 
512K required 



WindowPrint II 

Computer Toolsmith 

distributed by T & L Products 

2645 Wilson St. 

CarJsbad, CA 92008 

619/729-4020 

$34.95 

No special requirements 

ZingJKeys 

Meridian Software Inc. 

PO Box 890408 

Houston, TX 77289-0408 

713/488-2144 

$49.95 

No special requirements 



LASER 

PRINTER 
UTILITIES 

Jet Set 
CLtd 

723 East Skinner 
Wichita, KS 67211 
316/267-3807 

$39.95 

LaserUp! Plot ($49.95) 

LaserUp! Print 1.2 ($89.95) 

LaserUtilities ($39.95) 

Scott Anthony Studios 

889 De Haro St. 

San Francisco, CA 94107 

415/826-6193 

No special requirements 



back I found to Printl.2 is that it requires the printer 
to be interfaced to the Amiga via the serial port. All 
other S. Anthony Studios packages work on whatever 
is defined as the PET: device. 

The last of the S. Anthony utilities is a very spe- 
cialized package, LaserUp! Plot, which converts CAD 
files created with Aegis Draw or Draw Plus from their 
vector-based object files to PostScript-described files. 
Once converted they can be quickly printed on your 
laser printer at the highest density available (800 dots 



per inch). Most importantly, they can be included in 
other documents, where they can be resized and 
positioned as needed, just like any other PostScript 
defined image. ■ 

Morton A. Kevelson is a frequent reviewer and Louis R. 
Wallace is a contributing editor for AmigaWorld. Write to 
Morton at 2471 Bragg St., Brooklyn, NY 11235. Write to 
Louis do AmigaWorld, Editorial DepL, 80 Elm St., Peter- 
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THREE FOR THE LOAD 



By David T. McClellan 



LIKE A GOOD TRUCK, a programming language 
should be dependable over the long haul, hut be able 
to pour on the speed when you are behind schedule. 
Modula-2 is a souped up version of Pascal with most 
of its problems removed, and was pioneered by the 
same man. Niklaus Wirth. The module concept cleans 
up most of the breakdowns (such as automatic vari- 
able type tasting) in C that sent me to the debugger 
too often and is somewhat cleaner than object li- 
braries, because the modules are version-controlled. 
Modula-2 is much pickiei about data types than C, 
but it does allow open arrays (arrays whose exact sizes 
are not known) as procedure parameters, correcting 
one of Pascal's great flaws. It also allows coercion of 
data and pointer types. 

Each of the three Amiga compilers, TDI Modula- 
2 version 3.01a, M2Amiga version 3,1. and Bench- 
mark Modula-2 version 1.03. has its own editor, in- 
tegrated to differing extents, and its own linker. All 
three feature modules defined for the Amiga libraries 
and routines, as well as the standard Modula-2 mod- 
ules such as InOut and SYSTEM. For all three you 
can get by with a 51 2K machine, although I recom- 
mend having at least a megabyte and at least two 
floppies, but preferably a hard disk. The differences 
shine through in the quality of the AmigaDOS and 
kernel interfaces, the generated code, and their doc- 
umention. 

TDI 

The first commercial Modula-2 compiler for the 
Amiga, TDI comes in three versions: basic, devel- 
opers, and commercial. Besides the difference in 
price, the developers and commercial versions offer 
source code for various modules, IFF (Interchange 
File Formal) and ILBM (Inter-l-eaved Bit Map) sup- 
port, a disassembler, and a cross-referencer. All three 
use the original four-pass Wirth compiler model as 
a basis, which slows them down a bit. TDI offers 
several compiler switches, such as SOPT + or 
$OPT-, for code optimization, but you must imbed 
them in the code. This style of comment-set options 
goes back to the first CDC Pascal compiler, at least. 
M2Amiga and Benchmark Modula-2 allow similar 
compiler switches, but also provide command-line 
versions. 

The integrated editor is supposed to find error 



files produced by the compiler, .erm files, then count 
and mark the errors in the source code. It works 
about half of the time and is often unable to identify 
the problems in an error file produced by the com- 
piler. To be convinced you have found all the bugs, 
you are almost forced to use the editor lo step through 
the code line by line. The .erm files are text files, 
listing the line and the error number, so you can use 
another editor to speed things up. After struggling 
with TDI's editor, I reverted to examining and editing 

files with MicroEmacs. The • 

TDI editor is far inferior to 

MicroEmacs and is really only With this Convoy 

useful for tracking errors you 

have already identified. For of Modula-2 compilers, 

more serious compilations, 

the symbolic debugger lets you youll SOOI1 be 

perform a post-mortem on a 

dead program. Using it is "compile- bound and 

slightly more efficient than 

scattering WriteString calls down, linked Up 

through the program. 

At 163K, the program is the and executing." 

largest of the three tested. The 

module definitions lake up 90 percent of an Amiga 
floppy, making it impossible to add on the compiler 
and linker to make separate language and working 
disks, as I did with M 2 Amiga and Benchmark. You 
must either trim down the module disk to hold the 
compiler, or put the compiler, linker, and editor on 
your working disk. If you own a hard disk, you have 
already solved your space problem. 

Besides being the largest, TDI is the most unstable. 
It crashed and sent me a guru meditation message 
several times while compiling modules with and with- 
out errors. Even with the required AmigaDOS stack 
of 30K, TDI died. One time it also corrupted my 
working disk. Equally annoying but less devastating, 
both the compiler and the linker always returned 
error code 507 to AmigaDOS, even after a successful 
compilation or link. Upon receiving the error code, 
AmigaDOS will kick you out of a batch compile. 

The manual features definitions for each module 
and an index. Despite being neatly formatted, the 
manual was confusing to follow at limes. Every page 
header in the Module Definitions seel ion is one page 
off from ihe actual topic it refers to. Fortunately, the ►- 



AnagaWorid 45 



headers in the texi and the index are correct. More 
frustrating is the missing M2Conversions module, 
used for number-to-string and string-to-nuniber con- 
versions. While it was described in (he documenta- 
tion, it was not included on my disk. 

I thought that after two years of being on the 
market, the TDI compiler would be solid. It's disap- 
pointing thai it was unreliable, because it performed 
well in the limed benchmarks. Despite its four-pass 
compiler, it ran neck-and-neck with M2Amiga (see 
the accompanying chart). 

M2AMIGA 

Distributed in ihe United States by Interface Tech- 
nologies Corp., the M2Amiga Compiler originally 
hails from S%vitzerland and the A. + L, Meier- Vogl 
Company. The one-pass compiler (135K) is icon- 
based, so you can run it from Workbench. Somewhat 
faster than TDI, it clocked consistent compile and 
link times over several runs. 

I used M2Amiga to debug the benchmarks for 
mismatched and mixed types. Its built-in MicroF.macs- 
based editor successfully recognized error files from 
the compiler, and an error-finder mode similar to 
TDI's is available from a pull-down menu. Unlike 
TDI, however, it always found the errors, and it allows 
you to set compiler flags for turning on and off 
various error-catching runtime code from the com- 



Benchmark Tests 



Preparation Times (all times in seconds) 

TDI M2Amlga 



Benchmark 



Combined Test 


Compile 


88 


55 


34 


Link 


149 


39 


42 


Size of Exec. 


33.8K 


29. 1K 


42.4K 


FFT 








Compile 


56 


45 


27 


Link 


144 


32 


34 



Size of Exec. 

Execution Times (all times in seconds) 

TDI M2Amlga 



Benchmark 



FFT S 


Permutation S 


Towers £ 


8 Queens 2 


Int Mat Mult 1 


Real Mat Mult 1 


Puzzle S 


Quicksort 1 


Bubble Sort i 


Tree Sort 1 



29.7 

9.6 

9.3 

3 

9.9 

15.7 

28.6 

5.3 

8.7 

14.2 



5.9 


9.6 


5.3 


6.9 


9.3 


7 


2.8 


3 


2.7 


12.5 


9.9 


8.6 


16.5 


15.7 


21.2 


25 


28.6 


27.5 


6.2 


5.3 


5.5 


8 


8.7 


7.6 



28.7 

5.3 

7 

2.7 

8.6 

21.2 

27.5 

5.5 

7,6 

9.9 



piler command line as well as in the source code of 
a file. The whole edit/compile/link process was easier. 
The linker is fast and even lets you make icons for 
finished executable files. 

Interfacing Modula-2 and AmigaDOS is much sim- 
pler with M2Amiga. Unlike TDI and Benchmark, 
which require you to call certain Heap setup/shut- 
down routines, the M2Amiga runlime system handles 
all AmigaDOS setup/shutdown. With Benchmark, you 
even have to initialize the math library. 

M2Amigais a little rough in some areas, including 
the documentation. Printed in dark blue on grayish 
thin-stock paper, the manual is hard to read and 
flimsy. It lacks an index, and the module descriptions 
are difficult to read. A + L. Meicr-Vogt does include 
some demos to give you an idea of the power of the 
language. 

Be prepared to wail when installing the compiler 
on a boot disk. The installation program takes over 
14 minutes, perhaps because M2Amiga is set up to 
handle one- or two-drive systems and must read an 
entire source disk before writing. The delay is nec- 
essary to make the compiler work properly on one 
disk. Without installing, the program repeatedly re- 
quested to remount my system disk. 

You are also forced to set up a project directory 
structure to compile in, with sym. obj, and ref sub- 
directories for each project. The linker, however, does 
not automatically recognize this structure; you must 
direct the linker to the proper object file. 

[loth the compiler and linker produce information 
for an optional debugger mentioned in the manual. 
The only "description" is in the Amiga Run Time 
System module section. The paragraph reads more 
like an ad. saying a debugger exists and can be in- 
stalled: please ask your dealer for details. I don't mind 
ads, but don't tease me. 

BENCHMARK: MODULA-2 

Distributed by AvatH Garde Software. Benchmark: 
Modula-2 is a one-pass compiler (103K) and lias sev- 
eral optional module libraries. The main disk in- 
cludes a configuration tool that lets you change a 
number of compiler options to your defaults instead 
of Avanl Garde's. You can set these from the compiler 
command line or from within the source code. There 
is a choice of two integrated editors, with an extra 
twist: You can run the compiler and linker from them. 
A handy Benchmark extra is a procedure profiler, 
which is verv useful for fine-tuning an application. 

You can expand your system with the optional 
module libaries, including an Iff module library, a 
"C Language Library", full of C-like functions to ease 
the transition for diehards like me. and a "Simple 
Amiga Interface" module library with easv windows, 
menus, and gadgets. 

Benchmark uses the Motorola fast Floating Point 
library for speed, but thus does not support the 



46 July 1988 



LONGREAL. (64-bit real) variable type. Both TDI and 
M2Amiga supported (lie type; Benchmark would have 
had to access AmigaDOS' IEEE floatingpoint math 
library to do so. 

Your variables are further constrained by the static 
datastorage area, limited to 32K per module or pro- 
cedure. This is not a big deal if you break up your 
variables and arrays beforehand, but you might have 
to rearrange your data when porting programs be- 
tween Modula-2 compilers. As a result of ils data- 
segment layout. Benchmark generates bigger code 
segments than the other two. 

Surprisingly, with all the range-checking and ov- 
erflow-checking code it lias, the program does not 
check for stack overflow. 1 overran the limit mice and 
had to backtrack from the symptoms to discover my 
mistake. 

The documentation is exhaustive, and demos are 
abundant (text, graphics, sound, and more), although 
most are converted from C public-domain programs. 
The documentation is extenslive, but does not have 
an index. The "Definition Module Cross Reference" 
section allows you to look up an identifier, find the 
module it appears in, and then thumb back through 
the book to find thai description, Both the manual 
and main bootable disk include tutorials. 

The Weigh Station 

A mixed bag of tricks, the benchmark tests put the 
three programs up on the scales and sent them 
through their comparative paces, exercising recur- 
sion, array indexing, integer and real math, pointer 
dereferencing, and structure accessing. 1 ran a heavily 
recursive permutation calculator, a Tower of Hanoi 
solver, an Eight Queens solver (done 50 times). Puzzle 
(a math and array intensive compute-bound bench- 
mark by forest Basket!), Integer and Real Matrix 
Multipliers (40 x 40 arrays), three sorts (Quicksort, 
Tree Sort, and Bubble Sort, each over 5000-element 
arrays of random numbers). I also tested a separate 
Fast Fourier Transform program, with an array of 
2"7li complex numbers described as records. Origi- 
nally the test was bundled with the others, but the 
combined static data size was too large for Benchmark 
Modula-2 to handle. All the benchmarks output only 
to the screen, because I/O is more a function of an 
Operating System than a compiler. 

My test setup was a two-floppy system, with com- 
piler, linker, and module descriptions on floppy and 
my AmigaDOS CLI commands in the RAM disk. I 
used each system's editor on the source for that sys- 
tem, but with TDI, I frequently had to fall back on 
M icroEmacs. I timed each procedure separately, using 
the DateStamp AmigaDOS call to get the current 
time before and after each module call. Between 
compilers, I changed only the names of data types 
imported from Amiga Modules and the names of the 
imported modules themselves. The combined test was* 



Modula-2 Road Signs 



FINDING YOUR WAY around in a foreign language is never easy, so to 
ease the transition for diehard C programmers. 1 have compiled the 
following list of Modula-2 equivalents for C commands. Control structure 
translation is a simple affair. 



