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Number 4 A
September 1986
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Hard sell
for Amiga
T HE Amigai nw iCl lofeature
strongly mmo-
dore's multi- million pound
autumn adv er tis ing c am-
paign.
Although a large slice o f
the E5 million spend w ill go
on promoting a restructured
PC range, t h e Am ig a has
been picked out for special
attention.
According to Commodore
spokesman T i m R af f er t y
there will be a "very aggress-
ive advertising campaign in
newspapers and magazines.
with T V ex pos ure near er
Christmas.
"The Amiga presentations
will focus on its roles as a
home and business machine
and als o the solutions i t
offers vertical markets, par-
tic ular ly C A D , w i t h i t s
graphics", he said.
Marketing manager Dean
Barratt adds: "The machines'
music, speech and c olour
capabilities lend themselves
well to television.
"Once the Amiga has been
on TV there w ill be a greater
acceptance o f its ease o f
use".
Hart leaves
Commodore
A FTER 1 0 y ear s w i t h
. - C o mmo d o r e , operations
director Tom Hart has left to
work for the Unisys Corpor-
ation.
"Ws sad to leave a com-
pany such as Commodore,
vet I'm look ing forward to a
new challenge", said Hart.
"I fi nd myself able to take
this career decision at this
time because of, not despite,
Commodore's strong current
position.
"Present strength o f the
senior and middle manage-
ment i n t h e U K s
elsewhere leaves me c on-
and
fi dent o f C o mmo d o r e ' s
success",
Jim Hous ego w i l l n o w
head the operations division,
w ith m a n a g i n g d ir e c t o r
RS ETC Steve F r ank lin tak ing o n
responsibility for sales.
01-68131
AMERICA WAVES THE FLAG
AT WINDY CITY SHOW
A MERICA's w in d y c it y
. . s t a y e d c a lm f o r A m i -
Expo, a mecca f o r Am ig a
enthusiasts thr oughout the
Mid-West.
Commodore had a good-
sized ex hibit but kept things
quite low key.
The o n l y n e w p r o d u c t
shown was the A2024 moni-
tor with its 1008 by 800 four
level grey resolution: Britis h
A2024s w i l l offer 1008 b y
1024, I t looked great. There
was no sign of the A590 hard
drive. I t might jus t appear
before Christmas,
Few new releases then, but
Commodore's Jeff Parker did
talk about the pos s ibility o f
building a n Amiga- bas ed
games console. And RI Mical
was o n h a n d t o c l e a r
up one point: "Everyone at
Amiga k n o w s t h a t t h e
machine was really designed
by Michy — jay Miner's dog",
he said. " And the paw pr int
inside an Amiga WOO goes to
prove it".
Infi nity w a s s h o w i n g
Shakespeare o n a n A2024
and Dale Luck had one on a
borrowed area of the Byte by
Byte s t a n d , s h o w i n g X -
windows for the AmigaDos.
X- windows i s a n i n t e r -
national s tandard env ir on-
ment a g r e e d o n b y a l l
the m a j o r manufac tur er s ,
inc luding IBM.
Another new pr oduc t on
the Byte by Byte stand was
Fancy Fonts 3D, whic h w ill
be r e v i e w e d i n A m i g a
Computing s h o r t ly . K a r l
Kr ammer i s enthus ias tic
about t h e p r o d u c t ' s
capabilities: "The new Fancy
Fonts 3D designs for Sculpt
are intended f o r max imum
rendering speed", he said,
A-Squared had news o f a
PAL v er s ion f o r Liv e! it s
popular A 5 0 0 d i g i t i s e r .
Ar thur A b r a h a m o f A -
Squared is keen to produce
an A2000 card, but feels that
the U K mar k et w o u ld n o t
merit a f u ll blow n produc -
tion run.
Actionware was waving the
flag — or more accurately the
gun — for ft' nsters. Two titles,
rile name o f the game is s hoot Capone
AmlExpo is the top US show for
Amiga owners. SIMON ROCKMAN
reports direct from Chicago
POW and Capone, both work
with light guns and the result
is games muc h lik e the cur-
rent arcade smash Operation
Wolf.
Most of the games on dis-
play w e r e G er man, w i t h
Readysoft s h o w in g G any -
mede — a n At t a c k o f the
Mutant Camels clone — and
Bomb Busters, a game which
looks a lot lik e Bomb jac k
and a very early version o f
Dragon's lair . Based o n the
coin-op, i t has a Gauntlet-
lik e s c ene r u n n i n g f r o m
room to room. The fi nal pro-
gram w ill occupy six discs —
that's more than 5Mb - and
cost $40.
Comms was muc h better
represented, w i t h b o t h
AmiNet a n d P e o p le L in k
having stands.
Unapprov ed m o d e m s
lay Miner. "h i t h e r of the A mi g a "
September Ifilit? AMI GA COMPUTING 7
were i n c r e d i b l y c h e a p .
Standalone 2 4 0 0 b a u d
models were being s old for
$143 (E.83) — a thir d o f the
UK pr ic e. Mor e expensive
modems were on sale at the
Amic dev elopments s tand,
bundled w i t h A M I C T er m
1.0, a communications pro-
gram i n t e n d e d t o m a k e
online time more efficient.
It's always good t o see a
fr iendly fac e w h e n y ou'r e
away f r o m h o m e , s o
bumping i n t o A n i l G upta
from A n c o a n d K e n
Br owning f r o m Eider s oft
was a pleas ur e. K e n w as
demonstrating the Gold ver-
sion of' Eidersoft's programs
for its sound sampler, while
Anco showed its selection of
European games.
Many s erious users w i l l
know about ASDG, a com-
pany which produces a wide
range of peripherals. Its first
software pr oduc t — a pow -
erful tex t processor c alled
CygnusEd Pr ofes s ional —
was released at the show and
critics described i t as stun-
ningly good.
The latest hardware gizmo
from A S D G w a s a l s o
unveiled. The Twin-X board,
especially designed for con-
trol applications, has an IEEE

GREGOR NEUMANN
Reporting from West Germany
A T the moment the most
.,controversial topic in
Germany — and certainly the
one most frequently d is-
cussed by computer users —
is the banning of software.
The German government
can ban any media — books,
films, videos or whatever— if
they appear to be unsuitable
for children. The laws are
intended to protect German
youth from the effects of por-
nography and violence.
Adults m a y b u y su ch
material, but only in shops
that have a special area set
aside that children under 18
aren't allowed to enter.
No one objected t o t h e
banning of pornographic or
horror videos. But emotions
were aroused when, about
Iwo years ago, the govern-
ment started banning soft-
ware. I t w a s h a r d t o
understand w h y software
should be treated in the same
way as videos o r books.
The Office for the Protec-
tion o f ' t h e Y o u n g i s
responsible for the vetting of
all media. An d despite no
experience o f co m p u t er
games, it has so far banned
70 games. The black list con-
tains simulations such as
Gunship and even normal
shoot-'em-ups like 1942.
The p r o b l e m i s t h a t
nobody — neither teachers
nor programmers — knows
what m akes a comput er
game harmful for children, Is
every action game a danger
for the young? Can you ban a
simulation for being too real-
istic? There don't seem to be
any exact guidelines for the
treatment of software.
The banning has impor-
8 , AMI G A CO MP UTI NG September 1988
tant effects on the German
software scene. Dealers, for
example, a r e co n f u sed
because they don't know
whether they are allowed to
sell b a n n e d g am es. I n
Munich there is not a single
shop which offers a special
room for banned software —
they simply stop selling it.
To complete t he chaos,
computer magazines are not
allowed to tell their readers
which n ew programs are
banned. T h e government
says that would b e adver-
tising f or these games, and
advertising is strongly for-
bidden. As you can imagine,
there is a lot o f confusion
over here.
Besides the banning issue,
German A m ig a users are
talking about GFA-Basic for
the Amiga, which was fi tit
shown a t t h e C e B I T a t
Hanover in March. The small
German so f t w are h o u se
called GFA set the standard
for Basic on the Atari ST ,
and G F A - B asic i s v e r y
popular because it is amaz-
ingly fast.
Many co m m an d s a r e
reminiscent of Pascal, others
of assembler language Wi t h
GFA-Basic it is easy to work
with w in d o w s an d p u l l -
down menus. T h e Amiga
version w ill have the same
advantages and extra abili-
ties, such as better graphics
and m o re commands f o r
sound programming.
It will also be compatible
with the ST version, so most
of the many ST programs,
written in GFA-Basic, w i l l
run on the Amiga. That is
just one of the reasons why
so many people are waiting
for it.
Flickering source within the company
facts said "If he keeps his nose out
of R and D I'll keep mine out
of his books".
M scribed reports that its Even i f the decision i s
I
popular FlickerFixer hoard made to go ahead with the
(reviewed
C last month) will be A500 board it will be expen-
made
R avai l ab l e f o r t h e sive and require a full Multi-
Amiga
O 500 as "a trifle early". Sync monit or: Ev e n c u t
The company does have a down monitors like those
W
bench prototype o f such a supplied with the Amstrad
A
device, but no decision has PC will not work.
Y
been m a d e r e g a r d i n g Meanwhile t h e A 2 0 0 0
whether
h to go into produc- FlickerFixer i s goi ng fr om
tion.
a The indiscretion which strength to strength: Commo-
revealed t h e A 5 0 0 F lick- dore US now uses the boards
s
erFixer was committed by a in a l l i t s demonstration
d
company accountant. A machines.
e
-
Ingrid's
Back
A SEQUEL
adventuret o G ni to
smh iet
Ranger will be released next
month by Level 9 Computing
(0344 487597).
Gnome I I s e e s I n g r i d
Bottomlow re turn t o Li ttl e
Moaning in order to prevent
Jasper Q u ickb u ck f r o m
turning the village into a
yuppie paradise.
Price E19.95.
Enter
survival, but before they can
Howson be obtained the player must
defeat the denizens of Neth-
erworld.
. . . l iA
A sNOTHER
h e r has majo
entered
r pub-
the Cybernoid I I f eat u res
Amiga m a rk e t . H e w s o n attack weapons including
(0235 8 3 2 9 3 9 ) ha s r el eased yo-yo b o m b s , t e r r a i n -
four titles — two brand new following missiles and a fire
and the others conversions and ret rieve boomerang
of recent 8 bit hits. blaster.
Netherworld, Planet o f Hewson has also rewritten
Purgatory is locked in eter- and converted the original
nal confl ict between t h e Cybernoid space pirates hit,
forces of good and evil. and the 1987 shoot-'em-up
Diamonds are the key to Zynaps. Price 0 9 . 9 9 each.
European manufacturers i n Europe.
discs deal RPS now supplies the whole
of Commodore's European
operation.
S PECIALIST
SIB D i s k s distributor
has w o n Commodore has extended
exclusive U K distribution the agreement as a result of
rights for the new Commo- the proof of product quality:
dore brand o f 5,25in and "The evidence f ro m o u r
3.5in discs. involvement i n West Ger-
The discs— already obtain- many is impressive", said
able in West Germany — are Dean Barratt, Commodore's
now available i n t h e U K UK marketing manager.
following a n ag reemen t "And w e are convinced
between Commodore and that t h is agreement w i l l
RPS, one o f only two fully guarantee the highest quality
integrated magnetic media product for our users".
 • A M I G A S C E N E .

:ompany Dragonlance
nose out
mine out
derivative between good and e v il o n
the world of Krynn.
The play er controls eight
New at AmilExpo
ision is companions, each w it h dif-
T H E pr
role oduc tAmiga
playing w ould- be
users
with the ferent specialised attributes show, w it h some very pro-
have been waiting for is on and skills, and guides them 959 b u s a n d has alr eady fessional d e m o n s t r a t o r s
e expen- its w a y f r o m U S G o l d
II Multi- deep in t o t he treacherous been p u t t o us e w i t h t h e using the company's produc-
(021-356 3388). ruins o f t h e t e m p le X a k Sharp )X 450 scanner.
'en c u t Heroes o f the Lance — a litr ity pr ogr ams o n a b i g
e those Tsaroth t o retrieve the pre- ASDG is working on some screen and answering ques-
%mstrad version o f the legendar y cious Discs of Mishakal. compaction, while Gold Disk tions,
Dragonlance epic — w ill be Descending i n t o t h e is c ollaborating t o produc e Brown-Wagh's s t a n d
the fi rs t Amiga offering t o Abyss, the companions must desktop publis hing software dwarfed that o f the neigh-
A2000 emerge from a collaboration
ig fr om defeat the hordes o f mon- which w ill make the most of bouring WordPerfec t Cor -
between US Gold and Stra- strous Draconians i n hand- the hardware.
ommo- por ation s h o w in g W o r d -
tegic Simulations. to-hand c ombat, deal w i t h Gold D is k it s e lf h a d a
! boards Perfect Library.
The partnership has prom- powerful magic and survive number of new products on Creative Microsystems was
tration
ised a range of products over the o n s l a u g h t o f g i a n t dis play in c lu d in g Profes - selling a f u ll M id i interface
the next five years based on spiders, skeletal undead and and — best o f all — a 14Mhz
the p o p u l a r a d v a n c e d other terrors. board w h i c h doubles t h e
dungeons a n d d r a g o n s F inally K i s a n t h , t h e clock speed of the Amiga.
games system. fearsome black dragon must C-Ltd, famed for hard discs.
Heroes o f the Lance is a
be confronted and destroyed was s howing its new laser
first computer action game if the quest is not to end in pr inter a n d s e l l i n g i t s
recreating t he epic battle failure. unpopulated ram expansion
boards with a clock for $40.
Into the wide Great Valley products offers
a wide range of peripherals,
prove they ar e w o r t h y o f
blue yonder being a pilot.
inc luding a har d dis c w it h
up to 2Mb ram.
Blur bed as " in c r e d ib ly Marauder m i g h t b e n o
addic tiv e a n d p la y a b le " . Dale Luc k demonstrates
A CADEMY
on the Amiga,has courtesy
ar r iv ed X. Windows more, b u t Dis c ov er y was
Academy does have a major s howing Ar k anoid, Z o o m
of C R L ( 0 1 - 5 3 3 2 9 1 8 ) . saving grace in that players s ional D r aw , a r es olution
Would-be aviators have 20 can save a game in progress. independent art program.
missions t o c omplete t o Price E19.95.
Movie Magic is a superb
look ing c ar toon pr ogr am,

ey can
More colour designed t o b e u s e d b y
young children who want to
r must on the make t h e ir o w n T V- s ty le
cartoons.
Neth-

[tures
desktop ,n u m
Gold Disk was a little more
secretive about a thir d new
uding program. I t i s a s y e t
S H AK pac
ES PEARE. igul=mmg.m211=-.
rrain- DTP k age faocr olour
the unnamed, b u t c o m p a n y
The I 4 Mh z upgrade f rom
a fire Amiga f a m ily , f r o m U S - 1 .1 1 . president Kailash Ambwani
CM! - A1000 model
Drang based Infi nity, is now avail- 1 tiv474.7==%—. revealed that it is a 3D design
able in the UK from Cloud- program whic h will be avail- and the VI P v irus checker.
,
rritten hall (0604 231211). able b e f o r e t h e e n d o f Discovery's Nanc y Pic ar d
,Mt September. H e a ls o p r o -
iginal Recently upgraded to ver- atr am said she was "really pleased
!.s hit, sion 1.1, it allows integrated 7o mised that the long-awaited with t he w ay Ar k enoid is
i Comic Setter would be fi n-
mi-up text a n d g r a p h ic s , a n d WiL selling in Europe", and more
lch. supports a m i x o f m u l - , mig ished shortly.
7
the Apple Laserwriter Plus titles should be on the way
tiple full colour DeluxePaint Brown-Wagh (pronounced soon.
and Linotr onic Imagesetters
images and multiple c olour and w i l l p r i n t o n a l l Brown-Way) Publishing had Even " u t i l i t y " c ollec tors
palettes on a single page. its full range of software on were catered for: Fuller had
graphics-capable Preferen-
-ope. Shakespeare will output to ces supported printers. Project D a v a i l a b l e f o r
hrhole PostScript devices, including Price E148.35. anyone h e l l b e n t o n
pean "backing u p " software, but
on the whole the Americans
nded
tit of
Commodore tion t o the PC Briclgeboard
seem t o b e m u c h m o r e
civilised about piracy.
ality:
our
to go PS/2 and t h e f o r t h c o m in g A l
Bridgeboard there may well
My fav our ite t oy a t t he
show —a pair of 3D glasses —
Ger- be a PS/2 board w it h VG A
and Microchannel. was s u p p lie d b y H altex .
said E NGINEERS at Commo- All in all an exciting show.
dore i n Germany hav e While the A25001jX is still
ore's decided that the I BM PS/2 But t h e r e a l t h r i l l o f
not in production, a number
Microchannel architecture is of Commodore engineers are AmiExpo was seeing 15,000
med close enough t o that o f an people w h o e n j o y t h e i r
will now u s i n g t h e U n i x
Amiga 2000 t o b e s imply machines i n preference t o Amigas learning about and
ality implemented. This s hows wh y the ,420Z4 buying gear to mak e us ing
their muc h mor e expensive
This means that i n addi- Sun w o r k s t a t io n s . is s t ill a prot ot y pe their computers more fun.

