Amiga Computing

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Volume 2
A Database Publication
Number 4
September 1989
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Alatraging Editor
Derek Meakin
Editor
Simon Buckman 7 LNAETWESST
Commodore regroups for a marketing
Assistant Editor
attack. TeX discovers graphics. The
Jeff Walker
Amiga goes back to school. Clip art
for DTP and Superback save discs.
Production Editor
Peter Clover
1ANIIG ARCADE
Art Editors
Mark Nolan
Doug Steele
THE VERY LATEST
•'ews Editor
Don Lewis GAMES NEWS
Is there life on Mars? Gemini Wing
Advertisement Manager poses double trouble. Virgin signs
John Snowden Monty Python. Imageworks enters the
machine and EA adds to Populous. Epson's 24 pin beauty Page 70
Advertising Sales
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Fair nem 11711gtit, Dave "Beebulator" Parkinson argue secrets used by demo programmers to the menu and finds that it is whatever
Prinalt1 tArilbox, 514588383 about the "right" war to program and do things only the Amiga makes you want it to be with some clever
the merits of trashing AmigaDos. possible. This month: The Copper. code and the right data format.
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VIDEO SOIL t NDZ GAMES REVIEWS
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I CAME, I SAW MAGICAL MUSICAL
CAPTURED TOUR
The fastest video frame grabber also Dean Friedman. chart-lopping rock
serves as a genlock. putting it at the musician, is an expert on using (he
top of every video buff s wish list. But Amiga to make super sounds. He
at E600 it needs to be good. checks ow the best software,
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Henning Sorensen explains what a Adding a Quantum to your life can
device is. why you need a Mountlist make a very big difference. Simon
and why a pipe makes AmigaDos a Rockman looks at the best hard drive
very special operating system. available for the Amiga.
F16 Combat Pilot Page 16
The lasfest dnve to town Page 76
COVER STOR HINTS
GAME
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Rupert Goodwins knows about Macs More magical mayhem from the
but loves his A500. Thanks to happiest game hacker with lips on
Readysoft he can now have the best Populous. Lords of the Rising Sun
of both computing worlds. (Jr can he? and Forgotten Worlds.
Wayne Gretzkv Hockey Page Oi
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• Honda RVF: Trackside triumph
• Is Skweek a Communist plot?
• Get lost with African Raiders
• Two-player turmoil with Xybots
PRETTIEST YOUR RIGHT
• Need you be scared of Phobia?
PRINTER TO WRITE • F-I6 Combat Pilot scores a hit • Savage sounds the angry part.
The Epson 11)-000 is the strong silent Spotting the info bug, sorting out • Wayne Gretzky is the coolest • Mining rocks in Millenium 2.2
type. With a 24 pill face it is also very Citizen's colour quandry, what to buy • F017 takes space trading further • SDI: A coin-op for Reagan's era
good looking. Introduce it to your on a trip to the US and the tell tale • Beat Pmst in Grand Prix Circuit • Time Scanner flips for I meg
computer for colourful results. sign of a dead Amiga,
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Commodore marketing
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being restructured
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C OpoMinMteOdD aO RtrEio h oafs taopp-- setting up a Europe-wide
flight marketeers in a bid to electronic mail system. Each
reclaim the company's UK country will have a local
number one spot. The new telephone number. The
people are Jeff Earl, formerly messages will he collected
with Toshiba, Ienifer Perry, and sent through Commo-
who came from Amstrad US dore's internal electronic
and left' Clifford a high tech mail to Commodore Amiga
consultant. The increase in Technical Support (CATS) in
marketing strength is helped the US. I• -•••••. •ea•.•. •• •• •••••• •o*u •o• ••• •••••••N.m,
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by the promotion of several To holster the UK side of lo•••••• ooilltamoo,
people within Commodore. Commodore's support the
The push will be on all company is looking for 1 Graphics for
fronts with both the PC and people with PC. Amiga or in the November 1988
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Amiga split into home and Unix expertise. If you are issue of Amiga computing AmigaTeX
business markets. Commo- interested in working for 1ge nerated a lot of interest in
dore is already the second Commodore and being Hthe product. so much so that seen nothing yet!.
biggest PC company in among the first people to get ERa dical Eye Software has Not only is it possible to
Europe and the aim is to your hands o n future rnow appointed a UK dis- select the method used for
reflect this success in the UK. products contact Dr Rahman etributor for it's products. All dithering, but you can also
The Amiga developer Haleem at Commodore UK vorders and support are now adjust the degree of dither as
support programme is also on 0628 770088. being handled by The Text well as many other par-
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806 1944), tions can be previewed on
w A n e w version o f screen before printing.