The C Statement 



in Modula-2 becomes: 



If (X ! = 15) 

{ 

prlntff'll's not 151 It's %dn",x); 

} 
else 

( 

/* manipulate x here */ 



IF (x it 15) THEN 

WriteStrlngflt is not 151 It Is '); 

Writelnt(x); 
ELSE 

(* manipulate x here •) 
END; 



Similar conversions apply for while, do while, for, and switch. Modula- 
2 does not support goto. Less obvious Modula-2 cognates for some fre- 
quently used C features are listed below. 

C MODULA2 

#1nclude FROM module IMPORT xxx, xxx 

#deflne CONST 

unsigned CARDINAL 

unsigned long LONGCARD 

long Int LONGINT 

tnt Mred tred : POINTER TO INTEGER; 

NULL NIL 

[++ INC(i); 

i += 5 INC(i,5); 

1- - OEC(f) (' Ditto for DEC(i,5> *) 

sizeof SIZE (variable), TSIZE (type) 

/" flags - several lines '/ (* sets - several lines ") 

#define FLAG1 0x01 CONST Flagl - 1; Flag2 - 2; 

.■■define FLAG2 0x02 Flag3 = 0FH; 

Adeline FLAG3 OxOF TYPE FlagSet = SET OF [0..31]; 

fnt flagword; fiagword : FlagSet; 

flag word |= FLAG1; flagword := flagword + 

flagword &= FLAG2; FlagSet ( FLAG1 j; 

if (flagword & FLAG3) . . . flagword : a flagword - 

/• end of FLAGS •/ FlagSet ( FLAG2 |; 

IF (Ftag3 IN flagword) THEN . . . 
(•END OF SETS') 

/" I/O */ (• I/O') 

prlntf("Vars %d %f %c %sn", WriteString('Vars "); 

int — 1, float_f, ehar_e, Wrilelnt(inL_l); 

strlng_s); WriteReal(float_f); 

/* ditto for Input "/ Write(char_c); 

WrrteString(string_s)r 

WriteLn; 

(•DITTO FOR INPUT*) 

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differences in sets of imports, typecasting, and setup 
calls varied slightly the length lor each compiler. Sec 
the benchmark chart for the results. 

Inspector's Report 

All three clock similar speeds for code generation. 
Benchmarks floating point code pulls ahead, but not 
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M2 Amiga compiler, but you'll spend a lot of time 
with the compiler up on the debugger's rack, rebuild 
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up to snuff. M2Amiga is a little more solid, but the 
documentation is far from helpful to the beginner. 
Because it is very new, the Benchmark compiler still 
has to be broken in a bit. Slightly unwieldy in tight 
corners. Benchmark's code size is the largest, but it's 
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the M2Amiga compiler, and Avant Garde gives you 
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Create your own repertoire of special effects 
with this Amiga Basic video text program. 



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By Bryan D. Catley 

ith video text, you have the ability to produce on a 
computer monitor enlarged text that can be trans- 
ferred to videotape as program titles or photo- 
graphed as slides for use in presentations. Using a 
number of different programming techniques, you 
can create a wide range of special effects to en- 
hance your titling efforts and other presentations. 
The Amiga Basic program — Basic Video Text (see 
Listing 1) — that follows this article makes full use 
of the Amiga's potent graphics capabilities to pro- 
vide you with the tools to use video text with 
professional-quality results. 

Consider the following features: Up to 29 colors; 
horizontal enlargement up to 10 times; vertical en- 
largement up to 20 times; upper- and lowercase; 
plain, underlined, italicized, and boldface text 
styles; combinations of text styles; shadowed text; 
drop shadowed text; strobe text; outlined text; hori- 
zontal striping; vertical striping; the ability to 
"undo" the last item drawn; a grid to assist in text 
placement that may be toggled on and off at will; 
the ability to scroll the screen to fine-tune text 
placement; an optional borderless screen; 
and more. 

Many Items on These Menus 

Type in the program and save a copy before run- 
ning it. Basic Video Text is completely menu 
driven. When you execute it, you will be presented 
with a title screen that is displayed while the pro- 
gram initializes itself. The screen then clears to a 
grid-covered plain background, and the program 
will wait for your menu selection. Note that many 
of the menu selections are on/off toggles. This 
means the menu will always show what can be se- 
lected (which, naturally enough, is the opposite of 
what is currently in place). Further, many of the 
menu items are ghosted when [heir selection is not 
appropriate. 

To get you started, let's look at the four menus 
and the items they control; 

1. The Big Text Menu 

This menu doubles as a project menu and the 
menu that controls the text. Menu options include: 



Open/Close Opens or closes the text input window. 
You can "drag" this window to any location on the 
screen. Once opened, it cannot be closed until you 
press Return. 

Clear it Clears the text input window and readies it 
for new input. Valid only after you press Return. 

Draw It Draws an enlarged version of the entered 
text at the Block Cursor (see below) position. 

Erase It Clears the enlarged text completely. 
("Undo" may be used to restore the enlarged text.) 

Place It Sets the Block Cursor to wherever the 
mouse is clicked. 

Undo It Removes the last item drawn. 

Grid ON/OFF Toggles the grid on and off. 

H Stripe ON/OFF Toggles a transparent horizontal 
stripe on the enlarged text (as it is drawn) on and 
off. 

V Stripe ON/OFF Toggles a transparent vertical stripe 
on the enlarged text (as it is drawn) on 
and off. 

Draw Factors Opens a window that allows you to set 
the horizontal and vertical drawing factors by click- 
ing in the appropriate box. By default, both factors 
are set to five. 

Quit Quit Basic Video Text and return to Amiga 
Basic. 

2. The Pens Menu 

This menu allows you to set the various colors you 
wish to use, Options include: 

BG Color Allows you to choose a new background 
and border color by clicking in one of the dis- 
played colors. The change is instant. 

Grid Color Allows you to choose a new grid and 
frame color by clicking in one of the displayed 
colors. The change is instant. Note: If the grid 
color is changed to that of the background (or vice 
versa), the result is a borderless screen. The menus, 
however, will also disappear — although selected 
menu items will become visible. 

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clicking in one of the displayed colors. The current 
FG Pen color (which is red by default) is always 
used to draw the Block Cursor. Existing colors are 
not effected. 

OL Pen Allows you to choose a new outline color by 
clicking in one of the displayed colors. By default. 
the outline color is always the same as the FG Pen 
color. The current OL Pen color is shown across 
the lop of the Block Cursor, 

3. The Style Menu 

This menu allows you to select various text styles. 
Options include: 

Plain Text is drawn using the standard Amiga text 
display; checked when selected. 

Underline ON/OFF Toggles text underlining on and 
off. 

Bold ON/OFF Toggles bold text on and off. 

Italics Text is drawn in italics; checked when 
selected. 



sage; you will simply have lo reboot vnur Amiga. 
Many functions (such as speech, cut and paste, and 
so forth) use memorv that is no( released when the 
function terminates — thus the reason for this tem- 
porary available memory problem. 

How do vou transfer the screen image to your 
VCR"' On an Amiga 1000, use a video cable with an 
RCA-type jack at each end — plugging one end into 
the composite-vidcooutput jack on the back of 
your computer and the other end into the video- 
input jack of your VCR. Then simply press record. 
(Be sure to check your VCR instruction book for 
details on using the video-input jack.) With an 
Amiga 500 or 2000, you will need an ROB encoder. 

If you wish to photograph the screen, be sure lo 
use a shutter speed of less ihan one-sixtieth of a 
second (because the screen is redrawn <>() times a 
second). 

Sample Video Text Techniques 

The following ideas should get you started with Ba- 
sic Video Text: 



4. The Scroll Menu 

This menu allows you to scroll the screen contents 
in any direction. Options include: 

Left The screen scrolls the selected number of pix- 
els to the left. 

Right The screen scrolls the selected number ol pix- 
els to the right. 

Up The screen scrolls the selected number of pixels 
upwards. 

Down The screen scrolls the selected number of pix- 
els downwards. 

x 2 Scroll two pixels; checked when selected. 

x 4 Scroll four pixels; checked when selected. 

x 8 Scroll eight pixels; checked when selected. 

Final Checklist 

You are now ready to use the program, but there is 
oik- thing of which vou should be aware, lite pro- 
gram uses most of the memory available in a ")12K 
machine. This means you should not be overly con- 
cerned if you receive an "Out of Heap Space" mes- 



Listing 1. Bask Video Text 



Basic Video Text, for AmigaKorld 
Bryan 1). Catley, May 1987 



i"i F.AK 
DECLA 
NumCo 
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RE I-UNCTION TextLength&( ) LIBRARY 
ls=32:r=0:g=l : b = 2 : ScW id = 31 1 : ScDep=l 98 
grid=2:LRed»3:Red=4:DRed=5:L0rg=6:0rg=7:D0rg=8 
9jYel=10:Diel=ll:LGm=12:Grn=13:DGrn=14:LBlu=15 
6:DBlu=17:LVio-18:Vio=19:DVio=20:LMag=21 :>!ag = 22 
23:LBrw=24:Brv=25:DBrw=26:l.Gry=27:Gry-28:DGry-29 

Listing continued on p. S7 



Shadowed Text Set the FG Pen to black, draw the 
text, move the Block Cursor a little towards an up- 
per corner of the screen, change the FG Pen to an- 
other color and draw (he same text again. 

Drop Shadowed Text L'se the same technique as that 
described above, but move the Block Cursor a little 
further. 

Strobe Text Use the same method as that described 
for shadowed text, but repeat it a number of limes 
in different colors. 

Outlined Text Select a color for the OL IVn that con- 
trasts with that of the FG Pen. 

Hollow Text Set the FG Pen lo the background color 
and the Ol. Pen to a contrasting color. 

Translucent Text -Set the horizontal drawing factor lo 
2 and select Vertical Stripe ON (or vice versa). 

Patterned Text Draw the text in any desired color, set 
the FG Pen to a contrasting color, set both Vertical 
and Horizontal Stripes ON and redraw [he same 
text in the same location. 

Flat Text Set low vertical and high horizontal 
factors. 

Tall Text Set high vertical and low horizontal 
factors. 

These are just a few of the many effects you can 
create with Basic Video Text. You will be surprised 
at what you can achieve with various combinations 
of the above techniques. All you need to do is go 
ahead and experiment. ■ 

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years' experience with IBM mainframes and a little less 
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Exploring this month 's CLI commands will help 

you organize your disks and disk space more effectively. 



By Mark L. Van Name and Bill Catchings 



OVER THE PAST few columns in our se- 
ries, we have been examining several 
groups of common CLI commands. Most 
of them you will probably use quite 
often. There are other commands, how- 
ever, that provide important functions 
that help you manage your disks. 

To use a disk with your Amiga, you 
must first FORMAT it. The FORMAT 
command gives you a disk that is ini- 
tially empty (except, perhaps, for a 
Trashcan icon and directory), and on 
which you can store data. That's fine for 
data storage, but if you want to turn that 
disk (or any other) into one that you can 
use when your Amiga boots and tells you 
to insert the Workbench disk, you have 
to prepare it further. You could simply 
DISKCOPY your Workbench disk onto it 
(in which case you did not need to for- 
mat the target disk first). This approach, 
however, would overwrite any other files 
that are already on the disk. 

Put Your Disks on the 
Installment Plan 

Instead, you can make your own custom- 
ized boot disk — perhaps even one that 
contains a streamlined CLI and no Work- 
bench. This is where the INSTALL com- 
mand helps you out. Its only argument is 
a disk drive identifier; 

INSTALL [DRIVE] DFn: 

where n must be cither 0, 1,2, or 3. It 
makes the disk in drive DFn: "bootable." 
INSTALL is really only the first step in 



this process. It puts just enough on the 
disk to let your Amiga boot from it and 
give you the CLI's 1> prompt. It does 
not automatically bring up the Work- 
bench. More importantly, it does not 
copy any of the CLI's command files onto 
(his disk. To be able to use them, you have 
to copy them from a Workbench disk into 
the C directory of this disk. 

INSTALL has one other unfortunate 
limitation: It does not ask you to insert 
your target disk into the drive you speci- 
fied. Instead, it immediately starts to 
work on the disk in that drive. If your 
Amiga has only a single drive, or if you 
expected to be asked to insert your disk 
and specified a drive that contained an- 
other disk, you could be in for a sur- 
prise. On a one-drive system, you have 
the Workbench disk in your drive, be- 
cause it contains the INSTALL command 
file. You enter the INSTALL command, 
and it puts its information on your 
Workbench disk — not what you wanted. 

There are two easy ways around ibis 
problem. The first is to copy the IN- 
STALL command into the current direc- 
tory of your target disk, put that disk in 
your drive, and then run INSTALL from 
there. The other approach is to copy the 
INSTALL command file from your Work- 
bench disk to RAM:, remove the Work- 
bench disk, insert your target disk, and 
then run INSTALL from RAM: by typing 

RAMdNSTALL DFO: 
Now you can copy any other files you 



need onto your disk and be on your way. 