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 • A M I G A S C E N E E

-The games scene worldwide— ICPUG's

France
T hunder Bla d e f r o m U S
Gold a n d O per ation W o l f
rill " M a r b l e M a d n e s s "
Harvey. Written in his own
new
from Ocean. Afterburner is games language, it promises chairman
INDIAN Mission is a clone of being converted by the solid to be something special.
Indiana Jones featuring each specialists, Ar gonaut Soft- The lates t E A s igning is M H E Independent Com-
modore Products Users
of the different stages of the ware. The game is set to be Interplay, currently work ing
released ar ound Christmas, on a Cyberpunk game called Group — ICPUG — is celeb-
original game. The graphics,
although a t the time o f Battle Chess whic h is based rating 10 successful years.
as you would expect from a
French release, ar e r eally writing the project has only on the award winning Neu- Membership of more than
excellently shaded. just started. romancer novel. Interplay is 20 r egional ICPUG groups
The title tune and game Argonaut's Last offer ing, -being h e l p e d w i t h t h e tops the 4,000 mark.
StarGlider II — reviewed this project by Dr Timothy Leary, But there were regrets as
effects are of an equally high month — has been on sale in
standard and I'm sure it w ill a s p ir it u a l le a d e r o f t he well as celebrations dur ing
the US for a short while, with sixties. the annual general meeting
prove a worthy successor to
the popular ST version o f the Eur opean la u n c h d u e On the subject of original in L o n d o n — the gr oup's
Indiana Jones from US Gold. soon. But there is no point in Amiga games, Aquaventura energetic Am e r ic a n - b o r n
The o n l y ot her F r enc h ordering a c opy f r o m t h e is the working title for Psyg- leader L I Col J im Kennedy
release t h i s m o n t h w a s States to beat your friends as nosis' next release. A spokes- said his farewells after tw o
the American version won't man f r o m t h e c o m p a n y years as chairman.
20,000 Leagues Sous La Mer. work on British machines,
It features some of the most suggested that this game was He is r etir ing and tak ing
Palace Software, the com- their bes t y e t a n d m a d e his family to live on the Isle
boring digitised sound I have extensive use o f the blitter
ever heard. I t goes o n and Whittak pany that us ed Mar ia of Wight. But his vast experi-
on and on and the rest of the er 's c ons ider able for all the 3D routines. ence won't be lost to ICPUG
assets t o adv ertis e the h i t completely, as he'll continue
game does little to save face.
game Barbarian, has been to serve on the committee as
overwhelmed by the interest Germany the as s is tant e x h ib it io n s
Britain shown in an Amiga version — organiser.
and has promised to support There has n't b e e n m u c h Electrical engineer John
the Amiga with Barbarian Bickerstaff, v ic e- c hair man
activity on the German front
In Britain things are hotting The game is b o u n d t o be this month apart fr om t he and secretary f o r the pas t
up. Ex oc et w i l l s oon b e banned i n G er many , s o excellent Future Tank fr om two years, takes J im Ken-
releasing Phantasm. Bizarre Palace is gearing up to sell as nedy's place as chairman,
Time Warp, the people who
3, Star Burner and Hy per- many c opies a s pos s ible He has been a member of
drome. Bizarre 3 is an inter- before the axe desends. brought y o u G r eat G iana
ICPUG since 1980 when he
Sisters. T h e fi r s t lo a d in g
esting twist on the platform Also i n the pipeline are screen is one o f the best I became a founder member of
theme, w i t h a lm o s t a n o Stars hip — a n a m b it io u s the Canterbury Group, and
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Hyperdrome is a horizontal which appeared on the C64 a Future T a n k i s a F i r e The ICPUG chief librarian,
scrolling shoot-'em-up in the w hile a g o . T h i s w i l l b e Power clone, b u t this time Joe Griffi n, was elected vice-
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 RE you handy with a mouse a representation of nd t h e m p l y dr
but a s low and painful typist? location. Alongside is an them bac t h e main picture,
so, then Mirrorsoft has all sorts of window displaying all you are Clicking on one of the comman
dventures for you. One set in the carrying as graphic icons. A smaller words and then on an object in el
lassie mould of dungeons and window to the right shows any visible the location or inventory windows
dragons is Shadowgate. exits. will cause that command to he
You may have to type in a few A scrolling text display lies across actioned on the item chosen. Most of
words when speaking to something or the bottom of the screen and at the the commands are obvious but
when naming a saved game. but for top is a box with the eight main "operate" has many uses. Select a key
the rest it is all mouse controlled, commands: Examine. open, close, in the inventory, then operate, then a
dragging and clicking on a wide speak, operate, go, hit and consume. door, and the door w ill be unlocked.
range of well drawn icons that enable A pull- down menu enables you to Take care in whic h order you
you to do almost anything. select save/load game positions, operate objects. The right way and
You start w ith very little useful together with quit or the option to you may well have your sword at the
information about the t a s k begin the game again. ready, the wrong way and you have
-
you k now is that you are the last of a The main location pictures are often just committed suicide with it. Use
a h e line
long a d . of ancient
A l l kings, and a quite detailed, and mov ing the mouse the save game option regularly as it is
prophecy foretells that the fate of the pointer across them and clicking on easy to get k illed. Torches burn away
world is in your hands. interesting areas w ill reveal all sorts with monotonous regularity and it is
You must overcome the dreaded of things. Any items found may be easy to use them up as you explore all
Warlock Lord and stop him from picked up by clicking on the object the possibilities of a location. A saved
fulfi lling his plan to destroy the world and dragging it into the inventory
with his dark magic. The good wizard
Lakmir is not able to give you any
assistance other than transport you to
the doors of Shadowgate.
Once a shining fortress, standing
for all that was good and pure in the
realm, Shadowgate has fallen under
the Warlock's power. Here he w ill
attempt his evil deeds. This is
humanity's last chance; are you
strong enough in mind and body to
challenge his might?

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game oo,
7A p a r t g past the first two
I ocations —
the skull — your-
initial problem s to get enough light
t to see by. There are plenty of torches
and you must light a new one before
the old one has gone out, as you do
not have any matches. Once over
:these basics, examine everything you
t h ehe•canthi
nk of, including
graphics are verythe torches.
good and
- : e of the animated scenes use
plenty of the Amiga's potential. The
sound effects are also well up to
present standards. The game itself is
one of fi nding and using the right
object at the right time. There are
usually some clues around but they
are often more obvious after the event
than before. Plenty of' experimentation
is called for; learn from your
sometimes painful mistakes.
Although not cheap. Shadowgate
will provide days of puzzlement. The
operating system works well and at
least you w ill not have to search for
the right command words — just try
everything. But above all keep your
eyes open for anything that is the
slightest bit unusual.
Those who like to feel the wind in
their hair and the weight of a trusty
Sword by their sides will fi nd
Phantasie III. The Wrath of
Nikademus, moderately addictive. It
is defi nitely an active game requiring
skill at arms and the ability to solve a
number of puzzles. It is the third in
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Thin on any background detail
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Graphics and sound set the scene well
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Plenty
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1 1 1 to1 solve to win
GAMEPLA I I I I 1
Operating system tends to make
puzzles seem a little repetitive
VALUE /Pr I I
Many hours to solve in depth
DI FFI CULTY
Good challenge, but not too difficult
OVERALL 7 3 %
A neat game that verges on addictive
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e series of Phantasie games. The you should concentrate on, as many
other two are not at the moment of the others may be modifi ed as the •
available for the Amiga and were in
character gains experience. You may •••
any case nowhere near so well accept and name the character and or
presented. Both were good games but reject and " r oll the dice again".
a little slow and to play compared Higher volues — up to 20 in some
with Phantasie HI. cases — produce a more powerful
In each the evil Nikademus is character. Reading the instructions
encroaching on the lands of the good will tell you that both race and class
and your team of adventurers has to have modify ing effects on these
thwart his plans. This could well be figures. Further reading w ill reveal
the last of the series, as the fi nal battle that the values for strength and
is with Nikademus hims elf and I dexterity affect which weapons,
think he is truly dead if you win shields and armour may be used. The
through. higher the values. the more effective
Your team consists of six the weapon.
characters, and your first task is to There is a large range of weapons
create and name them. There is a and armour to be found and it is
choice of race: Human, dwarven. worth having one or two characters
elven, gnome, haffl ing or a random capable of using the ultimate
creature chosen from the list of ogre. equipment should you be lucky
minotaur enough to fi nd it.
troll,
• gnoll. arc, goblin or kobold. The make-up of your party is very
You
l i z a r then select their class:
may important you must have one or two
Fighter, thief, priest, ranger, monk or tough lighters for the front line, a
d
wizard,
m a Random creatures may only priest is vital to tend to their wounds,
be
n thieves
, or fighters. a ranger can fi ght and use a number
of useful spells, wizards give you
p i
magical offensive ability and thieves
x i
and monks have their uses too.
e ,
Hs p character's statistics w ill be You may create a number of
characters and then choose the six
ar i in full. These are generated
shown
vt e
randomly and occupy the entire you think are the best to make up
i,
screen, giving you information on your team. Characters may be created,
everything
n from social class and renamed, dropped or added to the
team whenever you visit a town.
home
g country to figures for their
adventuring abilities — fi ghting, When in town, you may visit the
m
swimming, thieving — and basic bank, guild, armoury, inn or the
a
characteristics: Strength, intelligence, mystic, who gives you an idea of your
d
dexterity, constitution, charisma and party's score but very little else. A
e
luck. visit to the inn is vital, as resting w ill
y
It is these latter six statistics that
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• A D V E N T U R E S •
plenish lost hit points and cure
Mor wounds.
The guild offers training in
dventoring abilities and w ill
etermine their experience level. T
igher the level, the greater the hit
'points anti the greater the range of
spells that may be learned. There ar
56 different spells and priests and
wizards have the greatest access to
them, but even then w ill have to get
to pretty high levels to learn the most
potent Ones.
y Pendragon and initially w ill not
o
have much money and only pretty
u
poor weapons and armour. "View
character",
s to check what they have
t and then visit the armoury to see
got
if
a you can improve their chances a
rlittle. For sale are scrolls which give
you
t more knowledge of what is
happening, but I would concentrate
i
on the armour at this stage, as you
n
can afford little.
t battle.
It can be very, very dangerous to
h Phantasie III from SSI, distributed
wander far from town: initially do not
e the difference between life and death.
go more than a few steps away from
t Each successful battle w ill give you
safety. As soon as you have beaten a
ofew monsters return to the inn and
wrest. Then save the game position. If
nthe worst happens, and it w ill sooner
oor later, you can always load back
fthat last save.
I There are several options to choose
from when encountering other
creatures, ranging from clashing
straight into battle to offering friendly
greetings. You may also beg for
mercy or try to run away. I f there are
a lot of potential enemies and if they
are not of a hostile nature — read the
instructions — greetings may be the
order of the day. . are going, dungeons have to be
Having chosen to fi ght, you must
decide the tactics for each member of
your team. Depending upon their
level and class, they may thrust.
attack or slash, lunge, use a bow, cast
a spell or parry. You may move them
forwards or backwards a pace or two,
well armoured fighters to the front,
i/veak wizards to the rear.
Several rounds of melee fi ghting
will probably be needed to determine
the outcome. Offensive spells can be
very useful, especially on tough
opponents, but spell points are used
up each time. If you are deep in a
dungeon. try to leave yourself with a
16 A W I G A CO MP UTI NG Sept ember I t18t1
Assemble your party
few points in hand for emergences on
the way out. A Sleep spell can put
some creatures to shut eye, giv ing you
a chance to either hammer the
daylights out of them or run away.
Another useful spell is awaken —
especially if your party is asleep when
attacked. Spell points are regained on
a visit to an inn. There are also
healing and magic potions that give
you those few extra points, making
experience points and possibly some
gold — perhaps even a useful weapon
or valuable treasure. Your priest w ill
need to gain several levels before he
can cast a healing spell that w ill
replace a missing limb. So take care
and be patient and meticulous in
these brief early forays into the great
wide yonder.
just south of Pendragon are the
town archives. These and many other
special locations are classed as
dungeons. Unlik e the open country
where you can plainly see where you
explored a step at a time.
Prepare to meet locked doors and
secret passages, traps and all manner
of special locations, some good, some
bad. These special places offer you
the chance of great gains in
experience and wealth, let alone all
sorts of excellent weaponry. They also
house'some of the meanest monsters
around.
Exploring the town archives, you
will meet the old sage Filmon. He w ill
give you your first quest. and having
succeeded in it, w ill tell you what to
do next. Each task w ill be more
diffi cult than the last and w ill take
Fr
you into more inhospitable dungeons.
The graphics are good, especially
some of the larger monsters, but the
limited sound effects can be a little
wearing. Everything can be controlled
using the mouse, and the speed of
combat rounds can be speeded up
once you have learnt to recognise the
brief captions that appear during
by US Gold. is one of the classic
active adventures and is to be
recommended to those who lik e this
genre. I f taken steadily at the start it is
easier than many others and would
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soon
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video cassette war, and videodisc had
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record your favourite TV programmes
all an on 10
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as you could with cassettes, and so
Lthe videodisc fl opped in the home to go interactive - and, ironic ally , the potential at your fi ngertips if you
aconsumer market. with video images, too. could directly control a videodisc
s The spin-off, though, went into You can store upwards of 50,000 player from your Amiga - and, i f on
eaudio compact disc technology, and images on a videodisc, as well as top of that, you could superimpose
rvideodisc itself became specialised in data, computer programs, and sound questions, answers and other material
vthe computer-assisted learning sphere, - if you're prepared to fork out a few on to the video image. Add sound to
i in the guise of IV, or interactive thousand pounds to have your disc that, and you have a springboard for
s a mind-boggling leap forward in
i computer learning technology.
Now Ariadne has taken up the
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challenge for the Amiga with AAAE,
n
which - take a deep breath - stands
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Environment. This serves as a shell
for applying the Amiga to a range of
different applications. In the present
case, it offers a framework for
Microtext and IV, together with a
video player driver.
Microtext is a specialised
programming language whic h was
first designed by the National
Physical Laboratory to facilitate the
design of computer-assisted learning
material. It turned out to be
particularly suited to IV work, and in
the early days of IV it was the BBC
Micro which was the target machine
for such systems. Using the BBC to
control a videodisc system was rather
like getting a donkey to pull a double
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the action. Society, for example, put together an On the education front, the most
The Amiga already comes with the IV system for teaching staff positive widely publicised videodisc project
capability to mix graphics and video attitudes towards potential and has been the Domesday videodiscs
which can then be recorded on tape, existing customers, and accounts sales produced by the BBC, but many other
so it seems but a small step further rocketed in branches where the less well-known projects have been
forward to add to that the ability to system was tried out, to the point at
drive a videodisc machine.
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friendly VHS and Beta machines
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are sitting waiting in the majority
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i and stills of buildings from all
Well, just think of the access
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getting spot on the right frame
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digital recording system, which
offers greater picture and sound
quality, as well as the ability to
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data.
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press the record button on the huge.
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cassette. Recording, is more than a the market, there's none to beat the
Amiga's computing and video power
to exploit this new wave in
educational technology to the full. IV
containing architect's drawings is particularly well suited to the
Workbench environment and mouse
round the world. control through the various icons and
A trainee could summon up a windows of the IV control package.
program to test his knowledge of Next month we'll be looking at the
AAAE in some detail and revealing
how it can help Amiga owners to
pointer using the mouse to home become interactive videopersons.
in on a flying buttress or a
gargoyle. • N I VC is supported by the DTI, by
If he gets the answers right, he its corporate sponsors, and through
moves on to associate buildings earnings from courses, publications,
with individual architects, like counselling, special interest groups
Christopher Wren or Frank Lloyd and project management. It has an
Wright— if he doesn't, he is unrivalled collection of IV hardware
branched off to a revision exercise. and software, produces a number of
You can begin to see that, given specialist publications, mounts I V
the appropriate software, you can courses of all kinds, and offers a free
design hundreds if not thousands introduction to IV for visitors, who
of different exercises based on just should ring for an appointment.
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and the possibilities of mixing called Interactive Update five times a
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the impatient
Turbo Silver is the fastest ray tracing
package for the Amiga. Sam Little wood
shines a little light on the subject
R produced remarkable pictures
A animations in the past.
and
Unfortunately, these spectacular
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creations took inordinate lengths of
t
rtime to produce. A moderately
acomplicated animation might take 10
hours per frame, so producing a 50
cframe animation at this speed will
igive your Amiga something to think
nabout for the best part of a month.
g A smooth animation needs to run at
oa minimum of 15 frames per second. -
nMy patience is limited to slightly less
tthan two days, about a tenth to a half
of a second of animation.
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The original version of the Silver
epackage was in the same time-
Aconsumption league as other ray
m tracers. The latest version. Turbo
i Silver, lives up to its name however
gand is typically five to to times faster.
aThis means it is now possible to start
hthe program last thing at night. and
hope that something useful has
ahappened by the time I get back from
swork the next day.
The time taken to produce a single
frame is reduced to a Ling coffee
break. letting me go through three or
four iterations of trying to get a
picture right in one evening.
The review copy of Turbo Silver
came in a three ring binder
containing a manual, two discs and
several bits of paper. So far so good?
No, the manual in the binder was for
Silver 1,0. The first disc was Silver
1.1. a few sheets of paper described
the differences between 1.0 and 1.1.
The second disc is Silver 2.0, or
Turbo Silver.
Another piece of preliminary
documentation describes
how Turbo Silver differs
from 1.1. This meant
chewing through
documentation for
each version to find out how