Fantasies oA inigaTeX is imminent. This release means that
A crave the satisfaction of fAp art from a few minor bug AmigaTeX now gives not
into fact
Mputting their own fantasies Afixes and a completely re- only the best text Output
Iinto a workable game will mwritten manual, the major available from the Amiga,
Gwelcome the latest offering used in both games or educa- cihange of this release is the but also some of the best
from Microdeal (0726 tional environments. ability t o include EFT graphics output as well.
A680 20). "We think our main sales ggraphics within a document. The good news for existing
o Following its success on will be from people who aThe amount of control AmigaTeX owners is that
wthe Atari ST, interactive pro- want to write their own ATmigaTeX gives over how update prices in the USA are
ngram generator Talespin has adventures tehe images will be printed is a mere $10 for the program
enow been adapted for the -John Symes. "Talespin can aXstonishing. If you thought and $10 for the manual.
rAmiga. ,a lsso abei add apted for creating Workbench 1.3 offered nice Expect UK prices to be
Talespin allows picture educational s o f t w a r e , graphics support "you ain't comparable.
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files created with most pro- instruction material and in
wprietory painting packages to odemdoensatration work".
hbe used time and time again l 'Aspart from the inclusion
oin an interactive environ- of text, Talespin is mouse TIMING your own tax Taking on
ment. A character can be orientated and included in .1: return is cheaper than
the taxman
created and then appear in a the package is a disc to allow taking professional advice,
number of different guises. created programs to be but few people have the
The artwork scenarios can passed on under public knowledge to be sure they
he linked with text boxes domain. are claiming all their due again to tell Digita he had
allowances. received a further rebate of
and digitised sound supplied The program needs 1Mb
by Microdeal's own Amas of memory and will import Digita International (0395 L689. "What can I say but
c digitiser. The result is inter- artwork from most painting 270273) claims to have the well done", said Mr Staples,
active role play which can be packages. It costs £2995. answer to this problem with Tax Planner is a fully
a new Amiga version of its menu-driven program based
Personal T a x Planner on UK income tax, It asks
program. users a series of questions
Tax Planner has already similar to those on a tax
r r HERE are plans t o Concept for been good news for at least return form. Once details are
develop a Concept key- one Digita customer, Having typed in, it computes the tax
board for the Amiga. Dis- the Amiga? checked his tax affairs with which should be due. There
cussions have been taking an earlier version of the pro- is also a "what if
place between Commodore Plans now await develop- gram, Mr D.S. Staples of -w hficah cwiilll icatlyculate the tax
and Star Microterminals ment of the necessary Amiga Herkshire wrote to the com- liability for changed income
(0962 843322) and it has software to run such a key- pany on June 24 this year and circumstances o r
been established that a Con- board, said Trevor Nice, thanking them for helping changed alowances.
cept keyboard is a workable educational manager for him obtain a rebate of Personal Tax Planner costs
idea for the Amiga. Star. ELM. On July 8, he wrote £39.95.
September 1911.9 AMIGA COMPUTk
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DNS:
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ENV: main attributes of this direct extensive routines for special
CLIPS.
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DEVS: images from any primary line art, multi-picture effects,
MTS.
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LIPS: recorder or video camera. and dramatic 3D sweeps for
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good algorithms, the end Video Magic. Power's soft-
1i01Atqd ($tes only
iiilVlirify whale vrttiag results are exceptionally ware for video presentations.
