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caruiPUTE
JANUARY 1991
VOLUME 13 •NO, 1 •ISSUE 125
Editorial License 6
PETER SCISCO
Designing computer products for the consumer market is a difficuli task, but it's not impossibk. News & Notes 8
EDITORS
Stupid ii'mdows 3.0 tricks. PCs wrapped in 16-inch steel, N.^SA's out-of-this-world BBS. and automated telephones that save lives. Letters 10
ED1T0R.S
Going loco for UXiO, dropping the exclamation mark, and smoothing out the rough edges. Reviews 90
H'(>i^, The Game of Harmony. and Balance oflhe Planet for the PC; Migraph Hand Scanner and 7oijr/i- Vp for the Amiga; H'Acrf in Time Is Carmen Sandiem^ for the 64.
IN FOGUS
1991 COMPUTE Choice Awards 1^
EDITORS
Once again, we pick our favorite consumer hardware and software products for the PC. Conversations 24
KEITH FERRELL
Jan Davidson is a former teacher who now teaches from the office of her own software company. She explains how mastering basic skills can pre- pare a child for the challenges of higher-order thinking. COMPUTE'S January
Sharepak Disk 26
RICHARD C LEINECKER Have fiin with numben. discover buried treasure, process text with multiple windows, and sample COM- PUTE'S PC Prodiicmily PowerPak.
HOME OFFICE
COMPUTE Choice 26
JOEY LATIMER
UtterPeifeci may be a scaled-down version of WordPerfea 5.1, but it has a big list of features. The Art of Smali
Business 36
ROBERT BIXBV
Use your PC to create a company logo, letterhead, or business form.
ON THE COVER
Artist Alan Lee Page createtj our January cover on
a Dicometj computer called the Imaglnator. The work
is a multimetdia collection made with still photography
and computer-enhancement techniques.
CX>MPUTE Your ComplBlo Home ComputBr Reiource (ISSM 0194-3S7X) Is published momtify m the Unrted States and Canada By COMPUTE Put:lfcatians Internaliohal Lljd-. 1965 Broadway, New ftlhi. NV 1 0O23-596S, \blume :3. Number l. 1sb;j6 1 25. Copyright © 1990 by COMPUTE Pul:licatong Internationa! Ltd. All nghls [^served, Tel (2I2| 49fr6l00. COMPUTE is a ri^istorHd trademarv ol COMPUTE Pubiicatiors International Lid Printed m the USA and dtslrjtxjted v^iddwiOe by Ciirtis CirculatJon Company, P.O. Box 9102, Pennsaulteh. NJ 08109, Secc«d^^as5 poslaga paid al New Vtyk, NV and at additional mailing olf<*$ POSTMASTEH: Send oddrese chanffeB lo COMPUTE Majaiino, P.O. Boji 3245, Hirian, lA SI 537-3041 Tel. (800) 727 6937. Entire contents copyngWad All rights rflserved. Notning may t» roprDducedin whole or in partwiittoutwfitten poriniasion fnsmttw p^jtjtisher. SuPscriptions: US, AFO ■ S19.M one year Canada and elsewhere - $55.94 one year. Single (2ip«s S2.95 fi US. Tlw piitiltsherdisciajms all respoflsibijity to return unsototed mailer, and ail ri^ts in poriions {x4)«sh«d (hefeof rernan the sole properT^ o( CXIMPUTE PuOfccatons Inlefnatjonal Ltd. Utters sent ID COMPUTE or is edrtors Peccme ihe property ol Ihe magazine. Editorial offices are located at 324 WIB! V*ndover Aienue. Suite 200, Greensboro, WC 27408. Tel |91S1 275-9609,
WorlcPiace 42
D.-^NIEL JANAL
When explaining your work, it pays to be clear and specific. But be care- ful not to paint yourself into a
comer.
DISCOVERY
COMPUTE Choice 50
WAYNE N. K.AWAMOTO
With DeluxePaim Animaiion, you can make elephants fly and puppets come 10 life,
THE WORLD OF ELECTRONIC GAMES
Electronic Wortds
Without End 60
KEITH FHRRELL Each year, computer games and videogames become more exciting and realistic- Just how far will these games go in the years to come?
Reaims of Adventure 65 KELLEE MONAHAN Take a peck at the best Dungeons &. Dragons art and le^m about the pub- lic's fascination with the D ife D phenomenon.
Buck Rogers Returns 70
K.ELLEE MONAHAN
Our favorite space hero returns in a
new role-playing game. Learn and Play, Play
and Learn 75
Getting an educalion has never been
more fun. The Gaming Globe 76
BOn LINDSTROM
Sample new gaming technologies and ucnijs from around the world.
Exploration Games 78
Inteiactive electronic worlds await your voyage of discovery.
Far Stars and Distant Worids ao
Science fiction and interactive electionics are made for each other— and game desipers are making the best of it.
Building Worids 84
Create your own universe through electronic games.
Star Tech 86
ERIN MURPHY
Hot products from the worlds of elec- tronic games.
You'll imep look atradng ppoffrms tiw same way agm.
Stunts turns driving games up- side down. Literally, It comes with 14 different hair-raising stunts, including pipes and corkscrews forwhite-knuckle, upside-down driving!
Not to mention loop-the-loops, slaloms and jumps! All so realis- tic you may want to bring along motion sickness pills.
Buckle yourself into one of eleven blistering cars. Each with a dead- en dashljoard and downright amazing driving characteristics.
Race on five gut-wrenching tracks. Or use the Track Editor to build your own monster courses!
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Watch replays from 3 video cameraangles, orsetyourown.
Get a heart-poundlng cockpit view wlUi blazing 3-D polygon graphics.
Challenge any of six Ice-ln- thelr-yelns competitors In 256-color digitized animation.
Stunts is published by Broderbund and was developed by Distinctive Software, Inc., the same speed demons who designed Test Drive" and The Duel: Test Drive IT
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CLIFTON If^RNES
We lend !o think of PCs as high- powered calculators, but they're much more than that— they'ie expert coinmiinicators. Feedback PC-4
READERS
It's possible to use large amounts of extra RAM memor)- as a simulated disk drive. Here's how to set one up.
Multitasking Sliowdown
PC-10 JACK. NIMERSHEIM ff you could turn your single-tasking DOS-based PC into a multitasking tool, would you be interested?
■ntroDOS PC-18
TONY ROBERTS
XCOPY is a clear iraprovemeni over COPY, but many users ignore it With a choice of ei^t possible switches, it's hard to know where to begin. Why use XCOPY? It's faster, more powerful, and smarter.
News & Notes PC-22
.^L.AN R. BECHTOLD
.■\shton-Taie hsteiis to dBase users, microchip giants may be a little wor- ried about Gilbert Hyatt, The S'm Priitl Shop Companion hits (he streets, and ntore. Online PC-24
GEORGE CAMPBELL If you're tired of being pui on hold when you call a support line, there's an answer as close as your modem. PC DIsIt Update PC-26
JOYCE SIDES
If you've called the technical support department during our transition pe- riod, we'd like to thank you for your patience, We're trying a different ap- proach to technical support. Hot Tips PC-28
READERS
Run any program on your hard drive, use .WSI.SYS to set your screen col- ors, scroll with WordPerfecl, and swap the contents of two files.
COMPUTE is looking for exceptional com- puLer.{encral{d an for use on future covers and mth ftalure articlts. IfiDu'it icomputcr anist ifflerestM in national exposure, seoi us cumjiltsof iour»Drk in either color slide or transpaitncy formal. Include a brief nou: lisi- isg ihc !iik ofihc toik and Ihc handware and software i««l m its creaiion. Please address jour samples to An Director, (TOMPUTE Putlicalions Inlemational Limited, 324 West Wendover Avenue, Suite 200. Greensboro, Nonh Carolina 27408.
AlVIIGA RESOURCE
Amiga View A-1
DENNY ATKIN Is .Amiga software competitive? News & Notes A-2
HARV L^SER and SHELDON ■THE EAR" LEEMON
News, new products, and insider gossip. Opening New Windows A-6
PEGGY HERRI NGTON The Amiga operating system takes a giant leap forward with the release of Workbench 10. Why should you Jump with it? Feedback A-1 2
READERS and EDITORS Getting serious about Amiga math, spreading the word, and fattening up .Agnes. Spotlight A-1 3
JOHN FOUST
Adding a hard drive to your Amiga makes it like a new computer.
Abstractions A-1 4
ARLAN LEVITAN Arlan looks at the state of the Amiga and plans a hostile takeover. CLI Clips A-1 6
JIM BDTTERRELD
Our CLI guru takes a look at how to sun ive in a rodent-free environmenL
On Disk A-1 7
Featured on this issue's disk: GammoiiX. Stoiimains. Spkeroidi. and Imiiuon MakeDir. Plus the in- credibly useful Mach III. select "An Gallery" pictures, and more.
Download A-26
SHELDON LEEMON Boot up Mach 111 from this month's Amiga Resource Disk and watch your Amiga take off. Just for Fun A-28
SHAY ADDAMS
Harry Coppcrman goes counlry-and- western, and other amazing predic- tions and prognostications from our ads-entuiesome coiumnisl.
Art Gallery A-30
Computer art on display; Katmandu. Rick and U'orbtaiion. Taking Sides A-32
RHETT ANDERSON vs. R.ANDY THOMPSON The Commodore .Amiga vs. the Sega Genesis: Is the Genesis the best game machine, and does it rcallv matter^
GAZETTE
64/128 View G-1
TOM NETSEL
Computer show attendees have pro- vided feedback on the magazine's new format but now we'd like to hear from the rest of our readers. News & Notes G-4
EDITORS
A new BASIC enhancement, an up- dated word processor, and an outra- geous ad\enture are some of the new ilems in the 64 market. Reviewer's Choice G-6
REVIEWERS
Software reviewers pick their favorite programs of Ihe past year.
Feedback G-1 6
EDITORS and READERS Readers ask about combining pictures and text, datasettes, delays with ar- rays, missing t\pe-ins, and establish- ing electronic bulletin boards.
D'lversions G-22
FRED D'IGNAZIO What you see may not always be true, thanks to computcrijed images.
Beginner BASIC G-24
LARRY' COTTON
Learn how to maneuver eight holiday sprites across your screen,
PROGRAMS
LarulBf G-25
PAULCOMSTOCK Maneuver your spacecraft through hostile fire as you try to deliver needed supplies to space colonists. List Formatter G-29
D.AVID W.MARTIN
Here's a utility that will increase the readability of BASIC program listings. It's great for printouts, too.
Dissofver G-30
JESUS MENDOZA ESCAU3NA Use this short machine language rou- tine to add drama to your text screens by making tevt dissolve and material- ize at will.
Modufe 64 G-31
MICHAEL J. GIBBONS
You no longer arc restricted to the 64's memory limitations with this utility that loads and links BASIC subrou- tines or modules from disk.
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EDITORIAL LICENSE
PETER SCISCO
The Swiss painter and sculptor Paul KJee once defined art this way: "Art does not render the visible: it renders visible." That phrase has never left me, for it so neatly describes the way the creative process works. The best human en- deavors, no matter which field they are bom to, do not merely represent the obvious, but instead make the ob- scure plain. It's true in art, in gover- nance, in industry. It's true even in home computing.
Potentially, every software and hardware product released to the pub- lic has an audience, no matter how small or specialized. That's the power of the personal computer. But some products do more than that; they bridge the gulf between specialty and generality. Designed for the individ- ual, they appeal to the group. Some- times it's a technological innovation. Sometimes it's a different perspective. But whether they're based on innova- tion or insight, these products shape the com- puting landscape with an invisible hand and become the standards against which others of their kind are judged.
For the third year, the editors of COM- PUTE have fought for what each believes to be the best consumer soft- ware and hardware products. The merits of each contender weighed evenly in the analysis, but in the end all of the others gave way to the 20 products that top our list. Those that did not come out on top are cer- tainly worthy of your at- tention; we've tried to guide you with our re- views, "COMPUTE Choice" articles, and features.
This year's winners cover the gamut of home computing, from
C O M P U T
extended office to entertainment. They appeal to every age, from pre- schooler to adult. They touch every level of exjjcrtise, from power-user professional to eager initiate. The list offers a glimpse into the world of con- sumer computing and renders visible the many levels of sophistication to be found there.
Designing computer products for the consumer market is difficult. Some people think it impossible. Among our winners are several prod- ucts that defeat that latter judgment and several more that, though not de- signed as consumer products, never- theless succeed in bringing technological wonder home.
It's an idea whose time has come, as evidenced by the increased atten- tion being lavished on home com- puter users over the last six months. New products from major companies give credibility to computer users long dismissed as hobbyists or game play-
ers. The home computer owner is fi- nally gaining recognition as a serious, productive computer user, whose needs are as valid as those of anyone in the corporate computer world (many times they're one and the same penon) and whose reliance on outside sources for technical support and in- novative solutions demands a credi- ble response.
COMPUTE has provided that re- sponse for some time and will contin- ue to do so. We'll explore the avenues of technological promise and the strat- egies of innovation. We'll map the evolving landscape of home comput- ing, even as we maintain our connec- tion to the inventive steps that got us here. .4nd we'll do all of this with one goal in mind: to serve the reader by acting as both guide and medium, as a channel for the exchange of ideas that will propel home computing through this decade and into the next. This month, for example, you can interact \nlhCOMPUTEhy telephone, making your own choices for the best home computer prod- ucts (see page 16).
That's just one of the many innovations we've planned. In the coming months, you'll be treated to an array of new perspectives. COM- PUTE remains open to your feedback, and, as always, appreciates your ideas, suggestions, and observations. Like the hardware and software we cover, COMPUTE continues to evolve, working to maintain its unique perspective on home computing.
Choice. Grade A. Top gun. Number 1. Here is COMPUTE'^ tribute to those few home computing prod- ucts that render the power of home com- puting visible. Q
Think of our software as an endless supply of frequent flyer mileage.
At PC Globe, Inc. we thrive on mak- ,^; ing things simple. It's the concept that's allowed us to combine traditional maps and geogra- phy with world facis and statistics.
Simply pnk you're able to t
the entire world to your computer without having to board a plane or manage a library. ^
PC GLOBE 4.0,
THE WHOLE WORLD FOR $69.95
Here, in the efficient space of a few diskettes, is a simple to use "electronic atlas" that provides instant profiles, detailed maps and enhanced graphics for 190 countries and dependencies. What would ordinarily take hours to research becomes accessible in the split second it takes to press a button.
An almost endless combina- tion of data may be displayed on detailed maps or via colorful bar charts.
What's more, PC Globe software supports popular programs for creating graphics and preparing text.
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PC USA 2.0, DISCOVER AMERICA
Packed with many of the same features as PC Globe 4,0, PC USA provides current and historical information for all 50 states and Puerto Rico. Included is a self-updating time zone map, detailed state and city data, colorful slate flags and songs. It's as if you could take a tour of the states without ever leaving your chair.
Once again, simple to use. Once again, only $69.95.
What we've done here is pro- vide a new set of tools for living in a global world. Affordable programs that allow more time for understanding - and a better understanding of our times.
"PC GLOBE AND PC USA ARE ^ SUPERB PROGRAMS THAT
MAKE GEOGRAPHY COME
ALIVE, Barry Simon. PC MaRaiin^
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■ Political alignment maps such as NATO, OPEC, etc. ■ Automatic currency conversion and exchange rates
■ Time zones for major cities with international dialing/ham radio codes
• Point-to-point distances and bearings
• All information updated annually
A WORLD OF COMPARISONS
• Each country's flag and anthem is repro- duced with exceptional detail and music
• Major attractions, visa requirements, health conditions and languages
• Economic, political and population data
• GNP, import/export and commodities ' Data may be
cross-compared between all countries or between regions • Data and maps are easily
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Circle Reader Servfce Number 127
EWS & NOTES
They Shoot PCs, Don't They?
Most modern military buffs will recognize the Stinger as an infan- try-launched antiaircraft missile. But it's also the name of a tough high-powered PC from Bestway Systems in Yonkers, New York. Under 16-inch gauge cold-rolled steel beats the heart of a 400-watt power supply, a 386 or 486 pro- cessor, and a high-capacity unin- terruptable power supply. The U.S. Navy has bought several, and the U.S. Army is also interest- ed In the machine — provided it survives the ballistics test. PETER SCISCO
The Final Frontier
Teachers who want to provide their students with the most up- to-date information about the U.S. space program will appreciate NASA Spacelink. This 24-hour bulletin board service provides updates on all current space pro- jects, from daily reports on the space shuttle to situation reports on the Hubble Space Telescope to weekly reports on the Magellan mission to map Vfenus. In-depth reports on the history of rocketry and space exploration are also available. You can leave mes- sages and questions for NASA personnel or read press releases and recent congressional testimo- ny about NASA. All information can be downloaded for later use. The BBS number (in Huntsville, Alabama) is (205) 895-0028. NASA Spacelink operates at 300, 1200, or 2400 bps; and the pa- rameters are 8, n, and 1 . ROBERT BIXBY
Peek behind these windows to discover a team of Microsoft programmers.
Our Gang
Ever wonder who really devel- oped Windows 3.0? Well, just be- tween us, there's a secret key sequence that displays the Win- dows Gang Screen, a list of all the Windows 3.0 developers' names. Here's how to get it.
First, minimize all your appli- cations, including the Program Manager. Next, hold down F3 and type win3. (Be sure to hold down the F3 key while you're typing win3.) Last, release F3 and press the backspace key.
Your wallpaper will be re- placed with a screen of the Win 3 development team. If the names look a little strange, it's because they're the developers' computer log-ons. Under DADS, for example, you'll see billg for Bill Gates. Click a mouse button or press a key to make the gang screen disappear.
If this whets your appetite for more and you have Microsoft Word for Windows, here's how to get that program's gang screen, which in- cludes background fireworks. This is a little involved, so hang on.
Choose Format from the menu bar and Define Styles from the pull- down menu. Click on Options. In the Based On combo box, select Nor- mal (be sure Next Style is Normal). You'll get an error message. Click on OK in the dialog box and Cancel in the Define Styles box.
Next, choose Help from the Word for Windows menu bar and Atout from the pull-down menu. When the dialog box appears, press your Caps Lock key. Now for the big moment: Press and hold the keys 0, P, U, and S. The dialog box will be replaced with multicolored fire- works, and the names of the WinWord developers will scroll by. Be sure to notice the names under Penguin Trainers. I'm still wondering exactly what they did. CLIFTON KARNES
I'm OK. Are You OK?
Annoyed by computerized solicitation calls? You'll be glad to hear that the technology that makes them possible is also saving lives. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, Northland Innovation introduced an automated system called Are You OK? that calls elderly, home- bound, and handicapped individuals at regular intervals. If they fail to answer the telephone on the second attempt, the system notifies the operator (usually a police station or other emergency response ser- vice), and someone is dispatched to make sure everything is all right. By using inexpensive, off-the-shelf technology, Northland Innova- tions is able to sell the unit at costs easily absorbed by local govern- ment or fraternal organizations. For information, contact Northland Innovation, 1 626 Terrace Drive, St. Paul, Minnesota 551 13. ROBERT BIXBY
8 COMPUTE
JANUARY 1991
No other training— in school, on the job,
anywhere— shows you how to troubleshoot and
service computers like NRI
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No doubt about it; The best way to learn to sen'ice computers is to actually biiiM a sate-of-lheart computer from Uie ktyboaid on up. As you put the machine together, performing key lesLs and demonstrations at each stage of assembh', )ou see for yourself how each pan of it works, what can go wrong, and how )ou can fix it.
Only NRI— the leader in career-building, at-home electronics tisining for more than 75 years— gives you such practical, real-world computer sen-icing experience. Indeed, no other training— in school, on the job, an)'U'bere— shows you how to troubleshoot and service computers like MU.
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Richard Leinecker's articles on Logo {COMPUTE! Meiy 1990, pp. 28, 76) reawakened an enthusiasm for the language that had died when my old Apple II went into the attic in 1984 and I joined the PC revolution.
Stimulated, I shared my thoughts on Logo with some friends who have a young family. "Great," they said. "Where can we get it?" — a question which, three months later, remains unanswered. Nobody advertises it in your magazine — or anyone else's for that matter — and here in Hong Kong, we do not have the reference sources available to your domestic readers.
First, I tried a Logo clone in Microsoft's CD-ROM library. Bill Gates should be ashamed of that one. It is a pale shadow of the Logo I re- member and has an incoherent so- called Help file to which no young mind should be exposed.
In desperation, 1 tried a pirated copy from our city's infamous Golden Center. Crime does not pay. Not only did it have a virus, but it refused to re- spond to graphics commands — a de- fect which some say is due to incom- patible DOS versions (I have 3.2).
The worst part of the story is that none of the present generation of computer literates in this part of the world have even heard of Logo. To •educate them, and others, perhaps Richard could trace the histor>' of this unique educational tool since it was created by the National Science Foun- dation in 1 968.
Before that, however, please tell us where we can buy it.
TED MILLER
CHEUNG CH AU. HONG KONG
Richard Leinecker responds: Logo Writer is available from Logo Computer Systems, 3300 Cote Verdu, Suite 201, Montreal, Que- bec, Canada H4R 2B7 (800-321- 5646). There are several different packages ranging from a home ver- sion to a school version with ready- made lesson plans.
Asfor the history of Logo, may-
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I enjoy your publication and disks. Thanks for removing the exclamation mark from the magazine title. I am a retired engineer from the NASA space program, and while I don't care for games as such, I have gotten my mon- ey's worth from your other selections on the disks and have profited from articles in the magazine.
I look forward to more desktop publishing articles and news of new computer technologies.
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JANUARY 1991
THREE OF THE MOST LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED BOOKS EVER PUBLISHED ON WATCHES
D Rolex: Timeless Elegance by George Gordon. ll'A x 9Win7310 x 234min. 350 pages, 292 colour illustrations, in slip case. A Certificated Limited Edition. ISBN 962 7359 01 7. Features the company's origina] designs, period advertisements and certificates. However, the highlight of this luxurious volume is the sumptuous modem colour illustrations of 63S Rolex watches of all ages. $160.
a Cartlen A Century of Cartler Wrlstwatchss
by George Gordon. 12W x 9i/4in./3l0 X 234mm. 552 pages, 450 colour illustrations, in slip case. A Certificated Limited Edition. ISBN 962 7359 02 5. Louis Cartler created the first man's wristwatdi in 1904 and this book illustrates them frotn this date to the present day. The hallmark of this book is the lavish , high quality, modem colour illustrations of 1002 wrist watches. $225.
D Twentieth Century Wristwatches by George Gordon, IVA x 9Win./310 x 234mm. 364 pages, 300 colour photographs. ISBN 962 7359 03 3. Twentieth Century Wristwatches is a look at the development of wristwatches during this century. The finest wristwatches by the greatest Swiss companies from the beginning to their finest productions of the 1920-I950S have been assembled in this unique book including beautiful photographs and complete descriptions. SISO
Please add SIO.OO per book for airmail. Send your check or money order to: Timeless Elegance c/o Michael Stevens, General Media, 1965 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10023 Tel: 212 496-6100. Fax: 212 874-1349. (N.Y. residents add sales (ax.)
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A magazine comes complimentary with your membership. Published in English, bi-monthly, it will contain reviews on what's happening in the wristwatch market around the world with reports on sales and auctions, and news about new products just being designed. There will also be a question and answer column for collectors and dealers, as well as a column where watches can be sold or bought. If you have any interest in writing an article for the magazine, sharing an old catalogue or have stories about yours or others' wristwatches, the editor would like to hear from you. The association plans a new book next year, and your wristwatch could be included if you so desire.
Membership fees are USS75,00 per year, (If you require your magazine sent airmail, there is an additional US$25 charge.)
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A new international club for collectors and dealers of wristwatches is being formed with headquarters in four cities, Milan , London , New York and Hong Kong, Called "International Collectors of "Time Association", the club's purpose is to provide an avenue for the exchange of ideas and information between wristwatch collectors.
Each chapter will have its own Board of Directors to oversee that area's
activities.
Four meetings of the International Collectors of Time Association (ICTA) are planned per year. The first meeting will be in May, 1990 in Hong Kong at the Park Lane Radisson. The second meeting is scheduled for September, 1990 in London at the Churchill Hotel, followed by the third conference in New York in December, 1990. .More details will be provided later, but the Hong Kong meeting will give collectors an opportunity to meet other collectors and dealers from around the world.
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COMPUn CHOICE
Now in their third year, the (TOMPUTE Choice Awards recognize those products that best answer the home computer user's diversified needs. You'll see a favorite or two among our prizewinners. There were many worthy contenders this year, as you'll see on page 22 in the article "Honorable Mentions." And to top it all off COMPUTE readers can cast their own votes by phone (see page 1 6) for products in the four main categories: Home Office, Entertainment, Discover)', and Technical.
We hope the COMPUTE Choice Awards will serve you as you seek products for your computing needs. Use them as a guide, as an indication. Let us put our experience on the line for you. >
HOME OFFICE
SMALL BUSINESS ORGANIZER
Microsoft Works 2.0
For new home businesses, the value of a good integrated package can't be over- estimated. The comfort of a single in- terface provides uncomplicated access to several companion applications while it shortens the time it takes to learn any one of them. The newest overhaul to Microsoft Works, version 2.0, provides all of these benefits and more. Its seamless integration and pow- erful applications show once again why, when it comes to low-cost integrated software, this package remains king of the hill.
Beyond the program's easy-to- learn interface lies a group of applica- tions that will serve the needs of almost any home office computer user. The word processor is hardy and boasts a spelling checker and a thesaurus, the spreadsheet is large enough for any but the most complex number-crunching tasks, the database is flexible and easy to use, and the communications mod- ule makes getting online easier than ever.
In garnering a COMPUTE Oioice Award, Microsoft proves that an up- grade can be more than flash and fili- gree. Works isn't the least expensive integrated package on the market, and it lacks some features offered by its many competitors. But if you're look- ing for a powerfiil set of software that incorporates the best in PC interface de- sign. Works remains the best of the lot.
WORD PROCESSING
Amf Professional 1.2b
Most people don't need a high-end desktop publishing program. They need a powerful WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) word processor that includes basic desktop publishing capa- bilities. That's the philosophy behind the Windows-hSiitd Ami Professional which stresses ease of use and graphics- related features. For the simple tasks for which most people use PageMaker — placing graphics on a page, wrapping text around graphics, and drawing rules and boxes — Ami Pro can easily do the job. In addition, Ami Pro has a gener- ous supply of advanced layout features, including the ability to anchor graphics and sidebars to text, rotate graphics, manipulate gray scales, and create eye- popping charts.
Ami Pro doesn't neglect its word processor side, either. Its meat-and- potatoes features include a spelling
checker, a thesaurus, mail merge, and table-of-contents and index generation. More advanced word processing fea- tures include sophisticated style sheets, a first-rate table editor, a handy formula editor for simple spreadsheet opera- tions, and extensive macro capabilities. You can even install your favorite pro- gram commands as icons on the side of the screen.
For its powerful WYSIWYG text handling and superior layout capabili- ties, Ami Professional earns this year's COMPUTE Choice Award for Word Processing.
DESKTOP PRESENTATION/VfDEO
DeluxePaint Animation By bringing together powerful anima- tion tools with an interface anyone can use and enjoy, Electronic Arts' Deluxe- Paint Animation has earned its plaudits as a COMPUTE Choice in the catego- ries of Desktop Presentation/Video and Creativity.
Animation is the heart of presenta- tion graphics, and the PC worid is well served by DeluxePaint Animation. Its mouse-driven interface will be no mys- tery to anyone who has used Deluxe- Paint. Its tools and procedures are intuitive. Nearly all commands have both menu and keyboard equivalents that allow you to access important page-flipping commands while main- taining your mouse position.
DeluxePaint Animation can pro- vide automatic page flipping, allowing you to use animated brushes to create smooth, realistic motion through a se- quence of eels. And you don't have to draw all the intermediate steps in the animation process. DeluxePaint Ani- mation does this for you, creating as many changes as you request between two brush shapes. Thus, you can gradu- ally metaphorphose a chicken into an egg or a bouncing ball into text on the screen.
Imaginative people will have no trouble seeing the uses to which this program can be put. There's nothing like live action to put a point across, so this product is a natural for business presentations or catching the eye of passersby at a trade show. But the inter- face is simple enough to be grasped by children, who will be intrigued by the cartoons they can create.
DESKTOP PUBLISHING/GRAPHICS
Express Publisher
Desktop publishing software keeps get- ting more and more sophisticated. Ex- press Publisher from Power Up! sports 300 dots-per-inch output on PostScript or HP-compatible printers, dot-matrix and ink-jet support, scalable fonts.
kerning, autohyphenation, and more. But the most unexpected feature is the price tag — under $ 1 50,
Express Publisher gets high marks for its user interface. Mouse support and pull-down menus complement an easy- to-leam icon-based command system. Import text from Word, Works, Word- Perfect, WordStar, IBM DCA, or ASCII files and place it in an onscreen box. Render the text in Times, Triumvirate, or Univers typefaces (others are avail- able at extra cost); and scale it from 6 to 144 points. The scalable AGFA Compu- graphic fonts will print at your printer's highest resolution, whether you're using a $5,000 PostScript printer or a $500 Ep- son dot-matrix printer.
Liven up your boring text pages with clip-art graphics. Over 200 TIFF- format images are included. If you can't find what you need there, Express Pub- lisher imports. PCX, GIF, IMG, TIFF, Encapsulated PostScript, First Publish- er, Print Shop, and MacPaint-formzl images. You can also draw boxes, lines, and circles using built-in tools.
Other high-end features in this low-end DTP program are text-wrap- ping, paragraph style sheets, and auto- matic text flow between columns. Best of all, this COMPUTE Choice Award winner doesn't require high-end hard- ware; it runs fine on a 640K XT- compatible with hard drive.
FINANCE
Pacioli 2000
The success of any business, including one run from home, rests on a solid bottom line. If you're trying to save overhead costs by doing your own accounting, Pacioli 2000 is a solid investment.
This program includes a general ledger, accounts receivable, accounts payable, billing, inventory control, pur- chasing, budgeting, and auditing func- tions— all integrated. Information entered in one module appears in oth- ers as well. The well-designed report section helps you manage the multitude of information you'll amass about your company and its vendors and customers.
Some knowledge of accounting is assumed, but you can find plenty of help (often context sensitive) when you need it. The manual and videotape are very good, and M-USA provides free technical support to registered users.
Pacioli 2000 wins z 1991 COM- PUTE Choice Award for offering full- featured accounting at less than 50 bucks. Flexible enough to manage cash accounting, accrual accounting, inven- tory accounting, or accounting for a ser- vice-based company, this package is also rigid enough to keep you and your home office on track. >
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ENTERTAINMENT
ARCADE
Crime Wave
Access pushes the limits of arcade with Crime Wave, its second game to use digitized actors, sets, and sounds. This time around, a powerful crime syndi- cate controls lai^e sections of major American cities. Now it has kidnapped the President's daughter — and it's your job to rescue her.
Like Mean Streets, Access's other Choice winner, Crime Wave features digitized, animated characters that speak to you using RealSound technol- ogy. But the story sequences are just window dressing. The heart of the game lies in its fast-action arcade sequences.
You've seldom seen graphics like this outside of the arcade. Digitized characters leap, run, and plunge across the screen unleashing a hail of bullets and rockets. You, as Lucas McCabe, crime fighter, must blow the bad guys out of existence (this game also sets new standards for graphic violence in a computer game). The graphics are pho- to-realistic, and the sound will have you ducking gunfire — a far cry from the bleeps and bloops most people without sound cards are used to hearing.
SIMULATION
Their Finest Hour
The fortunes of aerial combat change quickly in LucasFilm's outstanding air- combat simulation, Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain. You become a participant in that aerial battlefield dur- ing the summer of 1 940, when the Ger- man Luftwaffe and the Royal Air Force battled for air supremacy over the Eng- lish Channel.
Sit in the cockpit of a Spitfire or Hurricane, or fight the war from the German side in a Messerschmitt Bf 109, ME 1 10 fighter-bomber, or any of four Luftwaffe bombers. Act as pilot, gunner, or bombardier, or switch among all three. Fly more than 50 his- torically accurate missions.
In addition to its numerous mis- sions and game options. Battle of Britain is a winner because it puts you in the heat of the action with remarkable de- tail. If you fly close to a bomber, you can watch its bombs fall toward the tai^et. Red tracer buUets leap from your ma- chine guns, and hits on enemy planes are marked by smoke and flying debris.
This great simulation doesn't re- quire hours of training. But its nonstop action, numerous missions, and atten- tion to detail mean hours of fun.
WAR/STRATEGY
Harpoon
Even as the Cold War ground toward its inevitable close, one of the most so- phisticated war games ever produced burst upon the scene. Despite a variety of bugs in its earliest releases. Harpoon lifted computer strategy games to new heights, delivering a complexity and depth of play quite unlike anything else released during the year.
Taking as its venue the Greenland/ Iceland/United Kingdom gap, long thought likely to be an area of strategic significance during a superpower con- frontation, Harpoon gives players con- trol of the ships, aircraft, personnel, and technologies that lie at the heart of modern warfare. Submarines and sur- face craft, fighters and bombers, and surveillance ships and planes must all be coordinated in an effort to defeat an equally well-armed enemy. A thought- fully designed, mouse-driven interface makes issuing commands and calling for information simple.
With all bugs long fixed and addi- tional scenario disks released and oth- ers planned, Harpoon should set the computer strategy standard for some time to come.
FRP/ADVENTURE
IVIean Streets
Mean Streets is the first game to feature both full 256-color VGA graphics and Access's patent-pending RealSound digitized music and speech. But there's a lot more to Mean Streets than just im- pressive graphics and sound.
A detective story set in the twenty- first century. Mean Streets puts you in the shoes of Tex Murphy, Private In- vestigator. At the start of the story, you learn that Professor Linsky has taken a dive off the Golden Gate Bridge. The po- lice think it was a suicide; Linsky's daughter thinks it was murder. On your way to finding out the real story behind the profs untimely demise, you'll drive a Hying sports car, dodge bullets in ar- cade-style gunfights, interview thugs, and search a number of locations for clues. Three-dimensional adventure- game screens and digitized actors play- ing the various characters in Ihe game make this a standout adventure game.
SPORTS
PGA Tour Golf
The key to any sports simulation lies in its ability to mimic the real thing. Most golf games pin their hopes on copying famous courses and offering PC duffers a choice of clubs. Some go so far as to
include wind and other environmental factors. PGA Tour Golf doe', all of these things and goes one beticn It puts you on the professional tour, where you play against the big boys.
Graphically, the game is a pleasure to watch. That pleasure is enhanced with fiy-by views of each hole, accompanied by a tip from a top PGA golfer. Begin- ning at the pin, the camera rolls back down the fairway toward the tee, illumi- nating the approach to the green and the hazards that threaten your success.
But it isn't ihe graphics that bring PGA Tour Golf ns COMPUTE Choice Award. It all goes back (o realism, the hallmark of any great sports simulation. Whether you chip in from 13 yards out, punch the ball low out of the rough, or putt the ball from the fringe of the green, this game captures every stroke.
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LIKE YOU SEE IT
DIALTHE 1991 COMPUTE READERS' CHOICE LINE AND MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD!
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HOME OFFICE
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ENTERTAINMENT
D Crime Wave
D Their Finest Hour
n Harpoon
n Mean Streets
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DISCOVERY
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D Super Solvers Midnight Rescue
D Time Machine Earth
D Compton's Multimedia
Encyclopedia D DeluxePaInt Animation
TECHNOLOGY
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D The Complete Communtcator
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Take llie wheel of your classic '66 Shelby Mustang and get set to take olT witli Stunt Driver, the only racing simulation Ihal delivers the blazing speed oC real stunt car driving surrounded by full digitized sound. Set against a background of stunning 3-D graphics, you'll roar up loop- the-loops, spiral through corkscrew jumps, and blast off launch ramps. Whip through your choice of nine perilous courses or design your own challenge with the built-in track editor. Stunt Driver alone allows you to custom calibrate speed, acceleration, traction and braking settings for both you and your opponents.
Recap the excitement with Video Instant Replay, featuring fast forward, slow-motion, step frame and reverse playback.
Once you've raced Stunt Driver, you know why it's the racing challenge to which all others a.spire.
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DISCOVERY
CHILDREN
the Manhole
Imagine a computer-created world so lai^e you could explore it for months without becoming bored. Add a net- work of secret passageways; a variety of quirky, yet endearing characters; a seemingly endless supply of surprising details; and a point-and-click interface even a four-year-old can master. Wrap it all in state-of-the-art graphics and punch it up with support for the popu- lar sound boards.