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to cope with the latest version—a
distinctly confusing task.
To get owners to return the
registration card, the last chapter of
the manual, "Hints. Tips and Magic"
is only supplied when Impulse
receives the card,
While reading. I started to wnnder
if the manual's authors had let anyone
else read it before printing, or indeed
read it themselves. The original
manual has some good sections, but
parts of it are totally confused. The
addenda describing the new versions
read as if they were produced on a
dictation machine minutes before the
printing deadline.
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a texture and reflection. Once all of the
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e
e generate the animation. There are
facilities for generating individual
frames and doing a fast preview — a
pencil test — using just wireframes.
There are three distinct tasks on the
road to producing an animation.
Modelling, describing the objects in
the world, animation — how the
somewhat better than the paperwork. objects move and change over time —
Some excellent features make it and rendering that is producing the
unique. The package requires at least sequence of pictures.
iMb, a feature of animation systems
in general. It is not protected, and the
user is advised to make backups.
The disc contains some example T for modelling. Objects can be
pictures produced with the package. U
made up of triangular facets, stencils,
an IFF picture displayer and an aRsurface or perfect spheres — the
animation player. Turbo Silver is B
easiest objects to ray trace. In addition
moderately PAL compatible, there are to
O the objects, there is a camera and a
some glitches. The program does not single
S light source. One of Turbo
take over the machine and uses Silver's greatest limitations is that you
i
Intuition for its interface. can only have one light source.
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Turbo's start up screen looks like a
v The cell editor provides a view into
strip of film across the centre of the the
e world being created from either
screen. Each shot represents a frame the
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can be zoomed or panned.
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the views taking up the
whole screen, only one
being visible at a time.
The core of all objects is
the axis. This is inv is ible
as far as any picture of
the scene goes, but appears
in the cell editor as a point
with little X, Y and Z axes
attached to it showing
the orientation and position
relative to the rest of the The cell edito;
world.
To make a visible object, points are
added around the axis followed by
facets between the points. It is these
facets that make the object visible in a
fi nal picture. This conglomeration of
bits can be moved and rotated by
using the central axis.
O —one object is the parent. and
one
b or more others are children.
These
j children could well be the
parents
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excellent
c system, allowing complex
forms
t to be built up and then treated
as
s a whole.
c The cell editor works in several
modes. These modes correspond to
a
the
n things that you are currently
working
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At each level there are keys and menu
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manipulation can be controlled with
the mouse or the keyboard, a theme
running throughout the package.
Objects can be named, allowing them
to be easily found later.
There are facilities for adding useful
ready-made objects, such as cylinders,
toruses, cones and spheres. These are
all made of facets, and can be a good
starting point for cutting, stretching
and chopping to a give a desired
shape.
A further pair of tools can be used
to take an existing set of points and
either extrude them, making an object
like a pastry cutter, or spin them.
making something like a wine glass
starting from half the outline.
Stencils are one of the features that
make Turbo Silver really interesting.
A stencil is a fl at rectangular plate
with an associated IFF fi le. This is
scaled to fi t the stencil, and wherever
the IFF file has the background
colour the stencil w ill be transparent.
The rest of the stencil does not have
the colour from the IFF fi le, but that
associated with an object.
Some examples of things that could
be done are a complicated glass logo;
the leading for a glass window, or a
stencil off stage to project an
interesting shadow on to the scene.
The possibilities are endless.
By default Turbo Silver shapes are
smooth matte white objects. There is
a plethora of ways of describing the
colour and texture of objects. To start
the parade, a whole object, or
indiv idual facet, has a colour. The
object can have specular highlights —
the effect where a bright light is
reflected off a shiny object giving a
spot that is the colour of the light, not
the colour of the object.
An object might have mirror-like
qualities. The level of this reflection
can be controlled separately for the
_ red, green and blue components of
the light. This can be used to create a
Christmas tree ball.
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O light is bent at the surface
b
leading to distortions when look ing
through,
j say, a glass vase. This can
add
e realism to a scene, but to be
effective,
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that
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ass a checkered fl oor.
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isi how much it filters light, This is
used to work out the shadows and
g
arises from a short cut that has to be
h
taken when wr iting a ray tracer to
t
operate in timescales less than the
b
geological.
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r facets of an object can be made to
flat
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appear a continuous smooth surface,
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rough or just plain flat.
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c
map it on to an object or group of
t
objects. Examples might be a cylinder
with
i an appropriate soft drinks label
wrapped
v around it. or a model of the
Amiga
e with a screen dump mapped
on— to the monitor screen. This is a
speciality of Turbo Silver, and it
makes for some interesting
possibilities.
The level of control that Silver
provides over colour and texture is
incredible, albeit somewhat
confusing. It is helped by menu
options to set up common levels. I
found that the easiest way to explore
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this area was to use a sphere and

checkered landscape, giv ing very fast
rendering and a good feel for what
the combination might look lik e on a
more complex object.
The cell editor is somewhat
obstructive. A bug means that
although the windows occupy the full
256 PAL lines, the lines representing
the edges of facets are s till clipped to
the 200 l i ne l i mi t.

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window pops up obscuring the view
e the world, These adjustments have
of
n be made blind with no feedback as
to
to
c what is going on. The tools for
creating
o objects, although plentiful.
do
n not provide quite enough to make
me
t feel confident that I could
visualise
r an object and then build it, You can give objects a metallic effect
something
o I do feel when using
Sculpt-3D.
l the associated cells. This is hard work rendering techniques of Turbo Silver
l There is no facility to import if a complicated set of stories is being 14
objects
i from other programs, or used.
,i
exploration. Other aspects may well
generate
n scripts — a small aspect of Wireframe pictures can be used for be
I frustrating. Now that I have both
the whole program. b u t ! often want previewing, giving a generation time
g packages
I I am look ing forward to
to grab an object that I built on of a few seconds per frame. To
r getting
p hold of a version of
another system or write programs to generate the fi nal pictures, the ray Interchange whic h w ill allow me to
o
generate complex objects and control r
t tracer is used. This is the best part of edit
o with Sculpt and render with
animation. the package, and is head and Turbo Silver.
aThe hard way to generate the v
shoulders above other products on
t
sequence of cells for an animation is i REPORT CARD
the Amiga. The performance is
toi edit each cell separately. However excellent, beating other ray-tracers on d
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Turbo Silver does go some of the way the same hardware by an order of' e Tur bo Silver
n
towards easing this task. A special magnitude. n Impulse/1M Mar keti ng 0895 444433
object is created that is just a set of E139.95
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points.
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d to describe the path of other overscan images. It successfully takes aA complete ray-tracing and animation
objects. A limited amount of control a PAL system into account. The v package, you don't need to buy any
is available over the rotation and
fl exibility of the renderer has already eextra software to produce cartoons.
scale as the object travels along the been alluded to by the attributes that nEASE (1F USE I
path. A hierarchy is possible, can be given to objects, In this area uA better front end than the atrocious
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allowing complex motions. also, the renderer beats other e Videoscape but lags behind Sculpt 3D.
packages hands down. I only wish I s INTIUTION M
could use this renderer to produce f Written to Commodore guidelines but
animations modelled on other
T and once a cell with stories in it othe high processing overhead needed
systems. for ray-tracing makes multi-tasking
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has been made, the effect over time r slow.
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r be propagated over several cells
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of
b the animation. A useful feature is
mainly associated with the rendering Excellent, beating other Amiga ray-
that
o the same cell can be used in portion of the package. The editor tracers by an order o f magnitude,
more
S than one of the fi nal frames. and animator have not quite reached
i Although an animation system is the same maturity. The
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present,
l it is somewhat limited. To Cheaper than the Sculpt/Animate
documentation is not up to scratch,
produce interesting motions with an combo but still expensive if you just
v although it appears that it w ill be want to experiment with pro-style
object
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work
r on each indiv idual frame. The Until that time, I would not
ways in whic h the stories are OVERALL 7 2 %
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propagated are not remembered, so if making their first foray into this area.
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it has to be re-propagated by hand to similar packages the powerful flexible o r as friendly.
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I on ASSIGN a couple of issues ago,
Tit occurred to me to consider why it is
that
S we need to ASSIGN all these
flogical devices to various directories —
and
u what are they supposed to be?
This
n set me thinking. What is the
nminimum structure of an AmigaDos
disc?
y
, To find out more I did a quick
ASSIGN command on its own in a
b
CLI
u which yielded the following
interesting information about the
t
currently mounted disc, which at the
a
time was my copy of WordPerfect:
f
tRAM:t
t
Swp:s
e
rLwp:l
Cwp:c
t overlays for the system which can't
hFONTSwp:fonts
eDEVSwp:devs
LIBSwp:Iihs
p time. In most cases, this dir will
is a SYSwp:
i contain the Disc-Validator. Port-
wall
are. eDevices:
bin- cDF1 DEO PRT PAR SER
St tO eRAW CON RAM
cro-
I
you
lo is d It seemed that all the logical devices
iwere ASSIGNed as I expected. So
I be what was in these directories, s, I, and
d
)ox, devs?
vou, The directory s contains sequences
—batch files of AmigaDos commands,
the must important being the startup-
sequence tile which sets up your
computer the way you (or the
programmer of the disc you're
running) wants it. This special batch
file is executed on startup,
configuring the system, setting
keymaps, and most importantly,
loading Workbench and quitting out
of AmigaDos
I only mention startup-sequence in
passing, because all of you should
know about it by now, especially if
you've got a memory upgrade with a
clock, where you have to SETCLOCK
OPT LOAD the time into your
Workbench. Good, let's move on
then.
A batch file is a sequence, almost a
sort of program, of AmigaDos
commands, which is executed from a
CU. When the Dos word EXECUTE is
typed, the computer looks for a batch
file in the current (CDed) directory. If
it doesn't find one there, it searches
for the directory that you ASSIGNed
AMC9 to the logical device S:. which in most
cases is s as I've said.
The I directory holds all the large
The plain man's
guide to CU
Phil South is the lumberjack you've
been looking for if you can't
see the wood for the directrees
commands in AmigaDos and the
for various reasons be resident in
memory, and need to be loaded each
I landler and Ram-Handler overlays.
Incidentally, if you ever get a disc
which the computer can't validate, get
a good disc, let the computer load the
validator off of that disc, and then
reinsert your disc to salvage the files
on it. Neat trick, and a very useful
one.
The most important directory has to
be c. It's within this innocuous
looking dir that all the AmigaDos
command set lies. If you've invented
some new commands, or have loaded
the SHELL from Metacomco, this is
where you'd store them. Then
AmigaDos (the EXEC level) knows
where to look for them.
Any command word or program
entered here can be executed simply
by typing it. Just think of each
command as a little program in it's
own right, then you'll get the picture.
The fonts directory is self
explanatory really, holding all the
fonts info, and this is where
wordpros, notepad and Deluxe Paint
look for the fonts they need. If you
nab any new fonts from anywhere
this is where they go. The Amiga
scheme of things means that
programs can use fonts that the
programmer doesn't know about.
The two remaining directories are
very interesting. The libs directory
contains all the libraries and overlays,
like translatorlibrary and info.library.
These are called when a C or machine
code program uses the OpenLibrary
command.
• September 1988 A M I G A CO M M TI NG 2 7
ElINT ERF ACE•
One of the great strengths of the
Amiga is this use of libraries. It
means that not only can commands
not resident in the system be
implimented and used in programs,
but they need not be resident in the
computer hardware, taking up
valuable rom space with basically
menial tasks.
The only other directory is the devs,
and this deals with the Mountlist file
and all the physical devices, as
mentioned in the ASSIGN listing I got
in the beginning, plus assorted
keyboard maps (keymaps). printer
drivers, clipboards and the system
configuration file. Mountlist contains
a list of Mounted devices,
unsurprisingly, and the system
configuration file contains all the info
about the disc icon, pointer and
Workbench default colours.
The devices are files for the
computer to look at the configuration
of the printer, to check the narrator
and keep tabs on the serial and
parallel ports. Without a serial device
on your disc, you can forget going
anywhere by modem.
The printers is interesting though.
You can prune some of these off a
disc. if you want to make space. If you
only use a HP Laserjet and an Epson,
why carry 14 other drivers around?
The same goes for keymaps. If you
only use keymap gb. then why keep
usa0, usa2. n, I, f, dk and cdn?
There's no point.
So, there you have it. the short
guided tour around the directory trees
of AmigaDos. Knowing what needs to
be there on your discs is useful
knowledge, especially if it's your aim
to trim down your working W13/CLI
disc to make for faster access.
 the A500 and A2000 were launched clock can be added by fi tting an A501
W should buy an A2000 instead Commodore-Amiga laid down a expansion.
H an A500 it is often diffi c ult to
of standard for an 86 pin expansion So the difference between an
E
justify the price difference. After all, system, k nown as the Zorro bus. expanded 500 and a threadbare 2000
N
you could get two A500s for the price When the A2000 was designed it was is a bunch of slots. It's hard to justify
opf one 2000. decided to incorporate some extra £400 for just that. Most people faced
e The main difference of course is routes for expansion. So if you look with forking out the difference or
expandability.
o or as the computer- inside an Amiga 2000 you w ill fi nd opting to take the money and run w ill
techie
p adspeak men would have it, five 100 pin slots, two IBM PC/AT decide that they could do with the
open
l architecture. This means that the compatible slots, two IBM PC/XT exercise.
A2000
e is designed to have bits added slots and one video slot. So armed with an A500 the owner
on
a to it. Most of the computers which The 100 pin connectors are called trots off happily. Happy that is until
have
s proved be successful among the the Amiga bus, and they are the the time comes to expand the system,
business community offer open successor to Zorro. The other things add a hard disc, or some more ram —
k
architecture, inc luding the Apple II which the Amiga 2000 has and the when he'll run into the brick wall of
w IBM PC.
and 500 does not are 1Mb of ram and a closed architecture.
h
Back in the days before battery backed-up clock. The ram and As always there is someone
y
prepared to make some money from
t the situation — enter Pacific
h Peripherals. It is a Californian
e company — hence Pacific — whic h
y makes add-ons — hence Peripherals.
Its solution to our jogger's aching
nose is called the Sub-system. Which
in a bid to wreck the logic of this
paragraph has nothing to do with
allied U-boats.
This contains two 100 pin slots and
fits underneath an Amiga 500. Signals
are fed into the box through the edge
connector on the side of the A500.
The result is a system halfway
between an A500 and an A2000, call
The Padt7r: Peripherals it an Al250 if you like.
A500 Sub-system Just as it is not worth buying an
A2000 unless you are going to p u t