If you forget this procedure and see 
that INSTALL is starting to work on 
your Workbench disk, you might be 
tempted to open the door to your drive 
and remove the disk. If you have used an 
Amiga for any length of time, you know- 
that this is one of the quickest ways to 
ruin a disk — but every so often you may 
forget. When you do, AmigaDOS can 
leave the special file structures that it 
keeps on the disk to help it manage your 
files in inconsistent states, so that your 
files are effectively lost. Even if you are 
extremely careful never to make this mis- 
take, disks still sometimes go bad. 

Spotting a bad disk is usually simple. 
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write to it. More often, you try to use it and 
AmigaDOS is unable to validate it. When 
that happens, you gel messages such as 

"Volume 
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is not validated" 



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The DISKDOCTOR command can 
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Simply put the bad disk in a drive DFn: 
and type 

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files. It often does not get them all, but it 
usually gets most of them. If DISKDOC- 
TOR is able to recover some or all of 
your files, it tells you 

"Now copy files required to a new disk 
and reformat this disk." 

Don't ignore this message. Just because 
DISKDOCTOR has saved some files does 
not mean that you can trust your disk. 
You should COPY (not DISKCOPY) all 
of the files that you want to save from 
this disk onto another one. Then FOR- 
MAT this disk and COPY all of your files 
back onto it, and you can get back to 
work safely. 

When you FORMAT this disk or any 
other one, you have an opportunity to 
give it a name, which AmigaDOS calls its 
volume label. If you want to change that 
name, however, the best way is not refor- 
matting your disk. Instead, use the RE- 
LABEL command: 

RELABEL [DRIVE] DFn: [NAME] 
<new name> 

The disk's new name must follow the 
usual AmigaDOS rules. It can contain up 
to 30 characters, and if you want it to 
contain any spaces, surround it with 
quotes. 

RELABEL shares one problem with 
INSTALL: It does not ask you to insert 
your target disk; instead, it immediately 
changes the name of the disk in the 
drive you specified. You can avoid this 
problem by using either of the ap- 
proaches that we described for 
INSTALL. 

AmigaDOS lets you do more than man- 
age a disk's name or contents. In a lim- 
ited way, you also can make it run faster 
by using die ADDBUFFERS command: 

ADDBUFFERS DFn: <number of 

buffers> 

When you read a file on a disk, 
AmigaDOS actually reads that file in 
chunks called sectors. It keeps some of 
these sectors in memory areas called sec- 
tor cache buffers, so that it can get them 
more quickly if you need them again. Be- 
cause many programs tend to read the 
same disk area several times during their 
execution, these cache buffers can im- 
prove your overall disk performance. 

ADDBUFFERS tells AmigaDOS to 
keep more of these sector cache buffers. 
You generally need 25 to 30 additional 
buffers to get a noticeable improvement 



in your disk performance. There are no 
hard and fast rules to tell you how much 
improvement you will get from any num- 
ber of additional buffers. Instead, your 
best bet is to start with an additional 25 
buffers and see if it helps. You rarely 
need more than an additional 50 buffers 
for a drive. Remember, if you really want 
to speed up access to a few files, copy 
them into RAM: and you will not have to 
use the disk at all to read them. 

These extra cache buffers are not free, 
of course. Each one consumes about 500 
bytes of your available system memory. 
For 25 additional buffers, you burn 
about I2.5K, This may not seem like 
much, but on a 512K Amiga, it could de- 
crease the size of the spreadsheet or 
paint file you can use, or stop a light- 
fitting program from squeezing into 
memory. On an Amiga with 1MB or 
more of memory, these extra buffers are 
often well worth the cost. On such a sys- 
tem, you might even want to put ADD- 
BUFFERS statements for each of your 
drives into your startup-sequence file. 

Okay, Let's Check Out the Files 

Whether your disk runs fast or slow, you 
often need to see what it contains. The 
DIR command (see "info.phile," p. 61, in 
the March '88 issue of AmigaWorld) is one 
way to see a list of your files. AmigaDOS 
provides another such command — 
LIST — that lets you get more informa- 
tion about your files. 

LIST has many options. You can get a 
great deal of useful information from it, 
however, without having to use any of 
these options. Just enter 

LIST 

It displays the following categories of in- 
formation about the files in your current 
directory: 

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size 

protection 

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time 

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Unlike DIR, LIST does not show you 
the files in sorted order; instead, you get 
them as AmigaDOS chooses to present 
them. It tells you more than DIR, how- 
ever, by giving you these five other 
pieces of information about each file. 
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says "empty." It also treats directories 
differently from files and displays "dir" 
in this field for them. 

The protection column tells you what 
operations you can perform on each file. 
It contains some combination of four let- 
ters: r (Read), w (Write), e (Execute), and 
d (Delete). As you are probably the 
owner and sole user of most of your 
files, their entry in this column reads 
"rwed," which means that you can per- 
form any operation on them. 

You can use these operation designa- 
tors and another AmigaDOS command, 
PROTECT, to stop other users from hurt- 
ing files accidentally. PROTECT accepts 
a file name argument and a list of zero 
or more of these four options: 

PROTECT [FILE] <file_name> 
[FLAGS <options>] 

If you want to stop an operation, just 
omit its option designator from the list 
after the keyword FLAGS. For example, 
if you want to put a file called copyright- 
notice on a disk and prevent anyone 
from deleting it accidentally, enter 

PROTECT copyright_notice 
FLAGS rwe 

Right now AmigaDOS only enforces the 
d protection; even if you leave off all of 
the options and try to protect a file com- 
pletely, you can still read, write to, or ex- 
ecute that file. 

There are three other LIST headings. 
The date and time columns show you 
the date and time when each file was 
created. These can be very helpful when 
you are trying to decide which of several 
versions of a file is the most recent one. 

The xomment field is another special 
one that, like protection, reflects the re- 
sult of an AmigaDOS command. If you 
create a new file, its LIST entry shows 
nothing under that heading. You can, 
however, attach a comment to a file with 
the FILENOTE command: 

FILENOTE [FILE] <file_name> COM- 
MENT <comment> 

Your <comment> can be up to 80 char- 
acters long, but if you w : anl it to contain 
any spaces, you must surround it with 
quotes. You can use these comments for 
everything from file version information 
to a statement of a file's purpose. 

If a file has a comment, its LIST entry 
shows that comment with a colon I:) pre- 
ceding it. For example, if you have a 512- 



byte file fred with no special permissions, 
and you enter 

FILENOTE fred COMMENT "This is 
Version 1 .2 of my fred file" 

its list entry might show 

fred 512 rwed Today 12:11:03 
:This is Version 1.2 of my fred file 

You should be aware of the way that 
AmigaDOS handles these comments 
when you work with your files. Assume 
that you have a f\\e filel with a comment. 
If you COPY filel, the copy does not 
have/t<W's comment. On the other hand, 
if you RENAME/;/*'/, the resulting file 
retains/!/? Vs comment. Finally, if you in 
any way update or overwrite the con- 
tents of filel, the result of that operation 
retains filel's comment. For example, if 
you 

COPY too to filel 

file! contains the same information as 
foo, but it keeps its comment, even if foo 
had a different comment. 

The LIST command always displays a 
file's comment. You can stop it from dis- 
playing the date and time information, 
however, with the NODATES option. 

You can also get LIST to give you in- 
formation about any particular file or di- 
rectory by giving the name of that file or 
directory as its first parameter, after its 
optional DIR parameter. For example, 
the following two commands are 
equivalent: 

LIST DIR <file_name> 
LIST <file_name> 

If <file_name> is a file, LIST gives you 
information about only that file. If it is a 
directory, LIST displavs informal ion 
about all of the files and directories 
within that directory. 

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September 16, 1988. Listen for your 
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sfafe line. 

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Subtract the code number of the Amiga 
Basic Overflow error message and merge 
with another route. Where these divide 
follow the new route across two state lines 
and stop at the capital of your present state. 

5. Continue on the same route, crossing 
three state lines until you reach the first 
large city. 

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another route. Turn right when you come to 
the "Ketchup Road" at George's place and 
do some sports math to find your next 
route: Divide the number of players on a 




rugby (Union) team by the number on a 
basketball team; multiply that by the number 
on a cricket team; add the number of 
football players allowed on the field during a 
play. Continue In the same direction on the 
new route. 

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thinking of the sponsor of the old TV show 
"Death Valley Days." Use that information 
and double it to find your next route. 

8. Head towards a small hard place. When 
you get there, have a sports fantasy: Hit a 
grand slam home run, kick a field goal, 
score a touchdown, bowl a strike, score a 
hat trick, par a 150-yard hole, and sink a 
foul shot. Leave by the appropriate route. 

9. Head to a place that three states helped 
name. Continue towards the state that 
contributed first until you reach a "TV 
Town." 

10. Here, think of "Some Not Very Difficult 
Parts." Add that to your present route to 
find your new route. Head in the 
Confederacy's direction until you reach a 
city where you can make a "last stand." 





11. Shoot an eagle on the Masters' 18th, 
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the next place. 

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lanterns in Old "Ollle's" place of worship 
will tell you which direction to go. 

13. Proceed in that direction halfway across 
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Darwin, Winston Churchill, et. al might like 
after dinner. Follow this idea to the nearest 
state and go to its most well known city. 

14. If you left this city by train at 4:45 pm, 
you should arrive at the town that is your 
next destination 6 hours and 3 minutes later. 

15. Delete the fourth letter in the name of 
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but need occasional high-quality black- 
and-white print. 

Because Shakespeare keeps your docu- 
ment and all related files in memory, 
512K of RAM is barely enough to con- 
struct a simple one-page document. As 
memory diminishes, the system some- 
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than not it hangs. Version 1.1 promises 
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memory monitor, but as it is, at least a 
megabyte is required to create publica- 
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two drives to avoid disk swapping. 

Shakespeare is cleverly conceived, 
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refer you to the manual. The tutorials 




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Micron Amiga Memory 
Board 

Three cheers for two megabytes. 
By Morton A. Kevelson 

WHEN MEMORY IS the issue, experi- 
enced Amiga users will agree that more 
is better. 

Micron Technology aims to please 
with a two-megabyte memory board 
available in a variety of configurations. 
All configurations start with the stan- 
dard. 100-pin Zorro-2 card, with four- 
layer printed circuit structure containing 
embedded ground and power planes to 
minimize noise and crosstalk, socketed 
256-kilobit 120-nanosecond dynamic 
RAM chips, and soldered logic chips. 
Purchased for the A2000, the board 
comes alone. The A 1000 design adds a 
single-slot chassis, with or without an ex- 
ternal power supply, and the board is 
packaged in a single-slot chassis with self- 
contained power box for the A500. 

The version I tested was installed in 
the 1314-inch deep, all-metal Amiga 500 
chassis with a power switch, power indi- 
cator, and a pass-through option for the 
86-pin bus. You can open the 6 x 3Ji x 
3-inch power box for servicing. Its 2.0 
ampere, five-volt rating should be ade- 
quate for the board, but not additional 
peripherals, and while the box generates 
positive and negative 12-vo!t outputs, the 
board does not appear to use these. 
When installed on the side of an A500, 
the chassis extends two inches behind 
the CPU and to within one inch from 
the front. It looms nearly 3% inches 
above the keyboard, a position that may- 
induce left-hand claustrophobia. If you 
plan to use the pass-through feature, 
you'll need to open the box and pull a 
set of terminating resistors from their 
sockets. 

To test the unit on an A2000, I simply 
opened the chassis, removed the board, 
and installed it in a slot. 

This memory board is specified as hav- 
ing zero wait states. Because dynamic 
RAM i hips, used for all Amiga RAM. 
tend to "forget" their contents, they 
need to be periodically "reminded" by 
the dynamic RAM controller. If the con- 
troller's timing is not just right, the mi- 
croprocessor must wait while the RAM is 
being refreshed. Zero-wait-state design 



insures that the refresh cycles will occur 
when the microprocessor is not accessing 
the RAM. 

SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS 

We all know, too painfully well, that 
RAM will not retain any of its data once 
the power is turned off or the Guru ap- 
pears. The Micron board comes with a 
remedy for such losses: a utility disk con- 
taining the justly-famous recoverable 
RAM disk (rrd).' 

In operation the rrd behaves like a. 
floppy drive with the YD0: designation. 
To use it, vmi must add the rrd device 
handler to the devs directory on your 
Workbench disk, and modify the devs/ 
mountlist and s/slartup-sequence files. (A 
file on the distribution disk will modify a 




Micron's A500 chassis and companion card. 

copy of the Workbench disk to recognize 
the rrd.) The resulting startup-sequence 
will copy all AmigaDOS files to VDO: 
when you power up, and then reassign 
the appropriate devices and directories 
to VDO:. On subsequent warm boots the 
file-copy process will be bypassed if VDO: 
already exists. The initial boot on my 
Amiga 2000 takes nearly four minutes 
and ends up with 790 kilobytes in VDO, 
but a warm boot requires only 45 sec- 
onds (these times include a 12-second 
check of the installed memory). 