The result might well be the Man- hole from Activision — a delightful game that isn't really a game. There are no points to tally, no final objective to win, and no rules to follow. You just click on the object you want to examine or the direction you want to explore. A hallway with several doors can take you to a mountain range, an underground river, or a dragon's lair. Click on the dragon's remote control, and the TV shows pictures of other locations. Click on one of the pictures, and you'll be in- stantly transported there.
Like Alice in Wonderland (on which this program is loosely based), the Manhole is both grand in scope and devilishly clever in its details.
YOUNG ADULT
Super Solvers Midnight Rescue!
Problem solving is one of the hardest skills to teach, and arguably, it's best left to human instructors. However, Su- per Solvers Midnight Rescue! from The Learning Company soundly squelches that argument.
Among its many strengths, the pro- gram has a wonderful plot that will ap- peal to even the most reluctant readers. The town of Shady Glen has been plagued by a practical joker named Morty Maxwell (a.k.a. the Master of Mischief). The only people who can stop Morty are the children who make up the Super Solvers Club. And all you have to do to become a member is boot the program.
Solving the game's puzzle and de- feating Morty require the collecting of clues, which in turn requires careful reading and analysis. But quick reflexes are also called for, as Morty's robot henchmen try to keep you from your task.
Super Solvers Midnight Rescue! de- serves its high praise. It enhances some of the most important skills your kids will ever have to learn — reading com- prehension and logical reasoning.
ADULT
Time Machine Earth
The PC, it has been said, is a window on the world. This strikingly original and little-known program offers a win- dow on all the faces our world has shown throughout hundreds of millions of years of history — and projects those faces billions of years into the future.
Our planet's features, Time Ma- chine Earth teaches, are in constant motion. Huge tectonic plates shift and grind as continents tear apart from one another, resulting in vast land masses grumbling their way toward new config- urations. Time Machine Earth makes tectonic movement come alive, giving you the opportunity to move through eons, viewing the world from a variety of different perspectives. Shifting plates can be overlaid, continents viewed close-up or from far out in space, with the Earth as a solid or hollow globe.
An easy-to-use interface makes travel through time simple. Good, if brief, documentation includes a reading list for further exploration. Tifne Ma- chine Earth, available in both personal and classroom editions, breaks (almost literally) new ground in educational software.
REFERENCE
Compton's MultiMedia Encyclopedia
Long touted as one of the great poten- tial products of the computer revolu- tion, electronic encyclopedias began to come of age in 1990. The most notable of these, Compton's MultiMedia Ency- clopedia (CMME), combines text, sound, photos, and other graphics to produce an interactive educational experience that is delightfiil as well as informative.
Complete on a single CD-ROM disc, CMME provides a variety of tools for harvesting its treasures. The index reveals topics by key words, by concept, or by reference. Leave a bookmark to retrace your research trail. Notes can be taken, pictures can be viewed, and snip- pets of great music or notable speeches can be played.
The price of the product, along with the sophisticated hardware required to use it, virtually ensures that for the time being CMME -wiU reside in classrooms or, more likely, libraries and media cen- ters. We hope students will be able to use the product individually, rather than as a group, for CMME is at its best as a self-paced learning tool. With its variety of approaches to the body of infor- mation it contains, CMME is all but in- exhaustible, helping to fiilfill the promise of both the electronic encyclo- pedia and CD-ROM itself.
CREATIVITY
DeluxePaint Animation
DeluxePaint Animation was a double COMPUTE Choice winner this year — a first in our history. This is a rare pro- gram that offers the same kinds of bene- fits to business, creative artists, students, and children. To see how this super application can make you a win- ner, too, read the description under the Desktop Presentation/ Video headline.
TECHNICAL
OPERATING ENVIRONMENT/SYSTEM
Windows 3.0
With the release of 3.0, Microsoft has fi- nally delivered on W'7/!rfoH'5' potential. The latest version of this operating en- vironment is a fiiU-featured graphical user interface complete with sculpted 3- D buttons, full-color icons, and master- ful multitasking. Microsoft used graphic artists to design 3.0's interface, and it shows. The well-chosen colors and dithering support create varied and subtle shades.
Windows' improvements start with installation. Now a single version of the program supports 8086, 80286, and 80386 PCs; and the setup process is streamlined and simple. Although Win- dows will run on an 8088-/8086-based machine, you really need a 286 or 386 to tap the program's power. With an 80286 and at least one megabjle of memory, Windows can multitask Win- dows applications and run almost any DOS program. With an 80386 and at least two megabytes, Windows can multitask Windows and DOS applica- tions, and it can even run DOS pro- grams in resizable windows.
Windows 3.0 wins the COMPUTE Choice Award for best operating envi- ronment because of its superb interface, powerful features, and excellent support for multitasking. An afternoon with this program will convince you that Win- dows is the PC's future.
UTILITY
Switch-It
Imagine being able to switch among your word processor, spreadsheet, data- base, and a game by simply pressing a key. That's the magic of Switch-It, an amazing TSR that uses just 27K of RAM.
Unlike most context-switching programs, Switch-ll is a breeze to install and a pleasure to use. At setup. Switch- ll searches your hard disk for applica-
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lions with which it's familiar and automaiicaJly installs them. To install other programs, you simply use Switch- It's fill-in-the-blanks setup screens. After your programs have been in- stalled, press Switch-It's hot key, and you'll see a menu listing your programs. You can select programs by using the cursor keys or by pressing the first letter of the program's name.
If stopping off at the menu slows you down too much, Switch-It also lets you assign a hot key for each applica- tion so you can move to it instantly. As icing on the cake, Switch-It lets you cut and paste between applications and re- call recent commands from any DOS prompt.
Switch-Il can breathe new life into PCs and ATs and offer them much of the power of multitasking environ- ments like DESQvie^v and Windows. And that makes it a sure winner.
ADD ON/PERIPHERAL
The Complete Communicator
Economy of space, finance, and func- tion are crucial to a successful home of- fice. The Complete Communicator (TCC) addresses all three areas. Com- bining telecommunications, voice mail, and fax capability on a single board, TCC turns one expansion slot into a to- tal office communications center.
It's an easy center to operate. TCC's software lets you run communi- cations in either foreground or back- ground, taking advantage of various memory configurations and hardware setups. A 2400-baud modem gives you access to online services and computer- to-computer communication. Voice- mail capabilities include multiple mailboxes, time-and-date stamping of messages, and remote message retriev- al. Fax capabilities include 9600-baud transmission, multiple fax transmis- sions with custom cover sheets, and timed transmission to take advantage of off-peak rates.
This multiplicity of function in a single product exemplifies the sort of value home office workers appreci- ate. The complete home office needs more products like The Complete Communicator.
stand-aljOne hardware
PS/1
With the introduction of the PS/1 . IBM gave home computing its biggest push in years. Big Blue told the world that computers belonged in the home and put in place a strategy to get them there.
Aggressively marketed through major retailers, the PS/1 is designed to satisfy fundamental home computing needs. The machine comes complete in
THE WINNERS' CIRCLE
For more information about our winners, contact the companies listed below.
Ami Prolessional 1.2b
$495.00
Samna
5600 Glenridge Dr.
Atlanta, GA 30342
(404)851-0007
The Complete Communicator
$699.00
The Complete PC
1983 Concourse Dr.
San Jose, CA 95131
(408)434-0145
Compton's MultiMedia Encyclopedia
$895.00
$795.00 for schools
Britannica Software
345 Fourth St.
San Francisco, CA 94107
(415)546-1866
(800) 572-2272 outside California
Crime Wave
$59.95
Access Software 545 W. 500 S Suite 130
Bountiful, UT 84010 (800) 80&4880
DeluxePaint Animation
$134.95 Electronic Arts 1820 Gateway Dr. San Mateo, CA 94404 (800) 245-4525
Express Publisher
$149,95
Power Up! Software
2929 Campus Dr.
San Mateo, CA 94403
(800)351-2917
Harpoon
$59.95
Three-Sixty
2105 S.Bascom Ave.
Suite 380
Campbell, CA 95008
(408)879-9144
the Manhole
$49.95
Activision
Distributed by Mediagenic
PO. Box 3048
Menio Park, GA 94025
(800) 227-6900
IMean Streets
$59.95
Access Software 545 W. 500 S Suite 130
Bountiful, UT 84010 (800) 800-4880
Microsoft BASIC 7.1
$495.00
Microsoft
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052-6399
(800) 426-9400
Microsoft Works 2.0
$149.00
Microsoft
One IvIicrosoftWay
Redmond, WA 98052-6399
(800) 426-9400
Pacioli 2000
$49.95
M-USA Business Systems
18111 Preston Rd.
Suite 500
Dallas, TX 75252
{800)345-4243
PGA Tour Golf
$49.95
Sterling Silver Software
Distributed by Electronic Arts
1820 Gateway Dr.
San Mateo, CA 94404
(800) 245-4525
PS/1
$995. 00-$1 ,995.00
IBM
Old Orchard Rd,
Armonk, NY 10504
(800) 426-2468
Super Solvers Midnight Rescue!
$49.95
The Learning Company 6493 Kaiser Dr. Fremont, CA 94555 (800) 852-2255
Switch-It
$99.95
Better Software Technology 55 New York Ave, Framingham. MA 01701 (800) 848-0286
Their Finest Hour
$59.95
Lucasfiim Games Distributed by Electronic Arts 1 820 Gateway Dr. San Mateo, (^ 94404 (800) 245-4525
Time Machine Earth
$69.95
Sageware
1282 Garner Ave.
Schenectady, NY 12309
(518)377-1052
Windows 3.0
SI 49.00
Microsoft
One Microsoft Way
Redmond. WA 98052-6399
(800) 426-9400
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JANUARY 1991
Up, up, and away! Most kids learn to spell by learning to drill. Now Super Spelllcopter mokes spelling a thrill,with high-resolution graphics, smooth scrolling, and high-speed animation.
Now Spelfing Is ChiM's Play.
Watch out for that UFO! Super Spellicopler turns your personal computer* into a helicopter cockpit with intelligent, tacticol radar and letter-seeking missiles to help zero-in on target letters.
Something to shoot for. Super Spelllcopter challenges players aged 7-14 with 400 words in 40 lists, and 3 levels of difficulty. You can even add words to strengthen specific spelling skills.
It's spellbinding. Super Spelllcopter from Brltannica Software. It's not just fun, It's guaranteed to improve your child's grades' For the name and location of the dealer nearest you call 1-800-572-2272.
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HONORABLE MENTIONS
Small Business Organizer
AlphaWorks 2.0, Alpha Software; PC File 5.0, ButtonWare; Personal Oflice, Top Ten Software; Top Priority, Power Up!
Word Processing
LetterPerfect, WordPerfect; PC-Write Lite, Quicksoft; Word for Windows, Microsoft; WordPerfect 5.1 , WordPerfect; Wordstar 6.0, WordStar Internationat
Desl<top Presentation/Video
Autodesk Animator, Autodesk; Charisma, Micrografx; DrswPerfecf 1.1 , WordPerfect; Show Partner F/X, Bfightbill-Rolserts
Desktop Publishing/Graphics
Arts & Letters, Computer Support; A/ag/'o, Unison World; Corel Draw 1.2, Corel Systems
Finance
Lotus Spreadsheet for Deskmate, Lotus Development; Money Matters, Great American Software; TurboTax, ChipSoft,- Wingz (PC version), Intermix Software
Arcade
The Game of Harmony, Accolade; ishido. Accolade; Welltris, Spectrum HoloByte
Simulation
A-TO Tank Killer, Dynamix; Indianapolis 500: The Simulation, Electronic Arts; Railroad Tycoon, fvlicroProse
War/Strategy
Action Stations, Conflict Analytics; Bandit Kings of Ancient China, KOEI; Centurian, Electronic Arts; Tank, Spectrum HoloByte; Their Finest Hour, Lucusfilm Games; Wolf- pack, Broderbund
FRP/ Adventure
Bad Blood, Origin Systems; The Colonel's Bequest, Sierra: Hero's Ouesf, Sierra; Ultima VI, Origin Systems
Sports
Hardball II, Accolade; Jack Nicklaus Unlimited Golf, Accolade; Keith van Eron's Pro Soccer, MIcroplay Software; Monday Night Football, Data East
Chitdren
The Playroom, BradertJund
Young Adult
The New Print Shop, Broderbund; Super Solvers Outnumbered, Tfie Learning Company
Adult
Home Lawyer, Meca Ventures; Software Toolworks World Atlas, Software Toolworks
Reference
Grammatic IV, Reference Software
Creativity
Arts & Letters, Computer Support; Autosketch, Autodesk; Music Studio 3.0, Activision; The New Print Shop, Broderbund
Operating Environment/System
DR DOS 5.0, Digital Researcli
Utility
PC Tools Deluxe 6.0, Central Point Software; PrintVision, Bloc Publistiing; Take Charge!, Departmental Tecfinologies
Add On/Peripheral
Canon Bubble Jet 1 0e printer, Canon; HP DeskJet 500, Hewlett-Packard; Hewlett- Packard LaserJet III, Hewlett-Packard; Practidisk UMFC Plus/2.88MB drive, Practical Computer Technologies
Stand-Alone Hardware
Atari Portfolio, Atari; Sharp PC-6220 laptop. Sharp; Tandy 1100FD laptop, Tandy; Toshiba 1000SE laptop, Toshiba
Programming Language
Borland Turbo C++, Borland International; Power BASIC, Spectra
a single box and can be set up by a novice in less than an hour. An easy-to- use interface helps relax those new to computers, while the inclusion of a 2400-baud modem should make tele- communications available to a larger audience than ever before. Technical support itself is delivered via the modem.
The PS/l's 10-MHz 286 processor may not represent the cutting edge of CPU technology, but it's powerful enough to run all but the largest MS- DOS programs. The chip also matches Bill Gates's criteria for entry-level mul- timedia machines; while IBM has an- nounced no multimedia enhancements for the PS/1, few industry watchers doubt that such announcements will be forthcoming.
It's the seriousness with which IBM and its retail partners have ap- proached the growing home market that earns the PS/1 a COMPUTE Choice Award. Computers — and IBM — are coming home again — this time to stay.
PROGRAMMfNG LANGUAGE
Microsoft BASIC 7.1
BASIC used to be the Rodney Danger- field of programming languages — it didn't get any respect. But Microsoft has changed that by developing and consistently improving QuickBASIC and, most recently, by releasing Micro- soft BASIC 7. 1 , a BASIC intended for professional program men and serious enthusiasts.
BASIC 7. 1 has everything you could want in a top-end programming language. Professional tools are on a par with or better than those Microsoft of- fers C, Assembler, and Pascal program- mers. To hit just a few of the hjgh spots, 7. 1 comes with Programmer's Work- bench, an application development en- vironment that combines the best of QuickBASIC, Microsoft's M editor, and a project manager; the latest version of Microsoft's CodeVie^v Debugger, with support for extended memory; a ftill- blown ISAM library for heavy-duty database applications; and complete OS/2 support.
In addition to an exceptional de- velopment environment, BASIC 7. 1 provides many improved compilation tools. Now you can selectively include or exclude object libraries, and the compiler is fully optimizing. The im- provements in both size and speed make the code produced by this com- piler as lean and mean as that created with almost any other product. BASIC is back, and Microsoft BASIC 7. 1 is a landmark product that will garner the respect this excellent language deserves, e
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LucasArts on the art and science of entertainment
SOME OF HITLERS DEADLIEST WEAPONS NEVER
SAW AQIOK UNTIL NOW
Imagine the shock of American B-17 pilots when the first German jet fighters whistled past. The lumbering bombers seemed to be standing still, sitting ducks for radical aircraft years ahead of their time.
The twin-jet Me 262 unleashed a volley of 24 air-to- j^ air missiles in less than a tenth ^r v*- -_ of a second. It's
just one of the little-known aircraft you'll encounter in Secrets Weapons of the Luft- waffer You'll also blast off at 16,000 feet per minute in the incredible Me 163 Komet rocket fighter. And pilot the remarkable Gotha 229, which bore an uncanny
resemblance to today's Stealth bomber. Were the Allies saved by Hitler's blunder?
As you'll read in the 224-page histor- ical manual. Hitler's demand for a blitz bomber delayed deployment of the Me 262s as fighters.
!n Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, you can reverse that decision. And pit these
revolutionary weapons with the more familiarGermanBf 109andFW190 fighters against the Eighth Air Force B-17 Flying Fortresses, F-51 Mustangs, and P-47 Thunderbolts. All technically, historically, and graphically authentic.
Fly in the face of danger. Desperate to stop the massive day- light bombing raids of the Allies, the Germans rushed their experimental aircraft
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into service in late 1944. You'll experience the nail-biting terror of piloting aircraft that were as dangerous to fly as they were to the enemy
You'll rock with the impactof a direct hit, Struggle for visibility through oil smeared, bullet-shattered canopies. Watch in horror as your engine burns. And wrestle for control against G-forces and rough wind conditions. All with the vivid realism of bit- mapped 256-color VGA graphics and room- rattling sound effects.
In Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, you'll do more than relive the air combat over Germany from 1943 to 1945. You'll decide for yourself whether these exotic superweapons could have changed the out- come of the war.
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CONVERSATIONS
KEITH
F E R R E L L
Jan Davidson is a teacher. The fact that she does her teaching today from the office of the company she founded, rather than from the head of a class, hasn't altered her deep commitment to her profession. You feel that commit- ment, a concern for students and a love of learning, both in Davidson's software and in conversation with her,
Davidson's awareness of learning as an environment, as a continuum, shows in her products. Software de- signed to introduce basic skills also prepares students to use higher-order thinking skills. It's all part of David- son's vision of education and educa- tional software.
"A/a;/; Blaster Plus and Malh Blaster Mystery" she says, "cover the gamut of math from basic knowledge through analysis, synthesis, and evalu- ation. In the new Math Blaster Plus, we go through and teach them the facts, and then we have problems where they have to use these facts."
Throughout, the products are de- signed to help students transfer newly acquired skills to the real world. "In Math Blaster Mystery" Davidson says, "we help kids break word prob- lems into simple steps. Find out what the problem is asking for, identify the information and equations needed to answer it, and find the answer. These are higher-order thinking skills, and the computer is an effective tool for teaching these skills. I don't sit down and say I'm only going to cover analy- sis in this product and synthesis in this one. I try to gel as much out of each product as I possibly can."
Is one curriculum — math or Eng- lish, for example — better suited for translation to software than another? "1 don't think so. Our math products have been successful not because math is easier to do than spelling or reading, but because people subcon- sciously associate computers and math. As a parent, I may think, 'Gee, computers may help Johnny with math.' But I don't realize how effec- tive they can be in getting Johnny to read. Computers involve reading."
Davidson speaks from expe- rience. "My son learned to read on the computer because he wanted to play with it. Instead of 'See Dick run,' it was 'Press space bar.' To use the com- puter, you need to read. You can de- velop some wonderful language-arts products and draw the kids in and get them reading, thinking, and problem solving, without their realizing how much they're learning."
Jan Davidson
Davidson's products are them- selves designed to be used by stu- dents, parents, and teachers. "All of our products have editors in them," she says. "We get the students writing, as well as reading. Our reading pro- grams, for example, have tools that students can use to write their own stories and essays, as well as read them."
To use tools such as writing, cer- tain basic levels of educational ability are required. Davidson's products de- liberately address all levels of think- ing, from drill and practice to problem solving and analysis. The drill-and- practice aspects of Davidson's soft- ware may be the most widely known, however, addressing an area too often undervalued by educational theoreti- cians. By addressing basic skills, Davidson feels, you prepare students for the challenges and delights to be found in the exercise of higher-order
skills. You can't, as it were, take an apple from a tree until you can climb the tree.
"Think of learning as a continu- um," Davidson says, "a gradual pro- cess. You go through stages, starting with some very basic things like the ability to recall specific information, then go on to comprehension, applica- tion, analysis, and evaluation. .All these points need to l>e covered in education. But the one thing I've found is that you can't bring out higher-order thinking skills if you don't have the lower ones. You've got to have something to think with before you can think. You've got to have a basic vocabulary, be able to read at a certain level, have basic lan- guage and math skills to be able to do the analysis, synthesis, and evaluation that are so important to higher-order thinking skills."
And technology can take part throughout the learning process?
"The computer can play a role at all levels of that spectrum," Davidson says, "both with lower-order thinking skills as well as the higher-order skills. There's a case to be made for educa- tional software at all levels." And Davidson has developed products that fit all along this continuum.
Davidson doesn't see these levels as segregated. " Word Attack was de- veloped because I was trying to teach Melville," she says. "The kids didn't have the vocabulary for it. The soft- ware was one way of getting them up to speed in the vocabulary so we could do the fun, higher-order think- ing skills with it. The highest of the higher-order thinking skills is writing, and you can't write without a vocabu- lary. You can't function in our society without the basic skills."
A generation of students — and their parents — who've moved with the help of Davidson's software from basic skills to reading Melville and solving complex mathematical prob- lems have reason to be grateful that Jan Davidson moved from classroom to boardroom . . . without leaving the profession of teaching behi nd. E
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Gone from LetterPerfect are WordPerfect features many people rarely use, such as sorting, math calcu- lations, and number columns. Stifl present arc all the commonly used functions, including graphics and text integration, spelling checker, easy font selection, and the friendly thesaurus. The features carried over from Word- Perfect into LetterPerfect work basical- ly the same, but some have been scaled back. The spelling checker in LetterPerfect, for instance, checks only the entire document, while WordPer- fect's checker lets you check a word, phrase, or page, as well as a docu- ment. WordPerfect'^ print spooler lets you queue several printing jobs and continue typing while your documents print. LetterPerfect, on the other hand, will only print your current docu- ment, and it makes you wait until it has finished printing before you can move on. Minor differences like these aside, using LetterPerfect is just like using WordPerfect 5.1.
LetterPerfect comes with six S'A- inch and three S'/i-inch disks, a refer- ence guide, keyboard overlays for six different PC keyboard designs, and a quick-reference pamphlet. Also in- cluded is WordPerfect Shell 3.0, a DOS shell that lets you launch and switch between multiple applications and cut and paste text between them. Installing LetterPerfect on my hard drive was easy and took only about ten minutes. LetterPerfect's installa- tion procedure was replete with helf)- ful prompts and hard to mess up. The only problem 1 encountered was with the XT-style keyboard overlay. It seemed that every time I tried to type, my palm would hit the overiay and send it whirling onto the floor. A little double-sticky tape solved that problem.
LetterPerfect works on any PC compatible with 330K of free memory and one 720K or two 360K floppy drives, making it an ideal choice for
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When you first glance at Letter- Perfect's editing screen, you'll notice the program's user interface closely re- sembles that of WordPerfect 5. 1. The bottom line of the screen displays the name of the file you're working on, as well as the page number, line, and the cursor's position on the page, .\cross the top of the screen is a pull-down menu bar. Mouse users can just point at the selection they want and click the mouse button; laptop owners and others without pointing devices can
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select menu items using the Alt, cursor, and Enter keys. LeuerPerfecl also lets you use H'ordPerfecl-slyls function keys to choose options. I found this the fastest way to ac- cess LetterPerfect 's features.
LetterPerfecl has an extensive online help function. To get instant information, all you have to do is press Fl or pull down the Help menu and then select the topic you need help with from an alphabetized list. You'll find the help function especially useful if you don't thoroughly un-
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derstand a feature. It will also keep you from having to scrounge around trying to find the reference guide for sim- ple questions. If, after checking the onscreen help and the reference guide, you're still unable to solve a problem, WordPerfect has a toll-free customer support line that op- erates Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mountain time. If you have a problem in the evening, there's another support number, but it's a loll call. When I called these lines, I was greeted by friendly and knowl- edgeable support people who helped me solve my prob- lems in a matter of minutes.
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and articles such as this one. When you activate the outliner, LetterPerfect will automatically insert Roman nu- merals, letters, and numbers in your document, depending on which level of the outline you're currently typing. The manual included with Letter- Perfect is well illustrated with clearly written step-by-step instructions. There are nine tutorials you can work through to learn how to use most LetterPerfect functions and a com- plete reference section detailing each command individually. The thorough index and table of contents make find- ing references easy. Appendices cover topics such as error messages, ASCII conversion, embedded codes, graphics conversion, network installation, and troubleshooting. LetterPerfect never crashed while I was using it, and when I did encounter an error, I found the manual's explanations of possible er- rors and solutions very helpful.
I used LetterPerfect to compose this review. After using it for a few days, I decided that I enjoyed using it much more than WordPerfect 5.0. The program's mouse support (also present in WordPerfect 5.1) won me over,
LellerPerfect contains most of the great features of WordPerfect that mil- lions have come to know and love, yet it dispenses with the high price tag. Thanks to its compact size, it can be used on laptops and other systems that can't run the high-end word pro- cessors. Whether you're new at word processing or a seasoned professional, LetterPerfect is a solid choice. It's priced right, easy to use, but still capa- ble of producing high-quality output.
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If you've ever thought of becoming an artist but you're uncomfortable smearing paint or uncoordinated with a Conte crayon, there's still hope. You can supply your own com- mercial art and design work at a low cost and learn about computer art in the process.
But before you dive into com- mercial art with a product like Draw- Perfect or Charisma, you need to put aside the idea that you have no talent. With computerized art products, nearly all the work is done for you. After you've mastered a few simple techniques, you'll be generating all the logos, letterheads, and business forms you need. And, as you'll discov- § er, it can be a lot of fun. Unlike most ® areas of computing, art is practically 5 mistake-free.
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pie even wear clothes with the labels on the outside to show off the logos of the companies that made them. Logos have increasing value in our postliter- ate society because they don't require that the consumer be able to read. If they're seen often enough, they can be recognized instantly. And in interna- tional business, logos have the added advantage of overcoming language barriers.
Start with a logo. It's the founda- tion on which you'll build the other forms of your business communica- tion; your letterhead will show your
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There are several different strate- gies for creating a logo, but the best strategy is to incorporate the name of the business. The big corporations can get away with abstract logos, like Transamerica's (which looks like an arrangement of six hockey sticks). But I'm assuming that your home or small business isn't as large as Transamer- ica. Therefore, you should consider name recognition as well as logo recognition.
The possibilities based on com- pany name are name only, name with meaningful graphic, and name with abstract graphic. To create these logos, I'll use the latest version oi Draw- Perfect from WordPerfect. It's one of a number of options available at a mod- erate cost to the home or small busi- ness. It not only offers outstanding
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graphics for printouts but also has pre- sentation graphics and the ability to use macros both within its own envi- ronment and under WordPerfect^ Shell, In addition, its graphics are di- rectly transportable to WordPerfect. the best-selling word processor of all time. It comes with dozens of pieces of clip art which you can use with your WordPerfect documents, and you can also use the WordPerfect clip art in DrawPerfect.
DrawPerfect is far froin the only software of its kind in this price range. You could also use Arts & Letters Graphic Editor, CorelDraw (both operate under Windows), or GEM Arltine.
For the purposes of this article, we'll make up the name of a compa- ny. Since many small businesses are engaged in "massaging information," Baker and Rogers Publishing is a like- ly name for a company that provides a broad range of services including writing, typesetting, and layout (all of which are performed in WordPerfect ).
Because she's the creative force in the company, Baker volunteers to cre- ate the logo, which must meet the strict standards of Rogers, who's a real stick- in-the-mud. The partners see this as a perfect pairing because they compen- sate for each other's shortcomings.
The Name Game
Baker sits down at her AT and starts DrawPerfect. To begin, she simply writes the name of the company in several different typefaces. (Some of the available typefaces are shown in Figure I ; as you select each typeface, you see an example of it in the box at the upper right.) She takes a critical look at the resulting text, remember- ing that she has to please not only her- self but also her partner and her company's customers, whose prefer- ences are much closer to her partner's than her own. With this in mind, she passes over the script options and chooses WP ROMAN, the last one shown in Figure 2.
Her next step is to size the text large enough to work with. Since all these programs work with outline fonts, there's no reason to stick with the skimpy text. You'll have much more control if you make the text fill the screen and then size it smaller for use. Size is an option on the Edit menu.
The text looks handsome by it- self, but it's not very distinctive. It's all too obvious that very little work has gone into it. These are Baker's options at this point:
• To enhance the text by drawing a box around it or by placing rules above and below it
•To rotate the text or distort it in some other way (such as stretching it horizontally or vertically)
• To change the text's appearance by altering its color or fill
• To copy the text and distort the copy
DrawPerfect text is just text. There are a limited number of ways you can diston the actual letters. Arts & Letters and similar graphics-based packages let you alter the letters on the screen because the individual letters are treated as clip art once they appear on the screen. DrawPerfect does let you select certain text attributes, such as hollow letters, before the text ap- pears on the screen.
To create her first logo. Baker cre- ates the text in outline letters and then copies and rotates them. Next, she creates a white rectangle and the text one last time— this time in front of the rectangle (Figure 3).
To create the second type of logo — a name with a meaningful graphic — Baker could look through her collection of clip art and call up a drawing of a book, computer, or laser printer to use as a background for the name. Creating a name-plus-abstract- design logo would also be fairiy simple to design, involving no more than working with the drawing tools in DrawPerfect and creating something pleasing to the eye. o
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Assuming that Rogers approved of the logo, Baker has a new project in mind: She plans to apply the logo to the many business forms used by the tiny company She'll start with a let- terhead to represent her business. Once the letterhead is designed, she can print out a single sheet and take it to a print shop for reproduction, print out the sheets herself as they're needed, or turn the letterhead into a WPG graphic and import it into a WordPerfect style. WPG graphics can also be converted into other file for- mats for other word processors, such as Ami Professional, WordStar, and Microsoft Word.
We'll assume that Baker has cho- sen the first option. Laser printer ton- er is expensive enough that it's usually less expensive in the long run to use the laser printer for composition work and a professional printer for actual reproduction.
To turn the logo into something that can be easily altered, Baker chooses the Area Selection option, se- lects the entire logo, and groups it — turning the logo into a single object that can be moved and stretched. She enters the full name and address of the firm and tries different arrange- ments of name, address, and logo, easily sliding the elements of the let- terhead around on the page until they look just right. Her final solution is only one of an infinite number of pleasing arrangements.
Charismatic
DrawPerfect is one of a small number of non- Windows-hs.stA draw pro- grams. Most draw programs are de- signed to operate under Windows. One of the first of the Windows-pio- grams was Graph Plus from Micro- grafx. When it came time to update Graph Plus, Micrografx decided it was time to come up with a sexier name as well, and Charisma was born. Charis-
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Figure 4 shows a text-plus-graphic logo for Baker's company. To create this design, a graph was made using the graphing utility from Charisma, and a rounded rectangle was created that frames the name. It was filled with solid white, and the words Baker and Rogers were superimposed on top of it in the Times Roman font. (In ad- dition to its outline fonts. Charisma uses the fonts available in Baker's Star Laserprinter 8 II with LincPage Post- Script emulation. DrawPerfect relies on its own outline fonts.)
Figure 5 shows the logo as it ap- pears on the Charisma screen. As you can see, Charisma is slightly less WYSIWYG than DrawPerfect. How- ever, because of its reliance on Win- dows, Charisma is easier to use if you've had some experience with oth- er Windows-based graphics programs.
Figure 5: Chart and Logo on Charisma Screen
Abstract Art
You've seen the name-only and
name-with-meaningful-graphic logos. The last category is name with ab- stract graphic. It's a fun category, but anyone seriously interested in abstract design will warn you that it isn't to be taken lightly Because your design can go anywhere or be anything, there's a real danger it will be misinterpreted.
Let's begin with a squiggle. If you repeatedly select Duplicate from the .Arrange menu, move the duplicate squiggle slightly to the right, and select Rotate Left 90 Degrees from the Change menu, you should be able to create a bale of wire. Although at first glance the drawing appears random, it tends to draw the eye, and upon closer examination you can see that there's a subtle organization in the design. In fact, you can see that it is a design, not just random markings.
The next step is to add the com- pany name. This time, the Times or Times Roman fonts would be inap- propriate because they're traditional fonts with a classic beauty. To use them here would be like putting Mona Lisa's face on a portrait by Picasso, For this logo, seek out something with a more modern appearance, such as Helvetica, as shown in the final logo (Figure 6) or another sans serif font such as AvantGarde.
Extending Your Reach
Your commercial art projects don't have to be limited to logos and letter- heads; Charisma and DrawPerfect are excellent programs for creating busi- ness presentations for sales meetings or trade shows. Graphics from each product can be converted into slides by a commercial slide service or you can run a slide show on the computer with a projection monitor.
And in addition to saving you money, these programs can entertain your creative side in the midst of a day of drudgery. Taking a graphics break can help keep you interested and alert and add extra creativity to your bread-and-butter work. q
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I recently attended a confer- ence for professional speakers and asked the well-dressed woman on my left what business she was in.
"I speak about visual communi- cations," she said. "Is that tike over- head slides and transparencies?" I inquired. "No. It has more to do with presentation skills," she said. "Oh, so you help people deliver speeches," 1 deduced. "No. I help people present themselves properly in corporate communications situations," she said, further clouding the issue. "Oh, so you write marketing reports and em- ployee newsletters," I said. "No. Dif- ferent kinds of corporate communi- cations," she insisted. "What kind of communications situations?" I asked, feeling that I was getting colder rather than hotter answers. "At the dinner table," she responded. "Oh, so you tell people which fork to use with which course," I guessed. "That's it!" she exclaimed.
Did this woman know what busi- ness she was in? Undoubtedly. Did she have the ability to tell people what business she was in? Undoubtedly not.
I had to ask a series of questions to find out what services she provided and how I could benefit. I was being polite because I was in an awkward situation.
Your prospects probably won't be as polite.
If they don't understand what business you're in, they won't bother to ask follow-up questions. They'll just assume what you have is not what they want.
To make sure this doesn't happen to you, tailor your positioning state- ment so that everyone will know im- mediately what service you provide.
A person could say, for example, that she's an accountant. The prospect would learn ver>' little from that state- ment. Instead, she could say,"rm an accountant who specializes in small businesses." That targets her market specifically.
She also could've chosen any of
these areas: personal income-tax plan- ning, large corporations, freelance writers, and actors.
Here are a few more vague pro- fessions and more descriptive state- ments: desktop publisher (design and produce newsletters), personal ser- vices manager (walk dogs and buy groceries), marketing sp)ecialist (write direct-mail pieces to increase sales), fi- nancial consultant (sell stocks).
Do your prospects really under- stand what services you provide? Here are a few exercises to fine-tune your message. These exercises will help you create a positioning state- ment for your company so you can clearly communicate your ideas.
What image do you want to pop into people's minds when they hear your company's name? Write three things that come to mind. Now which of those three statements is the one that clearly identifies your company? Practice reading the statement aloud until it sounds right and rolls off your tongue easily. Then get feedback from your peers and family. However, don't ask if they understand it. Chances are they'll say yes so they won't offend you. .A better way to get feedback is to ask them to tell you what business you're in. That way, you'll get a more informed view.
This statement is the basis for your verbal contact with prospects — in person and on the phone. If you fol- low these steps, you'll be able to get
your message across clearly.
Although it pays to be clear and specific, you should avoid being so specific that you risk limiting your employment possibilities. According to lawyer Alan Foneberg, when people meet a lawyer at a party, they ask, "What kind of law do you practice?" The reply is usually a one-word an- swer such as matrimonial, civil, or criminal. Foneberg says this is the wrong approach because you'll be typecast and the prospects will think you perform only that function when most lawyers are generalists who can perform many tasks.
Instead, Foneberg advises law- yers to respond, "What kind of lawyer do you need?" That way, people can say they've had a run-in with the land- lord and need to halt the eviction pro- cess or whatever. The lawyer can then arrange a meeting for the new clients.
Home office workers can use this tactic as well. Let's look at two sample dialogues- Prospect: What do you do?
Home office worker: I type term papers.
Prospect; (To herself) Oh well, I guess he can't do marketing reports. They're probably too specialized for him anyway. (To the home office worker) That sounds nice. Good luck.
In this case, the home office work- er limited his approach, and the pros- pect didn't realize he could also type marketing reports. Result; a lost sale.
For him to make the sale, the conversation should flow like this.
Prospect: What do you do?
Home office worker I type. Do you need any typing done?
Prospect; I have a 40-page mar- keting report with tables and graphs. Can you handle that?
Home office worker Sure. Tell me about the report.
The home oifice worker can then discuss terms and fees and close the deal.
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Systems that revolutionized tne computer industry!
All backed by Northgate support and service thaf s unmatched by any otfier company!
There are a lot of copy-cat "slim-line" systems out there, but don't be confused. These are the ORIGINAL SlimLine systems from the pioneer of this trend-setting technology': Northgate.