28 A M I G A CO MP I TUNG Sept ember 1988

 1
,
0
Hugo Learner looks at a peripheral
hich takes your A500 up in the world
11 anything in it. you need to have a use
for the Sub-system before paying out
good money for it. The most lik ely
set-up is a hard disc controller and a
2Mb ram card. This mimics the
A2000 set-up which the Ed has in the
office and loves so much that he
doesn't go home at night.
Most of the cards you w ill want to
fit w ill be expensive, and there aren't
that many different types — yet.
Commodore offers two goodies — the
A2090 hard disc controller card and
the A2052 ram expansion, Bear in
mind that the A2090. and for that
matter any hard drive controller, is
designed to sit with the winnie inside
the box. There just isn't the space in
the Sub-system, so you w ill have to
find a case and a power supply for
the drive. It is not electrically sensible
to use a shoebox, but this hasn't
stopped more than one Amiga user
from risking 240 volts.
Real soon now — it usually means
"we are s till work ing on the
specification" — they should have the
A2058, an amb board. Just think... a
9Mb Amiga; makes your friend's
1040STFM look pretty sad.
Other people sell disc drive
controller cards and ram expansions
but there the highway of choice
becomes complicated. For the well
connected, Taurus sells an Ethernet
networking card, This allows you to
communicate at 10 megabits, or more
than 33,000 times faster than loading
a program on a C64 cassette deck.
There are more goodies on the
horizon. Many companies are
working on second serial and parallel
hoards. With four phone lines,
modems and RS232 ports you could
multi-task your comms software to
log into Prestel. Compunet, Nlic r olink
and Cix all at once. You'd soon fi nd a
penny a minute was the least of your
worries.
More than one Centronics port
would offer the joy of being able to
digitise a screen and print it out.
without doing battle with more wires.
What won't fi t into the Sub-system
is the pack of cards which uses the
other slots. This includes the PC
Bridgeboard because it needs the PC
slots and the GSA 68020 boards
because they need the 86 pin
processor slot. Oh well I suppose
someone might bring out a 68020
card for the 100 pin bus. Just think
Unix on your 500. I can hear my
overdraft going to Deleon 2 as I write.
Many of the telly addons are
strangers to the Sub-system; they
want the video slot. Flickerfi xer? No
way. Jose. Video Toaster? Not cooking.
So. provided you only want the 100
pin busses the Sub-system could
provide slots of fun. It looks pretty,
painted the same off-cream as the
A500, and well made in sheet steel.
There is space for a second disc
drive, but not for a power supply
which hangs Commodore-like on the
lead. Inside, is pretty simple, designed
as though printed circuit boards are
made of Welsh gold, but it works and
the connections are fi rm. Screw it all
back together, plonk the computer on
top and it looks most professional. It
won't give you all the scope of a
2000, but you get close.
REPORT CARD
Sub-system
Pacific PeripheralWArgonaut Hardware
01-208 0072.
E230
l' Sf . F1
,
What makes the Sub-svstem useful is
L N flexibility
the ESS in offers not what it does
on its own.
EASE OF I SE 11111
Plug in and go, A bit fiddly to open an
internal power supply would have been
neater but increased the height.
1•E
Cheaper than upgrading to a 2000 but
does not offer the ot her connectors.
OVERALL 7 6 %
The best way to expand an A500 until
Commodore's A590 arrives al eit her the
end of this year or early 1989.
Sephmnber1988 A M I G A CO MP UTI NG 2 9
 Bill Tomlins runs
some letters through
a budget word
processing program
to see if you can
expect professional
software at quite
low prices

K package described as a fully

I
featured word processing program.
N feature in particular makes it
One
D
stand out on the Amiga. At £49.95 it
isWconsiderably cheaper than most.
o The program comes on two discs
with
r a 60 page A5 manual. The
documentation
d is well produced, very
readable
s and, on the whole,
adequately
i describes the program's
operation.
s More tutorial sections
would
a have been helpful. Compared
with
n the 600 plus pages of the
WordPerfect
e manual, it makes very
light reading.
w
Installation is very simple, as the
A
program is not copy protected and for
flm oppy disc installation the manual
e you to make copies of the discs.
tells
r
Details of how to install it on a hard
i
disc are provided.
c Kind Words w ill work with only
a
512k of memory and a single drive,
but n the manual recommends that the
memory is upgraded so that the
spelling checker can be loaded into
memory, When used with only 512k
there are a number of restrictions —
the CU. Preferences and external
drives should not be used. The
number of font and style
combinations should also be
restricted when printing with the
SuperFonts.
I tested the package on a 1Mb
Amiga 500, lArith two drives. No
initial confi guration is required, and
getting it running consisted of putting
the program disc into the internal
drive when asked for a Workbench
disc and the Superfont disc into the
other drive.
The upper part of the screen is
taken up with a deep ruler containing
a number of large icons as well as
ruler graduations. Two of the icons
pictorially represent single and
double spaced text and the remaining
four cover left, right, centered and
fully justifi ed text. You select the line

30 A M I G A CO MP UTI NG September 1988

 • R E V I E W •

•••
Customising
the page
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File W i t F o lkt S t y l e
Page S i z e . . .
Fo rma t . . . 541,
I ns ert Page B re a k
He
Imagine oo ter 4E35 profes s ional wordproc es s or
chock-f F • Nu mb e r i ng •P ri 6 l_gmlphics
, handligg; n u l t i P l e
f c i a l l y tuned p r i n t e r f ont s ( f o r
high resolution print ing; a Wee@ kto d s p e l l i n g c hec k er a n d m a l l
o
'wile
n capabilities.
spacing and justifi cation by
t
highlighting the appropriate icons.
s
Text is shown appropriately (
justified on screen and this can lead A
1
to some very confusing effects during d
the course of editing, as words shuffle d
around all the time. T
Left and right margins may be i
dragged to the positions you want on t
the ruler, Normal and decimal tabs l
are supported — up to 10 can be e
P
dragged on to the ruler. Ruler settings
a
and justifi cation may be changed as
g
often as required and the settings for e
the various parts of a document are Alternatively, double clicking when options, namely match case and
remembered. There is no form of
the cursor is on a word w ill mark just whole word exchanges. I found the
style sheet or standard layout so you that word. Treble clicking w ill need to leave the search option to re-
must set them up each time you want highlight a complete sentence. position the cursor after a search if I
to change them. Marked blocks may be cut — wanted to carry out another search of
deleted and stored in the clipboard — the same part of the text very
copied — a copy stored in the frustrating. Backwards and global
clipboard — pasted — restores the last options would make life easier.
K files, whic h may be loaded, block stored in the clipboard at the Once a match is found you may
I
saved or merged by selecting from a current cursor position — or cleared. replace just the one item or all
N down menu. Documents may be
pull This is done by selecting from the subsequent matches. Replace then
D
saved as plain Ascii files for use by Edit Menu.
find is the same as replace except that
W
other programs, and Ascii files may There is also an undo feature that it automatically looks for the next
also
o be merged into documents. allows you to countermand the last occurrence, Find next leaves the
r Scroll bars are used to move 256 key strokes, or to restore cleared current fi nd unchanged anti looks for
around
d a document and operation is text. This works as long as the cursor the next match.
reasonably
s fast. Alternatively you has not been moved since deletion.
may
u use the cursor keys or Useful if you change your mind after
combinations of Alt or a r l and minor alterations.
s
the cursor or numeric pad keys. The Header and footer text up to 15 L
e IFF graphics may be inserted
cursor may be re-positioned on the lines long may be specified. When O documents, high resolution
s into
screen by placing the pointer where this option is selected, separate W
I chunks being reduced to medium
required and clicking. windows open to allow you to enter ,resolution. Graphics are displayed on
F Many of the editing features
the text. Date, time and page numbers m
F screen and may be moved around
available from the menus may also be may be specified.
f and
e re-sized, You cannot insert text in
selected by keystrokes, using an There are no facilities for using
o different header and footer text on the
d same areas. Being able to load
Amiga and letter key combination,
r graphics
i into documents is one of
though in some cases the letters odd and even numbered pages, nor is those
u features that I wonder how
chosen
m seem to have little relevance there any provision for turning them
a the task required. Brief Help, lis ting many
m people really use?
to on and off at different stages in a
the o On occasions I found editing a
t keystroke shortcuts, is available. document, although it is possible to
document
r containing graphics caused
Block functions are an important suppress the header and footer on the
part of any word processor and this odd
h things to happen. For no obvious
first page. For a lot of purposes, this reason, after carrying out some
one provides several ways to mark is barely adequate. i
blocks. One may be marked by editing task in one part of a document
A fi nd and replace option is g
clicking once, dragging the cursor the cursor would suddenly jump to a
provided, but it is not particularly fast h
over the text and releasing. and has only limited selection r
e
s SeptenuIRT 1q8" / E k liG A 111A4PUTING 3 1
o
1
The spelling checker dictionary into memory. If you have
in action
expanded memory, the answer is a
III, I resounding yes, otherwise checking is
ki l t!

karat
painfully slow.
[
" I.'
i
A message tells you that checking is
in progress, but otherwise there is no
,
I i
W
K
J
I IE Nr,T V * R
indication of what is happening. or
K c r e in t a m .
I
.
ler . 4 0 Wh 5 l b l e ( D I n v l , t t l e
how far the check has progressed.
If a word isn't recognised, another
A
f
f
format M a e ktrs: ° V i s i b l e e l n y i s t b !
Le ll M a rgin Look: 0 0 h R O M
i
f
Teti Art a C o lo r: O k i halaord s ° W o r kb e n ch
window opens and you can either
edit the word to correct it or click on
,
K
i
I OH I Cancel
one of several options to ignore, add
r
r
K And i t OVCPEDESuhatever &m it e the a ve lica tios peoevati
hasselected. Yo u can Last this Co assure a certain
W
•
density, The lOver Ole M a lt y the ( ke lp tht Feint tows
word to dictionary, replace or ask for
W
W
.
CDI those petMtes ylth nolksple de nsitie s). suggestions. This lists alternative
words that Kind Words thinks you
.
1
W hha
abcde
might have intended. You can select a
word from the list, and this will then
appear in the editing box. Finally you
insert it into the document by clicking
Customising the • - - -
text appearance on the Replace box.

1 the tops of the fonts and the bottom is

out of line —not the effect you would
completely different place and on a
normally require. T complete with "color". "center"
couple of occasions the screen was
The print option lets you specify H all those other americanisms and
and
slightly corrupted. This problem
the start and finishing page numbers E
words ending in "ize". You can add
could he minimised by inserting the
plus the number of copies required. d
your own words to a custom
graphics when the remainder of' the
You must also specify the type of i
dictionary, so there is no problem
editing was complete. paper being used. There are a number
Text may be underlined, with
c teaching it English. but there are
emboldened or italicised. You can of default settings to select, such as no
t facilities for removing incorrect, or
A4 single sheet or continuous unwanted,
i words. I think an English
either select the style and then enter
standard stationery, and also a special dictionary
o should be one of the
the text, or you can mark a block of
size option. priorities together with some
existing text and select the style n
The options are not as flexible as dictionary maintenance options.
required for that block. would have liked. Final, draft or a
I found that several of the There
r appears to be no facility for
SuperFont quality output may he checking with, or creating, alternative
combinations of these styles made the y
text almost unreadable on screen and selected. Depending on the choice language dictionaries.
made. Kind Words will substitute the i
would recommend that styles and Basic mail merging facilities are
specified fonts for the printer's built- s
fonts are selected at the end. provided. Wherever you wish data to
in fonts. If final quality is selected, for A
he inserted you use a merge word —
example. the printer's NLQ font will m
their terminology, not mine. This is a
be used. e
word wrapped in double opening and
Draft quality uses fast, low rclosing angle brackets. For example,
A Words is SuperFonts, which resolution flints and all the font sizes iyou might use <<n a m e >> and
S be used with a suitable printer.
may will appear as 12 point. There is no • cc<address>> wherever you wanted
P
Only a small range of printers is provision for fully justified the
a name and address inserted.
currently
E supported, but the manual proportional printing. While you n You also need a merge list file,
says
C that further drivers will be could perhaps select proportional on containing
. the names and addresses.
included
I in the future. SuperFonts are the printer's DIP switches, it would be or whatever you wish to merge into
also
A displayed on screen, but if you printed with a ragged right margin. the main text. The first data record in
try
L using them with italic style the When printing using Superfonts. this file must take the form of a
effect is sometimes almost unreadable the speed is very much reduced, template containing the merge words
f
in
e the 12 and 14 point sizes, the although the result is very acceptable that were used in the main merging
characters tending to overlap. from even a 9 pin dot matrix printer. document. These must be in the same
a
Deleting a character often takes a bit If the document contains any order and all subsequent records
t the next character as well.
off graphics and you have a suitable must consist of the same number of
u
Three point sizes (heights) of colour printer, these will be entries.
r
Roman typeface text are supported, 8, reproduced in colour. The disadvantage of this approach
e
12 and 14 point, with 12 being the The spelling checker is not really is that you cannot use data files
o
default. Super and subscript are one of the best features of the exported from a database without first
falways 8 pitch characters positioned program for a number of reasons. The loading them and altering them to
K
above or below normal text positions. dictionary contains about 90,000 suit the required format. There are no
i There is a problem with SuperFonts words, so we are told. facilities to manipulate the data in any
n that if you change font sizes in the
in The first time the checker is called. way, nor to carry out any
d
middle of a line the text aligns along it asks whether you want to load the mathematical calculations. You will