WM) before overvpitirts good. Pictures c an b e Power has also launched
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digitised i n a ll Amiga its new multi-drive, a 5,25
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formats and in all resol- and 3•5in drive for the
utions. Amiga with twin track
SuperBack In addition t o t h e counter costing E249 and a
O NtioEn osf othfe tmheaj oorr iligminitaa-l hardware. Videon includes new 48Mb hard disc for the
drives ahead
SuperBack was that it could digitising software plus Amiga at E499.
only use dfo: as the backup
device. SuperBack II can so that more memory gives a
now make use of as many faster backup but hampers
floppy drives as you have multi-tasking, more security
attached to your Amiga. in the way the backups are
This is important firstly stored — there is now no New deal
because it makes the backup chance of getting two sets of C OinNtoT ItNhUeIN eGd uitcsa ptuiosnh
process even quicker, and backup discs muddled — market, Commodore (0628 for dealers
secondly it is still possible to Scandinavian language 770088) has launched its
perform backups even if support, plus various other Education Dealer Initiative support facilities, stock
your internal drive is not niceties. '89 aimed at recruiting new holding areas and an educa-
functioning. It would appear that this dealers and restructuring the tion market turnover of
Other improvements with new version is purely a func- present force. E5,000 a month on Commo-
SuperBack II are the ability tional improvement — there Called EDI 89, the new dore products.
to specify the amount of were no hugs to be fixed in moves have split Commo- The principal education
memory used for buffering the previous version. dore's education dealerships dealers must have all the
into three bands. attributes o f authorised
Entry level are the regis- dealers but with sales of
Xerox to
tered dealers who will get E20.000 a month.
T HofE tfhoerm Xeer rvoicxe -Cproerspidoern-t regular mailings and support Distributors will also be
Commodore
ation. Brian C. Weyman. has evenings with distributors. able to gain official authoris-
been appointed v ic e- Next up are the authorised ation if they show a suf-
president o f worldwide dealers who will receive ficient knowledge of the
manufacturing and pur- tive with Mr Wevman's these benefits plus sales market and are prepared to
chasing — a new position in experience is an important leads from distributors and run promotions aimed at
the corporate structure of element in our overall plan visits from Commodore staff education.
Commodore International. to gain efficiencies in pur- for major demonstrations "We now have a big
Mr Weyman (46) joins chasing, production and dis- and direct involvement in enough presence in the edu-
Commodore after 28 years tribution", s aid Irv ing promotions to the education cation market to justify
with Xerox. Gould, chairman anti chief market. expanding our dealer base",
"The recruitment of a executive officer of Commo- Top of the pack are the said Commodore's distrib-
senior manufacturing execu- dore International. principal dealers w h o ution sales manager for the
receive the benefits given to education division, Anton
other bands plus sales leads Bray.
01-LOWING last month's MicroLink passed direct from Commo- "We shall be pumping a
s I: decision to switch the dore, involvement in local lot o f marketing effort
MicroLink electronic mail expands education authority presen- behind the dealers who
service from Telecom Gold tations and invitations to come on board during Edu-
to Istel, it has been revealed error correction as well as shows. cation Dealer Initiative '89.
that the 10.000 subscribers X-Modem. Y-Modem and Tenders will be passed on Commodore's ball is rolling,
will soon have access to the kermit. to principal dealers and they all we've got to do now is
widest range of electronic Subscribers will continue will be able to compete with maximise that momentum".
mail services in Britain. to be able to communicate the Stationery Office on pric- CBM's managing director
New plans include easy with Telecom Gold and ing of Commodore com- Steve Franklin said: "There
access to more than 1.000 other international Dialcom puters. has never been a better time
global databases, inter- systems and MicroLink To qualify, registered for dealers to get involved
national teleconferencing chairman Derek Meakin has dealers just have to return a with Commodore. T h e
and teleshopping. They also promised that the service registration form and author- incentives are there for the
offer Istel's higher speed will continue to undercut ised dealers must have right dealers — and there is
2400 baud rate with MNP Telecom Gold prices. demonstration and technical more to come".
