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VOLUME 5, NUMBER 3 



CONTENTS 



MARCH 1989 



FEATURES 

Hard Times Ahead By 

Louis R. Wallace . . " 

Hard drives are rapidly becoming the 
N'o. 1 item on many users' hardware 
priority list. Here's some good advice on 
choosing the best kind of system for your 
needs, and installing it yourself. 

The AmicaWorld Hardware 

BUYER'S GUIDE Compiled by Jan Jackson 
and Bob Ryan - J' 

If it goes into, onto, or alongside your 
Amiga, it's bound to be in our annual 
Hardware Buyer's Guide. We've got the 
vital statistics on 245 Amiga products. 



ARTICLES 

High on the Hog: 3 HAM Paint 
Programs for the Amiga 

By Bruce Jordan 49 

HAM (Hold-and-Modify) mode provides 
the means for displaying and manipulat- 
ing all 4096 Amiga colors simultaneously. 
But can the current crop of HAM paint 
programs bring home the bacon when it 
comes in exploiting the Amiga's potent 
graphics potential? 

Accent on Graphics Byjoei Ha gen. . 60 

#3 in our series of graphics tips and 
techniques helps you master the often 
tricky business of producing the images 
you create on screen as finished illustra- 
tions on the page. 



COLUMNS 

Zeitgeist 6 

The editor turns over his column this 
month to a reader whose letter may give 
all of us something 10 think about. 

BASIC BY THE NUMBERS By Bob Ryan . .18 

In the third part oi his data-manipula- 
tion tutorial in BASIC, Bob adds a search 
routine so that you can Stan getting 
some practical use out of his program. 

INFO.PHILE By Mark L. Van Name and 

Bill Catckings 64 

Team info.phile begins a second "mini- 
series" this month on die new 1.3 ver- 
sion of AmigaDOS. This time around 
they locus on changes in l.S's Work- 
bench, starting here with the improved 
Preferences tool. 




Power and purpose . Building a better system— 
expanding capacity, improving efficiency, add- 
ing function. And so Hardware is our focus, 
and we've got plenty of it. 



DEPARTMENTS 

Repartee 8 

For just 25 cents you can let us have it. 

Notepad 10 

The foreign desks of our news bureau 
are heard from this month, with Amiga 
reports from England and Norway. 

What's New? 100 

March comes in like a lion, whipping up 
a storm of new Amiga products. 

HORS D'OEUVRES 104 

Faithful followers of our lips and tech- 
niques column, take note that Hors 
d'oeuvres is moving to a new section of 
the magazine starting this month. 

Help Key 106 

"Come here, Lou, come here quick / My 
old Amiga's 'bout to make me sick." 

REVIEWS 

Spelling Checkers: Fleet Check 

(Professional), GOLD SPELL (Gold Disk), 

ZINGiSPELL (Meridian) 12 

Three spell-checking programs, each 
with a different way of saving your bacon 
when it comes to writing documents. 

MIDI MAGIC (Circum Design / 
Brown-Wagh) 14 

A 16-track sequence-and-song editor very 
much ill the Intuition style. 



CygnusEd Professional 

(CygnusSoft) 84 

A full-featured text editor that seems to 
do it all. 

Photon Video: Cel Animator 

(Microlllusions) "4 

An animation package that can also syn- 
chronize video with sound. 

Microfiche Filer Plus 

(Software Visions) 87 

An enhanced version of SV's popular 
data-management program. 

B.A.D. (M.V. Micro) 88 

Blitz your disks with a utility that counters 
the effects of disk fragmentation. 

Draw 2000 (Aegh) 90 

An enhanced version of Aegis' Draw Plus 
with a true Amiga interface, 

PROSCRIPT (New Horizons) 93 

A utility that can add PostScript printer 
support to several Amiga word processors. 

DELUXEPRINT II (Electronic Arts). ... 94 
A utility for quick printing of specialized 
documents. 

GAMES 

The Game Preserve By b.g. Hunter . 72 

B.G.'s safari this month is via zamboni as 
he takes to the ice for a pre-release look 
at Bethesda Softworks' highly-touted 
Wayne Gretzky Hockey. More game re- 
views follow his column: 

Dungeon Master (FTL Games) — 74 

On the trail of the vicious Lord Chaos in 
this role-playing adventure game. 

Carrier Command (Rainbird / 

Mediagenic) 7" 

Full-lilt naval battle action with vivid 3-D 
color in this strategy/arcade mix. 

SWORD OF SODAN (Discovery) 78 

Electronic gore galore as you battle with 
Zoras the Necromancer. 

MENACE (Psygnosis I Computer Software 
Services) 79 

Blast away at over 60 varieties of villains 
in this fast-paced arcade thriller. 

Tracers (Microlllusions) 80 

The action is fast and furious in this ar- 
cade-based Tron lightcycle game. 

WARLOCK (Three-Sixty Pacific) 81 

Be the warlock who tries to recover the 
magic Kama jewel in this 12-level strat- 
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Guy Wright, Editor-in-chief 

SHAWN LAFLAMME, Managing Editor 
LINDA J. BARRETT, Acquisitions Editor 

Dan Sullivan, senior Editor 
Barbara Gefvert Tyson, Review Editor 

JAN JACKSON, Editorial Assistant 

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

HOWARD G. HAPP, Art Director 
ROGER GOODE, Assistant Art Director 

Anne Dillon, Designer 

Laura Johnson, Designer 

Richard Brayshaw, production 

KENNETH BlAKEMAN, National Advertising Sales Manager 

MICHAEL McGOLDRICK, Sales Representative 

BARBARA HOY, Sales Representative 

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LINDA M. BUSSIERE, Advertising Coordinator 

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SHELLEY HARMON, Sales Associate, West Coast 

MARGOT L. SWANSON, Secretary 

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LAURA LIVINGSTON, Marketing Coordinator 

SUSAN MAIZEL, Customer Service Representative 

Michael S. Perlis, PrtsidmnCEO 

ROGER MURPHY, Vice-President/General Manager 
STEPHEN TWOMBLY, rice President 

DENNIS ChRISTENSEN, Corporate Production Director 

LINDA PALMISANO, Typesetting Manager 

DEBRA A. DAVIES, Typographer 

SUSAN GROSS, Corporate Production Manager 
LYNN LAGASSE, Manufacturing Manager 

FRANK S. SMITH, Corporate Circulation Director 

LINDA RUTH, Single Copy Sales Manager 

MIKE CARROLL, Direct Sales Manager 800-343-0728 

DEBBIE WALSH, Newsstand Promotion Manager 

PAUL RUESS, Circulation Director 800-525-0643 

PAM WILDER, Assistant Circulation Manager 

WILLIAM M. BOYER, Director of Credit Sales 6? Collections 

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ZEITGEIST 



A letter to the editor. 



I HAD NINETY percent of 
my editorial written yesterday. 
It was all about hardware and 
our buyer's guide and trends 
and the usual sort of ram- 
blings that I sometimes fall 
into when I haven't anything 
earth-shattering to say. This 
morning I was going through 
some mail and ran across this 
letter. Somehow it doesn't 
quite fit in Repartee, but it 
needed to be printed. 1 
thought about following the 
letter with some kind of end- 
ing, or another address for 
people to write to, but I don't 
think it needs anything. 




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December 12, 1988 

Gentlemen: 

Mr. Rick Rodriguez, Presi- 
dent of the Miami Amigos, of 
which I am a member, sug- 
gested that I write this letter 



to your magazine to tell you 
about mv late brother, Elier 
Dacal. Elier purchased an 
Amiga 500 computer last 
spring, only about four 
months before his death, a vic- 
tim of AIDS. 

Before be became ill, Elier 
had lived in Boston for a num- 
ber of years where he played 
the violin with the Civic Sym- 
phony, North Shore Philhar- 
monic, and Brookline 
Symphony Orchestras, and be- 
gan a promising career as a 
composer. He studied fashion 
design, developing his talent in 
drawing and painting. He be- 
came interested in photogra- 
phy, combining it with his 
artwork, using themes from sci- 
ence fiction, in which he had a 
keen interest, When his illness 
forced him to return to Miami 
so that my mother and I could 
take care of him, he had to give 
up most of bis creative activi- 
ties, as a result of the disease. 
He had been suffering its dev- 
astating effects for about two 
years when he became inter- 
ested in owning the computer. 
He wanted the chance to exer- 
cise his creativity even while 
confined to the house, and 
eventually to bis bed. 

In a short time, Elier not 
only mastered the intricacies 
of the computer, in spite of 
excruciating pain and a rap- 
idly encroaching paralysis, but 
produced a wealth of original 
art and music which is 
uniquely his and luminously 
beautiful. His love of science 
fiction and the future is re- 



flected in much of it. My 
brother never resigned himself 
to the onslaught of the disease 
which was to claim his life, but 
thought always of the future, 
full of plans for his work. 
Even when he was no longer 
able to write, and lying fiat on 
his back, using the mouse, he 
worked far into the night, 
seemingly oblivious to the pain 
that racked his bod). By mid- 
summer he had to be hospital- 
ized, and on August 18, 1988, 
he died. 

I was primarily responsible 
for my brother's care during 
his illness. He was not only my 
younger brother, but my dear- 
est friend. Having shared his 
interest in music and art, I am 
able to evaluate the degree of 
excellence of his work. How- 
ever, this remained locked in 
the computer after his death, 
as I had never found the time 
to learn how to operate it. 
Taking care of Elier had con- 
sumed all of my time. I had 
no idea where to turn for 
help, finding the name and 
address of a software manufac- 
turer among his books, I 
wrote to ask for the name of 
any resource in Miami where I 
might receive instruction. I re- 
ceived a letter referring me to 



the Miami Amigos and sug- 
gesting that I contact Mr. Rod- 
riguez, which I did. He invited 
me to attend a meeting and 
become a member. At the 
meeting several people came 
forward, offering their help, 
and now I have access to my 
brother's work. I hope to be 
able to show some of his pic- 
tures to the group at a future 
meeting. 

My ultimate goal is to pre- 
serve Elier's work and offer it 
for the purpose of raising 
funds for AIDS research. 
Some friends who knew about 
his valiant struggle have of- 
fered to help establish a fund, 
provided I can furnish them 
with the results of his creativ- 
ity. Now, with the help of the 
Miami Amigos, 1 look forward 
to the possibility of achieving 
this goal. 

Sincerely yours, 

Ms. Saray Dacal 

7880 Grand Canal Drive 

Miami, FL 33144 



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REPARTEE 

Comments, complaints, and concerns 
from Amiga World readers. 



Dear Mac. . . 

LAST DECEMBER, one of 
your sister publications, 
Macworld, listed the year's best 
games for the Mac. After choos- 
ing Crystal Quest as the best ar- 
cade game and best game for 
the Mac II, the column con- 
cluded with the comment "It's 
enough to make Amiga owners 
ditch their machines and get 
serious." What follows is the re- 
ply I sent to them. 

Dear Sirs: 

The last line of the games 
column in the December issue 
prompted me to write. Of 
course, to ditch my Amiga, I 
had to turn away from some 
of my other work: editing 
TechAlliance's Amiga maga- 
zine with Professional Page 
(unfortunately, since budget 
constraints make it a black- 
and-white magazine, I don't 
gel to use ProPage's built-in 
color-separation generator); 
writing articles for the maga- 
zine with WordPerfect, and 
image-processing graphics for 
the issue with Deluxe 
PhotoLab. I also had to take a 
break from programming with 
Benchmark Modula-2, keep- 
ing track of my potential 
clients with Superbase Profes- 
sional (so far I have been too 
busy to customize data entry 
with Superbase's program- 



ming language), and handling 
my accounting with MaxiPlan 
Plus (including generation of 
pie, line, and 3-D bar graphs 
of relevant data). Needless to 
say, with the Amiga's multi- 
tasking, 1 can run all these 
programs .simultaneously; if I 
add more memory to my sys- 
tem, I could also generate ray- 
traced images with Sculpt-3D 
in the background. And that's 
not to mention the IBM pro- 
grams 1 can run concurrently 
via the Bridgeboard. Is that 
serious enough for you? 

P.S.: By the way, I had an 
opportunity to play Crystal 
Quest at a local store. By 
Amiga standards, it would be 
a good public-domain or share- 
ware offering, but lags far be- 
hind even average Amiga 
entertainment software. 

James David Walley 

Bit Player Software 

Everett, WA 

BASIC 

Flag-waving 

WHY DOESN'T Commodore 

pay sufficient attention to BA- 
SIC'- I know "proper" pro- 
grammers write in C, but 
BASIC (especially when struc- 
tured) has its uses. C, espe- 
cially on the Amiga, is 
fiendishly hard to learn (I am 
trying!). BASIC is good for 
trying nut a general idea for a 
program without investing too 
much effort; and for some 



programs, BASIC is perfectly 
adequate anyway. 

There seems to be little de- 
velopment in Amiga Basic 
from Workbench 1.1 to 1.3, 
and there is still a bug in it 
connected with the SAY com- 
mand. Loading an ILBM pic- 
ture requires a long, long 
routine (thank you, Carolyn 
Scheppner, for writing one). 

In the early days of the 
C-64, it was apparent that its 
BASIC was inadequate, and it 
was left to a lad of 1 6, David 
Simons, to fill out the com- 
mands with Simons' Basic, 
which was quite a success. It is 
time that some enterprising 
programmer did the same for 
the Amiga. We need, for a 
start, a "Loadpix" command. 
And the code for the Amiga 
Basic Editor should be im- 
proved: I have seldom seen 
such slow scrolling! 

Robin Hoare 

Rawene, Northland 

New Zealand 

Bring Back 

KlCKSTART 

I AM DISAPPOINTED that 
the A500 and A2000 don't use 
Kickstart clisks. Although it is 
generally convenient to just 
turn on the computer and put 
in a program disk, hasn't the 
/Vmi ga lost a lot of its expand- 
ability? The ability to put in a 
new, revised Kickstart disk 
and virtually have a whole 
new computer at your finger- 
tips was once a unique charac- 
teristic of the Amiga, but this 



is now limited to the rapidly 
disappearing A 1000s. If the 
Kickstart disk is gone forever, 
then I wouldn't think some 
sort of switch between ROM 
chips would be too much to 
ask. This would keep the ex- 
pandability of the A 1000 with 
the fast loading and conve- 
nience of the A2000s and 
ASOOs, 

Braddock C. Gaskill 
Columbia, NJ 

AmigaTeX 
Correction 

AUTHOR W. JEFFREY 
Blunie has pointed out that 
we introduced an error into 
his article on ARexx ["ARexx: 
New Kingpin of Multitask- 
ing?" Nov. '88, p. 55], mistak- 
enly referring to AmigaTeX as 
a public-domain program. 
AmigaTeX is a commercial 
product available from Radical 
Eye Software, Box 2081, Stan- 
ford, CA 94309, 415/32- 
AMIGA. 

Send your letters to: Repartee, 
Amiga World Editorial, 80 Elm 
St., Peterborough, NH 03458. 
Letters may be edited for 
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Compiled by Linda Barrett 



Holiday Cheer 

THE AMIGA CERTAINLY had a happy Christmas in Britain, if 
last December's London show was any indication. Developers from 
all fields piled presents under the tree. 

Holiday diversions came from several sources. Telecomsoft (01- 
379-6755) offered three. In Fish (designed by Magnetic Scrolls), 
you play a goldfish trying to save the planet. Wargamers have 
plenty of ammunition with the Universal Military Simulator (re- 
leased in the US by Rainbird Software: 4 1 5/322-0900) and Tracker, 
a combination of strategy and arcade sequences. Reports from 
Mediagenic UK (UK: 01-431-1101, US: 415/329-0800) indicated 
that Afterburner is finished and eagerly awaited throughout Eu- 
rope. A conversion of R-Type is the next blasi-'em-up on the 
schedule. Microdeal (UK: 07-256-8020, distributed in the US by 
Michtron: 313/334-5700) displayed International Soccer, a prom- 
ising simulator, Turbo Trax, a racing game in which you can 
design your own circuits, and Fright Night, a arcade-adventure 
game. Precision Software (01-330-7160) left smoking joysticks be- 
hind with Charon 5 (distributed in the US by Mindware Inter- 
national: 705/737-5998). 



Capturing the sounds of the season were Microdeal's Midi In- 
terface and Sampler Box and Trilogic's (02-746-91115) low-cost 
audio digitizer. For playback, Trilogic offered small amplifiers to 
drive headphones or speakers from your Amiga. The company 
was also seeking a US distributor. 

To catalog all your new goodies, Precision Software suggested 
Superbase Personal 2 (distributed in the US by Precision Incor- 
porated: 214/929-4888), which adds mail merge and a text editor 
to its database capabilities. 

Already established in the states, Supra's hard drives and modem 
are now being distributed in the UK by Frontier Software (04-236- 
7140). A less fortunate hardware manufacturer was Robtek, which 
has ceased trading. Club 68000 (01-977-9596) has taken overmuch 
of Robtek's old business. 

While most developers were keeping their plans for 1989 under 
wraps, Commodore was pledging continued success. The Amiga 
500 is now the de facto upgrade path for C-64 owners. 

— Stu Menges 
Middlesex, England 




Oslo in a Box 



One of three Amiga-based 
information booths in Oslo, 
Norway. 



FOR LOST SHOPPERS, the InfoBox is 
a savior. If you know what you want 
lo buy, ii will tell you where to find It 
and how to get there. More than a 
map, the box can plot your route for 
you. 

The metal box houses an Amiga- 
based Information booth, The shop- 
ping-center version greets you with a 
slideshow. Press any key to see the 
main menu, from which you can re- 
quest information on various types of 
shops, restaurants, and facilities. If 
you choose restaurants, for example, 
a three-second restaurant-related ad- 
vertisement plays, then a list of res- 
taurants appears. Select an entry and 
press the enter key to see a picture 
of the establishment, a menu, or a 



price list. Press the enter key again 
for a map of the mall with restaurants 
marked by flashing dots. 

The city box Improves on the pro- 
cess. If you are interested in pet 
shops, for example, you can request 
the name and picture of the closest 
one. A map follows displaying your 
position and the pet shop's, then a 
detailed map pinpointing the pet shop. 
Press the enter key once more for a 
list of public transportation that will 
take you to the shop. 

For designer Martin Joyce Nygaard 
of Oslo, Norway, the InfoBox Is a rap- 
idly growing business. He offers two 
configurations— the boxed version 
powered by a one-megabyte A500 with 
a 40MB hard disk and a 1081,84 mon- 



itor, and a store-window version pow- 
ered by an A2000 with a 20MB or 
40MB hard disk. Five keys connected 
to the joystick port control the box- 
based system, while heat or light sen- 
sors glued inside the window control 
the A2000-based system. Both were 
programmed In C. The retail price is a 
hefty £5000, but Nygarrd splits the ad- 
vertising revenue with the box owner. 
Three InfoBoxes are currently in op- 
eration—at the Norwegian State 
Branch of Public Information, the Cen- 
ter lor Public Transport, and Norway's 
largest shopping center. For more In- 
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Fleet Check 
Gold Spell II 
ZINGISpell 

Polish your prose with a backseat 

speller. 

By Neil Randall 

FEW THINGS CAN be as damaging to a 
document's credibility as a misspelling. 
Three spell-checking programs— Fleet 
Check by Professional Software, Gold 
Disk's Gold Spell II, and ZINGISpell 
from Meridian Software— are designed 
to bolster your image. 

Each of the programs I reviewed takes 
a different approach. Fleet Check works 
in real time, alerting you to errors as 
you type. Gold Spell II is a batch 
checker; it examines your document 
after you have finished typing. Posi- 
tioned square in the middle is 
ZINGISpell, which operates in either 
real-time or batch mode. Of the three, 
only Fleet Check adds a thesaurus, al- 
though mailing in the registration card 
for Meridian's ZINGISpell entitles you to 
a free one. The lack of a strong thesau- 
rus in all programs comes as something 
of a surprise, as thesauri are commonly 
bundled with spell checkers in other 
computer environments. 

Fleet Check 

Fleet Check's manual clarifies the pro- 
gram's function immediately. "Please 
note," it reads, "that Fleet Check will not 
be able to spellcheck documents already 
stored on disk. Its only purpose is to 
spellcheck as you type and to allow you 
to access the Thesaurus." For many 









users, that statement renders the pack- 
age useless, as spell-checking after the 
fact is often the preferred method. More 
disturbingly, this contradicts a statement 
on the front of the package: "Documents 
can be checked while you're typing or 
when completed." 

Fleet Check contains a 90,000-word 
dictionary. A separate, customizable dic- 
tionary can accommodate 10,000 addi- 
tional words. When you enable the auto- 
spell mode, both dictionaries load into 
memory; the program scans your docu- 
ment for misspellings and finds substi- 
tute words quickly. Although the manual 
suggests you load Fleet Check before 
loading the word processor, this isn't 
really necessary as long as your word 
processor allows access to the Workbench 
window. A warning, though: I had trou- 
ble both post-loading and pre-loading 
Fleet Check in conjunction with Word- 
Perfect (WordPerfect Corp.), Kind Words 
(The Disc Company), and TextPro (Aba- 
cus) on my Amiga 500 with 512K. With 
a one-megabyte .42000, the problem 
disappeared. 

As soon as you type a word that is not 
in Fleet Check's dictionary, your screen 
Hashes and the speaker clicks. If you 
want to correct it, hit the two shift keys 
simultaneously. Then, at the top of the 
screen, the Fleet Check window appears 
with an array of up to eight suggested 
corrections. You now have four choices: 
Use the mouse to select one of the 
words, type in the correction, add the 
word to your dictionary, or hit the re- 
turn key to stop Fleet Check from notic- 
ing the word for the remainder of the 
writing session. 

Unfortunately, the four-page manual 
points up almost as many conditions as 
features. First, your incorrect word is 
kept in memory only as long as you 
don't type more than 60 characters (one 



normal line) afterwards. Another condi- 
tion is that Fleet Check "can get lost in 
your text and will not be able to reinsert 
the [correct] word" if you invoke menus, 
function keys, ALT- or CTRL-key se- 
quences, and so on, before calling up the 
incorrect word. To make things worse, 
you must be in Insert mode, and your 
text must not be justified or centered. Fi- 
nally, the program can get lost all on its 
own if you type several misspelled words 
consecutively. 

Fleet Check's usefulness is limited. Its 
thesaurus is passable, and it works well 
as a simple word-by-word checker, but it 
needs a good deal more development. 

Gold Spell II 

Like Fleet Check, Gold Spell II loads en- 
tirely into memory, thereby maximizing 
speed. One highly-commendable feature 
is its specific support for Amiga word 
processors. You can select a format for 
WordPerfect, Textcraft and Textcraft 
Plus (Commodore), Scribble! (Micro-Sys- 
tems Software), ProWrite (New Horizons 
Software), the Amiga Notepad, and Gold 
Disk's Professional Page or PageSetter. 
Choosing the Generic format lets you 
check ASCII files produced with any 
program. 

Gold Spell II contains a 90,000-word 
dictionary, and offers three application 
options for checking completed docu- 
ments. You can check the spelling of an 
individual word (this is useful if you 
have Gold Spell II multitasking behind 
your word processor). For interactive 
checking, the program shows you each 
misspelled word as it appears in the doc- 
ument, and allows you to fix mistakes 
immediately. With Batch method, Gold 
Spell checks the document and stores 



12 March 1989 



suspect words for you to correct later. 
The second, Check Document, is the 
most useful method. When Gold Spell II 
finds an incorrect word, its screen splits 
in half. The top shows the word in its 
context of several surrounding lines. At 
the bottom, the Check Document win- 
dow displays a series of options. You can 
click in the text string and correct the 
word manually, or you can click Accept 
to change nothing. If you select Accept 
and Remember, Gold Spell will ignore 
future occurrences of that word and 
keep it in memory to be saved later as 
part of your customized dictionary. You 
can also check the dictionary itself: Se- 
lecting Scan Dictionary lets you search 
the dictionary for the word you want, 
while choosing Guess Spelling asks Gold 
Spell to do the work for you. (I tested 
Guess Spelling with 50 misspelled words, 
and the program replaced 40 correctly, 
certainly a good percentage.) A final op- 
tion lets you list a word as one to be sub- 
stituted with another word later. If you 
habitually misspell a certain word, or 
you like to abbreviate as you type, the 
substitute feature is extremely handy. 
Batch mode checks the spelling of a 
file non-interactively. You simply select 
Batch from the Project menu, then go 
for a 5- to 10-minute walk. When you re- 
turn, the Batch Mode window will show 
the number of incorrect words found, 
and will give vou the option of editing 
these words immediately or .saving the 
list. Choose Edit, and the words appear, 
one by one and (unfortunately) without 
surrounding context. At any time, you 
can quit and return to the same spot 
later. Apart from the lack of context, the 
system works very well. 

As with the other two checkers, Gold 
Spell II's dictionaries are alterable, either 




A spelling ehocker can save you from having to eat your words. 



via the Accept and Remember option or 
by using a word processor capable of 
saving .ASCII files. You can create cus- 
tomized dictionaries and define substi- 
tute liles foi various uses. Gold Spell 
even lets you load an Exception file, 
which lets you list words you want Gold 
Spell not to recognize. 

Gold Spell II can deliver document 
statistics, including the number of words 
and sentences in the piece and the ap- 
proximate grade level of readability 
(Gunning Fox Index). A final statistic iso- 
lates the number of unique words in the 
document, letting you check for overuse 
of specified words. 

ZINGISPELL 

Without doubt, ZINGISpell is the most 
feature-laden of the three packages. Be- 
sides supporting ARexx commands, the 
program has four separate real-time 
spell-checking options. You can check 
words whenever you choose, or set the 
system to check after a carriage return, 
only the last word entered, or each word 
as it is typed. ZINGISpell lets you work 
in either Workbench-screen or custom- 
screen modes. 

ZINGISpell lets you create exchange 
dictionaries— specify and type abbrevia- 
tions for longer words, and the program 
will automatically substitute them in [he 
text. You can also create and edit custom 
dictionaries. The checker can be sus- 
pended at any time, and you can scan 
the dictionaries for spelling suggestions. 
Finally, you can check as you type, or 
you can check a finished document. 



In practice, the checker does little to 
help you find substitutes for misspellings. 
It alerts you to errors, but of the 30 sam- 
ples I tried, the dictionary gave me cor- 
rect spellings for only ten. The reason is 
that ZINGISpell uses a wild-card system 
to help you locate words automatically — 
and this rarely does what you want. You 
can manipulate the misspelled word to 
help the dictionary find the correction, 
but using a traditional desk dictionary is 
preferable. ZINGISpell works in identify- 
ing typos, but not very well as a spelling 
corrector. 