32 A M I G A C O M P I M N G September M I N
 get exactly the text that is in the
merge list.
Most of the problems I encountered
seemed to be connected with the use
of graphics in a document and the
display of different styles and fonts on
screen, but they weren't generally
dangerous, merely inconvenient.
though I did encounter Guru
Meditations on two occasions,
Sometimes 1 found that numbers
didn't line up correctly with decimal
tabs, but as soon as vou deleted
something they all jumped into line.
One feature of the program that
needs some attention is the speed of
operation. There appears to be an
unnecessary amount of re-drawing of
the screen.
This can be very long-winded as
not only does the program draw the
box and its contents, it also
completely re-draws the remainder of
the screen underneath the box, but
twice sometimes. That, combined
with the sloth-like screen update,
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Kind Words as while it contains a
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A Starglider the Egrons retired to
F their wounds and prepare for a
lick
second
T
The
onslaught against Novenia.
E second attack involves them
building
R bases on the seven moons of
Millway,
b a gas giant in the solar
system
e of Solice.
i The bases are a staging post for a
huge space station, built in orbit
n
around Q-Beta. the moon of the
g and the ice wastes of Aldo&
outermost planet in the Solice system
r Egron destruction
- Aldo& Your mission is to destroy
o much as intelligence. The missiles are
the space station along with its
u Reconnaissance Universal Scout.
cannon, a weapon which is capable
tof firing through the vacuum of space
eand penetrating the ionosphere of
dNovenia to wreak havoc on your
ihome planet.
n laysan, Katra and Agro have the
task of defeating the Egrons. You
again take on the role of the space
samurai. It is a feat which requires
skill, courage, dexterity and laysan to
get out of the bath.
The AGAV from Starglider was an
old ship when you used it years ago.
For this mission Draggon Industries -
designers of fine spacecraft - have
prepared the prototype of their
Interplanetary Combat And
The most awaited cuboids take twice the power of a
standard laser, but pack a much
sequel in Amiga more significant punch. They flip
parts of the target into a different
history is finished. time. Fire and Flee missiles are the
Simon Rockman Icarus' answer to heat-seekers. They
takes his Emma 2 rely on a sophisticated Target
Identify Mode (TIM), because relying
scout car to Mill way on heat would be fickle when you
have to cope with the temperature
in final pursuit of extremes on the hot planet of Dante
TIM relies on determination as
often led a merry dance before they
Icarus for short. destroy the target, something which
For this mission - can be quite amusing to watch and
that
p the
r e engine,
p a r e designed
d " by makes you trigger happy.
specialists
m e a on the
n planet CoswortiL Barnes Wallis wouldn't recognise
hass been tuned and the craft stripped the Humbug as his sort of bouncing
of all armaments save a simple gas bomb - for a start they spin the
plasma laser. With its PicoChannel wrong way. They are humbug
expansion bus the Icarus is capable coloured and can destroy virtually all
of taking more advanced weapons, armour.
but Solice is a long way from The most powerful weapon is the
Novenia and the fuel load precludes neutron bomb, which hangs Dark
the fitment of more advanced Star-like below the Icarus. As the
weaponry. mission briefing tells you: "This is
There are four bigger and better the only weapon in existence with
types of whizzbang which can be enough force to destroy the Egron
mounted on the Icarus. Time-warp space station and safeguard the
 •tISIts' diamond and Professor Taymar, who
will build the bomb.
Finding out where to get the parts
stardrive for planelfall. Hitting the
surface too hard will damage your
shields.

4 of the bomb is the strategic element

of the game, and a good reason for
Enos is a violent place, so find a

nir reading all the documentation. Some

tree as soon as possible. Grab it with
your tractor beam and suck it into
Z P
things seem obvious. A case of Vistan
wine comes from the planet Vista,
the craft. The hold is large enough to
take three objects, so a bit of juggling
asteroids can be found in the asteroid may be needed to decide what to take
/ belt between Millway and Apogee.
Castrobars come from Castron — the
and when. With the tree inside leave
the planet and head for Castron —
sugar moon around Apogee. They are home of the dentists.
i
future of Novenia". •
Professor Taymar's favourite nosh
and the reason he is prepared to
Back in space you are likely to find
marauding pirates. Depending on the
Before you can mount your assault build the bomb. But you will run into state of your energy reserves you
v
on the space station you need to build
the bomb. This is where your flying
trouble if you have the Castrobars on
board when you pick him up. Castron
might choose to tangle with them.
Their catamaran craft are agile but
skills are called into play. The Icarus'
initial planetfall is on the geosphere
of Apogee. This planet is the place
where the neutron bomb will be built.
Dive into a tunnel entrance — the
planet has holes drilled through it to
speed journeys from place to place —
as the tunnels are the safest place to
be. The Egrons have not invaded
them and they are the hiding place of
the rebel forces. You have to enlist
the help of the rebels to build the
bomb. They will be expecting you.
The tunnels are twisty. You will
learn your way around after a while, Doesn't space look friendly
but getting lost can be really
frustrating. Black panels on what for will not give you the food, you need fall to your laser fire. The blue
the sake of convenience we shall call to trade a petrified tree. This is a spaceships weave, and are the
the floor, indicate a depot nearby. good place to start. Castron's twin — hardest thing in the game to hold in
Enos— is a dark place, famed for its your sights. A missile works, but is a
petrified forests. waste of ammo. Ridding the
When the game starts lift the nose spacelanes of pirates not only
T the first two forks in the tunnel. of your Icarus and apply full thrust. performs a judiciary function, the
O
Then when a tunnel merges from the This will take you out of Apogee's wrecked bounty hunters might drop
g
right turn around and fly to the left atmosphere and into space. Watch some cargo, providing a short-cut to
down
e the merging tunnel. This will out for space pirates: assuming the your goal. Retrieve the goodies by
bring
t you to the depot. coast is clear reduce thrust to zero — flying towards and capturing them in
t The manager. Trem, will give you a there is no point in wasting fuel your tractor beam.
shopping
o list — things to get from cruising around. Dicing with death like this is bound
other
t planets to help make the bomb. Use the identification computer to to have brought your defences down
This
h consists of a case of Vistan find Enos— it is the dark grey moon. a notch or two. Time to refuel. By far
wine,
e a crate of nuclear fuel, a crate You will learn your way around with the easiest way to do this is by
of
f castrobars, a lump of mineral some practice. Point your nose at sucking energy out of the asteroids.
rock, an Egron mini-rocket, an Enos and engage stardrive. When the
i Fly between Millway and Apogee
asteroid, a cluster of nodules, a flat moon fills the screen pop out of
r
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441
and look for the lumps of blue rock.
Bring the Icarus to a halt close by
and grab with the tractor beam. As
you watch the control panel the
readings will rise.
Asteroids are unstable, as anyone
who has played SiniStar in the
arcades will know, and after a while
the rock starts to shimmer and will
explode. You may have to find
YOLit craft Cittti!, a shadow on the alien soil
several asteroids before you are fully
re-fueled.
Refuelling is an important part of
the game. There are powerlines,
similar to those in Starglider, held
aloft by pylons. Fly along them to
suck in the power. You can refuel
Elite-style by scooping energy from
the sun — but beware, remember what
happened to the original Icarus. You
too will melt — quite spectacularly —
if you fly too close to the sun.
Dante — the hot planet, is a good
source of power. Volcanic activity
means you can suck energy by
hovering over the mountain of fire, or
look out for geoplasmic emissions
from the planet surface. Catch one
just right to refuel. Take thrust up to
maximum and leave Dante. E quindi
uscimmo a riveder le stelle (Thence
we came forth to rebelvild the stars.)
Find a tunnel entrance as soon as
possible — you don't really want to do
battle with the Egron might. Flying
through the maze of tunnels can be
Frustrating. but when you find the
right depot you may well come across
a supply of Humbug bouncing bombs.
Great for taking out planet-bound
Egron hardware.
L decide to investigate the Space
Whales
E in the gas atmosphere of
Millway,
A or look for Professor
Taymar
V who is driving an Emma 2 on
IBroadway. You might decide to take
N
it , GA M I G A CA)MPUTI NG Sept ember 1988
on a space train or dice with pirates,
but whatever you do be careful. The
Icarus' computer can "listen" to alien
noises and identify craft —so if you
hear a strange noise the computer
will determine for you whether it is
friend or foe.
Novenia will send messages which
appear on your microscreen telling
you what is going on in the rest of the
system. Messages like "Egron station
constructed on Apex" are useful —
take a humbug and see to it.
Whatever you do, be careful out
there. If your Valium Dynamics fuel
cells deplete to zero the Icarus will
explode, leaving the pilot's chair to
bounce on through space. The chair
is the same shape as the one Alister
Perrot programs in at Argonaut
Software, and was designed to check
out the graphic routines.
What we want to know is, if the
chair can withstand Egron rockets
and the destruction of the Icarus —
why don't they make the spacecraft
out of the same stuff as the chair?
Starglider 2 mixes plot with the
gameplay in a way no one else has
yet achieved. Interceptor and Carrier
Command have come close,
Starglider 2 excels. You really feel as
though you are on a mission from
Novenia.
Argonaut has produced
astonishingly fast graphics, with a
checkerboard planet surface. Your
craft casts a shadow on the alien soil.
The colours are bold and the action
furious. When a spaceship explodes it
does so spectacularly.
You can select Interceptor style
external views of your craft — only
really useful in tunnels — and look at
the ship from any angle. You can
view the outside world from any
angle and lock the axis through
which you till. All this can get
confusing. but hitting 8 on the
numeric keypad restores normality.
Richard Clucas is justifiably proud
of his work which has produced the
Argonaut Disc Loading Scheme
(ADLS). This allows the same disc to
be used in both an Amiga and Atari
ST. The program does not have to be
cut down in size, because much of
the information is shared by both
machines.
The save game option works in
ADLS, specially formatting a disc to
hold up to five games. If you have a
particularly good saved position you
can give the save-game disc to a
friend who can load it into his ST.
While the Amiga version is a mite
slower than the ST it sounds a
million times better— the Atari does
not have the sound facilities to
compete, although both machines
have Dave Lowe's stunning
soundtrack.
The monochrome ST version looks
good, and a PC version is under
development with C64 and Macintosh
versions planned.
I 2 offers a futuristic painting
N
package. Arcade addicts who saw the
IaRobot machine will remember it
offered
d a painting option. Starglider
d2's option 8 — Paint with Rolf —
iallows you to use any of the 3D
tshapes from the game as a paint
ibrush. It was incorporated after a bug
ocaused the shapes to freeze on the
screen. While it is fun no one would
n
accuse "Painting with Rolf" of being
t
art.
o
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38 AMI GA COMM S e p l e m b e r 1988

 w 'Amiga A r E
I tart in the Amiga market having
only
N released thePassengersOn The
l STIR CRAZY

ade'
WFindseries, but now with its latest
ga
Ome.Stir Crazy, which features the
hilarious
G Bobo,has finally emerged
as a real force in Amiga enter-
R
tainment.
AThegame is set in the peculiar
pr
NisonInzeeslammer which makes
the
I inmatesbehavechildishly.Bobo,
the
E star of the game, is the oddest
inmate,
S havingbeenlocked up for 17
years. He tries everything to escape
ahndsometimesmanagestodoso,but
hiasnew found freedom never lasts
a long.
very
sAcomprehensivemenu allows for
ulpto to players with eachprotagon-
istoselecting the events they wish to
Play.
wStirCrazy is very similar in con-
ceptto theclassicsportsseries from EIS O r e
Epyx,basedon theantics of aprison
inmateratherthan sporting achieve- mum, k i l l s c o r e
ments.The program is divided into
sixseparatesubgameswhich can be
O M I d o l score
played individually or collectively.
Thefirst event takes place in the
canteenand like all prison inmates, Feedyourfellou. onvids or there'll be trouble
Bobohas to take his turn at table
duty.Ensuring that all the hungry anteethat after a while you will be get free by jumping from their cell hearted side of 240 volts.
prisoners are fed. They arrive one deliberately sending half peeled windows. Bobo must move a Stunnedand eventuallyrecaptured
afteranother in a state of starvation, potatoesinto the pile just toseeBobo trampoline and catch them at the from his live wire trip. Bobo's final
which means that most require a punished. right anglesotheycan flytofreedom. taskistomakesurethat theotherfive
secondhelping. If you do not serve Having prepared thepotatoes,the If theangle is not right then the pri- prisoners with whom he shares the
the convicts immediately b e next event takes Bobo to his third sonerssmash into Inzeestammer's dormitory, stop snoring and allow
prepared for a quite hystericalscene chore—washing the floor,thejob he wallsand seestars. himto getsomesleep. The only way
asthey plaster poorBobo with the likes least. The otherprisoners walk Event five features Bobo, having to silence them is to give them a
soupof theday. on the floor and leave nasty escaped.running across three elec- gentlenudgesoasnot to wakethem.
The second event finds Bobo footprints for Bobo to clean. Oc- trical wires wherehemust avoid the Stir Crazy is a thoroughly enjoy-
peeling a pile ofpotatoeswhich grad- casionallyadog will run past leaving sparksand collect green cylinders. ablegame packed with humorous
uallygetsbiggerashegoesalong. If amuddy trail of footsteps which Theaction isfast—perhapsa little too touches.The graphics are top notch
Youare sillyenoughto tryandthrow must be cleaned before the prison fast—and most of the timeBobo is cartoon quality and the sound and
ahalf-peeledpotato into the pile you wardeninspectsthe floor. electrocuted in spectacularfashion. musicsomeof thebesttobeheardon
are instantly accused of shoddy Thefourth event is myfavouriteas Beingelectrocuted has never been anAmiga.
workmanship and the halfpeeled Bobotries to help his fellow inmates suchfun. The destructive nature of If that'snot agoodenoughrecom-
potato is thrown back. Thistouch of escape.Theprisonerstakeadvantage thegame is put aside as the humor- mendationthen you shouldn't forget
humouris well illustrated and I guar- ofthewarden'steabreakand tryand oustouchesmake you see the light- that thegamealso features the zany
Bobo,who could just becomeone of
themega stars of computer enter-
tainment.
GaryWilson

Mir Crazy
£19.95
Infogrames

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September 1988 A M I G A CO MP UTI NG 3 9


Take Lion-0 to yoursmallscreenin this excellentconversion
F same name comes this tough
R
hack-and-run game from Elite. The
background story is that during an
O
attack
M on the Cats-Lair by the mal-
icious Molemen. servants of the evil
t ively smooth and realistic.
Mumm-Ra kidnapped a handful of
h
members from the Thundercals team.
e Even worse, the kidnappers also
Bstole the Eye of Thundera and, as we
Ball know (don't we?), this charmed
Cjewel holds the magical power of the
Sword of Omens. Note the prevalent
T testing leap-and-slash games should
use of capital letters, essential for
Vtales such as this,
s The hero. Lion-0, was out to lunch
ewhen the raid took place. but has
rvowed to go to Castle Plundar to
irescue the Eye and free his mates.
eYour job is to steer Lion-0 safely
through forests and underground
s spot where he was hit. Once all of his
caverns, duff up the baddies, rescue
othe lads and recapture the jewel.
f Thundercals is a little like Psyg-
tnosis• Barbarian, a horizontal
hrunning.jumping.slashingandgrab-
ebingarcadeadventure withenemy
attackers coming non-stop out of the
woodwork. Unlike Barbarian, it has
continuous scrolling which makes
for fast and furious action.
Whenever Lion-0 is touched by an
attacker—they come at him from
40 AM I G A CO MP UTI NG September 1988
THUNDERCATS
Thetoescome in differentsi2es
both sides in what sometimes seems
like a never-ending stream—he falls
over, disintegrates andsoloses one of
his several lives. Fortunately for the
gameplay, he is not placed right back
at the beginning, but just past the
lives are used up Lion-0 has ii all to
do again.
The foes come in different sizes.
The tall eagle-beaked ones can walk
over any large object and from them
there is no hiding place. The titchy
Molemen who are blocked by ob-
stacles such as huge rocks, can be
jumped over or sliced with the sword
if Lion-0 goes down on one knee.
There are numerous other hazards
Ic
14-„wreigErv,i7vl
TUM 0:00
such as gaping, water-filled pits.
Leaping over one of these and land-
ing slap-hang on an enemy on the
other side happens all too frequently,
so lightning reflexes are essential.
Bonus lives and points can be
earned by leaping up and sword-
swatting various containers dotted
around the landscape, usually high
up in trees. Even better, some con-
tainers hold a weapon which, when
thevessel is clouted. replaces the one
Lion-0 currently wields.
Weapons which are effective at
long range are clearly very welcome
in a game when the enemy has an
inexhaustible supply of troops.
The signature tune is first rate,
1
8950
catching the mood of the game just
right: other spot effects add to the
pleasure.
The graphics are colourful and
fairly detailed, collision detection is
excellent and the animation impress-
Thepace very fast and the whole
game a very tough challenge—per-
haps just a shade too tough for those
who are not so nimble with the joy-
stick.
Anyone who likes fast-moving and
certainly enjoy this one. Thundercats
is an impressive conversion, the best
of this particular game for any home
computer, and bodes well for further
Elite products for the Amiga.
Bob Chappd
Thunikruats
124.99
Elite
Sound II
Graphics I.
Gameplay III
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 • R EVI EWSEI

SKYCHASE

I gamewhich apparently has it all?