In just under a year, SlimLine has become our most popular svstem. And with good reason. Only SlimLine gives you full 286, 386SX'^'and 386™ DX power in a package only 4.25 " high and 16.5 " square.
Now... four new SlimLine systems! "Northgate for 1991" features a SlimLine family that offers more choice than ever before: SlimLine 286/12, 386SX/16 and 20 MHz.
Our new powerhouse 386/33 rounds out our complete range of systems.
Northgate SlimLine Common Features:
• Small footprint SlimLine case with room for two exposed and one internal half-height de\ices
• Intel® and Weitek® math coprocessor support
• 150 wm: power supply
• Clock calendar chip rated at five years
• Front mounted reset and high/loM- speed controls
• MS-DOS 4.01 and GW-B.VSIC installed
• On-line User's Guide to MS-DOS 4.01
• FCC Class B Certified
• 1 parallel and Z serial ports
• Built-in \'G.-\ video adapter
• Built-in IDE hard drive and floppy disk controllers
• Five [)pen expansion slots (three i6-bit hrll length, two 8-bit half-length)
Here's how we put full power into a performance package only 4.25" high!
Revolutionary fully-Integrated motherboard with built-in IDE hard drive and floppy drive controllers, one parallel and two serial ports and 16-bit VGA controller
Unique Northgate expansion tree with three full-length l6-b(E and two half-length 8-bit slots
4.25-
Drive bays with room for two 3.S" and one S.2S" device
ISO watt power supply
Here they are...the Northgate family of Super SHmLines. One format, four sensational systems— take your pick!
NEW! SlImLine 286/12 MHz
Ideal entry level system for use as network terminal or stand alone system for office and home use. Excellent for word processing, simple spreadsheet and light graphics programs.
• Intel® 80286/ U MHz processor • 1.2Mb and 1 .44Mb noppics
• 2Mb of RAM on mothL-rboard * 12 " VGA gray scale monitor
• 40Mb hard drive • OmniKey'' keyboard
NEW! SlimLine 386SX/16 and 20 MHz with 64K cache
No ordinary SX! Northgate engineered these systems with 64K cache memor>' to allow you to run Microsoft Windows and other 32-bit software at ciiiick cache-enhanced speeds. Handles database management, graphics and spreadsheet applications with ease. Choose 16 or 20 MHz models.
• Intel 80386SX 16 or 20 MHz processor
• 2Mb of RAM on motherboard
• 40Mb hard drive
• 64K SRAM read/writc-back rache
■ 1.2Mb and 1 .44Mb flojipies
' 12 "VGA gray scale monitor
' OmniKey keyboard
' Microsoft® Windo\vs'^'3.l) and mouse
386SX/16 ^1999*^^ Or as low as ^TO" per month* 386SX/20 ^2199*''' Or as low as »75" per month*
The system that started it all .., SlimLine 386/20 MHz!
SlimLine 386/20 zips through complex spreadsheets, moderate programming needs, desktop publishing and other demanding applications.
• Intel 80386/20 MHz processor
• 4Mb of RAM on motherboard
• 40Mb hard drive
• 1.2Mb and 1.44Mb floppies
$249900
■ 12 " VGA gray scale monitor
• Microsoft Windo\s's 3.0 and mouse
• OnmiKcy keyboard
Or as lov^■ as 'SS"" per month'
NEW! SlimLine 386/33 MHz powered up with 64K cache!
Now for the first time ever, you can get award-winning Northg3te Elegance™ performance in our SlimLine case! SlimLine 386/33 is ideal for speeding through processor-intensive tasks like desktop publishing, CAD/CAM, large database and business programming applications.
• Intel 80386/33 MHz processor • 1.2Mb and 1.44Mb floppies
• 4Mb of RAW on motherboard • 12 "VGA gray scale monitor
• 64K SRAM read/writc4)aek • Microsoft Windows 3.0 cache and mouse
• 40Mb hard drive • OmniKev kevboard
$289900
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When we say Northgate manufactures the highest-performing,
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In test after test, Northgate Elegance systems perform fIa^^■fessly. After the competition has been put through the same demanding paces, only Elegance 386 and 486 emerge as the winners.
And here's the proof! Northgate has ^von four PC Magazine Editors' Choice A\vards, rwo Computer Shopper Best Buy .Awards and received InfoWorld's Number One and Number Two Products of 1989.
PLUS AT PRESS TIME ... Northgate received word from Compucer Shopper that Elegance 486/251 won a 1990 Best Buy A^^■ard. That makes an unprecedented FOUR YEARS IN A ROW Northgate received Compucer Shopper's prestigious honor!
We'd be fooling ourselves (and underestimating you) if we thought you'd buy based on performance alone. That's \\hy Northgate has a corporate commitment to customer service that's equally impressive. No puffery here...
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Select desktop or optional vertical power case.
Northgate's elegant desktop case features 5-bays with room for 3 exposed and 2 internal half-height devices. Comes with 200 watt poiver supply. For greater expansion capabilities, choose our vertical 7-bay powerhouse with a 220 watt power supply.
Northgate Page Mode 386/20 MHz
As a cost-efficient, dependable network file ser\'er. Page
Mode has no equal. Its realiability is confirmed by Novell® certification and by users of office netu'orks every day. Northgate boosts performance of this 386/20 workhorse through the use of an efficient page mode memory management scheme. Other performance features include:
♦ Intel* 80386/20 MHz processor
♦ 4Mb of R.-^K! (expandable to 16Mb)
♦ 40Mb hard drive
♦ 1,44Mb and 1.2Mb floppy drives
♦ 16-bi: \'G.\ video adapter
♦ Eight expansion t;ard slots
♦ One parallel and two serial ports
♦ MS-DOS 4.01 and GW-B.ASIC in^tjlled
♦ Mictnsoft'' Windows '^'J.O and mouse
♦ 14 "\GA gray scale monitor
♦ OmniKev kevboard
♦ FCC Class B Certified
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Northgate Elegance 386/486 Common Features:
♦ Anicrican-niade motherboard
♦ RAM expansion up to SMb on motherboard (16.\Ib total RAM \vith 32-bit memory card)
♦ 16-bit VGA \'ideo adapter
♦ One parallel and two serial ports
♦ MS-DOS 4.01 and GW-BASIC installed
♦ Microsoft^ Windows™ 3.0 and mouse
♦ FCC Class B Certified
Northgate Elegance 386/25 & 33 MHz
The best in their respective classes! Both are ideally suited for managing large databases (over 1000 records), full-time business accounting, multitasking and other demanding applications.
Northgate gives you a pou'erful standard configuration including high-speed 64K RAM cache and 4Mb of RAM. Take a look at evers'thing vou get:
♦ Intel® 80386/25 or 33 MHz ♦ 3.5 " 1 .44Mb and 5.25 " 1 .2Mb processor floppy drives
♦ 4Mb of RAM ♦ If'-bit VGA adapter
. ,,,,,, , , , . ♦ 14 " \ G.'X fftav scale monitor
♦ 40Mb hard drive ^ OnmiK<:y kevboard
♦ 64K SR.Vil read/write-back cache ♦ No\cll Certified
25MHzS29990«
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33 MHz 53299^0
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Northgate Elegance 486/25 and NEW 486/33 MHz ISA
In addition to receiving an Editors' Choice and 1990 Computer Shopper Best Buy Award, Elegance 486/251 outseored all competitors in InfoW'brld .Magazine's 1990 reviews of 486 systems. Elegance "leads the pack by a comfortable margin", they said. "It offers impressive performance, e.xceptional expandability and it is tops in support and value. "t
NOW! Northgate introduces the next generation— Elegance 486/33 ISA. Both systems are ideal for hea\y-duty business applications like full time database management, C.AD/C.\M, financial planning, accounting and programming. Includes:
♦ Intel K04Hf)/25 or y^ MHy. ♦ 3.5 " 1 .44Mb and 5.25 " 1 .2Mb proccssot
♦ 4Mb of RAM
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floppy drives
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MANIPULATE OBJECTS AND MAKE THEM COME TO LIFE IN THIS
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Animation makes an>ihing possi- ble. Elephants can fly, wooden puppets can come to life, rabbits can make wisecracks, and pitiful coyotes can spring resiliently back after being run over, blown up, and hurled down from precipitous heights.
Now DeluxePaint Animation from Electronic Arts gives you the power of the computer to create stun- ning animation sequences that rival Saturday-morning canoons. The pro- gram's animation tools and first-rate paint will unleash your imagination.
I don't consider myself an artist (years ago I did design the back cover of my junior high school yearbook), but with this program and a reason- able investment of time, 1 could create animations that impressed me and everyone that I roped into watching them.
The basic idea behind animation is to create a series of frames, or eels, that differ slightly. If you rapidly view these frames in sequence, they create the illusion of motion. Everybody has seen cartoon flip books — the concept is the same on the computer and, for that matter, in the production of com- mercial cartoons.
DeluxePaint Ammation (DA) al- lows you to paint and manipulate ob- jects on individual frames. It will also create in-between frames, the ones needed to complete the illusion of motion between images.
At the most basic level, you can sequence the screens frame by frame and draw the different pictures. But you'll really want to lake advantage of DA '% powerful animation tools.
DA features an animation tech- nique called animpainiing. Here the
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computer auto- matically sequences frames while you draw. For example, if you want to show a ball moving around, you draw a ball, get into anim- painting mode, and just move the ball with your mouse as you want to see it in your cartoon. DA will auto- matically flip the frames as you draw, so when you replay the cartoon, the ball will fly around exactly as you drew it.
You can also create animbmshcs. These are animated sequences that you can insert into other cartoons. This particular feature came in handy when I wanted a rotating planet in an outer-space animation that I was making. .After first creating an endless looping cartoon of the spinning plan- et, I saved the entire sequence as an animbrush. When I put together the full cartoon with all of the elements, which included comets and moving galaxies, 1 merely inserted the animat- ed planet into the scene.
DA includes some professionally created animbrushes — detailed birds, fish, and human figures. You can blend these moving figures into your own cartoons, almost as if they were animated clip art.
Manipulate objects any number of ways.
You can also use a variety of commands to have DA animate your images in delightfully impressive ways.
To change one object into anoth- er, you can produce transformations with the metamorphose animbrush. You create or select two objects and tell DA how many frames you want for the change; DA will provide all the in-between frames. The tutorial shows you how to make an amazing se- quence in which an egg gradually turns into a chicken. The resulting animation is surprisingly smooth, even though you have very different shapes and colors.
With move commands, you can tell DA to move objects anywhere, ro- tate them, and even make them look as if they're flying toward or away from the screen. Using a Cartesian co- ordinate system (remember Algebra lA in high school?), you can tell DA to move an object so many spaces, along any combination of axes and within a given number of frames. The results are images that go virtually anyplace on the screen, tumble, and even move away while gradually diminishing in size. The possibilities for movement are endless. You can even make your objects bounce and fall naturally as if they were real objects.
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The program can also do color- cycling animation, in which sequences of color create the illusion of motion. Use this feature to make colorful movie marquees and falling snow.
You can also animate figures against scrolling backgrounds that are wider than your viewing screen. The characters can appear to walk along a street or through a changing forest. You cannot, however, create scrolling backgrounds in DA; you have to use the companion product, DeluxePainl 11 Enhanced.
Three-dimensional effects can simulate the view from the cockpit of a plane, which is very much like the view in most flight simulators. DA can generate a moving horizon and land, and it even lets you do barrel roUs in your plane.
Besides being an animation pro- gram, DA is an excellent paint pro- gram. Bearing a strong resemblance to its cousin, DeluxePainl I! Enhanced, DA has inherited virtually all the paint features and the easy interface, t>
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Although I had never worked with DeluxePaim before, I found painting with it easy and the results impressive.
You can paint in 256 colors, which may at first seem overwhelm- ing, but the interface lets you view all the colors at once for easy selection. Since subtle differences in hue can be hard to tell apart, I really liked the color-matching tool, which deter- mines what color you have already painted with. All you do is select the tool and click on the color that you want to match in your drawing, and then DA automatically loads that color for your brush.
You can create impressive 3-D figures in the perspective mode. Here you position a vanishing point to which all of your objects will be ori- ented. As you create shapes to form the final object, DA alters them to fit your perspective.
You can also create stencils to mask areas of your drawings. Like electronic masking tape, the stencils allow you to color tricky areas without having to worry about painting over something else.
Of course, DA features the requi- site array of painting tools you would expect in a high-end paint program. With these tools, you can create cir- cles, curves, rectangles, and gradients of color; fill areas; adjust brush sizes; and magnify areas for more detailed drawing. I liked using the right and left buttons on my mouse to control different colors. This kind of control makes drawing and erasing easy. An- other handy feature is the ability to al- ter brush sizes as you draw,
DA also provides a play utility that allows your friends to play your animation on their computers. A con- version utility lets you import pictures in other paint formats, and a camera function will take pictures of graphic screens so that you can use them in DA.
I don't know what DA 's actual limits are, but 1 created animation that had at least ten different elements simultaneously moving. Birds fly with flapping wings, figures walk or dance, titles rotate and grow in size, pie charts "fly together," balls bounce away in the distance, images trans- form into other objects — the effects are endless.
The program turned out to be a lot of fun. I created a pretty decent picture of Flounder, the fish from Dis- ney's The Little Mermaid. .After sav- ing this as a brush, I animated him against a blue ocean backdrop. Seeing Flounder wink and swim around en-
chanted my four-year-old daughter.
Inspired by an article that dis- cusses how directors use computer animation to preview special effects in movies and because I happen to be something of a Trekkie (both genera- tions), I made a cartoon of the open- ing sequence from "Star Trek."
My final cartoon was complete with moving planets, shooting stars, and, of course, an Enterprise starship that jumped to warpspeed. .A.ll I needed was Captain Jean Luc Picard's opening narration.
Create remarkable transformations with the program's metamorphose animbrush.
You can insert animbrushes (animated sequences) into other cartoons.
Generally, the results are excel- lent, but don't expect classic Disney quality. With some work you can probably get results similar to the lim- ited animation shown on children's Saturday-morning television. The professionally created examples in- cluded with the program, particularly the mermaid and the spinning King Tuts, are truly spectacular.
You can use D.'\ to develop at- tractive sales and point-of-purchase demos, illustrate educational con- cepts, and preview sequences before filming them. But 1 think that this program is, most of all, a colorful, ani- mated screen full of fun.
Prepare for some investment of time to get started. It takes a while to really get the animation concepts down. The interface and screens are intuitive and easily understood, par- ticularly if you've used paint pro- grams before. The program relies on a
mouse, and you can use keyboard shortcuts.
The thick 295-page manual is very well written, considering that the writers had to explain an entire paint program and then the animation fea- tures. The manual's only drawbacks are, first, that it asks you to use some features before it explains them and, second, that some icons are hard to read. But overall, it gives excellent step-by-step examples and starts you on your way.
The hardware requirements are steep. You must have a VGA monitor and card and a mouse, DA runs the program in the 256-color, 320 X 200 VG.A. mode. .Also, the manufacturer recommends that you have at least a 286-based computer or faster, and you must have a hard drive to hold the program's three megabytes of data, (Actually, the manufacturer encour- ages you to have five megabytes of free hard disk space.)
With DA. the PC now has anima- tion power comparable to that of the Amiga and Macintosh. DA is an out- standing choice if you're looking for an animation program. There's anoth- er highly regarded animation program called Autodesk Animator that's also a COMPUTE Choice (see January 1990 COMPUTE!); it is, however, more ex- pensive.
For those of you familiar with the older animation program Fantasision, DA belongs to an entire new genera- tion that can handle more elements, avoid distorting objects when rotat- ing, and give you a real 256-color paint program to draw with. Compar- ing Fantavision with DA is like com- paring the MS-DOS text editor EdUn with a high-end word processor.
DeiuxePaint Animation is an ex- cellent program. It not only gives you comprehensive paint and animation capabilities, but it also makes using them fun and easy.
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SPECIAL SECTION
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OMNI AND COMPm LOOK AT AN ENTERTAINMENT REVOLUTION
CONTENTS
ELECTRONIC WORLDS WITHOUT END
By Keith Ferrell
The past, present, and possible futures of interactive electronic games. How far can interactive electronics go toward creating artificial realities? Hov^ much interactive fun can we stand?
REALMS OF ADVENTURE
By Kellee Monahan
The art of fantasy, science fiction, and computer games.
LEARN AND PLAY, PLAY AND LEARN
Educational software has a playful side.
THE GAIAING GLOBE
By Bob Lindstrom
Different cultures look for different things in their video and computer games. Our games columnist looks at North America, Europe, and Japan, with an eye on the game cultures in each country
EAR STARS AND DISTANT WORLDS
Science fiction and software are made for each other. Game designers and publishers are making the most of it.
EXPLORATION GAMES
Entertainment software makes it possible for everyone to be an adventur- er. Where can you go via software? Just about anywhere you wish.
BUILDING WORLDS
Interactive games can give you the powers of a god, able to control the
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The latest and greatest peripherals and devices to help you get more out
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Electronic games grow more sophisticated every year. This special section looks at some of ttie exciting interactiveworlds available today, and some tliat miglit be available tomorrow.
JANUARY 1991
COMPUTE 59
THE BRAVE NEW WORLD OF ELECTRONIC GAMES
THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF ELECTRONIC GAMES
ELECTRONIC WORLDS WITHOUT END
BY KEITH FERRELL
We are reaching a point where interactive electronics can re- create virtually anything.
They're everywhere! In less than two decades — remember Spacewar and Pong? — interac- tive electronic entertainment has become a global fact of life. In coin arcades, in living rooms, and increasingly on por- table game units, electronic play has never been more pop- ular, more sophisticated, or more widespread.
It's easy to understand w,hy. Today's electronic games, whether played on computer, dedicated game console, or coin-operated unit, are more than just diversions. Good ones become gateways to worlds we might otherwise nev- er visit. The best achieve some- thing like art.
Basically the appeal of inter-
active electronics is twofold. First, video and computer games draw on our sense of fun, our need for play. More subtly the games appear at least to provide some long- desired control over the tele- vision screen. This point might be argued by those ded- icated gamers — and their par- ents, spouses, and friends — who spend dozens of hours locked in electronic interplay. Who's in charge — game or gamer? Interactive addiction, indeed, might well be a sub- ject for investigation.
Rarely has an addiction been so appealing. Through in- teractive electronics, we can journey to the far future or the distant past, achieve athletic greatness, become armchair generals out to change the course of history, challenge our eye-hand coordination, sim- ulate high-tech aircraft and ve- hicles, play games that teach while they entertain.
We are reaching a point where interactive electronics can re-create, to one degree or another, virtually anything. It didn't start out that way. In the Seventies, when the first video games were intro- duced, many thought the new entertainment nnedia would be a flash in the pan. The first hint that video games had struck a responsive chord with the public came when those early arcade machines began jamming — from an over- load of coins!
What worked in arcades worked even better at home, as Atari found with its 'phenom- enally successful Atari 2600 car- tridge console. Millions of con- soles and tens of millions of games moved into house- holds almost overnight.
At the same time, many households embraced early personal computers, notably the Commodore 64, the Apple II, and early IBfVI PCs. While the computers ostensibly served higher purposes than entertainment — word process- ing, financial management — the platforms immediately at- tracted the talents of game designers.
What the entertainment mar- ketplace giveth, that same mar- ketplace taketh away By 1 984 the initial video game boom had collapsed cataclysmical- ly, with dozens of companies going bankrupt as quickly as they'd flourished. Legend has it that millions of Atari cartndg- es, unwanted by retailers or the public, were buried in a de- sert landfill somewhere in the American West. Informed anal- ysis suggested at the time that the video game boom was over, its flash-in-the-pan nature having simply taken a little long- er to play out than was first suspected.
You can't keep a good en- tertainment medium down, though. The computer soft- ware side of the industry nev- er shrank as much as the car- tridge side, and excellent disc- based games continued to ap- pear throughout the Eighties. Nor was the cartridge environ- ment as dead as the analysts thought. By 1987 a new name was making noise in the field of video games: Nintendo. By 1990 Nintendo had not only re- vived the video game market, it had nurtured that market to a size and scope far beyond even Atari's heyday Nintendo clothing, Nintendo books, Nin- tendo television, even Ninten- do cereal have all appeared over the past three years as
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4he company achieved bilfions of dollars in sales each year. Those sales made clear an important point: Interactive en- tertainment had become a fixture of the modern house- hold and would remain so, In 1991. there are more approaches to in- teractive entertainment than ever before. Nintendo con- tinues to dominate the car- tridge scene, although its dom- inance faces stiff competition ^from Sega and NEC. Sega's Genesis system boasts a more pow/erful processor and more sophisticated graphics and sound than Nintendo's, while NEC's TurboGrafx offers a CD- ROM (compact disc, read-
only memory) drive whose stor- age capacity is enormous. Nevif systems such as SNK's Neo-Geo continue to ring changes on the basic game console format.
Portability is another area of excitement, again defined by Nintendo. The company's GameBoy achieved perhaps the clearest codification of in- teractivity's popularity when, on a recent edition of Real Life With Jane Pauley, a child was shown playing with a GameBoy in the back of the covered wagon in which his family was experiencing a "fron- tier" vacation. As far as video games go, you can take them with you — and you may not be able to get away from them. Atari, NEC, and Sega are all mounting efforts to challenge Nintendo in the portable gam- ing marketplace,
I'll admit a prejudice right here: i think the best, most ex- citing games around are devel- oped for personal computers. (Having said that, I'll also own up to my own interactive enter- tainment bias: I use a fast 386 PC with super VGA graphics, an NEC CD-ROM drive, and Ad-Lib soundboard with speak- ers attached. Now, there's an entertainment system.)
The best PC games are el- egantly programmed, taking ad- vantage of the machine's pow- er and minimizing its vulnera- bilities in order to enhance the electronic illusions being cre- ated. Indeed, some games are far more elegantly pro- grammed than the business software for which the PC is pri- marily intended. Word process- or and spreadsheet designers and programmers could take more than a few pages from the book of game maestros.
Today even education danc- es to an increasingly electron- ic, interactive beat. Education- al software is often as entertain- ing as game software, with the added benefit that you're im- proving your mind as you play. Many games, in fact, have serious educational under- pinnings, presented with dis- tinct points of view.
That's a thumbnail sketch of today's worlds of electronic games. Diverse and diverting, the games have spread throughout the world and show no sign of retreating.
And tomorrow?
The skills learned over the first decade of Interactive en- tertainment's life will serve as the foundation for the next gen- eration of games. Program- mers' toolboxes now contain thousands of routines and short- cuts. Just as film, recorded mu- sic, and television have librar- ies of effects, so will the enter- tainment software industry con- tinue to add to its collection. Don't be surprised to see many interactive effects actu- ally mirroring familiar film tech- niques. Before long, home en- tertainment systems will let us write, produce, direct, and star in our own movies.
The software itself, both on disc and on cartridge, will grow more sophisticated. The distance between electronic re- ality and the real world will con- tinue to shrink. Already we're seeing sports games that sim- ulate everything from the influ- ence of a breeze on a base- ball to the effect of blades of grass on a golf bait's lie. His- torical games incorporate so- cial and political factors in war- fare simulations. Simple ar- cade adventures are hardly sim- ple anymore, with action mov-
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Finally, a role-playing game big enough for your imagination. The Island of Ke^mai? Up to 1 00 people can play at once, battling their way through 62,000 hexes of scalding deserts, towering cliff-top cities, clammy underground catacombs, and 3,250 tally disgusting computer-generated creatures.
No matter how many friends you make, or how many villains you dispatch, you'll never, ever get enough.
And The Island of Kesmai is only one of the exciting multi-player games you can play on CompuServe. We also offer the treacherous British Legends^' as well as many others. All you need to play is a personal computer, a modem, and a CompuServe membership. To join, or for more information, call 800 848-8199.
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Gary Gygax, a Chicago insurance broker, designed the first role-playing game, Dungeons and Dragons, in 1974. Now the game and publishing company TSR provides fantasy adventures for some 10 million players worldwide. Frank Beuttell, a TSR executive, says, "fn spite of the economy business is strong. People would rather do with- out other things before giving up their hobby"
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With half a million new gamers annually, high technology is a constant interest for TSR. "We are looking to future
applications of CDs with filmiike effects, com- puter bulletin boards, and virtual reality," says TSR West's creative di- rector, Flint Dille. Players can even help clean up the world in which they role-play. "Buck displays an environmentalist approach from the darkest side," says Dille.
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THE BRAVE NEW WORLD OF ELECTRONIC GAMES
GAMES THAT TEACH
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LEARN AND PLAY, PLAY AND LEARN
The computer has long been viewed as a boon to the edu- cational process, and educa- tionai software designers are making the most of it. Many ed- ucational software publishers are taking lessons from com- puter game designers, using entertainment techniques to make learning more appealing to students.
Entertaining educational games and products span the classroom curriculum. Publish- ers such as Britannica Soft- ware, Davidson and Asso- ciates, The Learning Compa- ny, and Broderbund use soft- ware to make math, language arts, social studies, and the sciences more accessible to today's students, both at school and at home.
The engagement offered by interactivity serves as a spur to study. At the most basic— and in some ways most import- ant—level, that of drill and prac- tice, the computer offers an unexpected advantage over hu- man teachers. The software doesn't get tired, processors don't lose patience: an educa- tional program is able to con- tinue working with a student long after a human teacher would tire or grow impatient.
But drill and practice isn't ev- erything, merely the foundation on which everything else rests. What do sofhA^are design- ers build on top of drill-and- practice sessions? Problem solving, analysis, deductive rea- soning, word problems, real world situations, and more — all of it educational and all of it disguised as play.
Consider The Learning Com- pany's latest entry in its Super Solvers series; Challenge of the Ancient Empires! Using techniques familiar from ar-
cade games. Challenge's de- signers pit players against mys- teries involving ancient treas- ures and lost civilizations. In the midst of arcade sequenc- es, students also find them- seives solving mysteries, put- ting together puzzles, and mak- ing decisions.
Davidson and Associates has produced a long-running series of educational software products aimed at coordinat- ing students' mastery of basic
Educational entertainment remains in its infancy, yet those companies that have made a commitment to the field are assembling an array of tools and techniques that will serve them well as technol- ogy evolves.
Oddly — or perhaps not so oddly — the technologies that have the strongest hold on the minds of the young have yet to make much of an effort to pro- vide educational entertainment
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vocabulary and math skills and translating those skills into higher-order thinking. Math Blaster Mystery, for example, helps students make the tran- sition from fundamental math skills to applying those skills to real world problems,
Britannica Software's Rev- olution 76 attempts nothing less than a re-creation of the American Revolutionary War, couched in the form of a game but filled with interesting facts and insights. Even young players discover very quickly the human, fiscal, and emotional side of the war for in- dependence, as well as its po- litical and military nature.
for their players. Nintendo, Se- ga, and NEC doubtless know which side of the market their bread is buttered on, yet it would be refreshing, and prob- ably profitabie, for the big vid- eo game companies to offer at least an occasional educa- tional carthdge. E
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THE BRAVE NEW WORLD OF ELECTRONIC GAMES
DIFFERENTCULTURES PLAY DIFFERENT GAMES. OR DO THEY?
THE GAMING GLOBE
BY BOB LINDSTROM
North America, Let^s hear it for Mom, apple Europe, and pie, and joysticks. Tine video
Japan have all game and computer game are embraced uniquely American inventions, electronic And today, nearly 30 percent
games. But not of American households own the same video games. In 1990 Ameri-
games, or even cans bought $5 billion of vid- the same eo game systems and cartridg-
style of games, es. Much oi this video game excitement must be credited to Japan-based Nintendo, The company's domestic subsidi- ary has sold 25 million Ninten- do Entertainment Systems (NES) to American homes.
Interestingly enough, 50 per- cent of those games are being purchased by adults, and not just to keep the kids quiet. "There is a change in aware- ness about video games among adults," says Nintendo Gamemaster Hovi/ard Phillips. "Just as cartoons used to be just for children, animation is now/ seen as entertainment for adults as well as kids. Video games also used to be consid- ered 'kid stuff,' but video enter- tainment is for everybody."
The computer game precur- sors of video entertainment have always targeted adults. It's one of the reasons that American game designers re- main the international champs of computer simula- tion software such as flight sim- ulators, urban simulations, and other "you are vicariously there" illusion makers.
"In Europe the computer game industry was much more youth oriented than in the United States. In the States the disc-based IBfVI PC market at- tracted a much more mature audience looking for more ma- ture games," explains Sid Meier, vice president and cofounder of fvlicroProse Soft- ware, Inc.
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"There is an opening for a standard game machine with the power to do simulations and the household penetration to be a commercial force," Meier says. "Then you'll see car- tridge-based simulations with a lot more sophistication."
Japanese students stand in line up to five hours to be the first to buy new games for the Nintendo Entertainment Sys- tem (called the Famicom in Ja- pan). Stores are asked to sell cartridges only during after- school hours in order to stem the waves of school absentee- ism accompanying the release
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of popular games. Role-play- ing enthusiasts snapped up 1 .3 million copies of the latest installment of the Dragon Quest seiies in a single day in early 1990. And Japanese fans of the American-born Ul- tima game series clamor for Ul- tima comic books, compact discs, and a cartoon series ap- pearing on Japanese TV.
There is a virtual video game mania in Japan, accord- ing to Corey Sandler, coauthor of Bantam Books' The Ultimate Unauthorized Nintendo Game Strategies series. Last year in Tokyo's Akihabara district, which has a concentration of consumer electronics stores, Sandler found "lines of chil- dren aged ten to fifteen that went on two deep for about four blocks. In the Japanese style, it was completely order-
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ly. When I got to the front, I found it was kids waiting to buy Nintendo's Super Mario Brothers 3."
Children don't have a monop- oly on video game compul- sion, though. "Adults are also involved with video games in Japan," Sandler notes. Japa- nese players can download new products directly from the manufacturer to their home sys- tems. All that is needed is a telephone connection and a credit card.
Which games are most popu- lar? "The video games we get here reflect what's been suc- cessful in Japan," says San- dler, "But the most popular game categories are role pla^^ ing, baseball games, and, of course, the classic arcade ac- tion games."
As in the United States, Nin-
tendo reigns in Japan as the most popular video game sys- tem. In 1990. NEC's Tur- boGrafx-16 (known as the PC Engine in Japan) approached NES's sales. Nintendo will coun- terattack with its powerful next^ generation Super Famicom, and the video game system "wars" will intensify through- out 1991.
Industry observers believe that the pitched battle will rage in the United States in late 1991 with Nintendo, NEC, and Sega's Genesis as the principal combatants.
Depending on their gener- ation, Americans perceive the United Kingdom and Europe as the birthplace of the endur- ing popularity of the Beatles, or the cradle of profound West- ern art and literature. Just don't look for much that is enduring or deep in British and Europe- an video game culture. "It's a lot of sizzle and no meat," ex- plains game designer Chris Roberts, a Briton who is direc- tor of new technology for Ori- gin Systems in Austin, Texas, and designer of Origin's Wing Commanderspaceflight simu- lator. "In the United Kingdom and Europe, we don't go for great strategy games, or
deep and complex games. It's very flashy graphics, great sound, and arcade action," says Roberts.
In the hit-driven European marketplace, a game for the popular Commodore Amiga or Atari ST computer may sell 100,000 copies during its first month of release; "then it will be dead," says Roberts. As a result, European designers fa- vor arcade games that are fast to create and provide the maximum in "quick, instant gratification,"
In the quest for buyer grati- fication, however, the Europe- ans have become the masters of breathtaking computer game spectacles. Products such as Britain-based Psygnosis' Sliadow of the Beast I and // boast exotically detailed artwork, stunning an- imation, and ear-torching Euro- rock musical scores.
Unlike the United States, Eu- rope has not taken cartridge- based game systems like the NES to its Old World heart.
"Since the Europeans are very sensitive to the quality of sound and graphics, not that many people want to buy Nin- tendo-looking games," com- ments Roberts. Game players who have fried their eyes on the sizzling graphics of the Ami- ga or Atari aren't interested in the less colorful visuals of the NES.
"But the new sixteen-bit ma- chines may make inroads in the United Kingdom and Eu- rope," says Roberts. The graph- ic quality and competitive pric- ing of these systems, com- pared with computer system price and performance, may at- tract Europeans, who tradition- ally have limited disposable income. Q
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COMPUTE 75
THE BRAVE NEW WORLD OF ELECTRONIC GAMES
SCIENCE-FICTION GAMES MAKE THE MOST OF COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY
FAR STARS AND DISTANT WORLDS
Science fiction and interactive electronics are made for eacfi other. There's something, after ail, science-fictional about inter- active games themselves, about the act of plugging your- self in to an artificial world over which you exert total control. For a while it looked as though electronic SF might con- sist solely of dueling space-
craft. Spacewar, one of the first successful arcade games, pitted starships against each other in a uni- verse filled with gravity wells, stars, and black holes. Aster- oids, not long after, made the universe simpler and struck a more popular chord: Give play^ ers a spacecraft and weap- ons, then let them blast away to their hearts' content. Ar- cades and video game con- soles have gone far with this basic approach.
SF on computers, however, has become more sophisticat- ed. In the mid-Eighties, for ex- ample, Electronic Arts' M.U.L.E. provided players with a more challenging uni- verse, letting them dispatch ro- bots to explore and establish
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Software companies contin- ue to hone their skills in the cre- ation of science-fictional uni- verses. Electronic Arts' Star- flight senes offers players hun- dreds of worlds ripe for explo- ration and exploitation, along with a galaxywide mystery to be solved. Midwinter \rovc\ U\- croplay puts you in a post- apocalypse world, challenging you to save civilization.
Virgin fVlastertronic's Over- lord Qwies you the tools to re- build worlds and create a ga- lactic empire. Sierra On- Line's Space Quest series gives interstellar adventure a satirical twist. Access Software makes deadly future streets come alive in games such as Crime Wave and Countdown. And Origin's Wing Command- er brilliantly reinvents space- ship combat in a game that screams for a fast PC and a good sound system.
In recent years some sci- ence-fiction writers' literary works have made the transition Irom printed page to electronic screen. Omni contributors Wil-
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LucasArts on the art and science of entertainment
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If the brigands don't grab you, the graphics will.
Lucasfilm Games set today's graphic standards with games like Loom and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Nm The Secret of Monkey Island ups the stan- dards a few more notches with stunning 256-coior VGA graphics 1 16-color EGA version also available), proportionally scaled animated characters, and cinematic pans and camera angles.
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byles of data, imagery, and sound on a single disc. With that sort of capacity you can look forward to games that talk, images that are animated with almost lifelike movements, and even worlds whose visual richness approaches that found in a television program.
with the increasing respect- ability of interactive entertain- ment as an art form, will go a long way toward attracting bet- ter storytellers.
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vision of Mediagenic) on the creation of Circuit's Edge, an electronic version of the future Middle East he writes about in such novels as A Fire in the Sun. What, one wonders, might a Larry Niven or Frederik Pohl produce if teamed with the right programmer?
New technologies, of course, will make electronic SF even more convincing. CD- ROM offers the vast storage capacity of a CD, making it pos- sible to store hundreds of mega-
Further down the technolog- ical highway we can expect vir- tual reality games that will let you essentially "step into" your computer screen, or fool you into thinking you've done so, Imagine sitting in your fa- vorite easy chair and having it transformed as if by magic in- to the center seat of the starship Enterprise. Can Star Trek: Tlie Next Generation's holodeck be far behind?
The appeal and possibilities of the new technologies, along
new approaches to storytelling and world building. Science fiction creates myths for a technological world; interac- tive SF may well use technol- ogy itself to underpin those myths. Look for the next ren- aissance in SF to flow, at least in part, from interactive elec- tronics as well as the printed page and film.
Science-fiction gannes are in- deed growing up with comput- er and video game technolo- gy Next stop, the stars.... B
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Take a video or computer monitor. Place a character or a vehicle on it. Let the player know there's an electronic world awaiting discovery, and watch what happens. That old human impulse comes into play, and via keyboard, joy- stick, or mouse, the explora- tion begins.
Some of the earliest comput- er and video games were built around the explorative urge. Fantasy role-playing games such as Origin's Ultimaor Nin- tendo's Zelda draw as much on the desire to see what's around the next corner as they do on the desire to face dreadful monsters or cast pow- erful spells. Just as much of the most popular fantasy liter- ature is quest based — heroes on a journey through unfamil-
iar territory— so does much of electronic fantasy take the quest as its theme.