.Although the program becomes easier 
to use with practice, ZINGISpell is ini- 
tially slow and awkward to use. In this 
regard both Fleet Check and Gold Spell 
II are superior; their manuals and inter- 
faces help instead of impede. 
ZING!Spell's manual is the worst I have 
seen in three years. As if dot-matrix- 
printed documentation isn't hard 
enough to read, the manual has almost 
no perceivable organization, and its in- 
structions are very poor. If you want a 
highly-versatile checker, buy ZINGISpell, 
but be sure you have the technical know- 
how to make it work. 

Spelling It Out 

Most writers, programmers, and other 
applications-users— spell checkers aren't 
just for word processing, after all — will 
be happiest with Gold Spell 11. It helps > 



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you correct finished documents quickly 
and easily, and its dictionary options and 
statistics are useful. ZINGISpell, on the 
other hand, is useful for the technically- 
adept looking to customize their utility. I 
recommend Fleet Check only for poor 
typists and poor spelters. 

Fleet Check 

Professional Software Inc. 
51 Fremont Street 
Needham, MA 02194 

617/444-5224 

S39.95 

No special requirements. 

Gold Spell II 
The Gold Disk 

2179 Dunwin Dr. 

Mississauga, Ont. 

Canada L5L 1X2 

416/828-0913 

S44.95 

No special requirements. 

ZINGISpell 

Meridian Software Inc. 

9361 W. Brittany Ave. 
Littleton, CO 80123 
303/979-4140 

$79.95 

No special requirements. 



MIDI Magic 

Saw measures in half and make 
notes disappear. 

By Bob Lindstrom 

WHILE MOST OF its competitors em- 
ploy proprietary-interface designs, MIDI 
Magic, a 16-track sequence-and-song edi- 
tor, consistently adheres to the Intuition 
style. This factor contributes ease of use 
to MIDI Magic's features, but, in some 
cases, it also impedes the efficiency of an 
otherwise smooth-running program. 

MIDI Magic provides track-, sequence- 
and song-editing modes. Each mode 
functions in a separate window, all of 
which may be present on the screen at 
once. Because overlapping windows can 
clog the screen, the program lets you 
shift from a medium- to a high-resolu- 



tion display that shows more data with 
less confusion. The drawbacks are inter- 
lace flicker and extra RAM overhead. 

For My First Trick. . . 

MIDI Magic offers 26 sequences, each 
with 16 tracks. Composing typically be- 
gins by choosing a sequence, A through 
Z, and entering the Tape Transport and 
Track Display to start recording. The 
Tape Transport contains typical tape-re- 
corder-type controls (play, record, fast 
forward, and fast backward), a counter 
for current measure, beat and pulse lo- 
cation, and punch in and out settings for 
re-recording segments. 

In the Track Display, you select a 
track, place it in Record mode, and click 
the Record button in the Tape Transport 
window. At that point, you can set an au- 
dio-visual metronome to click and flash 
the tempo. 

In addition to a Tape Transport slider 
that lets you set a tempo manually, the 
Set Tempo menu option lets you choose 




MIDI Magic's Interface Is purely Amiga. 

the music's speed by rhythmically hitting 
a synthesizer key or the Amiga's space 
bar (the computer tracks the strokes and 
automatically sets the tempo). Although 
the space-bar option proved totally reli- 
able, I found this feature prone to MIDI 
error when accessed from the synthesizer 
keyboard. 

Those who demand the utmost in 
MIDI clock accuracy will be delighted 
with MIDI Magic's clock-pulse options. 
You can choose clock rates from the 
common 24 PPQN (pulses per quarter 
note) to 480, and a Custom option lets 
you dictate any unusual PPQN your 
rhythmic heart desires. MIDI Magic con- 
tains an internal clock, and it is compati- 
ble with an external MIDI clock 



(invaluable when porting sequences from 
other systems), step-lime note entry, and 
drum sync output. 

MIDI Magic's solution to the chronic 
MIDI-recording problem of stopping the 
"tape" precisely at the end of a measure 
is one of the best I have seen. In the 
Tape Transport window, you click the 
time counter to one pulse beyond the 
end of your track (usually, it will be the 
first clock of the next measure). Then, 
clicking on a Set End button automati- 
cally extends or cuts the track to that 
length. .After you've recorded a few 
tracks, you can use the Track Edit op- 
tions to copy and combine (bounce) sev- 
eral tracks into a single track, to Global 
Delete specific types of MIDI messages 
from all tracks (remove all MIDI velocity 
or aftertouch data, for instance), to man- 
ually enter System Exclusive and other 
specialized MIDI commands, or to quan- 
tize the rhythms. 

Split-Second Timing 

Quantizing (aligning and correcting 
rhythmic values) is particularly flexible 
in MIDI Magic. Several techniques are 
available, and you can quantize to any 
value from half notes to 32nd-note trip- 
lets. Note Coherent will preserve the 
note duration but shift the beginning to 
the quantize point. Note Duration re- 
tains the note on position but alters the 
note's length. Note On Only retains the 
note off position but changes note on to 
the quantize point. Finally, On & Off 
shifts both events to the nearest quantize 
point. 

Unfortunately, the program does not 
have an Undo feature, and it will not au- 
tomatically back up a track prior to 
quantization. If you might want to re- 
turn to a particular version of a track, 
you should copy it. 

In the Track Event Editor window, 
you alter or insert individual MIDI val- 
ues in a track. To alter values, you must 
hold the left mouse button down over 
the desired number or note value on 
screen, then roll the mouse left and right 
to change the entry. If you prefer typing 
in new values, the mouse method may 
seem sluggish and inconvenient. There is 
no keyboard option, however. 

Another complaint aboul the Event 
Editor is that it displays MIDI data be- »- 



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COMINGSOON, THE CLASSIC MIND GAME. QIX. 



ginning only with the current position of 
the Tape Transport. If you stop the 
transport in measure three at beat one, 
the Track Edit window does not display- 
any MIDI track data in the first two 
measures; you have to "rewind" the 
Tape Transport to view the entire track. 

After you record as many of the se- 
quence's 16 tracks as you need, you 
move through any remaining sequences 
until you complete all the segments. At 
that point, you go to the Song Editor 
window and assemble your sequences 
into a score. 

When assembling a song, you can re- 
peat a sequence up to 99 times, trans- 
pose it to another key, and change the 
tempo. The Song Editor window displays 
values for these options as well as the 
elapsed time, and any comments that 
you may have attached to the sequence. 

MIDI Magic's song-building design is 
logical, but not very flexible. You cannot 
compose a single drum pattern and mix 
and match it among several sequences, 
for example, because tracks must remain 
within their assigned sequences. Also, 
while you can place completed sequences 



in any order in the Song Editor, only 
one sequence can play at a time. The in- 
ability to combine or overlap sequences 
is an unfortunate limitation. 

They Do It with Mirrors 

Although reliable design and operation 
is the norm in MIDI Magic, the program 
has a few eccentricities. As the documen- 
tation warns, program execution can be 
slow, especially when several windows 
are open at once. Menu selection tends 
to lag, too, with the cursor hesitantly 
jerking from one menu option to the 
next. 

A glaring omission is the inability to 
save sequences in the MIDl-file stan- 
dard. Now that the standard is in place, 
every MIDI sequencer should support it. 
This omission precludes MIDI Magic 
from participating in inter-program and 
inter-operating system trading of MIDI 
data. 

While the printed manual has a help- 
ful—albeit brief— tutorial, the disk con- 
tains only a trio of crude demo 
sequences. With about 35 percent of the 
disk free, there was plenty of room for 




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example songs and sequences to help the 
beginner get started. 

Lastly, aside from function-key equiva- 
lents for Tape Transport commands, 
MIDI Magic is short on keyboard substi- 
tutes for mouse and menu operations. 
More keyboard control would make the 
program faster to use and far more flexi- 
ble, particularly for the experienced 
MIDI musician. 

MIDI Magic has a few finishing 
touches, however, that other programs 
do not. Those willing to tinker with the 
tools selection in the Workbench Info 
window can customize MIDI Magic to 
boot up in virtually any configuration; 
you can select colors, clock source, 
screen resolution, metronome setting, 
default PPQN, and more. The manual is 
quite clear and to the point, and, al- 
though some efforts to be entertaining 
are cloying, its glossary of MIDI terms 
and an appendix with sections on trou- 
bleshooting, error messages, technical 
pitfalls, and a listing of program-sup- 
ported MIDI specifications are helpful. 
Best of all, MIDI Magic is not copy-pro- 
tected; the manual provides complete in- 
structions for installing and running the 
program on a hard disk. 

The Final Curtain 

MIDI Magic offers much that Amiga se- 
quencers in the S200-S300 price range 
do. Professional MIDI musicians who 
put a premium on speed and efficiency 
(and not on mouse-and-menu consis- 
tency) will want to pay the price for a 
more advanced package, but many be- 
ginners and serious amateurs will love 
MIDI Magic for its power and its start- 
up familiarity. Finally, because Circum 
Design promises a patch librarian add- 
on module, MIDI Magic may become a 
one-stop MIDI solution for many Amiga 
musicians. 

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BASIC By The Numbers 

Part Three of our four-part saga on data manipulation helps you find 
a needle in a haystack. 



By Bob Ryan 




The Story Thus Far 



IN THE PREVIOUS two installments o( BASIC By The Numbers, you've 
learned to store and sort data. This month, I continue to expand the address 
book sample program by Introducing another data manipulation technique: 
searching. 

For newcomers, here are the two component programs of the address 
book application. (See January '89, pg. 24 and February '89, pg. 20 for 
explanations.) 

REM Address Book Create/Input Data Program 
OPEN "Address" FOR APPEND AS #1 
GetData: 

CLS 

INPUT "Last Name (RETURN to exit): "; lasts 

IF lasts = "" THEN Finish : quit on NULL string 

INPUT "First Name: "; firsts 

INPUT "Street Address: "; streets 

INPUT "City: "; cltyS 

INPUT "State: "; stateS 

INPUT "Zip: "; zips 

INPUT "Phone: "; phoneS 

WRITE #1, lasts, firsts, streets, cltyS, StateS, zips, phoneS 

GOTO GetData 
Finish: 

CLOSE #1 

END 



REM Address Book Read and Sort Data Program 

REM File Reading Routine 

OPTION BASE 1 

DIM lst$(100,7) : 'limit 100 records in address book 

OPEN "Address" FOR INPUT AS #1 

WHILE NOT EOF(1 ) 

rec = rec + 1 

FOR tld = 1 to 7 
INPUT #1, IstS(recfld) 

NEXT fid 
WEND 
CLOSE #1 






REM Sorting Routine 
Bubble: 
flag = 

FOR x = 1 to rec-1 
IF lstS(x,1) > lstSfX+1,1) THEN 
FOR z = 1 to 7 : 'If out ol order. . . 
temp$(z) = lst$(x,z): ' swap! 
Ist$(x,z) = lst$(x + 1,z) 
lst$(x + 1,z)=tempS(z) 
NEXTz 

flag = 1 : "set when a swap has occurred 
END IF 
NEXTx 

IF flag = 1 THEN Bubble : 'If a swap occurred, do it again 
CLS 

FOR x = 1 to rec : 'Display the sorted records 
FOR fld = 1 to 7 

PRINT lstS(x,fld); " "j 
NEXT fid 
PRINT 
NEXT X 
END 







Three-Part Harmony 



ONE OF THE primary functions of an address book program is 
to let you find the address or phone number of a particular 
person. While the above program displays the address book's 
records sorted alphabetically, it isn't very useful for finding in- 
formation about any one person, once the address book has 
more entries than will fit in one Amiga window. .As your address 
file grows, you need a more sophisticated method to call up spe- 
cific data. 

A search routine consists of three components: an input seg- 
ment where you specify the information you want, the actual 
search segment, and a segment that displays the information. 
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The input segment of the search routine can be very simple: 
You prompt the user to enter the last name of the person he or 
she wants information about. Here is an example: 

REM 'Search Input 
Searchln: 

CLS 

LOCATE 10,10 

PRINT "Address Book Search" 

INPUT "Enter Last Name: "; searchS 

The simplest search algorithm is brute force: You examine 
every record in the list until you find a match. For example: 

found_flag = 
FOR x = 1 1o rec 
IF lst$(x,1) = searchS THEN 
found_flag = 1 
GOTO CheckFlag 
END IF 
NEXTX 
CheckFlag: 
IF found_flag = 1 THEN 

Dlsplaylt : 'Jump to the record display routine 
ELSE 

PRINT "Record Not Found" 
END IF 

This routine works but it is neither efficient nor very pretty, If 
you have 80 records in your address book, the program will 
have to perform an average of 40 comparisons before it finds 
the proper record. To greatly decrease the average number of 
comparisons needed, I rely on a binary search. 

In a binary search, you examine selected records that contin- 
ually narrow down the number you must examine. A binary 
search is very efficient, but it does require that the records be 
sorted. 

Here is how a binary search works. Let's say you have a list of 
20 records and the record you want (though you don't know it) 
is number 14, First, you compare your search string with the 
record halfway down the list, namely 1 1. Because the search 
string is below record 1 1 alphabetically, you check the record 
halfway down the remainder (records 12 through 20) of the list, 
namely record 16. The search string is above this record, so you 
check the record (13) halfway between the remaining records 
(12 through 15). Your search string is below 13, so you move 
halfway down the remaining records (14 and 15) to record 14, 



where you finally have a match. In your search, you've exam- 
ined records 11,16, 13, and 14, for a total of four. A brute force 
search of the same list will take an average of 10 comparisons. 

The routine below implements a binary search for the address 
book program. Remember, the records are numbered from 1 to 
rec. The display routine follows the search routine. 

Io = : hi = rec 
Loop: 
lookup = lo + INT((hi - lo + 1 )/2) 
IF searchS = lstS(lookup,1) THEN 

GOTO Displaylt 
ELSEIF searchS < lst$(lookup,1) THEN 
IF hi = lookup THEN EndSearch 
ELSE 

hi = lookup : GOTO Loop 
END IF 
ELSE 
IF lo = lookup THEN EndSearch 
ELSE 

lo = lookup : GOTO Loop 
END IF 
END IF 
EndSearch : 
CLS 

PRINT "No Match Found!" 
INPUT "Try Again (Y/N) "; ans$ 
IF ans$ = "Y" or ans$ = "y" THEN Searchln 
STOP 

Displaylt: 
CLS 

LOCATE 1,10 

PRINT "The record you want lollows:" 
FOR fid = 1 to 7 

PRINT lstS(lookup,l!d); " "; 
NEXT fid 
PRINT 

INPUT "Search Again (Y/N) "; ansS 
IF ans$ = "Y" or ansS = "y" THEN Searchln 
END 

To get everything working, add the above routine to the 
Search Input routine and tack the whole thing onto the end of 
(he Read/Sort program. You now have the basic pieces of an 
address book application. 





Fond Farewell 

NEXT MONTH, IN the find installment of BASIC By The Numbers, we'll add menus, a print routine, 
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Hard Times Ahead 

Greater storage capacity, efficiency, and speed make hard drives 

the standard of the future. But what kind of system do you need 

and how do you install if? 



By Louis R. Wallace 



MUCH TO MOLLY'S DISGUST, but radio listeners' 
delight, Fibber McGee's closet could hold a lot, but 
attempting to locate one thing brought the entire 
contents cascading down on his head. The same ap- 
plies to your desk littered with floppy disks; you know 
the program you need is there, but finding it means 
rooting through the mess. 

A more efficient storage method is a hard drive. A 
20MB hard drive will hold the equivalent of 20 floppy 
disks in one neat box. Instead of searching for sep- 
arate disks, you can install frequendy used software 
on your hard disk, then click open the programs as 
you need them. Accessing programs from a hard 
drive is also much faster than accessing them from a 
floppy. For disk-intensive applications, such as 
searching and sorting databases, spell checking large 
documents, creating graphics, or digitizing sound 
and video, you will quickly appreciate the increased 
speed of a hard drive. (For more details on how a 
hard drive operates, see the sidebar "Hard Facts.") 

Purchasing and installing your first hard drive, 
however, presents an array of bewildering choices. 
What capacity do you need? What size do you buy? 
What interface standard should you use? How do 
you hook it up? Because the answers are system 
specific, we will concentrate on adding an internal 
hard drive to an Amiga 2000 running version 1.3 of 
the operating system. 

While your Amiga comes equipped to run a floppy 
drive, you must buy an Amiga-specific controller card 
to run a hard drive. Because of manufacturing costs 
and expensive extras, such as autoconfig and DMA 
(Direct Memory Access) circuitry, the controller often 
costs more than a 20MB drive. 



Many companies, such as C-Ltd and Supra Corp., 
offer turnkey hard-drive systems, containing the 
drive, a controller card, mounting hardware, cables, 
software (a hard-disk driver and installation pro- 
gram), and instructions. The all-in-one package is 
perfect if you do not want or know where to search 
for individual components. With all the pieces coming 
from the same company, troubleshooting is much 
easier. 

If you want to get the best deal possible or a custom 
configuration, you can easily buy the components 
from different sources. While you can save money or 
buy more megs for the same amount with this 
method, you run the risk of assembling incompatible 
components. The best defense is to know your in- 
terface standards and your personal requirements. 

How Much Is Enough? 

One such requirement is the storage capacity you 
need. Although 20MB drives are the least expensive, 
they have the highest cost per megabyte and fill all 
too quickly. While your first 20 megabytes may cost 
about S500, doubling your storage to 40 megs will 
cost only about an additional $100. The per-megabyte 
savings increase as you move up to 60MB, 80MB and 
100 + MB systems, although you will probably want 
to draw the line on capacity somewhere. If your 
budget will allow it, I recommend you buy a 40MB 
drive at least. 

ST506 vs. SCSI 

All Amiga hard drives adhere to either the ST506 or 
the SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) inter- 
face standard. Designed for the IBM PC, ST506 i 



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AmigaWirrld 23 



drives are the cheapest and most plentiful. SCSI 
drives cost a little more, but are usually faster that) 
ST506 drives. Commodore's A2090A interface card 
supports both ST506 and SCSI drives; most other 
controllers support SCSI drives only. If you need the 
flexibility of using both types of drives, get the 
A2090A. If you do not need ST506 support, get a 
SCSI-only interface. 

3 1 /, vs. 5 V, 

Once you decide on a standard, consider the size of 
the drive— 3 1 /., inch or 5 1 /, inch. You must install a 
5 '/.,-inch drive in the 5 V 4 -inch-drive slot on the A2000. 
This, however, prevents you from running MS-DOS 
programs via Commodore's A2088 Bridgeboard, be- 
cause it eliminates the space for an internal IBM- 
compatible drive. A 37,-inch drive installed in the 
second floppy slot means having only one internal 
floppy drive, DFO:. You could add a more expensive, 
external S'/.-inch floppy, which is called DF2: by 
default but which you can mount as DF1:. If you 
want two internal 3'/ a -inch floppies and a 3'/ a -inch 
hard drive, but no MS-DOS (loppy, you can install 
the hard drive in the 5V 4 -inch slot with a mounting 
bracket. Radio Shack sells one for $29.95. 

DMA vs. Non-DMA 

For even more speed and efficiency, consider a con- 
troller that supports DMA (Direct Memory Access), 
a hardware technique for high-speed data transfer 



between computer memory and a device, such as a 
hard disk. Once the CPU has initiated a DMA transfer, 
transmission continues without further assistance 
from the CPU, meaning your Amiga can perform 
other functions while accessing your drive. Again, 
performance adds to the controller's price. If speed 
is a major concern, I recommend investing in a DMA 
controller. 

Remote Control 

Version 1 .3 of the operating system adds a new op- 
tion— autobooting AmigaDOS from your hard drive. 
When autobooting, the machine executes your 
startup-sequence automatically from the hard disk, 
instead of looking for it on a (loppy disk in DFO:. To 
autoboot from your hard drive you need Kickstart 
1 .3 and a controller card that supports the procedure. 
Because Commodore is not selling the Kickstart 1.3 
ROM chip (part number 315093-02) to users, you 
must have a service center install it for you. Several 
reliable autobooting hard-drive controllers are the 
A2090A (Commodore), the A2000 I mpacl (Great Val- 
ley Products), the A2000 SupraDrive controller (Su- 
pra Corp.) and the A2000 Overdrive controller 
(Pacific Peripherals). 

.\ 

Out of the Box, Into the Case 

With all the components collected on your desk, you 
are ready to install your hard drive. The exact pro- 
cedure depends on your specific controller and drive. » 



Glossary of Hard Drive Terminology 



AutoConfig— a technique used by the Amiga 
operating system to automatically recognize 
and access hardware. Autoconflg devices must 
meet certain requirements before the Amiga 
can detect them. 

Block— a segment of data totaling 512 bytes. 

Cylinder— a group of tracks with a common 
track number. All the track 0's on a hard drive 
form one cylinder, all the track 1's make up 
another, and so on. 

Device— is a software I/O port that Amiga- 
DOS uses to communicate with a physical 
I/O port or a redefinition of how a system 
resource is used. For example, the RAM: 
device redefines read/write memory to be a 
disk drive. 

Device Driver— the program and data struc- 
tures necessary to make a device functional. 

DMA— Direct Memory Access; a high-speed 
method of transferring data between RAM and 



a peripheral device, such as a hard drive. 

DOS— Disk Operating System; the software the 
computer uses to control the disk drive. 

File System— a program that provides high- 
level access to low-level mass-storage devices. 

Handler— a translator that lets you access dif- 
ferent logical devices with the same com- 
mands, such as RAM-Handler, SPEAK-Handler, 
and AUX-Handler. 

Mountllst— a text file found In a Workbench 
disk's DEVS: directory that describes devices, 
handlers, or file systems added to the system 
with the AmigaDOS MOUNT command. 

Partition— the division of a single hard drive 
Into two or more "logical" segments that the 
system refers to as if they were individual 
drives. Partitions are formatted Independently 
and can each support a different disk operating 
system. For example, one drive could house 
partitions supporting AmigaDOS, FastFlle- 



System, and MS-DOS. 

Read/Write Head— a circular piece of magne- 
tized Iron positioned above the magnetic media 
that Is used to read or write data to the 

drive. 

SCSI— Small Computer System Interface; a 
high-speed interface capable of the parallel 
transference of data (transferring eight bits at 
a time). 

Sector— a sub-area of a track. 

ST506— an Interface that uses serial transfer- 
ence of data (transferring one bit at a time). 

Startup-sequence— a text file that contains In- 
structions for the Amiga to execute when It Is 
booted. Startup-sequences are stored in the S 
directory of boot disks. 

Track— one of many rings on the surface of 
the disk that the read/write head of the drive 
passes over. 



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Step 1. Removing the floppy-drive plate. 



Step 3. Installing the hard-drive controller Into the first 
Amiga slot. 





Step 2. Installing the hard drive In the 5 
bracket. 



mounting 



Step 4. Attaching the power and data cables to the hard 
drive. 



Hard Facts 



A HARD DRIVE is a mass-storage device onto 
and from which your Amiga can store and re- 
trieve information. Conceptually, a hard drive 
Is similar to a floppy drive. Both contain rap- 
idly-spinning (3600 revolutions per minute for 
a hard disk, 300 rpm for a floppy) magnetically- 
coated disks that hold information. 

Hard drives offer higher storage capacity 
and data-transfer speed, however, making them 
more desirable and expensive than floppy 
drives. Capacities range from 20 megabytes 
(the equivalent to over 20 Amiga floppies) to 
over 130 megabytes (as much as 150 floppies). 
Of course, hard storage costs more than floppy 



storage. A 20MB system costs S400-S50C (or 
about $25 per megabyte), while 20 floppies at 
a total cost of $40 represent a cost per mega- 
byte of only $2. The more hard storage you 
buy, however, the less you pay per megabyte. 
A 40MB system at $700 means the per-meg 
price drops to $17, while an $800 60MB system 
brings that price down to S13 

Although storage capacity Is easy to mea- 
sure, hard-drive speed Is more complex. One 
aspect of speed Is seek time. When you want 
to read or write to the drive, the computer's 
disk operating system (DOS) determines the 
proper track and sector on the disk and moves 



the drive's read/write head to that location. The 
amount of time required to move the head Is 
called seek time. A better way ol measuring 
drive speed is with access time (measured In 
milliseconds), the average amount of time that 
elapses between the computer's request for 
data transfer and data's return. Hard-drive man- 
ufacturers usually quote the access time. 

How the hard-drive Interface sends the data 
from the drive to the computer affects the 
drive's speed. ST506 drives send Information 
one bit at a time, while SCSI transfers a full 
byte at a time. The SCSI method is usually the 
(aster, □ —LRW 



AmigaWbrld 25 



Care and Feeding 

THE TWO BIGGEST problems lor hard-drive 
owners are direct opposltes— loss of data and 
data buildup. Unless you take the proper pre- 
cautions, you could lose all your data in a disk 
crash, or you could waste access time while 
your disk searches through unnecessary tiles. 
The best way to avoid these situations Is to 
prepare yourself against them. 

Hard drives are powerful, but not indestruc- 
tible. If you make a mistake, software corrupts 
the drive, or the hardware breaks down, you will 
lose your data. The golden rule Is: Always back 
up your data onto floppy disks. You should back 
up your data files after every computing ses- 
sion. While you can recopy programs Irom their 
original disks, data can be lost for good if you 
do not save It regularly. Because backing up 
the entire drive Is time consuming, you need to 
do so only once a month. 

If your data files are few and small, you can 
back them up using the Workbench or CLI. 
Use Duplicate for the Workbench menu to 
make a copy of the files, then drag the Icons 
Into the floppy disk's window. From the CLI, 



use the COPY command. 

This method quickly becomes time consum- 
ing when you have enough files to fill one or 
two floppies. A better alternative is to batch 
copy flies with a directory utility program, such 
as CLImate, DiskMaster (both from Progressive 
Peripherals & Software), and DlrUtil (public do- 
main). These programs let you copy groups 
(batches) of files, such as entire directories, 
with a single command. 

II you have megabytes ol data to back up, 
you should invest in a more sophisticated back- 
up program, such as QuarterBack (Central 
Coast Software), or a tape backup system, such 
as C-Ltd's. The programs allow you to copy the 
entire contents of your hard drive to floppies. 
Once the process is started, alt you have to do 
is supply fresh floppy disks when prompted. Be 
prepared, a 20MB drive will require about 25 
floppy disks to store all the data, and it will take 
you one to two hours to make the backup. With 
a tape backup system you can copy the con- 
tents of large hard drives to magnetic tape for 
archiving or safeguarding far faster and more 



easily than you can back up to Hopples. The 
drawback Is that tape drives are expensive, 
sometimes rivalling hard-drive costs. 

Neat-Nik 

Just as backing up your drive will rescue you 
from disaster, keeping It organized will save 
you Irom frustration. New hard-drive owners 
often use only a few directories to store a vast 
array ol data. Besides making it difficult tor 
you to find anything, it slows down your drive, 
as the computer must search through the clut- 
ter for your requested data. 