S singly the answer is yes. That
Surpri
erstwhi
t le Electronic Arts program
treads
h the middle ground between
flight simulation and airborne
e
combatgame, with Flight Simulation
rII cleaning up on the straight simu-
leation front.
l Sky Chase is one of the first
rel
i eases from Image Works, the new
Mi
f rrorsoft label and is very much in
thee Top Gun mould of airborne con-
flict. "Never mind the realism, count
thea bullets" is the order of the day
f
here.
t Never mind the plot or objective
ei ether. in this game the action starts
with
r two opponents—any combin-
atiI on of human against computer
simulated players—hurtling towards
n other. As soon as the planes
each
t
cross control is handed over to the
e
pilots and may the best Tom Cruise
lrookalike win.
c Each player has an independent
three dimensional view, with fast Afast. furious and pretty enjoyable chase through the sky
e
moving wire frame graphics. Well
p until one player runs out of fuel, the ability to launch missiles. The witty dated look to the graphics doesn't
they are fast if you don't select the
t
compl ex terrain grid from the host of winner being whoever has scored chaps who coded Sky Chase have detract from the fast, furious, and
o ons. and let's face it. there isn't
opti most points. This means that if you made these look like Amiga boun- pretty enjoyable, chase through the
much
r of the screen being manipu- shoot your opponent more times that cing balls. sky.
lated.
, There is no hidden line heshoots you you're laughing. Your only defence against these Mark Luckham
removal
t , so the graphics should be But there is the problem of the twin threats is speed and manoeuver-
fast. Sky Chase
ground. It's hard. Hitting ii full speed ability. Either use them or find (29.95
h
All the parameters are variable. is not only painful, it hands over broken bits of plane showeredacross
e range from giving you a choice Image Works
and points on a plate. Equally climbing to the screen.Even on the easy level the
of fighters, FIA 18 Hornet, F-14 over 50.000 feet or flying beyond the computer flybys are a tough bunch. Sound P r e l l i fl i fi l
Tomcat, F-15 Eagle, F•16 Falcon on terrain boundaries have a similar The appeal of downing faceless .
the American side o r MIG-31 result. opponents, especially when the Graphics 'IL 1111111
Foxhound and MIG-27 Flogger on A quick peek at the weapons explosions— unlike the rest of the
the USSR side, to tinkering with supplied for this modern duel in the effects—areso wimpish, tends to pale Gameplay 1111111
weapons supplies, timings and the sky tend to support the assertion that before long. Drag a comrade into the
effects of G force. Valup
this is simply a fun flying game. Your fray though, and the fight becomes
The action continues, with a brief super advanced piece of Air Force that bit more personal, that much
pauseevery time a player gets nailed. real estate has twin cannon and the more fun. On this level the slightly

Each playerhasan independent 30 view with fast moving wire frame graphics
September 191111 21A4IGA L O M P I M N G 4 1
 Themain screen and its two views - fromabove and behind the golfer
T coloured jumper, snazzy slacks
and
I sure-grip glove, give a quick
shout
M of "Fore!" and drive off the
first
E tee with this new and eminently
playable golf game from Electronic
tArts.
o Until now only three simulations
d this great sport have been avail.
of
o e to satisfy the appetites of Amiga•
abl
links
n addicts. Accolade's Mean 18
was
t a worthy attempt but was let
down by rather weedy graphics,
h fer's mouth add to the fun.
while Gamestar's Championship
e
Golf, although technically a clever
b
simulation, featured only one course
r was far too complicated and
and
ifussy for its own good. Leaderboard,
gis perhaps the best; a massive selling
hgolf game on other micros, it hasn't
quite made the same impact on the
tAmiga.
l Electronic Arts' World Tour Golf
yseems to have got the mix just about
-right. The game is a pretty fair reflec-
tion of the intricacies and challenges
of golf yet at the same time manages
to be addictively playable.
It can be played using either mouse
or keyboard, by up to four players.
The main playing screen is divided
vertically. The left half gives you a
detailed overhead view of the entire
hole while the right is from just
behind and a few feet above the
golfer, starting from a point where
the player's ball currently rests and
looking towards the green. or hole, if
42 A M I G A CO MP UTI NG September 1988
on the green. The line of aim can be
adjusted and any club selected for the
shot - on request and as a guide, the
club's range is indicated by a circle
radiating out from your ball on the
overhead view.
A small dial - the swing meter -
allows vou to gauge the strength of
the shot and whether it will go
straight or otherwise,
It's simply a matter of being quick
with your trigger finger to stop the
two hands of the dial at the right
points (well, maybe not so simple
judging by some of my violently
sliced shots).
Displayed i n a continuously
updated panel at the top of the right-
drive in the country
hand picture are such relevant items
of information as the name of the
course, the number of the hole and its
par, and your name and score for the
round so far.
Some of the panel data is particu-
larly vital - distance to the green,
strength and direction of the wind,
and the lie of your ball, ranging from
perfect to plugged. All these factors
must be taken into account when
deciding what club to choose and in
playing your shot.
The game has generous customis-
ation options, allowing you to tailor
players' skills - tendency to hook or
slice, driving distance and accuracy.
and recovery from bad lies - amend
names and adjust handicaps.
There are over a dozen courses to
play on. some simulating the real
thing like Si Andrews and Augusta,
someimaginary like the devilish Par
3course. World Tour Golf has its
own easy-to-use construction kit
which lets you edit. design and save
as many courses as you wish for
future play.
The animation of the small golfer
ashe swings and hits the ball for you
is realistic, although the flight of the
ball is less so. particularly when
chipping from near the edge of a
green. I know my ability to put
backspin on the ball is world re-
nowned, but even I couldn't make
the ball stop as suddenly as this one
does at times.
The graphics are slightly more
stylised than I would have hoped.
given the Amiga's capability, but are
certainly effective enough. Digitised
sound effects - swish and thwack of
club, splat or splash of ball in bunker
or water, cries of congratulation or
commiseration as your ball finally
disappears into the cup-all enhance
one's enjoyment. Small, novel
touches like the spurt of sandas your
ball buries itself in the bunker or bal-
loon messages coming from the gol-
This is a first rate golf simulation.
Evencompared against the standard-
bearer Leaderboard. World Tour
wins by several strokes. And no
matter if you don't know one end of a
four iron from the other - you'll find
this game easy to get into yet
providing all the addictivity and
challenge of the best of games.
Bob Chappell
World Tour Golf
tlY,99
Elerlronic Arts
Sound 11
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TTER IEAD T A

provide a little more variety tkan

most shoot-'em-ups. Check out the
cool super-bolts that obliterate
everything in their vicinity —totally
rad.
Thegraphics, adequate at best, are
well animated and are more than suf-
ficient for this type of game. Audio
effects — like the graphics — are
mediocre with some nice touches like
the digitised grunts and groans when
Bradgets hit by an alien.
The game b‘ras developed as a
spoof and as a result the pro-
grammers may have neglected the
important aspect of lastability.
Gary Wilson

Better Dead Than Alien

E24.95
shoot-em-up is based on the daring touches of humour and innovation to
E waredevelopment and if its first make it stand out. Electra
antics of lone space hero Brad Zoom
rel
Lease, Better Dead Than Alien, is in his quest to save civilization (as we When I first loaded the game I in- Sound
anythi
E ng to go by the company could know it). stantly thought to myself "Oh no. not
have
C a very prosperous future in You must join Brad and armed Space Invaders revamped". The Graphics •
Ami
T ga entertainment. The game is with his super-zapper wage total war gamestarts slowly but as you pro-
anything but sane, just take one look against alien hoards. As you may gress through the 25 levels it throws Gameplay g 1111
Rthe name and you know that the new twists into the action. It will
at
A e who designed this game have
have already guessed, Better Dead
Than Alien is a vertical scroll- Value , 1
peopl succeed in hooking you to such an
i interesting sense of humour.
an ing shoot-ern-up. And what isn't extent you'll be playing for hours. 1 1
sThis is a weird yet wonderful these days? But there are enough Enhancements are included which 1
a
n 1
e 1
w GIGANOID 1
n
a 1
who is very similar to earlier demons obtain than in Arkanoid, because 1 the sprites are
Fm was Arkanoid and now there is but much.much harder to defeat.
backgrounds and
they fall to the bottom of the screen excellently shaded and the animation
Ieganoid from Swiss Computer Arts.
Gi As in the original, we are blessed very slowly. And at exactly the is of a very high1standard, if a little
Ri s time it is set in the year 2758
Thi with a variety of tokens which give moment you need to catch the token
Sn the galaxy is ruled by a pow.
when the play er different powers, the ball is also speeding towards the
1 during the game
slow. Sound effects
are sampled and reflect the general
erful masterdemon. You must battle 1
Ts including twin balls, lasers, slow ground and oblivion. happy atmosphere.
your way through 50 mazes to the ball, level skips and bonus lives,
to confrontation with the grand.
final These tokens are much harder to
The Giganoid graphics are better The programming is good and bug
than in the Arkanoid. Both the free. Even the hi-score table is
hf
master of power. When he is de- innovative and stylish. If you were
et
stroyed peace can once again be res- one of the few who didn't buy the
r- to the universe.
tored popular and famous Arkanoid I can
e The 50 mazes are composed of a strongly recommend that you should
variety of multicoloured bricks
w go for Giganoid instead as it offers
which must be hit with your ball much more long term interest and a
a they are knocked out. After de-
until
s ng all the bricks you continue higher standard o f gameplay,
stroyi graphics and programming.
toPthe next level where you are either
faced Mike George
o with another level or a battle
with
n the demons.
Thedemons form a bonus level in Gigannid
g 1-1.95
which you must return the balls they
, Swiss Computer AHs Microdeal
fire at you. Success in this rather dif-
t
ficult task is rewarded with the
h
Sound 1
chance to skip up to four levels,
dependi
e ng upon how many balls you Graphics 1
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managed
n to return.
At various intervals vou are also 1
t f;a
required to fight larger demons simi-
h to the one at the end of Arkanoid m ue
Val
1
tar
e of course. on the final level you
and, ep
r destroy the master of power,
must
e
la
y 1988
Seprember A M I G A CO MP UTI NG 4 3
 • R E V I E W S •
Agood start - in the brig of spaceshipPandora
T generation s hip i n which
H
colonies g r o w a n d produce
everything
E they need — has
compl
s eted its 200 year mission. Still,
after
p all this time the ship is bound to
beempty. Someone has to board it
a strip it of the alien artefacts it has
and
c lected on its voyage through the
col
gal
e axies.
s That someone is you. but as soon
a
hsyou beam aboard you realise that
somethi
i ng has gone wrong: The 200
year old defencesystem is still active
pmove and you will die instantly.
— you will encounter a host of aliens.
P
But move you must— the ship is
a ng to release poison spores on the
goi
earth
n unless you can set the self
destruct
d may trade with characters, but not
o This gives you a set of objectives:
Find as many alien artefacts as pos-
rsible and drop them into the eject
a between a scrap in Tom and Jerry
— and an old Batman programme,
a complete with BHT! and WHACK!
Nof everyone you meet is triendli
44 A M I G A CO MP UTI NG Septumber )988
PiA ' A
chute, Find the self destruct and set
it. and find the escape ID and get off
the ship before it blows.
No-one, including you, can move
on the s hip without a n ID .
Fortunately, an entry officer runs up
to you and hands you hers, though
this means instant death for her. A
touching sacrifice. For the record, the
entry officer was called Annie in ear•
her versions but in deference to the
Commodore 16 blitter she is likely to
berenamed Amy.
Wandering around the 2D game
not all of them unfriendly. How you
react to one will affect how others
will react to you. For example, you
very successfully if you have killed
other popular characters. If you have
wiped out evil creatures—suchas the
bank manager—then you are more
likely to be trusted. There are clues to
how popular the aliens might be in
the locations where you meet them.
In your quest to collect artifacts
you need to learn how to deal with
individual characters. This may
mean picking up the right ID. There
are four levels of clearance. Alpha,
delta. pi and omega. They work in
ascending order, so you can go
everywhere with an omega pass.
However, the exit pass has no
clearance.
If y ou have made yourself
unpopular you will have to fight the
other characters. With a gun you can
attack them from afar, and indeed
youhave to use this to attack the thief
—he will steal your weapon in hand
to hand combat.
The fight scenes are great. a cross
captions, To fight a character vou
need to be holding a weapon and
advancing. A power meter helps you
time each strike.
Weapons have different strengths
andspeeds, while the characters also
have varying stamina and swiftness.
Choosing the right weapon helps, as
does having the kryptonite which
weakens all foes, though the more
scraps you get into the weaker you
become. You can recover your
strength using the brain, but this only
works once.
When the ship reaches Earth you
can elect to play on. Your home is
destroyed but you can keep on
collecting artifacts and picking up
points.
Pandora is the first major program
from Shahid Ahmad, with wonderful
graphics by Terry Greer and games
consultancy by David Eastman.
Thegame's design draws on many
sources: Wandering around the ship
owes much to Hewsorrs Paradroid,
the fighting owes something to
Gauntlet and the scoring to Atari Star
Raiders. Film buffs will spot referen-
ces to Silent Running and the cult
film Dark Star. Watch out for the
Wackobrain which looks like the
Dark Star alien and will tap its toes.
The Amiga conversion is bound to
be the best. Shahid uses the bhtter
extensively, the music is by David
Whittaker and the whole thing runs
very much faster than on the ST. This
will allow Shahid to give some more
of the characters shadows and tweak
the gameplay.
Oh, and make sure you check out
what the musician is carrying.
Simon Rockman
Pandora
Firebird
E19.99
Sound
Graphics
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Max "The Hacks" Tennant is the master of

to point out that in Electronic Art's
Test Drive you can easily improve
cornering, by holding down the fire
button, when your car w ill effortlessly
glide around the mountainside.
For those players too busy to play
cards in Holly wood Poker he offers
advice to get a sneak preview. Insert
Workbench disc and press Ctri+D to
enter the CIA then type the following
commands:
MAKEDIR RAM:
COPY C/CD RAM:C
COPY C/DIR RAM:C
COPY C/RENAME RAM:C
ASSIGN C: RAM:C
Insert Holly wood Poker disc and type:
DIR
RENAME ISA.1 TEMP
Now choose a picture fi le to preview.
The files have a three letter name
game play. Whatever the game hell win at it,
fair means or foul - often with a little help
from his friends. I f you have a tip for a game
send it in. For every one we print we'll send
you a game from o u r goodie drawer -
together with a Konix Speedking joystick
followed by an extension of 1-5 such that certain puzzle? Why don't you
as 'LOR.5'. Make a note of which one read on?
you chose, then type: Pandora is a multi-scenario game,
so depending on how you play the
RENAME LOR.5 ISA.1
game dictates the rank whic h w ill be
Reboot, then press fire to see the given for fi nishing it. You can, if you
screen. like, just go around k illing anyone
Regular readers, who tune into the who gets in the way and obtain the
Max the Hacks column w ill k now that rank of Assassin.
the joystick master who really knows On the other hand you could trade
his Konix, is Adrian Curry. This with the various characters to obtain
month he has turned his attention to the items you need, depositing any
Pandora. relics you fi nd down the chute to you
The mysterious spaceship is own ship. This w ill yield the rank of
nearing Earth, its long lost home. Priceless.
Why has it been away so long? Why Interaction with the other characters
have there been no communications is a very important factor in Pandora.
with her? Why are you stuck with If you help the characters you come