8 ,4AHGA COAIP1MNG September 1989
• A M I G A S C E N E S
Time called
for pirates
A swits,yroN licensee
..took swift action when
FAST. t h e Federation
Against Software Theft, step-
ped in to tell him an illegal
software copying den was
being run in the back room
of his pub. John Heaton of
The Beehive Hotel. Swinton,
evicted the pirates from his
premises and vowed they
would never return.
FAST was tipped off about
the piracy meetings by a soft-
ware dealer whose staff had
discovered what was going
on.
Members of Bolton and
Swinton computer clubs
were believed t o b e
involved, but officials of the
clubs have stressed that the
undercover activities were
entirely unofficial and in no
way condoned by them.
I A ORDSTREAM, t h e Email service books to- political pressure "It was so blatant", said a
electronic mail typeset- groups to sexy magazines", spokesman for FAST. "They
wins award
ting service offered on said Dav id Furionger. apparently moved into the
MicroLink, has won a major "Recently, I discovered we pub, set up their machines
national ward for its creative were setting the labels for HP and started copying. We are
and effective use of telecom- sizes, headlines and any sauce bottles all round the sure that copying has now
munications. other necessary instructions world". ceased in the pub concerned.
The Dorset based com- and send it via their own Since it was set up three but you can never be certain
pany won the £500,000 to .C1 desktop computers into an years-ago. Wordstream has that it has not moved
million turnover award in electronic mailbox. built up a strong base of somewhere else".
the 1989 Business Phone The mailboxes are auto- 3,000 regular customers and
Awards jointly sponsored by matically emptied at high a turnover of £600,000 a
Now Amiga's
the Sunday Times and Brit- speed, the copy is processed year.
ish Telecom. at Wordstream's offices in Collecting his award in a
on the ball
Wordstream i s t h e Poole a n d t h e r epr o ceremony at The Savoy in
brainchild of David Furlon- bromides are ready within London, David Furlonger
ger. He supplies customers two hours. They are then said: "Email adds the vital
with communications soft- sent by post or courier back element of reliability to the S Ha OCRoTmLmY oadftoerr eb edceoamleinrg.
ware and a manual setting to the customer. transfer of informaton from Ladbroke Computing (0772
out the simple codes which "We have a very wide user to processor. It has 21474) is making its mark on
are needed. They write and range of customers from created the vehicle for the Amiga world. It has
mark up the copy with type publishers of foreign phrase Wordstream's success". already developed its own
range of Amiga expansion
boards and has come up
Share a with what is thought to be
the first trackball for the
Commodore bonanza
monitor Amiga.
The boards, which slide
under the Amiga come fitted
T H E Amiga and the Atari are expected to turn up at with a switch which will
ST may be competitors C now thrown i t s The Great Hall. Alexan-
knock out 0.5Mb of ram to
but one British company has sOupport behind the Com- dra Palace from Novem-
accomodate software which
tThreit obgeisc t( 0o2f7 4b 6o9th11 w15o) roldftsen. MpuTtehre S ghroopwpeirn Sgh loiws.t of be"rT 2h4e t oc h2o6i.ce of Commo- does not need the full 1Mb.
M A baseboard costs E17, the
receives requests for leads to exhibitors includes many dore products will never
enable two computers to Ohousehold names in the have been greater nor will board with battery-backed
clock £24.99, the board with
share one monitor. The most DCommodore market in- the number of special
ram installed £107.99 and a
popular combination is the Ocluding Silica Shop, show offer s
Amiga and the ST. RHiSoft. Equinox. Eves- —Michael Meakin. head of fully populated board with
clock is E119.99.
enIatsb lense awn ym townoi tcoorm sphuaterersr EhAanm vi.k Ma.e gPaolasntdr, oMniicxro. .ob rigtiaonnisse. rsi Dta twabialsle b Eex hai- The trackball specially
which have TV or monitor UTrilogic and Tynesoft. sbonaanzia dfor Commodore designed by Ladbroke for
leads ending in a Scan t plug K U p to 40.000 visitors owners". the Amiga is now on sale at a
to share one TV or monitor. h price of E24.99.
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