To keep your drive as efficient as possible, 
keep it organized. Make your root directory 
lean. Keep only what you need In It, with the 
rest In subdirectories. A good guideline is no 
more than 20 to 30 files per directory. Organize 
your files and programs under common themes- 
graphics, word processing, games, and so on. 
Delete files you do not need. Some disk utilities, 
such as CLImate and DiskMaster, offer house- 
keeping routines to make the process easier. D 

-LEW 



What follows is a general guideline; always consult the 
installation instructions accompanying your system. 

If you choose an ST506 system, check your hard 
disk and its packaging for a chart of the disk's bad 
sectors {if any). If the values are listed on the drive, 
copy them into a notebook; the installation software 
may request them. 

To physically install the drive, turn off your system 
and remove all the connecting cables. To open the 
A2000's case, remove the two screws on each side 
and the top, center screw in the back. 

To install a S'/i-inch drive, remove the two screws 
on each side of metal plate to which the floppy drives 
are attached. Carefully lift up the plate, with the 
floppy drive still in place, and find the screw holes 
in the plate for your hard drive. Attach the drive, 
and screw the plate back in place. 

To install a 57,-inch drive, simply slide it into the 
bottom slot, align the holes on the side, and insert 
the mounting screws. If your drive has a faceplate 
(usually black plastic with an LED), make sure it fits 
flush with the case before tightening the screws. If 
your drive will activate the hard-disk light on the 
front of the A2000, attach l he LF.D wire and leave 
the A2000's faceplate in place. 

After installing the drive, connect it to the power 
supply by plugging one of the Amiga's large four- 
pin plastic connectors to the drive's connector. 

Now, install the drive controller. Usually, you can 



house the card in any Amiga slot, but inserting it into 
the first slot makes connecting the cables easier. Be 
careful not to put your controller into the 86-pin 
CPU slot. Follow the controller's instructions to con- 
ned the drive cables. With all your new equipment 
in place, reassemble your system. 

You are now ready to prepare your drive, mount- 
list, and startup-sequence for use. Again, the exact 
process is system specific. Some controllers come with 
software that automatically prepares, formats, and 
partitions the drive, alters the boot disk's mount list 
and startup-sequence, and copies any necessary files. 
Others may come with printed instructions only. For 
example, the software accompanying Commodore's 
A2090A board prepares and formats the disk; you 
follow the instructions and answer the prompts. 

If you wish, under version 1.3 of the operating 
system, you can install a hard-disk partition that 
employs the FastFileSysrem (FFS) — a new, faster, and 
more efficient method of using a hard drive on the 
Amiga. Unlike the older AmigaDOS file system (which 
was not designed for use on a hard drive), FFS stores 
only data in the disk's data blocks. Because FFS stores 
data on consecutive blocks when possible, it is able 
to read and write data significantly faster (about 
300%) than the old file system. The method also lets 
you store about 50K more data per megabyte, giving 
you about 5% more usable storage space. FFS is so 
fast that the limiting factor in the data transfer rate 



26 March 1989 



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n [irree f Gr zoe-, life + tropos, turning] 1. a device that gave static images an illusion of motion. Known as the "wheel of 
life", the zoetrope brought the magic of animation to the parlours of the mid-1800's. 2. a new state-of-the-art advanced 
animation system for the Amiga" computer from Antic Software. 



Now! The program you've 
been hearing so much about... 
Zoetrope puts you right on the 
cutting edge of 
animation. 



Its high end features satisfy 
even the most demanding of 
professional users. Its unique 
layered structure 
makes it easy-to- 
use for the cas- 
ual animator. 




Bring your imagination to life 
with Zoetrope: the faster way 
to animate. 

Now with Zoetrope, The 
Animation System™, you can 
create magical motion. 

Here are just a few of 
Zoetrope' s exciting, 
advanced features: 

• Spin and swoop titles 
and images' through 
3D space. 

• Apply computer 
power to classic "eel" 
animation. 

• Overlay and underlay 
(compositing) your 
favorite pictures or 
animations. 



Taking animation into the 21st Century 

By Jim Kent, the creator of Aegis Animator* 




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Another great Cyber Graphics product. 

To see the entire line of Cyber Graphics from Antic 
Software, visit your favorite Amiga * retailer. 
To order direct, call 800-234-7001. 

AnttC Software Amiga • is a registered trademark of Commovii-rt- Amiga, hie. Aegis Animator is a trademark o/ ftegis Development. 

ZcH-tn ipe, The Ariimatiort System; Cyber Graphics; Antic Software and Antic are tract-eniidss of Antic Publishing, Inc. 
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between the Amiga and hard disks now is dependent 
upon your specific drive and controller, and not on 
the Tile system. For the best performance, get a fast 
hard disk with a DMA controller. 

Because FFS cannot be used on the first hard-drive 
partition (the first partition must be standard Amiga- 
DOS), the setup procedure for an FFS partition is 
more involved than standard hard-drive software 
installation. First, you must install the device driver 
(supplied with your controller) in the Expansion 
drawer on your boot disk. For the A2090A controller, 
the files are called HDDISK and HDD1SK.INFO. If 
the controller's installation software does not copy 
the driver to the Expansion drawer, use the Work- 
bench or CLI to do so. Next, you must prepare the 
hard drive. For the A2090A, use PREP, the supplied 
utility program. When running programs such as 
PREP on a drive intended for use with FFS, keep the 
normal AmigaDOS partition small. When PREP 
prompts you for the HIGHCYLof the first partition, 
you should enter the number of the cylinder you 
want to be the last one in the small AmigaDOS par- 
tition, not the last cylinder on the disk. In the example 
mountlist below, the FFS partition starts at cylinder 
29; therefore, when I used PREP on my drive I set 
the H IGHCYL of the AmigaDOS partition to 28. After 
preparing the AmigaDOS partition, reboot your 
Amiga. 



The next step is to add an entry for an FFS partition 
into your mountlist file (located in the DEVS: direc- 
tory of the boot disk) using ED or some other text 
editor. The FFS mountlist entry below is for a 40MB 
drive. Cylinders and 1 are reserved for system use. 
I used PREP to create the first partition, called DHO: 
in cylinders 2 through 28, about one megabyte. The 
remaining 39 megs will be used for FFS. 

FS1: Device = hddisk. device 

FileSystem = l:FastFileSystem 

Unit=l 

Flags = 

Surfaces = 4 

BlocksPerTrack= 17 

Reserved = 2 

lnterleave = 

LowCyl = 29 ; HighCyl=1223 

Buffers = 40 

GlobVec=l 

BufMemType = 1 

Stacksize = 4000 

DosType = 0x444 F5 301 
# 

To make sure that the hard-disk device driver is 
recognized by your system, open a Shell or CLI and 
type: 

Bind Drivers , 



Product Information 






BACK-UP SYSTEMS 


CONTROLLERS 


A20O0 Overdrive 
Pacific Peripherals 


CLI mate 


A2090A 


46728 Fremont Blvd. 


Progressive Peripherals & Software 


Commodore Business Machines 


Fremont, CA 94539 


464 Kalamath St. 


1200 Wilson Dr. 


$249 


Denver, CO 80204 


West Chester, PA 19380 




303/825-4144 


215/431-4200 




S39.95 


S399.95 


TURNKEY SYSTEMS 


DiskMaster 


A2000 Impact 


A2000 Hard Drive Systems 


Progressive Peripherals & Software 


Great Valley Products Inc. 


C-Ltd 


see address above 


225 Plank Ave. 


see address above 


S49.95 


Paoli, PA 19301 


3729,95 for 20MB system 




215/889-9411 


up to SI 4,059.95 for 320MB system 


QuarterBack 


$360, unpopulated 




Central Coast Software 




Supra 4x4 


268 Bowie Dr. 


A2000 SupraDrive 


Supra Corporation 


Los Osos, CA 93402 


Supra Corporation 


see address above 


805/528-4906 


1133 Commercial Way 


S799 for 20MB system 


S69.95 


Albany, OR 97321 


S949 for 30MB system 




503/967-9075 


SI 195 for 60MB system 


Tape Back- Up Sub-System 


S299.95 




C-Ltd 






723 E. Skinner 






Wichita, KS 67211 






316/267-9100 


(For a complete list of Amiga hard drives and controllers, 


$809.95 


see our Hardware Buyer's Guide on 


page 32.) 



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SupraDrives are the best. The 
best performers. The best 
designs. The best fit for your 
system. 

And frankly, the best choice 
you could make, no matter how 
you stack your options. 

Only Supra offers you complete 
SupraDrive Hard Disk Systems 
for the Amiga 500, the Amiga 
1000, and the Amiga 2000 in 
various capacities and forms. 
You can get external drives, 
internal drives, interface kits, 
and RAM expansion kits. You 
can get drives ranging in size 
from 20MB all the way up to 
250MB. Whatever your system 
configuration and needs, you 
can get a Supra hard disk 
that's just right for YOU. 

And if what you need is backup 
or unlimited storage, you can 
get the SupraDrive FD-10, a 
new concept in mass storage 
that combines the best features 
of hard disks and floppy disks. 
The SupraDrive FD-10 lets you 
store a full 10MB of data on 
one floppy disk and then easily 
take the disk with you any- 
where. Your storage capacity 
is limited only by the number 
of disks you have, and backups 
are quick and easy. 

When you buy 

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FAX: 503-926-9370 



Now, you must format the drive. Because PREP 
automatically mounts the First partition, you do not 
have to mount DHO:. To format the first (AmigaDOS) 
partition, simply type: 

FORMAT DRIVE DHO: NAME "SLOWHD" 

The first partition, cylinders 2 through 28, will be 
formatted under AmigaDOS. 

Before formatting the FFS portion, you must 
mount it. To mount the FFS partition, type: 

MOUNT FS1: 

Next, you format the FFS partition by typing: 
FORMAT DRIVE FS1: NAME "FASTHD" FFS 

When the formatting process is complete, you 
should copy all the files on your Workbench 1.3 disk 
to the FFS partition, using the command: 

COPYDFO: FS1: ALL 

Now, edit your startup-sequence (in the boot disk's 
S directory) so it will mount the drive when you boot. 
For example, I added the following lines to the be- 
ginning of my startup-sequence: 

system/fastmemfirst 

BindDrivers 



mount FS1: 

FSl:c/assign c: FSl:c 
FSLc/assign sys: FS1: 
FSLc/assign I: FS1:1 
FSLc/assign fonts: FSLfonts 
FSLc/assign devs: FSLdevs 
FSLc/assign libs: FSLIibs 
FSLc/assign s: FSLs 
FSLc/assign system: FSLsystem 

The first command runs the FASTMEMFIRST util- 
ity, which forces the Amiga to use fast memory if it 
is present. BindDrivers looks in the boot disk's Ex- 
pansion drawer to find the hard-disk driver, then 
loads the driver into memory. Next, using the 1.3 
MOUNT command, it mounts the FFS partition. The 
system now will recognize the existence of the FFS 
partition so you can use it. Because I have a copy of 
all my Workbench files and directories on FSL, I 
then assign all of them to it so it becomes my default 
drive. Now all access of my System files will come 
from the hard disk. 

When you reboot you will be using the new Fast- 
FileSystem as your default drive. (See "Care and Feed- 
ing" (p.26) for hard-drive handling hints.) ■ 

Louis R. Wallace is a contributing editor to Amiga World. 
Write to him c/o Amiga World Editorial Dept., 80 Elm 
St., Peterborough, NH 03458. 



THE HUMAN TOUCH 

The EASYL graphics tablet, a natural 
extension of your pen or pencil, is the 
simplest and most intuitive way to put 
your ideas into the Amiga. Whether 
you are an artist, animator, designer or 
engineer, EASYL quickly draws your 
attention to its' power, precision, 
ruggedness and ease of use. 



Once installed in your Amiga 500, 
1 000, or 2000, EASYL is ready to 
work with Deluxe Paint, Draw Plus, 
Photon Paint, Express Paint, Profess- 
ional Draw, plus many other popular 
graphics programs. No matter what 
the job, EASYL is just a pen stroke 
away. EASYL also leaves your 
mouse active and the mouse/joystick, 
serial, and parallel ports free for oth- 
er uses. For a powerful way to ex- 
press yourself on your Amiga, pick 
up the EASYL pressure sensitive 
graphics tablet. Chances are you 
won't put it down. Contact your 
Amiga dealer for a free demonstra- 
tion, or contact one of the addresses 
below. 

EASYL is also available for Commodore 
PC/XT/AT and compatible computers. 
EASYL technical support is available 
on BIX. 



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In Canada: 

Anakin Research Inc. 

100 Westmore Drive, Unit 1 1C Rexdale. 
Ontario, Canada M9V 5C3 



In the U.S.: 

Inforite Corporation 

1670 S. Amphlert Blvd., #201 

San Mateo, Ca 94402 

(415)571-8766 



Easyl is a registered trademark of Anakin Research Inc., Deluxe Paint is a registered trademark ol Electronic Arts, Professional Draw is a registered trademark ot Gold Disk Inc., 
Pholort Paint is a registered trademark ol Microilluslons. Draw Plus is a registered trademark of Aegis Development Inc., Express Painl is a registered Irademark of P.A.R. Inc. 
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AGA 2000 



The flickerFixer 




UNLOCK THE GRAPHICS POWER 
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flickerFixer is an advanced graphics adaptor 
that eliminates your Amiga 2000's interlace 
flicker and visible scan lines. The result: super- 
ior quality color or monochrome graphics and 
text — for such demanding applications as 
CAD/CAM, Desktop Presentation, Graphic 
Design, Animation, 3D Modeling, Video, and 
Word Processing. 

flickerFixer upgrades the Amiga 2000 with a 
flicker free 4096 color palette, has an overscan 
mode that features a screen size of 704 x 470 
pixels and drives most of the popular PC 
Multiscan and VGA monitors, including the 
NEC Multisync and Mitsubishi XC1429C. 



Accolades include: Best of 1988 Award, 
Commodore Magazine (12/88); #t Reader's 
Choice Award, AMIGAWORLD (12/88); "The 
display is fantastic . . . It is the best display we 
have ever seen on any computer system." 
Amiga GURU (5/88) 



flickerFixerffts into the Amiga video slot is fully 
compatible with all software, and does not 
modify the standard Amiga video signals. For 
more information or to order, call MicroWay 
Sales at (508) 746-7341 or your Amiga Dealer. 
Priced at $595, flickerFixer is made in the USA 
and is FCC Class B approved. 



MicroWay. . . Respected throughout tfie industry for high quality engineering, service and technical support. 



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flickerFixer and MicroWay are trademarks of MicroWay, Jnc. Amiga is a registered trademark of Commodore. Multisync is a registered trademark of NEC. 



The AmlgaWorld 






Buyer's Guide 



DO YOU SUFFER from Just-One-More-Device Syn- 
drome? The symptoms are easy to spot. Does your 
car's dashboard look like a 747's? Is your stereo 
system slowly taking over the entire living room? 
Have the electrical outlets in your kitchen been con- 
demned for overcrowding? Most importantly, is the 
combined worth of your computer, peripherals, and 
expansion devices threatening to surpass the value 
of your house? 

Well, maybe you don't mind, and believe that 
"More is better.' 1 Or, perhaps like the sailor, you 
subscribe to "A device in every port," or, like the 
politician, "A chicken in every slot." In any event, 
we've compiled our annual smorgasbord of delectable 
chips and wire— The AmigaWorld Hardware Buyer's 
Guide— to satisfy your cravings. As always, the selec- 
tion is extensive and varied. We have disk drives and 
controllers, memory-expansion boards, graphics, 
video, and music devices, networking equipment, and 
a whole lot more. 

A few translations to make your selections easier: 
The Bus refers to the side expansion bus on the A500 



V 



and A1000, and Slot to an internal slot on the A2000 
or a slot in an expansion chassis off the bus. Moth- 
erboard refers to the Amiga's main internal board; 
Mouse, Serial, Parallel, and RGB to the rear ports of 
the same name. External drive denotes disk-drive 
port, and Internal drive, the disk-drive cavity on the 
A2000. Internal refers to the expansion bus on the 
A500's underside. The letters (FT) in the Port column 
indicate pass-through, meaning you can attach other 
products to the peripheral. 

We have listed only items that are or will be avail- 
able by March 1, 1989. If the manufacturer has de- 
cided on a release dale but not on a price, we listed 
TBA (To Be Announced) in the Price column. (Re- 
member also, all prices are approximate. As the cost 
of chips and components fluctuate, so wilt the cost of 
hardware.) 

Products are presented alphabetically within each 
category by name of product, followed by the name 
of the manufacturer. Consult the "Company List" at 
the end of the guide for further information about 
the manufacturer's address and telephone number. *■ 



Clocks 34 

Coprocessors 34 

Drives/Controllers 34 

Expansion 38 

Graphics/Video 38 



Interfacing/Networking 40 

Memory 40 

Music/Sound 42 

Miscellaneous 42 

Manufacturers' Addresses 44 



Compiled by Jan Jackson and Bob Ryan 



ILLUSTRATED BY MARC YANKUS 



AmigaWorld 53 



Cloc 

PRODUCT 



A-Time 

MouseTime 

TimeSaver/1000 

TimeSaver/1 000-2000 Adaptor 



COMPANY 



PRICE 



Akron Systems 
MicroBoucs 
C Ltd 
C Ltd 



$:S9.95 
$39.95 
$79.95 

$39.95 



MACHINE PORT 



All 
1001) 
1000 
2000 



Parallel 
Mouse 

Keyboard 
Keyboard 



DESCRIPTION 



Clock 
Clock 

Clock. 7K RAM lor keyboard macros 
Enables A2000 to use TimeSaver/1000 



Coprocessors 

PRODUCT 



68020 CPU Board 

A2088 BridgcBoard 

HA030 

Hurricane 68020-12 

Hurricane 68030 Processor 

Hurricane H1000 Accelerator 

Hurricane H2000 Accelerator 

Hurricane Math Coprocessors 

Multifunction Module 

Piggyback 

Processor Accelerator 



COMPANY 



PRICE 



MACHINE PORT 



CSA 

Commodore 

Ronin 

Ronin 

Ronin 

Ronin 

Ronin 

Ronin 

MicroBotics 

CSA 

Creative Micro. 



$995.00 
$699.95 

$3211.(10 
$200.00 

$570.00 

$400.00 

$600.00 

$200.00 

$99.95 

$895.00 

$199.95 



2000 

2000 

1000, 2000 

1000, 2000 

1000, 2000 

1000 

2000 

1000, 2000 

All 

5(10, 1000 

All 



CPU slot 

Slot 

Hurricane 

Hurricane 
Hurricane 

Slot 

CPU slot 

Hurricane 

'•: ii '■'■ oard2 

Motherboard 

Motherboard 



DESCRIPTION 



68020 Board; opt: 16-33 MHz 68882, 16MHz 68030 

IBM PC/XT clone-on-a-card, 5'/i" drive 

68030 adapter for Hurricane Board 

12 MHz 68020 chip 

16 or 20 MH/. 68030 chip 

Unpopulated 68020/68881 board 

Unpopulated 68020/68881 board 

16MHz 68881; 20MHz 68881, 25MHz 68882 available 

6888 1 socket, clock, sticky disk, RAM parity checking 

68020 Board; upgradable with 16 MHz 68882 

Replaces standard 68000 with 14.32 MHz 68000 



DRIVES/CONTROl 

PRODUCT 


.LERS 

COMPANY 


PRICE 


MACHINE 


PORT 


DESCRIPTION 


10MB 5.25 Removable Floppy 


C Ltd 


$1089.95 


2000 
1000 
500 


Slot 
Bus 
Bus 


10MB 57/' removable media drive and controller 


10MB Floppy System 


C Ltd 


$1329.95 


Removable media drive and controller 


10MB Floppy System 


C Ltd 


$1329.95 


10MB 57," removable media drive and controller 


20MB Floppy System 
20MB Floppy System 
20MB Floppy System 


C Ltd 

C Ltd 
C Ltd 


$2199.95 
$2199.95 

$1959.95 


1000 

500 

All 


Bus 
Bus 
SCSI 


2-20MB 5 1 /," removable media drives and controller 
2-10Mfi removable media drives and controller 
2-20MB removable media drives, no controller 


20MB SCSI Drive & Controller Comp-U-Save 


$589.00 
$145.00 
$999.95 


500, 1000 
All 


Bus (FT) 
External drive 


20MB SCSI hard drive and controller 


3'/," Disk Drive Comp-U-Save 


Single floppy drive with power supply 






1000 


Bus 




A-1000 Hard Drive Systems 


C Ltd 


24MB drive and SCSI controller, up to 320MB 


A-1000 SCSI/1000 

A-1000 Tape Back-Up System 

A-2000 Hard Drive Systems 


C Ltd 

C Ltd 
C Ltd 


$299.95 
$1049.95 

$729.95 


1000 
1000 
2000 


Bus 
Bus 

Slot 


SCSI host controller 

20MB tape back-up with controller 

20MB drive, SCSI controller, up to 320MB available 


A-2000 SCSI/2000 


C Ltd 


$199.95 

$419.95 
$379.95 


2000 


Slot 


SCSI host controller 


A-2000 SCSI/2 000R 


C Ltd 


2000 
2000 


Slot 
Slot 


SCSI/ST506 (RLE) controller 
SCSI/ST506 MEM controller 


A-2000 SCSI/2506M 


G Ltd 


A-2000 Tape Back-Up System 
A-500 Hard Drive System 
A-500 SCSI/500 


C Ltd 
C Ltd 
C Ltd 


$799.95 
$999.95 
$249.95 


2000 

500 

500 


Slot 
Bus 
Bus 


20MB internal tape back-up and controller 
24MB drive and SCSI controller, up to 320MB 
SCSI controller 


A-500 Tape Back-Up System 


C Ltd 

Commodore 
Pacini Periph. 


$t049.95 


500 


ft 


onvra ,ii i n 




JUMd tape Imcx-up an<L controller 


A2090A HD/SCSI Controller 
A500 Hard Drive Controller 


$399.95 
TBA 


winn 


5lnr 


* , , ■ cT»n£ trci nut 11 


500 

500. 1000 
2000 
All 


JIUl 

Bus 


.-\utnnooung ?» i ;ioo, ^1.31 uma controller 
SCSI controller, can hold up to 2MB RAM 


Auto Card 

Autobootable Overdrive 
BN20 


Expansion Tech. 
Pacific Periph. 
Comspec 


$179.95 
$249.00 
TBA 


Bus 
Slot 
SCSI 


Converts non-autoboot controller to autobool 

DMA/SCSI overdrive controller 

Bernoulli 20MB drive for use with Comspec SCSI card 


CA-880 

Dual 3'/," Disk Drive 

Dual 3V Disk Drive 


California Access 

Comp-U-Save 

Comp-U-Save 


$229.95 
$290.00 
$395.00 


All 
All 
/Ml 


NA 

External drive 
External drive 


External floppy disk drive 

Without power supply 

Dual floppy drive, power supply and 6 ' cord 


Dual Floppy Drive 
Escort 1 

Escort Hard Drive Card 
Escort Hard Drive Systems 


Datel 

Expansion Tech. 
Expansion Tech. 
Expansion Tech. 


$299.99 
$179.95 
$199.95 
$335.00 


All 

All 

500. 1000 

500. 1000 


External 
External 
Bus 
Bus 


37?-inch floppy drives 

Floppy drive 

SCSI interface card 

SCSI DMA controllers, autobool k- 



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CA 92627 -X714) 631-1001 




MELBOURNE 

HOUSE 



"i Stafc^ 1 " 



Umbs-r 



HARADWAITH 



Circle 104 on Reader Service card, 
Near J-far&d 



JUR1VES/L.ONTRO] 


L,LkkN (continue 






PRODUCT 


COMPANY 


PRICE 


MACHINE 


PORT 


DESCRIPTION 


FData 10 


Jaytron 


$149.95 


All 


External 


Floppy disk drive 


FData 20 


Jaytron 


$299.05 


All 


External 


Dual floppy disk drive 


Flash Card 


Expansion Tech. 


$749.95 


! 2000 


Slot 


32MB hard card, 48MB; $939.95 


Flash Card Controller 


Expansion Tech. 


$229.95 


j 2000 


Slot 


SCSI interface, autobooi, DMA 


Floppy Drives 


Expansion Tech. 


$179.95 


.All 


External 


3V 2 -inch external drive 


Hard Disk Drive 


CSA 


$895.00 


1 2000 


Slot 


20MB drive. SCSI controller; 40MB available 


Hard Drive & Controller 


Comspec 


TBA 


j 1000 


Bus (IT) 


20MB autobooiing SCSI drive; 40MB available 


HardFramc/2000 


MicroBotics 


$329.00 


2000 


Slot 


DMA SCSI hard-disk interface, autobootirig 


HDA-506 Hard Drive Adaptor 


Spirit 


$294.00 


500, 1000 


Bus 


Adapts ST506 controllers for use with Amiga 


HDA-506-2 Hard Drive System 


Spirit 


$799.00 


500, 1000 


Bus 


20 MB MFM ST506 hard-drive system, autoboot 


HDA-506-4 Hard Drive System 


Spirit 


S999.00 


500, 1000 


Bus 


40MB MFM ST506 HD, optional autoboot ROM 


Impact A2000-I/0 


GVP 


$325.00 


2000 


Slot 


SCSI DMA controller, sockets for 1MB RAM, autobooi 


Impact A2000-2/0 


GVP 


$360.00 


2000 


Slot 


SCSI DMA Controller, autoboot, room for 2MB 


Impact A50D-2/0 RAM EPROM 


GVP 


$ 100.00 


500 


Impact 500 


Add 2MB RAM and autoboot to Impact 500 system 


Impact A500.20HD/RAM 


GVP 


$795.00 


500 


Bus 


20MB SCSI system, room for 2MB RAM, 30MB, 45MB 


Impact A500-40Q/RAM 


GVP 


$1650.00 


500 


Bus 


40MB fast access hard-drive system, room for 2MB RAM 


Impact A2000-HC20 


GVP 


$675.00 


2000 


Slot 


20MB SCSI system, autoboot, DMA; up to 100MB avail. 


Impact A'J i-l K ; 40Q 


cvp 


$999.00 


2000 


Slot 


40MB fast-access SCSI system, autoboot, DMA 


Master 3-A Disk Drive 


Oceanic America 


$159.00 


All 


External drive 


Floppy disk drive 


PAB-50Q, PAB-1000 


Phtjenix 


$179.95 


500, 1000 


Bus (PT) 


.Allows non-autoboot bard drives to autobooi 


PFD-135 


Phoenix 


$179.95 


All 


External drive 


External floppy drive 
Internal floppy drive 


PFD-135I 


Phoenix 


$162.95 


2000 


internal drive 


PFD-235A 


Phoenix 


$324.95 


All 


External drive 


Dual floppy drive 


PHD-22/aOOor/lOOO 


Phoenix 


$679.95 
S849.00 


500, 1000 


Bus 


22MB SCSI hard-drive system, 32MB and 48MB avail. 