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to play a more violent character brute , To get on aboard the Generation Fork
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force w ill often be the only solution Ship Pandora it is useful to know Road
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to gain the items you need. who you are lik ely to meet. User
You w ill fi nd various weapons as Amy is the gir l who gives her life to Even with
you explore the decks of Pandora. save yours. There is nothing you can diffi cult, a these hints Impact is
These deal out different amounts of do to save her, The hooligan is a yob addictive. great game and so, so
damage, the best of them being the Po

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M love, but good sound effects
U the Big Macs of synthesised
are
S
warfare. The Amiga has the best
sound
I of any home computer doing
the
C rounds. It speaks. It sings, It can
reproduce
, the last gurgle of alien
blood
m boiling away into the vacuum
of
i interstellar space as accurately as
lesser
g computers imitate an electronic
watch
h going beep on the hour. And it
can do all this because of a little
tsliver of silicon called Paula.
b
Paula (Peripheral M i d i ° Logic
e
Array), together with a few
tsupporting chips. is the Amiga's
h
sound system. It's more than that. The
e
designers took the opportunity to
fsneak in some control signals for the
o
floppy disc interface, as well as some
o
of the RS232 interface. And why they
d this shows a lot of the think ing
did
o
behind modern digital design.
f It might seem odd, this lumping
together of different functions in one
chip, but there is — as always —
method in a digital design engineer's
madness. All of the things Paola does
are peripheral activities; the computer
might want to make a noise, read
some data from a fl oppy or a modem,
but most of the time it won't. So it
has to be able to select whic h
peripheral it wants to use, and send it
data or control signals independently
of the others.
A lot of computer design is
concerned with synchronising
peripherals lik e this, and a lot of the
circuitry — also called logic — in a
reasonably complex computer like
Amy is devoted to this end. And
much of it is replicated — for example
most peripherals provide or need
data, so, as those of you who were
paving attention last month w ill
know, the data bus connects them all
to the central processor and the
memory circuits_
But as the data bus is the only way
to transfer the data for anything, it
can only hold one particular set of
information for a short time before
being needed for something else.
Since most peripherals need to hold
data for quite a long time, they need
to have some way of remembering the
information while they use it, and
long after the data bus has changed.
Looking at Paula's innards on page
A-22 of the Amiga 500 handbook —
A-20 for the 2000 — y ou'll see that the
data bus is connected to a set of data
registers. These are specialised
memory circuits whic h store small
amounts of information and let the
rest of the chip act on it_
Although each separate block of
circuitry — audio, disc, LIART, pot —
within Paula has its own registers,
they all link on to this internal data
bus and share a common buffer.
A buffer is a form of amplifi er.
which takes the signals from the chip
and beefs them up before they hit the
outside world. They have a chance of
surviving the long wires on the
printed circuit board, the pulses of
interference and electronic: noise that
infest a computer circuit. The buffer
also cleans up signals that come in
from the cold before passing them on
to the rest of the silicon.
As all the circuits inside Paula
share the buffer, only one set of pins
is needed on the chip to connect to
the data bus outside. Pins are a
perennial problem for the engineers
who build chips: even the biggest
physical package can only have about
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1
0
0
p
Ti expensive it is to produce, so
hn tendency is towards smaller
the
es
packages with fewer pins. But the
bo
more complex a circuit, the more
signals
in it needs to communicate with
gi outside world, so the more pins it
the
gt
needs. Any thing that reduces the pin
,count, therefore, is regarded with
e
relief.
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52 A M I G A CO MP UTI NG Sept ember 1988


everything into separate packages. But
this costs a lot, and makes the circuit
hoard difficult to design. So lots of •
different functions get stuffed into one
chip. Like Paula.
Control is what it's all about. As
well as the common data bus buffer,
Paula's disparate bits share register
address. DMA and interrupt logic.
Register address is the stuff that
selects which bit gets the data bus
11 when. It comes from Fat Agnus; it
works like the main address bus
which determines which bit of
memory connects to the databus at
what time. Fat Agnus is the memory
controller — amongst others — and it
sometimes needs to he able to tell
Paula and Denise, the video chip,
.11 who some data is intended for.
That's where DMA, Direct Memory
Access, comes in. In earlier computer
systems— some more recent ones, too
—the only thing that could get at the
ram was the central processor, It. and
it alone, could transfer data from the
peripherals to memory and out again.
This meant that performance was
limited and that the processor spent
most of its time doing nothing
cleverer than imitating several pieces
of wire. By letting the peripherals
read and write directly to memory
(DMA...all make sense, really), the
theory goes, the processor can spend
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E H A R D W A R E E
more time working out sums and the data, the processor can't get at the
speed of information ladled out to memory, as the control signal which
screens, speakers and discs increased. says "OK, come and get your data" is
• However, when there are lots of kept waiting, so in practice some of
peripherals with DMA capabilities. the advantages of DMA are lost.
there needs to be some clever However, by clever design the .512k
circuitry to decide who gets of expansion memory can be accessed
precedence. At the bottom of it all, by the 68000 while the rest of the
there's only one set of ram chips and gang are troughing away at the lower
only one device can get at them at chip or display memory, so programs
once. run faster and owners are smugger.
Also, the display memory can
accept or produce information twice
as fast as the processor requests it.
which means the custom chips can
W decides that it's time for often slip in a quick transfer behind
some
h sound data. Denise wants to
the 68000's back. And it's not always
a some sprite data and the 68000 —
read possible to interleave everything,
t
probably miffed at not having a name which is why sound sometimes gets
—
h demands another instruction, all at held up while the disc drive is being
the
a same time? used. Such intrigue; worthy of Dallas
p If they all put the address of their at its steamiest.
data
p on to the address bus The last common block in Paula is
simultaneously
e the only output will the tersely named Int Control Logic
be
n olfactory as the delicate fragrance and its associated registers. Interrupts
of fried package competes with that of
s are signals which tell the processor to
cold
w pizza in the design lab. A stop what it's doing and attend to an
distinctive mix, known as Crie du urgent request.
h
Despair in the trade. For example, the UART section in
e
Fat Agnus considers all the requests Paula is often hooked up to a modem,
nPaula's comes from the DMA
— and the REC block collects the
P
request logic in the top left hand . incoming stream of bits in a buffer.
a
corner of the block diagram — and After nine or ten hits, the UART has a
u
provides data for one lucky chip.
l
While Paula or Denise are receiving
a
September 1938 A M I G A CO MPI I 77NG 5 1

complete byte of information, and the
next byte starts coming in
immediately. So the UART raises an
interrupt, whic h the 68000 gets. This
tells it that it has to retrieve the new
byte from Paula and do something
with it, so that the receive data buffer
can be cleared ready for the next
time.
Of course, the 68000 could spend
all its time checking the buffer, but
then it wouldn't be able to do
anything else. As the audio c ir c ultr i
the
, disc interface and other bits can
,all generate interrupts, Paula also
gives each type an indiv idual
interrupt number. This lets the 68000
know who needs attention, and react
accordingly.
Remember the sound? Now Paula
has the data, the control signals and
the connections, it can make whoopie.
Sound is a series of changing air
pressure levels, lik e the weather but
about a hundred million times faster.
A loudspeaker has a cone or sheet
of material, and uses an
electromagnet to convert a voltage to
the position of that material. I f the
voltage changes fast enough. the
movement of the cone produces
waves of air pressure changes that we
perceive as sound. So all the
computer has to do is produce a
changing voltage that matches sound
54 A MICA CO MP! 'TING Septymber
me. Thank you. Now imagine that
you'ye got 16 bits of data which, if all
ones, w ill represent one volt and, if
all zeros, represent zilcho.
Take the first bit. Connect it to a
potential div ider which produces one
tenth of the input voltage, and y ou'll
get 0.5 volts if the bit is at a one (5
volts), and nowt if the bit is zero (0
volts). Connect the second hit to a
potential div ider that produces one
twentieth of the input voltage — 0.25
volts and 0 volts. Third bit goes to a
one fourtieth divider —13.125v and 0,
and so on,
If you add all the voltages up for all
bits being one, y ou'll get one volt.
And as the number represented by
the 16 bits is decremented
(compuspeak for "has one subtracted
from it") , the sum of all the voltages
from the 16 potential dividers falls
towards zero. So, add up all the
voltages and y ou can have any
voltage you like. That's an analogue
voltage: analogue means smoothly
changeable. In an analogue watch the
waves, and we have M i t a hands don't skip from 3 to 4, they
The Amiga, and all digital smoothly sweep out the space
computers, are happiest when dealing between.
with numbers in binary form. And That's the princ iple of operation of
those are what Paula w ill get from the a digital-to-analogue converter. Look
data bus — a set of voltages whic h w ill at page A-22 (A-20 if you have a
either be 5 volts or zero. It's 2000) again. Two boxes, marked D to
surprisingly easy to turn these into a A Cony, are connected to Left and
single, fully variable voltage. Right Audio Output. Each box
Remember resistors? These are contains two digital-to-analogue
electronic components which, among converters, and together make up the
other functions, reduce voltages. I f four channels of audio the Amiga
you take two resistors of the same boasts.
size, connect them together in a series But if the processor had to provide
configuration and put the whole lot every value for all four channels at
across a voltage then the point the rates that music demands — over
between the two resistors w ill end up twenty thousand times a second — it
at half the main voltage. This is called wouldn't have much time to check for
a potential divider, as the two keypresses, work out what to do nex t
resistors divide the voltage between or any of the tasks that a good game
them. or utility demands.
Repetition is the name of the game
with audio signals. Most musical
noises are a single waveshape
I then the voltage in the middle repeated hundreds or thousands times
f
drops. and if you make the bottom a second. This rate of repetition gives
y bigger the reverse happens. So by
one the note — thousands of times a
o
judicious choice of resistor values, second is a high frequency, and
you
u can make a potential divider hundreds a low one.
which,
m given 5 volts at the top. Different sounds have different
produces
a any voltage below 5 volts. shapes: a fl ute's waveshape is a sine
naturally,
k at the junction of the two wave (as seen in a thousand science-
voltages. fiction fi lms on the screens of the
e
t Now imagine you want to produce decomfibulatory machine), an oboe
an tends towards a triangle shape. and
h audio signal with a peak value of 1
volt. No, I don't k now why you'd violins and pianos have a complex
e
want to either, but imagine, just for waveshape which defies description
t
o
p
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but bears repetition. And the Amiga. than basic repetition going for it rid of high frequencies, because the
with its sophisticated DMA and (scratch devotees take note). But most process of generating sounds by
interrupt structure, helps to do this. of the fr illy bits - the dynamics as rapidly changing digital values can
Write a set of numbers into the music gets louder and softer, the also generate some unwanted and
display ram whic h correspond to the changes in the sound of the note as unsightly side noises. These are, by
amplitude of the waveshape at a the note goes on - take place over and large, much higher in frequency
particular time - starting out as zero, appreciable fractions of a second. The than the desired notes. and can easily
rising to a max imum in a straight line processor can load in new bits of be disposed of by the sort of simple
and dropping hack to zero again, in wavetable as it likes, because the circuits on page F-5.
the case of an oboe-ish note. diffi cult business of shovelling out the Inside Paula there remain the two
Then tell Paula and Fat Agnus (look information is automated it's got blocks called disc and pot. Disc can
at page A-17 - Fat Agnus has some loads of time to work out the niceties. safely be left for another day. And
audio control registers too) where the pot? True, these Californians are
wave starts, where it finishes and how amazingly laid back, but in fact pot is
many times a second it is to be short for potentiometer, a form of'
repeated. Voila. A note w ill play, and potential div ider with a knob on so
the processor can go away and worry O much to worry about. Page F-5 that the ratio of the two resistors can
about intergalactic megadeath again, U
shows the attendant circuitry that be changed at w ill by the user.
Every time Paula has to read some lives
T between the audio output lines Analogue joysticks use these, and the
more data from memory to continue and
S the chip itself. The triangles, 1.114 pot circuitry detects the changes in
the note it can make a DMA request. to
I a man, are amplifi ers in a chip. the voltage and turns them into digital
and Fat Agnus can grant access. The
D resistors and capacitors that numbers that the computer can read.
When the time comes to start the surround
E them form a rather simple And that's (most of) Paula. All this,
wave again, the circuitry recalls the form of tone control. just to say Game Over and play a
P
beginning of the area of ram with the aIt's much lik e the gubbins that hang little tune while you type in your high
data in it and carries on. off
u your graphic equaliser, except that score. Wait until you see how they do
Of course, music has a lot more the the video
l controls are fixed. Mostly, it gets
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cannot be understood by users, and the Metacomco Toolkit. This tool is approach or not is a religious issue —
preferably cannot be understood by not specific to Pascal or the Amiga, given a number of programmers,
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same Real Programmer at a later date. system as a general aid to c ompiling
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structure, variable names longer than It could be the subject of many happy with the editor I use and do
one character, comments and local words, but I w ill limit myself to
996 variables are useless, my work from the CLI anyway, but
5 saying that it is a welcome sight, others have different views.
1 Real Programs should not be reducing the mental energy involved The 300 odd page manual is
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5 a structure that could ever be impressive. Not only does it explicitly
200 recompiling in a large project. The document the details of Metacomco's
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1599-5 used, should be either five to a line, 512k double drive system, and with a a good description of the language in
nate- or span at least fi ve pages. Concepts little perseverance could be used on a general.
6995 like types are only used to impart single drive system. It would be possible, given a
89 95 confusion, as all a Real Programmer
cares about is the bits. knowledge of other programming
languages, to learn Pascal from this
Those of us who are not keen to
manual. It has sensible examples of
enter the ranks of Real Programmers
could do well to use Metacomco's the indiv idual points, as well as some
A mentioned that this compiler is more heavweight examples of
Pascal for the Amiga. This is now in t an integrated environment. It
not complete programs that make use of
its second version, having had bugs t
comprises a program that takes Pascal the Amiga's features. Other sections
removed and functionality added. h
source code in one end, and passes
The c ompiler is provided on one cover the internal workings of the
object
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disc, along with the linker, files for must
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interfacing to the Amiga systems text
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Pascal and the differences from
Borland's Turbo Pascal.
Metacomco Pascal conforms to the
ISO Standard 7185 — Specification for
Computer Language Pascal. with
extensions. The adherence has been
validated, so code from other
validated systems should be relatively
easy to import. Any problems are
going to come in the area of
extensions to the language.
Just about every Pascal compiler
provides extensions to make life
easier for programmers. Those
provided by Metacomco are good,
bringing the system up to scratch as a
serious development language. They
must be explicitly turned on when
compiling, otherwise the compiler
will only accept standard Pascal. In a
similar vein, extensions are noted as
such in the manual.
The lack of variable-sized strings
has always been a much criticised
mis-feature of Pascal. Metacomco
Pascal has been extended with a new
basic type for dynamic strings —
'STRING'. To supplement this, an
appropriate set of string manipulation
functions are included akin to those
provided in Basic.
An excellent set of extensions are
provided for using multiple source
files. The first of these is the
'INCLUDE' statement, other files can
be included in the source as it is
compiled. This allows constants and
record definitions to be moved out
into separate files, possibly for
sharing by several source modules.
T between modules there is an
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import and export mechanism,
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allowing one module to export a
aprocedure and another to import it for
use.
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several
l files not only allows better
fmanagement of the code, but means
that
u only the files that have been
changed need be recompiled — the
n resultant code is no slouch.
clinking of the separate objects into
tone is done separately.
These features are exploited by the
i a sub-professional price, but still a bit
example programs and by the set of
o'include' files that define the interface
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sthese files, the names of constants,
arecords, and record members are the
nsame as those used in the C include
dfiles provided by Commodore. This
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allows sensible use of the existing
Amiga documentation and books, as
well as easing conversion of language
code.
A common extension of Pascal
compilers is in the area of file-
handling. Metacomco has addressed
this area; a useful set of routines exist
for manipulating named files.
possibly in a random access manner.
Another common area of expansion
is to use 'compiler directives'. These
are special commands that tell the
compiler what to do. This gives
control of where the compiler will put
error checking in your program,
allowing working code to be speeded
up, while still keeping suspect
sections under scrutiny.
Metacomco Pascal provides
conditional compilation. This allows
sections of code to be included or
excluded from compilation. A
common use of this is to allow
debugging statements to be applied as
necessary without editing them out.
One of the features of Pascal is that
it includes code in the compiled
output to perform error checking.
This can be in areas such as bad
array subscripts, misuse of pointers
and I/O.
Other useful extensions include:
The 'OTHERWISE' keyword for use
in CASE statements, specification of
integer constants in binary, octal,
decimal or hexadecimal and bit
twiddling operators similar to those in
C vital for using the Amiga's in-built
routines.
There is a comprehensive set of
maths functions, the ability to use
either single or double precision IEEE
floating point, a miscellaneous
collection of routines for interfacing
to the system and other languages for
finding the memory address of an
object, or its size and so on.
The compiler was excellent in use.
It produces a good range of
meaningful errors, accompanied by
the offending line. It will stop at each
error, the compilation can then be
continued or aborted. This pausing
can be disabled if you want. I had no
unexpected problems bringing up
code from another Pascal system.
It was surprisingly fast —
compilations tended to be limited by
the speed of the disc rather than the
compiler. However, the linker
supplied, ALink, is not as spry. It
would be advisable to obtain the
shareware linker BLink as this is
much faster.
The size of the code produced by
the compiler is not stunning, although
this seems to be a combination of the
error checking, which can be turned
off, and Pascal's inability to pre-
inititalise variables.
I a well documented, serious
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development tool. It provides access
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to
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that
documentation
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Amiga
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uno problems with it. However, as it is
spurely a Pascal compiler, nothing
imore, those of you starting from
scratch will need documentation for
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the Amiga, and other tools to support
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sion. and the question about dragging
multiple icons is answered on page
4-34 of Introduction to the Amiga 500.
also supplied with the machine.
Given the amount of space — lar too
little — allocated to this important sec-
tion o f your magazine I feel that it
should be devoted to the solution o f
genuine problems and not to giving a
free ride to people who can't be both-
ered to read manuals properly.
P. Kenton,
Liverpool.
General Assembly
I HAVE recently bought an Amiga 500.
Could you tell me which is the best
commercial assembler available at the
present time?
S. Winstanley,
Colchester.
For a f u lly featured assembler you
should look at the Metacomco (0272-
42871) offering. T h is tends t o b e
favoured b y programmers who are
used t o m in i and mainframe com-
puters. Devp ac from Hisoft (0525-
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fewer enhancements. T h e cheapest
offering
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S e k problems
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I A M upgrading to an Amiga from an
f r
Amstrad PCW so I know very little
about
o the Amiga and the software
available
m for it. I w ill be wanting to
purchase software for graphics and
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sound editing but I am unsure as to
which packages are most suitable.
As I am a hobbyist. I only want to
pay about E60 for each package but
also expect good quality output from
them. The graphics package needs to
be suitable f o r cartoon style frame
work.
J. Graham.
Norfolk.
Ideally you should look at the manuals
for any product you are considering.
Although I can't recommend an y
dealers in Norfolk readers in London
would be w ell advised to visit Pilot
Software City.
Your sound problems could b e
solved with Studio Magic, which costs
,C65 and is available from The Amiga
Centre Scotland (081-557 4242). Your
price limit rules out the Electronic Arts
Deluxe series, so take a look at The
Director, which is sold in the UK by HB
Marketing (0895 444433).
Expansion possibilities
I OWN an Amiga A500 with modulator
and two external drives, and a few
things I have read are giving me cause
for concern. O n e o f the reasons I
bought the Amiga was because I was
told that with the PC Bridgeboard — or
is it Sidecar? —you can get 100 per cent
compatibility with an IBM. Reading
your magazine I get the impression that
100 per cent compatibility can only be
achieved on the A2000. Is this true?
I know you can get a PC transformer
for the A500, but it doesn't offer full
compatibility. Is there a bridgeboard
for the A500? Is the Pacific Peripherals
Write to: The Editor, Amiga
Computing. 78-84 Ongar Road,
Brentwood. Essex, CM15
We'll send the writer of the best
letter each month a program from
our goodie drawer.
Sub-system 500 a bridgeboard for the
A500?
Reading July's Amiga Answers I got
the impression that the A500 is not
easily expandable past 1Mb. I s this
true? Are the two new Amigas aimed at
the business market and w ill they be
compatible w ith all existing Amiga
software? What is a genlock?
Instead of a monitor I use a 14in C
which
- causes unbearable fl icker in
interlace mode. Is there an anti-flicker
I'V
screen for such situations? Can the new
processor ( 6 8 0 3 0 ) a n d m a t h s
coprocessor (68882) b e fitted to m y
A500?
Which 20Mb hard drive would best
suit my computer?
W. Andrew,
Oldham.
Let's take your problems step by step. If
you have two external drives we hope
that you are using a second power
supply for the third drive (DF2:) as the
A500 power supply can't cope with
three.
Sidecar is the PC add-on f o r the
Amiga 1000, Bridgeboard offers the
same thing f o r the Amiga 2000. I t
might be possible to rig up a Sidecar
for a 500, but Commodore advises that
attaching the two would make Sidecar
unreliable. Mo st o f your questions
about the Pacifi c Peripherals Sub-
system are answered in our review. It is
not a bridgeboard, just an expansion
cage. It does not have PC slots, so there
is nowhere for the bridge to go to.
Expanding an A500 to 1Mb is easy—
just fi t the A501 expansion pack.
Beyond that you either need something
like t h e Sub-system o r the Sp irit
Inboard. T h e Inboard slots into the
same hole as the A501 but contains up
to 2Mb.
Unfortunately, d u e to t h e w o rld
Dram (memory chip) shortage, these
have become very difficult to get and
are very expensive. I f you can find one
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slots in the Sub-system. Commodore's Computing found the Eidersofi (0708