Using the Install-VDO utility, you can 
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mav wish to combine the files with your 
own and edit the result. If you have a 
hard disk, for example, you will need to 
alter the mountlist and startup-sequence 
files. The one-megabyte default size for 
VDO: can be easily changed. 

The utility disk includes complete di- 
agnostics software. The PUMemtest pro-* 



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This genlock lives up to its name. 
By Wayland Strickland 

PROGRESSIVE IMAGE TECHNOLOGY, 

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SuperGen functions with all Amiga 
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nection to downstream or external key- 
ers on video switchers), composite video 
input, loop through (to connect other 
equipment requiring the same video as 
the genlock), and two video overlayed 
outputs, the signals from which are iden- 
tical. Because consumer video gear uses 
standard RCA connectors, you'll need an 
inexpensive adapter (from an electronics 
store) to link such pieces. 

SuperGen connects to the Amiga's 
RGB port via a four-foot ribbon cable 
specially shielded to prevent radio-fre- 
quency interference. While the cable on 
early units does not connect solidly, the 
manufacturer informed me that a differ- 
ent case, designed to correct this prob- 
lem, is being shipped with new units. 

On the back of the genlock are eight 
dip switches (one unused), that permit 
various configurations: video termina- 
tion to 75 ohms, a blanking source (in- 
ternal or external), fast tic clamp (DC 
restore for use with broadcast equip- 
ment), setup adder (adds a setup value of 
1% IRE — a video-level measurement stan- 
dard developed by the Institute of Radio 
Engineers— to I lie computer's gi a pi lit s). 
key level (either one volt PT 75 ohm ter- 
minated or transistor-transistor logic lev- 
els), four-line offset (used to correct 
centering of software designed for the 
Commodore genlock), and field select (lo 
determine the starting field of video data 
according to your Amiga model). 

Testing One, Two 

SuperGen genlocks to any NTSC (Na- 
tional Television Standards Committee) 



interlaced video source, and will switch 
to its built-in RS-I70A generator if no 
signal is present. SuperGcn's composite- 
video out conforms to the RS-170A stan- 
dard when syncing from either an exter- 
nal source or the generator. I verified 
this using a waveform monitor and 
vectorscope. 

I used the same set of color bars 
throughout my tests. The waveform mon- 
itor showed the white bar at 100 IRE, 
chroma at 20 to -20, and sync being 
-40; exactly as thev should be. I used 
the setup adder to insure that the blacks 
would not be too black (some older 
video equipment has problems with 
black being at exactly IRE). The vector- 
scope showed that again SuperGen 
synced right on target, both externally 
and internally. 

To see if SuperGen would function 
properly with a broadcast switcher (I 
tried it with a Sony SEG-2550), I con- 
nected it in two configurations: to the 
downstream keyer, and as a standard 
video source. I plugged blackburst from 
the house-sync generator into the video 
input of the SuperGen. and made sure 
the termination switch was enabled. 
Then I hooked one of the video overlay 
outputs to the downstream keyer's video 
input on I he SEG-2550. I joined Super- 
Gen's key output to the switcher's down- 
stream-keyer's key input and loaded Pro 
Video CGI (PVS Publishing). Finally, I 
typed in text of different colors and font 
sizes, adjusted the key level on the 
switcher, and — Presto! — all keyed as well 
as, or better than, our studio's ten thou- 
sand-dollar Chyron character generator. 

To join SuperGen with the SEG-2550 
switcher as a standard video input, I con- 
net ted a video-overlay output of 
SuperGen to one of the switcher's video 
inputs (these inputs can be cameras, 
VTRs or character generators) again with 
the house sync generator supplying 
blackburst to SuperGcn's video input. 
Here too, SuperGen genlocked correctly. 
Using an interlaced picture for a back- 
ground. I discovered only one problem; 
the subcarrier (tint) was approximately 
80 degrees out of phase. To remedy this, 
I inserted a video delay, capable of ad- 
justing the subcarrier, between the black- 
burst cable and SuperGen. Once in line 
and adjusted, no other difficulties arose. 
Progressive Image Technology is cur- 
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SuperGen does not degrade the in- 
coming signal bv decoding it into RGB 
components and re-encoding it with 
graphics overlayed. It simply encodes [he 
Amiga's RGB into RS-I70A composite 
video and overlays or keys the graphics 
on incoming video (similar to down- 
stream keyers on broadcast switchers). 

To see if SuperGen would lock to a 
camera or an non-time base corrected 
YTR, I connected a cable from an Ike- 
garni 730AP studio camera to the video- 
in of the SuperGen, and one of the 
video overlay outputs to a studio moni- 
tor. Once again I loaded Pro Video CGI 
and typed several lines of text in varying 
sizes and colors. 1 experimented wiili the 
sliders at every conceivable level. The re- 
sults were very impressive; the lettering 
was clean and the picture quality as 
good upon reaching the monitor as it 
was when entering the genlock. I tried 
this test on the output of pre-recorded I- 
inch, %-inch VTRs and %-incb VCRs (Beta 
and MIS) with the same results. 

NO SWEAT 

SuperGen's software permits you to 

make smooth transitions. It is easv to un- 



derstand and is not required for day-to- 
day use with one exception: the A500 
and 2000 do not automatically start to 
interlace when connected to a genlock. 
To correct this you must execute a short 
program in the startup sequence. Two 
files on the disk permit you to interface 
programs with SuperGen's remote-con- 
trol mode. Some software (Video Tiller 
by Aegis, for one) already supports this 
mode, and others (PVS Publishing*: Pro 
Video Plus) are looking at adding it. 

I have used my SuperGen for five 
months on my A1000 with a two-mega- 
byte memory expansion, an external 
drive. Mimetic's sound sampler and Digi- 
View (N'ewTek); all connected without 
any problems. 1 also tried it on an A500 
with no difficulties. Because of a design 
inconsistency on the A2000 motherboard 
though, occasional problems have arisen 
with it. Not to worry though. Progressive 
Image Technology has been able to get 
every SuperGen to work properly. 

I cannot recommend SuperGen 
enough for its performance and versatil- 
ity. The price is considerably less than a 
separate RGB video encoder, and you 
get a built-in downstream keyer. But by 



far SuperGen's most outstanding feature 
is the unique notch filter. The unit is 
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Tools, toys, and tricks for gadget- 
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boxes, are not pan of ihe operating sys- 
tem. This leaves the poor programmers 
to roll their own using the low-level tools 
that the Amiga does supply — unless they 
have InovaTools. 

InovaTools closely resembles Intuition, 
the Amiga user interface toolbox. Except 
for the fact that you'll need to look in a 
different manual for documentation, you 
might never know the difference. Inovo- 
ironies has duplicated all of the tools 
and include files that Commodore sup- 
plies for dealing with standard libraries. 
The program is all set up for calling 
from Lattice C, Manx C, or Amiga Basic. 
You don't even have to use it as a li- 
brary; you can optionally link InovaTools 
directly into your program. 

The manual is excellent. A summary, 
modeled after the ones in the Amiga 
manuals, is supplied Cor each function. 
Fortunately, there is one major differ- 
ence; the author of the InovaTools man- 
ual has more than just a passing 
acquaintance with the English language. 

Soup to Nuts 

The 57 different functions range from a 
few sillv baubles hardly worth the trou- 



ble to call, all the way up to major block- 
busters. The most significant are a list 
manager for creating scrolling boxes (of 
text or anything else), draggable gadgets 
similar to Workbench icons, knobs for 
creating 360-degree rotational controls, a 
file requester (not great, but better than 
starting from scratch), pop-up menus 
(thev work like normal menus but can 
appear anywhere on the screen), and 
fancy open and close window calls with 
flashy zoom-box effects. 

Inovotronics provides a demonstration 
program in C to give some guidance in 
getting started. While all of InovaTools' 
#INCLUDE structures must be hand 
coded. Inovotronics promises that ver- 
sion 2.5 of their popular Power Windows 
utility will automate this. 

InovaTools does not come with source 
code. If a bug or missing feature be- 
comes a problem, you may just end up 
stuck. Inovotronics has promised to up- 
date the product, and you may need to 
take them up on the offer. I found it 
moderately buggy, with several random- 
synchronization and error-handling 
problems that cause crashes. 

InovaTools makes quick work of some 



very tedious programming chores. If 
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InovaTools will probably pay for itself on 
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HAD ACCOLADE'S GRAPHICS Studio 
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Amiga graphics software has come a 
long way since then. DcluxePaitit and 
DeluxePaint II (Electronic Arts) set new 
standards with advanced editing features 
and easy-to-use interface. Now that stan- 
dard is being challenged by third-genera- 
tion packages offering 3-D image 
mapping, overscan, and true all-mode 
editing. Consequently. Graphics Studio 
can only be viewed as a low-cost alterna- 
tive to state-of-the-art paint packages. 

Novelties to Please 
This isn't to say that Graphics Studio 
docs not contain useful, unique features. 
The program comes with a full assort- 
ment of drawing tools, including free- 
hand, line, box, and circle tools. The box 
tool lets you draw rectangles with 
squared or rounded corners. You can 
outline or fill circles, ovals, and boxes, 
and draw a series of concentric figures 
as .well. You can also specify that the in- 
terior of a box be filled with grid 
squares. The Graphics Studio's fill tool is 
the only one I've seen that uses the in- 
herent power of Amiga graphics routines 
to fill over one or several colors, until a 
border color is reached. It also lets you 



fill in horizontal and vertical stripes, and 
draw filled polygons with freehand 
curves. One tool lets you type in text, 
and keeps the block "floating'' until you 
position and then anchor it by clicking 
the mouse button. 

A number of options let you modify 
the effects of the tools. You can select 
five degrees of thickness, and eight 
shapes for your drawing brush including 
a text shape. You can also choose a den- 
sity pattern ranging from solid to a thin 
spray. This allows you to "airbrush" not 
only freehand, but with any of the draw- 
ing tools, such as the box and circle 
tools. Similarly, a fill pattern can be used 
for drawing as well as filling. You can se- 
lect one of 32 colors and one of six pat- 
terns for your drawing pen, to create a 
circle using a plaid airbrush, for 
example. 

The Graphics Studio includes a num- 
ber of special effects including mirror 
draw and color rotation. Some of the 
unique effects are the shadow mode, 
which allows you to automatically create 
a drop shadow behind your thawing, 
and filledshape outlining, which allows 
you to specify that a line be drawn 



around any shape, using current brush 
settings. The repeat feature allows vou to 
clone the last geometric shape drawn. 
Other features include a spare screen 
area you can swap with the normal 
screen, printing capabilities, and a clip 
(brush) tool which allows you to copv or 
cut rectangular areas of the screen, then 
size, rotate, or flip them. 

The program's user interface is quite 
unconventional. In addition to the nor- 
mal menu bar, strips of tool icons cover 
the top and bottom of the screen, ob- 
scuring about a quarter of the drawing 
area. These icons offer multiple selec- 
tions in the form of pop-up menus. It's 
possible to clear them from the screen, 
but since there are no keyboard equiva- 
lents for the functions the icons offer, 
you will need to restore them frequently. 
Also unusual is the fact that menus 
change according to the program con- 
text. Rather than ghosting items that are 
inappropriate, as is customarv, the 
Graphics Studio removes them from the 
menu bar entirely, replacing them with 
other choices. 

The documentation is adequate, but 
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changing color palettes and screen reso- 
lution, for example, are relegated to a 
chapter called Advanced Features. The 
program includes a number of sample 
pictures, as well as a slide-show program 
for exhibiting your artwork. The pro- 
gram disk is, alas, copy-protected, using a 
key-disk scheme. 

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Despite its many novel features, the 
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damental areas. First, the program works 
in one of two fixed resolution modes, 
320x200 with 32 colors, or 640x200 
with Hi colors. Considering that there 
are over 20 distinct display modes avail- 
able on the Amiga, restricting this pro- 
gram to two seriously impairs its 
usefulness. For example, because Work- 
bench icons use only two color bitplanes 
(four colors) and DeluxeVideo (Elec- 
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colors, you can't use the Graphics Studio 
to edit pictures for either. Sharing files 
with other applications is difficult, too. 
This operation often requires saving a 
small picture file (a clip or brush); but 
unlike most paint programs, Graphics 



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Terrorpods 

THE FIRST THING that strikes you is 
the gorgeous introductory screen, a re- 
creation of the box cover. The second 
thing to strike you is that Terrorpods 
seems arduous. Because of" this, the third 
thing strikes quickly. It's the "death 
screen," and it, too, is stunning. 

Actually, the game's difficulty is illu- 
sory. You can't play Terrorpods simply 
by looking at the screen; you must read 
the instructions, which make it seem aw- 
fully complicated. This is unfortunate, 
because it could turn people away from 
what is a very good game. 

Once past the rather sleep learning 
curve, playing Terrorpods is both chal- 
lenging and fun. The genre is science fic- 
tion, and the setting is the remote 
mining colony Colian. Once a Federa- 
tion colony, the planet has been taken 
over by the evil Empire as production 
center for the monstrous terror- 
pods — agile war vehicles capable of tre- 



mendous destruction, but themselves 
nearly indestructable. 