S-1020 Hard Drive System 


Xetec 


1000 


Bus 


20MB SCSI hard-drive system 


S-1040 Hard Drive System 


Xetec 


$1049.00 


1000 


Bus 


40MB SCSI hard-drive system 


S-520 Hard Drive System 


Xetec 


$799.00 


500 


Bus 


20MB SCSI drive and controller 


S-540 Hard Drive System 


Xetec 


$999.00 


500 


Bus 


40MB SCSI drive and controller 


SA 2000 


Comspec 


TBA 


2000 


Slot 


SCSI interface for Iomega Bernoulli Box 


SA ->ill). SA 1000 


Comspec 


TBA 


500, 1000 


Bus 


SCSI interface for the Iomega Bernoulli Box 


SA-20 


Xetec 


$199.00 


2000 


Slot 


SCSI hard-disk interface card 


SA-2020 


Xetec 


$649.00 


2000 


Slot 


20MB SCSI drive and controller card 


SA-2040 


Xetec 
Xetec 


$849.00 
$250.00 


2000 


Slot 


40MB drive with SCSI controller 


SA-5 Host Adaptor 


500, 10011 


Bus 


SCSI interface 


SCSI Interface 


CSA 


$595.00 


2000 


Slot 


Interface for hard disks and devices 


SCSI Module 


A5DG 


$199.00 


2000 


Twin X 


SCSI interlace controller 


SCSI to ST506 Omti 3520 


CLtd 


$229.95 


AH 


SCSI 


Add ST506 compatibility to C Ltd SCSI controller 


SCSI to ST506 Adeptec 4070 


CLtd 


$199.95 


All 


SCSI 


Use ST506 drives with C Ltd SCSI controller 


SCSI to ST506 Omti 3527 


C Ltd 


$269.95 


All 


SCSI 


Add ST506 compatibility to C Ltd SCSI controller 


SCSI to ST506 Adeptec 4000 


C Ltd 


SI 89.95 


All 


SCSI 


Use ST506 drives with C Ltd SCSI controller 


ST-40 Tape Subsystem 


Xetec 


$650.00 


500, 1000 


SCSI 


40MB streaming tape hack-up system 


Single Floppy Drive 


Diitel 


$169.99 


All 


External 


37;.-inch floppy 


StarDrive SCSI Module 


MicroBotics 


$129.95 


All 


SlarBoard2 


High-speed SCSI interface, clock 


SupraDrive 4x4 


Supra 


$995.00 


500, 1000 


Bus (IT) 


20MB SCSI drive; up to 2MB RAM; drive to 250MB 


SupraDrive 4X4 


Supra 


$799.00 


2000 
2000 


Slot 
Slot 


20MB SCSI system; 30MB and 60MB avail. 


SupraDrive IT! Hi Removable 


Supra 


$995.00 


10MB 5V«" SCSI floppy drive system 


SupraDrive 1 li-li) Removable 


Supra 


$995.00 


500. 1000 


Bus(PT) 


I0MB 5V," SCSI lloppy drive; $895 w/o interlace 


T-60 


Xetec 


$450.00 


2000 
.Ml 


SCSI 


60MB streaming tape batk-up with software, cables 


Tape Back-Up Sub-System 


c Ltd 


$809.95 


SCSI 


20MB external tape back-up. no controller 


Trump Card 


Interactive Video 


$18995 


2000 


Slot 


SCSI hard disk contoller, A500-$249.95 


Twindrive 


M.A.S.T. 


$299.00 


All 


External drive 


Dual externa] floppy drive 


Unidrive 


M.A.S.T. 


$169.00 


All 


External drive 


External lloppy drive 


WEDGE 


RSI 


$ 185.00 


500, 1000 


Bus 


Adapts IBM S'1'506 tout rollers to Amiga 


WEDGE Hard Drive System 


RSI 


S 760. 00 


500, 1000 


Bus 


Wedge will] IBM ST506 controller and drive p. 



36 March 1989 



The Missing Link... 

FORMS 



The All New 





XT 



IT II 



Centaur Software Inc. 

14040 Tahiti Way, suite 528 

Marina Del Rey 

CA 90292 



1 he new Forms in Flight II is the missing link for your Amiga three 
dimensional graphics design and animation. Create fast, high quality images 
with fancy curves and curved surfaces. Then use the complex objects you 
design to create smooth animations. You can also import objects from other 
animation programs using Interchange by Syndesis. 



' 





• Surface Patches 

• Phong (Smooth) Shading 

• Texture Mapping 

• Extrusions along curved paths 

• Hierarchical animations using paths 

• Supports overscan and PAL systems 

• Low price: only $119 

• Many more features 




Make Your Disks Fly with. 



Centaur Software Inc. 

14040 Tahiti Way, Suite 528 
Marina Del Rey 

CA 90292 
213-821-5995 




^^^m^mm 



The Ultimate Disk Optimizer 

Decrease Disk Access Time Up To 500% 

Restore Smooth Disk Operation 

Designed For Use On Floppies AND HardDrives 



Supports Multiple Partitions 
FAST CLI Directory Access 
Incredible Workbench[tm] Performance 
100% AmigaDOS Compatible 



A product of M.V. Micro 



B.A.D. analyzes, restructures, and processes ANY 
AmigaDOS disk such that permanent speed increases 
will be realized. This is NOT a RAM cashe based system! 






Cirde 200 on Reader Service card 



Expansion 










PRODUCT 


COMPANY 


PRICE 


MACHINE 


PORT 


Bus Expander 


Bill's Boards 


$495.00 


500. 1000 


Bus 


Mini-rack C 


ASDC 


$195.00 


tooo 


Bus 


Mini-rack D 


ASDC 


$325.00 


1000 


Bus 


PEC-2510, PEC-2I10 


Phoenix 


$179.95 


500, 1000 


Bus 


Subsystem 1000 


Pacific Periph. 


$299.00 


1000 


Bus (PT) 


Subsystem 500 


Pacific Periph. 


S249.00 


500 


Bus (Pr) 


Tool Box 


Expansion Tech. 


$189.95 


500, 1000 


Bus 



DESCRIPTION 



Provides 6 A2000 slots and 6 IBM slots 

2 -slot Zorro 1 subset, +5 volt power supply 

2-sloi Zorro 1 chassis: +5, -5, +12, -12 volts 

Expansion chassis for A2000 cards, $254 w/power supply 

Three A2000 slots 

2-A2000 slots, power supply; $399 with floppy drive 

2-A2000 slots. I amp power supply; 3 amp: $259.95 



Graphics/Video 

PRODUCT 


COMPANY 


PRICE 


MACHINE 


PORT 


DESCRIPTION 




■I003RCU 

520 Video/RF Modulator 

A-Video 


Amicore liu'l 
Commodore 
Akron Systems 


$499.00 

$49.00 

$49.95 


2000 

500 

500, 2000 


Slot 

RGB/RCA 

RGB 


Remote control lor Magni Genlock 

NTSC composite video encoder and RF modulator 

Use Amiga with color composite monitor 




A1300 Genlock 
A2300 Genlock 


Commodore 
Commodore 
Inkwell 


S299.95 
$399.00 
$129.95 


1000 
2000 
All 


RGB (PT) 
Video slot 
Mouse 


Synchronizes Amiga graphics with video signal 
Overlay Amiga graphics on PAL or NTSC video 




Amiga Light Pen Driver 


Light pen and driver 




AmiGen 


Mimetics 
RGB Video 
R & DL Prod. 


$199.95 
$1995.00 

$549.00 


All 
All 
All 


RGB (PT) 


NTSC genlock 




AmiLink 


Serial (PI'} 


Interactive video editing controller 




AProDraw 


Serial 


Drawpad with stylus, 12x 12 inches (9x6: $449) 




C-View/1 Composite NTSC 
C-View/I Composite PAL 
C-View/2 Chroma/Luma NTSC 


C Ltd 
C Ltd 
C Ltd 


$39.95 
$39.95 
$39.95 


500, 2000 
500, 2000 
500. 2000 


RGB 
RGB 
RGB 
RGB 

Digitizer 
Digi-View 

Parallel 

Slot 

Video slot 

Slot 

Parallel 

NA 


Hook Amiga to composite monitor 

Use Amiga with PAL monitors 

Use Chroma/Luna monitor with Amiga 




C- View/2 Chroma/Luma PAL 


CLtd 

SunRize" 

NewTek 


$39.95 

$99.95 
$79.95 


500, 2000 


Use Chroma/Luma PAL monitors with Amiga 
Replaces color wheel Tor digitizers 
Automated filter wheel lor Digi-View 




Color Splitter 


All 










Digi-Droid 


All 




Digi-View Gold 

EASYL 

flickerFixer 


NewTek 
Anakin 

MicroWay 


TBA 

$499.00 
$595.00 


500, 2000 
2000 
2000 
2000 

All 
2000 


Video digitizer with powered gender changer 
Pressure sensitive drawpad; AIOO0: $499; A500: $399 
Eliminates hi-res flicker 


Frame Buffer 
Frame Grabber 
Future Touch 


Mimetics 

Progressive Periph. 
Amigo Bus. Comp. 


$549.95 

$699.95 

$3500.00 

$895.00 

$ 1 695.00 

$2195.00 


Stores and displays a four-field NTSC overscanned image 

Real-time color video digitizer 

Touch-screen 2000 system with 20MB hard disk 




GEN/ONE 

Genlock Encoder System 1 

Image Master Pro-Genlock 


Comm. Spec. 
Magni Systems 
Neriki 


All 
2000 

All 


RGB 

IBM, Video 

RGB 

Serial 

Serial 

Bus 


Gcnlocking encoder. RS-I70A. VHS compat. Y/C outputs 
Genlock w/fading, keying; w/control box: $1,995 
Encodes and syncs RGB output to composite video signal 


Imprint 3.0 
IS Penmouse 


Liquid Light 
Kurta 


$2495.00 

$295.D0 

$399.00 


.Ml 
AH 
500 


Polaroid Palette image recorder and software 
Drawpad with remote stylus 
Real-time video digitizer 




LIVE! 


A-Squared 




LIVE! 

LIVE! 


A-Squared 

A-Squared 


$295.00 
$450.00 


1000 
2000 
All 


Bus 

Slot 
Mouse 


Real-time video digitizer 

Real-lime video digitizer w/ADO effects, BNC connectors 

Audio/Video editing, hardware'software package 




Mediaphile 1.3 System 


Interactive Micro. 


$275.00 


Mediaphile 8MM Video Prod. 


Interactive Micro. 


$5948.00 


NA 
NA 


NA 

NA 


Sony 8min Video deck, camera, and controller 
Includes JVC video deck and camera, SVHS & Amiga 




Mediaphile SVHS Video Prod. 


Interactive Micro. 


$7161.00 




Mediaphile System I-B 


Interactive Micro. 


$903.00 


All 


Mouse 


Modified Sony F.V-A80 8mm VTR plus Mediaphile 1.2 




Mediaphile System II 
Mediaphile VMS 


Interactive Micro. 
Interactive Micro. 
SunRize 


$2828.00 
$5592.00 

$249.95 


All 
NA 
Alt 


Mouse 

NA 

Parallel 


Modified Sony 8mm video deck, camcorder, controller 
JVC VHS video deck and Amiga computer system 




Perfect Vision 


Real-time black-and-white video digitizer 


ProGEN 


Progressive Periph. 


$449.95 
$995.00 
TBA 


All 


RGB (PT) 


Genlock with software, broadcast quality RS 170A 




Pro. ScanLab 


ASDC. 
ASDG 


2000 
All 


Slot 


Interface for Sharp JX-300 andJX-450 color scanners 




ScanLab/100 


Parallel 


Interface for Sharp JX- 100 




Scanner Interface Package 
Super Gen 
V-I 2000 


Gold Disk 
Digital Creations 
Creative Micro. 


$1195.00 

$749.95 

$79.95 


All 
All 

2000 


Parallel 
RGB (FT) 
Video slot 


Canon 1X12 300 DPI scanner with interface 
Genlock, broadcast quality, allows fade in and out 
Connects Commodore 1702 monitor; $99.95 with RF 




V-I 500 


Creative Micro. 
Impulse 


$79.95 


500 


RGB 

Parallel 


Connects Commodore 1702 monitor; $99.95 with RF 
Real lime video digitizer and 24-bit frame buffer ►■ 




VD 1 


$1000.00 


All 





38 March 1989 



HardPrame/2000 

The Super-Speed, DMA, SCSI Hard 
Disk Interface for the Amiga^2000 




How fast is fast? HardFrame/2000 transfers 
data at Amiga bus speeds! It's actually faster 
than the hard disk mechanism itself! And even 

more important in the Amiga's multitasking environment, HardFrame/ 
2000 has extremely efficient DMA circuitry to get on and off the bus in 
almost no time at all: 280ns to get on; 200ns to get off. And it's true, 
dedicated DMA, too! HardFrame/2000 autoboots and automounts di- 
rectly into the AmigaDOS™ 1.3 Fast File System (old file system parti- 
tions are not needed!). The core of any DMA SCSI interface is in its 
SCSI protocol chip and DMA chip. MicroBotics has chosen the new, 
high performance Adaptec AIC-6250 SCSI chip, capable of up to 5 
megabytes per second raw transfer speed, and the Signetics 68430 
DMA chip running at 12.5 megahertz. Then we added additional FIFO 
buffering and enabled 16-bit wide data transfers for maximum 
throughput. The sophisticated design of HardFrame/2000 provides for 
automatic SCSI arbitration, selection and reselection. The hardware 
supports either synchronous or asynchronous data transfer. Hard- 
Frame/2000 can function as either the SCSI bus initiator or the target 
and can reside in a multiple master environment. Physically, Hard- 
Frame/2000 is optimally flexible: the compact, half-size card comes at- 
tached to a full length, plated aluminum frame. The frame has mount- 
ing holes positioned to accept standard, 3.5" SCSI hard disk units such 
as those manufactured by MiniScribe, Seagate, Rodime, and others 
(hard disk mechanisms must be supplied by the user or his dealer as a 
separate purchase item). Alternatively, you can cable-connect to a SCSI 
drive mounted in your Amiga's disk bay or in an external chassis. As 
many as seven hard disks may be connected to a single HardFrame/ 
2000. There is no size limit on each disk. HardFrame/2000 includes a 
50-pin SCSI cable and header connectors for either 50-pin or 25-pin 
cable connection. Also included is a current tap to power frame- 
mounted drives directly from the slot itself. HardFrame/2000 comes 
complete with driver, installation, and diagnostic software. 

Available NOW! Suggested list price, S329 (hard disk not included) 

Framcless version: $299.00. See your Amiga Dealer. 

The HardFrame/2000 photo shows the product with a MiniScribe 
twenty megabyte hard disk installed. Hard disks are not included in 
the purchase price of HardFrame. Note that if placed in the first slot, 
HardFrame uses only one slot even with a disk attached. 

MicroBotics,lnc. 

Great Products Since the Amiga Was Born! 

811 Alpha Drive, Suite 335, Richardson, Texas 75081 (214)437-5330 
Tell your dealer he can quick-order from MicroBotics directly -no minimum quantity -sho w him this ad! 
"Amiga" is a registered trademark of Commodore-Amiga. "HardFrameffiOOO". "3-UP!", "PopSimm", are trademarks ol MicroBotics, Inc. 



• AutoBoots AmigaDOS 1.3 
(Price Includes 
HardFrame Eprom!) 

> Directly Boots the 
New Fast-File System! 
(Doesn't Need Old FS!) 

> Auto-mounts All 
Hard Disk Partitions 

(no Mount List Required!) 

> Designed-in.Ultra Strong, 
Multitasking Performance 

> High Quality Metal Frame 
for Stable, On-Card, 
Hard Disk Mounting 

I Power Cabling Directly 
from Card to Disk 

> 50-pin Cable Included 

> Supports up to seven SCSI 
hard disks of any size 




New! 

8-UP! (DIP) FastRAM 

Another great memory board from MicroBot- 
ics, 8-UP! (DIP) is the "brother" of the original 8-UP! 
(which uses SIMMs and PopSIMMs to fill its memo- 
ry space). 8-UP! (DIP) uses conventional 1 megabit 
RAM chips in standard sockets to provide your 
Amiga 2000 with 2, 4, 6, or 8 megabytes of autocon- 
figuring FastRAM! 8-UP! (DIP) is a super efficient 
CMOS design for lowpower consumption and high 
reliability. Suggested list price, S199 (0k installed) 



Join MicroBotics 
I ONLINE TECHNICAL SUPPORT I 
- CONFERENCE ON BIX - 

' (The Byte Information Exchange) ' 
| -call 1-800-227-2983 | 

for BIX membership information! 
I. ----------- J 

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PRODUCT COMPANY 

Video Bus/Slot Expansion , Amicore InS'l 

Video Toaster NewTek 

X-Specs 3D I Haitex 



PRICE 



MACHINE PORT 



TBA 

$1299.00 

(124.95 



2000 
2000 
All 



Video slot 
Video slot 
Mouse 



DESCRIPTION 



Use Magni Genlock and flickerFixer in same system 
Digital video effects, frame capture, genlock 

Three dimensional viewing glasses 



I NTERFACINC l/NETWORKIN( 

PRODUCT COMPANY 


PRICE 


MACHINE 


PORT 


DESCRIPTION 


A2900 Auto-Config Proto Card Interactive Video 
A20O0 Auto-Config Proto Card ; Interactive Video 


$59.95 
$139.95 

S899.00 


2000 
2000 


Slot 
Slot 


Prototyping card without auto-config logic 
Prototyping card with auio-config logic 


Ameristar Internet Package 


Ameristar 


2000 


Slot 


Ethernet board with Network File System software 


Amiga GPIB 

Dual Serial Module 

GPIB Module 


ACDA 
ASDG 
ASDG 


$395.00 

$199.00 
$199.00 


2000 

2000 

2000 

.All 

All 

All 


Slut 
Twin \ 
Twin X 


IF.EE-488 interface to 11 devices, software included 

Provides 2 serial ports 

Gives Twin X GPIB capability 


MCS 1000 
MCS 6550 
MCS 8000 


Comspec 
Comspec 
Comspec 


TBA 
TBA 
TBA 


Parallel 
Parallel 
Parallel 


Adapts IF.F.F, printers to Centronics interface 

256K Centronics print boiler; works with MCS 8000 

4-channc) printer network; 8-channel also available 


Proto 40K 
Proto 5K 
Protoboard II 


ACDA 
ACDA 
Akron Systems 


$1895.00 
$279.00 

$19.95 


2000 

AH 

2000 

2000 

2000 


Slot 

Parallel (PT) 
Slot 


Ifi-channel 12-bit A/D; 2-channcl 8-bit D/A 
1 -channel A/D converter; amplifier, VTJ meter 
Prototyping board 


Twin X 

Zorro II Prototyping Board 


ASDG 

Celestial Systems 


$329.00 

$49.95 


Slot 
Slot 


I EEE 959 interface board 
Unpopulated Zorro 2 board 



Memory 



PRODUCT 


COMPANY 


PRICE 

1 


MACHINE 


PORT 


DESCRIPTION 


.5MB Clock/Calendar 


Dalel 


$69.99 


500 


Internal 


512K RAM, RAM installed, w/clotk 


.5MB Clock/Calendar 


Skyles 


$79.95 


500 


Internal 


Unpopulated ASOI replacement; w/512K RAM: $179.95 


1.5MB Internal Memory 


Skyles 


$249.95 


500, 1000 


Motherboard 


Unpopulated; .5MB: $379.95; 1MB: $499.95 


.5MB RAM 


Date! 


$39.99 


500 


Internal 


512K RAM. RAM installed 


.5MB RAM 


Supra 


$119.95 


500 


Internal 


Replacement for A50I, 512K RAM, clock 


1MB Internal Memory 


Skyles 


$319.95 


500 


Motherboard 


1MB RAM 


2 MEG Memory Board 


.ASDG 


$399.00 


1000 


Slol 


Unpopulated 2MB memory board. Zorro 1 


256 Board 


Skyles 


$169.95 


1000 


Front panel 


256K chip RAM upgrade 


2MB Internal Memory 


Skyles 


$121.95 


2000 


Slot 


Unpopulated 2MB RAM board; 1MB, 2MB avail. 


8 MEG Memory Board 


ASDG 


$499.00 


1000 


Slot 


Unpopulated 8MB expansion board, Zorro 1 


8-UP! 


MitroBotics 


$199.00 


2000 


Slol 


Unpopulated 8MB RAM board, uses PopSinims or SIMN 


8-UP! (DIP) 


MicroBotics 


$199.00 


2000 


Slot 


Unpopulated 8MB RAM board, uses IM-bit DRAMS 


A2052 2MB RAM Expansion 


Commodore 


$549.95 


2000 


Slot 


2MB RAM; available with 512K or 1MB 


A2058 8MB RAM Expansion 


Commodore 


$799.00 


2000 


Slot 


Available with 4MB or 8MB RAM 


A501 Memory Extension 


Commodore 


$199.95 


500 


Internal 


512K RAM with clock/calendar 


Amega Board 


C Ltd 


$279.95 


1000 


Bus 


Unpopulated 1MB memory board 


Amega Pass Thru Board 


C Ltd 


$19.95 


1000 


Amega 


Adds pass through to Amega lioard 


AX2000 


Cumspec 


TBA 


1000 


Bus (IT) 
Slol 


2MB RAM 




CSA 


$795.00 


2000 


Converts 16-bii RAM it> 32 bits, contains 32-bit ROM 


EXP-1000 


Progressive Periph. 


$299.95 


500 


Motherboard 


Unpopulated 1MB RAM board. autoconDg; 1MB avail. 


EXP-512 


Progressive Periph. 


$79.95 


500 


Internal 


Unpopulated A50 1 replacement, widi clock/calendar 


FastPac 


CSA 


$1295.00 


2000 


Slol 


32-bit static RAM board includes Kickstart 


Hurricane M1000/M2000 


Rornn 


$600.00 


1000, 2000 


Hurricane 


Unpopulated 32-bit memory boards, for Hurricane 


IN-1000 OK Internal Memory 


Spirit 


$294. (HI 


1000 


Motherboard 


Unpopulated RAM board, up to 2MB, autoconfig, clock 


IN-500 OK Internal Memory 


Spirit 


$250.00 


500 


Motherboard 


Unpopulated, up lo 1.5MB, optional clock 


Insider 


Michigan Software 


$150.00 


1000 


Motherboard 


Unpopulated RAM boards; up to 1 MB, clock 


Megaboard 2000 


Progressive Periph. 


$599.95 


2000 


Slot 


2MB RAM board 


Memory Module 


Supra 


$799.00 


500, 1000 


Supra Drive 


2MB memory board, fns inside SCSI interface board *■ 



40 March 1989 





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MEMORY (continued) 



PRODUCT 


COMPANY 


PRICE 


MACHINE 


PORT 


DESCRIPTION 


Minimegs 500 
PopSIMMs 
ProRam 2000 


M.A.S.T. 
MicroBotics 

Progressive Periph. 


$199.00 

$89.95 

$299.95 


500, 1000 

2000 

2000 


Bus 

8-UP! 

SIoi 


Unpopulated RAM board; holds up to 2MB 
Unpopulated SIMM boards, 256K or 1MB capacities 
Unpopulated 8MB board, up to 2MB $879.95 


RAM/Clock OK 
RE 2000 
SIN-500-2 


C Ltd 

Comspec 
Spirit 


$69.95 

TBA 

$262.50 


500 

2000 
500 


Internal 

Slot 

Motherboard 


Unpopulated A50! replacement card 

Unpopulated 2MB RAM board 

Unpopulated RAM board, up to 2MB, autoconfig 


SiarBoard2 
SlarBoard2/SB2000 


MicroBotics 
MicroBoUCS 


$339.00 
$339.00 


50(1, 1000 
2000 


Uus (PT) 

Slot 


512K R\M, upgradable to 1MB 
StarBoard2 adapted for A2000 



Music/Sound 



PRODUCT 


COMPANY 


PRICE 


MACHINE 


PORT 


DESCRIPTION 


Audio 2000 
FutureSound 


Day's 

Applied Visions 
Applied Visions 


$79.95 

$179.00 

$119.95 


2000 
1000 
500, 2000 


IBM stot 
Parallel (PT) 
Parallel (PT) 


Internal stereo amplifier 

Audio digitizer; line and mike input; w/mike 


FutureSound 


Stereo audio digitizer; line and mike input 


FutureSound Adapter 

Harmon}' 

MIDI 1 


Applied Visions 
Impulse 
Creative Micro. 


$20.00 

$200.00 

$79.95 


500. 2000 

All 

All 


Parallel (PT) 
Serial 

Serial 


Connects FutureSound with A500 or A2000 

Voice recognition 

MIDI interface, 3 OUTs/THRUs, MIDI IN, SYNC OUT 


MIDI For Amiga 
MIDI Gold Insider 
MID! Interface 


Skyles 

Golden Hawk 
Mimetics 


$49.95 
$89.95 
$19.95 


All 

2000 
All 


Serial 
Serial (PT) 
Serial 


MIDI-IN, two OUTs, one THRU 
MIDMN/THRU, 2 OUTs 
MIDI-IN, OUT 


MIDI Interface 
MIDI-Gold 500 
MIDI-STAR MS-2X6 


ECE 

Golden Hawk 

Spirit 


$64.95 
$79.00 
$262.50 


All 
500 

All 


Serial (Ft") 
Serial 

Serial 


MIDI-IN. OUT and THRU 

MIDI-IN, two OUTs, and switchablc OUT 

2 IN. 6 OUT/THRU/OFF and R.S232, LED indicator 


Midimaster 


Datel 


$59.99 
$89.95 
$119.99 


.Ml 

500, 1000 

All 


Serial 
Parallel 

Serial 


MIDI IFC with MIDI IN/THRU. 3 OUTS 


Perfect Sound 

Pro Sampler Studio 


SuiiRi/e 
Datel 


Two-channel stereo digitizer 
Sound sampler with software 


Sound Sampler 
ProSound Designer 


Mi me in s 
Precision Inc. 


$99.95 
$159.95 


.All 

1000 


Mouse 
Parallel 


Audio digitizer 

Sound digitizer, with gender bender lor A500 it AIOO0 



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PRODUCT 


COMPANY 


PRICE 


MACHINE 


PORT 


DESCRIPTION 




Bill's Boards 


$75.00 






2000 Extension Board 


2000 


Slot 


Extends A2000 slots 


Access-64 


Progressive Periph, 


$79.95 


All 


Parallel (PT) 


Use C-64/128 peripherals with Amiga 


Adaptor board 


Xetec 


$16.00 


500, 1000 


SCSI 


25-pin Sub-D to 50 pin SCSI 


Alignment Kit 


ECE 


$175.00 


All 


NA 


Aligns disk drives 


CT-600H 


Xetec 


$25.00 


500, 1000 


sr-io 


Additional digital cassette for ST-40 system 


CPS-500 


Phoenix 


$99.95 


500 


Power 


A500 power supply, 5V-DC, 8 Amps 


CPS-500 


Phoenix 


$99.95 


500 


Power 


A500 power supply, 5V-DC, 8 Amps 


Data Acquisition Unit 


Datel 


$179.99 


All 


Parallel 


Dual-channel storeage scope simulation 


Kickstart Eliminator/RAM Kit 


Creative Micro. 