expect to pay around E1,000 for it.
The A2500 machines are A2000s
with special expansion cards fitted.
While they will be very expensive -
don't expect too much change from
.C10,000 for the womb Unix system -
they w ill be A2000s under the gloss.
Switch on an A2500UX with the left
mouse button held down and it w ill
run Interceptor as easily as your 500.
Video equipment is very fussv about
when it should receive its signals. Send
an im ag e a t t h e w ro n g t im e an d
everything goes haywire. A genlock is
an interface between the video output
of a computer and the video input of a
recorder, mixing desk, Quante! Harry
whatever other digital effects generator
you happen t o own. I t sorts out the
timing and makes sure the signals are
there when the video wants them..
The flicker is caused by the Amiga
sending more information than tan be
displayed on a n o rmal screen. T o
eliminate it you need a monitor with a
higher scan rate. Then your computer
needs to send the signals in a form that
the high scan rate monitor can use.
Thu Micro way Flick erFixer only
works in a B2000: there are no video
Enhanced Chip Set (ECS) w ill offer
non-interlaced high resolution modes,
but no release date has been set - our
guess is early summer 1989 - and will
still require E400 worth of monitor. A
here and now option would be a long
persistance mo n it o r w hich w o u ld
smear when anything moved.
There are companies which build
mini-computers based on a 68020 so
unless you have some huge number
crunching tasks to do - astrophysics,
ray tracing, that kind of thing - putting
a 68030 in an A500 is a bit like fitting a
jet engine to a C5.
The Supra hard drive from Precision
Distribution ( 01- 336 7166) i s t h e
neatest hard disc.
Sound sampler
I A M a young Amiga 500 owner and
I'm writing for various reasons. Which
is the best value sampler around?
Would y o u recommend a h ead -
cleaning disc, as I have heard that they
can damage the heads, and i f you
would, how much and where from?
Peter White,
Sheffield.
Our survey in the filly issue of Amiga
856468) Pro-Sound sampler to offer the
best value for money. Rumour has it
that Y 2 Computers (0923 50161) is
planning a cheaper. mono, rival. I f you
brushed your teeth every half hour you
would damage them. Disc drive heads
also need cleaning, b u t overdoing it
can damage them. Once every 18
months should be about right.
G am e creat o r
PLEASE could you tell me what I need
to be able to program games on the
Amiga 500. I wish to he able to pro-
gram games which are like bought
ones in terms o f quality. Will I only
need a language such as C or w ill I
need an assembler o r compiler lan-
guage as well?
Reuben Wilkinson.
Herts.
First you need to learn t o program.
AmigaBasic is a good place to start
because you have a free copy with your
machine. Top notch games are written
in assembler, but C is a good stepping
stone. F o r a quick solution t o your
problem look out for Shoot-em-up
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Solve your Amiga anxiety with a
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letter t o Am ig a Answers. O u r
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Now that the Amiga A500 has panel o f experts is ready to sort
colour to YELLOW)
dropped so sharply in price, it out all kinds o f tricky problems.
From mac hine c ode t o m i d i , .#4/0-%271.34m (sets the foreground
is quite lik ely that I w ill upgrade from colour to PURPLE)
my humble Commodore 64. However, communications t o c ompilers .
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the one thing that worries me is the Whatever y o u r ques tion o u r
colour to RED)
virus. Also, with the arrival of the Byte team w i l l fi nd the answer.
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Bandit i t seems t hat i l l s bec oming We cannot deal with enquiries colour to CYAN)
harder to track dow n these annoying personally so please don't send
programs. an SAE'. But we do need loads of When you want to change the colour
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How d o y o u us e the dis c s ec tor questions. S o w r it e t o Am ig a
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recognise it? Once you have found it. North House, 78-84 Ongar Road,
Brentwood, Essex, CM15 911G. colour you want 0 to 6. The printer will
how do you get r id of it? What editors
keep pr inting in the c olour of the last
are on the market, w hic h one w o u ld
command until you tell it otherwise.
you recommend and how much is it?
escape codes and sending the fi le direct I f y o u h a v e a dif f er ent w o r d
B Moffat, to the parallel port to bypass the Pref-
File. processor to Scribble! you may have to
erences but all I get is part of the escape set the escape code differently, but you
code printed in the text. should be able to work out what you
Please c ould you tell me i f there is need.
A 1 an d '2 you should fi nd the any way that I could get the printer to John Farrar.
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boot sector. Unfortunately the way the carry out all of its features while using Cornwall,
f
Amiga creates the boot sector means it with an Amiga 500? 1 was told that
y
that while only the first few bytes are
o
used, the rest is junk from memory.
the Star LC-10 is compatible with the
Amiga. but, is the Amiga compatible
Musical muses
u would need to disassemble the
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code
l to find out what it does. Steve Walker,
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Eastbourne.
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rama is a public domain sector editor. tor, second drive, and printer, which of
k
You You can use the ((C)) com- course made a considerable hole in my
a w ill be able to get a copy from bank balance. I had intentions at the
IC:PUG,
t the Amiga User Group, George mand which won't do quad
time o f adding a M i d i interface once
Thompson
t Associates o r your fave sized text but does all the useful things
source of PD software. While you are at like colour and font settings. the fi nanc es h a d a c hanc e t o r ig h t
r themselves.
it get a copy of VirusX, the PD virus
a
killer. That time has now happily arrived,
c Star colour but I fi nd myself increasingly confused
k as to how logo about building a system
0 Those r eader s w h o hav e, o r a r e which w i l l interfac e a f a ir ly c heap
Bright Star
s think ing of purchasing a colour printer ( under
e s imilar to the Star LC-10 reviewed in . C . the Amiga to be used as a digital
enable
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o sa y with a 'construction set' type
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piece o f hardware, a n d i t defi nitely the format. program.
np t
shines
hs brighter than the competition in I use a Citizen HQP-40 printer fi tted he la/so want to be able to edit this data,
the
aO price range. Howev er! have a prob- with the colour option and the Scribble! in
t" a reasonably user-friendly way for
lem
v. w it h some o f the pr inter escape word processor. The Epson IX-80 prin- storage and playback,
codes. or
e ter option is us ed fr om Preferences, M I Elliot,
te
j While g o in g thr ough t h e LC-10's with c olour chosen from the graphics Lowestoft.
pr hc
u inting features the Star manual gives page of course.
the escape codes for expanded, double Firstly, defi ne the c ontr ol codes at eo
s r
height and quad-sized characters f or the start of your document with the dot A
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t d best valu e M i d i box. w h ile
example, b u t there is n o equiv alent commands lik e this: m
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escape codes w it hin the Amiga pref- .#0/0= %271.70m (sets the foreground iae
u
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colour to ORANGE) than the hardware.
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S inside your Amiga is a 256k
rom.
I
were
In the days of yore when there
haunt being the market number eight to
number five.
Interceptor was not pirated. The
codewheel and good security at
T eight bits to a bus this was a Electronic Arts helped, and the result
lotta
T lotta memory. Now things are a was that a lot of copies were sold.
shade bigger and fitting an operating The more often this happens the more
I town would be easier to drive
system — or at least most of an likely software houses are to put the
N through i f no one parked on yellow
operating system, because much of
G lines, yet everyone does it. effort into producing really good
the Amiga's code is in the libraries on
n Workbench disc— into such an We've never seen the effects of programs.
the
actually getting people to stop It is no good saying that people
e is a squeeze. The programmers
area
parking on yellow lines, but the bought Interceptor because it was
got
x so tight on space that they waited
benefits of killing piracy were made good. If they could have pirated a
until
t the beginning of the next month
clear when Electronic Art's copy they would have done so. As it
to
t save a byte in the date string. Interceptor was launched in June. The is. games players ordered the game
o week before Interceptor came out the when the local shop ran out of copies.
t Amiga had 1.6 per cent of the This Christmas is going to be very
h Gallup's chart. (The ST had 4.4 per important for the Amiga. If we buy a
ep of one large team of hackers cent.) lot of games. more will be written for
When Interceptor hit the shelves it the machine in the future. Rip off the
pImay reduce the number of pirated software houses, and we kill our
grew to 2.5 per cent. This remarkable
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