The Federation has sent you to Colian 
with a defense strategy vehicle (DSV) and 
small trading vehicle to fearn how terror- 
pods are made. You do this by collecting 
completed terrorpod parts. 

Colian has ten sub-colonies, each with 
mining bases, refineries, and manufac- 
turing centers. Your DSV carries various 
minerals, which you trade with the instal- 
lations. By trading, you acquire terror- 
pod components and the minerals you 
need to survive. 

Staying alive isn't easy, though. The 
Empire knows your mission. They'll fire 
at you — even send operating terrorpods 
to destroy their own camps — in order to 
foil you. First you need fuel; luckily, it's 
not hard to come by. You also need de- 
tonite to blast terrorpods, spoilers, and 
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Terrorpods is fascinating, even addic- 
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can. German, French, Danish. Swedish, 
or Norweigan, the game ktiows your lan- 
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an on-screen tutorial, and a way to save 
games to disks other than the program 
disk. The only bug I found is that words 
are sometimes superimposed on one an- 
other and become unreadable, but this is 
far from fatal. Graphically it's superb 
and the game play is smooth and enjoy- 
able. I recommend Terrorpods to all ac- 
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DECEMBER'S READERS' CHOICE AWARDS may seem a long way off, but we have already Started counting ballots here at 
AmigaWorlit. If the sheer number of voles is any indication, DeluxePaim II, WordPerfect, Marble Madness, Marauder II, and Earl 
Weaver Baseball are the top five programs. What counts, though, is the ratings on the ballots, not the number received. Your 
opinions varied greatly; overall ratings for WordPerfect scored from 2.38 lo HI. Here's how the individual races are shaping up; 

Creativity (graphics, video, music. 

desktop publishing) 





Ease of Use 


Flexibility 


Professional Features 


Overall 


DeluxePaim II (Electronic Arts) 


8.3 


8.2 


8.3 


8.26 


Digi-Painl (New'I'ek) 


7.0 


8,(1 


0.7 


7.25 


Sculpt 3-D (Byte by Byte) 


4.6 


7.0 


7.0 


6.40 


Games 












Playability 


Presentation 


Longevity 


Overall 


Faery Tale Adventure (Micmlllusions) 


8.fi 


9.4 


8.4 


S.HO 


Fire Power (Microlllusions) 


9.1 


8.8 


7.8 


8.61 


Earl Weaver Baseball (Electronic Aits) 


8.6 


8.1 


9.0 


8.57 


Hardware (memory expansion. 










hard drives, digitizers, genlocks) 












Ease of Installation 


Ease of Use 


Tech Support 


Overall 


TimeSaver (C Ltd) 


9.0 


8.5 


8.0 


8.50 


Digi-View (New'I'ek) 


9.2 


8.5 


7.0 


8.25 


Insider (Michigan Soft. I 


5.6 


9.0 


9.3 


8.20 


HOME (educational, finance) 












Ease of Use 


Documentation 


Flexibility 


Overall 


Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 


1(1 


9.0 


10 


9.67 


(Electronic Arts) 










PHASAR (Finally Soft.) 


9.7 


9.0 


9.5 


9.41 


HaUey Project (Mintlscape) 


8.0 


9.0 


7.0 


8.00 



Productivity (spreadsheets, databases. 

accounting, telecommunications, 
word processors) 

Microfiche Filer (Software Visions) 
WordPerfect (WordPerfect) 
Analyze! (Micro-Systems Software) 

Programming (languages, utilities) 

AztecC (Manx) 

Metacomco Shell (Metacomco) 

Sam Basic (Parkway Cotnp. Consult.) 

Miscellaneous (whatever is left) 

Marauder II (Discovery) 
CLImate (Prog. Periph. & Soft.) 
Grabbit (Discovery) 

In ihe comments column, you are all in agreement on several points. Product documentation can stand a good deal of 
improvement. Abysmal was a popular term. The discrepancy between what software advertisements promise and what the product 
delivers is too great. In a loud chorus, you also objected to the discrepancy between the promised release dales of products and 
their actual (much later) release dales. Are you listening, developers? 

II" you don't agree with the current ratings or opinions, you can voice your views until the polls close September I, 1988. 

Mail your votes to The Readers' Choice, AmigaWorld, 80 Elm St., Peterborough, NH 03458. 



Ease of Use 


Flexibility 


Advanced Features 


Overall 


9.7 


7.2 


4.7 


7.25 


6.4 


6.9 


8,0 


7.10 


0.7 


5.5 


6.5 


6.25 


Documentation 


Flexibility 


Advanced Features 


Overall 


9.0 


8,0 


10 


9.00 


7.0 


10 


8.0 


8,33 


8.(1 


7.0 


9.0 


8.00 


Ease of Use 


Documentation 


Performance 


Overall 


9.6 


8.4 


9.3 


9.08 


8.(1 


5.0 


7.0 


6.67 


8.0 


6.0 


6.0 


6.67 



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MINDSCAPE 




Balance of Power 


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Block Buster 


S 37 


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DeiaVu 


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Gauntlet 


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Haley Project , 


S 30 


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Ice Hockey 


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Call 


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Racier 


5 28 


SAT Preparation 


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Page Flipper 


$ 39 


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C64 Emulator Can 

SLIPPED DISK 

:.-' Lolto Magic S 19 

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MultiPrels S 23 

SDFTGANG 

Final Trip $ 18 

Space Fighl S 18 

Vader Amiga ..$ 18 

SOFT LOGIK CORP. 

Publishing Partner Call 
SOFT TOUCH 

Cusiom Screens . S 49 

Paymaster Plus . . S109 

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Invesior's Advaniage. S 79 

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SSI 

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Kamplgruppe S 46 

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UNICORN 

Adv of Sinbad S 35 

Aesop's Fables S 35 

Animal Kingdpm S 35 

Arabian Nights 5 35 

Decimal Dungeon S 33 

Fraction Action 5 33 

Kmderama S 33 

Logic Master S 35 

Magical Myths . . S 35 
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UNISON WORLD 

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Hardhat S 55 

WILLIAM HAWES 

tn-' ARexx S 39 

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WordPert Library. Call 

ZEN SOFTWARE 

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Prof Text Engine S 80 



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AMtGAWORLD, IN CONJUNCTION with four leading Public Domain software houses, now brings you the largest 

selection of Public Domain programs ever assembled in one place. 

Chiron Conceptions, DevWare, Software Excitement, and Comp-U-Save each specialize in a different area of Amiga 

Public Domain. 

DevWara 

Disks for the developer and advanced user. CLI-based and filled with useful utilities, demos, subroutines, and 

programs, almost all with source code. 

Software Excitement 

Disks for the Workbench user. Many of the best PD programs lor everything from business to games. 

Chiron Conceptions 

Category disks for special-interest users. Music, graphics, C, Amiga Basic, and more. 

Each disk Is filled with programs, fully tested, fully de-bugged, documented, and organized in a way that makes 

them more valuable than other Public Domain disks. A great value at only S7.00 per disk (plus Sf .00 postage and 

handling for each disk). 

You could search the BBSs and user group libraries yourself, gathering many of these programs one or two at a 

time, but these three companies have already done that for you! 

But just in case you ARE looking for disks from an existing library, there is also: 

Comp-U-Save 

Complete libraries of Amicus, Amuse, B.C.S., Fred Fish, I.C.P.U.G., L.I.C.A., M.A.R.C.A, N.C.A.U.G., and New Age. 

Each disk is only S5.00 (plus S1.00 postage and handling for each disk). 

If you want the complete catalog listings from all four companies— describing each disk in greater detail (listings tor 

nearly 700 PD disksl)— plus order blanks, specials, and Information about contributing to AWPDL, send S2.00 for 

the AWPDL catalog pack (see order form below). 

Here are just a few of the disks available from Software Excitement, DevWare, and Chiron Conceptions: 



From Software Excitement 
(Workbench oriented) 
5E 1 27 - Amoeba Invaders. Ar- 
cade game w/enhanced colors 
and digitized sound. Also other 
games. 

SE #29 - Hack. Fantasy adventure 
game. 

SE #31 - Games2. Eliza (psychia- 
trist simulation), UFO invasion, 
Brickout clone, more. 

SE #40 - Archive/Unarchive. Com- 
press and uncompress files. 

SE #41 - Music Studio Scores2. 
Collection of Music Studio song 
files. 

SE #44 - Games3. Life, Vegas 
Slots, Reversi, more. 

SE ,--50 - XLISP. Version of LISP 
language w/documentatlon, 
SE #51 - PILOT. Version of PILOT 
language. 

SE #93 - Modula-2. Version of 
Moudula-2 language compiler w/ 
documentation. Many sample pro- 
grams. 

SE •-•132 - Vldeomaker Utilities, 
Desktop video utilities. 

SE #134- Applications I. Label 
maker/printer, grocery-list maker, 



disk cataloger, star viewer (plane- 
tarium), more. 

SE =135 - Applications II. Fast 
IFF series player, QuickBase mail- 
manager d-base. Persmait d-base, 
more. 

From DevWare 

(These disks focus on the devel- 
oper and power user. Most con- 
tain source code. All programs 
must be run from the CLI, and 
Workbench is not included.) 
DW f 5 - MenuDemo C source, 
PagePrlntV1.3 printing program, 
Proff texl-formatting prog, similar 
to Unix nroff, ProffMacros, C 
source for screen-dump prog., 
more. 

DW '-'6 - Text and support prog, 
for 68010 upgrade, 1.1 addmem 
prog., IFF display prog., text for- 
matter In C, MicroEmacsl .2, Ogre 
game, 3 "Boing"-llke demos, 
more. 

DW fl - 2 BBS progs, w/docs., 
Grep text utility, Menu Ed 1.2, Tek- 
tronics 4010 terminal emulator. 
DW #8 - Set of disk-performance 
tests, font editor. Hack game 
clues, MandFXP-D2 fast Mandel- 
brot (shareware), PowerWindows 



demo, memory speed benchmark 
test, Shell2.04M (Matt Dillon's 
command shell that adds aliases, 
command history, and more to 
CLI), more. 

DW # 1 1 - C. Scheppner assem- 
bler examples, assembler-file re- 
quester, DirUtilS, DOS help 
prog. ,2 polygon-drawing demos, 
ray-tracer demo w/C source, 
more. 

DW #16 - LittleSmalltalk object- 
oriented programming language 
developed at Xerox w/C source. 
DW #25 - Blitter-experimentlng 
prog., doubleclick window to 
front, printer output redirected to 
disk utility, fast directory list 
prog., processes-monitoring 
prog., pipe-device handler prog., 
graphics demos, text files, 
games, more. 

From Chiron Conceptions 
CC -516- Sonix Songs #2. 
Nearly 40 minutes playing time 
(requires either Sonix 2.0 or So- 
nix Play program). 
CC =516 - Sonix Songs #3. Even 
more songs (requires Sonix 2.0 
or Sonix Play program). 
CC #909 - Home Applications. 



Grocery-list construction set, ad- 
dress book, word processor, text 
editor, appointment reminder, da- 
tabase, loan-amortization prog. 
CC #910 - Science & Education. 
2D Si 3D math-formula-plotting 
prog., geometry-demonstration 
tool, aerodynamics CAD prog., 
astronomy maps and prediction 
prog., flash-card study prog., HP- 
IOC calculator emulator, weather 
predicter. 

CC #310 - ARP 1.1. AmigaDOS 
Replacement Project. Replaces 
most 1.2 AmigaDOS commands 
with new, taster, and more pow- 
erful commands. Includes docs, C 
source, executables, and install 
program. 

CC «633 - New Movies. 4 anima- 
tions for Amiga (requires at least 
1MB RAM). 

CC #634 - DeluxeVideos #2. 4 an- 
imations created with Deluxe- 
Video (DVideo not required). 
Note:one ol these is PG rated. 
CC #635 - Brassart Slldeshow #1. 
Impressionistic French Amiga art- 
ist. 

CC *636 - Brassart Slideshow #2. 
More work from Brassart. Note: 
some PG material. 



Remember, most of these are public domain programs, contributed freely to 
the Amiga community. Some are "shareware" programs for which the au- 
thors ask contributions if you feel the program is good enough. There are 
no guarantees about the quality, usefulness, or results you might get with 



any particular program. If the disk is faulty, return it for a replacement. 
Allow two to four weeks for delivery. 

If you have programs you would like to contribute to AWPDL, we will do 
everything possible to see they get into the public domain. 



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Total $ 



AWPDL disks ordered 



WHAT'S NEW? 



A midsummer harvest from the garden 
of Amiga-related delights. 



Compiled by Barbara Gefvert 



Down to Business 

TWO VOLUMES COMPRISE 
Panmead Businessware for the 

Amiga. Business Pack 1 in- 
cludes an Invoicing/Sales Anal- 
ysis module for streamlining 
your invoicing and generating 
specialized and comprehensive 
sales-analysis reports. This 
module works in conjunction 
with the Accounts Receivable 
System, which lets you main- 
tain customer accounts, make 
on-screen inquiries into ledger 
details, and instantly reconcile 
your ledger. The third of the 
Pack 1 trio is the Inventory 
Control System. It provides 
stock-monitoring tools, and 
comprehensive reports on 
stock status, goods on order, 
and price lists. 