$129.95 


1000 


Motherboard 


Puts Kickstart in ROM, adds 256K RAM 


PAL Chips J & K for AlflOO 


C Ltd 


$39.95 


1000 


WCS 


Replacement PALs for Writable Control Store 


Robot Arm 


Datel 


$129.99 


All 


Parallel 


5-axis movement robot arm 


SB2000 Adaptor Card 


MicroBotics 


$49.95 


2000 


Slot 


Adapts StarBoard2 1000 version to A2000 


SB500 Powercase 


MicroBotics 


$169.00 


500 


Bus (Fl) 


Adapts StarBoard2 1000 version to A500 


SCSIDOS 2.01 Upgrade 


CLtd 
GSA 


$19.95 


All 


SCSI 

NA 


Upgrade SCSI controller to run SCSIdos 2.01 


Secure Data Cartridge 


$995.00 


2000 


Security encasement for CSA hard disk drive 


Serial Expander 2000 


Golden 1 lawk 


$19.95 


2000 


Serial 


Allows use of AIO0O serial devices 


T1000 


Amicore. lm'1 


$19.90 


1000 


Parallel 


Lets A1000 use A500 and A2000 parallel port products 


T2500 


Amicore Int'l 


$19.90 


500, 2000 


Parallel 


Lets A500. A2000 use A 1000 parallel peripherals 


T2500 Plus 


Amicore Int'l 


$49.95 


500, 2000 


Parallel 


lets A500, A2000 use A1000 parallel devices 


The Brick 


Expansion Tech. 


$119.95 


500 


Power 


Replacement/upgrade power supply 


Whomper Out 


M.A.S.T. 


$39.95 


All 


NA 


Virus deterrent for external drive 


Whomper Plus 


MAST, 


$69.95 


All 


NA 


Internal hardware virus deterrent 


Kwikstart Plus 


Michigan Software 


$169.95 


1000 


Motherboard 


Puts 1 .3 Kickstart in ROM, adds 256K RAM *■ 



42 March I9S9 



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Buyer's Guide Company List 



ACDA 

220 Belle Meade Ave. 
Setauket, NY 1 1733 
516/689-7722 

Akron Systems Development 
PO Box 6408 
Beaumont, TX 77705 
409/833-2686 

Ameristar Technologies 
47 Whittier Ave. 
Medibrd. NY 11763 
516/698-0834 

Amicore International 
154 Grove St. 
Chicopee, MA 10120 
413/592-9122 

Anakin Research Inc. 
100 Westmore Dr., 1 1C 
Rexdale, Ontario 
Canada M9V 5C3 
416/744-4246 

Applied Visions 
Suite 2200 
1 Kendall Square 
Cambridge, MA 02139 

617/494-5417 

ASDG 

925 Stewart St. 
Madison, Wl 
608/273-6585 

A-Squared Distributions 

6114 La Salle Ave. 
Suite 326 

Oakland, CA 94611 
415/339-0339 

BiU's Boards 

distributed by Comp-U-Save 

Business Technology Services 
202 Cirrus Rd. 
Holbrook, NY 11741 
516/472-9033 

California Access 

780 Montague Expressway 

Suite 403 

San Jose, CA 95131 

408/435-1445 



Celestial Systems 

2178 Agate Court 

Simi Valley, CA 93065- 1 839 

805/582-0729 

CUd 

723 E. Skinner 
Wichita, KS 67211 
316/267-3807 

Commodore Business Machines 

1200 Wilson Dr. 

West Chester, PA 19380 

215/431-9100 

Communications Specialties 
6090 Jericho Turnpike 
Commack, NY 11725 
516/499-0907 

Compu—Art 
PO Box 712 
Victoria Station 
Montreal, Quebec 
Canada H3Z 2V8 
514/483-2080 
514/737-5865 

Comp-U-Save 

414 Maple Ave, 
Westbury, NY 11590 
516/997-6707 
800/356-9997 
(outside New York) 

Computer System Associates 

7564 Trade St. 

San Diego, CA 92121 

619/566-3911 

Comspec Communications 

153 Bridgeland Ave. 

Unit 5 

Toronto, Ontario 

Canada M6A 2Y6 

416/785-3553 

Creative Microsystems Inc. 

101 10 SW Nimbus 

Suite Bl 

Portland, OR 97223 

503/620-3821 



Datel Computers 

3430 E. Trapicana Ave. 

Unit 67 

Las Vegas, NV 89121 

702/454-7700 

Day's 

17538 Glen Rd. 
Gambier, OH 43022 
614/397-5639 

Designlab 
PO Box 419 
Owego, NY 13827 

Digital Creations 

2865 Sunrize Blvd. 

Suite 103 

Rancho Cordova, CA 95742 

916/344-4825 

ECE Research & Development 
1651 N. Monroe St. 
Tallahassee, FL 32303 
904/681-0786 

Expansion Technologies 
46127 Landing Parkway 
Fremont, CA 94538 

415/656-2890 

Gold Disk 

2175 Dunwin Drive 

Unit 6 

Mississauga, Ontario 
Canada L5L 1X2 

416/828-0913 

Golden Hawk Technology 
427-3 Amherst St. 
Suite 389 

Nashua, NH 03063 
603/424-0269 

Great Valley Products Inc. 

I'O Box 391 
Malvern, PA 19355 

215/889-9411 

Haitex Resources 
208 Carrollton Park 
Suite 1207 

Carrollton, TX 75006 
214/241-8030 



Impulse 

6870 Shingle Creek Pkwy. 

Minneapolis, MN 55430 

612/566-0221 

Inkwell Systems 

5710 Ruffin Rd. 

San Diego, CA 92123-1013 

619/268-8792 

Interactive MicroSystems 
80 Merrimac St. 
Landmark Suite 20 
PO Box 1446 
Haverhill, MA 01830 
617/372-0400 

Interactive Video Systems 

15201 Santa Gertrudes Ave. 

Suite Y102 

La Miranda, CA 90638 

714/994-4443 

Jaytron 

10503 Forest Lane 
Dallas, TX 75243 
214/644-1689 

Kurta Corporation 
2007 E. Chambers 
Phoenix, AZ 85040 
602/276-5533 

Liquid Light 

2301 W. 205th St. 
Suite 106 
Torrance, CA 90501 

213/618-0274 

Magni Systems Inc. 
9500 SW Gemini Dr. 
Beaverton, OR 97005 
503/626-8400 

MA.S.T. 

3881 Benetar Way 

Suite E 

Chko, CA 95928 

916/342-MAST 

Michigan Software 
43345 Grand River 
Novi, Ml 48050 
313/348-4477 »► 



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Buyer's Guide Company List (continued) 



MicroBotics Inc. 
811 Alpha Dr. 
Suite 335 

Richardson, TX 75081 
214/437-5330 

Micro Way 
PO Box 79 

Kingston, MA 02364 

508/746-7341 

Mimetics Corporation 
l'O Box 1560 
Cupertino, CA 95015 

408/741-0117 

Neriki Computer Graphics 
distributed in USA 
by Comp-U-Art 
distributed outside USA 
by Telmak Pty. Ltd. 

New Tek 

1 15 W. Crane St. 

Topeka, KS 66603 

913/354-1146 
800/843-8934 

Oceanic America 
5892 Main St. 
Springfield, OR 97478 
503/741-2396 

Pacific Peripherals 
1080 Hiawatha Ct. 
Fremont, CA 94539 
415/651-1905 

Phoenix Electronics 

l'O Box 156 

Clay Center, KS 67432 

913/632-2150 

Progressive Peripherals 

& Software 

464 Kalamath St. 

Denver, CO 80204 

303/825-4144 




R&DL Productions 

11-24 46th Ave. 2A 

Long Island City, NY 11101 

718/3924090 

RGB Video Creations 

3944 Florida Blvd. 

Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410 

407/622-0138 

Ronin Research 
PO Box 1093 
Alameda, CA 94501 

415/865-9717 

RSI 

c/o 9651 Alexandra Rd. 
Richmond, BC 
Canada V6X 1C6 
604/270-0064 

Skyles Electric Works 
231 S. Whisman, Suite E 
Mountain View, CA 94041 
415/965-1735 

Spirit Technology Corp. 

220 West 2950 South 
Salt Lake City, UT84115 

801/485-4233 
800/433-7572 

SunRize Industries 
3801 Old College Rd. 
Bryan, TX 77801 

409/846-1311 

Supra Corporation 
1133 Commercial Way 
Albany, OR 97321 
503/967-9067 

Telmak Pty. Ltd. 

Unit 12, 126 Queens Rd. 

Five Dock, N.S.W. 2046 

Australia 20155 

02/0745-3466 

Xetec Inc. 
2804 Arnold Rd. 
Salina, KS 67401 
913/827-0685 ■ 



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SCSI 45mg 5 25 Hcfrtve w/GVP Img Ok Conlrol 749.00 

SCSI 45mg 5.25 HrJ rive w/GVP 2mg Ok Conlrol 769.00 

SCSI 48mg 28ms 3.5 Hdrive w/GVP Ok Conlrol 869 00 

SCSI 48mg 40ms 3.5 Hdrive w/GVP Ok Conlrol 740 00 

SCSI 65mg 40ms 5-25 Hdrive w/Clld Control 699,00 

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SCSI 32mg 26ms 3.5 Hdrive w/GVP 2mg Ok Control .. . 710.00 



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Aaargh S27.QQ 

Afien Fires 3000 

Aitemale Reality 30.00 

Andromeda 33.00 

AraioksTomb 29 00 

Archonll 30 00 

Art. c Fox 28.00 

ArkanQr-d ..,,,,.,...., 2300 

Auto Duel 30.00 

Awesome Arcade ...... 34.00 

Balance of Power 35.00 

Barbarian 29.00 

Bard s Tale 3S.00 

Sards Tale II 42.00 

Battle Chess . .. 35.00 

Better Dead Tnan A* ien ..27.00 
Championship Baseball . 2900 
Championship Basketball 29.00 

Black Cauldron 30.00 

Black Jack Academy . . . 29 00 

Black Lamp 17.00 

Black Shadow 27.00 

Breach ........... 29,00 

Bridge 5 22 00 

Bubble Ghost 26.00 

Capone , 29 00 

Captain Blood 35.00 

Carrier Command ...... 33.00 

Casino Fever 29.00 

Center Fold . , 25.00 

Chessmaster 2000 35.00 

City Defense ... ... 1500 

Clever & Smart 24.00 

Corruption 31.00 

Cosmic Relief . 27.00 

Crazy Cars 29.00 

CubeMasler 20 00 

DarkCaslle 29.00 

Death Sword 13 00 

Deep Space 24.00 

Defcon5 29 00 

Delender ol the Crown . 3d 00 

DejaVu 34 00 

Destroyer 29 00 

Detonator 27.00 

Diablo 18 00 

Dr Xea 33.00 

Earl Weaver Baseball . . 35.00 

Ebonstar 27.00 

Emerald Mines 17.00 

Empire ,.,....., 35.00 

Faery Tale Adventure . ■ . 33.00 
Famous Courses ....... 15 00 

Fantavision 42.00 

Ferrari Formula One ... 35.00 

Final Assault 33 00 

Fire Power IB. 00 

Fire N Forget .... . . 30 00 

Flight Path 737 18. 00 

Flight Simulator 35 00 



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Championship Football ..2900 

4th And Inches 33.00 

Fooiman , 2000 

Formula I 22,00 

Frost Byte 20.00 

Galactic Invasion ... 17.00 

Galaxy JFighl 18 00 

Galileo II 45.00 

Garrison 33.00 

Garrison II .. , 33 00 

Gee Bee Air Rally ■ 2900 

Gettysburg 42.00 

Giganoid 3000 

Global 1 Commander 29.00 

Golden Path 30.00 

Golden Pyramid ..20.00 

Gold Runner 25.00 

Grand Prix , ib.00 

Grand Slam Tennis 3300 

Grid Start 18. 00 

Guild ol Thieves 30.00 

Gunshoot 24.00 

Hacker II 29 00 

Hard Ball 30.00 

Harner Combat Simulator 3300 

Head Coach 33.00 

Hex 29.00 

Hole in One Mini Golt . . . 2900 

Hollywood Poker 29,00 

Hunt lor Red October . . . 30 00 

Hybns 30 00 

Impossible Mission II .... 35 00 

Indoor Sports 33 00 

Insanity Fight 2900 

Inlercepter F/18 35.00 

Into the Eagles Nest 29,00 

Jet 36.00 

Jewels ol Darkness 22.00 

Jinater .,,,......,....- 29 00 

Joker Poker 35.00 

KampJgruppe 39.00 

Karate King 15.00 

King ol Chicago 33 00 

Kmghi O/C 30.00 

Kings Quest .35.00 

Kings Quest II 35.00 

Kings Quest III 35.00 

Karate Kid 11 29.D0 

Larry 15.00 

Leader Board 27.00 

Leather Neck 2900 

Leisure Suit Larry 29.00 

Major motion 29 00 

Marble Madness ........ 35 00 

Menace - 22.00 

Mind Walker 35.00 

Moebius 42 00 

Obhterator . ........ 29.00 

OH Shore Warrior 29.00 

Paladin 29.00 

The Pawn 18.00 

Phantasie 29 00 

Phantasielll 29.00 



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P«nk Panther 29.00 

Plutos 22.00 

Ports ot Call 33.00 

P.O.W. 30.00 

Q-Ball '.. 2000 

Questron — 37 00 

Quintette 29 DO 

Return to Atlantis .35.00 

Roadwai 2000 29 00 

Roadwar Europa 2900 

Road War 29.00 

Robbeary 1800 

Rockel Ranger 35 00 

Rockford 26.00 

Romantic Encounter .... 2900 

Sargon III 33.00 

Scenery Dhsk 11 1900 

Scenery Disk 7 19.00 

Scenery Disk Europe 1900 

Scenery Disk Japan ..... 19.00 

Scrabble 30.00 

SD.I 33.00 

Second Out 22.00 

Sex Vixens ............. 29.00 

Shadow Gate 33.00 

Shanghai 29.00 

Silent Service 2900 

Silicon Dreams 20 00 

Smbad 33 00 

Sky Chase 30.98 

Skyfox 17.00 

Skyfox II 29.00 

Slay Gun 29 00 

Smooihiaiker 35.00 

Space Battle 21.00 

Space Cutter 22.00 

Space Fight 21.00 

Space Ouesl 35.00 

Space Quesi II 35 00 

Starfleetl 39.00 

SlarGttder 30 00 

Star Gkder II 34.00 

Star Wars 33.00 

Stella; Contlict 29.00 

Streets Basketball 15.00 

Strip Poker . 29.00 

Sub Battle 35 00 

Summer Challenge 15.00 

Super Huey 29 00 

Super Star Hockey 35.00 

The Surgeon 33.00 

Tanglewood 29.00 

Telegames 23 00 

Temple of Apshai 17.00 

Terrorpuds 29 00 

Tesldnwe 33.00 

Tetra Quest 30.00 

Thexder 26 00 

Three Stooges ■-.. 33.00 

Thunder Boy 23.00 

Time Bandit 29.00 

Tourch2081 ^8 00 

TV Sports Football . ,35 00 



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Tracers . 25.00 

Ultima III 29.00 

Uninvited 3300 

Vamptre Empire 30.00 

Video Vegas - 25.00 

Warlock 27.00 

W C. Leaderrjoard 32.00 

Winter Challenge 2B.0O 

Witchcraft 25.00 

Word Plex 24.00 

World Tour Golf 29.00 

X Specs 3-D 10500 

Zoom 2200 

Audio Master $39.00 

Back Songbook 9900 

D-50 »-00 

Dynamic Drums 53 00 

Deluxe Music 69.00 

Dr. Drums 104.00 

Dr. Keys 10400 

Dr. T's Keyboard 170.00 

Dynamic Studio 139.00 

Di HeavBr - 104.00 

Hoi Cool Jazz 21.00 

Hot Licks 34 00 

I nstant M usic - - 35.00 

Matrix 6 104 00 

MT-32 104.00 

Music Student 41.00 

Promidi Studio 134.00 

Rock 4 Roll 22.00 

4-Op Deluxe --, 99 00 

Sonix 53.00 

Sound Sampler 60 00 

Studio Magic 69.00 

Synthia 62 00 

Texture 105.00 



C.B.Tree $69.00 

Celebrity Cook Book 22.00 

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HIGH ON THE HOG 



Although current Amiga 
paint programs may be a 
long way from state-of-the- 
art when it comes to HAM 
display mode, three promis- 
ing graphics packages have 
taken the crucial first 
steps in exploiting the full 
color capabilities of the 
Amiga. 




3 HAM Paint Programs 

For the Amiga 



.AS REMARKABLE AS some paint programs are in Capping the 
awesome graphics capabilities of the Amiga, they still point up a 
frequent and frus( rating phenomenon concerning the entire Amiga 
market: Software development has yet lo take full advantage of 
the technological possibilities offered by Amiga hardware. If the 
Amiga is capable of displaying a full 4096 colors in excellent 
resolution, then what is the benefit of being able to work with only 
16 or 32 colors (or even 64 in 1 fallbrite mode) under the limitations 
of current Amiga software? 

HAM (Hold-and-Modif'y) display mode offers a way out of that 
bind, and at least three paint packages— Digi-Paint (New'l'ek), 
Photon Paint (Microlllusions), and Deluxe PholoLab (Electronic 
Arts)— have endeavored to deliver on the promise of displaying 
and manipulating all 4096 Amiga colors simultaneouslv. (for an 
explanation of the HAM display mode, see "HAM: Color By The 
Numbers," p. 51.) Indeed, all three programs, to varying degrees, 
will render beautiful, detailccl images in dazzling colors. 



Before proclaiming the advent of a new Renaissance, however, 
be prepared lo make some significant trade-offs for all those gains 
in color and apparent resolution. While the Amiga has the hard- 
ware to execute HAM, the software needed to \vork the HAM mode 
properly is lengthy, complicated, and must perform many calcu- 
lations. Thus, HAM programs are extremely memory-intensive 
(you definitely will need a megabyte of RAM or more). In addition, 
HAM mode software is characteristically slow. Some routines take 
so many calculations that real-time operation is impossible. 

Still, all three of these programs go a long way towards further 
realizing the graphics potential of the Amiga. Interestingly, each 
of their developers has very different intentions regarding the use 
of its package. For instance, where Photon Paint is designed pri- 
marily to support the freehand artist. Deluxe PhotoLab may be of 
greatest help to the videographer. with Digi-Paint trying to do a 
balancing act between the two. With this in mind, let's see how 
these three contenders for the HAM market stack up*- 



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Photon Paint, and Deluxe PhotoLab. 



against each other when eompared in five critical 
areas essential to the operation of any good graphics 
package. 

Five Critical Tests 

1 . Screen Layout 

Choices as to the layout of the screen among graphics 
programs can mean the difference between creative 
joy and irritating tedium. Bad positioning of tools and 
palette in a computer graphics package is like trying 
to paint while someone stands between you and your 
canvas. While none of our HAM trio is a real clunker 
on this score, some of the programs offer a more 
intuitive approach to screen layout than others. 

Digi-Paint positions the toolbox, color controls, and 
HAM palette windows at the bottom of the screen. 
This turns out not to be the best choice. Instinctively, 
it makes the toolbox feel like a barrier, because you 
find yourself constantly closing and then reopening 
the toolbox to work with the lower third of the screen. 

Both Deluxe Photolab and Photon Paint use smaller 
scale toolboxes and position them at the top border of 
the screen. This arrangement allows for more free 
drawing space. Both packages display only a 16-color 
palette, leaving the color controls and HAM palette 
hidden until needed. Photon Paint's switchblade-like 
extended toolbox opens or closes the color controls 
and HAM palette at the click of a gadget. Deluxe 
PhotoLab, on the other hand, addresses the problem 
of screen space by locating all color controls and the 
HAM palelte on a completely separate screen. This 
turns out not to be a very satisfying arrangement, as 
we shall see later. 

2. Surface Tone and Texture Controls 

To achieve the greatest range of effects, graphics soft- 
ware must support routines providing adequate con- 
trol of the tone and texture of plain, painted surfaces. 
This is especially true in HAM mode. Without these 
tools you have little more than an expensive electronic 
coloring book. Unfortunately, none of our three pro- 
grams is outstanding in surface-texture control. 

Both Digi-Paint and Deluxe PhotoLab offer an 
automated shading feature, controlled by a gadget, 
that allows you to position a single highlight and to 
set the degree of dithering (the mixing of finely in- 
terspersed pixels of different colors) used in the shad- 
ing effecl. While these functions are adequate for 
simple, geometric shapes, for more complex shapes — 
say, a flowing ribbon— they produce inaccurate 
results. 

Deluxe PhotoLab also oilers a gradient fill with 
dithering control. This allows an area to be filled with 
a spread of color. While this is an interesting effecl, 
it is not much more useful than the automated shad- 
ing tool. 

Of the three packages, Photon Paint's Blend feature 
allows the best control. Instead of providing a single, 
simple highlight, Photon Paint enables you to set *• 



?0 March 19H9 



HAM: Color By The Numbers 



UNDERSTANDING HAM (Hold-and-Modify) mode 
requires a grasp of how your computer displays 
graphics in any mode. Any Amiga graphics display 
is defined in a bitmap— a set of rectangular planes 
of bits found in the Amiga's graphics memory. Nor- 
mally, the Amiga display system determines the color 
of a particular pixel by stringing together the cor- 
responding bits from the planes of the bitmap and 
using the resulting number as a pointer to one of the 
32 Amiga color registers. The registers contain 12 
bits of information (four bits each of red, green, and 
blue information) that determines the actual color of 
the pixel. The registers can be set from any program. 
In HAM mode, this straightforward arrangement 
is altered. A HAM display uses six bitplanes, with the 
bits in bitplanes 5 and 6 having a special function. If 
the bits from bitplanes 5 and 6 for a particular pixel 
are both 0, then HAM mode uses the bits from the 
first four bitplanes to point to a color register (0-16), 
just as the normal Amiga display modes do. It is when 
one or both of these two special bits are set to 1 that 
HAM differs from normal Amiga display methods. 

The color of a pixel in a HAM display depends 
upon the color of the pixel to its left. In HAM mode, 
two of the three color values that make up a pixel 
are held constant— they are the same values used by 
the previous pixel— while the third color value is 
determined by the corresponding bits in bitplanes 1 
through 4. The color values that are held, and the 
one that is modified, are determined by the values 
of bitplanes 5 and 6. 

If the bit in plane 5 is 1 and the bit in plane 6 is 
0, the red and green values of the previous pixel are 
held while the bits in planes 1 through 4 are used as 
the current pixel's blue values. If the bit in plane 6 
is set to 1 while the bit in plane 5 is 0, the blue and 
green values of the previous pixel are held and the 
bits in planes 1 through 4 determine the red value 
of the current pixel. If both bits in planes 5 and 6 
are set to 1, the red and blue values of the previous 
pixel are held and the bits in planes 1 through 4 
define the green component of the current pixel. 

Using this method, programmers can display all 
4096 Amiga colors at the same time. Because it takes 
more calculations to determine the color values of a 
HAM pixel, and because the colors of HAM pixels 
are not mutually exclusive, it takes much more time 
to create and update HAM images than normal 
Amiga images. On the plus side, HAM images are 
often more lifelike and striking than standard images 
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planes (A) that define the picture are strung together to form a ftve-brt binary 
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Figure 2, A Hold-and-Modify Display. The corresponding bits from planes S and 
6 are examined (A). Based upon these bits, the blue and green values of the 
previous pixel (B) are held or repeated, and the red value of the new pixel is 
taken from bitplanes 1 through 4 (C). The resultant color values are output to 
your monitor (0). 



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shading profiles in both horizontal and vertical di- 
rections. This allows for complex, multiple-highlight 
positioning, giving images the look of being illumi- 
nated simultaneously from several different direc- 
tions. Photon faint even offers a plaid shading 
pattern, which can be used to quite interesting effect. 

3. Resolution and Speed 

All three programs suffer, to some degree, from the 
inherent slowness of working in HAM mode. With 
the numerous lengthy and complex calculations nec- 
essary for HAM, the programs require a great deal 
of time to achieve their colorful effects. 

In the speed category, Digi-Paini is painfully slow, 
allowing no real-lime drawing. For instance, render- 
ing something as simple as a quick squiggle produces 
a Wait requester while Digi-Paint decides where to 
place the color. Digi-Paint also suffers from severe 
HAM stepping errors: thin borders of inaccurate 
color around drawn shapes. These arise as a result 
of the inability to change more than one color value 
at a time when working in HAM mode. 

Photon Paint is fast enough to perform real-time, 
freehand drawing, but when it comes to many of its 
other features, it still leaves much to be desired in 
terms of speed. For instance, cutting out a custom 
brush or performing a fill produces the dreaded Wait 
requester, as Photon Paint takes a detour through 
calculation land. Photon Paint also has its own share 
of stepping errors, although these are not nearly as 
bad or as frequent as with Digi-Paint. 

Deluxe PhotoLab is the winner in the categories 
of both speed and resolution. Drawing is in real time, 
and most of its other features are executed reasonably 
quickly. Stepping errors are virtually nonexistent. In 
addition, PhotoLab functions in all of the Amiga's 
resolution modes, allowing you to draw in a lower 
resolution, with the same ease and speed von might 
with DeluxePaint (albeit, a rather limited version of 
DP), and then convert your picture into HAM mode 
for further detailing. 

4. The Palette 

Obviously, the control of color is important to any 
good paint program. With HAM's 4096 possible 
colors, such control becomes absolutely crucial. All 
three packages display a standard palette of 16 pre- 
defined colors, but only Digi-Paint and Photon Paint 



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offer the 4096-color HAM palette windows on the 
main drawing screen. Choosing a custom color with 
either of these packages is as simple as pointing and 
clicking on a particular color within the rainbow-like 
HAM palette windows, or fiddling with the RGB 
controls. Photon Paint offers additional color mixing 
via its HSV (Hue, Saturation, and Value) controls. 
Photon Paint also allows for the creation of color 
spreads, while Digi-Paini does not. 