Some quests are more real- istic. Seven Cities of Gold, an early title from Electronic Arts, re-created the Spanish explo- ration of the New World. A cou- ple of years later, MicroProse broke new ground with Pirates! which took as its universe the Caribbean during the great days of fighting sail, of bucca- neers and colonial govern- ments, shifting alliances and in- trigues. Pirates! appealed to that exploring impulse, provid- ing players with the tools — ships and crews, maps and winds — to set sail in search of treasure and danger.
Empire, a classic war game, combines military strat- egy and confrontation with world exploration, tjpon begin- ning the game you are confront- ed with a screen completely blackened, save for a single square. From that square you dispatch ground, air, and sea forces, uncovering a bit more of the world's nature at each turn. Continents and islands re- veal themseives gradually, as does, eventually, the location of the enemy.
Exploration need not take place in a huge world or on a global stage. Maniac Mansion,
from Lucasfilm Games on disc and Jaleco on Nintendo cartridge, presents players with a mysterious old house filled with slightly dotty, slight- ly dangerous residents. Poke around the mansion and dis- cover secret passages, dreary dungeons, and startlingiy inter- active rooms.
In its most recent releases, Lucasfilm continues to mine ex- ploration. Loom is a simple fan- tasy, set in a world where the very nature of reality must be woven — or unraveled. TheSe- crel of Monkey Island is more lighthearted.
Players assume the role of GuybrushThreepwood, an ear- nest if somewhat foolish young man out to seek his for- tune in a world filled with puns, sight gags, and silliness. Among the most unusual ex- ploring games is one current- ly under development by In- fogrames in France. This is a haunted house game, one that takes place in the dark. As currently planned, the game will present players with a blank screen, challenging them to navigate through the haunted house by way of sound effects.
As computer and video game technology grows, we can expect mucfi more com- plex and sophisticated expio- ration games. Imagine, if you will, re-creating the voyages of Drake, the Antarctic jour- neys of Scott, the flights of Lindbergh.
Other explorers, real and imaginary, call out to our imag- inations. lA/ho knows what we might find? Before long, you may face a character deep in an unexplored region of your computer and say, "Dr. Living- stone, I presume?" B
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"Environment" games give players tfie opportunity to con- tfoi some aspect of a world's development, whether ecolog- ical, social, or industnal. Max- is' SimCity, perhaps the most famous example of this type of game, provides players with undeveloped land and the tools to turn that land into a thriv- ing metropolis — or a polluted, Gverpopulated nightmare- Run- ning a growing city is no more easily achieved in a computer
world than in reality.
Designer Chris Crawford, whose Sa/ance of Powe/" trans- lated superpower tension into a tense software experience, recently released Balance of the Planet through Accolade. This time Crawford's turf is the global environment itself, with players forced to make choic- es between ecological con- cerns and civilization's needs.
Sid Meier, whose Micro- Prose games such as Red Storm Rising and F- 15 Strike Eagle helped define state-of- the-art military simulators, has turned to more peaceful pur- suits with Railroad Tycoon. Play- ers are transported to the ear- ly days of steam-powered trans- portation, provided with capi- tal, and challenged to build a successful rail empire.
The team that designed S/mC/fy set themselves the larg- est of all possible tasks In SimEarth: Create a simulation of an entire world. Their start- ing point was the Gasa theory proposed by James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis, which, put very simply, views a planet as
a single organism. In the game this vision becomes a liv- ing electronic entity as you guide the transformation of worlds — Earth among them, but also Mars and others — from pnmordial matter to thriv- ing ecospheres.
From macrocosm to micro- cosm, there's a school of thought that argues that elec- tronic life can be created, or at least considered. Cellular au- tomata— software representa- tions of living, evolving life forms — are already replicating in computers around the world, producing some very sur- prising offspring. Mathemati- cian and science-fiction whter Rudy Pucker has created one of the most engaging cellular automata programs, called, appropriately enough, Rudy Rucker's Cellular Automata.
What all of these programs have in common is a sense of consequences, of the effect of decisions and actions on a larg- er world. Make the wrong de- cision and you have to live with its ramifications through- out the rest of the game. Make the right decision and watch its consequences flow- er. The best world-building games give latitude to "nght" and "wrong" decisions, just as the real world does.
There's a fine line, obvious- ly, between world-building games and educational soft- ware, but it's a line that many designers happily tread. By making learning "painless," en- vironment games pass along quite sophisticated lessons to their players. Because the pro- grams are malleable — your worlds reflect your choices — you are your own teacher. That's a learning experience to be savored — and enjoyed. [3
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ing in an increasing number of dimensions, using more vivid graphics and sound effects thian those Atari players of a decade ago could imagine. Imagf ne The softv/are will grow smart- an inleractive er as well. Artificial intelligence universe has become an increasingly where people popular aspect of some meet games. Future entertainment electronically software will quickly and effec- froiTI' lively learn your gaming pref- throughout erences, structuring its own ra- ttle world, sponses accordingly.
The video game console, the coin-operated arcade ma- chine, and the personal com- puter won't be the only media for interactive entertainment. Some form of interactivity will be built into future televisions themselves. As the tube be- comes smarter, acquiring more and more of the charac- teristics of a computer, it's on- ly logical that interactive enter- tainment be added to TV's tra- ditional passive entertainment delivery.
On-line telecommunications services such as Prodigy, GE- nie, and CompuServe are ex- perimenting with new approach- es to entertainment. Look for large on-line games to be- come even more popular and assume new roles, One can imagine whole interactive uni- verses where people meet elec- tronically from across the world to play together.
New storage media such as CD-ROM will add dramatical- ly to the size of the games avail- able to US- As data storage de- vices become less expensive and more widely distributed, game designers will leap at the opportunity to extend their vi- sions with more convincing im- ages and sounds.
Speaking, as it were, of sounds, you'll probably be talk- ing to your games before too many more years pass. While the bulk of the research effort into speech recognition and synthesis technology is aimed at the business marketplace, business advances have a way of being turned into enter- tainment opportunities. Some games are already "talking;" in another five years you might find yourself training your favorite simulator to re- spond to your own words.
And that's just a glimpse. Travel back in time a decade or so and ask someone play- ing Pong or Spacewar what the future of video games held, and the speculation would doubtless be too conser- vative by half. As is, undoubt- edly, my own.
Interactive entertainment will continue to grow and pros- per. As the technology be- comes more widespread, via consoles, computers, and smarter televisions, there's a chance that we'll see interac- tive entertainment become the largest of all the entertainment industries.
There are opportunities and delights in such a future— who wouldn't want, for an hour or two, to drop into a convincing alternate world, to display skills and live through experi- ences the mundane world de- nies us?
There may be traps as well. The interactive addictions I spoke of early in this piece may become a reality. Some teachers see video games as further lowering an already low literacy rate. The most popu- lar games tend to be the most violent. Some games carry an increasingly sexual content. How far can games go?
The resolution of that and oth- er, related questions will take years, and each resolution will in turn produce new ques- tions, new areas of excitement and concern.
It is clear, though, that far from being a flash in the pan. Interactive entertainment has become part of the firmament of popular world culture. It is here to stay, ready to transport us, electronically, to interactive worlds of entertainment with- out end. Q
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He tend lo think of PCs as high- powered calculators, but they're much more than that — they're expert commu- nicators. And because they're natural communicators, PCs tend to form groups, linked together in networks.
Put any group together, and you have a society. PCs, not surprisingly, have tended to form societies that mirror human ones.
Not only is communication the main requirement for a society, but you could even argue that society is communication. Different societies offer different ways of communicating those things important to the soci- ety— food, shelter, emotional support, and information. The lines of com- munication— how much of what goes where — determine the texture and quality of a society.
In primitive societies, for ex- ample, communication hnes are often one-way. Tribute and valuables flow in one direction — to- ward the leader — and orders flow in the oth- er— toward the workers.
Which brings us to the fimdamental ques- tion about societies: What is the purpose of a society, and what is the individual's role in it?
A quick look at his- tory shows that human- ity has demonstrated three major social struc- tures. In the first, the so- ciety exists to serve a single leader. Individ- uals in this kind of soci- ety are unimportant. Until recently, almost every society on earth followed this philoso- phy. Pharaohs, kings and queens, and mili- tary' dictators all head these kinds of societies.
The second struc- ture says that the society ^^^ as a whole is the impor- tant entitv. Individual
members are, as individuals, unim- portant. Communism is the best ex- ample of this kind of organization.
The third type of organization holds that the individual is all-impor- tant and that society exists to serve its individual members. Most western democracies follow this philosophy, at least to some degree.
.411 this may sound pretty far re- moved from the world of computers, but it isn't. Each of these societies has a computer-based counterpart.
Most penonal computers, cer- tainly home and small-business ma- chines, form groups using the third, democratic, model of society. When you use a modem to connect to an on- line service, such as CompuServe, GEnie, Delphi, Prodigy, or a local BBS, you're part of a democratic net- work. You're the one in control. If the network works for you, great. If it doesn't, you can simply log off. Networking isn't mandatory; it's vol-
untary. This was the earliest type of PC society, and it's still the largest.
Recent changes in PC organiza- tion, however, have begun to mirror the other types of societies. And even home and small-business users will see pressure in the future to move to these other, more restrictive organiza- tional structures.
The second type of society, in which the group is all-important, is re- flected in the organization of many LANs (Local Area Networks), An ad- ministrator controls which programs are run and how they're customized. LANs can make sharing peripherals, programs, data, and messages easier, but they can also strip members of their individual rights.
To see the first type of society — the dictatorship — you can look at the way PCs are handled in some main- frame environments. When a PC is relegated lo serving as little more than a terminal, information, the gold of the computer age. flows to the mainframe, and orders, from the main- frame to the PC.
You may be sur- prised to learn that you can now buy PCs with- out floppy disk drives. These machines are the fruit of this type of soci- ety. Without a floppy drive, the only way to get programs or data into your PC is from the mainframe.
When PCs are networked into a demo- cratic society, the result can be one of the great- est benefits of the com- puter revolution. Computers linked in communistic or dicta- torial systems, on the other hand, may be pro- ductive parts of larger, efficient systems; but something is lost when personal computers stop being personal. E
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I recently purchased an Austin 386, I'm thrilled with the speed, but now I have a problem playing games: The machine is too fast! I need some way to slow down my machine when I'm using it for fun. Is there a utility that can solve this problem?
KATHY MORRIS AtJSTIN. TX
You can slow the Austin to 8 MHz with the Ctrl-Alt-minus key combination.
Most PCs and XTs with multi- ple speeds have a key combination or DOS command that changes the speed of the processor, while most 286 and 386 machines accomplish this with a "turbo" switch on the front panel.
There are some programs whose only Junction is to turn down the gas on fire-breathing PCs to make gameplay possible. One of these. Whoa!, appeared on the May 1988 COMPUTEI's PC disk.
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Sometimes when I'm programming, I'd like to turn off the memory- resident programs I've loaded because they keep me from accomplishing cer- tain tasks. How do you clear these pro-ams from the computer's memo- ry without rebooting?
EDMOND RYAN HSHKILL, NY
You could buy a commercial TSR manager like POPDROP, or you could pick up a shareware or freeware program that does about the same thing COMPUTEI's PC Magazine subscribers are in luck. The January 1990 disk featured a series of programs specially de- signed to work with TSRs, and two of those programs, Mark and Re- lease, can be used to install and remove any TSR.
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I've seen references to ramdisks in several computer magazines. What exactly is a ramdisk, and how is it used? Does it require special memory?
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It's possible to use large amounts of extra RAM memory as a simulated disk drive. In fact, since the price of RAM chips has dropped drastically over the past few years (notwith- standing recent price hikes because of a RAM shortage), ramdisks have become quite popular. A ramdisk is very fast — e\'en faster than a hard drive. Unfortunately, anything stored in a ramdisk is lost when you turn off your computer. Therefore, a ramdisk is best used for temporary storage.
You don 'I need special memo- ry for a ramdisk; you only need special software known as a device driver. This can be found on your DOS master disk with the name RAMDRIVE.SYS or VDISK.SYS. Put the file on your boot disk and modify your CONFIG.SYS file. Add the line DEVICE^' C: \ SYS \ RAMDRIVE.SYS size sectorsize entries to your CONFIG.SYS file.
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memory using 256-byte sectors and having a maximum of 64 directory entries. Once you've modified and saved your CONFIG.SYS file, re- boot, and the ramdisk will automat- ically be created.
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Replace the d: in these commands with the correct drive specification for the ramdisk (DOS usually as- signs the letter Ctoa ramdisk on a one- or two-drive system). The first command copies the COMMAND. COM file to the ramdisk, and the second tells DOS to look for it there. With C0MMAND.COM in the ramdisk, you'll never see the mes- sage Insert disk with COMMAND. COM in drive A again.
A 3V2-lnch Edsel?
While I am happy with my Tandy lOOOHX and particularly its 3'/>inch drive, I am frustrated that most soft- ware is only available on 5'/)-inch disks. Is the 3'/2-inch disk catching on, or are we 3 '/2-inch owners stuck with an Edsel?
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/ wouldn 't speak too harshly about the Edsel Have you priced one late- ly? The 3'/2-inch drive is very popu- lar. Most software manufacturers provide 3'/2-inch versions of their products (no one would be foolish enough to completely write off the huge Tandy market). Stores, howev- er, have a problem with shelf space.
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Tales from Decrypt
I understand that there is a program called RCRYPT that can be used to encrypt a file. I would like to know how it works, how to use it, and what kind of files you would use it with.
KJRK LESLIE ENOREE, SC
Encryption is used to make text and database files unreadable by spies, co-workers, and family members. Your letter awakened the 007 in all of us at COMPUTE. JVe searched long and hard for the RCR YPT pro- gram you mentioned and were un- able to produce it. However, if you are interested in encrypting files, there are several options open.
It is fairly simple to write a BASIC program that encrypts a file. Here's one named CRYPT.BAS written in QuickBASIC.
S$-COMMAND$ FOR I = 1 TO LEN(S$)
IF MID$(S$,I,1)=" " THEN GOTO PROCESS
END IF NEXT
? "MUST FOLLOW PATTERN" ? "CRYPT filename key" END
PROCESS:
FILES =" ":CRYPT=0:I=0
DO UNTIL AS = " " 1=1 + 1
A$=MID${SS,I,1) FILES = FILES + AS
LOOP
DO UNTIL A$<> " " 1=1+1
A$=MID$(SS,I,1) LOOP
DO UNTIL AS = " "
A$=MIDS(S$,I,1)
1=1 + 1
CRYPTS = CRYPTS + AS LOOP
CRYPT = LEN{CRYPTS)
OPEN FILES FOR BINARY AS
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FI$= "ENCRYPT"
OPEN FIS FOR OUTPUT AS #2
1=0
The encryption happens here
FOR J = 1 TO A
S$ = INPUTS(1,#1)
S$=LEFT${SS+" ",1)
1=1+1
IF I > CRYPT THEN 1=1
M=ASC(SS)
N=ASC(MIDS{CRYPTS,I,1))
T$=CHR$(M XOR N)
PRINT#2,T$j NEXT CLOSE
This program uses a keyword to encrypt a file. The ke}>word can be as long as DOS will accept (provided that there are no spaces) or as short as a single character.
The exclusive OR operator (XOR) alters the bits in the bytes that make up the file to make them unreadable. Since the encryption is one level more difficult than simple letter substitution, it would be Quite difficult to crack without the key, unless there are a lot of spaces in the text. Wherever a space appears in the text, a letter of the keyword will show through; if there are several spaces in a row, the entire keyword will be exposed.
If you wanted to make it more difficult still, you could run CRYPT twice. To make the program itself more powerful, you could alter the keyword each time the program cy- cles through it, or you could write a routine that XORs a second key- word with the first (the second key- word could be built into the system or provided on the command line). You might also write a routine that scrambles the characters in the file after they've been encrypted.
The complexity of the encryp- tion depends on the value of I he data and the savvy of the person from whom you're hiding it. The KGB
and NSA can probably crack any code, while your spouse might be discouraged by a simple letter- substitution code.
The syntax for the command that's generated when this file is compiled is
CRYPT filename key
When you run the program, the en- crypted file will be named EN- CRYPT. Make a backup of the original, delete it, and then rename ENCRYPT to the original file- name. To decrypt the file, use the same command, filename, and key. The file written to ENCRYPT will be your original file. If someone attempts to decrypt the file with the wrong code, the resulting EN- CRYPT file will be gibberish.
Unfortunately, you can't sim- ply run CRYPT on ENCRYPT. Un- less ENCRYPT is very short, the program will fail and only part of the file will be decrypted.
Another alternative is ARC'j encryption option (/g), which en- crypts files while they're being com- pressed (simply compressing a file will make it virtually unreadable). PC Tools Deluxe includes an en- cryption utility called PC Secure.
Many applications allow you to protect documents. WordPerfect, for example, lets you assign a pass- word to files. You can't read a pass- word-protected file with a text editor.
Most encryption programs work on the minicomputer, main- frame, and LAN level, where system protection is a top priority. Pass- words and lockout keys seem to work well for PCs, so file encryption has not been an important area of PC software de\'elopment.
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Two popular programs, DESQview (Quarterdeck Office Systems, 606-B Ven- ice Boulevard, Venice, California 90291; 213-314-3240; $129)and Windows (Mi- crosoft, One Microsoft Way. Redmond, Washington 98052; 206-882-8080; $149), specialize in endowing DOS with the ability to multitask: to run multiple ap- plications concurrentlv on your DOS- based PC.
Equally important, since both DESQview and Windows Ihemsdves run under DOS, they permit you to multitask virtually any DOS application already on the market. By contrast, OS/2, Micro- soft's much-touted second-generation op- erating system, requires that you replace your current DOS applications with all new software (much of which has yet to be written) before you'll be able to take full advantage of its multitasking capabilities.
Despite their shared goal of adding the ability to multitask to your PC arse- nal, DESQview and Windows differ radi- cally in many critical areas. But before looking at these differences, let's examine one of the most obvious similarities be- tween DESQvieiv and Windows — specifi- cally, the basic technique used by both programs to accomplish the feat of multi- tasking under DOS. t>
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Sleight of Hand
To get an idea of how DESQview and Windows work, you need look no far- ther than your kitchen. Suppose you had to prepare a three-course meal on a single-burner hot plate. One way to accomplish this would be to complete each course before starting the next. Unfortunately, by the time the final course was ready, the food prepared fu^t would be too cold to serve (as- suming that vichyssoise was not on the menu).
But what if, instead, you heated up the first course for a short time, then removed it and began cooking the second? Several minutes later, you'd replace the second course with the third. After a bit, you could re- move the third course and go back lo heating up the first, then replace the first with the second, the second with the third, and so on— continuing to dedicate a short period of burner time to each course until all three items were adequately cooked.
Using this technique, your entire dinner would be ready to serve at ap- proximately the same time, with none of your guests ever suspecting that you had been forced to prepare their three-course meal on a single burner.
Both DESQview and Windows use a variation on this technique (called time slicing) to multitask pro- grams running under DOS. By pro- viding CPU time in round-robin fashion to however many programs you have loaded into RAM, DESQ- view and Windows fool each applica- tion into thinking that it, and it alone, has exclusive access to your system resources. Furthermore, this presti- digitation occurs at such a rapid pace that you'll barely be aware that it's happening.
There are similarities in the ways Windows and DESQview manipulate your CPU, but what sets them apart from one another? Let's begin with their appearance.
Words or Pictures
DESQview eschews the colorful dis- plays and stylized icons that define a graphical user interface (GUI) like Windows, opting instead for a spartan interface not very different from the one employed by MS-DOS.
All DESQview display elements (command options, pull-down menu boxes, window borders, and the like) are generated using the standard PC character set on the text screen. DESQview is perfectly capable of run- ning graphics programs in a multi- tasking session; only DESQvie>v's top- level user interface is limited to character-based operation.
Windows, on the other hand, re- lies on a bitmapped display, where
Text-based DESQview.
Graphics-based Windows.
Context Switching and Muititasi(ing
Context switching is an alternative to multitasking. If you often want to access more than one application during the course of your normal PC operations but you don't need to have these appli- cations running when they aren't in view, context switching (also known as task switching ) may be what you need.
Context switching differs from multitasking in that only a single pro- gram is actually executing code at any given time, even if multiple applications have been loaded into memory. If you're using context-switching software and access one program, any other applica- tion running in that session is temporar- ily suspended, and a snapshot of Its current operation is maintained in mem- ory or stored to a disk file. Calling up one of the suspended applications causes it to be shuffled back into active RAtvl and once again made operational.
For example, one popular context- switching program, Switch-It (Better Software Technology, 55 New '*'ork Av- enue, Framingham, Massachusetts 01701; 800-B48-0286: $99.95), lets you load up to 100 programs in a 640K sys- tem— providing, of course, that you have enough free disk space or ex- panded memory (EMS) to support pro- gram swapping on such a large scale.
In truth, context switching resem- bles using the hold button on a multiline telephone. White it's not possible to car- ry on more than one conversation at a time under such conditions, you can quickly switch your attention between tvm or more callers. Context switching provides a convenience to people who don't require full multitasking but vrauld profit from quick and easy access to several DOS applications.
each picture element (pixel) must be individually controlled. .A typical VG.A display is composed of over 300,000 pixels. .4s you might suspect, the added resources required to man- age the graphical Windows display can slow a system down considerably. Therefore, DESQview gets the nod over Windows, at least as far as speed is concerned.
However, a GUI such as Win- dows has several advantages over a character-based operating environ- ment. GUIs are generally easier to learn and use. These factors take on added significance on a system used by newcomers to PCs. And the fact that one Windows program bears at least a passing resemblance to another makes retraining less troublesome when it comes time to upgrade or change applications.
Iconoclast
With the recent release of Windows 3.0, Microsoft finally delivered on its longstanding promise to provide a true graphical interface for DOS- based personal computers. The result is an operating environment that even PC neophytes should have little trou- ble navigating, once they've mastered a few basic techniques.
Windows' Teliance on icons, mouse support, and pull-down menus greatly simplifies most PC operations. Starting an application in Windows, for example, is a simple matter of po- sitioning a mouse pointer over that application's icon and then double- clicking the mouse button. This point- and-click paradigm carries over into virtually all areas of Windows oijerations.
If you've ever worked in standard DOS. the command COPY/V C: \ TEMP \BUDGET90 D: \ LOTUS \ DATA \ will look depressingly famil- iar. This kind of command struc- ture— in this case, a relatively simple command whose sole purpose is to copy a file from one DOS directory to another — can induce nightmares in peoplejust learning how to use a PC. By contrast, performing this same COPY operation under Windows is as easy as dragging an icon associated with the BUDGET90 file from its ini- tial location on the Windows display to a second window representing the destination directory. In short, Win- dows simplifies DOS operations to such a degree that computer journal- ists can now legitimately include the words intuitive and PC in the same sentence.
To be fair, DESQvieiv'% pull- down menus and dialog boxes also simplify' PC operations. In terms of user friendliness, however, Windows takes the blue ribbon. >
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The goal of any multitasking environ- ment is to permit you to run multiple applications under DOS. Therefore, multitasking is the most critical area for comparison between DESQriew and Windows. How well does each program set up and manage a multi- tasking session?
The flippant answer to this ques- tion is, quite well. Admittedly, DESQ- view and Windows had their share of growing pains through the years. Both take some potentially risky liberties with DOS's native, single-tasking ar- chitecture. Early releases of each pack- age were not always 100-percent dependable, especially when it came to managing so-called misbehaved programs — applications that bypassed the standard BIOS routines to im- prove their performance.
Subsequent upgrades of both DESQview and Windows have elimi- nated most of these incompatibility problems. With rare exceptions, both DESQview and Windows are now ca- pable of handling virtually any DOS program.
I've been working with the latest versions of both DESQvien' and Win- dows 3.0 for several months and have yet to encounter a conflict that could not be resolved with a relatively mi- nor adjustment to either the multi-
tasking environment itself or the problematic application program. Since they're roughly equal in technical proficiency, the choice be- tween DESQview and Windows boils down to a personal one based on how you'll use a multitasking environment rather than all the possible uses to which such an environment can be applied.
The Machine Matters
Given the strain time slicing places on your system's CPU, it only makes sense that the kind of computer sys- tem you own will influence the overall performance of your multitasking environment.
DESQview will run on any IBM- compatible PC, including 8088- or 8086-based XT-compatible systems having only 51 2K of RAM. Of course, multitasking on such a system would be severely limited; all your multitask- ing programs would have to fit within 512K. You'd have trouble finding programs of consequence that would take up so little room.
Windows wi\] run — in real mode — on an 8088 or 8086 machine with 640K, but real mode has the same limitation as we found in DESQvieiv: All the multitasking pro- grams must fit entirely within the 640K of conventional memory. You
Three Faces of Wfncfows
Starting with Windows 3.0, Microsoft eliminated the need to buy different versions of Windows for different PC systems. Rather than existing as dis- crete products (like Windows/286 and Wmdows/386), Windows 3.0 can con- figure itself to run in one of three opera- tonal modes: real, standard, and 386 enhanced.
Get Real
When running in real mode, Windows 3.0 is limited to performing all of its multitasking operations in that 640K block of memory commonly refen-ed to as conventional RAM.
If the total memory required by the programs you're using exceeds 640K, Windows automatically reverts to con- text switching rather than multitasking (see "Context Switching and Multitask- ing"). Windows 3.0 automatically config- ures iitself to operate in real mode on any system that has fess than one megabyte of RAM.
New Standard
When running in standard mode, Win- dows can transfer some of its opera- tions to extended memory This increases the amount of conventional RAM available to actually run standard DOS applications. A second major t»en- ef it to running Windows in standard
mode is that it actually allows text- based programs that employ standard DOS extenders to run in so-called pro- tected mode, thus effectively breaking that infamous 640K DOS barrier. (Per- haps the best known program that cur- rently employs DOS extenders is Lotus 1-2-3 release 3.)
Peak Performance
The ultimate Windows configuration is 386-enhanced mode. In addition to sup- porting all of the features associated witti running Windows in standard mode, 386-enhanced mode takes advantage of the advanced memory- management capabilities built into In- tel's 80386 and 80486 microprocessors. Primary among these is their ability to use extended memory to set up so- called virtual 8086 machines — discrete segments of RAM that function as if they were isolated 8086-based XT-com- patible systems.
Generally, Windows itself deter- mines its best operating mode for your system tiardware. However, by includ- ing the appropriate command switch with the WIN command normally used to start Windows, you can override this default configuration. Starting a multi- tasking session with a WIN /R com- mand, for example, forces Windows to run in real mode.
The Best of Both Worlds
I'm going to let you in on a little secret: It's possible to set up Windows 3.0 so that it will run under DESQview. Wi^y would you ever want to do this? That's easy. Running Windows within a DESQ- view multitasking session allows you to access most of the advanced features associated with each of these DOS multitasking environments — the best of both worlds.
You'll be able to run the impressive Windows-aware programs currently flooding the PC market (fins & Letters; Excel: Ventura Publisher, Windows Edi- tion; Ami Professional: Word for Win- dows; Micropfione II, and so forth) and still take advantage of the fact that DESQview will execute and switch be- tween standard DOS applications more quickly than its graphics-based competition.
The most critical caveat attached to setting up this hybrid configuration is that, at the time of this writing, the only way to avoid conflicts with Windows is to run it in real mode. Rumor has it, however, that a planned DESQview up- grade will be compatible with all three Windows modes.
can multitask programs designed to run under Windows (these programs are sometimes described as Windows- aware) using extended memory under Windows in standard mode, which, at minimum, requires an 80286-based .AT with at least one megabyte of memory, including at least 256K of extended memory. But once again, all the multitasking programs must fit within 64DK of conventional memo- ry. If you want to multitask DOS pro- grams under Windows, your minimum system must be an 80386 with two megabytes of R.AM. These three as- pects of Windows are covered in full in the accompanying article "Three Faces of Windows."
Of course, the more advanced your PC, the more efficiently it will multitask, regardless of whether you ultimately settle on DESQview or Windows — or even a combination of the two (see "The Best of Both Worlds").
The performance of DESQview improves dramatically when it's run on a 80286 AT compatible. -And both programs are designed to take full ad- vantage of the advanced memory- management features built into Intel's 80386 and 80486 microprocessors.
DESQview users will need to buy a second program — Quarterdeck's $59 QEMM-386 memory manager — to accomplish this (these products can be bought as a set), while the basic Windows package includes everything required to run Windows efficiently on any IBM-compatible computer (see "Three Faces of Windows").
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Here's an item-by-item comparison of Windows and DESQview features and requirements.
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Cost
Minimum
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User
Interface
Bundled Applications
Mouse Support
Runs Standard DOS Programs
Runs Graphics Programs
Adjustable Windows
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None
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Graphical interface that includes iboth icons and pull-down menus
Write, Paintbrush, Termini, Cardfile, Calculator, Calendar, Clock, Notepad, Macro Recorder, File Manager
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Yes
Yes
Yes
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Yes |
Yes |
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Cut-and-Paste Text |
Yes |
Yes |
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Cut-and-Paste Graphics |
No |
Yes |
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Data Exchange |
Mark-and-Transfer Feature |
Windows clipboard Also, allows dynamic linking of data between applications designed to support the Windows DDE feature |
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Runs Standard DOS Program in Small Windows |
Yes |
Only In 386-enhanced mode |
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Minimum Multitasking Requirements |
XT compatible with512KofRAM |
286-based AT with 1MB of RAM |
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Minimal Recommended Multitasking Environment |
386-based system with 2MB of RAM |
286-based AT with 2MB of RAM |
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Multitasks on 808e-Based XT Compatible |
Yes (providing all open applications fit in conventional memory) |
Yes (providing all open applications fit in conventional memory) |
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Multitasks on 286-Based AT |
Yes (providing ail open applicatbns fit in conventional memory) |
Yes (providing all open applications fit in conventional memory) |
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Mullitasks on 386-Based System |
Yes (uses QEI\4M-386 memory manager to convert extended memory to expanded memory) |
Yes (uses HIMEM.SYS to access extended memory and run in 386-enhanced mode) |
Making the Choice
In some situations, choosing between DESQview and Windows is a relative- ly straightforward proposition. If you work exclusively with standard, char- acter-based DOS applications — that is, programs not specifically designed to run under Windows — then DESQ- view is the logical choice.
The greater speed of the DESQ- view text-based interface makes this decision an easy one. Additionally, DESQview is slightly more utilitarian if your PC is an 8088- or 8086-based XT compatible and the only choice if your computer lacks a graphics adap- tor capable of running the Windows GUI or has only 5 12IC
On the other hand, Windows of- fers the user-friendly attributes com- monly associated with GUIs: icons, point-and-click procedures, interac- tive dialog boxes, and the like. If you're new to personal computing and want to avail yourself of the advan- tages of multitasking, it's hard to imagine a DOS environment easier to install, learn, or use than Windows 3.0.
Given H^iWow' graphical inter- face, it's also the logical choice if you work primarily in graphics-based ap- plications such as desktop publishing, CAD, draw programs, and the like- especially if the specific programs you use for these activities are Windows- aware.
The third alternative is a mix- and-match environment, where you use both standard DOS and Windows applications. In this case, the choice of whether to organize your multitasking under DESQview or Windows re- quires a little more thought.
DESQvievv handles both charac- ter-based and graphics programs with equal ease. Its speed and flexibility should influence your decision.
However, accessing some of DESQvie\v's more advanced features requires a level of technical knowl- edge surpassing that demanded by Windows 3.0. Unlike DESQview and, to a certain degree, earlier versions of Windows itself^ Windows 3.0 puts its own house in order. It places few de- mands on the user.
In the final analysis, Windows and DESQvien' perform exactly as promised, bringing almost divine power to the world of silicon. Each en- dows DOS with the ability to multi- task. Regardless of which one you choose, adding multitasking capabili- ty to your system will improve your efficiency and increase your overall PC productivity. It will allow your computer to work efficiently on multi- ple projects at your own pace. And that, after all, is what using a personal computer is all about. q
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One of the hidden jewels in DOS versions 3.2 and higher is the XCOPY command. XCOPY is a clear improvement over COPY, but many users ignore ii, probably for two reasons. First, COPY is easy, convenient, and al- ready learned; second, one look at the XCOPY page in any DOS manual can scare even DOS aficionados. You have a choice of eight possible switch- es, and it's hard to know where to be- gin. Why use XCOPY? It's faster, more powerful, and smarter.
In moving data from a hard disk to a floppy or vice versa, XCOPY re- duces the transaction time by about 20 percent. The saving comes because COPY reads and writes each file indi- vidually, but XCOPY reads as many files into memory as it can and then writes out the whole group at once.
XCOPY also eliminates the pain of copying files in subdirectories from one disk to another. The command XCOPY A;*.* B: /S copies all the files in the current directory and its sub- directories on drive A to drive B, cre- ating any necessary subdirectories as it goes. If you add /E, empty subdirec- tories on the source disk will be creat- ed on the target disk as well.
If you carry disks with work in progress from your office to your home, XCOPY can help maice sure you have the latest versions of the files you need wherever you are. One way to do this is by using the /D, or date, switch. This tells XCOPY to copy only those files that were changed on or after a certain date.
Let's say you're working on a pro- posal that consists of several data files. The files you're working on are all in the same subdirectory, and all have the extension DAT.
The command XCOPY C:*.DAT A: l'D:mm/dd/yy (substituting the current date for mm/dd/yy) copies all the DAT files that were modified to- day to the disk in drive A. Once you arrive home, switch to the subdirec- tory that holds your data files and reverse the procedure with the com- mand XCOPY A: C: /D:mm/dd/yv.
When you've finished your work for the evening, use the first command again to update the data files on the disk; then tomorrow morning use the second command to update the files on the hard disk at work.
Using the date switch works well unless there are too many files to fit on one disk. If that's the case, let XCOPY copy files based on the status ofthe archive bit.
The archive bit is a piece of infor- mation DOS keeps about every file.
It's a simple on/off switch. If it's on, the file has been changed since the last backup. If it's off, no changes to the file have occurred.
Later versions of DOS include a command, ATTRIB, that allows you to change the file status bits, which, besides archive, include read-only, hidden, and system file attributes. Most disk utility programs also have ATTRIB commands, and their versions are usually more powerful and easier to use than their DOS counterparts.
Let's say you want to keep daily backups ofthe files in your word pro- cessing subdirectory. Switch to that
subdirectory; then use the command .A.TTRIB -A to turn off the archive bit in each ofthe files.
Now, as you create new files or modify existing ones, the archive bits for those files will be turned on. At day's end, you can use XCOPY with the /M switch to copy only those files that have been changed. The com- mand would be XCOPY C: A: /M.
XCOPY will begin copying changed files from the current sub- directory to the disk on drive A. At the same time, it will turn off the ar- chive bit for each ofthe files it suc- cessfully copies. If you have several files to copy, the disk in drive A will eventually get too full to hold more information, and XCOPY will stop work and display an error message in- dicating that the disk is full.
When this happens, insert anoth- er disk and repeat the XCOPY. The files that were copied to the first disk won't be copied again because their archive bit is no longer on. Repeat the process until all the files you want to back up have been copied.
If you're interested in automating this daily backup process, you could set up a batch file that would copy the files from several subdirectories. To make such a batch file work success- fully, though, you'd have to know whether all the files in one subdirec- tory were successfully copied before going on.
The ERRORLEVEL command from DOS's batch programming lan- guage could be used for this task. If XCOPY exits without completing its task, it sets an ERRORLEVEL code. Your batch program can test for that condition, and if it occurs, you can prompt the user to insert a new disk and then have the batch file repeat the previous command to copy the re- maining files to the fioppy.
Four ofthe eight XCOPY switch- es have been mentioned. The others are less used but could come in handy for certain applications. Check out XCOPY in your DOS manual and see if this powerful command's other op- tions are useful to you. 0
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n PC-Art (1509) A color graphics paint- ing/drawing package. CbA
E] Epson Utilities (1514,1515) Enhance the print quality of your Epson- compatible printer (2 disks)
ElPC-Key Draw (1520-1523) Powerful CAD design system. Works with mouse or keyboard. (4 disks) CGA
D Charts Unlimited (1531) A design tool for creating any kind o( chart. CGA
[DPC-Dialt (1533,1534) A high-quality drawing program. (2 disks) CGA
D Amazing Labels (1547) Create and prim graphic address labels.
MISC. APPLICATIONS
Hwisdom of the Ages (1316-1319) Over 6000 great quotations from the greatest minds of history. (4 disks)
DTrip Planner (1331) A computerized road map. Computes best route.
n Electronic Almanac (1341) A great source for all kinds of interesting infor- mation.
D Piano Man (1901) Compose and edit music or play the keyboard.
n PC Beat (1909) Turns your computer into a drum machine!
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D Automenu (1409) A very professional hard disk menu system. Run any of your programs from a custom menu.