The General Ledger and Ac- 
counts Payable modules make 
up Pack 2. The former enables 
you to chart accounts and 
budgets, print trading ac- 
counts, and more. It also pro- 
duces financial statements 
acceptable for banks. With Ac- 
counts Payable, you can gener- 
ate a current position 
statement at any time. Hack 
creditors' invoices to make 
priority payments, and estab- 
lish purchase volumes on a pe- 
riod-to-date basis. Each volume 
is £145. Take care of business 
with Panmead Limited, 12 Sea- 
forlh Ave., New Maiden, Sur- 
rey, London, UK, 1-942-6512. 



Mark of Zorro 2 

BEFORE YOU PRODUCE that 

custom-printed circuit board, 
shouldn't you test and debug 
with the Zorro-2 prototyping 
board? With over 4400 plated 
through holes on a .1-inch 
grid, the two-sided unit aims 
for flexibility. The main proto- 
typing area accepts ICs in dual 
in-line packages, with as many 
as 6-1 pins and ICs in arrays of 
up to 14 x 14. The I/O connec- 
tor pattern and mounting 
bracket hold standard D con- 
nectors with up to 37 pins. 
Make your mark for S49.95 at 
Celestial Systems, 2175 Agate 
Court, Simi Valley, CA 93065. 
805/582-0729. 



Pictorial Presentations 

productions together. Pause, 
forward-, and backward-play 
functions give you control, 
while the buffered animation, 
4096-color palette, and 40-wipe 



PLEAD YOUR CASE with hi- 
res graphics and animation us- 
ing DeluxeProductions. The 
presentation program offers a 
storyboard-design concept, 
and lets you create 12 scenes 
per production, with five clips 
(each containing one animated 
object) per scene. You can 
work in overscan, and chain 



array provide flexibility. Take 
the stand for $199.95 at Elec- 
tronic Arts, 1820 Gateway 
Drive, San Mateo, CA 94404, 

415/571-7171. 



Oubliettes and Ogres 



MAD MONSTERS CHASE you. 
Deadly weapons fire at you. 
Magical spells hurl lightning 
bolts that explode in a thunder- 
ous crash. Sound like fun? 
1'hen get your hands on a copy 



of the realtime action adven- 
ture Dungeon Master. The 
game sells for S39.95; call FIT 
Games for details: 6100 Lusk 
Blvd., Suite C-206, San Diego, 
CA 921 21. 619/453-5711. 



At Full Throttle 

TAKE CONTROL OF the F-16 
or the F-18 in Jet. The heads- 
up display lets vou monitor 
your instruments and environ- 
ment simultaneously, and a 
missle's-eye view tracks your 
weapon to point of impact. A 
complete arsenal, search radar, 
and target-tracking computer 
are al your disposal. Practice 
in free-flight mode and on 
strike targets, and then dog- 
fight against computer-con- 
trolled enemy craft, A multi- 
player option pits you against 
another pilot via serial-port 
connectors. Jet is S49.95 from 
subLOGIC Corp., 713 Edge- 
brook Drive, Champaign. IL 
61820, 217/359-8482, 
800/637-4983. *- 




Blast away at the targets below in subLOGIC's combat flight simulator, Jet. 



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Disk Dwellings 

SO A IIKRD of unruly disks 
stampedes your work area 
daily? Why not round them 
up? The VDSI20 can corral 
120 disks without sacrificing 
desk space, and the VDS240 
holds twice that! The wall- 
mountable acrylic units have 
six and 12 compartments, re- 
spectively, and sell for $29.95 
and S39.95. Lasso them at Ver- 
tical Solutions, PO Box 7535, 
Olympia, WA 98507. 

If it's portable storage vou 
need, the Disk Tot'em is vour 
bag. The attache-style case ac- 
commodates up to 250 disks: 
you can remove partitions to 
carry other items, loo, Available 
for $39.95 from Totem Tech- 
nologies, PO Box 374, Pinson, 
AL 35126, 205/856-2437. 

The Fan File stands upright 
like a book, but when it's time 
to boot up, the unit pops 
open and fans the ten disks 
within. The compact plastic 
file retails for $5.95. A locking 
40-disk acrylic desktop file 
tray is available for $16,95. 
File for either unit with Fel- 
lowes Manufacturing, 1789 
Norwood Ave., Itasca, IL 
60143, 312/893-1600. 

Programmed 
Palatables 

IF YOU THINK your Amiga is 
useless in the kitchen, you're 
wrong. Celebrity Cookbook 
Volume 1 (S34.99) is a home- 
catering helper containing 50 
recipes, wine and bar guides, 
party tips, a filer that adjusts 
recipe proportions for one to 
999 servings, and more. Still 
in development. Volume 2 
(SI 9.95) will match the con- 
tents of your cupboard and 
fridge with approriate recipes. 
Contract your culinary com- 
panion from Merrill Ward & 
Associates, 255 N'. El Cielo 
Road, Suite 222, Palm Springs, 
CA 92262, 619/328-8728. 



Paperback Programmer 



WHETHER YOU INTEGRATE 

the reach-made IFF clipart and 
clipsonnds or use your own, 
the Adventure Workshop gives 
you the wherewithal to pen — 
uh, input any interactive story 



you can dream up. Plunk 
down $59.95, and you're on 
your way. Call SunRi/.e Indus- 
tries for author's guidelines: 

3801 Old College Rd., Bryan, 
TX 77801. 409/846-1311. 



You're in the starship "megadeth" 

engine room. 

Obvious exits: UP. 

You see: Toolbox, Dead WooRie. 




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Author a hair-raising adventure featuring wookies, of whatever! 



It's About Time, Space, and Defense 



ROGUE TRAVELER through 
time and space in search of a 
priceless treasure, you are the 
Time Bandit. Journey to 16 
lands, each with 16 levels, and 
speak with the characters 
there. Along the wav you get 
to plav high-stakes cards in a 
dungeon, pilot a starship, and 
more. Dual-player mode gives 
you and another player inde- 
pendent screen sections and 
the ability to interact. 

Slaygon puts you at the helm 



of the world's most sophisti- 
cated military robot. Your mis- 
sion is to disable the evil do- 
badders' computer, which seeks 
to annihilate human life 
through germ warfare. Slay- 
gun's controls include energy' 
level and directional indicators, 
a message display, a map view 
of vour movements, and a 3-D 
front view. Each adventure is 
$39.95. Contact Microdeal, 576 
S. Telegraph, Pontiac. Ml 
48053,313/334-8729. 



The Latest Title 

VIDEOTITLER OWNERS: wel- 
come Version 1.1 of the graph- 
ics and titling package. Aegis 
says they have eradicated all 
known bugs, and added an 
eight-page manual supple- 
ment. New features include a 
sleep mode that allows multi- 
tasking between VideoTitler 
and VideoSEG, plus 3-D per- 
spective paste, sub-menu mark- 
ers, and pop-up menus on the 



main disk. The VideoSEG disk 
now offers 27 additional tran- 
sistions, a frame-specs reques- 
ter, scrolling ANIM files, and 
support for the SuperGen 
(Digital Creations) genlock. 
The program is $149.95; regis- 
tered owners can update at no 
charge. Get VideoTitler 1.1 
from Aegis, 2115 Pico Blvd.. 
Santa Monica, CA 90405, 213/ 
392-9972, 800/345-9871. 



Hear Ye 

EDITING AND sending 
patches lakes just a point and 
a click with the CZ-Pat editor/ 
librarian for your Casio 101/ 
1000. Vou can edit in incre- 
ment/decrement fashion with 
the mouse or by selecting 
numbers from a table. You can 
also group patches into blocks 
to send, and print them out, 
too. The euphonic editor is 
S35 from CRB Productions. 15 
Norton St., Nashua, NH 03060. 

Four on the Floor 

IT'S A NICE, sunny day. Why 
not pop into a long, sleek ma- 
chine, power up, and drive 
away? While the Master-3A 
might be a bit cramped Tor 
you, your floppies will find it. 
comfy. The external disk drive 
allows throughput for linking 
up to lour drives, and sports a 
25-inch input cable. Take one 
out of the showroom for SI 89 
at Surl'side Components. PO 
Box 1836, Capitola, CA 95010, 
•108/462-9494, 

Who Do Voodoo? 

BACK IN AQUATANIA, the 
green witches have stolen the 
magic bracelet (hat protects 
the city, and dispersed the 
charms. Jinxter is an illus- 
trated text adventure, com- 
plete with a newspaper and 
plav guide scattered with clues. 
Your job is to locale and cap- 
ture the seven charms before 
the witches gain absolute 
power. The luck of the guardi- 
ans is yours for S39.95. Rain- 
bird Software of London is 
distributed by Activision, 2350 
Bayshore Pkwy., Mountain 
View, CA 94043, 415/960-0518. i 



82 July I98S 



Renewed Quest 

THE GREAT WIZARD Mesron 
has transported you 10 the dis- 
tant past — to a time before the 
mad sorcerers created the evil 
book of magic. Your mission? 
Find and stop them. The ad- 
venture you thought ended 
with Question takes on a new 
twist in Questron II. Willi im- 
proved 3-D graphics, the fan- 
tasy promises to surpass its 
predecessor. It's $49.95 from 
Strategic Simulations Inc., 
1046 X. Rengstorff Ave.. 
Mountain View. CA 94043, 
415/964-1353. 

Yes, Yes, Internet 

NOW YOU CAN network 
your A2000 into existing com- 
puting resources to act as a 
front end for more powerful 
machines. Compatible with the 
internal expansion system, the 
Amiga Internet package in- 
cludes an A2000 Ethernet con- 
troller with a 10-meg transfer 
rate, pins both thick and thin 
cable interfaces for S899. In- 
ternet supports the industry- 
standard network-file system, 
allowing transparent sharing 
of File systems with over 100 
computer vendors, and full 
TCP/IP with FTP and TELNET 
applications for remote file ex- 
change and terminal emula- 
tion. Contact Ameristar 
Technologies for more infor- 
mation: -17 Whittier Ave,, 
Medford, NY 11763, 516/698- 
0834. 



Hands Off: 

ONE-TOUCH DIGITIZING is 
now possible with Digi-Droid, 

the automated filter wheel, 
connected to your NewTek 
Digi-Vicw system. Advance 
your order with S79.95 to 
NewTek, 115 W. Crane St., To- 
peka, KS 66603, 913/354-1146. 



Have a Cigar 

SPECIAL DELIVERY FROM 
the Discovery Software stork 
comes Zoom!, sibling of the 
game Arkanoid. Zoom! prom- 



ises chase-maze fun on 50 lev- 
els. Send S29.95 to Discovery 
at 163 Conduit Street, Annap- 
olis, MD 301/268-9877, 



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Zoom through the grid and grab the goodies, but don't get gobbled. 



Gone Gaming 

DIGITEK HAS A few sugges- 
tions for your summer enter- 
tainment. You'll need quick 
reflexes to shoot through the 
40 levels of the Break Out- 
stvle Amegas game. . . .Armed 
with mirrors, a magic light, 
and garlic, you must make it 
through the Vampire's Empire 
to battle the evil Dracula. 
. . .Thunder Boy lakes you 
across the land of the dragon 
in search of a damsel in dis- 
tress. . . .Gunshoot lets you 
duel with another person via 
the two-player mode, or any of 
12 computer opponents. . . .If 
vou think you can succeed 



where all else have failed, try 
the labvrinth of Final Mission, 
scattered with mines, traps, 
and energy fields. . . .In The 
BIG Deal, your job is to ma- 
neuver Floyd the Droid 
through a restaurant kitchen, 
serving up the patrons' re- 
quests. . . If all you want to do 
is gel high, you can take to the 
not-so-friendly skies in the 
combat simulator Skyblaster. 
for one or two players. Vam- 
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As the summer broils along, Cool Hand Lou is 
on the question hot seat. 



Mulling Over 
Memory 

Q: / have an Amiga 1000 with 
512K and am considering upgrad- 
ing the memory try at least 2MB. 
Will all software work when I add 
the extra memory? If not ', why? 
What does auto-configuring mean? 
Will the extra memory increase the 
speed of program execution? 

J. LeBe! 
Quebec, Canada 

A: An Amiga with only 5I2K 
is. at best, a minimal machine, 
limping along at only a frac- 
tion of its abilities. If you want 
to use the latest powerhouse 
software, you need the extra 
memory. If vou want the ease 
and performance a RAM disk 
offers, you need the extra 
RAM. Your concerns arc quite 
justified, however. Some soft- 
ware (mostly games released 
before Workbench 1.2) will not 
work with over 512K of mem- 
ory. Many of the programs 
have been reworked to func- 
tion with extra RAM, and vou 
can usually get an upgraded 
version direct from the manu- 
facturer. If an upgrade is not 
available, you can still use 
most software by running NO- 
FASTRAM first. Even with all 
these remedies, some of your 
programs may not work with 
the extra RAM installed. 

When you turn your Amiga 
on, auto-con fig hardware auto- 
maticallv tells the operating 
system what it is. what it needs 
in terms of system resources, 
and what it will do for (he 



By Louis R. Wallace 

computer and its users. This 
makes it easy for the you to in- 
stall and use peripherals. Just 
plug your auto-config memory 
board into the expansion bus 
and turn on the computer. 
The memory board transmits 
all the details. 