Deluxe PhotoLab provides a completely different 
color-control strategy. In HAM mode you are pre- 
sented with a palette consisting of only the 16 pre- 
defined colors. If, however, you wish to change colors, 
to create a spread of" colors, or to access the HAM 
paietle windows, you must close the drawing screen, 
or pull it down out of the way, in order to access the 
Color Control screen. Unfortunately, this design 
could force you to mix your colors while much of 
your artwork is out of sight— rather annoying when 
you are trying to get just that perfect shade of some 
particular color. 

5. Custom Brush Control 

The custom brush serves the same purpose in com- 
puter art that stencils, templates, and drawing guides 
serve in more traditional art. With few exceptions, 
each package has its own particular ideas on custom- 
brush support. Ail three packages, of course, allow 
brushes to be saved to disk. 

Digi-Paint allows you to either cut out a brush 
freehand, using a scissors icon, or to grab a brush 
using any one of its various shape-making tools: 
square, oval, circle, and so forth. Once you have your 
brush, it can be stamped on the screen and used with 
the various color-modifying functions, including tint, 
add color, subtract color, and blend, to name only a 
few of the many functions available. Digi-Paint does 
not, however, allow you to hold down the mouse 
button and actually draw with your custom brush. 

.Although Photon Paint also limits you to the rub- 
ber-stamp approach when working with custom 
brushes, it does provide several innovative tools for 
modifying custom brushes. Von can automatically 
wrap your custom brush onto a number of predefined 
shapes— cylinders, cones, spheres, and a variety of 
cubes — and you can even wrap brushes around user- 
defined shapes. In addition, you have control over 
the direction and intensity of the apparent light 
source illuminating your custom brush. Photon Paint 
also allows custom brushes to be tipped by controlling 
the pitch, roll, yaw, and apparent distance of the 
brush from the observer. 

Deluxe PhotoLab allows freehand cutting of cus- 
tom brushes, as well as the standard rectangular 
cutout; it is the only package of the three thai allows 
you to actually draw with a custom brush in HAM 
mode. The process, however, is so impossibly slow 
(we're talking snail's pace here), that it is surprising 
Electronic Arts ever decided to support this feature 
in the lirsi place. Another unique PhotoLab feature t 



52 March 1989 



Amiga 
Makes It 
Possible. . . 



Desktop Video. 

Studio quality video production on a desk- 



SuperGen Genlock makes it happen! 
Video Professionals understand the 
power the Amiga Computer brings to the 
industry and the potential it has for en- 
hancing their work. With its revolutionary 
hi-reso!ution graphics and processing 
power, the Amiga represents a sophisti- 
cated video production solution. 

The SuperGen Genlock and overlay de- 
vice is the link between the Amiga's video 
potential and your own video produc- 
tions. SuperGen allowsyou to create and 
produce professional broadcast qual- 
ity video with special effect graphics and 
titles created on your Amiga. 
. Since SuperGen does not distort incom- 
ing video, the quality of the video out 
equals the quality of the video in. Super- 
Gen does not decode and then re-en- 
code the incoming video; it simply en- 
codes the Amiga's RGB signal into RS- 
170A and then overlays the encoded 
signal onto the incoming video. 

Some SuperGen ™ features: 

True Broadcast quality video output. 

Real RS-1 70A. No its, ands, or buts! Accu- 
rately locks to non-time base corrected 
signals such as VCR output. Very accu- 
rate RGB encoder for true Amiga graphic 
colors. 
Two independent dissolve controls. 
SuperGen is the only genlock with dis- 
solve capabilities built -in! Two slide pots 
control the mixture of external video and 
Amiga graph ics. The fi rst slide controls the 
ratio of Amiga color to external video. 
The second slide controls the ratio of all 
other Amiga colors to external video. Both 
dissolves can be controlled remotely by 
Amiga software. 

Auto-Fade mode. 

The black level of the Amiga graphics de- 
termine the fade level. 

Dual Video outputs. 

Professional Key Out. 

Output to Video Switchers with Key In ca- 
pability for special effects. 

Switchable Chroma Notch filter. 

Helps eliminate chroma artifacts. 

Selectable blanking. 

Internal or external. 

BNC Connectors. 

A500, 1000, and 2000 compatible. 



SuperGen 
Makes It Happen! 



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The tlower is live video, the Butterfly is created on the Amiga. 

SuperGen is overlaying the Butterfly onto the flower. 

The top sequence shows Amiga graphics fading in. 

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is the ability to till shapes with custom brushes— a 
neat feature if you happen to be in the wallpaper 
business. PhotoLab also sports a limited version of 
the custom-brush tipping feature contained in Pho- 
ton Paint. 

Up Close and Personal 

So far, we have compared the three programs on the 
common ground of our five criteria for good graphics 
packages. Yet, as we said at the beginning, the use 
intended for each of these programs is different, thus 
making a straightforward comparison difficult. To 
make an evaluation as to which program may be best 
for your particular needs, let's take a closer look at 
each package on its own individual terms. 

Deluxe PhotoLab 

It may not quite be the ultimate HAM graphics pack- 
age, but it's close. I believe Electronic Arts" intention 
with PhotoLab was to create a graphics environment 
for the high-end, graphics/video user. The package 
is actually a collection of three separate programs: 
Paint, Colors, and Posters. 

Paint is designed to allow users to manipulate and 
bring together all levels of resolution of graphics 
supported by the Amiga, thus providing for the widest 
range of possibilities. For instance, digitized images 
can be used with genlock processing and freehand 



drawings made in any resolution mode. 

Colors, an image-processing program, can analyze 
a picture by its various colors and pixel populations, 
perform color separations in either RGB or cyan/ 
magenta/yellow, convert a color image to its black- 
and-white equivalent, alter colors, and even change 
the format of a picture from, say, lo-res to HAM or 
HAM to lo-res. Colors would be a valuable tool for 
serious videophiles, or for artists interested in high- 
end reproduction of their electronic artwork. 

Posters is essentially a printer-support program. It 
allows you to string together several separate pictures 
to form posters as small as a postage stamp, or as 
large as a ten-foot-by-ten-foot mural. Posters also has 
the ability to perform anti-aliasing (removing the 
jagged edges around images) while printing. 

Is Deluxe PhotoLab the ultimate graphics package? 
The answer may be a strong "yes" if you do lots of 
video work, but a resounding "no" if you are a free- 
hand artist. If your requirements are strictly in the 
latter category, Electronic Arts' own Deluxel'aini II 
will probably be more useful than PhotoLab. 

Digi-Paint 

If we judge Digi-Paint strictly as a stand-alone paint 
program, the results would not be favorable. I believe, 
however, that NewTek never intended that it be used 
as such. As a support package to NewTek's popular 
Digi-View video-input system, Digi-Paint becomes a > 



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clever add-on, giving you lots of power to adjust and 
manipulate your video images. Digi-Paint can spiff 
up existing IFF pictures created with conventional 
painting programs. Once converted to HAM mode, 
lower-resolution pictures can easily be altered and 
improved using Digi-1'aint's various utilities. 

Also, in preparing this article, I spoke with NewTek 
officials who told me that they intend to release a 
new version of the program, Digi-l'aint II, in March 
'89. While 1 have no hands-on knowledge of the 
software as of this writing, I can report thai the 
company is enthusiastic about proposed features of 
die new program, such as 3-D image mapping, full 
overscan capabilities, super fast response, 1204X 
1201 bitmapping, and automatic anti-aliasing. 

Photon Paint 

Of all three packages, Photon Paint is the one de- 
signed to offer the greatest capabilities and power to 
the freehand artist. If your intentions are to create 
artwork from scratch using a MAM mode package. 
Photon Paint is currently the program to choose. But 
again, best use of the package may be made in con- 
junction with another, more conventional paint pro- 
gram. Like Digi-Paint, Photon Paint allows the 
importing of any resolution picture in IFF format. 
Therefore, although Photon Paint is fast enough to 
make freehand drawing possible, you will still be 
better off to create your initial artwork in the con- 



ventional paint program, and then jazz it up using 
Photon Paint's powerful assemblage of HAM tools. 

Better HAM to Come? 

So where do things stand with regard to HAM graph- 
ics software? Although the real-time barrier for HAM 
mode has yet to be broken, HAM is definitely the 
wave of the future. As interest in HAM technology 
increases, and as accelerators and math coprocessors 
become cheaper, developers will write software that 
will take advantage of the potential of such hardware 
to speed up HAM calculations. The result should be 
that we get much improved, faster HAM programs 
at affordable prices. 

Until then, freehand artists should keep in mind 
that there is still plenty of power, speed, and useful- 
ness left in those old, conventional paint programs. 
For now, HAM, although powerful, serves the artist 
better as an enhancer rather than a creator. On the 
other hand, if video is your area, HAM graphics 
software can be put to excellent use right now in 
providing you with flexible control over your high- 
resolution video images. ■ 

Bruce Jordan is a frequent contributor to Amiga and C64/ 
12H publications. He also worked an the development of 
the Svper-Forth programming language. Write to him c/o 
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using the Amiga's built in disk drive to read disks made for 
the Mirage Digital Sampling Keyboard. Sounds can then be 
played from a MIDI keyboard, the computer keyboard, or 

Saved as an IFF Standard file. Mirage is a trademarK ot Ensoniq Inc. 

Transform your Amiga into a professional-quality drum 
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realistic drum tracks with any of the 100 drum and percussion 
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A powerful MIDI sequencer that takes full advantage of the 
Amiga's sound, graphics, and sophisticated user-interface. 
Dynamic Studio is perfect for professional applications due 
to its sophisticated editing capabilities and SMPTE support. 
It is also ideal for home studios, because in addition to 
sequencing MIDI instruments, Dynamic Studio has a built-in 
drum machine, and the ability to playback instruments 
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#3 



An occasional series 



of lips, techniques, 



and tricks for 



creating more 



imaginative Amiga 
graphics. 



By Joel Hagen 



From Screen Image 
To Finished 
Illustration 



THE COMPLETE BEGINNING-to-end 

task of creating computer graphics and 
producing the finished product in pub- 
lished form is one of the more challeng- 
ing—and satisfying— exercises for the 
Amiga artist, professional and amateur 
alike. While this series so far has concen- 
trated on tips and techniques for creat- 
ing the images themselves, a look at the 
unique problems of actually producing 
those images as finished illustrations will 
be of real practical value. 

While pictures created on the Amiga 
are clear, bright, and crisp when viewed 
on the monitor, getting those same im- 
ages into publishable form is another 
matter. A recent book assignment of 
mine may serve to illustrate this dual as- 
pect of the computer graphics process. 
Because the reproduction side of things 
proved more problematic, we will exam- 
ine that part of the project first and then 
work back to how I actually composed 
the images in the first place. 

My assignment involved illustrating a 
series of six science fiction novels about 
an adventurous, space-faring archaeolo- 
gist of the future named Dr. Bones. Each 
book contains 12 illustrations providing 
a "computer data bank" section of black- 
and-white images as a visual supplement 
to each story. Ideally, the publisher 
wanted finished hardcopy illustrations, 
ready to shoot. The fact that the visuals 
were supposed to be computer screens 
made the project a perfect Amiga experi- 
ment 1 felt the computer could be the 
appropriate tool for the entire job, mak- 
ing the task of doing so many illustra- 
tions faster and more interesting. 

Problems cropped up, however, as I 



began sending preliminary tests to the 
publishers in various forms. Screen shot 
transparencies looked great, but when 
the publishers enlarged them as half- 
tones, the visual quality deteriorated to 
an unacceptable level. Printer output 
seemed the best solution, although my 
own 24-pin printer was out of the ques- 
tion. While fine for high-contrast images, 
when it comes to gray levels— even with 
the new drivers— it does not produce 
publishable quality. I tried outputiing to 
an HP laser printer and was again disap- 
pointed. The dithering algorithms pro- 
duced a gray scale that looked like a 
sampler ol plaid patterns It dim ,i kilt 
maker. 

Although I was prepared to accept a 
bitmapped "computer screen" look to 
the Finished illustrations (it seemed ap- 
propriate to the theme), I was just not 
getting satisfactory results. At the time I 
was doing these initial experiments, 
PostScript was new to the Amiga com- 
munity. None of the software supported 
it yet, but 1 had been impressed with 
PostScript output from the Macintosh. 
PostScript interprets gray-scale informa- 
tion as larger or smaller dots in the fin- 
ished picture. From a LaserWriter, (he 
results are similar to an 85-line screen — 
about the same image quality you see in 
a newspaper photo. A Linotype machine 
gives even better results. 

I located a shareware PostScript con- 
verter for the Amiga called IFF2PS by 
William Mason and Sam Paolucci, They 
used it to print out a couple of my im- 
ages on a LaserWriter and the results 
were beautiful. IFF2PS is simple to use, 
and I highly recommend it. It does its 
job without any frills, and does it well. 
IFF2PS reads any IFF ILBM (Inter- 
change File Format / Interleaved Bit- 



60 March I9S9 



Making' your illustrations look 

as good on the page 

as they do on your monitor 

ran be a irieky proposition. 



map) picture file and converts it to 
PostScript formal. This can be output to 
a laser printer as it is being converted, 
or stored on disk for printing later. 
There are several options that help auto- 
mate this task. I sent the test pictures to 
the publishers who reported they could 
use the printotits without any reshooting 
in their final layouts. The main problem 
was solved. (See Figure 1 for a compari- 
son of the screen image and its Post- 
Script printout (or one of the Dr. Hones 
illustrations, "Temple Carvings.") 

Back to the Drawing Board 

With 72 illustrations to produce, I took 
every advantage of (he Amiga to save 
time and effort. Using DeluxePaint, I 
worked in the 320 x400 interlace mode 
to give me good resolution with fast re- 
sponse time and full tool use. I created a 
master screen containing a "book page" 
work area of appropriate size and pro- 
portion. Within this page, I laid out a 
framed image area and a caption bar at 
the bottom. This would be the starting 
point for every illustration, providing the 
consistent look of the "computer data 
bank" section. I created a toolkit of vi- 
sual elements I would be using repeat- 
edly- These included grids, gray scales, 
ID chops, reticle patterns, and so forth. I 
arranged these on the master screen 
where they were always accessible and 
could be quickly picked up as brushes 
and moved into (lie illustration. 1 left 
empty space on the screen, both as a 
scratch pad area and for entering text. I 
arranged the first 1(5 colors of the palette 
as a sequential gray scale and established 
it as a Range so 1 could make effective 
use of Shade and Blend tools. This mas- 
ter screen could now be loaded to begin 



Figure 1: Comparison of 
screen Image (left) of 
"Temple Carvings" with its 
PostScript printout (right). 
The Illustration Is from 
book three of the Dr. 
Bones series, Byron 
Preiss Visual Publications, 
Inc. for Ace Books. Copy- 
right 1988 Byron Preiss 
Visual Publications, inc. 



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IMAGING SCREEN BONES 



TEMPLE CPP.U1NGS 



each new picture, eliminating any setup 
lime. This is a unique strength of the 
computer. 

I decided to keep an illusion of real- 
ism to the series of illustrations. 1 did not 
always draw or paint the images from 
scratch as L might have with paint or 
pencil. Instead, I often made use of Digi- 
View to give me a digitized image as a 
starting point. 1 then used the unique 
features of DPaint to completely alter 
these images, while retaining the photo- 
graphic look. In the "Temple Carvings" 
illustration (Figure 1), I began by digiliz- 
ing Mayan carvings. 1 erased much ol 
the image to focus on a human face. Us- 
ing Blend, I "pushed" the image into the 
reptilian features appropriate to the plot 
of the book. (See Accent #2, Feb. '89, p. 
42, for more about using the Blend tool 
in this fashion.) I used Shade to add 
carving lines, highlights, and shadows. 
Picking up small areas of untouched 
rock texture from other parts of the pic- 
lure, I stamped them sparingly on the 
new features I had created, using the X 
and Y keys to flip the texture and thus 



preventing a repeating pattern. Using 
the same technique, I "drew" new carv- 
ings elsewhere in the image. I added the 
caption, pulled in symbols from my 
scratch pad toolkit, and saved two copies 
of the finished picture. 

Converting these IFF files to Post- 
Script packs six image files on each disk. 
With a LaserWriter on the serial port, 
the command COPY filename 'IX) SER: 
starts the ball rolling. By using CTRL j 
after each COPY command, the Amiga 
queues up the commands allowing you 
to leave the machine unattended while it 
finishes one or two disks full of images. 

Overall, the initial period of experi- 
mentation took time, but the method 
that evolved is quick and produces clean 
results. It doesn't fight the limits of the 
computer, it capitalizes on them. ■ 

Joel Hagen 's credits include work in art, as- 
tronomy, science fiction, and software dexwlop- 
ment. Write to him at 10512 Sawyer, 
Oakdale, CA 95361. 



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'Editor's Mote: This month info.phile begins 
a new AmigaDOS 1.3 "mini-series." While 
the previous collection ("Exploring Amiga- 
DOS 1.3" August '88-December '88) focused 
on new or improved CLl commands, this se- 
ries tackles the other side of the AmigaDOS 
coin: the Workbench. 1.3's Workbench in- 
cludes a number of brand-new programs and 
utilities, and improved features for some of 
those carried over from version 1.2. These 
changes will be the subject of the next several 
info.phile columns. 

A FUNDAMENTAL WORKBENCH tool, 
Preferences still performs the same job 
of letting you control many of the basic 
aspects of your Amiga, but il now oilers 
you some new tools for accomplishing 
that task. In addition, you will find it in 
a new location. While in 1.2 the Prefer- 
ences icon appeared when you opened 
the Workbench disk, you will now find it 
when you open the new Prefs drawer. 
This drawer also contains four new- 
icons: CopyPrefs, Pointer, Printer, and 
Serial. CopyPrefs is something new, and 
we will take a look at it in just a mo- 
ment. The other three are shortcuts into 
their respective Preferences windows. 



Double-click on Pointer and up comes 
the Preferences Edit Pointer window, 
Similarly, the Printer icon takes you to 
the Change Printer window, while the 
Serial icon lets you into the Change Se- 
rial window. You can still get to any of 
these windows in the old way, of course; 
start Preferences and pick the gadget for 
the window you want. The new icons 
simply eliminate that extra step if you 
want to go to one of their windows 
directly. 

The new- icons, however, do not save 
you any work when you are ready to exit 
those windows. When you click on OK 
or Cancel in any of these windows, you 
end up in the main Preferences window. 
There you must choose to Save, Use, or 
Cancel your changes. The only way to 
save or use your changes is still to pick 
the appropriate menu option from the 
main Preferences window. 

The Preferences windows for the Se- 
rial and Pointer icons remain the same 
as they were in AmigaDOS 1.2. The 
main and Change Printer windows, how- 
ever, are different. The former sports 
two new changes, one visible and one 
hidden. You will notice immediately that 



the CLI On/Olf gadget from 1.2 is gone. 
You now get both a CLI and a Shell by 
default. 

The hidden change matters only if 
your Amiga has a battery-backed clock/ 
calendar. If il does, when you change the 
date or lime in Preferences and iheu 
save your changes, Preferences automati- 
cally sets the clock/calendar to the new- 
date and time. 

New Graphics Printer Controls 

The improvements to the Change Printer 
window may at first glance appear equally- 
minor, but don't be misled: There's a lot 
more under the hood. The only visible 
change is that the Graphic Select gadget 
of the 1 .2 Preferences is now two gadgets, 
Graphic 1 and Graphic 2. 

Click on Graphic 1 and you will find 
yourself in a window that is essentially the 
same as the old Graphic Select window. 
The only difference is that there is one ad- 
ditional Print Shade option: GrayScalc2. 
This option makes it easier for owners of 
Commodore's new A2024 monochrome 
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While the Graphic 1 window may be 
familiar, Graphic 2 is all new. Il contains 
ten gadgets that let you control some of 
the Amiga's extended graphics printing 
features. 

These new gadgets fall into three basic 
groups. One group provides control 
over the size of the printed image. With 
the Width Limit and Height Limit gad- 
gets you can restrict the image's size. 
Whether your Amiga actually obeys 
those limits, and how it interprets them, 
depends on how you set the < — Limits 
gadget. A scaling gadget allows you to 
tell your Amiga to shrink or grow the 
image. 

The second group of new gadgets af- 
fects the placement of a printed image 
on the page. With the Left Offset gadget, 
you can shift the image left— effectively 
setting a left margin on the paper. You 
can also center the image with the Cen- 
ter gadget. 

The final set provides you with control 
over many aspects of the image's quality 
and appearance. You can specify the 
printing density with the Density gadget; 
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and color, respectively, of the printed 
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One big shock you are likely to encoun- 
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that all but one of the printer drivers 
have vanished from the Workbench disk. 
1.2's Preferences contained a list of every 
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Don't worry, though; they have not 
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You can do that copying in two ways. 
If you are a Shell or CLI user, try the 
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will do the job for you. To find it, open 
the Workbench's Utilities drawer. Dou- 
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(Again, have the Extras and Workbench 

disks in your drives or be prepared to 
put them there.) 

Now pick the one yon want, type its 
name at the prompt 

Which printer ? (press RETURN 
to exit) 

and press RETURN. If you understand 
the CLI-styie filename wildcards, you can 
also use them here. Once you enter a 
printer driver name, InstallPrinter will 
do the copying. As it works it will print 
these two messages: 

Now copying your printer choice to 

devs:printers. 
Now choose this printer using 

Preferences. 

It then will exit and send you back to the 
Utilities window. If you change your 
mind and want to exit this program 
without doing any copying, hit RETURN 
without entering a printer driver name. 

Help for Hard Disk Users 

InstallPrinter is not the only handy new 
1.3 utility. CopyPrefs, the new icon 



found in the Prefs drawer, is designed to 
help those of us who make changes in 
Preferences and have hard disks that 
won't autoboot. To understand why we 
may need help, consider the following 
possible chain of events. 

Because your bard disk cannot auto- 
boot, you boot off your Workbench disk, 
which causes your Amiga to use the Pref- 
erences information stored on that disk. 
(Preferences stores its information in the 
file system-configuration in the DEVS: 
directory.) Then, in your startup-se- 
quence file, you ASSIGN the impor- 
tant directories, including DEVS:, to 
their hard-disk counterparts, and then 
CD to your hard disk for your real 
work. 

While you are working there, you 
bring up Preferences, make some 
changes, and click on Save. Preferences 
saves those changes to the file system- 
configuration in DEVS:, which is on 
your hard disk. So, when you next re- 
boot off your Workbench disk, none of 
the Preferences changes you made are 
on that disk, and you're out of luck. 

CopyPrefs is an easy way out. When 
you run it after saving changes in Prefer- 



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file from your current DEVS: directory 
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Next time you reboot off that disk you'll 
have the updated Preferences. 

CopyPrefs is very easy to run; just 
double-click it. It will open a window ti- 
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Coyping devs:system-configuration to 
DF():DEVS 

and then do the copying for you. When 
it's done, the window goes away and you 
are back in the Workbench. 

The reason the CopyPrefs window is 
titled IconX is that CopyPrefs is actually 
a Shell batch file, and IconX is the name 
of the 1.3 program that lets Workbench 
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effect of this fact is that you can edit 
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booting from the RAD: recoverable RVM 
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line that copies system-configuration to 
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each period ends, most of the ice is while. The big- 
screen, overhead scoreboard shows you the team 
filing out to the locker room. Out rolls the Zamboni 
to clean up the ice. 

Two Minutes for Roughing 

Most of all, the game is true to hockey. Want to check 
a player? Click the mouse as you run into him. Hit 
him hard enough and yon can savor the image of 
him sliding spread-eagle across the ice. You are also 
liable to see the referee on the overhead scoreboard 
giving the official signal for a penalty. Tripping, high- 
slicking, elbowing— I've had them all. Be prepared 
to sit onl your five minutes for fighting, too. Al 
least you can watch the action on the overhead score- 
board as two players hit each other for no apparent 
reason. 

To top it all off, this game has tons of customizing 
options and keeps enough statistics for even the most 
maniacal sports statistician. Each player has twelve 
characteristics, such as position, aggressiveness, 
quickness, checking, passing, and shooting. You can 
play, coach, or both. You can set up your lines, in- 
cluding penalty-killing and power-play lines. You can 
handicap yourself, your opponent, or the computer. 
You can even save your game and restore it later. 

The replay facility is my favorite; it's wonderful, 
particularly after a goal or a penaliv. The replay goes 
back ten seconds or to the previous face-off, whichever 
was more recent. You control a slide bar marked For- 
ward at the top and Reverse at the bottom. Move the 
sliding line to the center and the action stops. You can 
back up the game to the desired point, then watch the 
play very slowly unfold again. It's a great way to learn 
what you just did wrong or to enjoy again the mur- 
derous check you put on some poor soul. 

Don't get me wrong: This game is not perfect, but 
most of the flaws I found were related to the fact thai 
I was playing a beta version. For example, my team's 



coach assembled some weird lines. One time I had 
the same player at both center and right wing. I also 
ended up with some amazingly wimpy players. One 
was exhausted after spending two minutes in the 
penalty box! I've never actually sat in one, but it 
doesn't look like hard work. 

More annoying was the fact that the version I 
played had only two teams, the Washington Capitals 
(Bethesda Softworks is in Maryland, so 1 can forgive 
them a little local color) and the New Jersey Devils. 
The Devils? Where are the L.A. Kings? It is Gretzky's 
game, after all. Who are those Devils players, anvway? 
Fortunately, Bethesda promises that the final version 
will include four great Stanley Cup teams. The com- 
pany also plans to sell data disks of all of the 1987 
and 1988 NHL teams. 

My final complaint is that currently you can't ad- 
minister a whole league, although Bethesda plans lo 
add this before the game's release. According to the 
company you will have a module of "commissioner" 
functions, such as trading and creating new teams. 

Still, it's hard to complain, because Bethesda plans 
to address all of my gripes in the final version. It's 
great to see a game that's so faithful to real hockey. 
Once again Gretzky proves why he is The Great 
One. D 

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By Louis R. Wallace 

DUNGEON MASTER IS a 
role-playing adventure that 
carries you and your troop on 
a mission to recover the Fire 
Staff, which Lord Chaos has 
stolen and hidden deep in a 
dungeon. 

You choose your four party 
members from among many 



champions, each of whom has 
a unique set oi characteristics. 
Each adventurer's skills, pos- 
sessions, strength, and knowl- 
edge will increase during the 
course of your explorations. 

Inside the dungeon, you will 
find weapons and armor that 
can help you survive fights. 
You must also find food and 
water; your people need lo 
eat, drink, and rest regularly 



(the game is played in real 
time) in order to maintain 
their health and stamina. 

Dungeon Master is com- 
pletely mouse driven. The 
screen is divided into two sec- 
tions: the dungeon display win- 
dow and a menu-and-icon 
panel. Simply by pointing and 
clicking, you can select a sword 



from a character's backpack, 
for instance, and tell him how 
to use the weapon and how to 
attack. In the dungeon display, 
your mouse pointer appears as 
a hand. With it, you can pick 
up items, pull levers, press bul- 
lous, and unlock doors. You *■ 



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can also carry and throw weap- 
ons with this hand, as in an ar- 
cade game. 