D ALT (1413) It's like Norton Utililies, the Sidekick desktop accessories, and a menu program all in one!
DHD Backup (1415) Allows you to backup/restore all the data on your hard drive with floppy disks. HD
n Q-Edit (1427) Our favorite screen/text editor Hundreds of features, beauti- ful screen display, on-screen help.
n4D0S (1431) Complete COMMAND. COM replacement. Better than DOS.
DVirusScan (1440) Make sure your computer is virus-free with this valu- able utility Highly recommended!
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DAdventureWarB (1934) Five excellent adventure games.
D Baseball (1916) Great arcade action and baseball strategy. CGA
n Conquer (1984) Try to lake over as much of the worid as you can. Simi- lar to Risk. CGA
D Cribbage Partner (1947) A very realis- tic cribbage simulation.
D Double Blocks (1970) A TERRIFIC Telris clone for 1 or 2 players. Records top scores. You will love Ihis!
Die-Hole Miniature Golf (1915) Kids really love this one! CGA
Dlnsanity (1946) Find your way out of this maze before you go insane! CGA
DKid Games (1938) These games are both fun and educational. CGA
n Kingdom of Kroz (1952) An excellent, award-winning adventure game.
□ McMurphy's Mansion (1966) Search a spooky Scottish castle for treasure.
DPAC-Man & Morel (1930) PAC-Man and Ms. PAC-Man clones. CGA
D PC Jigsaw (1976) Creates a beautiful puzzle for you to put back together.
DPC-Pro Golf it (1975) Choose your club and swing away at one of the world's most beautiful country clubs (Amherst). Excellent graphics! CGA
DPinball (1941) Great sound and last play on 5 different "machines." CGA
D Pharaoh's Tomb (1974) Face mon- sters and traps as you explore the pyramid. Your goal is to survive! CGA
D Popcorn (1913) A great improvement over Breakout with many neat fea- tures. CGA
D Power Chess (1981) An excellent chess program with great graphics.
D Scrabble (1957) Test your word power with this always fun game. CGA
DSharks (1917) An underwater action arcade game. Avoid hungry sharks!
DSports Games (1927) Bowling, arch- ery, and pool. CGA
Dstar Trek (1948) Two versions (or all you TREKies out there.
n Strategic Games (1926) Fight on land and sea in this war simulation.
n SUPER Arcade I (1906) A collection of famous arcade hits like Qubert. Centipede, Pango, and more! CG.»
D SUPER Pinbal! II (19S1) Five more fantastic pinbail games. CGA
n Tommy's Trivia (1949) Test your knowledge in several categories.
D Video Poker/Ultlma 21 (1945) The BEST poker and blackjack games!
D Wheel of Misfortune (1935) Like TVs Wheel of Fortune game.
EGA GAMES
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n Bass Tour (1925) An amazing game with excellenl graphics. Fish in your choice of lakes. Very realistic. EGA
D Captain Comic (1961) The BEST arcade game ever! Superior graphics! EGA
n EGA Coloring Book (1963) A graphi- cally beautiful and easy-to-use color- ing program that kids love! EGA
DEGA Golf (1929) A challenging golf game with beautiful graphics. EGA
DEGA Star Trek (1951) You control the Starship Enterprise in this, the ULTI- MATE Star Trek game! EGA
DFrac (1991) A three-dimensional Tetris-like game. Challenging! EGA
n Super Fly (1939) Swat the Super Fly before you are surrounded by ihe swarm. Multiple rounds of play make this a great game. EGA
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The Quebec Conference, From left to right, in the foreground: Macltenzie King, prime minister of Canada, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Qiurchill.
It was a desperate plight in vA\\c\\ the 14th Reginwnt of the Line found itself, the French square harshly pressed.
World War 11, The Napoleonic Wars and Muskets & Mules are revolutionary play-by-mail wargames, reproducing with perfect historical accuracy the conflicts themselves. You play a key figure in the military-political heirarchy of a major power of the time. Each turn you will receive beautifully printed maps, on which the deployments of your proud subordinates or loyal troops are displayed. Each turn, you move your forces into strategic positions to frustrate your enemies or to support your allies within the game. Whether you are Napoleon Buonaparte, General George Patton, Adolf Hitler, or any one of countless others, you will be thrown into an unprecedented theatre of alternate history. In these unique and amazing interactive wargames, you direct the destiny of world history.
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In Wor/d War II you are one man at the top of the militarv-political heirarchy of a key power of the time and weave your own thread into the collective creation of all players which is the whole game. Whether you become Genera/ Rommel recently ordered to command of the^frifca Korps, Field Marshall Coring fibbing about the strength of the airforce or Adolf Hitler, josef Stalin, President Trumam, Winston Churchill or whatever role you don World War II puts you into an unprecedented theatre of alternate history.
THE NAPOLEONIC WARS
Between 1798-1814 a straggle for world hegemony was waged. From Napoleon Buonaparte's decision to invade Egypt to Alexander I's to champion Mecklenburg, the decision which led to the downfall of Napofeon, the history of Eurasia twisted and turned. History could have diverged profoundly from its actual course. Nelsor^ should have caught Napoleon en route to Egypt destroyed him and inadvertently preserved the Republic. Napo/eon should have triumphed in 1813.
The tapestry of -these struggles was dark to its creators, its final outcome obscure and inevitaoly the result of a panoply of Individual efforts, For example, the French were undone in Spain by Napoleon's inability to personally supervise the campaign.
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During the years 1805-1810 a four-cornered struggle for hegemony raged over German and Italian speaking Europe, Empires rose and Empires fell. In the course of this epochal clash of powers the first French Empire under the Emperor Napoleon 1 broke the back of the Habsburg Empire, twice defeated the Empire of all the Russias and virtually dismembered the Kingdom of Prussia.
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dBase Sequel
It seems that Ashton-Tate's been listening to dBase users. Complaints about dBase IV's massive size and lumbering operation have abound- ed ever since the new database management program was released. According to Ash ton-Tate,c/5aje/ Aversion l.I requires significantly less memor>' yet features increased performance, improvements in its Structured Query Language (SQL), a simplified installation procedure, new language commands, and more.
dBase IV 1. 1's menu-driven Control Center, with its Design Tools, lets users manage data without having to write program code, while the program's application development environment and the dBase language itself allow developers to build applications faster without sacrificing flexibility. The program's Memory Management System handles overiays more efTiciently, requiring only 450K of RAM. The overiay-dependent areas ofdBaselVlA also were super- charged, improving performance when the user is working at the Con- trol Center and in programs that use menus and windows.
While using SQL, users can now browse tables; run reports, labels, and queries; and utilize 23 new or enhanced dBase commands. In ad- dition to new language commands, users can also take advantage of conditional indexes, less restricted user-defined functions and ON commands, and an Organize menu accessed from the Browse and Edit screens.
These changes cover many of the things dBase / K users ha ve been asking for — and not a moment too soon. Some tough competitors have been breathing down Ashton-Tate's neck, and these changes could be just what dBase IV needs to become competitive again. dBase IV version 1.1, standard edition, sells for a list price of $795. A devel- oper's edition is available for $ 1,295, and a LAN Pack option sells for $995.
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In the Chips
Microchips are now big business, and manufacturers such as Intel, Motorola, and others are probably more than a little worried about Gilbert Hyatt. On July 17, Hyatt, a 52-year.oId engineer, received a patent for a computer chip that he invented 20 years ago. The patent seems to include chips used in computers and nearly all electronic de- vices, such as calculators, dishwashers, and even cars.
Before Hyatt's patent, the invention of the microchip was general- ly credited to a team of Intel engineers, including Ted HofT, Federico Faggin, and Stan Mazor. They started work on the idea of the micro- chip in 1969 and produced the first one by 1971. However, Hyatt in- vented his first microchip in 1968 and has been attempting to get a patent on it for the past 20 years. The major chip manufacturers have vowed to try every possible way to show that Hyatt's patent doesn't apply to their products. If they lose the fight, however, hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties could stan flowing Hyatt's way.
The Sun Moon Star Also Rises
CD-ROM is on the rise, and so is Sun Moon Star. The company's new 286-12/CD system and stand-alone CD-Set CD-ROM drive are among the first that are well suited for small business and home office computing, and the company seems to have a solid grasp on what its customers want. Bundled with approximately $2,000 worth of CD-ROM soft- ware and Sun Moon Star's pro- prietary installation disc, CD- Set Go, the new line offers almost instant productivity. The eight discs included in the CD-ROM hbrary include Microsoft Book- shelf; Microsoft Small Business Consultant; Microsoft Stat Pak; Software Toolworks' World At- las, Illustrated Encyclopedia, and CD Game Pak; WGE Publish- ing's CD Audio Guide; and Gen- eral Information Systems' Hotline II Executive.
UsefulCDs for artists and desktop publishers are also avail- able from other sources. NEC has released CDs containing photog- raphy and drawings.
The 286-12/CD system in- cludes a 40MB hard disk, 1 MB of RAM, an internal 1.2MB 5'/4- inch floppy drive, the CD-ROM drive, and a VGA monitor. In ad- dition to the CD-ROM software, the 40MB hard disk is preloaded with MS-DOS 3.3, GEM/3 Desk- top, GEM DRAW, PFS:Firsl Choice, and Checklt. The 286- 12/CD is priced at $2,995. CD- Set external CD-ROM drive is priced at $995.
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If you occasionally have trouble with your hardware or software (and who doesn't?) and you're tired of being put on hold when you call a support line (and who isn't?), there's an answer as close as your modem. More and more compa- nies are using online support to sup- plement the more traditional voice- support systems, You can also obtain quick and accurate support from oth- er users on local BBSs and commer- cial online systems.
One of the best sources of help with any computer problem is as close as your local BBS. This is especially true if you have a hardware question or need help with a popular program. There's probably someone on the BBS who has solved a similar problem.
Just leave an open message de- scribing your problem and asking for help. Most BBS users scan all new messages each time they log on, so your question will get the attention of almost every user. In most cases, you'll find an answer within 24 hours.
How accurate are the answers you get from BBS users? Many times, they're even better than the advice you'll get on a busy voice-support line. A BBS user who lakes the time to help you solve a problem is an end- user who understands your situation. Companies, both large and small, recognize the popularity of commer- cial online services, like CompuServe and GEnie. If you subscribe to one of these services, your online support op- tions are many.
CompuServe offers the widest se- lection of official support forums, with companies like Microsoft, Bor- land, Ashton-Tate, Norton, Adobe, and many others offering customer support. The list grows almost weekly and even includes smaller companies like Button Ware and DataStorm.
GEnie also offers a good assort- ment of support areas among its roundtables. Microsoft is there, along with Ashton-Tate, Borland, Hayes, WordPerfect, and more. You'll find direct and fast answers to your ques- tions from all of them.
It's easy to discover if a company offers support. On CompuServe, enter GO INDEX at any prompt. If you're a GEnie user, just enter INDEX. You can then search for support areas by selecting the search feature from a menu.
Once you've found a support fo- rum, use the service's normal message commands to ask your question. As with local BBSs, you'll usually find your answer within 24 hours.
You'll find more than just an- swers on official support forums. Each company maintains a library of files, including drivers for your favorite monitor or printer, program updates, and utilities designed to enhance your productivity.
Official support forums aren't your only options on these commer- cial services. As on a local BBS, you can ask for help from other users as well. All you need to do is check into your favorite forum and pose your question.
Naturally, you'll have to pay the normal charges when you call a com- mercial online service, but the solu- tion is usually worth its cost.
Typically, you can pose your question in just a minute or two and read the answer in just as short a time.
Since most companies no longer offer toll-free support lines, it could end up costing less than a voice call.
As companies discover the bene- fits of online user support, many have taken the next step: offering a dedicat- ed BBS just for product support. This support method was pioneered by shareware programmers, but it's rap- idly spreading to major corporations.
Microsoft, for example, recently put its support BBS online. You can call it at (206) 646-9145 to have ques- tions answered or to download updat- ed printer and display drivers. Other companies also oiTfer dedicated BBS lines. Check your hardware and soft- ware manuals for these numbers or call the company's voice-support number and ask about BBS suppon.
It's often said that the only stupid question is the one that isn't asked. But how you pose your question often determines whether or not you get the answer you need. Whether you call a local BBS, a commercial service, or a dedicated support BBS, you need to ask the right question. Here's a list of the items you should include when- ever you ask for help,
• The name and version number of your software. If you're asking about a hardware problem, provide the model number of the hardware in question.
• A detailed description of your sys- tem, including CPU type, amount of memory, DOS vereion, monitor type, and any special hardware in- volved in the problem. If you're using memory-resident programs, list them as well.
• Details about the problem. The more specific these are, the better. De- scribe exactly what you were doing when the problem occurred and pre- cisely what happened.
• if an error message was displayed when the problem occurred, quote it exactly when asking your question.
If you always include the infor- mation above, you'll be assured of ac- curate and helpful advice. q
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WWI Air Combat Stoulation
Take control of one of eight classic TO] fighters and find out how good you realy are, Fly with the best— Richthofen, Fonck. Mannock, Ricken- bacher— and learn their tricks and techniques.
• Atlion dogfight, solo, and tMir missions for one or two ployers using 0 single computer with any combinotion of keyboard, joystick, or mouse.
• Strategy Dogfight: For the skilled purist. Blue Max sets like a highly-intelligent strategic board game, ollowing you and your opponent to work out detailed battle sequences and play bock the moves in "reallime" 3D.
• 8 airplanes to choose from, eoch wish its own highly-detoiled flying characteristics.
• Perform missions with, os, or against the Aces of the Great Wor.
• Dozens of historical missions oround 4 different locotions within Frame.
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Winter, 1941. The iq' waters of the Nonh .-Mian- tic. Hie deeper you dive, the greater the pres- sure. Depth charges explode around you. banging on the hull of your U-boat like iron fists. Ner\'e and cunning make you the ten-or of the Allied convoys.
• 3D submarine warfare: For Ihe first time, a sub warfare game lets you deal with threats below nni/ above the surface in a true three dimensional environment.
• Real communicotiom: Use tbe German Enigma coding machine to send and receive Information.
• Many missions to choose from— into the North Atlantic and Arctic, inland along the coast of Norway, Into the Bay of Biscay, and through the Straits of GIbralter.
• 3 dliferen! levels of difficulty, from beginner to realisllc.
• 3D graphics in 2S6 VGA colors, with multiple internal onc/exletnal camera views In a complete 3D world.
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ON DISK UPDATE
JOYCE SIDES
If you've called the technical sup- port department during our tran- sition period, we'd like to thank you for your patience. It's been pretty hectic around here, but the rough spots should be smoothing out now. We're trying a different ap- proach to technical support. We'll re- turn calls from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. EST, Monday, Wednesday, and Fri- day. If you can't take a call between these hours, specify the day of the week and a time during that day when you can be reached.
You can stiil call between 9:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. EST. Monday through Friday at (9 1 9) 275-9809 to leave a message. Please state the na- ture of the problem when you call. We'll make two attempts to return your call.
Be sure to send in your complet- ed disk survey form included in the Information and Extras menu option offered when you run CMOS (COM- PUTE'S Menu Operating System).
We'd like to hear from you, even if your comments are critical. The sur- vey forms help us decide what types of programs to include on the disk. This is your chance to let your voice be heard.
Before you fill out the form, how- ever, spend some time with the pro- gram. Please don't judge any program too severely until you've had suffi- cient lime to work with it. Sometimes first impressions can be deceiving; try a program several times before mak- ing your decision about whether it's worthwhile or not. We take your com- ments very seriously, but we want you to give a fair assessment on the disk survey forms.
Notice that there's a request for your name and address located near the bottom of the current survey form. Some of you have complained of a problem but haven't included a return address or phone number. We can't help you solve your problem if we don't know how to get in touch with you.
For those of you who'd like to ex- pand your disk library, we offer sever-
al special disk products. Available now are COMPUTE's Best PC Games Disk, a collection of some of our fa- vorite previously published arcade and educational games; the Mean IS Course Disk, six originally designed golf courses to add to your Mean 18 collection; and COMPUTE 's Share- Pak Disk, a thematic disk containing 3-5 large application packages re- leased as shareware. This disk can be ordered from each issue, or you can subscribe to it.
Coming soon is a disk filled with 38 different utility programs ranging from a directory killer, which removes a directory without having to delete the individual files and directories be- low it, to a batch file menu creator, which includes full mouse support. To order any of our disk products, write to us at 324 West Wendover Avenue, Suite 200, Greensboro, North Caroli- na 27408.
Viruscan and Sine Variables
If you've had problems running Virus- can (March 1 990) or Sine (May 1 990) from CMOS, you may have entered the parameters incorrectly.
Anytime CA/OS" offers the Run option for a program and allows you to enter one or more parameters, don't enter the program name. Only enter the parameters needed to run
the program. For instance, to run Viruscan, enter the drive letter (fol- lowed by a colon) when asked for parameters.
Some systems won't run Sine from the menu because of memory limitations, especially when you're using hi-res modes. If you receive a runtime error message, you should in- stall the program, exit the menu, and run it from DOS by typing SINE at the prompt.
What's in a Filename?
The filename of the executable file for SetRAM (May 1 990) was misspelled in the documentation file SETR.AM. DOC. The correct spelling of the file- name is SETRAM.EXE.
Chex It Out
For those of you who own mono- chrome systems and can't read the Chex data screen, here are a few tips on how to customize the screen so you can read it better.
First, install the program from CMOS, switch to the disk or directory where the installed files reside, and load the program by typing CHEX at the DOS prompt.
Press F8 and then C to bring up the Custom Options menu. The cur- sor is located on the first line beside Headings and Line Color. Enter 112 at the cursor position and in the next column. Press Enter after you've typed each number.
AftST you've pressed Enter the second time, the cursor will be located on the second line, Detail Color. Enter 1 5 twice, pressing Enter after each number. If you'd like, you can also change the Window Color to 1 5 in both columns. Now press Esc and Y to return to the data screen.
You should be able to see the col- umn headings; the first line, which contains Balance Forward; and the bottom two lines with function-key equivalent information. If the display still is not satisfactory, return to the Custom Options menu and try a dif- ferent number. The choices range from 0 to 128. h
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I've found a way to quickly load and run any program on a hard drive. I created a batch file called RUN. BAT that moves to the drive and directory where the pro- gram is located, runs the program, and returns to the root directory.
ECHO OFF
PAUSE
ECHO %2 is now loading
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CD \%2 %2 CD \
Use the following syntax to run the batch file: RUN drive, filename. The directory name and the executable filename must be the same because the same parameter is used for each, and the directory must be located un- der the root director^' for RUN. BAT to work properly.
The batch file can be altered to work with your hard drive configura- tion. For instance, if you have a WORK directory under the root that contains all your program subdirec- tories, change line 5 in the batch file to CD \ WORK \%2. If you have more than one main directory under the root, such as WORK and DOS. you could create more than one batch file and name them RUNWORK.BAT and RUNDOS.B.AT, and so on.
Matthew Beaudoin Pawcatuck, CT
Xtree Pro
I use .X'tree Pro, and at times I get a message that says there's not enough memory to display all the files. To get rid of this message, I use the XTPROCFG.EXE file to increase the number of files that Xiree will hold.
Norma Gene Butler Nashville, TN
Color Prompting
Setting the screen colors in the DOS environment is difficult at best unless you use a program like ColorSet {COMPUTERS PC Magazine, March 1989). I found a way to set the colors
for the screen using the DOS PROMPT command and the ANSI. SYS codes. It's not as easy as running a program written for that purpose, but manipulating the screen colors with the PROMPT command is a lot of fun.
Before you begin, be sure the statement below is included in your CONHG.SYS file. Substitute the cor- rect drive specification for drive, and the full path where ANSI. SYS is locat- ed (OT path. After the line is added to yourCONHG.SYS file, reboot your system.
T)EVICE=dnve: \path \ANSI.SYS
The command syntax to change the background and foreground (or text) colors is as follows:
PROMPT $t[bkgdiforegd;attributem
The background (bkgd) colors range from 40 to 47, and the foreground (foregd) colors range from 30 to 37. These numbers represent the follow- ing colors:
30 40 Black
31 4] Red
32 42 Green
33 43 Yellow
34 44 Blue
35 45 Magenta
36 46 Cyan
37 47 White
You can also set the display attri- bute by including 0-8 in the command.
0 Normal
1 Bold
4 Underiine
5 Flashing
7 Reverse
8 Invisible
Remember to separate the num- bers with semicolons. You don't have to include all three numbers. If you want to change the foreground but not the background color, enter only the
foreground color number in the com- mand, such as $e[36m for cyan text.
Richard Bigot Paris, France
Take a Scroll
In a recent issue of COMPUTE maga- zine, a review of WordPerfect 5.1 stat- ed that the mouse could not be used to scroll through the document. On the contrary', it scrolls beautifully Press and hold the right mouse but- ton, drag the cursor in any direction, and the screen will scroll. Hold the left button and drag the mouse pointer to block text. These are features that I use daily.
Ric French Jacksonville, FL
Swap It
There have been times when I wanted to swap the contents of two files and not lose the contents of either one. I wrote the following batch file called SWAP.BAT to exchange the contents of two files the easy way.
ECHO OFF
CTTYNUL
COPY %1 TEMP.DOC
COPY %2 %1
COPY TEMP.DOC %2
DEL TEMP.DOC
CTTYCON
To use the batch file, enter SWAP filel.extfile2.ext. The contents of file! will be swapped for the contents of file! The CTTY NUL command keeps the message Ifile copied from being displayed on the screen. Fred Wood Hubert, NC
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TYPESETTER PC (139) NEW! Great single- page desktop publishing procrram. Mix graphics, text, fonts . Requires 51 2K, 9^in Epson/IBM compatible graphics printer.
MPM-PRINT(136)N£WI Print all IBM char- acters displayed on your screen, Requires Epson/compatible dot-matrix printer.
FORM DESIGNER (112J Easy, powerful program creates professional quaUty fofms on any printer.
LCTTERHEADS PLUS (132) Design/prinl custom letterheads, envebpes, labels to Epson/fBM compatible printers.
ON-SIDE (121) Print sideways with cuslona fonts. Menu-driven.
MR. LABEL (124) Most versatile & power- ful label printing program,
IMAGEPRINT (128) Remarkable letter quality printing on 9- and 24i>in dot matrix printers. Now includes 25 terrific fonts.
BANNER MAKER (130) Create signs and banners with multiple fonts and styles.
WORD PROCESSiniG
RUBICON DESKTOP PUBLISHER (8S4,aSS,aS6) (3 disks) NfW! Shareware's first comprehensive desktop pubiishing program. Requires hard disk, LaserJet Of Postscript printer, and a word processor.
INTEXT (866) NEW! Word processing m 7 European l3r>guagesH Call for other avail- able languages. Requires S12K, CGA or Hercules card, dot matrix printer.
HYPER-WORD {a76-a79) (4 disks) NEW! Exciting hypertext woid processor & itee- fofm database with appointment calen- dar, Word processing of the future, TODAYi Requires 51 2K, hard disk.
PRO-CR (SaO) NEWl High-periormance, trainable optical cha racter recognition pro- gram at 200 words per msnute. Requires EGA or VGA,
K-WRITE 3.03 (809-811) (3 disks) Top rated with spell checker.
WORDPERFECT CLIPART f 843,044) (2 disks) Over ISO great graphics.
WPVIEW (1692) NEW! Easily view Word- Perfect 5.0 and 5.1 graphics. Includes WordPerfect clipart.
MISCELLANEOUS
HEADACHE-FREE (1S40) NEWl Helps determine type and source of your headaches and offers cufes.
LOTTO SPECTACULAR (2136) NEWl 3 great lotto programs to improve your chances.
SKYGLOBE (M13) NEWl Best feature- packerj astronomy program yet! Enter- tains and educates. ReCjuires a graphics card.
BY THE NUMBERS (Z70S) NEWl Com- plete Numerological personality analysis. Requires 340K, 2 (loppy drives or haid disk.
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A pair of products are making headlines at Braderbund: a new companion for Print Shop and a royal road to calculus.
The New Print Shop Com- panion, for use with The New Print Shop on IBM PC and com- patible computers, now features an entry-level page designer with special templates and typefaces. Its text editor allows users to type letters on letterheads created with The New Print Shop.
The New Print Shop Com- panion also allows users to create envelopes that match their Print Shop letters and greeting cards. Expanded editors make it easy to design and customize mono- chrome graphics, borden, and fonts to use with The New Print Shop. Cataloger, a special utility, prints reference pages so users can quickly find whatever they're looking for. In all, it's a true friend for a great product — and it retails for a mere $49.95.
Here's another winner from Brederbund Software: Calculus. Taking advantage of the Micro- soft Windows environment al- lowed Brederbund to enhance its new Calculus tutorial software package. The program includes more than 300 problems, cover- ing an entire year's classic curriculum.
Although it's compatible with major textbooks on the sub- ject, Calculus includes something you don't get with printed books: an automated index and table of contents and more than 60 ani- mations with an emphasis on graphing and graph manipula- tions. A special module animates, demonstrates, and explains the sequence of operations requfred to solve basic calculus problems.
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It's that time of year again. The holidays are just around the corner (aren't magazine cover dates fun?), the snow is piling deep in the North (and the grass is turning a sickly shade of brown in the South), and COMPUTE is handing out its an- nual Choice Awards.
One thing you'U notice about the award winners is that they all run on MS-DOS computers. You won't find an Amiga-specific program in the bunch; MS-DOS compatibility was a prerequisite to nomination. This will anger some of you, but when you stop and take an objective took at the size and makeup of the consumer software market, you'll realize that it wasn't an unreasonable editorial decision.
The programs that did win de- served to. Take, for instance. Access's incredible Mean Streets, a fascinating graphics adventure with fiill 256-color VGA graphics and digitized Real- Sound. This program holds its own against any of its Amiga counterparts (and it will be available on the Amiga soon). Or Win- dows 3.0, which finally brings to high-end IBM PCs some of the capa- bilities that all Amiga owners have enjoyed since 1985.
There are a couple of Amiga programs, though, that had they been nominated, proba- bly would've taken home prizes. AmigaVi- sion, Commodore's new multimedia authoring system, would've had a clear shot at winning the Programming Language award. If you've ever taken even a basic com- puter programming class, you learned about flow charts. You plotted out your program as a series of interconnected icons on paper; then you translated it into the
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equivalent BASIC or Pascal code. With AmigaVision, after you've creat- ed the flow chart, you're ready to run your program. You can create a multi- media presentation complete with animation and music, an educational quiz program, or a dBase-compaXibls database entry program without ever touching the keyboard.
Softlogik's PageStream 2.0 (look for a full review of the enhanced ver- sion 2. 1 next month) certainly would've had a shot at the Desktop Publishing award. This update is un- matched in its flexibility. The pro- gram supports not only its own outline fonts, but also IBM and con- verted Macintosh PostScript Type 1 and Type 3 fonts, and Compugraphic outHne fonts to boot. It renders them smoothly both to the screen and to any printer, dot-matrix or laser. Plus, it will import nearly every popular graphics format, including standard and 24-bit IFF, MacPaint, TIFF, GIF,
Encapsulated PostScript, GEM Meta- files, Professional Draw clips, and oth- ers. It's a truly professional program that meets or exceeds the needs of all but the most demanding users.
Looking back, 1990 was a banner year for Amiga software. ASDG's The Art Department and Art Department Professional have made the Amiga a serious choice for graphics profession- als and software houses that must ren- der art on multiple platforms. Gold Disk's Professional Page, the first DTP program for any computer capa- ble of four-color process separation, now supports Pantone colors with its 2.0 upgrade. New Horizons' Pro Write 3.rs ease of use, multiple-column support, huge thesaurus, ability to mix color graphics with printer fonts, and unlimited extensibility through its ARexx port make it ideal for begin- ners and pros. And the big news at press time: Macintosh multimedia giant MacroMind announced they
will be doing an Amiga player for Director presentations.
It's been an active year on the entertain- ment fr'ont, too. Incredi- ble games such as Psygnosis' Shadow of the Beast II and Cin- emaware's Wings keep the Amiga at the leading edge of game-playing technology. And the major publishers, some of whom dropped out of the Amiga market in the late 1 980s, are back in force with fantastic Amiga conversions.
Right now the mar- ket research says the momentum is with MS- DOS. But with Amiga software getting better and better and over 2 million Amigas already in the field, the market is bound to stand up and take notice. And it's about time. B
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ANOTHER J NEW AMIGA
By the time you read this, Com- modore either will or will not have shown its new 3500 computer at the big fall Comdex show in Las ysgas. The 3500 Is said to be little more than a 3000 in a tower case (it will definitely not come with a 68040 processor). The larger case will allow for more internal disk drives and more expansion slots, both Amiga and IBM. Since there isn't any new technology in the 3500, it should be a snap to get it ready on time, right? Well, maybe. Even though the main dif- ference is the case, word is that the original design was based on the PC-eO, Commodore's 80386 tower-case PC, whose aesthetics can most charitably be described as functional. The last thing that Commodore officials want to do now is introduce another ugly computer. So the 3500 may be delayed, pending a facelift. While they're at it, Commodore might want to modify the 3500 to accept NewTek's Video Toaster. We've been told that even the larger tower-case model won't have the right size video slot for the long- awaited appliance.
Speaking of new models, we keep hearing rumors about a cost-reduced version of the 2000 to match the 3000's slim profile. This computer appears to be about nine months to a year away, but the main thing we've been hearing is that it will have a couple of Amiga expansion slots but no PC slots. The big question is whether it will use a 68000 or a higher-powered processor. We're rooting for at least a 68020. Only Apple would have the nerve to in- troduce another 68000-based computer at this late date. —SHELDON LEEMON
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A MEG O' CHIP
About the only feature of the 3000 that you can't duplicate on the 2000 by using add-on cards is the ability to use two megabytes of chip RAM. DKB Software of Milford, Michigan, is planning to change all that, how- ever, with its MegAChip board, an add-in that allows you to retrofit the new two-meg Agnus chip to the 2000. This little board contains both the new Agnus chip and one megabyte of RAM, and it plugs right into the Fat Agnus socket.
The board should be in production by the time you read this; it will sell for $299.95 with a meg of RAM but no two-meg Agnus chip. You'll have to obtain that chip yourself as a service part, since Commodore has declined to furnish them directly to DKB. According to DKB, the reason stated was that the company "does not want to blur the distinc- tions between the 3000 and 2000 product lines."
DKB is also considering marketing a board that would allow you to switch between version 1 .3 ROMs and 2.0 (as does Utilities Unlimited in Oregon) "if there is enough demiand for such a product." Give me a break. As hard as Commodore has tried to keep version 2.0 compatible with previous releases, with all of its enhancements it will clearly break more software than any previous update. As soon as users find out that it won't run their 1987 Bug Blaster game, they'll be clamoring for a product that allows them to switch back and forth. —SHELDON LEEMON
A Really Big Show
The AmiEXPO held last October at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim was Ami Shows' best attended California event— and with 12,415 paid attendees, the most heavily attended AmiEXPO ever held in the USA.
There were more products on display than I have space to write about, so I'll cover here the newest products and the highlights of the exhibits.
The hardware. This AmiEXPO provided a cornucopia of prod- ucts for hardware fans, as many innovative new goodies were shown.
Black Belt Systems demonstrated their HAM-E, a book-sized external box that can display 262,144 colors out of a palette of 16 million.
Twenty feet away in a booth big enough to be a Rose Parade float. Digital Creations showed off DCTV (shipping soon), coupled with its 24-bit NTSC paint package.
California Access, known for its floppy drives, had a dazzling booth resembling a fifties-style cafe and showed Bodega Bay,
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JANUARY 1991 COMPUTE A-*
Not only do you get two vastly improved operating systems (both graphics interface and text-based shell), but 2,0 also oilers a number of utility programs that can dramatically ease your computing life.
One feature of Workbench 2.0 1 particularly like is that, memory per- mitting, you can open virtual win- dows— displays bigger than your monitor's screen. You might wonder why you'd want a window that you have to scroll around in. But wouldn't it be nice to simply slide your current screen to the side and find your disk icons waiting for you on the Work- bench? You can set this up easily using 2.0's Screenmode Preferences f-^-j utility. Simply select AutoScroll, inter-
lace display mode, and a screen size of 800 X 400 pixels. The Workbench will immediately reoi)en larger than life. (Under 1.3, you'd have to reboot before changes would lake place.) Place and snapshot your disk icons vertically down the left side of the window. Then open any program that resides on the Workbench and drag it as far right as possible, resizing it to fill the visible portion of the screen.
I open a shell, complete with close gadget, in that rightmost posi- tion by adding the following line to my startup-sequence file: NewShell "Con:120/15/674/363/Peg's Shell/ CLOSE". That puts about two inches of the Workbench offscreen to the left with my disk icons. Scrolling the screen horizontally is as easy as mov- ing the mouse to the far right or left. An added bonus to the virtual Work- bench screen is that you can resize a shell or text-editing window to proper- ly display text files with lines longer than 79 characters.
2.0 Window and Screen Management
Under 2.0 you can open windows on the Workbench without worrying about resizing them with the mouse to get to those underneath. There are four ways to manage windows now. A menu bar zoom gadget expands and shrinks win- dows. You can use the Commod- ities program IHelp to configure your function keys with com- mands to make windows bigger or smaller and cycle through them as if you had clicked on the front/back gadget with the mouse pointer. Activate the window you're after as you cycle through them by repeatedly pressing one function key, and expand it to full size with the press of another. Shrink the window again with a third function key when you're through, and then move on to your next project.
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The new Workbench Tools menu provides an alternative to clicking on oft-used icons and is particularly handy if you have a hard disk. Usually the program in question adds itself to the Tools menu, but there's a public domain utility available called AddTools by Steve Tibbctt that lets you add any program to the Tools menu, including the Shell. Once you've started up a Tools-compatible
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application, selecting it again from that menu will force its screen or win- dow to the front.
The fourth way to avoid pawing through icons and windows is avail- able through the new Leave Out com- mand on Workbench 2.0's Icons menu. All you do is drag a program's icon onto the Workbench and select Leave Out either from the menu or with the keyboard shortcut Right Amiga-L. If you change your mind, highlight it apin and select Put Away or press Right Amiga-P. The Shell icon is right on my Workbench screen when I start my system, thanks to Leave Out.
Built-in Programs
Workbench 2.0 comes with a number of utility programs, several of which have been reworked since 1.3. Nota- bly missing is Notepad, but you'll find that the new, improved Ed is a very
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smart replacement. You won't believe your eyes when you see its new user- definable pull-down menus. Although Ed doesn't do fonts or page formal- ting, you can paste text into it from other applications (even the Shell) by highlighting text with the mouse and pasting with the standard Right Ami- ga-V keyboard command. Work- bench 2.0 has several other nice utilities, as detailed below.
Display, Something we've always needed, Display is a standard graphics presentation program. Display will show IFF pictures in alt standard reso- lutions, including HalfBright. You can show graphics individually, in groups by names, or from a list of names in a file. You can control your slideshow using Display's built-in timer or move back and forth between pics using the mouse buttons. The program will loop for continuous slideshows, will send screens to your printer, and will work equally well from the Shell or Workbench.
NoCapsLock. Disables the Caps Lock key so you don't need to worry about hitting it accidentally.
IHelp. Cool for keyboard users, IHelp lets you set function key equiv- alents for things usually accomplished by mouse control. For instance, you can cycle windows and screens to the fronlmost position, resize them large or small, and even close windows and programs just as though you'd used the mouse.
Blanker. Blanks your monitor screen if there's no keyboard or mouse activity for a length of time that you set. Touching the mouse or keyboard reactivates the display.
AutoPoint. Enables Sun work- station-style window activation, meaning a window is activated when the mouse pointer passes over any portion of it. rather than your having to click the mouse button. I like this feature in theory, but in practice it makes movement of the pointer
jerky and hard to control. ^H FKey. Using FKey, you can
tie macros to your function keys. For instance, you might define Fl
as "Dir DFl:", Press Fl while I you're in a Shell window to get a ;,'^ , directory of your external drive.
You can launch programs under Workbench 2.0 by double-clicking on icons or filenames or by select- ing them from the newly added Tools menu.
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The CD command, although resi- dent in 2.0, is now obsolete. Type the name of a disk or the device number of the drive (for instance, DFl:), and the system takes you there without re- quiring the use of CD, Entering the name of a directory on a disk you've already addressed that way will take you there without CD as well. If typing Endcli is too much trou- ble for you, the new keyboard -
shortcut Control-/ will nuke your current shell (you can also close it by clicking on the Shell's close box). .And one of the nicest .Ami- gaDOS enhancements is that you can highlight and paste text from a shell into any program that ac- cepts the standard keyboard paste command. Right .Amiga- V.