Under some situations, ex- 
ternal RAM (also called Fast 
RAM) will allow your pro- 
grams to run somewhat faster. 
Unlike a program in chip 
memory, if a program is in 
Fast RAM, there is no bus con- 
tention, or forced waiting 
while the custom chips access 
the lower 512K of Chip RAM. 
To facilitate the use of fast 
memory when your Amiga has 
more than 512K, add the state- 
ment SYS:SYSTEM/f AS TRAM- 
FIRST to your startup- 
sequence. 

Slow Bridge 

Q: In tour Bridgeboard article (see 
"Bridge Over Troubled Waters," p. 
20, in the February '## issue of 
AmigaWorld), you mentioned the 
PC side worked okay with an EGA 
(Enchanted Graphics Adaptor) 
board and separate EGA monitor. 
You also said that the screen dis- 
play is slow when using the PC 
side with an Amiga monitor. Is it 
still slow when using the EGA 
with a second monitor, or is it nor- 
mal for a PC with an EGA board? 
S. Laminach 
Fairfield, CA 

A: The screen updates slowly 
when you use the Amiga dis- 
play for the PC side of ihe 



Bridgeboard, but if you are us- 
ing a second monitor with an 
EGA card, the output to the 
EGA monitor screen updates 
at standard PC speed. Any text 
output generated is being sent 
to the Amiga PC window, how- 
ever, as well as the EGA moni- 
tor. The Amiga's PC window 
display is still slow, but it docs 
not effect the EGA output. If 
it is annoying, resize the PC 
window lo a small area and 
place it out of sight. 

Trouble from 
The Start 

Q: I am having problems running 
programs from within my startup- 
sequence file. I want them to run, 
then I want lo close the CIA with 
cm EN DCl J command. If I precede 
the ENDCIA with the programs' 
names, the first program runs and 
control never returns to the 
Startup-sequence file. The others 
never gel started, and the C.LI 
never closes. If I put them after the 
ENDCLI, the CLI closes but the 
programs don't run! How do I 
multitask them and get rid of 
the CLI? 

B. Stadfeld 
Manitoba, Canada 

A: Without knowing what pro- 
grams you are running, I can 
only guess at the problem. If 
the program names are not 
preceded by the AmigaDOS 
RUN command in your 
startup-sequence file, the first 
program in the list will start, 
and unless it returns to the 
CLI, execution of your startup- 



sequence file will stop. Try 
adding the RUN command be- 
fore each program's name, for 
example RUN ED. The pro- 
grams should each become 
separate (asks, and the startup- 
sequence batch should con- 
tinue, all the way to the END- 
CLI. Remember, some 
programs require Ihe CLI they 
started from to remain open, 
so you might not be able to 
close the window and still use 
the program. 

Mac Emulator 
Rumor 

Q: / have long heard rumors of a 
Macintosh emulation for the 
Amiga, but nothing has ever come 
to light. Is there any truth to the 
talk? 

J. Walts 
Milwaukee, WI 

A: The Mac Emulator rumor is 
based on an Atari ST product 
called The Magic Sac. This 
hardware/software package 
from Data Pacific Inc. allows 
ST owners to run some Macin- 
tosh software. Data Pacific told 
me they are working on an 
Amiga version, but would not 
commit themselves to a release 
deadline. They understand 
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ested parties to be notified 
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Send your name and address 
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80203, 303t733-8158. ■ 



86 July 1988 



from p. 52 

Blk=30:Wht=3 
SFacL=4rSmIt 
BTCur=0: f ram 
TOpen=0:TBol 
y»0:yl-0:jr2- 
Xmax = : Ymin«= 
Row=0:Col=0: 
TextS="" : key 
DIM Colors(N 
DIH UndoBufS 
FOB x = TO N 

FOR y=0 TO 
NEXT 

DATA 0.75,0, 
DATA 1.00,0. 
DATA 1.00,0. 
DATA 1.00,1. 
DATA 0.50, 1 . 
DATA 0.00, 1 . 
DATA 0.70,0. 
DATA 1.00,0. 
DATA 0.60,0. 
DATA 0.75,0. 
DATA 0.00,0, 
CurBG(r)=Col 
CurBG(b)=Col 
CurGrcK g)=Co 
SCREEN 2,3 20 
FOR x=0 TO H 

PALETTE x, 
NEXT 

COLOR grid.b 
LOCATE 10,12 
LOCATE 12,19 



l:fgPen=Red:olPen-fgPen:HFact-5:VFact«5 
esi-6:BlkX=19:BlkY=19:01dX = 23:01dY = 23 
B— 1 :HStripe=0:VScrlpe = 0:Bold = 0:l'nder = 
d=0:TUnder=0:Pen=0:StPix=0:x=0:xl=0:x2=0 
O:m=O:n=O:mID=O:mItem=0:TxtLen-0:Xrain=O 
O:Ymax=0:UseX=0:UseY=O:Bx=0:By=0 
continue=0:Stvle%=0 
S="":TypeS-"":TitleS="" 
umCols-1 ,2) ,CorBG(2) .CurGrrf ( 2 ) 
(20010) 
umCol s- 1 
2: READ Colors(x ,y):NEXT 



75,0.75, 

50,0.50, 

75,0.50, 

00,0.70, 

00,0.50, 

01), 1 .00, 

60, 1 .00, 

50, 1 .00, 

30,0.00, 

75,0.75. 

00,0.00, 

ors(O.r) 

ors(0,b) 

lors(2. s ) 

,200,5, 1 : 

umCol s- I 

Colors( x 



0.00,0 
1 .00,0 
1 .00,0 
1.00,1 
0.00,1 
0.00,0 
0.70,0 
1.00,0 
0.40,0 
0.50,0 
1 .00, 1 
:CurBG{ 
:CurGrd 
: : 1 1 1 ■ : 
: WINDOW 



.00, 1 . 
.00,0. 
.50,0. 
.00,0. 
.00,0. 
.00,1 . 
.00, I . 
.00,1 . 
.10,0. 
.50,0. 
.00, I . 
g)=Col 
(r)=Co 
d(b)=C 
2, , , 1 



00, 
00, 
00, 1 
00, 1 
00, 
Oi , 
00, 
00, 
00, 
50, 
00 

orsCO 
1 o r s ( 
olors 
6,2 



.00,0, 
.70,0, 
.00,0, 
.00,0, 
. i ,0. 
.00,0, 
.70,0, 
.50,0, 
.30,0, 
,25,0. 

.8) 

2,r) 
<2,b) 



00, 1 .00 
00,0.00 
25,0.00 
60,0.00 
50,0.00 
00,0.60 
00,0.60 
00,0.50 
00,0.00 
2 5,0-25 



r),Colors(x,g),Colors{x,b) 



LOCATE 14,1 
CHDIR":Basi 
CHDIR":":Ms 
MENU 1,0,1 
MENU ! , 1,1 
MENU I, 3,0 
MENU 1, 5,0 
MENU 1, 7,1 
MENU 1,9,1 
MENU 1,11,1 
MENU 2,0,1, 
MENU 2,1,1, 
MENU 2,3,1, 
MENU 3,0,0, 
MENU 3,1,2, 
MENU 3,3,1, 
MENU 4,0,1 , 
MENU 4,1,1, 
MENU 4,3,1, 
MENU 4,5,1, 
MENU 4,7,1, 
GET{0.0)-(S 
CLS:G0SUB D 
Wait He re: 
m I D = : m 1 1 e m 
ON continue 
ON continue 



: PR I NT PTAB(91 
cDemos":LIBRAR 

B " " 

, "BigText" 

, "Open 

."Draw It 

."Place It 

."Grid OFF 

,"V Stripe ON 

,"Quit 

"Pens" 

"BG Color " :M 

"FG Pen ":M 

"Style" 

" Plain 

"Bold ON 

"Scroll" 

"Left ":MENU 4 

"Up ":MENU 4 

" X 2":MENU 4 

" X 8" 

cWid,Sct)ep),Un 

oGrid:ON MENU 

Wait for a M 

0:WHILE mID = 

GOTO WaitHere 

4 GOTO PgmExi 



) ;"Bryan D. Catley" 
Y" graphics. library" 



MENU 1, 2,0, "Clear It 
MENU 1 , 4,0, "Erase It 
MENU 1, 6,0, "Undo It 
MENU 1 , 8,1 ,"H Stripe ON 
MENU 1,10,1, "Draw Factors 



ENU 2,2,1 ."Grid Color" 
ENU 2.4, I ,"0L Pen 

":MENU 3,2, 1, "Under line ON 
"••MENU 3,4,1," Italics 

,2,1 ."Right" 
,4,1, "Down " 
,6,2," X 4" 

doBuf% 

GOSUB CetMenu:MENU ON 

enu Selection 

: SLEEP: WEND 

,GetText,DrawTxt, Do Factors 

t 



g:CLS 

:PRINT"Basic Video Text" 
:PRINT"bv" 



GetText: ' Get Users Input Text 

IF TOpen THEN DoClose ELSE DoOpen 

DoCIose : 

IF StPix=0 THEN StPix=8:G0T0 NextChar 

WINDOW CLOSE 3:TOpen=0 

LINE(BlkX-2,BlkY-2}-(BlkX,BlkY) ,bg,bf 



Listing continued on /). 88 



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from p. 87 

MENU 1,1,1, "Open "iMENll 1,2,0:MENU 1,3,0 

MENU 1,5,0: MENU 1,1 1,1: MENU 3,0,0 

Tex t$ = "":Txtl.en=0:BTCur=0: GOTO Wait Here 

DoOpen : 

WINDOW 3, "Enter Tex t : " , ( 62 , 1 35 )-( 248 , 1 71 ) , 18, 2 

COLOR , Blk:CLS: LINE (5,5) -STEP( 176,12),Wht,bf 

CALL SetSoftStyle(WIND0W(8) ,Style%,255) 

MENU 1,1,0, "Close 

MENU l,5,0:MENU 1,1 0,0: MENU 1,11,0: MENU 3,0,1 

T0pen=-1 :StPix-8:Text$= M ": COLOR ,Wht 

NextChar: 

TxtLen=TextLengthX(UIND0W(8),SADD<TextS) ,LEN(TextS) ) 

LOCATE 2:C0L0R 0rg:PRINT PTAB( S tPix+TxiLen+2 ) ; " |" : 

COLOR Blk:kevS="":WHIL£ kev$="" : key $=INKEYS : WEND 

IF WIXD0W(1)<>3 THEN WINDOW OUTPUT 3 

IF key$=CHR$( 13) TiiEN GetDone 

IF keyS = CIIR$(8) OR key$=CHR$( 3 1 ) THEN CurLeft 

tF key$<CHR$(32) OR key$>CHR$( 1 27) THEN 
BEEP: GOTO NextChar 

END IF 

IF StPix+TxtI,en>160 THEN BEEP:GOT0 NextChar 

Text S=TextS+kevS 

PRINT PTAB(StPix) ; :Msg Text$:G0T0 NextChar 

CurLeft : 

IF TxtLen=0 THEN BEEPlCOTO NextChar 

Text$=LEFTS(TextS,LEN(TextS)-l) 

PRINT PTAB(StPlx); :Msr TextS+" ":(10T0 NextChar 

GetDone : 

COLOR Wht ,Wht:PRINT PTAB<StPi x+Tx tl.en + 2 ) ; " "; 

WINDOW OUTPUT 2 

MENU i.l,l:MENU 1,2,1:MENU 1,3,1 

MENU 1,5,1 :MENU 1,10,1 
IF LEN(Text$)>0 THEN 

LINE(BlkX-2,BlkY-2)-(ElkX,BlkY),fgPen,bf 
LINE(BlkX-2,BlkY-2)-(BlkX,ElkY-2),olPen 

END IF 

BTCur=-l :G0T0 WaitHere 



DrawTx 

TF WIN 

IF Blk 

BEEP 

GOTO 

ELSEIF 

BEEP 

GOTO 

FI.SE 

MENU 

COLO 

END IF 

WINDOW 

Xmi n=8 

Y m i n = 8 

xl-HFa 

FOR 
FOR 
IF 



1 : ' Draw Enlarged Text 
D0W(1)<>3 THEN WINDOW OUTPUT 3 
X+((StPix+TxtLen-8)*HFact )>ScWirJ THEN 

COLOR Red,Blk:L0CATF. 4,2:Msg "Text too long!" 

WaitHere 

BlkY+(8*VFact)>ScDep THEN 

COLOR Red,Blk:L0CATE ft,2:Msg "Text too tall!" 