Most characters can use 
magic, but a spell's success de- 
pends on the amount of Maria 
(magical energy) the character 



possesses and his knowledge 
of symbols and runes. You 
must figure out which spells 
are available and how to cast 
them. While scrolls scattered 
throughout the dungeon offer 
some clues, for the most part 




Footsteps warn ol the monsters' approach are you prepared? 



you learn by trial and error. 
On the icon panel are four 
groups of six runes. Bv com- 
bining the runes in various 
ways, you can cast a multitude 
of spells. To achieve profi- 
ciency, you must experiment 
with combinations; some do 
nothing, but others can help 
you overcome obstacles and 
creatures. The more spells you 
attempt] the more your Mana 
increases. 

You see the dungeon and its 
inhabitants— mummies, purple 
blobs, stinging rock-pile dwell- 
ers, and walking mushrooms 
(you can use the latter for 
food) — through the eyes of 
your characters. If you keep 
your ears open, however, you 
will often hear the monsters 
first through digitally-sampled 
sound. 

I became more intrigued 



with Dungeon Master the 
longer I played. The anima- 
tion, detailed-perspective 
graphics, and sound are excel- 
lent, and the menus and icons 
are easy to use. The challenge 
of learning the magic spells 
makes the game realistic. Dun- 
geon Master is one of the best 
programs of its type. It is com- 
plex enough to hold the inter- 
est of the most seasoned role- 
player, and its simple interface 
makes it ideal for those new to 
fantasy adventures. I recom- 
mend it! 

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Carrier Command 



By Chris Dickman 

AT THE HELM of a carrier 
transporting amphibious as- 
sault vehicles and fighter 
planes, you find yourself 
wreaking wholesale havoc in a 
3-D arcade environment, strate- 
gi/.ing all the way. Carrier 
Command's universe consists 
of about 60 mythical islands. 
Your mission is to establish a 
base on each one while the 
bad guys, equipped with a 
similar vessel, are bent on 
doing the same. 

To track your progress, you 
can display a map that indi- 
cates the status of the islands 
(neutral, friendly, or hostile), 
as well as the colored network 
links between them. Prema- 
turely attacking the enemy 
ship or its heavily-defended 
home island is deadly, so you 
must first colonize a group of 
isles around your home, then 
extend your network by creat- 



ing protective clusters until 
you are in a position to make 
an assault. 

You will need a resource is- 
land on which to construct 
mines, oil rigs, and fuel 
dumps. Output from these is 
shipped to factory islands for 
use in manufacturing weapons 
and refining fuel. Defense 
bases can protect other more 
vulnerable islands, and you 
can store constructed weap- 
onry, fuel, and equipment on 
stockpile islands. All this stuff 
is shuttled through the net- 
work and finally to your ship. 
Meanwhile, the computer-con- 
trolled enemy is establishing 
bases for itself and trying to 
capture your colonies. 

While engrossing, the colo- 
nizing process can become ex- 
hausting with its rigorous 
attention to detail. You must 
set a slew of priorities, for ex- 
ample, to indicate the rate at 
which the resource network 
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carry a wide range of weap- 
onry- The latter will be famil- 
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By Bob Ryan 

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shield that makes you tempo- 
rarily invincible— spells the dif- 
ference between success and 
failure. Use the magic on levels 
that don't require (hem, and 
you'll be in a terrible fix on 
subsequent levels. A winning 
strategy combines deft swords- 
manship (with the joystick) with 
timely use of magic items. 

The characters, backdrops, 
and digitized sounds are quite 
detailed and appealing. The 



profusion of blood and man- 
gled flesh you leave behind in 
your quest, however, is remi- 
niscent of a B-grade slice-and- 
dice flick. Parents should pre- 
view this game before buying 
it for the kids. 

My major complaint about 
the game is the time it takes to 
load each level. Sword of So- 
dan is a big game— it is spread 
across three disks— with lots of 
graphics. It can take an eter- 



nity (in computer-game time, 
that is— equivalent to 10-20 
seconds real-time) to load a 
level. An option to move the 
game to a RAM disk or a hard 
disk (greatly decreasing the 
amount of time spent watch- 
ing the drive light) would be a 
welcome addition. 

Although 1 was predisposed 
to reject this game as a mind- 
less romp with sword in hand, 
1 quickly became engrossed in 



developing a winning strategy. 
1 have yet to succeed, but I 
enjoy trying. If you look past 
the gore and the slow load 
times, you will too. 

Sword of Sodan 

Discovery Software Int. 
163 Conduit St. 
Annapolis, MD 21401 
301/268-9877 

S49.95 
Joystick required. 



Menace 

By Louis R. Wallace 

MENACE IS THE pure, undi- 
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goal is to destroy six levels 
representing the different 
areas of the planet Draconia. 
There is an ocean, a grave- 
yard, a garden, a futuristic 
city, an ancient city, and a 
mountain range. Created in 



64-color Extra_Halibrite 
mode and displayed in over- 
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Over 60 varieties of nas- 
ties—about ten per level- 
guard the planet. Most travel 
in groups, and each has a 



characteristic mode of attack, 
Some have no weapons, but 
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can also suffer damage by 
touching the scenery). Others 
shoot projectiles, some of 
which can track you. Too 
much damage will cause your 
shields to give out, at which 



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The finale: Can you target the master? 



tra acceleration, a force field, 
or a completely-restored 

shield. You can combine these 
attributes, and some of them 
are cumulative. Surviving all 

the waves on one level puts 
you face to face with a master 
guardian and his battery of 
soldiers. Only by destroying 
the guardian can you proceed 
to the next level, and to do so 
you must hit him repeatedly 
in one spot. 

I he animation is excep- 
tional: enemies wiggle, roll 
over, rotate, rocket, undulate, 
fly, swim, bite, jump, and 
blast. My favorite is level 
three, the alien graveyard, 
with its skulls, ghosts, goblins. 
and bouncing heads. Digital 
sound effects, speech, and 
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high scores to the game disk. 

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Tracers 

By Gary Ludwick 

FUN, FAST, AND furious, 
Tracers is anything but mind- 
less. As in the arcade-based 
Tron lightcycle game, you ma- 
neuver through a grid, and, 
with the trail you leave be- 
hind, you try to cut off or box 
in your opponent before he 
does it to you. To this concept, 
MicroIUusions has added 



enough new features to give 
the game a different flavor. 
You can play against the 
computer alone or with a 
friend, or head-to-head with 
just your friend. You can opt 



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for joystick or keyboard, but I 
wouldn't face Tracers without 
a joystick. The music is excel- 
lent: There are several 
rythmns and times from which 
to choose. You can compete 
on any of 20 fields, and select 
the amount of power and 
number of lives to begin with. 



ades that destroy you on 
contact. Add your nefarious op- 
ponent, and you have one chal- 
lenging game, even at the 
easiest levels. 

Unfortunately, Tracers is 
copy protected. You can make 
a back-up copy, but when you 
boot it, vim will find you have 



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All this adds up to a game you 
can tailor to your skills. 

Oil the grid, you will find 
randomly-placed tokens that 
bequeath extra lives and addi- 
tional fuel. Occasionally a 
short-lived death square ap- 
pears; if you cross it, all your 
opponents immediately expire. 
A particularly ingenious feature 
is a block that travels on your 
trail: Can you time your moves 
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a game that few people will 
tire of or master. 

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818/360-3715 

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Warlock 

By Chris Dickman 

HAVE YOU EVER awakened 
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Warlock's twelfth level have 



something in common, for at 
this level, your on-screen alter 
ego is pelted with a deadly 
blue fire by a projectile-tossing 
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arcl is an elusive target, so you 
race toward him. Every time 
you jump to avoid the mis- 
siles, though, you drift back- 
ward. All the while your 
vitality is dropping. 

IF working your way through 
scenes like this is your idea of 
fun, you will enjoy Warlock. As 
the warlock, you are in search 
of the stolen Kama, a jewel 



As you sharpen your skills, 
you can lower your starting vi- 
tality and power levels to 
make completion more diffi- 
cult The provision for only 
one life per game and lack of 
a save option makes Warlock a 
challenge; every time you 
"die" you begin again at the 
first screen. Perhaps the 
game's authors fear Warlock 




Searching fc 



you encounter help and hindrances. 



possessing magical powers. On 
the way to finding and doing 
battle with the Kama's thief, 
you must deal with an engag- 
ing band of adversaries — from 
zombies and kraken to the 
four elements—armed only 
with your trusty scepter. Luck- 
ily, eight magical objects are 
scattered en route (there are 
20 screens with two levels 
each) to aid you in your quest. 
The game is not novel, 1 ad- 
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a well-crafted member of its 
genre. The graphics are imagi- 
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scrolling between screens is 
very smooth, animation is 
crisp, and sound effects are 
varied. Above all, it has that 
elusive, satisfying feel that lets 
you completely lose yourself 
in the alternate reality on the 
screen. 



would otherwise be too easy. I 
look forward to vaporizing the 
wizard on level twelve and 
finding out if their fears are 
justified. 

Warlock 

Three-Sixty Pacific 

2105 S. Bascom Ave. 

Suite 290 

Campbell, CA 95008 

408/879-9144 

$34.95 

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CygnusEd 
Professional 

The Amiga's repertory editor. 

By Patrick Quaid 

WHEN COMPARING TEXT editors, we 

tend to consider their advanced and eso- 
teric features, even though the feet of the 
editor is ultimately more important. 
With CygnusEd Professional, you need 
not give up workability for features; the 
program excels in both areas. It is fast, 
clean, and precise. Text scrolls extremely 
quickly, searches and screen redraws are 
almost instantaneous, and even at the 
highest key-repeat speeds, the editor 
never, for example, continues scrolling 
after you let up the cursor key. 

CygnusEd Professional also has just 
about all the options you could ask for. 
Search and replace, block commands, 
multiple windows, and all the other 
things we have come to expect from a 
good editor are included, but there is 
much more. The editor can cut and 
paste vertical and horizontal blocks of 
text, issue AmigaDOS commands, delete 
and undelete words and lines, and even 
print files. You can define macros for al- 
most any combination of keys, and rede- 
fine keys, too. 

Waltzing with Intuition 

CygnusEd Professional's cohesive, effi- 
cient interface makes good use of Intui- 
tion, but doesn't rely on it. It runs from 
the Workbench and the CLI, and can 
create Workbench icons. The distribution 
disk includes a program called Ed, 
which, when you use it to invoke 
CygnusEd from the CLI, affords you ad- 
ditional options. For instance, Ed can 
make the CLI prompt return immedi- 
ately or cause it to wait for CygnusEd 
Professional to complete its work. It can 
retain its link to the CLI so you can run 
DOS commands from the editor, or 
sever the link so the CLI window can 
close. The editor offers both menus and 
keyboard shortcuts, places requesters un- 
der your mouse pointer on screen, and 
can employ the mouse to scroll, mark 
blocks, and organize windows. String re- 
questers retain their values, and the file 
requester remembers the directory it is 



working with; all requesters are key- 
board controllable, too. The program 
multitasks elegantly: It can go dormant 
(so you don't have to exit), and be re- 
awakened with a hot-key combination. 

One of CygnusEd's most surprising as- 
pects is its flexibility. You can specify 
mundane things like screen size and 
screen colors, whether the program uses 
its own screen or a Workbench window, 
and whether to display spaces, tabs, re- 
turn marks, and escape codes. More in- 
terestingly, though, you can make 
decisions about the editor's fundamental 
operation. For example, you could make 
CygnusEd Professional work similar to 
AmigaDOSs ED by allowing the cursor 
to move anywhere on the screen and by 
having the program convert tabs into 
eight spaces. Reversing those decisions 
would make it work like the public-do- 
main editor, MicroEmacs. You can de- 
sign macros to work like either editor's 
command set (in fact, the distribution 
disk contains a set of macros that mimics 
MicroEmacs' control keys). 

You can save these parameters— in dif- 
ferent configurations for each type of file 
you edit— in environment files. When 
CygnusEd Professional first runs, it looks 
for an environment file to match the 
same suffix of the edit file you specify. If 
your command line is "ed filename. c," 
for instance, CygnusEd Professional will 
look for a configuration file called "CED- 
Defaults.c." The program also loads a 
default macro-definition file when it first 
runs, although apparently not with the 
same suffix feature. 

Doing the Limbo Rock 

CygnusEd Professional was designed 
with the programmer in mind. It han- 
dles multiple files and windows with 
great dexterity, has an auto-indentation 
key, supports markers in the file, and 
can even find matching parentheses and 
brackets. Because CygnusEd's multiple- 
window system works so effortlessly, I 
needed fewer hard copies of other files 
when using it to program. 

.All of CygnusEd Professional's features 
are accessible to external programs. The 
package supports William Hawes' ARexx 
interface language, and includes some 
ARexx example programs, including one 
for controlling CygnusEd from a C pro- 
gram. This remote-control function lets 
you integrate CygnusEd Professional 
with other programs; for instance, you 



could write a program to read a com- 
piler-generated error file, then have the 
editor display errors and send the cor- 
rected file to the compiler. 

While CygnusEd Professional is not a 
word processor, it has features that make 
it useful for writing things other than 
programs and batch files. It can wrap 
words at the right border and perform 
limited paragraph reformatting. ASDG 
(CygnusEd's publisher) has also included 
the text-formatting program Proff on the 
distribution disk, which helps make un- 
gainly text files presentable. Like most 
good text editors, you can enter control 
and escape codes directly into the text 
for printer regulation. 

ASDG supports CygnusEd on Compu- 
Serve, BIX, and UseXet bulletin-board 
systems, as well as by phone. The well- 
written manual consists of about 90 
pages. The single, bootable, non copy- 
protected disk includes several example 
batch programs, and a utility for re- 
covering files from memory after a Guru 
Meditation. CygnusEd Professional is 
probably all you want in a text editor. 
But while I rate it a perfect ten, Micro- 
Emacs, which is included for free on the 
1.2 and 1.3 Amiga Extras disks, is an 
eight or a nine. Still, CygnusEd is good 
enough to win you as a convert. If you 
demand the finest and can justify the ex- 
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the resulting film into a loop, and check 
for needed movement and timing 
changes. After making corrections, the 
animator had to repeat the entire pro- 
cess—starting with re-photographing the 
sequence— until the animation ran 
smoothly. This method required a great 
deal of time, patience, and money. . . 
alas, it seemed that high-quality anima- 
tion was beyond the reach of all but big- 
name, money-backed studios. That is, 
until Cel Animator galloped in to save 
the day. 

Ce! Animator, from Microlllusions' 
Photon Video scries, cuts production 
time. It requires you to photograph (dig- 
itize] i;k li pirn nc out) once (il also in- 
cludes some paint-program-like features, 
so you can make minor corrections to 
cells without having to exit and load a 
dedicated paint package). Frames are 
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can run your sequences backward as well 
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complete control over cell delay limes. 
You can add new cells to an existing ani- 
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number of times, then store your crea- 
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above simple page-flipping programs. 

Cel Animator works with any graphics- 
creation program that saves in IFF or 
anim format; it can decompress anim 
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frames individually. In my tests, files cre- 
ated with programs using early and spe- 
cial versions of the anim format- 
including those from Animate 3D (Byte 
by Byte), PageFlipper Plus F/X (Mind- 
ware International), and Video Effects 
31) (InnoVision Technology)— would not 
load. Because such programs generally 
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can work around this fairly easily. 

Pitter Patter 

Cel Animator further one-ups traditional 
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audio-digitizing program, and match 
them to individual cells. The exposure- 
sheets are separate text files that you can 
save as such or print. 



While Cel Animator supports all 
Amiga screen resolutions— including 
HAM with overscan— the program has 
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display. For instance, all Aegis products 
use the broadcast FCC (Federal Commu- 
nications Commission)-approvcd 384 x 
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Once your animation is assembled sat- 
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replaying the piece. The best way to re- 
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program (such as Microlllusions' Trans- 
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to a single-frame controller and an edit- 
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The manual, written by veteran ani- 
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Microfiche Filer Plus 

Vh-d-vis power. 
By Loren Lovhaug 

WITH THE MICROFICHE-lilm readers 
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the data in it's sight, displaying it in the 
magnification window. The presentation 
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of the magnification window quickly and 
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The effectiveness of this approach de- 
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example. Also, because of its visual na- 
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Microfiche Filer's heavy reliance on 
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generation needs. In fact, it would be 
more accurately described as a total 
mechanism, as its only functions are to 
total numeric fields and count non-null 
items in each field. 

Power Lifting 

Microfiche Filer Plus is marketed not as 
a replacement for the original Microfiche 
Filer, but as an alternative for those with 
more sophisticated data-management 
needs. 

The addition of a calculation-numeric 
field type in Microfiche Filer Plus ad- 
dresses a weakness of its predecessor. 
You can enter simple arithmetic formu- 
las in these fields, and set them up to 
perform calculations on other fields. This 
facility works fine. The inclusion of only 
simple arithmetic operators, however, se- 
verely limits the function's usefulness. 
Noticeably missing are date and date-cal- 
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standard deviation. 

Another feature that caters to power 
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Filer Plus includes a port for the increas- 
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Microfiche Filer Plus relies upon ARexx 
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criteria, batch updating records, execut- 
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B.A.D. 

Get down with AmigaDOS's 
funky floppies. 

By W. Jeffrey Blume 

DISK FRAGMENTATION IS a problem 
common to all disk-based personal com- 
puters. As a disk becomes filled, there 
frequently is no contiguous space in 
which to write a file, so the system must 
scatter blocks of data where it can find 
room. This fragmentation causes the 
drive head to travel across the disk nu- 
merous times as it reads a file, while the 
protesting drive emits the familiar 
gronking sound. The result? Input and 
output (I/O) are slowed significantly. 

The B.A.D. (Blitz Amiga's Disk) opti- 
mizer utility from M.V. Micro analyzes 
disks, and organizes and rewrites them 
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given file immediately Ibllow one an- 
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B.A.D. differs from disk-cacheing pro- 
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to store or modify data, its structure be- 
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you may need to reprocess it. 

When you load B.A.D., a small win- 



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dow opens to present its straightforward, 
entirely mouse-driven interface. One 
gadget toggles whether the program is to 
process a hard disk or a floppy, and an- 
other toggles between B.A.D.'s Work- 
bench and CLI modes. Two more gad- 
gets, Blitz and Quit, initiate processing 
and exit the program. Source and Dest 
(Destination) gadgets are displayed for 
each floppy drive attached to the system, 
while a single gadget is shown for each 
mounted hard-drive partition. At the 
bottom of the window, a string gadget 
reports the status of the disk being 
processed. 

B.A.D. can read a source disk and 
write the optimized data to a second disk 
leaving the original unchanged. Alterna- 
tively, you can assign source and destina- 
tion as the same drive. Processing with 
two drives requires at least 370K of free, 
contiguous RAM, so a 512K Amiga run- 
ning in two-drive mode will not have 
enough memory to multitask. Because 
the single-drive mode requires only 
about 60K of memory, you might expect 
it to work on a 512K Amiga with one 
drive. I tested it on an A1000 with 512K 
and one drive and found that B.A.D. 
would not load under Kickstart 1.2. 
While the instructions do not specify a 
particular version of AmigaDOS, the 
program did load under 1.3. B.A.D. re- 
quires roughly 24K of RAM to process 
each meg of space on a hard-disk parti- 
tion (470K of free contiguous RAM for 
an average 20-meg partition). 



According to the on-disk documenta- 
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dual-drive system in two to five minutes, 
while it may take as long as 30 to 45 
minutes with a single drive (depending 
on how full and how fragmented the 
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B.A.D. performs some optimizations 
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during processing it will report them in 
specific, helpful terms in an error file 
called RAM: BAD Mess and in the status 
string-gadget. 

I experienced no problems running 
B.A.D. on an expanded Amiga in an in- 
tensive multitasking environment. As the 
program easily processed a disk in sin- 
gle-floppy mode, my text editor made 
saves to a hard drive and a second 
floppy, I plotted a hi-res interlaced Man- 
delbrot, and five other programs ran in 
the background. I also was able to multi- 
task from one partition while B.A.D. 
processed another on the same unit. 

M.V. Micro is a small company. My 
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greeted by an answering machine, but I 
received return calls. I also found the 
company receptive to input. Unfor- 
tuately, the only documentation is an on- 
disk .doc file— about six printed pages. 
The program's operation is so straight- 
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Draw 2000 

We're getting close to home. 

By Stephen Ellerin 

ALTHOUGH IT IS billed as a totally-new 
program, Draw 2000 by Aegis appears to 
be a spiffed-up version of the company's 
earlier CAD (Computer-Aided Design) 
program, Draw Plus. 

The package comes with three disks: 
the regular program disk, an alternate 
which promises a further 50% increase in 
speed for those who have a 68020 with a 
68881 math coprocessor, and one con- 
taining libraries of electronic, electrical, 
plumbing, floor plan, and furniture parts. 

When the Chips are Down 

Draw 2000 runs w^tth 512K, but Aegis 
recommends a megabyte of memory or 



more. No matter how much RAM you 
have, however, expect to be constrained 
by chip-memory limitations. I found it 
impossible to open more than two win- 
dows in the interlaced, high-resolution 
mode. Even then, unless my second win- 
dow matched the proportions of the 
main one, most requesters would not 
open (commands that don't require re- 
questers work line). To overcome this, 
Draw 2000 introduces a medium resolu- 
tion, at some sacrifice in detail, and a 
four-color Workbench mode (which in- 
creases both screen-redraw speed and 
the number of windows you can open), 
at a greater sacrifice. 

As you work, you can shift into Work- 
bench mode lor memory-intensive opera- 
tions and back to a higher resolution for 
more detail. Although I couldn't get Draw 
2000 to shift directly from hi-res to me- 
dium, it would shift from high, to low, to 
medium. (Some of the 16 colors in the 
higher resolutions may be transposed to 
blue in Workbench mode and thus will 
not show up against the lo-res back- 
ground.) All windows accepted a grid of 
one inch square — the smallest I tried. 

You can start using Draw 2000 right 
out of the box, but the documentation 
gives you an edge. The spiral-bound 
manual begins with the basics, and a 
genuine tutorial takes you step-by-step 
through designing a floor plan as it in- 
troduces you to most tools. Commands 
are described in the order they appear 
in the menus, and each explanation in- 
cludes how-to instructions. Some de- 
scriptions, however, are not as clear as 
they should be. Also, instead of explain- 
ing every aspect as it is mentioned, the 
manual often refers you to another chap- 
ter for a fuller description. This is dis- 
tracting; a compromise would be to 
summarize the procedure. 

Easy Does It 

Draw 2000 is the easiesi-to-use CAD sys- 
tem I know of. You can draw 7 freehand 
or use previously-created parts— shapes 
that you have grouped into objects. The 
first group of tools draws lines, rectan- 
gles, polygons of any shape, arcs, circles, 
ellipses, text, and dimension (measure- 
ment) lines. To retrieve a tool, simply se- 
lect it from the Tools menu or press the 
appropriate function key. You can create 



many of the objects from the keyboard, 
by positioning the cursor at the intended 
origin, touching the Escape key, and en- 
tering numeric values. 

With the second category of tools, you 
can drag, clone, erase, or re-size any ob- 
ject, change its color, or grab a hook to 
change its shape. You can also rotate the 
object around any axis, and, with the 
powerful Slats command, change the 
height, width, angle, and starting 
coordinates. 

The Group commands let you undo 
your last action, and cut, paste, or erase 
objects contained in a marked window. 
You can modify the pattern, weight, and 
color of the line, change the si/.e, pro- 
portions and angle of all objects in the 
window, create a new part, mirror things 
in eight directions, and create an array. 
Numeric Edit is the most powerful com- 
mand: It accurately changes height, 
width, angle, and so on to the values you 
enter from the keyboard. 

While most tools remain in effect until 
you choose another, you must select 
Group commands from the menu each 
time you need them. Ironically, these 
functions often require several tries to 
box precisely. Only half of these com- 
mands have keyboard equivalents, and 
of those, one does not respond. 

The Display menu controls what you 
see. You tan toggle Grid, Ruler, and 
screen-wide cross hairs, open as many 
windows as memory permits, zoom in or 
out, alter colors, and select layers for dis- 
play. Other menus let you change grid 
size and pattern, units (decimal, feet, or 
metric), drawing size, and font size. You 
can toggle the Grid Snap (when it's on, 
any click on the screen snaps to the 
nearest intersection of grid coordinates), 
and whether to fill objects with one of 
eight patterns. The Smoothing option 
rounds any object, and the Help button 
summons a Fast menu. 

While the options are many, their 
placement in the menus seems haphaz- 
ard, which makes them inefficient to use. 

Safe on First 

Draw 2000 allows you to save any number 
of color palettes. You can save an entire 
drawing or any window as an IFF file, 
and a new option lets you save in a format 

compatible with Aegis" Modeler 3D. 

You can also save settings, but while »- 



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LANGUAGES 

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COMMUNICATIONS 
r »4 Communications - Starterm and Aterm are both included. 
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□ »90 Modem Madness ! - Terminals include StarTerm, ATerm, 
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01 programs, some of the highlights are: PopCLI2-evokesa new 
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organizes disk files: IconMaker-makes icons for most programs 
so that they can run from Workbench: FKey-tem plate maker. 

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Supports multitasking, so lhatyou can refer to it when you need it. 
As usual, there are other good programs included on the disk. 
D *135 Applications II - Long Movie-plays several IFF pictures 
in last succession, creating animation. QuickBase-a mail 
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□ *37 Business Programs - Included are an address book, 
an amortization program, a talking mail manager, and a label 
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G *27 Amoeba Invaders - A better Space Invaders! 

C »140 Virus Killer - Everyone needs this 1 Makes it easy to 

detect and eiiminale known viruses. 
D *115 Word Processor- Lots of features 
D *134 Applications- Label maker/printer, grocery list maker. 

and AMIGazer - a star viewing program, 

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□ '102 Sinking Island - Return to Sinking Island is an 
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AmigaDos, Various newtools.aulomatic printer-drivergenerator, 
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G *118 Great Graphic Games - Includes Missle Command, 

2-D Triclops. Cosmo-asteroids clone, BrakeOut, Yatzee, Hack 

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*121 Backgammon - A greal game from David Addison. 

G '122 Solitaire - Two versions by David Addison. 

G '123 Cribbage - Take on the computer or a friend. 

D '124 Milestone - A greatcomputer version of Miles Bournes 

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D *125 Othello - A great 3-D version of this popular game. 