Magic Icons
What deservedly gets the most at- tention is Workbench 2.0's beau- tiful, slick, professional, awesome, cool, much-improved new icon system. All files — not just those with associated .info files — can be seen and manipu- lated from the Workbench using the mouse. This feature alone makes 2.0 worth the upgrade. Previous versions of Workbench made it impossible to see what was inside a drawer that didn't have an icon without resorting to opening a CLl. With 2.0, you can insert any disk — even those made with previous Workbench versions — and, by selecting Show All Files on the Window menu, see everything on that disk repre- sented as temporary icons the system creates for you.
And there's more. Icons don't reveal many particulars about files (such as size, protec- tion bits, and the date and time of creation). The 2.0 Workbench of- fers access to that data in a mouse-accessible manner. You can now see all files (sorted by name, date, or size) in a text-based Workbench window listing.
Double-clicking on any file opens a requester into which you can enter instructions. Say, for example, that you wanted to use the Info command to see how much space was left on DFl:. Under older versions of the Workbench, you would have had to open a CLI or Shell window. Under 2.0, you can select Show All Files on your Workbench disk, double-click on the C drawer, and then double-click
on the Info icon. A window will open with the Info command in a string gadget. Type any arguments to the command (in this case, type DPI:) and hit Return. Another window will open with the output of the Info command.
The Amiga has long been the only PC to provide both built-in graphics and text-based operating sys- tems, but Workbench 2.0 makes the graphics operating system truly viable for the first time. With it, you can do anything from either environment not only easily but elegantly.
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Fonts are shown in the Fonts Preferences window — no more guess- work about which one you want to use — and you can use three different fonts for icons, windows, and menus. There's a new Workbench Startup window into which you can drag any file by icon or name and have it active when you boot your system. For ex- ample, you can put Clock and Shell there, and they'll be ready and waiting when you start up your Amiga.
Both the Workbench and Amiga- DOS operate faster; there's substan- tially less waiting around for things to load. Another productivity speedup comes from the ARexx macro language, which comes with 2.0. ARexx allows commu- nication between products devel- oped by different companies as well as being a sophisticated lan- guage suitable for creating simple utilities and complex batch files. I've found overall compati- bility with existing programs is reasonably good with 2.0, with the exception of menu formatting on some programs due to 2.0's more permissive use of fonts. But the advantages of 2.0 are worth putting up with any problems you might encounter. If the Workbench had been this good when I started using the Amiga, I wouldn't have bothered to learn the CLI.
Other enhanced 2.0 programs include an Ed editor with pull -down menus and a Font Preferences editor.
Backgrounds and Colors and Fonts — Oh, Myl
Workbench 2.0 also sports great new colors and background patterns that let you differeniiate between different types of windows at a glance.
It offers a slew of new keyboard command shortcuts, such as Right Amiga-I to open an icon's Informa- tion window. It will even create a new drawer or directory, complete with icon, from a pull-down menu or with the Right Amiga-N shortcut.
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Some of the consternation I'm hearing about 2.0 may be due to the fact that, as I write this. Com- modore has not announced in de- tail what will come with Workbench 2,0 or its price. In or- der to upgrade to 2.0, you'll have to have your Kickstart 1.2 or 1.3 ROM chip swapped for a new 2.0 ROM. (Amiga 1000 owners will have to add a third-party expan- sion device such as the Rejuvena- tor to add a Kickstart ROM; 2.0 is too large to be loaded into the lOOO's Kickstart RAM.) For most of us, that means taking our Ami- gas to a technician. I urge you to go for it.
While you're at it, have the SuperAgnus installed as well. It changes the second 51 2K of memory in your 2000 or expanded 500 into Chip RAM, literally doubling your system's general usability. I'd slack my Amiga 2000— with 3MB of RAM, a 65MB hard drive, SuperAgnus, and Workbench 2.0 — up against any stock PC on the market today. I think the only system in its price range that could humble it would be the .Amiga 3000 — which comes with Workbench 2.0 right out of the box. a
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Math 101
I just read a letter from Don Hiike ti- tled "Did the Amiga Flunk Math?" in the "Feedback" column in the No- vember 1990 Amiga Resource. Mr, Hilke complained about the lack of mathematics software for the Amiga.
I do all of my mathematical work on my Amiga, For my work, I use a computer algebra system called Ma- ple. The Amiga version of Maple is available from Waterloo Maple Soft- ware, This very powerful software comes with libraries containing rou- tines for doing every level of mathe- matics from basic algebra and trigonometry up to advanced calculus and differential equations. It can han- dle problems in complex variables, statistics, and linear algebra. This soft- ware will give solutions to problems symbolically — that is, in terms of variables and mathematical expres- sions. It is even capable of expressing solutions in the form of FORTRAN code.
This software is a sophisticated tool for scientists and engineers. It is definitely not a toy for the kiddies! I would match this software against just about any mathematics software available for the IBM PC or for the Macintosh.
I hope Mr. Hilke contacts Water- loo Software and finds out what his Amiga is capable of.
ELLIOT JACOBS ORMOND BEACH, FL
Maple 'j Amiga version is available for $395 (US.) from Waterloo Ma- ple Software, 160 Columbia Street West, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3L3; (519) 747-2373. The package requires an Amiga with 1MB of memory and 10MB of free hard disk space.
Getting the Word Out
Just think of it. Until today, with the release of the first issue of the new COMPUTE magazine, the only place a PC user would get information on the Amiga computer world was in the slim offerings oi Computer Shopper.
After all, why would anyone but an Amiga owner purchase or subscribe to an Amiga-specific publication?
Up until now, an inquiring PC user online with any of the Amiga bul- letin boards was lambasted with "Amiga arrogance" and made to feel lower than cell life.
While I was initially disappointed at the demise of Amiga Resource as a separate magazine, I now realize that, for the first time, information on the real world of Amiga computing will be placed gently into the hands of thou- sands of PC users.
It's ironic that COMPUTE is go- ing to accomplish in one instant of consolidation what Commodore's marketing department has been trying to do for almost six years now: inform the general computing public about the merits of the Amiga, its operating system, and its support community. Bravo,
MICHAEL GERARD CLEVELAND, OH
Stuck with Skinny Agnes?
I own an Amiga 500 with the Rev. 6 motherboard, the SuperAgnes (8372a), and an Imtronics ProRam 2.3 internal expansion board which isn't populated. The manual says that the board is incapable of providing any CHIP RAM, as Commodore's 501 expander is capable of doing. Is there any way to obtain more CHIP memory, or am I doomed to 5 12K of CHIP memory? Or is the manual ly- ing to me?
Also, I was wondering about a new case for the Amiga 500. All the other models have detached key- boards. Why couldn't the 500 be de- signed with that luxury?
KEN HUMPHREY SEAT PLEASANT. MD
We attempted to contact Imtronics about the ProRam, but there was no answer at its published number. However, if the manual slates that the ProRam can't extend CHIP RAM, then it probably can 't.
There's even worse news on the
CHIP RAM front, this time from Commodore itself. The company sent out a service bulletin in October to all its U.S. dealers stating that modifying an Amiga 500 to utilize one megabyte of CHIP RAM would not be supported by Commodore. It went on to say that if the modifica- tion were made, even by an autho- rized service center, the machine's warranty would be voided. With Commodore's new one-year war- ranty and Commodore Express ser- vice program, Amiga owners may want to think twice about making warranty-voiding modifications.
However, some of our contrib- uting editors have modified their Amiga 500s with SuperAgnes chips to utilize one megabyte of CHIP memory and have had no problems with their machines. There's no technical reason for not making the modification to your Amiga. It seems Commodore is simply trying to further differentiate the 500 from the 2000.
Commodore designed the Amiga 500 as a one-piece unit to reduce manufacturing costs. While you probably won 't see a 500 with a detachable ke}>board from Commo- dore any time soon, if you're handy with a screwdriver, you can make such a modification yourself
Pre'Spect Technics (1085 St. Alexandre, Suite 500, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H2Z 1P4; 514- 954-1483) has released the Black Workstation case. After you've re- moved your A500's motherboard and keyboard and placed them in Pre'Spect 's $320 case, your ma- chine takes on the appearance of a sleek black Amiga 1000.
Send questions or comments to Feed- back, Amiga Resource, 324 West Wendover Avenue, Suite 200, Greens- boro, North Carolina 27408. We re- gret that, due to the volume of mail received, we cannot respond individ- ually to questions. We reserve the right to edit letters for clarity and length. ED
A-12 COMPUTE
JANUARY 1991
SPOTLIGHT
JOHN FOUST
This month's "Spotlight" is dedi- cated to floppy disk users. Floppy-based Amigaphiles have no less enthusiasm than hard disk users, but they might as well be using completely different computers.
Hopefully, if you've yet to pur- chase a hard disk, this column will convince you to make the leap. An Amiga with a hard disk becomes a radically different machine. With floppies, you tend to avoid tasks that take minutes of disk gronking and swapping. On a hard disk, all tasks take only seconds.
A hard disk is like a big, fast flop- py disk. Like a floppy, it stores pro- grams and data. Unlike a floppy, it gives fast access to that information. Ads for hard disks can be confusing. They quote milliseconds and mega- bytes, but I've never seen one that said "Buy one and save time." That's the most important reason to buy a hard disk.
Here's a simple comparison. Starting DeluxePaint from floppies takes almost two minutes. Loading it from a hard disk takes between five and ten seconds. Once inside Deluxe- Paint, bring up the font requester by clicking the right button with the pointer over the text tool icon. Search- ing a disk for available fonts takes only a few seconds on a hard disk but might take nearly a minute on a flop- py, especially if you're using a full cus- tom font disk.
Many floppy-based Amiga users resort to rebooting on a program's own Workbench disk, the disk that came straight out of the product's box. They've correctly discovered that some applications don't work unless you reboot using that program's disk. Rebooting on the program's own Workbench disk solves the problem with wasted time and effort.
With a hard disk, there's no need to reboot between applications. It's much easier to take advantage of the Amiga's multitasking when you don't need to reboot. The hard disk be- comes a universal Workbench boot disk that's compatible with every one
of your programs. It holds all the files that each program needs, and there's no need to swap floppies.
Running a software package that comes with three or four disks of pro- grams, data, and tutorials can be a hassle. To store a file on one of your own disks, you need to remove one of the program's disks, and it always seems that it wants that disk back im- mediately. With a liard disk, all of the program's disks can be stored on the hard drive, freeing your floppies for loading and saving your own data. You won't see Please insert volume XYZ in any drive again.
Before shopping for a hard disk, you should know how to decipher hard disk advertisements. The small- est hard drives sold today hold 20
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megabytes, or about 25 floppies of information. Buying a larger disk means a small incremental cost, so spending an extra S 1 00 today might get an extra 10 or 20 megabytes. Most drives can be reinstalled in a new sys- tem if you trade up to an Amiga 2000 or 3000, so think of it as an invest- ment Unless you've got an especially demanding program in mind, a 30- or 40-megabyte drive will serve you well. Hard drives themselves are rated in milliseconds. A typical low-priced drive takes 65 milliseconds to seek out information on the disk. Some higher-priced drives perform the same seek in 18 milliseconds. If you can af- ford a faster drive, it's worth it, but a
slow drive is still better than a floppy.
How do you copy programs to a hard drive? Most hard disks come with scripts that copy Workbench to the drive. Copying the Workbench and Extras disks to a hard disk con- sumes less than three megabytes, leav- ing plenty of room for other appUca- tions. Most newer applications come with scripts for hard disk installation. Remember, if you're consolidating programs from bootable Workbench disks, you might only need to copy 200K or 300K of files from the floppy to the hard drive because you only need one copy of Workbench on the hard drive.
If you bought an auto-booting hard disk, all you do is turn on your Amiga; seconds later, the Workbench screen appears. If the disk isn't auto- booting, you'll insert a minimal Workbench boot floppy, and then the Workbench will appear with a new icon for the hard disk. Within this disk drawer, you can place more drawers and the icons for each of the applications you use most often. Chances are that you'll have plenty of extra space to store more pictures, texts, and sounds than ever. Of course, you're free to start programs from a floppy as you did before.
There are other hidden costs to operating a hard disk drive. Unless your hard drive already includes one, you'll need to purchase a backup pro- gram, which preserves all the data on your hard disk by copying it to flop- pies. Think of it as an insurance poli- cy. If something goes wrong with the drive, you won't lose any data or pro- grams. If it has taken many houn to arrange the applications, drawers, and icons on your hard disk, you don't want to lose that work, either. After the drive has been repaired or refor- matted, you can restore it to its origi- nal state. It's good to keep an extra set of backups in a safe place away from the computer. You'll need to reserve a stack of disks for these backups.
Thanks go out to Harold May- beck, who helped to describe what it's hke to live without a hard disk. H
JANUARY 1991
COMPUTE A-13
ABSTRACTIONS
A R L A N
L E V I T A N
What the heck is going on at my favorite computer company? If things get any weirder, it will have to reincorporate as Twin Peaks Computers. Recent events at Commodore leave the distinct im- pression that while the wagons are be- ing drawn into a circle, the muskets seem to be pointed in the wrong direction.
At Commodore's home base in West Chester, Pennsylvania, heads are rolling in the marketing depart- ment faster than in Nightmare on Elm Street. At least six key executives, in- cluding the VP of marketing, have vanished in a flurry of pink slips and resignations, and company-wide cut- backs are rumored to be on the way. My sources posit two likely scenarios, with the first placing the axe in the hands of Commodore president Harry Copperman, who has reportedly been less than enthused with marketing's advertising campaigns, or recent lack thereof The alternative view places Copperman's own tenure in jeopardy, with Commodore chairman Irving Gould cast as the Lord High Execu- tioner. "Irv, I'll take golden para- chutes for 500, please."
It's generally conceded that, other than a garish press conference, the marketing group failed to sustain any appreciable Amiga 3000 momentum. The 3000 was prominently featured in dozens of magazines last summer and received generally favorable treat- ment. Since then, the new machine has made like Elvis. It's a real shame. Besides being jackrabbil quick in Amiga mode, the 3000 packs plenty of punch when outfitted with Ready- Soft's A-Max Macintosh emulator package. I recently clocked the afore- mentioned combo as being slightly faster than a pricey Macintosh Ilci.
The few criticisms leveled against the 3000, concerning expandability, should be addressed with the intro- duction of the Amiga 3500 at the win- ter COMDEX show in Las Vegas. The 3500 will be housed in a floor-stand- ing tower case, with plenty of expan- sion slots and a 100-megabyte hard
disk standard and higher capacity drives offered as options. Unfortu- nately, the fate of a UNIX version of the 3000 seems to be up in the air. The software is reportedly ready to fly, and the system's price/perfor- mance ratio makes it a potential PC and Mac workstation killer, but Com- modore higher-ups are questioning the firm's ability to sell such a ma- chine into the Fortune 500. It seems nobody is willing to step up to build- ing a corporate sales staffthat will ac- tually call on prospective customers.
What little advertising that is planned for the 1 990 holiday season is focused on the Amiga 500. The theme of most of the ads is What do you do when your mind outgrows Nintendo? Anyone passingly familiar with the home videogame market knows what those people do. They buy Sega Gene- sis systems.
The only thing that may keep things hot is the impending release of NewTek's Video Toaster, which may end up making the Amiga a de rigueur part of any professional or semipro video studio. Commodore execs re- cently visited NewTek's headquarters/ clubhouse in beautiful downtown Topeka. .Although they were mightily impressed, they reportedly declined to butter NewTek's toast or kick in any additional bread for Toaster promotion.
There are also strong indications that Commodore may be prepared to
throw the baby out with the bath wa- ter. Spokespersons for Commodore USA have recently taken great pains to distance themselves from the com- pany's CDTV project. When ques- tioned about the status of the Amiga- based appliance. Commodore USA representatives disavow any knowl- edge concerning CDTV, insisting that all aspects of product development and delivery are being handled solely by the company's international divi- sion. The inside word is that the pro- ject is hopelessly behind schedule, and it's even money whether CDTV will ever become more than a vapor product.
Meanwhile in the United King- dom, Commodore has released a computer in game-machine clothing. Amiga fans will be disappointed to learn that the new machine is not based on a stripped-down Amiga 500. With no CDTVs to ship. Commodore has come up with a plan to empty those warehouses chock-full of Com- modore 64s that can't be given away for love nor money. Those crazy Brits have unleashed the 64GS, a mutated, keyboardless C64 with a cartridge slot and joystick ports. Commodore is packing four games into each car- tridge in an effort to fend off increas- ing sales of game machines in England and Western Europe.
There's a ray of hope amidst all of this doom and gloom. By most ac- counts there are almost 2 million Amiga owners spread over the face of the planet. Stock analysts estimate that CBM chairman Irving Gould holds about 5 million shares of Com- modore stock, which has been going for a shade under 5 bucks a share. If we all kick in 1 2 bucks or so, we can buy out Irv and install yours truly as chairman of the board. How can we lose? I'll be the first to admit that I've demonstrated a total lack of manage- rial and/or administrative ability dur- ing the ten years I've been writing for COMPUTE and that I'm prone to in- appropriate random irrational acts. Look at it this way — at the very worst, it'll be a wash. E
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There are times when you want to do mouse things but it's incon- venient to use the mouse. Per- haps you have a cramped work area, and the mouse doesn't have grazing space. Perhaps your mouse is buried in a mound of documents. Or your mouse is broken. Recently, I even talked to a poor soul whose mouse had been stolen. Mousenap- pers? The mind boggles.
You can use the keyboard to do mouse things. The qualifier keys on each side of the space bar and the cur- sor keys are all you need to do the trick. To move the mouse, hold down one of the Amiga keys (the keys marked A next to the space bar), and press a cursor key. The mouse acceler- ates as the key is held down, so you'll need to develop a tai>and-release method in order to position the point- er exactly as desired. To simulate a left-mouse button click, press both the left-Alt and left-Amiga keys; for a right-button menu click, hold down right-Alt and right- Amiga keys.
In principle, you can do almost anything with the keyboard that you normally do with a mouse. It takes some skill to handle resizing a win- dow or selecting a menu item, and using a drawing program becomes im- practical. Your fingers don't seem to be long enough to reach all the neces- sary keys; it's best to have a real mouse on hand. Find It, fix it, make room for it, or buy a new one if you need to.
Starting from the CLI or Work- bench. Some programs, such as the commands in your C directory, can't be started from the Workbench. You must type the command at a CLI or Shell prompt. Workbench 2.0 has a whole new set of features that allow virtually any program to be launched from the Workbench. If you don't have 2.0, it's no hardship to type the commands, unless your Amiga is as bad at spelling as mine seems to be. (When things go wrong, I always blame my computer.)
Many Amiga programs may be started either way: from the Work-
bench by double-clicking the icon, or from the CLI by typing the program name. Sometimes, however, the pro- gram seems to run differently accord- ing to which way you started it. Tasks launched from the Workbench don't always look the same as they do when they are run from the CLI. There are two major reasons for this.
Icon files. First, there may be ex- tra information stored within the icon of the program. The icon is stored in a file that's named the same as your ap- plication, except that it ends with the file extension .info.
If you click once on a Workbench icon and then select Info from the Workbench menu, you'll see this extra information in the area called Tool Types. Sometimes this area is empty, and sometimes it contains a lot of data. Use the scroll gadgets to exam- ine the entire list of Tool Types.
When you start a program by double-clicking on its icon, the Work- bench reads the .info file and its con- tents. The Workbench then starts the appropriate program and delivers the extra data from the .info file to the program. This way, you can custom- ize features such as window size, fonts, and colors using information stored in the .info file.
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Current director)'. A second rea- son that CLI and Workbench pro- grams seem to run differently is related to the program's current direc- tory. When you double-click on a Workbench icon, the current directory is set to that program's drawer. If the program then starts looking for files, it will most likely look in this drawer. Such startup data files may contain pictures, hot-key information, text, or almost anything else.
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CONTENTS
18GAMM0NX
STEVE TIBBETT and
BRAD SCHENCK
Challenge a friend or one of five computer opponents in this Amiga adaptation of the board game.
20 MOUNTAINS
L. C. HASELMAN Create mountainscapes on your Amiga's screen. The power of fractals lets you build your own world in hours instead of days.
18 SPHEROIDS
KEVIN DIXON and
TROY TUCKER
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Note from the Editors: GammonX is an Amiga version of the classic board game backgammon. For its five levels of computer oppo- nents and its stunning graphics, Gam- monX received third place in the Amiga Resource $10,000 program- ming contest.
Getting Started
To run the program, double-click on the GammonX icon, which can be found in the GammonX drawer on this issue's companion disk. Gam- monX wii\ display a series of credits windows. Click on each window to make it go away. GammonX may also be started from the CLI. Be sure to change directories (CD) to the Gam- monX directory so that the program can find its graphics file (GammonX- .Dat). GammonX is fiiliy multitasking so that you can play while you work. Press Left Amiga-N to get to the Workbench screen and Left Amiga-M. to get back to GammonX.
You set up and start the game using the program's menus. The Gam- monX mer^u has three selections: New Game, About, and Quit. New Game starts a game, About displays the first credits window, and Quit exits the game. The other two menus let you choose the players. The player con- trolling either side can be human or one of five types of computer player. So you can play human against hu- man, computer against human, or computer against computer.
To start the game, set up the light and dark players as you wish and then select New Game. The computer will roll the dice. In GammonX, the player controlling the dark pieces moves first. You can always tell whose turn it is by looking at the turn indicator (a white or brown backgammon piece) at the top left corner of the screen.
There are three gadgets on the right side of the screen. Quit immedi- ately exits GammonX. Pass allows
you to give up your turn when you cannot make a move. Roll forces the computer to move your pieces, which is handy for beginners who are just learning to play the game.
In GammonX, the computer rolls the dice. To move a piece, you move the mouse pointer over it and press the left mouse button. While holding down the button, drag the piece to its destination. Then release the button.
How to Play
Backgammon's rules are fairly simple. The backgammon board is divided vertically by a bar. The lower left quadrant is the home table of the dark side. The upper left quadrant is the home table of the light side. Each player has 1 5 pieces (called fnen), which start the game on four triangles (called points). The dark men move from left to right across the top of the table, then right to left across the bot- tom of the table. The light men move from left to right across the bottom of the table, then from right to left across the top of the table.
In GammonX, the dark player moves first. During your move, you choose one of your men and move it along the points according to the val- ue of one of the dice. Then you choose another man (or the same one) and move it according to the value of the other die. In the case of doubles, each die is used twice. For example, a pair of 6s means that four men can be moved 6 points each, two men may move 12 points, two men can move 6 and one man can move 12, and so on.
You can't make a move if it means your man will land on a point occupied by two or more opposing men. If your man is placed on a point containing a single opposing man, the opposing man is sent onto the bar.
If you have a piece on the bar, you can't move until that piece has been taken off the bar. You can take your man off the bar if you roll a number which specifies a point in your opponent's home table that doesn't have two or more opposing men. For example, if you have one piece on the bar and you roll a 1 and a 2, you can place the piece on the table on the leftmost point of your oppo- nent's home table or on the point next to it, assuming that one of those points has fewer than two opposing men already sitting on it.
When you've moved all of your men into your home table, you can begin to bear off. Bearing off is the procedure of removing pieces from the board. The ultimate goal of the game is to bear off all of your pieces. You bear off men according to the dice you roll. For example, if you roll a 3 and a 5, you can pull one piece off the third point from the left and one from the fifth point from the left. If a die indicates a point that's unoccu- pied, you bear a piece off of the high- est point below that value.
GammonX makes it easy to learn how to play backgammon. It doesn't let you make illegal moves, and if you get stuck, you can click on Roll to make GammonX move your pieces for you.
There's a lot of strategy to back- gammon. To learn more about the game's rules and its strategies, read According to Hoyle by Richard L. Prey (Fawcett Crest Books).
KEVEN DIXON
AND TROY TUCKER
In the year 2100, nuclear weapons are relics of a forgotten era. In this day and age, countries settle their differences in a duel between rep- resentative gladiators. The site of their engagement is the Arena, a manmade battlefield consisting of treacherous pits and hills.
At the start of each duel, six lethal spheroid bombs are randomly scat- tered about the Arena. Each contes- tant moves about in a hovercraft, collecting the bombs and then firing them at the opposing gladiator. Be- cause of their spherical shape, the bombs roll across the Arena at high speeds. But at the same time, the un- dulating surface of the playfield makes their movement unpredictable. As you'll soon learn, the keys to survival in Spheroids are quick reflexes and a deadly aim.
Getting Started
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Every battlefield contains a tele- port device that appears on the screen as a pulsating purple square. When a hovercraft or a spheroid enters the teleporter, it's transferred randomly to another location on the playfield. In the process, the teleported object re- tains its original velocity and direction.
After you've selected a battlefield, you must select the type of game to play. Press F8 for computer vs. com- puter, F9 for player vs. computer, or FIO for player vs. player. Play begins after you've made a selection. Initial- ly, each player is given nine hover- craft. The green ship, controlled by joystick 1, appears at the upper right corner of the screen; the blue ship, controlled by joystick 2, is at the lower
left. The number of craft remaining for each player is shown at the top of the screen. The game ends when you've destroyed yoiu* opponent's en- tire hovercraft fleet.
If you're slow in making your se- lections, the game will enter a demo computer vs. computer game. It's a good idea to watch the demo for a few minutes prior to playing, so you can see how the undulations affect the hovercraft and the spheroid bombs. Press Esc at any time to exit.
Playing the Game
Players use bombs, or spheroids, to try to eliminate the opponent. Six spheroids are scattered randomly across the battlefield. These small de- vices are collected and fired from the hovercraft. When launched, they roll across the battlefield at high speeds. To pick up a spheroid, simply guide your hovercraft over one. When you're ready to fire, push the joystick in the direction you wish to shoot and press the fire button.
Once fired, the spheroid assumes the color of the firing ship. If the op- posing player's ship comes into con- tact v«th a spheroid armed by your craft, the ship is instantly destroyed. Armed spheroids have enough mo- mentum to propel themselves about
two lengths of the .Arena. When its en- ergy has dissipated, the spheroid slows, and its color reverts back to neutral red. Either player can now pick it up and rearm it.
Since the spheroid bombs roll along the surface, the mounds and de- pressions aftect the way they travel across the playfield. For example, if a spheroid is fired into a depression, il will roll around the sides until it even- tually settles in the center.
When the game is over, the ap- propriate bar at the top of the screen will flash, indicating the winner. At this point you can change battlefields with the function keys or immediately begin a new game on the same field. Press Esc to exit the demo mode or a game in progress; then press Esc again to quit the program.
Game Tips
There are several playing strategies that you might like to try. If you fire a spheroid into the teleporter, occasion- ally it will materialize next to your op- ponent, destroying his or her craft in the process. Also, try using the mounds and depressions for bank shots.
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est way to get out of a depression is by rocking your hovercraft back and forth until you gain enough momen- tum to escape.
Sometimes, several spheroids will appear ver)' close together. If you hold down the fire button and maneu- ver around them, you'll fire a deadly volley in the direction you're travel- ing. Firing a stream of spheroids into the teleporter is almost certain death for your opponent. Since the teleport- ed spheroids materialize in different locations, your opponent will have a hard time evading all of them.
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Dne of the most fascinating things computers do is mimic reality. When workstation computers with powerful graphics became available, programmers took a break from simulating traffic lights and be- gan to model the visual world. Moun- tains brings fractal landscapes to the most graphically powerful home com- puter— your Amiga.
Mountains is a complex program with many features, but it's easy to get started building landscapes with the program. Just run the program from the Workbench by double-clicking on the Mountains icon in the Mountains drawer or by typing RUN MOUN- TAINS from the CIA. When the Mountains screen appears, select the first item in the first menu (Demo). Mountains will generate a random landscape {you'll see an overhead view) and then render that landscape in three dimensions.
The demo landscape isn't perfect; it fills only part of the screen. But it does show you the program's potential.
Impressed? The program can do much more. Mountains lets you draw your own landscapes with special tools. You can view your landscape fi-om any direction. And if you'd like, you can save your scene as an IFF image.
Getting to Know Mountains
When you selected Demo, you saw a 1 00 X 1 00 rectangle in the upper lefl
corner of the screen. This is the map area used in creating mountains. This map area is an overhead view with color-coded altitude information.
The first menu. Control, has six items: Demo, Interrupt, Save Image, Map Data, Clear All, and Undo.
Demo creates a sample land- scape, and Interrupt halts Mountains while it's rendering a scene. You can save your scene to disk with Save Im- age; just type the full pathname (such as dh I :images/TwinPeaks) and then click on Store. The Map Data option lets you load or save the point-by- point data of your scene so that you can later render your scene from a dif- ferent angle. Type in the full path- name of the file you wish to save or load.
Qear All clears the screen and the map data, and Undo lets you correct mistakes or change your mind. (You can even Undo a Clear All if you'd like.) Undo won't be available unless you have enough free memory. If you find that you can't perform an Undo, you may wish to flip back to the Work- bench screen (with Left Amiga-M) and close any memory-intensive pro- grams you may be running. Finally, Quit exits Mountains.
Options Galore
The next menu. Options, also has six items: Create, Magnify, Lake, Base, Top, and ReScale,
Create lets you place your own peaks on the map. Selecting Create pops the map up onto the screen. The pointer changes into a small rectangle, and a gadget appears to the right of the map. This is the altitude gadget, which determines the height of the mountains that will be created. Adjust the altitude gadget to about half its maximum value. Draw a rectangle anywhere on the map by holding down the mouse button and dragging the pointer. Release the mouse but- ton, and a mountain will be drawn.
Magnify lets you zoom in on part of your map. For instance, suppose that you've drawn a whole range of mountains but you decide that you'd like to just use one of them. Magnify lets you strip out the surrounding area. When you select Magnify, the map pops, and the mouse pointer turns into a small rectangle. Click on the upper left corner of the desired area and drag it to the lower right
quadrant. The map will be redrawn when you release the left mouse button.
Lake lets you set sea level to any height you wish. When you select this item, the mouse pointer will turn into a crosshairs pointer. Qick on the map at the point where you'd like sea level to be. All connected points at that lev- el or lower will be rendered as water.
Base lets you set a low point for the land. It works much the same as Lake, except that it affects the entire map, not just adjacent areas. Use Base to create flat valleys or plains.
Top levels off the peaks of moun- tains. When you select this item, the mouse pointer will turn into a cross- hairs pointer. Click on the map, and all points above the altitude you clicked on will be reduced to the level you've chosen. Use Top to create mesas.
ReScale lets you change the data in the map so that it ranges from minimum to maximum elevations (0 and 10,0CX) units, respectively). If you've used Zoom, Base, Top, or Cre- ate, you should try ReScale. The col- ors in the 3-D image are assigned according to the elevation. If you try ReScale and don't like the effect, se- lect Undo to return to the previous map.
Flexible Viewpoints
The next menu, Display, has eight items, which control the screen dis- play: Clear, Color, Scale, Frame, Mesh, Sky, Map, and 3D Plot.
Color lets you choose the color palette for your scene. There are three choices: Map makes the map easier to view, Day sets daytime coloration, and Night sets nighttime coloration. You can toggle Scale on and off When Scale is on, the colors will be assigned so that the maximum eleva- tion will have the maximum color. This does not effect the map data. If Scale is off, colors will be assigned ac- cording to the map elevations with 0 being the minimum and 10,000 the maximum. Note that it's possible for elevations to be greater than 10,000 — unless the map has been ReScaled.
Frame can also be toggled on and off. When it's on, only the outlines of the polygons that make up the ren- dered scene will be drawn. When it's off, a filled polygon will be drawn. Use Frame for an interesting effect' t>
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Note that Frame works best when the polygons making up the scene are rel- atively large. Mesh is similar to frame, except that the polygon is drawn in the appropriate color and outlined in black. If you're using a high-resolution grid (that is, your polygons are small), most of the rendered image will be black.
Map brings up the overhead alti- tude map. This map will probably overlap your rendered image. Select- ing 3D Plot or Clear will erase the map. Selecting Sky adds a simple blue swatch of color behind the scene.
3D Plot lets you render your scene. There are three types of 3D Plot. The first is lines, which gives you a quick preview of the coloration, ro- tation, and placement of your scene. Quads and Triangles use four- and three-sided polygons to render your scene. Qtiads is fester than Triangles, but Triangles sometimes produces a more detailed image.
Taking Control
The final menu is Parameters. Param- eters contains four items: Rotation, Magnification, Scales, and Size-Light. Before trying these items, be sure you're comfortable with the other fea- tures of the program. Parameters gives Mountains its power. But it will take some experimenting to use that power wisely.
Using Rotation, you can control the angle and position from which you view the scene. When you select Rotation, a requester opens with four numeric gadgets: X-Angle, Z-Angle, X-Start, and Y-Start. X-Angle can range from 0 to 90. At 0, you're look- ing at the scene from the ground, edge on. At 90, you're looking from the air, straight down. Angles from 20 to 40 degrees are typical. Z-Angle lets you walk around the scene. An angle of 0 lets you look from the south end of the map, an angle of 90 lets you look from the west edge of the map, an an- gle of 1 80 lets you look from the north, and an angle of 270 lets you look from the east. The default value is 10, a number just far enough away from 0 to keep the image from looking square or boxish, X-Start and Y-Start let you center the scene on your screen. Since the screen is 320 pixels wide, 160 is the default X-Slart value. Since the mountains come up from the base of the terrain, the default Y-
Start is 1 20, about 20 pixels below the center of the screen.
Magnification controls the size of the rendered image. Magnification opens a requester with four numeric gadgets; X-Axis, Y-Axis, Z-Axis, and View-Pt. X-Axis controls the horizon- tal magnification. If you'd like to have the image fill the entire screen, in- crease this number. Similarly, Y-Axis controls the vertical magnification of the image. Z-Axis controls how steep the mountains are. If you want your mountains to be more jagged, increase this number. If you'd rather have roll- ing hills and gentle valleys, decrease this number.
Scales controls the look of your scene by controlling the low-level frac- tal creation engine. It opens a request- er with four numeric gadgets. The changes you make here will be reflect- ed the next time you use Demo or Create to build mountains. These numbers do not affect the display of mountains you've already built. The Form gadget affects the overall look of the mountains. A large number will create rounded, massive mountains. A small number will allow spires. Use a number in the range 100-900. F Dimn determines the fractal dimen- sion of the map. The smaller the num- ber, the more rugged your terrain; use a number in the range 0-100. Delta is the maximum change allowed in alti- tude from one point to the next. Scale is the maximum elevation that will be used by the ReScale option; 10,000 is the maximum allowed. For example, 5,000 would scale the map to half the maximum elevation.
The final menu item, Size-Light, controls the size of the map and the lighting. When you expand a scene to fill the entire screen, you'll find that the default size settings make for a rather chunky map. To increase the resolution of your image, increase the map size. X-Size and Y-Size default to 100 each. This makes a map with 10,000 points. If you'd like greater res- olution, increase these values. But be- ware: Working with a 200 X 198 map will be about four times slower than working with a 100 X 100 map. The maximum X-Size is 300; the maxi- mum Y-Size is 198. For reference, each map point requires three bytes of memory with a similar amount being needed by the undo buffer.
Light controls the angle at which
the light strikes the scene. Use a num- ber in the range 0-90. The default val- ue is 45, which corresponds to about 9:30 a.m. A value of 0 places the sun at the horizon. A value of 90 puts the sun directly overhead.
Quad controls the direction from which the light is coming. The top of the map is 1, the right side is 2, the bottom is 3, and the left side is 4. Any other number makes the light overcast and diffuse.
Technical Information
Mountains is a multitasking program. To nip to the Workbench, press Left .Amiga-M. To fitp back, press Left -Amiga-N. Mountains was written in J-Fonh, a language known for its effi- ciency and quick integer arithmetic.
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Using iMD
First, copy IMD from the C directory of the Amiga Resource Disk to the C (Command) directory on your Work- bench disk or hard drive. Enter COPY RESOURCE9:IMAKEDlR/IMD C: at a CLI or Shell prompt to do this. Type IMD to see the command's usage instructions. Here's the syntax of the instruction:
IMD dirname [i«/b/ifena/nelNOICONS]
Dirname is the name of the directory to create, infofilename is the name of a .info file to be used as the source for the icon of the directory (optional), and NOICONS is an optional param- eter that prevents IMD from creating an icon for the directory.