WaitHere 

1,6,1 

R Blk,BIk:LOCATE 4,2:PRINT SPACE$(20); 

2:GET(0,0)-{ScWid,ScDep) , UndoBuf % : WI ND0W 3 
:Xmax=StPix+TxtLen+Xmi n 
:Ymax=17:Bx=BIkX:By=BIkY 
ct-l+VStripe:yl=VFact-l+HS tripe 
Xmin TO Xmax 
y=Ymin TO Ymax 

POINTfx, y)=Blk THEN 
WINDOW OUTPUT 2 

LINE(Bx,By)-STEP(xl , y 1 ) , f gPen , bf 
TF olPenOfgPen THEN 

WINDOW OUTPUT 3:1F P0INT(x-l , y)OBlk THEN 
WINDOW OUTPUT 2 
I.INE(Bx,By)-STEP(0,yl) ,olPen 
END IF 

WINDOW OUTPUT 3: IF P0INT(x+l , y )<>Blk THEN 
WINDOW OUTPUT 2 

LTNE(Bx+xl ,By)-STEP(0,yl) .olPen 
END IF 

WINDOW OUTPUT 3 : I F P0INT( x , v- 1 )<>B1 k THEN 
WINDOW OUTPUT 2 
LlNE(Bx,By)-STEP(xl ,0) .olPen 
END IF 

WINDOW OUTPUT 3: IF P0INT( x , y+1 )<>Blk THEN 
WINDOW OUTPUT 2 

LINE(Bx,By+yI)-STEP(xI ,0) ,olPen 
END IF 

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END IF 

WINDOW OUTPUT 3 
END IF 
By=By+VFact 
NEXT 

Bx=Bx+HFact :By=BlkY 
NEXT 
MENU l,4,l:GGT0 KaitHere 

DoFactors: ' Set Horizontal & Vertical Factors 

MENU ],0,O: MENU 2, 0,0: MENU 3, 0,0: MENU 4,0,0 

WINDOW 5, ,(63, 8) -(247, 158) ,0,2 

COLOR Vel,DBrw:CLS 

LOCATE 2,3:PRlNT"Horizontal Factor:" 

LOCATE 4,3:PRINT" xl x2 x3 x4 x5" 

LOCATE 6, 3: PR I NT" x6 x7 

LOCATE 8,3:PRINT"Vert ical 

LOCATE 10, 3: PRINT" xl x2 

LOCATE 12, 3: PR I NT" x6 x7 

LOCATE 14,3:PRINT"xl I x!2 

LOCATE 16,3:PRINT"xl6 xVi 

LOCATE 19,11: PRINT"0K" 

LINE( 12,20 )-STEP( 1 60,3 2 ) , Ye 1 ,b 

LINE( 12,36)-STKP( 160,0) ,Ye-l 

FOR x=44 TO 140 STEP 32 

LINE(x,20)-STKP(0,32) ,Yel 
NEXT 

LINE( 1 2, 68) -STEP ( 160, 64 ) , Yol . b 
FOR y = 84 TO 1 16 STEP !6 

LINE(12,y)-STEP(160,O) ,Yel 
NEXT 
FOR x = 44 TO 140 STEP 32 

LINK ( x , 68 ) -STEP ( D, 64) , Ye] 
NEXT 

LINE( 12, I40)-STEP(160,16),Yol ,h 
n=HFact ; ra=20 : GOSUB SetFactl 
n=VFact :m=68: GOSUB SetFactl 
GetFact : 

WHILE M0USE(0)O0:WENI):WHILE MOUSE(0)=0; WEND 
K=HOUSE(l ):y«M0USE(2) 
IF x<12 OR x > 1 7 7 THEN GetFar.r 
IF y>20 AND y<52 THEN CetHor 
IF v>68 AND y < 132 THEN GetVrt 
IF y<140 OR y>166 THEN GetFact 
GetHor : 

:GOSUB Set Fact 
GetFac t 



ELSE FactXit 



:m=20: 
:G0T0 



= 68; 
:GOT0 



GOSUB SetFact 

GetFact 



n = H F a c t : 

H F a c t = n : 

GetVrt : 

n=VFact : 

V F a c t = n : 

Set Fac t : 

Row=INT((n-l)/5) :Col = (n-l ) MOD 5 

l.TNEf 13+Col*32,m+1+Row*16)-STEP(30,14) ,DBrv,h 

Col=INT((x-12)/32)+l :Row=INT(( v-m)/16) 

n-Col+(Row*5) 

SetFactl : 

Rov=INT((n-l)/5) :Col-(n-l) MOD % 

LINE( 13+Col*32,m+1+Rov*16)-STEP(30, 14) .Red, b 

RETURN 

Fac tXi t : 

WINDOW CLOSE r > 

MENU 1,0,1 :MENU 2,0,1:MENU 3,0,1:MENU 4,0,1 

GOTO Wait Here 

PgmExit: ' Quit and Return to Basic 

IF Style%<>0 THEN CALL SetSof tSty le( WINDOW( 8) , , 255) 

MENU OFF:MENU RESET:LIBRARY CLOSE 

WINDOW CLOSE 2:SCREEN CLOSE 2 

CLEAR ,25000; END 

GetMenu: ' Come Here on any Menu Selection 

continued :mID«MEHU(0) : ml tem=MENU(l ) 

ON mlD GOTO DoBigText , DoPens , DoSty le , DoSc ro 1 1 

DoBigText: ' Handle B i f> Text Requests 

ON ml ten GOTO TOpnC 1 s ,TC1 r ,TDrw ,TErs ,TP I c , TUnrto 

ON mItom-6 GOTO TCr i d , THor ,TV r t ,TFac t , TQu i t 

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continue=2:G0T0 MenuExit 

TClr: 

WINDOW OUTPUT 2 

LINE(BlkX-2,BlkY-2)-(BlkX,BlkY),bg,hf :BTCur=0 
WINDOW OUTPUT 3 

COLOR ,B]k:CLS:LINEC>,5)-STEP( ] 76 , 1 2 ) , Wht , bf 

COLOR Blk.Wht 

MENU 1,1,0:MENU 1,2,0:MENU 1,3,0 

MENU 1 ,5,0: MENU 1,10,0 

Tex t$ = "":StPix=0: continued: GOTO Menu Ex it 

TDrwrcont inue=3:G0T0 MenuExit 

TErs: 

IF WINDOW(l)<>2 THEN WINDOW OUTPUT 2 

GET(0,0)-(ScWid,ScDep),UndoBtif% 

MENU 1 ,4,0:CLS:GOSUB DoGrid 

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LINE(BlkX-2,BlkY-2)-(BlkX,BlkY),fgPen,bf 
LINE(BlkX-2,BlkY-2)-(BlkX,BlkY-2) , olPon 

END IF 

GOTO MenuExit 

TG rid: 

IF frame THEN 

PALETTE grid, Cur BG(r) ,Curl!G(s) ,CurHG(b) 

MENU 1,7,1, "Grid ON " : f r ame=0 : GOTO MenuExit 

ELSE 

PALETTE grid,CurGrd(r),CurCrdU),CurGrd(b) 

MENU 1,7,1, "Grid OFF " : f ram G = - 1 : GOTO MenuExit 

END IF 

TPlc : 

WINDOW 2:WHILE MOUSE(O) <>0 : WEND : WHILE HOUSE(0 )=0 : WEND 

01dX=BUX:01dY=BlkY:BlkX=MOUSE(l):BlkY=MOUSE(2) 

LINE(01dX-2,01dY-2)-{01dX,01dY),bg,bf 

LlNE(BlkX-2,BlkY-2)-(BlkX,B1kY) .fgPert.bf 

LlNE(BlkX-2,l!lkY-2)-(BlkX,BlkY-2)',olPcn 

WHILE M0USE(0)O0:WEND:WIND0W 3 

GOTO MenuExit 

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END IF 

MENU 1,8,I,"H Stripe OFF" : HStripe=-l :GOT0 MenuExit 

TVrt: 

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MENU t,9,l,"V Stripe ON " : VS t r i pe = 0:GOTO MenuExit 

END IF 

MENU 1,9, I, "V Stripe OFF" t VSt ripe=-l :GOTO MenuExit 

TFact : 

continue=4:G0T0 MenuExit 

TUndo: 

IF TOpen THEN WINDOW 2 

PUT(0,0),UndoBuf%,PSET 

IF TOpen THEN WINDOW 3 

GOTO MenuF.xi t 

TQuit: continued :COTO MenuExit 

DoStyle: ' Handle Request for Text Display Change 

ON mltem GOTO SetPlain , Dolliiik-r , DaBo 1 d , Set I tal ics 

SetPlain: 

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DoUnder : 

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TUjider = 0:M£NU 3, 2,1 ."Underline ON ":GOTO SetStyle 
ELSE 

Style%-Style% OR I 

TUnder = -l':MENU 3 , 2 , 1 , "Under 1 i ne OFF":GOT0 SetStvle 
END IF 
DoBold: 
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Sty1eZ=Style£ AND 5 

TBold = 0:MENU 3, 3,1, "Bold ON 
ELSE 

Sl.yle% = Style% OR 2 

TBold=-l :MENU 3,3,1, "Bold OFF 
END IF 
Setltalics: 
Style%=Style% OR k 



":G0T0 SetStyle 
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MENU 3,1,1 :MENU 3,4,L?:G0Tu SetStyle 

Set Style: 

WINDOW OUTPUT 3 

CALL SetSof tSlvU(WlNDOW(8),Style%,255) 

Text$="":StPix-StPix+fxtLen:TxtLen»O:GOT0 MenuExi t 

Dol'ens: ' Handle Change of Pens and/or Palettes 

ON mltem GOTO ChngEG , ChngGrid , ChngFGPen , ChngOLPen 

ChngBG: 

TypeS="BG":GOSUB GctPen 

CurBGf. r)=Colors(Pcn , r ) 

CurBG(g)=Colors(Pen,g) 

CurBG(b)=Co!ors(Pcn,b) 

IF NOT frame THEN 

PALETTE g rid,CurBG(r),CurBG(g) ,CurBC(b) 
END IF 

PALETTE bg,Ci.rBG(r) ,CnrBG( E ) ,CurBG(bl :GOTO MenuExit 
ChngGr id : 

Type$="Grid":GOSUB Get Pen 
CurGrdCr)=Colors(Pen, r) 
CurGrd(g)=Colors(Pen,g) 
CurGrd(b)=Colors(Pen,b) 

PALETTE i ,CurGrd( r) ,CurGrd(g) ,CurGrd(b) 
IF frame THEN 

PALETTE erid.CurGrd(r),CurCrd(g) .CurGrd(b) 
END IF 

GOTO MenuExit 
ChngFGPen: 

TypeS=" Bra wing" : COS UB GetPen 
IF fgPen=olPen THEN olPen=Pen 
f gPen=Pen:GOTO SetBTcur 
ChngOLPen: 

Type$ = "Out. I i tie" :G0SUB GetPen :olPen»Pen 

SetBTcur : 

IF BTCur THE?! 

WINDOW OUTPUT 2 

LINE(BlkX-2,BlkY-2)-(BlkX,BlkY),fgPen,bf 
LINE(BlkX-2,BlkY-2)-(BlkX,BlkV-2) ,olPen 

END IF 

GOTO MenuExit 

DoScroll: ' Handle Scroll Request 

xl=0:x2=SeWid:yl=O:y2=ScDep 

ON mltem GOTO Sc Lef t , ScR 1 ght , ScUp , ScDown 

ON mltem-4 GOTO Se tSFac t , SetSFac t , SetSFac t 

SetSFact : 

MENU 4, Sm I tern, 1 : SFnc. t = 2 " ( ml t em-4 ) 

Smltem-mT tem:MF.NU 4 , Sml [em , 2 

GOTO MenuExit 



ScLeft: 

ScRight: 
ScUp: 
ScDown: 
Scrolllt: 

MenuExit: 

>!! TURN 



xl=SFact :x=SFact*-l :y=0:GOTO Scrolllt 
x2=ScKid-SFact :x = SFact :y-0:C.0T0 Scrolllt 
yl=SFact:x=0: y=SFact*-I :GOTO Scrolllt 
v2=ScDep-SFact : x=0: y=SFac t :G0TO Scroll H 
SCROI.L(xl ,yl)-(x2,y2) ,x,y :GOTO MenuExit 

' Leave Menu Event 8 Return to Caller 



DoGrid: ' Draw Grid Over Background 

PALETTE grid,CurBG{r) ,CurBG(g) ,CurBG(b) 

FOR x=16 TO 320 STEP 16:LINE ( x ,0)-( x , 200) ,grid : NEXT 

FOR x=16 TO 192 STEP 16:LINE { , x )-( 320 , x) , gri d : NEXT 

IF frame THEN 

PALETTE grid ,CurGrd( r) ,CurGrd{ g) ,CurGrd( b) :END IF 
RETURN 

GetPen: ' Draw Palettes on Screen S Get Selection 
TitleS="Select "+T v peS+ " : " : x=0 
WINDOW 4,TLtleS,{0.0)-(290,12),0,2 
FOR y=3 TO NumCois-1 

LINE(x, I )-STEP{ 10. 10) ,v,hf :x = x+IO 
NEXT 

WHILE M0USE(0)O0:WEND:WHlLE MOUSE{0)=0: WEND 
Pen=INT((M0USE(l)/10)+3) 
WHILE MOUSE (0)00: WEND: WINDOW CLOSE 4:RETURN 

SUB Msg (MsgTxt$) STATIC 

CALL Text&(WTNW)W(8) , SADD(MsgTx t $ ) ,LEN(MsgTxt SI ) 

END SUB ■ 



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