□ '128 Space Games - Cosmoroids (like asteroids) and Gravity 
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G *88 Amiga Basic Programs - Over 50. Games, utilities, 
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chip-memory shortage complicates this 
on one hand, the same factor makes it 
almost essentia! on the other. All screens 
default to a five-foot square grid (you 
can select feet, meters, or absolute val- 
ues), and because the main screen ac- 
cepts a grid no smaller than one foot 
square (without zooming), you must 
open a second screen to work in detail. 
In hi-res, however, the program often 
consumes so much memory that it can- 
not display the requester that lets you al- 
ter grid size. Fortunately, by selecting 
Quit, you can get to a requester that lets 
you save settings; reentering the pro- 
gram then causes your second screen, if 
no wider than 21 feel in scale, to default 
to a one-inch square grid. 

Draw 2000 supports all Preferences 
printers, but to accommodate a large 
drawing, you must divide it into sections, 
print one 8'/,x 1 1-inch sheet at a time, 
and tape them together. 

Because plotting a full-size drawing 
can take up to an hour, Aegis designed 
their plot method to allow multitasking. 
You save your drawing as a plot file, 
which the program then sends to your 
plotter while you continue working. Un- 



fortunately, the program will only save 
plots to the Draw 2000 disk, which is too 
full to accept a drawing. 

An Aegis technical representative of- 
fered two alternatives. You can select 
Save As from the Project menu and Plot 
from the submenu, then give the file a 
unique name, and send it to your plotter 
from the CL1. The second option gets 
the rendering function to work but does 
not enable you to multitask. It involves 
selecting Save As and Plot as above, and 
then typing ser: (or par:, if your plotter 
connects at the parallel port). 

Splish-Splash 

Given the investment Aegis has made in 
this product, I find it puzzling that they 
have not polished it. Draw 2000's heavi- 
est millstone is the program's insistence 
on drawing all your on-screen correc- 
tions twice. This nuisance becomes infu- 
riating when the redraw involves or 
borders text (the program renders text 
very slowly), or when the Undo com- 
mand redraws the entire screen. The fact 
that most commands act, by default, on 
[he objects you drew first— even after 
you change the active layer— is illogical, 



and although you can easily set your 
drawing to a scale of one-quarter or one- 
half via the Format command, you can- 
not plot a three-quarter or three-eighth 
scale from within the program. 

Among the things I would like to see 
added to the program are a Spline com- 
mand and a Change Layer command 
that could reassign the layer of all items 
within a boxed area. 

Draw 2000's operating speed is mini- 
mally acceptable by professional stan- 
dards. The program's design flexibility is 
excellent: You can move, duplicate, alter, 
and make corrections easily, and lay out 
your project quickly. This is the only 
professional CAD program I have seen 
with a true Amiga interface. Draw 2000 
is not perfect, but it is the best Amiga 
CAD program I know of. 

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ProScript 

A step in the right direction. 

By Chris Dickman 

WHILE NEW HORIZONS Software de- 
signed ProScript primarily to add Post- 
Script-printer support to the Firm's 
ProWrite word processor, ProScript's 
File-conversion abilities afford PostScript 
access to Scribble! (Micro-Systems Soft- 
ware), TextPro (Abacus), and Textcraft 
(Commodore) owners, too. 

Two to Tango 

ProScript provides two ways to access 
the Fonts in a PostScript printer. The 
most primitive is to compose your docu- 
ment using the skimpy, bitmap Amiga- 
system fonts. You then set up a font-sub- 
stitution list which, at print time, re- 
places a PostScript font with the Amiga 
font. A problem with this approach is 
that text displayed on the screen only 
roughly corresponds to what emerges 
from your printer, because the substi- 
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widths. If you are printing files con- 



verted from Scribble!, TexiPro, or Text- 
craft, however, this is your only option 
(unless you want the document to print 
in Topaz). Your converted Files will thus 
print in only one PostScript font; there 
is no way to mix typefaces or type sizes 
within these documents. 




You can position, scale, and rotate pages. 

ProWrite users have access to more, 
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Script-printed page, an application pro- 
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files, which contain information on font 
widths, and screen Fonts, which display 
the Fonts on the screen. ProScript has 
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Courier, and Symbol fonts. Because the 
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however, you must resort to the primi- 
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them. To New Horizons' shame, nowhere 
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out. The documentation sheepishly men- 
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rics files supplied with Gold Disk's 
Professional Page work with ProScript— 
which is dandy if you happen to use that 
program. Otherwise, tough bananas. 

Once the metrics and screen Font files 
are installed, you simply use ProWrite to 
select text in your document, and choose 
the desired font from a menu. The 
screen fonts look a bit clunky at medium 
resolution, but at hi-res they are quite re- 
spectable. While you can convert docu- 
ments produced with the other three 
compatible word processors to ProWrite 
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Write and assign fonts, I question the 
usefulness of this option. After all, how 
many people own ProWrite plus Scrib- 
ble!, TextPro, or Textcraft? 

Pliant Printing 

ProScript must be running in order for 
you to print to a PostScript device. 
Thankfully, the program multitasks 
nicely, allowing you to edit documents 
while printing. Through requesters, you 
can set a range of print options. The 
General Setup requester allows you to 
specify between 2 and 256 shades of gray 
when converting color images to the 
black-and-white world of laser printing 
{although ProWrite 2.0 only supports 
16). A related capability lets you estab- 
lish the halftone screen density and the 
number of halftone cells per inch— both 
help control how PostScript renders 
your bitmap images. Page Setup lets you 
switch between portrait and landscape 
modes, as well as scale, rotate, and posi- 
tion your page. ProScript also lets you 
save documents to disk as ASCII Post- 
Script files, which can be output by a 
service bureau with either a garden-vari- 
ety laser printer or a high-resolution 
device. 

ProScript is useful but limited. With 
improved access to resident fonts and a 
more comprehensive approach to the 
conversion of other word-processing for- 
mats, 1 would praise ProScript. As is, the 
program does not meet current Post- 
Script-support standards. 



ProScript 

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DeluxePrint II 

See the signs and believe. 

By Morton A. Revel son 

DELUXEPRINT II LETS you print spe- 
cialized documents such as signs, ban- 
ners, and cards faster and easier than 
general-purpose paint and desktop-pub- 
lishing programs. 

lis Intuition-Style interface makes 
DeluxePrint II easy to use. On the work- 
ing screen you see a color palette on the 
left, a miniature version of your project 
in the center, and control gadgets on the 
right. The Preview function lets you view 
your project up close; you can even ad- 
just the magnification. 

Seven formats accommodate your cre- 
ations. Banners print sideways; they can 
be up to 8'A x 22 inches. The greeting- 
card format prints quadrants on a 
sheet— two upside down (you then fold 
the sheet in half twice). You can make la- 
bels up to 4 1 /., X l 7 / 8 inches, and resize 
this format to print in standard business- 



card size. Signs can be laid out as full 
pages or in four sections per page. Let- 
terhead format fits your design into the 
upper third of a page, and finally, you 
can print a one-month calendar to fill a 
sheet. 

Laying It on Thick 

All formats are assembled from four ele- 
ments: a background (any IFF image), 
icons (44 X 52-pixel brushes), borders, 
and text. DeluxePrint II comes with a 
disk of prepared backgrounds, borders, 
and icons (unfortunately the manual 
does not show printouts of them) that 
you can modify. You can also create your 
own graphics (the program contains 
enough drawing tools to handle simple 
tasks), or import them. 

Each element has a designated priority 
(layer), and except for borders, the com- 
ponents can be manipulated and posi- 
tioned independently. Priorities 
determine how elements will be super- 
imposed on one another; when overlap 
occurs, the higher-priority item prints on 
top of the other. The background consti- 
tutes the bottom layer, upon which 
everything else is placed. 

The center layer accommodates up to 
nine different icons (graphic images), and 
as many copies of them as you please. You 
can even snip out parts of the background 
to use as icons. Icons are prioritized, too, 
based on the order in which they are 
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The top layer consists of text; you add 
lines of up to 80 characters one at a 
time, positioning and modifying them 
individually. 

Borders are separate entities— you 
cannot lay a border over or under an- 
other component. All are one inch wide, 
and although they are immobile, you can 
flip the left and bottom segments. 

Now Join In 

The program disk contains a variety of 
fonts, some very attractive. You can also 
import font files, but the method for 
doing so is awkward: You must go 
through the CLI— before accessing 
DeluxePrint's font menu. Once you have 
loaded the program fonts, you are stuck 
with them until you restart. Text styles 
include bold, italic, underline, box, back- 
ground, and shadow; you can control in- 
ter-character spacing, too. To mix styles 
on a line, simply place sections side by 
side. You can change all text characteris- 
tics, including the letters themselves, 
after placement. 

Icons are stored to disk in groups of 
nine. Although all the icons in a set ap- 
pear on screen when you select one from 
the group, the computer retrieves each 
one from the disk individually. Once 
loaded, however, the icon remains in 
memory for future access. 

When you save a project in Deluxe- 
Print II formal, the elements remain in- 
tact so you can manipulate individual 
components at a later time. You can save 
in IKK format, too, but here the elements 
lose their independence. 

You will find one annoying quirk in 
the program when you call up a file; 
DeluxePrint II insists on looking in dfO: 
the first time it attempts to load; you 
cannot choose another drive until it has 
gronked through the entire directory. 
Once a directory is in memory, however, 
the program recalls it for the next load. 

To see your project in hard copy, you 
simply set the size of the printout by- 
inches in decimal fractions and select 
vertical or horizontal orientation. For 
most applications, the program can de- 
termine page width from the printer 
driver and calculate the length automati- 
cally. When printing a four-tile sign or a 
greeting card, however, you must specify 
the spacing between the panels. 
The well-written manual includes a 



thorough index. The introductory chap- 
ters are followed by sample projects for 
each format. An extensive reference sec- 
tion details all functions. 

I am puzzled as to why Electronic Arts 
released DeluxePrint II after Commo- 
dore officially released version 1.3 of the 
operating system. As it is, the program 
works only with AmigaDOS 1.2! If you 




Text has top priority-It prints over Icons. 

have configured your system for 1.3, 
then, you must give it up to run 
DeluxePrint II. The Electronic Arts rep- 
resentative I spoke with said he did not 
know when or if an update would be re- 
leased to address the deficiency. 

I tested the program using a Star Mi- 
cronics NX-1000 Rainbow printer with 
the Epson JX-80 driver, and got good 
results. I was unsuccessful, however, in 
printing with my Canon PJ-1080A. I 
tried four drivers, but was not really sur- 
prised that none worked; Commodore 
specifically supports the 1080A only un- 
der AmigaDOS 1.3. 

DeluxePrint II is the best program of 
its kind 1 know of, and it's leagues ahead 
of the original DeluxePrint. If the 
AmigaDOS restriction does not bother 
you, you will be happy with the package. 

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The Securities Analyst permits the individual 
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comprehensive manual on Technical Analysis of 
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As Captain Brad Stallion, you have been assigned 
a high priority mission by the Federated 
Government which has long been harried by a 
series of raids on the male population of its 
colonies. It is rumored that these raids are 
conducted by "The Tribe", a colony of beautiful 
female clones from the mysterious planet Mundo. 
Your mission is to locate the colony and destroy it! 
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Lions and Tigers and Bears? 

NO, IT'S LANDERS, Silicon 
Worms, and Krellian Mother- 
ships in Starray. You control 
your Starray ship on a two- 
way horizontally scrolling 
screen through seven different 
levels of play, protecting the 
world's power installations and 
destroying alien intruders. 
Quadralien presents a dou- 



ble mission. You must prevent 
the meltdown of Astra, the cy- 
bernetic nuclear fission com- 
plex, and destroy the evil 
Quadralien forces that have 
entered the complex. To ad- 
vance through the levels, you 
must choose droids to fight for 
you. Each is equipped with 
strong and weak points. You 



must plan the use of the 
droid, maintain it, and keep 
up a fast pace to succeed. De- 
veloped by Logotron Ltd., 
both Starray and Quadralien 
retail at S39.95 and are dis- 
tributed by Spinnaker Enter- 
tainment Group, 1 Kendall 
Square, Cambridge, MA 
02139, 617/494-1200. 



Death and Taxes 

THE NEXT BEST thing to 
not paying is having help. Tax 
Break, a tax preparation pack- 
age, includes form 1040, 
schedules A-E, R, SE and IRA 
calculations. The software 
prims IRS-approved tax-form 
fascimiles. Tax Break/ 1040 
costs S74.95 and is available 
from Datamax Research, Box 
5000, R4, Bradford, Canada 
L3Z 2A6. 



Hit the Streets 

FIGHT HAND TO hand and 
foot to head in Operation: 
Clean Streets. You have been 
assigned the mission of clean- 
ing up the city as Cleanup 
Harrv, an undercover cop 
with a reputation. Retailing 
for $39.95, this game features 
3-D animation and five levels 
of fighting. Get the dirt from 
Broderbund Software Inc., 17 
Paul Dr., San Francisco, CA 
94103-2101,415/492-3500. 



Planning the Globe 



WHAT HAS A 74-function 
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graphics all rolled into one? 
Superplan from Precision. 
Superplan comes with a macro 
language that lets you tailor 
your work environment. The 
program allows project man- 
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critical path analysis, time/ex- 
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cation, gantt and PERT charts. 
The program supports ARexx, 
so you can exchange data with 
other programs. For pricing 
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Dream Weaver 

EVADE BONZO THE Bounc- 
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appease the Oriental Princess 
or win the Emperor's favor in 
the Dream Zone from Baud- 
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ture game, a mad scientist has 
turned your dreams into real- 
ity. By using logic, imagina- 
tion, pcristence, and a sense of 
humor, you overcome the 
source of your nightmares. 
The Dream Zone is available 
for $49.95 from Baudville, 
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ENHANCE YOUR system's 
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Hints, tips, and techniques 
from your fellow Amiga users. 



Empty File Deletion 

IF YOU HAVE ever gotten stuck with an 
Empty file, which usually results from an 
unsuccessful attempt lo download a file 
from a bulletin board, then you know- 
how frustrating it can he lo delete one. 
After accumulating many Empty files on 
ui\ disks, ! finallv found a wav to delete 
them. Using ED, create a new file in 
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Garland, TX 

Aaargh! 

IN THE ROLE-PLAYING arcade game 
Aaargh!, after you destroy the first city 
and find the egg, the surefire way to de- 
stroy your adversary in the battle for the 
egg is to just start punching. Stand still 
(do not move forward), put the joystick 
in the punch position and keep it there. 
Ijet the monster come to you and you 
will win every time. II instead yon try to 
gel fancy, ilie monster will win every 
time. 

Michael J. Cervetti 
Cordova, TN 

DPaint Smoothing 

HERE'S A HINT for those who use 
DeluxePaint II and its powerful special 
effects. If you want to smooth a part of 
the picture you are editing, select it as a 
brush; then, enter the perspective mode 
by pressing the keypad Enter key, spec- 
ify the anti-aliasing (smoothing) level you 
wish to use from the Effects menu, and 
click the left mouse button. This method 
has two advantages: First, you can 
choose the smoothing level you wish to 



use; and second, yon can even rotate or 
move the results. 

Alex Bienchisii 

Rome, Hah 

BASIC Color Fades 

HAVE YOU EVER wondered how 
professional programmers make colors 
fade on and off between screens and 
thought that it would be neat lo use this 
effect in your own programs!- It's easy- 
using Amiga Basic. I use the PALETTE 
statement to create my screen colors. To 
start with, 1 use a black background and 
fade the colors on. Here is an example: 

FADE.ON.: 

FOR 1 = TO 1 STEP .02 
PALETTE 0,0,0,0 
PALETTE 1,1,1,1 
PALETTE 2,1,0,0 
PALETTE 3,0,0,1 
NEXT I 

Using this in a GOSUB routine will 
save you time and memory; just add a 
RETURN statement after the NEXT I 
Statement. This simple loop demon- 
si rates the colors lading on from black to 
white, red, and blue. The loop could be 
made more complex to accommodate 
different colors. 

To fade the colors off. all von have to 
do is reverse the FOR statement: 

EADE.OFF.: 

FOR 1=1 TO STEP -.02 
PALE'lTE 0,0,0,0 
PALETTE 1,1,1.1 
PALE'lTE 2,1,0,0 
PALETTE 3,0,0,1 
NEXT I 

Using this simple GOSUB routine 
makes your programs look professional, 



and it is a great way to show off your 
Amiga Basic programming skills. 

Richard Hyatt 

Richmond Hill, Ontario 

SAY Proofreader 

GENERALLY CONSIDERED AN inter- 
esting but slightly frivolous feature, the 
Amiga's built-in speech capability is as 
useful as the stodgiest spreadsheet to 
anyone who must enter a lot of text or 
numeric data accurately from the 
keyboard. 

The Amiga DOS SAY command lets 
you proof your work quickly and easily 
against a printed source without having 
to glance constantly back and forth be- 
tween the source and the screen. 

To do this, save the work to a disk file 
(we'll call it POWER. DALA here), exit 
your word processor or spreadsheet, and 
call up a CLI. Make sure POWER.DATA 
is in the current directory. At the 
prompt, type: 

SAY -X POWER.DATA 

(Note the space between SAY and -X.) 
i he pi Minim iaiion ma) be slightly Mar- 
tian, but the voice is clear enough to 
catch anv and all mistakes in a long table 
of numbers, and most mistakes in text. 
Formatting codes from a word processor 
may cause error messages on the screen. 
which you can ignore. To bail out once 
the Amiga has started talking, press 
CTRL-C. 

Bob Keefer 
CresweU, OR 

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Q: / want to convert Amiga Basic 
to the Amiga's faster native lan- 
guage. Would that be machine 
language? What would I need? 

J.S. Chastain 
Cleveland, GA 

A: The simplest way to con- 
vert Amiga Basic to machine 
language is by using an Amiga 
Basic compiler, such as the Ab- 
soft A/C Basic Compiler. This 
programmer's tool will take an 
Amiga Basic source file and 
convert it to executable ma- 
chine language, While the re- 
sulting program will run at 
least five times faster, it will 
not perform as well as a pro- 
gram originally written in 
68000 assembly language. 

If you want the fastest possi- 
ble program, then you should 
write your program in assem- 
bly language directly with an 
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68K (Inovatronics Inc.). As- 
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guage. These languages are 
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IBM 

Transformations 

Q: Will any 3' /finch- format IBM 
software run on an Amiga 500? 
If so, how can I tell which pro- 
grams will work? 

G. Nesbit 
Collinsville, IL 

A: You cannot run the soft- 
ware straight out of the box. 
You can, however, use Com- 
modore's Transformer, a pro- 
gram that lets you run a very 
limited selection of IBM soft- 
ware. You can run only text- 
based programs, as the Trans- 
former does not support 
graphics. 

Library 
Redirection 

Q: Can I use a LIBRARY rou- 
tine from Amiga Basic to send the 
output from the FILES command 
to the printer instead of the 
screen ? 

S. Young 
Appleton, WI 

A: I know of no routine that 
will redirect the Amiga Basic 
FILES command. You can 
write a subprogram, however, 
that will use a LIBRARY rou- 
tine to create a new Amiga Ba- 
sic command that provides a 
directory. The example com- 



mand below, called CLI, will file to the screen or a printer, 

give you a directory listing (With extra work, you could 

and store it in a temporary file turn the routine into a general 

in RAM:. You can direct the CLI command parser.) ■ 



' redirect output to a 

' file in RAM: 

DECLARE FUNCTION Executes LIBRARY 

DIM f${1000) ■ max # of file entries 

counter=0 

command$="list" ' or use dir 

CLI (comitiand$) ' the new command 

OPEN "ram:temp" FOR INPUT AS #1 

WHILE NOT EOF(l) 

LINE INPUT#l,f$(eounter) 

counter = count er+1 

IF counter=1001 THEN counter=1000 
WEND 

count er=counter-l 
IF counter<l THEN 

PRINT "Nothing found!" 

GOTO MyExit 
ENDIF 
COLOR 2,0 
PRINT f?(0) 
LPRINT fS(0) 
FOR i=l TO counter-1 

a$=MIDS(f ${i),30,3) 

COLOR 1,0 

IF a$="Dir" THEN COLOR 3,0 

PRINT f$(i) 

LPRINT f$(i) 
NEXT 

COLOR 2,0 
PRINT f$(counter) 
LPRINT fS(counter) 
COLOR 1,0 

MyExit : 
END 

' subprogram functions as 

' the new command: CLI 

SUB CLI (command?) STATIC 
LIBRARY "dos. library" 
command£=commandS+" > ram:temp" 
x=Execute& ( SADD ( command$+CHR$ ( ) ) , , ) 
LIBRARY CLOSE 

END SUB 



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Tips on programming WordPerfect macros. 

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recursion in BASIC. Setting up a virtual MS-DOS disk 
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AmigaWorld Magazine now offers you the most extensive selection of Public Domain programs for every Amiga application! 



The AmigaWorld Public Domain Library brings you 
Devware's disks for the developer and advanced 
user, Chiron Conception's programs for special- 
interest users and Software Excitement's disks for the 
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Each disk is fully tested, de-bugged, documented, 
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Special Feature: 

#SE 115 - PD Word Processor. 

With spell checker and dictionary, 
VDraw (shareware paint), VT-100 
term emulator, appointment 
calendar. 



This month's selections 
From Software Excitement: 

#SE OS - DPStide. Slide show util- 
ity for IFF Images. DPaint not 
required. 

#SE 13 - Banner. Print both verti- 
cal and horizontal. Easy to use. 
Print to screen, disk, or printer. 
#SE 29 - Hack. Fantasy adventure 
game. 

#SE 40 - Archive/Unarchive. Com- 
press and uncompress files. 
#SE 44 - Games3. Life, Vegas 
Slots, Reversal, more. 
#SE 91 - Freedraw. Drawing pro- 
gram, speech toy demo, a dozen 
more, most with source code. 
#SE 116 - Business II. VC-Spread- 
sheet, HP 10e calc, diversions, 
more. 

#SE 117 - Business III. DataBase, 
RSLCIock (utility), AmigaSpell, new 
fonts. 

#SE 118 - Games, Missile Com- 
mand, 3-D, Triclops, Cosmo-aster- 
olds clone, BreakOut, Yatzee, Hack, 
more. 

#SE 131 - Pac clone. Better than 
original. 

#SE 132 - Videomaker Utilities. 
Desktop video utilities. 
#SE 134 - Applications I. Label 
maker/printer, grocery-list maker, 
disk cataloger, star viewer (plane- 
tarium), more. 

From Chiron Conceptions: 

#CC 201 - BASIC programs I. Over 
four dozen Amiga Basic programs 
including entertainment, education, 
utilities, applications, and much 
more. 

#CC 301 - Utilities #1. Compiled, 
ready-to-run programs (many with 
C source) for dozens of utilities in- 
cluding FixDisk, IconExec, Free- 
map, GFXmem, LAR, GREP, MyCH, 
Print, Squeeze, USQ, Shell, WLC, 
Xref, and more. 

*CC 302 - Utilities II. A collection 
of utilities, compiled and ready to 
run, including DiskSalvage, FileZap, 
Fixobj, IconExec, ARC, CompressZ, 
XUSP, Screendump, and more. 



ICC 303 - Utilities III. Includes 
MVP-FORTH, 12 new character set 
fonts, Dir Copy, ShowHAM, Zapicon 
(converts DPaint brush to Icon), 
more. 

#CC 304 - Graphics Utilities. In- 
cluding MacView (w/18 MacPaint 

paintings), 3 screen-dump pro- 
grams, HAM to HAM IFF converter, 
FONTED (design your own charac- 
ter sets), more. 

#CC 305 - Utilities IV. Over 30 utili- 
ties, including Browse, DiskCat, 
DiskMap, HAM-Print. KwikCopy, 
LibDir, Alticon, Klock, MemView, 
PopCLI, SpriteMaker, Tree, more. 
#CC 307 - Directory Utilities. Over 
a dozen different DirUtil-type pro- 
grams each with different features. 
Includes text and C source. 
#CC 308 - Utilities V. More utilities, 
including ChangeKickStart, Diabel, 
MenuCat, PrtDrvGen, Xicon, 
NewZap, Monitor, JOBS, DiskX, 
FixHUNK 2, Undelete, XCOPY, 
more. 

#CC 310 - ARP 1.1, AmigaDOS 
Replacement Project. Replaces 
most 1.2 AmigaDOS commands 
with new, faster, and more powerful 
commands. Includes docs, C 



source, executables, and install 
program, 

#CC 405 - DeluxeVideo Tutorial 
Disk. Examples and tutorials on us- 
ing DVideo. (Requires Deluxe- 
Video.) 

#CC 515 - Perfect Sound Effects I. 
40 sound effects recorded with per- 
fect Sound all in IFF format, in- 
cludes shareware version of Perfect 
Sound program to play and edit 
sounds. 

iCCC 602 - DPaint Slideshow I. 30 
DPaint pictures with auto-run slide- 
show. (DPaint not required.) 
#CC 607 - Mandelbrot Explorer. 
Shareware Mandelbrot designer by 
T. Wilcox. Dozens of mouse-driven 
menu selections and sample im- 
ages slideshow. 

#CC 614 - Juggler animation. Fa- 
mous traced animated clown jug- 
gling three mirrored spheres. 
#CC 633 - New Movies. 4 anima- 
tions for Amiga (requires at least 
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#CC 909 • Home Applications. 
Grocery-list construction set, ad- 
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DOS utilities, menu clock, 
shellV2.03 (M.Dillon's command 
shell), Unifdef, Xspell, more. 
#DW 7 - 2 BBS progs, w/docs., 
Grep text utility, MenuEdl .2. Tek- 
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#DW 8 - Set of disk-performance 
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MandFXP-D2 fast Mandelbrot (shar- 
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Shell2.04M (Matt Dillon's command 
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#DW 10 - Memory test prog., how 
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event handler demo progs., 
Lattice3.10 bug fixes, sound editor, 
PipeDevice, random number gener- 
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Yacc, how to build a battery-driven 
clock for Amiga, program for han- 
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VT100v2.6 (includes Xmodem and 
Kermit). 

#DW 17 - DBWRender. Very so- 
phisticated package for rendering 
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included. 

#DW 22 - AmigaMoM.1, Forth lan- 
guage graphics demo, disk perfor- 
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utility, Draco language fractal demo, 
window drop-shadow utility, Icon 
maker, JoBS1.1, mCad, midi inter- 
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more. 

#DW 24 - Hard disk backup prog., 
Manx C version 3.40A bug fixes, 
40 printer drivers, Unix-like com- 
mand interpreter w/history and 
aliases, curve-fitting spline prog, 2 
trackballs for Amiga (MacTball and 
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tor, more. 

#OW 29 - AmigaDOS disassembly, 
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"cancel" utility, Helios2, NoClick- 
Start utility to cancel empty drive 
clicking, Tek4695 printer driver, text 
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79 R & DL Productions, 103 
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250 Sharp Electronics, 5 

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194 Software Excitement, 91 

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141 Spectrum Holobyte, 43 

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40 Starvision International, 79 

223 SubLOGIC Corporation, 87 

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