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IMDRAMifred
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IMD RAM:fred SYSrEmpty.info
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IMD RAM:fred NOICONS
/A/Z> will then behave just like Make- Dir. If you'd like to make some room on your boot disk, you can delete MakeDir from the C directory and re- name IMD to MakeDir. (Always work with a copy of your Workbench disk, not the original.) Or you can delete MakeDir, leave IMD named as it is, and place the following line in your startup-sequence file or your shell- startup:
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When it comes to making every- day computer operations a lit- tle faster and a little easier, almost everybody has an opin- ion on how it should be done. That's one reason so much shareware pro- gramming effort is expended on cer- tain categories of utihties. A good example is the category I like to refer to as mouse thingies. These catchall programs usually incorporate a mouse accelerator, a clock, a screen blanker, and about a dozen other mouse- and window-manipulation tools. While programs like DMouse and Qmouse have their supporters, my personal fa- vorite is Mach HI, which you'll find in the Download drawer of this month's Amiga Resource Disk. Mach !!! combines loads of useful fiinctions into a single program. Best of all, it lets you tailor these functions to suit your exact needs.
Mach III disproves the adage that you can't teach an old mouse new tricks. Its fint lesson is mouse-pointer acceleration. Acceleration is better than just making the pointer faster, because when you increase the dis- tance the mouse pointer travels for each inch you roll the mouse, you lose accuracy. An accelerator makes the mouse move faster the farther you roll it, so that it zips along if you move from one side of the screen to the oth- er, but it travels at the normal speed if you just move it a little bit. Mach Ill's accelerator gives you the choice of multiple rates and threshold settings. The program provides plenty of other mouse-related features, too. The mouse-to-menu feature automatically moves the mouse pointer to the top of the screen when you press the right mouse button. Mach III also lets you use the mouse to depth-arrange win- dows and screen. If you hold down the left button and click the right but- ton over the topmost window, it will move to the back of the stack. If you triple-click on a window in the back, it will move to the front. If you perform these tricks outside of a window, the whole screen moves to the front or back. Mach III lets you activate a win-
dow just by moving the mouse point- er over it (a feature known as SunMouse, because it imitates the way mice behave on Sun work- stations). Finally, Mach III turns off the mouse pointer when you start typ- ing (so that it doesn't cover up your text) or after a period of inactivity. (Note that when it blanks the pointer, it shuts off all other sprites, too.) The program also lets you dim or black out the whole screen after a period of
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Mach Ill's clock has everything but the kitchen sink. It can display the time and date, the time and amount of free memory, time only, or memo- ry only. When time is money (like when youVe using an online service that charges by the minute), it can dis- play the accumulated charges in dol- lars and cents, instead of in minutes. The clock display changes color to warn you if free memory falls below a certain level. The clock also has an alarm that can play a sampled sound file. You can easily set the position of the clock display, and you can also specify whether you want the clock to always pop in front of any window or even to the topmost screen.
As if all that weren't enough, Mach III has outstanding macro capa- bilities as well. Macros are recorded keyboard and mouse events that you can play back by pressing a hot-key combination. A simple example of a keyboard macro would be assigning the string "diskcopy dfO: to dfl:" to
the Fl function key, Mach III doesn't restrict you to replacing the function keys with strings of alphabetic key- strokes, however. You can use any ex- otic hot-key combination you can think of (such as AJt-Shift-Q), and macros can include commands as well as keystrokes. You can also turn any of Mach Ill's functions on or off by using macros. You can even execute a program from a macro (train your Amiga to run DeliocePaint, for ex- ample, whenever you press the Alt-P combination).
A macro can call another macro or itself Creating a macro is a snap. You can either enter the text and es- cape commands manually with the 5'e/Af£zc/i/// configuration program, or you can have SelMachlll record your keystrokes and mouse movements as you go.
Mach Ill's macros have some unique features. For example, the pro- gram allows you to Hnk a set of config- uration options to a particular window. That means you can have one set of macro keys in effect for your shell window, and automatically switch to another set of keys (or no macros at all) when you activate a program window. There's also an auto- execution feature that allows you to automatically execute a particular macro when you start the Mach III program, at a certain time of day, or even every few minutes. Finally, Mach III has an ARexx port that al- lows you to execute a Mach III macro under the control of another program.
Although Mach III started out as a mouse accelerator, it has branched out to give excellent control over the entire stream of input events (mouse movement, button clicks, and key- strokes). While Workbench 2.0 makes a start at providing these kinds of fa- cilities with its mouse acceleration, window click-to-font options, and Commodities Exchange (which pro- vides screen blanking, window sizing with hot keys, and keyboard macros), it still can't match Mach Ill's wide range of custom settings and versatile programmability. e
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an A500 expansion module holding four A2000 Zorro II cards, three drives, a power supply, and a fan.
Great Valley Products' large booth was filled with the things hardware dreams are made of, including a 600MB Ricoh magneto-optical drive.
ICD wowed the crowds with three minutes of Preda- tor film and soundtrack (over 300MB of hard drive data) playing back in realtime at 24 frames per second under joystick control. ICD also showed its Flicker Free Video board, which works on all Amigas.
Progressive Peripherals & Software had the show's only functioning 68040 card for the A3000 in an early prototype (the computer case was open, and a fan was blowing across the CPU to cool it), and on the same board was an astonishing data-compression chip which effectively doubles the size of any disk it writes to by compressing and decompressing data in realtime. PP & S also previewed the Video Blender, a genlock with switching, wipes, f/x, luma-keying, and more.
The software. New software packages were also in abundance. HoloSoft Technologies' new animation/paint program, Graphics Workshop, might turn out to be the sleeper of the year. Its includes a ten-brush library, gray scaling, line-art, polygons, rays, patterns, shadows, ceil animation, 20 separate palettes, and 1289 simultaneous onscreen colors.
MicroFi'VCE Distributors showed a number of new Amiga games, including KarmaSoft's new Power Pintail, the first pinball-constnjction simulator for the Amiga, and a preview of FTL's Dungeon Master II.
New Horizons Software previewed Graphics De- signer, an object-oriented color drawing program, it looked great, and it's very fast.
Oxxi/Aegis's huge display was bulging with new products, including AudioMaster III, now with sequencing and a simulated CD-player; SpectraColor from Photon Paint's authors, which adds HAM brush and key-frame animation; Martin Tailleffer's new TurboText editor and Modula-2 compiler; and some new entertainment titles, including Fast Eddie's Pool, Capitalism, and Visionary, an adventure-game construction kit.
Pelican Software's Pelican Press is billed as a pub- lishing program for the entire family. It's capable of creat- ing and printing posters, comic books, and signs and looked like a lot of fun.
Progressive Peripherals & Software showed Double- tall<, an Applelalk-compatible network system for Ami- gas and Macs.
Right Answers Group demonstrated the long-await- ed Director 2.0, now with an integrated script editor, Workbench operation, SMUS score syncing, and more.
Virtual Reality Lab's astounding Vista software, which generates photorealistic landscapes based on U.S.G.S. Data Elevation Map files, gave a sneak peek at Vista 2.0, with a ton of new features, including Goraud shading, support for all graphic resolutions, 24-bit file out- put, and more.
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Copperman goes country-and- western. This is just one of many surprising, yet bound to come true, predictions of what
1 99 1 has in store for Commodore and the Amiga.
These predictions were made possible by the latest program from Psychic Software (yes, the same soft- ware wizards who brought us last year's Mystic Term for telecommuni- cating with the deceased). An innova- tive program with countless capabili- ties, the Amiga Mage can forecast anything from the weather to the final point spread on the Lakers' next game. And for people who don't know what they want to know, Mage offers the most user-friendly feature yet — a special Intuition mode that reads your mind so it can reveal what you uncon- sciously want to know. All this, and icons too!
But enough hype. .\% most of you have figured out by now, I've never even seen \ht Amiga Mage. I'm just doing what lazy software reviewers do: rewriting the press release that ac- companied the program. (With doz- ens of packages arriving daily, who has lime to open them all? If it doesn't have lurid pictures of half-naked slave girls on the cover, I won't give it a sec- ond look.) And according to the press release, this is what the Mage says about the Amiga in 1 99 1 .
The Amiga will finally get an op- erating system. According to game de- signers, .A.migaDOS (which they often refer to as AmigaDOG) will actually work this time, and they won't have to disable it and write their own oper- ating system from scratch! This could cut development time in half, leading to twice as many new Amiga games by
1992 (unless the designers spend that extra time looking for another excuse to bad rap the Amiga, or even more unhkely, finding reasons to bad rap the IBM),
Commodore president Harry Copperman will give up the corporate mantle and go on the road with Willie Nelson's band. His first live gig will be Farm Aid 1991, where Copperman
will play squeezebox and sing harmo- ny with Johnny Paycheck on "Take This CDTV and Shove It."
Because of an obscure subpara- graph in United States copyright laws, all commercial software will be recate- gorized as public domain software by June 30, 1991, thus ending all those frustrating "look up the keyword" ses- sions, along with all other forms of copy protection. As a result, all USA- based programmers will relocate to Bimini and devise the even more frus- trating "Biminese copy-protection scheme."
Imported from Japan, C64 clones
will outsell the Amiga, IBM, Nin- tendo, and Sega combined, forcing software companies to send their de- signers to Remedial Sprites 101 class in Cupertino.
Jack Tramiel will take over Com- modore, but not till he's run Atari even deeper into the ground than he did Commodore. His first official act will be a Jack Attack in which he'll bomb IBM plants in Florida and Tex- as with tons of unsold CDTV units. He'll then go on to develop the Com- modore Plus/68, a 68000-based ma- chine with TextCraft, GraphiCraft. and two other applications built in that's completely incompatible with the Amiga.
The new, improved .info Maga- zine will publish its first issue that doesn't take a cheap shot at a single Amiga program, peripheral, or even
Commodore itself. But a bar-code read error at the post office will send every copy to software developers in Bimini, so no one else will ever know it happened.
Commodore stock will skyrocket when the United States finaUy takes the lead in the microchip market, but only after Japan is hit by a massive earthquake and sinks to the bottom of the Pacific.
Thanks to innovations in micro- miniaturization, desktop publishing will be replaced by desk-drawer pub- lishing. All desktop publishers who re- fuse to purchase the necessary upgrades will be deported to Bimini. (In a related prediction, desktop video will be replaced by desktop radio.)
And now for my own predictions: We'll see many more .Amiga conver- sions of MS-DOS games in 1991 as well as more "Amiga-first" titles from USA-based developers. MicroProse has already changed its mind and de- cided to convert Railroad Tycoon, my favorite simulation last year, and others are bound to follow suit. This is especially true since this is essentially a foUow-the-leader industry anyway, and Sierra, one of the strongest Amiga supporters in terms of conversions, is perceived as the leader by many.
The fiow of European .Amiga software into the U.S. will increase as the Atari ST's popularity wanes over there. As a result, we can look forward to a greater variety of entertainment software this year.
How about hardware, you ask? The Amiga 3000 will gradually garner a bigger share of the multimedia mar- ket, mainly because of Microsoft's de- cision to base its related project on the slow but firmly entrenched 286 chip rather than the zippier 386. As the Ap- ple II, Apple IlGS, and Atari ST die slow but painful deaths, their former owners who don't go MS-DOS will get Amiga 500s, so the 500 will outper- form the CDTV and the 3000 in 1 99 1 . Naturally, Commodore will decide to kill the machine just about that time. And I will move to Bimini, where the living is easy and the cotton is high. E
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TAKING SIDES
R H E T T
ANDERSON
RANDY
THOMPSON
SEGA! Almost seven years ago, Amiga Corporation start- ed work on the ultimate game machine. But the video- game market faded, and the game machine was released as a computer. This schizophrenic birth has always been the pride and embarrassment of the Amiga community. While its heritage made it the most powerful home com- puter, the Amiga has always been seen as a game system by computer users and a computer by game players.
Still, Amiga owners could take consolation in the fact that their sys- tem played the best games around. But that's no longer the case. Three new videogame systems — the Sega Gene- sis, NEC TurboGrafix, and SNK's NeoGeo — have surpassed the .Amiga as a game machine. Another up-and- comer, the Nintendo SFX (known in Japan as the SuperFamicom), will blow it away. Meanwhile, after seven years the Amiga still has the same palette, the same eight sprites, and the same four audio voices.
Let's take the case of the Sega Genesis. It has a 68000 microproces- sor, running at about the same speed as the Amiga SCO's 68000. Like the Amiga, it has a dual-playfield mode and hardware fine scrolling. It can dis- play 64 colors at once on a screen with a 320 X 224 resolution. Like the Amiga, the Sega supports overscan.
But the Sega has more. Nine sound channels, so that you can hear, for example, four channels of music and five sound effects, all at the same time. A game controller with three buttons instead of the Amiga's one-button joystick. Cartridge games that load in- stantly. Unit sales that make it worthwhile to invest time and money in the development of the game. And a price tag less than S200.
But it's Sega's sprite engine that makes the Amiga seem dated. The Sega supports eighty 1 5-color sprites at 32 X 32 pixels each. Compare that with the Amiga's eight 3-coIor sprites at 8 pixels wide.
Electronic Arts has shown that even computer-style games like Populous are just as good on the Sega as they are on the Amiga. And for arcade-style games, the Amiga doesn't even come close.
Looking over at Mr. Thompson's side, I hear the pro- totypical Amiga apologist. He will still be saying the Amiga is the best game machine ten years from now.
No, the Genesis won't have genlock or MIDI sup- port. Surprise. What counts in games is color and action, and the Amiga's custom chips just don't measure up. In short, the Genesis has better game hardware, better game software, and better game programmers.
AMIGA! Unlike Mr. Anderson, I don't own a Sega Genesis. Sure, I've used one — I've even used his. As far as dedicat- ed game machines go, the Genesis is tops. But does that make it better at playing games than the Amiga? Hardly. Yes, technically the Genesis has superior sprite capa- bilities (they're larger, and there are more of them), com- parable color (nothing comparable to 4096-color HAM mode, however), and arguably better sound features (al- though I've yet to hear a Genesis game match the sound and music found in most Amiga game software). Sega has also persuaded most of the best game developers to write soft- ware for its new machine. So at first glance, the Sega may appear to be the game player's choice. However, this $ 1 99 Toys 'R' Us wonder lacks one very important feature: interactivity.
The Amiga doesn't just have a joystick; it has a mouse, a keyboard, and even a disk drive. These items may not be considered standard equipment for gamesters, but they go a long way toward making entertain- ment software more entertaining.
Take adventure games, for ex- ample. How do you save a game in progress on the Genesis? Answer You don't. How do you add additional courses to your favorite golf game if you can't insert a course disk? Car- tridges just don't cut it here. And can you imagine trying to control a flight simulator with one of those tiny controllers? Of course, with the Amiga, you can choose from a wide variety of input devices — the key- board, the mouse, a light gun, and any of several types of joysticks.
WhOe the Genesis may eventually gain such ameni- ties as a light gun or keyboard, I'll bet my hard drive that it'll never have genlock support for combining video with computer graphics or MIDI support for controlling syn- thesizers in the creation of music. Why do you think com- panies such as Mastertronic and Battletech are using Amigas as the basis for stand-alone arcade machines? Be- cause if you're looking for more than shoot-'em-ups, the Amiga blows the Genesis away.
Looking over at Mr. Anderson's side, I notice he con- veniently left out a few facts while laboriously extolling the virtues of his favorite new toy. Has he forgotten about the Amiga's blitter, which blasts graphics across the screen at incredible speed; the copper, which allows the Amiga to switch video modes in midscreen; and the severe memory limitations of Genesis cartridges, which keep the graphics and sound quality to a minimum? The Sega Genesis is great for the price, but it's no match for an Amiga. s
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TOM NETSEL
During the past month, a number of us at COMPUTE have at- tended computer shows in the Philadelphia and Chicago areas. The Commodore Users Fair in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, pve us a chance to introduce the new COMPUTE lo the public and gauge the reactions.
Many subscribers stopped by our booth during the two-day show to say hello and to voice their opinions about the magazine's new format. After people had a chance to see the magazine, most had favorable com- ments. There were exceptions, though, and after a while we could al- most spot a negative review coming by reading a person's body language. When one man came to our booth, crossed his arms, leaned against a ta- ble, and let out a big sigh, we knew we were in for scathing monologue before he said a word.
After voicing their opinions, most people did give us the chance for a rebuttal, especially if they hadn't seen the Oc- tober issue. After we showed them the new COMPUTE, explained how we had merged the different sections under one cover, and assured them that we were not abandoning the 64 and 1 28, many people said that their preconceived notions about the maga- zine were wrong and that they liked the look of it.
In this issue we're running a Gazette Read- ership Survey, asking all of our readers to give us their reactions to the new format. We also want to know how you feel about different col- umns and features and what you would like for us to cover in future is- sues. Also, how do you use your 64 or 1 28? This is an open-ended ques-
tion, and we encourage you to use ad- ditional paper if necessary to give us some idea of how you put your com- puter to work or play. Your responses to these questions will help us provide you with the magazine you want.
Although the number of exhibi- tors was down this year at the Valley Forge show, many attendees were en- thusiastic about their Commodores. One man from Chicago, A. H. Guzzo Jr., was in town on business but took time out to stop by the show and say hello. He was especially interested in the special we were riinning on COM- PUTE books for the 64.
A few weeks later at the World of Amiga in Rosemont, lUinois, Mr. Guzzo showed up again. This time he brought his wife and two teenaged daughters with him. Even though it was an Amiga show, he and many other people took advantage of the books we were offering for the 64 and 128. Most of the people who bought
books ordered 2 or 3 of the 15 we had on sale. After examining the titles for several minutes, the Guzzos put their heads together and had a discussion. When I asked them which ones they wanted, Mr. Guzzo said, "All of them!" That's dedication.
Another dedicated 64 owner showed up at the show in Valley Forge. Sandy Carter, a legal secretary in Phil- adelphia, owns a 64 and is proud of it. That fact was obvious just by looking at her. She came to the show dressed in a white jo^ng suit, with a large colorful Commodore logo printed on the front of her sweatshirt. While some 64 and 1 28 owners are upgrad- ing to Amigas, Mrs. Carter isn't one of them. On the arms of her shirt she'd printed, "An Amiga? What's that?" and "An Amiga? Who needs it?"
Mrs. Carter really has nothing against Amigas; she's just content with her 64. It does what she wants. She uses it for word processing and playing games, and she says it handles those chores very well. She sees no reason to aban- don her 8-bit computer.
Mrs. Carter does have one complaint, ^ though. It seems the postal carrier who deliv- ers her mail insists on shoving her S'A-inch Gazette Disk through the 4'/2-inch mail slot in her front door. The disk doesn't always survive the final leg of its journey.
Despite her quarrel with her postal carrier, Mrs. Carter is a very up- beat person with an in- fectious smile. She's pleased with her com- puter, and she's delight- ed to talk about it with others. 1 think there are a lot of 64 owners out there who feel the same way about their 8-bit Commodores. Q
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WhatisRAMLink?
RAM Link is a multi-purpose hardware interface designed to overcome tfie limitationsof existing RAM expansion units (REUs). RAlviLink delivers the performance and compatibility tacking in past REU's by incorporating CMD's proprietary RL-DOS and advanced features into a compact unit whicti allows most software to utilize Commodore 1700 series REU's, GEORAM, PPi's RAMDrive, and CMD's RAMCard as if it were a disk drive. Optional RAMCard installs internally and can be used alone or in combination with ttie storage of an external REU for a maximum capacity of 16 Megabytes.
. Support* Commodore 1700, 1764, 1750, Berlceley Sottworta GEORAM and PPI't RAMDrivt. ' Optional RAMCard allow* RAMLInk to b« ui«fl a* a RAM Dl»k with or without a teparata REU. Uur Ex|»ndabl« from 1 Mb to 16 Mb using ttandaitl SIMM*.
• Pass-thru connector allows use of cartridge port peripheral* such a* utility cartridges.
• Reset, Disable, Direct Acce** mode and SWAP functions are all standard features.
• RAM port provide* power back-up to REU's. ■ Parallel port provides ultra-fast data transfer when connected to CMD HD terle* hard drive*.
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WHICH ONE IS RIGHT FOR YOU?
Both RAMLInk and R AMOrive give Commodore users powerful leal ires never belore available in 3 RAM enpander. RAMDrive b intended mainly lor those who do not requirethe high RAM capacity ol RAMLif* ( tp 10 1 6 1* ), RAMUnk's Pass-Thm port or the parallel port for communicatinB with iheCMD HD Seriesoi hard drives. RW^Drive san excellenlchoicebrtfiose who desire portability sinceihe internal battery pack cankeeptheconlenlsol RAM Dfive intact lorseveral days. RAM Link is Ihepsriactchn ice lorgeoRAMownersvrtnwantthe ability 10 use that device withprog rams 01 her than GEOS. RAMUnk has a built-in RAM port lor easy use with a geoR AM o r Commodore REU. No matte r vrtich CMD RAM device yo u select, you'll benelit Irom lantastic capabilities ol having a high speed RAMDtsk equpped with RL-DOS and the outstanding value ol CMD support.
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RAM D rive is a f re sh new approach to R A M expansion for the Commodore 64 and 1 28 . RAMDrive is a self contained battery backed cartridge with capacities of 51 2K, 1 Mb and 2 Mb. RAMDrive incorporates RL-DOS, an ultra-fast, easy-to-use operating system similar to the HD-DOS found in CMD HD series hard drives. This proprietary DOS allows various types olpartitioning along with compatibility and speed unsurpassed by previous RAM Expansion systems.
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REWEWEirS CHOICE
Everybody has a favorite game, and Gazette reviewers are no different. During the past year they've seen practically every major product re- leased for the 64 or 128 — and a lot of the smaller ones, too. Since they've had the opportunity to evaluate so many new games, we wanted to know which ones have impressed them most.
During the past year, we've printed reviews of most of these favorites, and some of the just-released products mentioned will be covered more thoroughly in upcoming issues of COMPUTE. While the top choices of our reviewers may not be everyone's favorites, you're sure to find some out- standing games on the next few pages that you'll want to try yourself.
RUSS CECCOLA
SECRET OF THE SILVER BLADES
The latest in the SSI line of AD & D games, this role-playing epic is the best of the gold-box games so far. Your goal is to de- feat the monsters emanating from a mine shaft that leads to a city frozen long ago and eliminate the source of these monstrosities. The early games in this series were too difficult to play because of the many battles you had to fight. Champions ofKrynn cor- rected this problem, and Secret continues what Champions start- ed and adds several outstanding features of its own.
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In particular, there are new monsters like Umber Hulks and Golems in the game. Secret also has the largest 3-D area of all the AD & D games from SSI. There are many new spells, too, and characters can rise to the 15th level (i 8th for thieves). Put this all together with great graphics and documentation, and you can see why it's the best of the year.
Strategic Simulations Distritxjied by Electronic Arts 1820 Gateway Dr. San Mateo, CA 94404 S39.95
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How can you not like a game that uses zombies, ghouls, and monsters as players for a football team and a giant eye as the ball? That's what Grave Yardage has to offer and more, in- cluding play selections, lineup choices, and numerous options found in more conventional football games. Graphics and sounds are great and make this one a perfect choice. Here's a tip for you: Use the Elvis Lives play!
Activision/Mediagenic 3885 Bohannon Dr. Menio Park, CA 94025 $24.95
PUFFV'SSAGA
This game comes from Europe's UBI
Soft and is the most addictive level game since Zoom! hit the shelves. Choose Puffy or Puffyn as your char- acter, and travel through mazes to find weapons that will help you to es- cape. With excellent graphics, digi- tized sounds, and a lot of levels, Puffy 's Saga is great fun. It's also the best European import of 1990.
UBI Soft
Distributed by Electronic Arts
1820 Gateway Dr.
San Mateo. CA 94404
S29,95
WHERE IN TIME IS CARMEN SANDIEGO?
Continuing the popular series of edu- cational games that are a hit with chil- dren and adults alike, Brederbund has armed Carmen with a time-travel ma- chine. To help you track down Car- men and her gang and find clues. The Neiv American Desk Encyclopedia is included with the game. Colorful graphics and an easy-to-use interface make this a fun mystery game. Plus, it has great educational value. >
Bf<9derbund
17 Paul Dr.
San Rafael. CA 94903
S39.95
JANUARY 1991
COMPUTE G-9
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• Smple Operation: Jjst press the button at any point and make a Cflmplete bach-up ol ajiy' Temory-residenl program to tape or disk.
' Tjrtx) Reload: Al back-ups reload completely independent ol the cartridge ai Turtjo speed.
• Sprite Monitor: View tho Sprila set Irom ttie Irozen program — save the Spnte — transfer the Spriie Irom one game !q snolher. Wipe out Spntes, view the a/)imalion on screen. Create custom programs.
• Sprite Kiliar: Edectiva on most programs — make yoursed invindhle. DisaWe Spriie/SprrteJaaA- ground collisions.
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• Enter music a note at a time in written music format using the EDITOR or via on screen piano KEYBOARD emulator or via an externally connected MIDI keyboard
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■ 16 pens, 8 random sprays, 16 user definable brushes
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■ Solid & textured fill option, with 32 user definable patterns
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STEVE HEDRICK
Give me a game that takes months to complete, and I'm a happy guy. Call it getting value for your buck or perhaps just wanting to ponder over com- plex situations. Search for the Titanic ofTers those of us who enjoy taking weeks to mull over long-range strategies an in- volved and involving role-play- ing adventure/ simulation.
Finding the elusive 46,000- ton Titanic deep in the Atlantic is the culmination of many hours of exploration, beginning with smaller and easier-to-find wrecks. A player accumulates
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and must maintain a reputation as a master treasure hunter by locating, salvaging, and deliver- ing to his or her investors small- er booty in order to earn the clout to finance bigger operations.
Actual digitized pictures of the Titanic wreck, taken by the Bob Ballard expedition, are your reward for locating her, plus knowing you're the baddest salvaging dude on the high seas.
Capstone Software Distributed by IntraCorp 14160 SW 139th Ct Miami. FL 331 86 S29.95
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MICRO LEAGUE BASEBALL II ENHANCED
Talk about spending major amounts of time at the keyboard and losing yourself in an alternate universe — this baseball simulation lets you manage and play against the greatest baseball teams of all time.
Have you ever wondered how the great Yankee teams of legend would fare against today's "boys of sum- mer"? Change the rosters, keep stats, trade players, and create series that could only take place in your imagina- tion— or in an Iowa cornfield.
Micro League Sports Association 2201 Drummond Plaza Newark, DEI 971 1-5711 S39.9S
GAUNTLET II
Seven types of mutants spring from monster-generating machines, acid puddles surround you, and deadly traps and force fields confound your every move. This could ruin your whole day if you could not assume the role and abilities of Thor the Warrior. Thyra the Valkyrie, Questor the Elf, or Merlin the Wizard. Two players have the option of selecting the heroes they wish to be and then seek out glo- ry and treasure within the 100 mazes.
Mindscape
Distributed by Software Toolworks
60 Leveroni Ct.
Novato, CA 94949
$29.95
F-1B COMBAT PILOT
Any nation that can muster an air force wants to buy the General Dy- namics F-16 Falcon fighter. It is the most complex and deadly machine in the sky, and so is the simulation.
.After training, a player takes to the air on five different missions, from tank busting to bogey intercep- tion. The final and most challenging multimission. Operation Conquest, is assigned only to those successful pi- lots who have mastered all the others.
Digital Integration Distributed by Electronic Arts 1820 Gateway Dr. San Mateo, CA 94404 $34.95
0-12 COMPUTE
JANUARY 1991
DAVID & ROBIN MINNICK
At first glance it would appear
strange to choose a board-game crossover as the top game rather than an action-packed racing program or flight simulation. The choice wasn't easy, but Lei- sure Genius put the same cut- throat attitude that most competitive sports programs feature into its official version ofScrabble.
Faced with up to three computer opponents that know no mercy, all of whom are armed with word lists taken from The Official Scrabble Play- er's Dictionar)' and Chamber's Words, even the most mild-
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mannered player will learn to come to the computer armed with a dictionary and a military assault rifle.
Scrabble is a great game to bring home, whether you play against your friends or use it to hone your skills. In no time, through the practice of competi- tion alone, you'll be ready to take your rightful place in the Scrabble Hall of Fame, right next to Leisure Genius.
Leisure Genius
Distributed tjy Virgin Mastertronic
711 W. 17thSt.,Ste.G9
Costa Mesa, CA 92627
S29.99
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This program is one more in an ever- growing list of simulation games that set Accolade apart. Participate in S.iKC's annual Bombing and Naviga- tion Competition to see just how well you can handle any of four fighter/ bombers. Accept your mission, load your munitions, and pilot your air- craft over realistic 3-D scrolhng land- scapes of the South Dakota Badlands. Sweaty-palm entertaining to sweaty- palm educational — that's what we call this excellent adventure!
Accolade
550 S. Winctiester Blvd.
San Jose, CA 951 28
$39.95
THE DUEL TEST DRIVE II
Checking out a sports car was never so much fun! Sitting behind your real- istic dashboard, pitting your car against another car or against the clock, traversing tremendous graphic scenerj', eluding road hazards and po- lice, and parrying clever jibes from the computer are all part of this tension- filled, adrenaline-pumping road run called The Duel. Grab this slick pack- age of programming that supports multiple-car and scenerv^ disks.
Accolade
550 S.Winchester Blvd.
San Jose, CA 95128
S29.95
WORLD OF GEOQRAPHY
An odd choice, to be sure, but who said games can't be educational? World Geography is an elegant pack- age that appears simple but represents hard work and some fine program- ming. Superb eye-catching graphics of maps and globes and flags; snatches of music that entertain and stimulate; and facts about capitals, language, cur- rency, and population make learning geography a challenge and a pleasure instead of a dull and boring chore. >
Bobco
200 Seventh Ave.. Ste. 111
Santa Cruz, CA 95062
$24.95
JANUARY 1991
COMPUTE
G-13
LEN POGGIALI
From the land down under come six sports that will never make the Summer Olympics. These off- beat but entertaining events do, however, make for a lot of fun.
In the Belly Whack, your overweight diver needs as many good breaths as possible so he can spring off the board, go into a horizontal position, and land flat on his lummy.
Equally zany are the Dry River Race, in which you and a friend run with a boat over your heads down a dry river bed, and the Beer Shoot (a.k.a. the Soda Shoot), in which your buddies toss empty bottles from your jeep
AUSSIE GAMES
while you pick them off midair with your trusty shotgun.
Less bizarre — but also enter- taining— are the Boomerang Throw, Marlin Fishing, and Beach Footy, a kickbail game played with two-man teams.
Aussie Games provides at- tractive graphics, tuneful music, appropriate sound effects, a lot of variety, plenty of challenge, and a tongue-in-cheek attitude that's infectious.
Mind scape
Distributed by Software Tcxilworks
60 Leveroni Ct.
Novato, CA 94949
$29.95
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MacArthur's H^ar presents eight var- ied, entertaining, and historically ac- curate battles from the Korean War. As field commander, you issue orders to regiments, whose battalions carry out your directives.
You can modify existing scenari- os or create new ones by using War- plan, SSG's war-game construction set, and the WarPaint graphics editor.
An easy-to-learn menu system guarantees that you'll be up and play- ing in no time. Defeating a tough and resourceful enemy won't be as easy.
strategic Studies Group 1747 Orleans Ct. Walnut Grove, CA 94598 $39.95
TOTAL ECLIPSE
Hidden in an Egyptian pyramid is a sacred shrine that carries a deadly curse. To save the world, you must destroy the shrine before the next eclipse of the sun.
Avoiding pitfalls and traps, main- taining your health, replenishing your water supply, defeating enemies, solv- ing puzzles, discovering hidden rooms, negotiating illogical mazes, traversing muliitiered chambers, and locating the shrine will keep computer Egyptologists busy for quite some time. You'll have some fun, too.
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CENTAURI ALLIANCE
As a member of the Centauri Alliance, you tackle a series of missions that en- tail traveling to twenty-third-century worlds, combating aliens, avoiding deadly traps, and negotiating mazes.
Success requires that your party of eight become expert in wielding weapons, maintaining mechanical and biological systems, changing shapes, and focusing brainwaves.
Entirely menu-controlled, Cen- lawi Alliance features a helpful auto- mapping feature and attractive 3-D graphics. Check this one out.
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BATMAN, THE MOVIE
Of all the computer games pub- lished as tie-ins with popular movies. Batman comes closer to following the actual plot line than any other I can remember.
Divided into several epi- sodes, which can also be consid- ered as levels of difficulty, the game takes you through the ver- tical maze of the chemical ware- house, lets you race the Batmobile though city streets, and builds toward the final con- frontation with the Joker.
This action-adventure game is the best of a long line of movie-related computer prod- ucts from Data East. Don't con- fuse this game with Batman, The Caped Crusader, an earlier release from the same company. Jumping Joker, computer gamers, this one's a winner!
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HOSTAGE MISSION
Although somewhat improbable even for a computer game, Hostage Mis- sion wins important points for its cre- ative use of perspectives. As the action of a hostage rescue mission en- sues, you switch from a third-person to a first-person viewpoint. While considered sloppy in novels, the tech- nique works well here and adds to the fun of an otherwise ordinary combat game. Just hang on to your bullet- proof vest; you're going to need it.
Mind scape
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Although the wrestling action is no better or worse than that in many other personal combat/contact sports simulations, the preliminaries to the matches explore new computer gam- ing ground. In suggesting that wres- tlers are bought and sold, that matches can be bought, and that side bets are as important as the purse, Mat Wars lets you partake of the seamy side of sports without ever los- ing its sense of humor. B
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There's something new on the Gazette Disk. In addition to the type-in programs found in each issue of the magazine, we offer additional features and programs every month on the Gazette Disk. Checl< out the original 64 and 128 art- work on display in "Gazette Gallery," and look for our bo- nus programs as well. These programs and their instruc- tions appear only on disk. Here's a description of this month's bonus program.
BAM Aid
Short of accidentally perform- ing a full-format operation, the worst thing you can do to a disk that contains valuable programs and data is to acci- dentally corrupt its BAM blocks or directory track. If files merely have been deleted or if a short NEW command has been given, then the di- rectory entries are still intact, and the programs can be sal- vaged. If the directory itself has been corrupted, however, the information is lost.
Until now, that is. With BAM Aid you can recover lost directory tracks, BAM blocks, or disk identifiers on any 1541 , 1571, or 1581 disk drive. This valuable disk utility and com- plete documentation can be found only on this month's Gazette Disk.
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I am a great fan of role-playing games for the 64 and have been wanting to write my own for quite some time. I have written a few, but they need graphics, I have made some scenes for my games, but I have only been able to show the whole screen in multi- bitmap mode. A friend of mine said there is some way to display a picture and then have text printed at the same time. He thinks it was done by setting rasters, but he doesn't know exactly how it's done. Can you help me out?
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You might try using a split-screen technique for combining graphics with text. Screen splitting takes ad- vantage of the fact that a certain finite time is regui red for your mon- itor's electron beam, or raster, to "pain!" a picture on the screen. During the time it takes to paint an image on the monitor, the process can be given a different source for its display information, thus combin- ing two display modes such as text and graphics.
On the 128, screen splitting can be handled from BASIC 7.0. On the 64, it can only be done by writing a machine language program for that purpose. Details of the architecture available for this purpose are in- cluded in the Commodore 64 Pro- grammer's Reference Guide, pages 150^152. For the code, check out Screen Splitter fCOMPUTEi's Ga- zette, August 1989). It's a terrific utility for screen splitting.
Datasette Blues
Please let me know how I can get any of your combination B.ASIC/machine language programs to load properly on my 64 using the Commodore data- sette. I've typed in some of your pro- grams, and I get an error message. I've tried changing the loading numbers to indicate the datasette, but I get the same message.
JEFFKRANTZ LAS VEGAS, NV
Since you didn't specify which error message you 're getting, we can 't be certain what the problem is. More than likely, the program uses the 64 's cassette buffer and other mem- ory locations that make its use with the tape system incompatible. This problem may occur in other pro- grams. Since the vast majority of our readers use a disk drive, we no longer support the datasette.
Frustrating Function
As I was typing in SynthPlayer (COM- PUTEl's Gazette, April 1990), I came to a line that said K$="{f7}". The trouble is that my 1 28 has pro- grammed function keys, and if I press f7, it shows LIST. What can I do to correct this?
JOHN E. POTTER NEW LEXINGTON. OH
SynthPlayer is designed to run on a 64 or on a 128 in 64 mode. You appear to have been entering it in 128 mode. If, however, you are translating from 64 software and need normal function-key usage, re- define the keys as follows.
KEY I. CHR${lii) KEY2. CHR$(137) KEYS, CHRS(I34) KEY4, CHR$(138) KEYS, CHR$(135) KEY6. CHR$(139) KEY7, CHRS(I36) KEYS. CHRS(I40)
Array Delay
I have written some fairly long BASIC programs that use many and/or large arrays. The same problem seems to arise in each program. While the pro- gram is running, the computer will stop and lock up for up to 20 seconds. Do you know what's wrong and how to fix it?
WALTER J. STEGEMILLER LAWRENCEBURG, IN
Since your computer returns to life after a few seconds, it's not really locked up. The delay could be caused by a couple of things. First, the array may be so large and/or multidimensional that processing
by the program itself may be lengthy. Second, if the BASIC pro- gram and its numerical variables occupy a great deal of memory, it may be necessary for the operating system to perform frequent garbage collections — that is, clearing away old string values from the top of memory. During garbage collection other tasks are suspended.
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I have been a subscriber to both COMPUTE! and COMPUTEI's Ga- zette since 1984. On Monday I re- ceived the first issue of your new and improved edition. I can't begin to teU you how disappointed I am with it. You have gone the way of COMPUTE! and dropped the type-ins. There were 16 pages devoted to the 64/128, but no projects, games, or programs. The closest thing to programming was something on page 24 referring to The Automatic Proofreader.
I had just renewed my subscrip- tion through June 1993, but unless I see a radical change in your format, you can count on a cancellation.
THOMAS A. SCHAEFER ST. PETERSBURG. FL
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modem. We sent messages to each other during the summer, but our schedules are not always compatible. We can't send and receive infor- mation during the same time during the school day.
We're now wondering about sending messages to a bulletin board system (BBS) for reading and replying at another time, but we're not familiar with the process. What would be in- volved in the way of hardware, soft- ware, costs, and restrictions? Do I need to find a BBS that is run on a Commodore to be able to communi- cate on the system? How involved would it be to start our own BBS for classroom use?
KATHY DOCTOR YARDVILLE, NJ
If the two of you can communicate directly via computer, modem, and telephone lines, then contacting a BBS should be a breeze. As you already know, to communicate with someone by computer, the only ex- tra hardware you need is a modem, a device that converts your 64 's sig- nal into audio tones that can be transmitted by telephone lines. The necessary software is a telecommu-
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Setting up your own BBS doesn 't require any more hardware, but it does lake additional software made especially for the purpose. It also ties up a telephone line. For someone to call in, your line would have to be accessible directly from the outside. Going through the school's switchboard would be im- practical. Access to your own BBS could be limited to whomever you wanted. You could give the number
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The other day, while working at my computer, 1 grew tired of looking at the four walls around me. So I decided to take a voy- age— a fantastic voyage of the imagination.
I started by calling up a laser con- trol panel on my computer screen. I popped the videodisc For Alt Man- kind from Voyager into the laser play- er attached to my computer. I clicked my mouse on the SPINUP button on the control panel, and suddenly it was 1961, and there was John F, Kennedy telling the world that America was go- ing to the moon. A few moments later it was 1 969, and Neil Armstrong was climbing out of the ApoDo spaceship saying, "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
I was on the moon with Neil! (That's how my imagination works, folks!)
For a while I watched my astro- naut buddies clowning around on the moon; hopping like bunnies; planting stiff, no-wrinkle flags in the moon's cratered surface; and bouncing around the moon's dunes on their lunar rover. Then I saw the moon picture I wanted and froze it — Z.AP! — with one click of my mouse button.
I captured the image with my computer's frame-grabber card and imported it into my favorite paint program. I switched the moon to a second page while I smiled in front of my camcorder. (I always have the camera lens pointed toward my face so I can digitize myself in a flash.)
I digitized a mug shot of myself looking insanely proud (just like the other astronauts). I called up a chp-art image of an astronaut in a spacesuit and placed my grinning face atop the canned, cartoony image.
There I was: a smiling, happy guy in a spacesuit. I needed a moon.
I cut out the entire image of me inside the spacesuit and transferred it back to the page with the moon on it. I looked around the moon and finally decided to put myself partly inside a crater. I chopped off the lower half of my body, discarded it into computer-
bit limbo, and lowered the top part of my torso into the crater,
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As with many exotic locations, virtual reality is a fun place to visit, but I'm not sure I'd like to live there.
In virtual reality, distance is only a state of mind. Proof of this occurs every time the phone rings. You press a little crescent-shaped piece of plastic compulsively to your ear. The reality of this is absurd. Anyone from just a hundred or so years ago who saw this would swear you were a swami com- muning with spirits or some idiot swapping jokes with a carved stick.
But you are oblivious to reality as we know it. You are in virtual reali- ty— talking intimately, arguing, telling jokes, whispering sweet nothings to someone who might be hundreds or thousands of miles away. But there is no distance between you. During your phone conversation (once you rev up and the room around you grows fuzzy and indistinct), you are in Ma Bell's Transporter Room, You and your
phone companion are practically sit- ting in each other's lap.
It's already possible to lake any photograph and digitally retouch it so artfully, so sneakily, that no one could lell whether it was a picture of the real world or a fantasy snapshot.
Take the recent cover of TV Guide with the picture of Oprah Win- frey's head on Ann-Margret's body. When the photographer for the story was asked why he had committed such a heinous act (at least, according to .Ann-Margret's press agent), he shrugged his shoulders and said, "Be- cause it was so easy I didn't give it a second thought."
Or take the cover of Nalional Geographic with the picture of the Sphinx sitting proudly in front of Egypt's great pyramids. This is one beautiful cover. It makes you want to visit Egypt and go there yourself Ex- cept for one thing: There isn't really there at all. You couldn't take your Canon Zapshot to the same spot and snap a similar picture, because that spot doesn't exist. To get the Sphinx next to the pyramids, the photogra- pher digitally moved it and plopped it down just where he wanted it.
This sort of feat once cost hun- dreds of slaves blood, sweat, tears, and dozens of years to accomplish. Now it takes a dozen minutes.
I know a bunch of high-school kids who hang out in virtual reality. One day they decided to play a trick on their principal. They took a tape of some of his speeches to their com- puter, digitized several of his remarks, and then cut and pasted the individ- ual words into a new speech that the principal had never made. They re- corded a copy of this "virtual" speech and carried it proudly into the princi- pal's office and played it for him.
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JANUARY 199f
COMPUTE 0-23
BEGINNER BASIC
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Happy New Year! My first New Year's resolution is to finish our multiple-sprite program thai we began in December's column. Load that program, and we'll continue by positioning all eight sprites.
JOO FORT=0TO14STEP2:POKEV+T;t :NEXT
V and X were defined in line 90. Since the sprites' horizontal memorv' regis- ters are V, V+2, V+4, and so on, we use STEP 2 in the FOR-NEXT loop, which causes every other memory reg- ister to be poked. The same goes for the sprites' vertical registers (V-M, V-F3,V + 5,andsoon).
1 10 rORT= 1T015STEP2:P0KEV-I-T, YiNEXT
Memory registers V-f 23
(53248-1-23 = 53271) and V+29 (532484-29 = 53277) control sprite height and width, respectively.
For sprite 0, if you POKE V-l-23,1 and POKE V 4-29,0, the sprite will be tall and narrow; poking both V-1-23 and V-l-29 with a 1 will cause sprite 0 to be tall and wide.
The two sprite-size registers (V-l-23 and V-h29) must be poked very carefully with numbers from 0 to 255. Look at the following chart.
BitNo. 7 6 5 4 3 2 10 Values 128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1 On/Off 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Poking 1 to a memory register turns on only bit 0. Poking 4 would turn on only bit 2. Poking a sum of 8 and 16, or 24, turns on bits 3 and 4.
BitNo. 7 6 5 4 3 2 10 Values 128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1 On/Off 0 0 0 110 0 0
Poking a 255 (or K, as defined in line 90) turns on all the bits. The sprites are conventionally numbered the same as the bits. Therefore, pok- ing 1 to V-l-23 or V+29 controls the size of sprite 0 only. Poking 24 con-
trols sprites 3 and 4, Poking 255 (or K) controls all the sprites. To make all eight as tall and wide as possible, poke V-f- 23 and V+29 with 255 (K).
120 POKEV+23,K:POKEV+29,K
Memory register V+21 (53269) turns sprites on or ofT(makes them visible or invisible). To turn all eight sprites on, use POKE V + 21,255. (While we're at it, turn the sound on by pok- ing VI with 23, a funky combination of voice 1, ring mod, and sync.)
130 POKEV+21,K:POKEVl,23
Now define a few variables.
140J = 1:Q=1;F1-1
Line 140 is the beginning of a re- peatable loop. J starts as I . Later it will change to — 1. Q is the number of pixels the sprites will be displaced from their original locations. Fl is the frequency of voice 1. Now let's make all the sprites green.
150 FORT-39T046:POKEV+T,5:
NEXT
Registers V + 39 through V +46 control the sprites' colors. Thus, the FOR-NEXT loop assigns color 5 (green) to all eiglit sprites. Now we need to make a couple of IF-THEN checks to see if the sprites have moved to the extremes of their travel.
160 IFQ>MTHENJ=-1:M$="[RED| MERRY CHRISTMAS":GOSUB300
170 IFQ<0THENM$="(15 spaces)": GOSUB300:GOTO140
Recall that Q is the number of pixels each sprite moves from its orig- inal position. M was defined as 79.
When Q becomes greater than M, we want the sprites to reverse direc- tion; thus J becomes ~ 1. Conversely, if Q becomes less than 0, the sprites have returned to their original posi- tion, and we begin a new loop at 1 40,
180Q=Q+J
Remember that J can be either 1 or — 1 . Thus Q will either increase or decrease by 1 . Line 1 90 is reserved for a REMark that explains lines 200-220. Those lines move the sprites by increasing or decreasing their hori- zontal and vertical locations.
200 P0KEV,X+Q;P0KEV+2,X-Q: P0KEV+S,Y+Q:P0KEV+7,Y-Q: POKEV+8,X+Q:POKEV+9,Y-Q
210 POKEV+10,X-Q:POKEV+11,Y - Q:POKEV+ 12,X -Q:POKEV + 13,Y+Q;POKEV+14,X+Q
220POKEV+15,Y+Q
As Q's value increases (J = + 1 ), the sprites move away from each oth- er. As Q decreases (J= — 1), the sprites move toward each other.
230POKEVF,F1:F1=F1+J
All this does is poke a frequency value to control voice I's pitch.
240GOTO160
We need a subroutine that posi- tions the cursor, prints the message, and causes a short delay.
300 POKE214,11:PRINT:POKE211,12: PRINTMS:FORD = 1T0500:NEXT; RETURN
To use sprites of your own crea- tion, change the data in lines 50-70. B
G-24 COMPUTE
JANUARY 1991
D
ROGRAMS
PAUL
COM
T O C K
In the year 2450, the universe is an unfriendly place. Planets are at war. Many outlying planets have been colonized, but the inhabit- ants need goods and supplies from the other colonies. Warring factions have set up blockades to stop these neces- sary supplies from arriving. It's your job as one of the few brave blockade runners to get the goods through.
Intenpacial treaties guarantee your safety once you've landed, but landing at a space port is the problem. You must maneuver yoiu- craft through the unfriendly fire of the blockaders, avoid the dangerous mountains that surround the landing sites, and keep an eye on your dwin- dling fuel supply.
Typing It In
Lander is written entirely in machine language. Enter the program with MLX, the machine language entry program; see "Typing Aids" elsewhere in this section. When AfLX prompts you, respond with the values given below.
Starting address: 0801 Ending address: 2230
Before exiting MLX, save a copy of the program to disk.
Fire Retro Rockets
Plug your joystick into port 2 and then load and run Lander '^msX as you would a BASIC program. After the ti- tle screen appears, hit any key to begin play. The playing screen is a two- dimensional image of a planet's land- ing site. The planet itself is black, buildings and cities appear bright yel- low, and the landing pad and your ship are white. Your score, amount of fiiel remaining, and number of re- maining ships are posted at the bot- tom of the screen. You start with five ships and 1000 units of fuel.
The joystick controls the engine thrust. Pushing it up engages the main thrust and moves the ship up. Pushing the joystick left or right moves the ship in those directions, respectively.
Once a ship starts moving in a partic- ular direction, it continues in that di- rection until opposite thrust is applied. All maneuvers consume fuel, so keep an eye on your gauge.
There are ten different planets that you must resupply, and each has a unique landing approach. Once you've successfully landed, your score is increased by the amount of fiiel you have remaining. You then move im- mediately to another planet, so be prepared.
DELIVER NEEDED
SUPPLIES TO
DESPERATE SPACE
COLONIES IN THIS
ARCADE-STYLE
GAME FOR THE 64,
JOYSTICK REQUIRED,
If you crash, get shot, or land too hard, your ship will be destroyed. If you have more ships, you'll start on the same planet with the same amount of fuel as when you were de- stroyed. If your fuel supply was below 500 units, however, you'll start with 500 units. After your last ship has been destroyed, press the fire button to start a new game.
Master the Blaster
Do not overcontrol. It takes time to overcome inertia and change direc- tion. Take advantage of gravity, and plot a deliberate course to your goal. Don't rush. Speed only wastes fUel.
Note that a blockader will not fire until the first shot leaves the screen or hits something. Pay attention to the timing of shots. Happy landings!
LANDER
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COMPUTE 0-25
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OF |
80 |
10 |
00 |
60 |
20 |
CA |
C3 |
0F09:3O |
29 |
D0 |
80 |
2A |
00 |
A9 |
01 |
14 |
11B9:48 |
33 |
20 |
72 |
3E |
60 |
78 |
A9 78 |
|
aC61:0C |
60 |
AD |
0B |
00 |
C9 |
20 |
F0 |
OC |
0F11:8D |
2C |
00 |
80 |
20 |
D0 |
8D |
2E |
E9 |
HC1:19 |
80 |
14 |
03 |
A9 |
11 |
3D |
15 48 |
|
BC69:04 |
CE |
0B |
D0 |
60 |
20 |
CA |
ac |
CA |
0F19:D0 |
A9 |
01 |
80 |
2B |
D0 |
A9 |
C0 |
B3 |
1109:03 |
53 |
60 |
A9 |
05 |
80 |
52 |
03 30 |
|
aC71:60 |
AD |
0B |
00 |
C9 |
20 |
F0 |
25 |
69 |
0F21:8D |
F8 |
07 |
A9 |
CI |
80 |
F9 |
07 |
FE |
11D1:A9 |
30 |
8D |
53 |
03 |
A9 |
E8 |
80 CD |
|
0C79:CE |
0B |
00 |
AD |
10 |
00 |
29 |
20 |
E6 |
0F29:A9 |
C2 |
8D |
FA |
07 |
A9 |
03 |
80 |
22 |
11D9:50 |
03 |
A9 |
03 |
80 |
51 |
33 |
A9 AB |
|
0C8L;C9 |
20 |
00 |
0B |
AD |
0A |
D0 |
C9 |
52 |
0F31:FB |
07 |
A9 |
C4 |
80 |
FC |
07 |
A9 |
A8 |
11E1:00 |
80 |
4E |
03 |
80 |
4F |
03 |
60 71 |
|
0089:48 |
F0 |
12 |
EE |
afi |
D0 |
60 |
EE |
76 |
0F39:C5 |
80 |
FD |
07 |
A9 |
C5 |
80 |
FE |
40 |
HE 9: AD |
03 |
00 |
80 |
02 |
DO |
8D |
04 48 |
|
0C91:0A |
oa |
00 |
08 |
AD |
10 |
00 |
09 |
D5 |
0F41:07 |
A9 |
C5 |
80 |
FF |
07 |
A9 |
30 |
CE |
11F1:D0 |
8D |
06 |
00 |
AO |
01 |
00 |
8D 4E |
|
0C99:20 |
3D |
10 |
00 |
60 |
20 |
CA |
0C |
59 |
0F49:8D |
37 |
03 |
80 |
38 |
03 |
A9 |
OA |
60 |
llF9:a3 |
00 |
8D |
05 |
00 |
18 |
69 |
15 A2 |
|
aCAl:60 |
AD |
41 |
03 |
C9 |
00 |
D0 |
0D |
AA |
0F51:8D |
30 |
03 |
A9 |
OA |
80 |
3E |
03 |
36 |
1201:80 |
07 |
00 |
AD |
10 |
DO |
29 |
01 B9 |
|
0CA9:AD |
IB |
04 |
4A |
4A |
4A |
4A |
4A |
F8 |
0F59:A9 |
05 |
80 |
3F |
03 |
A9 |
80 |
SD |
7F |
1209:C9 |
01 |
00 |
09 |
AD |
10 |
00 |
09 55 |
|
0CB1:4A |
80 |
41 |
03 |
60 |
C9 |
01 |
00 |
A7 |
0F61;39 |
03 |
8D |
3A |
03 |
80 |
3B |
03 |
F9 |
1211:0E |
8D |
10 |
DO |
60 |
AD |
10 |
00 59 |
C-2e COMPUTE
JANUARY 1991
|
1219:29 Fl 8D 10 D0 |
60 AD |
51 B5 |
14C9:0E 20 |
3D 14 A9 Fl 80 15 2F |
1779:05 05 05 05 05 05 |
05 05 A7 |
|
1221:03 C9 28 90 01 |
60 AD |
51 70 |
1401:00 AO |
15 DO 29 Fl 3D IS BE |
1781:35 05 10 10 10 10 |
10 10 67 |
|
1229:03 C9 27 D0 BD |
AD 50 |
03 F5 |
1409:00 AD |
50 03 C9 00 D0 07 07 |
1789:10 10 10 10 10 10 |
10 10 B7 |
|
1231:C9 10 B0 05 A9 |
20 8D |
DB 69 |
14E1:AD 51 |
03 C9 00 F0 06 23 22 |
1791:10 10 10 10 10 10 |
06 04 9F |
|
1239:07 60 A9 20 3D |
DB 07 |
AD 07 |
14E9:FC 08 |
4C Fl 14 20 71 09 48 |
1799:36 06 06 36 06 06 |
06 02 C3 |
|
1241:51 03 C9 04 90 |
31 60 |
AD 3F |
14F1:20 16 |
0A 20 82 12 20 A2 32 |
17A1:00 IB 06 36 07 08 |
09 0A 2C |
|
1249:51 03 C9 03 D0 |
00 AD |
50 A6 |
14F9:0C 20 |
41 00 20 E0 OD A2 6A |
17A9:36 02 02 35 30 IB |
12 02 7E |
|
1251:03 C9 B8 80 05 |
A9 20 |
8D 2E |
1501:00 A0 |
00 C8 00 FF DO FB 83 |
17B1:00 06 06 05 05 05 |
05 05 BD |
|
1259:DA 07 60 A9 20 |
80 DA |
07 47 |
1509:E8 EO |
01 DO F4 23 7E 0E 40 |
17B9:0S 05 05 05 35 05 |
05 as E7 |
|
1261:AD 51 03 C9 00 |
F0 01 |
60 D3 |
1511:20 08 |
0E 40 02 14 06 06 01 |
17C1:05 05 05 35 35 06 |
06 05 F5 |
|
1269:AD 50 03 C9 64 |
B0 F8 |
A9 F6 |
1519:06 06 |
06 06 06 06 06 06 43 |
17C9:05 03 06 36 31 05 |
05 as 87 |
|
1271:20 8D D9 07 AD |
50 03 |
09 33 |
1521:06 06 |
06 06 06 06 06 06 4B |
1701:05 05 05 35 05 05 |
05 05 FF |
|
1279:0A B0 EC A9 20 |
80 D8 |
07 F6 |
1529:06 06 |
06 06 06 06 06 06 53 |
1709:05 06 06 30 0D 06 |
06 06 20 |
|
1281:60 20 C5 10 20 |
IF 12 |
20 59 |
1531:06 06 |
06 06 06 36 06 06 SB |
17E1:06 OS 00 3D 06 12 |
05 05 2E |
|
1289:8C 12 60 AD 52 |
03 C9 |
OA 9B |
1539:06 06 |
06 06 06 36 06 06 63 |
17E9:05 05 05 35 03 06 |
06 06 OF |
|
1291:B0 05 A9 20 8D |
E6 07 |
60 FC |
1541:06 06 |
06 06 06 06 06 06 es |
17F1:06 06 06 06 06 03 |
15 16 42 |
|
1299:38 AD 50 03 E9 |
F4 30 |
50 0E |
1549:36 06 |
06 06 36 06 06 06 73 |
17F9:19 13 05 05 05 05 |
05 05 BS |
|
12Al:a3 AD 51 03 E9 |
01 3D |
51 CC |
1551:06 06 |
06 06 06 06 06 06 7a |
1801:06 06 06 06 06 06 |
06 06 31 |
|
12A9:33 B0 08 A9 00 |
8D 50 |
03 F3 |
1559:06 06 |
06 06 06 06 06 06 83 |
1809:06 12 13 13 11 13 |
05 OS 38 |
|
12B1:3D 51 03 60 18 |
AD 53 |
03 72 |
1561:06 06 |
06 06 06 06 06 06 SB |
1811:05 05 05 as IB 06 |
06 07 F 9 |
|
12B9:69 F4 8D 50 03 |
AO 51 |
03 FA |
1569:06 06 |
06 06 06 06 06 06 93 |
1819:08 05 06 06 05 OS |
05 05 FA |
|
12C1:69 01 8D 51 03 |
60 13 |
AD 19 |
1571:06 06 |
06 12 19 06 06 06 F4 |
1821:05 05 10 10 10 10 |
10 10 09 |
|
12C9:4E S3 6D 50 03 |
3D 4E |
03 76 |
1579:06 02 |
06 06 06 06 IB 06 CO |
1829:10 10 10 10 10 10 |
10 10 53 |
|
12D1:AD 4F 03 6D 51 |
03 8D |
4F D8 |
1581:06 06 |
06 06 06 06 IB 13 E2 |
1831:13 10 10 10 10 10 |
06 04 41 |
|
1209:03 18 AD 52 03 |
09 63 |
00 37 |
1539:11 12 |
06 04 02 05 06 IB 00 |
1839:06 02 00 06 06 06 |
06 06 A7 |
|
12El:01 60 18 AD 52 |
03 69 |
01 EE |
1591:07 08 |
05 09 0A 06 06 06 EO |
1841:36 06 07 08 09 OA |
IB 06 04 |
|
12E9:3E> 52 03 60 AD |
3B 03 |
C9 F9 |
1599:07 08 |
05 05 05 05 05 05 85 |
1849:06 02 02 05 05 05 |
05 00 D3 |
|
12F1:80 B0 IE 20 C7 |
12 20 |
B5 C4 |
15A1:05 05 |
10 la 10 10 10 10 83 |
1851:06 06 06 06 06 06 |
01 05 76 |
|
12F9:12 20 82 12 EE |
40 03 |
AO CC |
15A9:10 10 |
10 10 10 10 10 10 03 |
1359:05 05 05 00 02 05 |
05 05 21 |
|
1301:40 03 C9 0A 00 |
05 A9 |
30 CF |
15B1:10 10 |
10 10 10 10 06 06 BD |
1861:05 05 05 05 00 IB |
02 05 BB |
|
1309:3D 40 03 4C 30 |
14 EA |
EA BD |
1589:06 06 |
06 06 06 06 06 06 E3 |
1869:00 06 06 01 05 05 |
05 05 37 |
|
1311:EA A9 Fl 8D 15 |
00 20 |
E2 3D |
15C1:06 06 |
06 06 36 36 06 04 E9 |
1871:05 05 05 05 05 05 |
OS 05 Al |
|
1319:aA 20 99 12 38 |
AD 52 |
03 C0 |
15C9:06 12 |
06 02 00 06 06 06 86 |
1879:05 05 05 05 05 06 |
06 06 B0 |
|
1321:E9 01 8D 52 03 |
C9 00 |
00 63 |
1501:04 IB |
04 06 06 06 06 06 FF |
1881:06 06 01 05 05 OS |
05 05 Fl |
|
1329:09 20 32 12 20 |
5E 14 |
4C 3C |
1509:06 06 |
06 05 12 13 02 05 7F |
1839:05 05 05 05 05 05 |
05 OS B9 |
|
1331:7A 14 20 B5 12 |
4C 04 |
IF El |
15E1:05 00 |
06 02 05 05 05 00 B5 |
1891:03 36 06 06 06 06 |
06 12 4C |
|
1339:A0 00 A2 03 Bt> |
6D 13 |
99 67 |
15E9:06 06 |
06 06 06 06 06 05 13 |
1899: 15 16 05 05 05 05 |
05 05 16 |
|
1341:71 OB 20 47 14 |
E0 OA |
D3 64 |
15F1:05 05 |
05 05 05 05 00 05 12 |
iaAl:05 35 05 05 06 06 |
06 IB F5 |
|
1349:F3 A0 00 A2 00 |
BO 77 |
13 B4 |
1SF9:05 05 |
OS 05 IB 06 06 06 DB |
18A9:06 06 06 13 13 13 |
05 05 44 |
|
1351:99 BF 0B 20 47 |
14 E0 |
OA ED |
1601:06 06 |
02 as 05 05 05 05 SD |
18B1:05 05 05 05 05 05 |
as 05 El |
|
1359:D0 F3 A0 00 A2 |
00 BD |
81 0B |
1609:05 05 |
05 05 05 05 05 05 35 |
18B9:00 06 02 05 30 36 |
B6 05 25 |
|
1361:13 99 0D ac 20 |
47 14 |
E0 01 |
1611:05 06 |
06 36 06 06 05 05 B9 |
18Cl:05 05 10 10 10 10 |
10 10 A9 |
|
1369:flA DO F3 60 03 |
03 02 |
03 78 |
1619:05 05 |
05 05 05 05 05 05 45 |
1809:10 13 10 10 10 10 |
10 10 F9 |
|
1371:03 03 03 03 03 |
03 03 |
03 97 |
1621:05 05 |
05 05 05 00 06 06 30 |
1301:10 10 10 10 10 10 |
06 02 OF |
|
1379:02 01 01 01 01 |
01 01 |
31 20 |
1629:06 IB |
05 05 05 05 05 05 SB |
13D9:09 0A IB 06 06 06 |
06 07 30 |
|
1381:01 01 02 01 03 |
03 03 |
01 E3 |
1631:05 05 |
05 0S 05 05 05 05 50 |
1BE1:08 09 0A 06 06 06 |
04 06 50 |
|
1389:02 03 A0 00 A2 |
00 A9 |
30 ED |
1639:05 35 |
06 06 02 05 05 35 7D |
13E9:06 06 05 OS OE 0F |
05 00 46 |
|
1391:99 71 OB 20 47 |
14 E0 |
OA 9A |
1641:05 05 |
10 10 10 10 10 10 25 |
18F1:06 06 02 OS 05 05 |
05 00 7D |
|
1399:D0 F4 A3 00 A2 |
00 A9 |
00 El |
1649:10 10 |
13 10 10 10 10 10 75 |
18F9:1B 02 05 00 07 08 |
05 03 3E |
|
13A1:99 BF 0B 20 47 |
14 E3 |
OA 3E |
1651:10 10 |
13 10 10 10 06 06 5F |
1901:12 06 06 0B 06 06 |
01 05 7E |
|
13A9:D0 F4 A0 00 A2 |
00 A9 |
00 Fl |
1659:06 06 |
12 06 06 04 06 06 FE |
1909:05 03 06 01 05 05 |
05 05 9A |
|
13B1:99 OD 0C 20 47 |
14 E0 |
OA CI |
1661:06 04 |
06 06 06 12 06 06 30 |
1911:05 05 05 14 13 12 |
06 06 DB |
|
13B9:D0 F4 60 A9 00 |
85 F9 |
A 9 OF |
1669:06 06 |
05 00 02 00 13 12 03 |
1919:06 06 02 05 03 15 |
16 19 12 |
|
13C1:D0 85 FA A9 00 |
3 5 FB |
A9 63 |
1671:02 03 |
06 06 IB 05 00 15 82 |
1921:01 05 05 05 05 05 |
as 35 51 |
|
13C9l28 85 FC A9 03 |
85 FD |
78 6A |
1679:16 13 |
11 36 04 02 OS 05 2F |
1929:05 05 06 06 02 05 |
05 33 71 |
|
13D1:A5 01 29 FB 85 |
01 AO |
00 61 |
1681:05 05 |
05 as 05 06 06 06 B4 |
1931:12 13 13 11 06 05 |
05 05 F7 |
|
13D9:B1 F9 91 FB C8 |
DO F9 |
E6 AD |
1689:05 05 |
05 13 13 13 13 12 68 |
1939:05 05 05 05 05 05 |
IB 06 98 |
|
13E1:FA E6 FC C6 FD |
DO Fl |
A5 38 |
1691:05 05 |
35 05 05 OS 05 05 BD |
1941:06 06 06 06 13 13 |
13 13 37 |
|
13E9:01 09 04 35 01 |
58 60 |
A9 7F |
1699:03 06 |
36 IB 05 05 05 05 86 |
1949:02 05 05 05 05 05 |
as OS F9 |
|
13F1:57 85 F9 A9 IB |
85 FA |
A9 80 |
16A1:05 35 |
05 05 0S 05 05 05 CD |
1951:05 05 05 06 06 02 |
05 05 8F |
|
13F9:a0 85 FB A9 2C |
85 FC |
A9 B6 |
16A9:05 35 |
05 05 06 06 36 05 E3 |
1959:05 05 05 05 05 05 |
05 05 8B |
|
1401:04 85 FD A0 00 |
Bl F9 |
91 A2 |
16B1:35 05 |
05 05 05 05 as 05 DD |
1961:05 05 13 10 10 10 |
10 10 4B |
|
1409:FB C8 D0 F9 E6 |
FA E6 |
FC 09 |
16B9:05 05 |
05 05 05 05 05 33 E3 |
1969:10 10 10 10 10 10 |
10 10 9B |
|
1411:C6 FD DO Fl 60 |
A9 00 |
8D ac |
16C1:36 06 |
IB 05 05 35 05 05 71 |
1971:10 10 10 10 10 10 |
06 02 81 |
|
1419:15 D0 AO 04 A9 |
00 99 |
38 00 |
1609:05 05 |
05 05 05 05 05 05 F5 |
1979:00 06 06 06 04 06 |
06 06 98 |
|
1421:03 88 00 F8 AO |
0A A9 |
00 17 |
1601:05 05 |
05 06 36 02 OS 05 OA |
1981:04 06 06 06 06 06 |
32 00 A4 |
|
1429:99 43 03 88 DO |
F8 60 |
AD B0 |
1609:05 05 |
05 05 05 05 05 05 06 |
1989:36 06 02 05 05 IB |
02 05 6E |
|
1431:40 03 C9 00 DO |
03 20 |
SB 01 |
16E1:05 05 |
10 10 10 10 10 10 C5 |
1991:05 00 06 02 35 05 |
00 IB 7E |
|
1439:13 4C 18 IF 20 |
16 14 |
AO 22 |
16E9:10 10 |
10 10 10 10 10 13 16 |
1999:02 OS 05 05 09 0A |
05 05 7E |
|
1441tlE DO AD IF D0 |
60 C8 |
08 B6 |
16F1:10 10 |
10 10 10 10 00 06 F3 |
19A1:05 OS 05 05 05 05 |
06 01 Dl |
|
1449:C8 C8 E8 60 A2 |
00 AO |
00 81 |
16F9:06 IB |
02 09 OA 06 06 04 39 |
19A9:05 OS 05 35 03 0E |
OF OS 04 |
|
1451;C3 C0 FF DO FB |
E8 E0 |
FF 60 |
1701:06 IB |
06 06 07 08 00 06 78 |
19B1:05 05 05 05 03 06 |
06 01 D5 |
|
1459:00 F4 4C A7 14 |
AO 00 |
B9 03 |
1709:06 06 |
05 35 05 05 OS 05 F7 |
19B9:05 03 06 06 06 06 |
06 06 AA |
|
1461:71 14 99 FF 04 |
A9 FO |
99 BC |
1711:05 06 |
06 01 05 05 05 OS SF |
1901:06 06 06 05 05 05 |
05 05 04 |
|
1469:FF D8 C8 C0 09 |
DO F0 |
60 BA |
1719:05 05 |
05 00 12 06 05 05 63 |
1909:15 16 19 06 06 06 |
17 18 IE |
|
1471:37 01 OD 05 20 |
0F 16 |
0S BD |
1721:05 05 |
05 OS OS 00 06 06 3E |
1901:06 06 06 06 12 15 |
16 05 BF |
|
1479:12 AD 00 DC 29 |
10 C9 |
10 11 |
1729:05 05 |
05 05 05 05 05 05 57 |
1909:05 05 05 05 13 13 |
11 02 09 |
|
1481:F0 F7 A9 OF 80 |
18 04 |
20 DC |
1731:13 11 |
05 05 03 36 06 06 60 |
19E1:0S 00 17 18 02 00 |
IB 14 55 |
|
1489:44 E5 20 CC 11 |
20 3A |
0B A6 |
1739:06 01 |
00 06 01 as 05 35 36 |
19E9:13 13 13 05 05 05 |
05 05 68 |
|
1491:20 BF 11 20 39 |
13 20 |
BC F0 |
1741:05 05 |
OS 05 05 35 05 05 6F |
19F1:05 05 05 05 05 05 |
06 06 27 |
|
1499:13 20 FD IE A9 |
la 80 |
13 DD |
1749:06 06 |
06 19 36 36 05 06 A6 |
19F9:05 05 05 05 05 05 |
05 05 20 |
|
14A1;O0 A9 00 8D 40 |
03 AD |
40 IF |
1751:06 05 |
OS 05 05 05 05 0S FF |
1A01:05 05 10 10 10 10 |
10 10 EC |
|
14A9:03 20 E3 08 20 |
8F 13 |
A9 61 |
1759:05 05 |
05 as 06 15 16 11 FO |
1A09:10 10 10 10 10 10 |
10 10 3D |
|
14B1;00 8D 10 DO 20 |
OF OE |
20 OS |
1761:12 06 |
03 06 IB 05 05 05 06 |
1A11:10 10 10 10 10 10 |
00 02 17 |
|
14B9:4E 11 20 E9 11 |
20 08 |
OE 17 |
1769:05 05 |
05 05 05 05 05 05 97 |
1A19:00 IB 07 08 00 06 |
02 09 9A |
|
14Clt20 CA 0C 20 69 |
0D 20 |
FP EF |
1771:00 13 |
13 13 13 06 06 06 BA |
1A21:0A IB 06 06 06 06 |
06 02 98 |
JANUARY 1991
COMPUTE &27
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09 |
0A |
05 |
05 |
05 |
05 |
05 |
05 |
A0 |
1CD9:FF |
FF |
FF |
FF |
FF |
FF |
FF |
FF |
12 |
1F89:F4 |
AD |
30 |
DC |
29 |
10 |
C9 |
10 |
A8 |
|
|
1A31 |
83 |
06 |
01 |
05 |
05 |
05 |
09 |
0A |
31 |
ICEl |
FF |
FF |
FF |
FF |
FF |
FF |
FF |
FF |
lA |
1F91:F0 |
F7 |
4C |
83 |
14 |
ec |
31 |
BE |
E8 |
|
1A39 |
06 |
12 |
02 |
05 |
05 |
05 |
05 |
05 |
D0 |
1CE9 |
FF |
FF |
FF |
FC |
F0 |
C0 |
FF |
FC |
79 |
1F99:04 |
85 |
12 |
e2 |
19 |
20 |
10 |
01 |
E7 |
|
1A41 |
05 |
03 |
06 |
06 |
18 |
06 |
86 |
86 |
C4 |
ICFl |
F0 |
C0 |
80 |
00 |
00 |
80 |
FF |
FF |
02 |
1FA1:15 |
80 |
20 |
03 |
BF |
3D |
13 |
14 |
S3 |
|
1A49 |
06 |
01 |
05 |
05 |
05 |
05 |
85 |
85 |
FC |
1CF9 |
FF |
FF |
FF |
FC |
Fa |
C0 |
FF |
FC |
89 |
1FA9:8F |
83 |
BB |
80 |
18 |
3a |
BB |
3C |
8E |
|
1A51 |
05 |
05 |
05 |
05 |
06 |
06 |
06 |
86 |
94 |
1D01 |
F0 |
C0 |
00 |
00 |
80 |
88 |
00 |
00 |
E3 |
1FB1:00 |
ee |
3C |
88 |
ee |
7E |
38 |
30 |
71 |
|
1A59 |
06 |
06 |
06 |
17 |
06 |
06 |
06 |
05 |
9D |
1D09 |
aa |
00 |
00 |
00 |
80 |
88 |
80 |
ea |
43 |
1FB9:7E |
00 |
00 |
FF |
BB |
00 |
FF |
00 |
37 |
|
1A61 |
05 |
05 |
05 |
05 |
05 |
05 |
05 |
03 |
93 |
1011 |
08 |
88 |
00 |
08 |
00 |
80 |
FF |
3F |
8A |
1FC1:00 |
FF |
00 |
00 |
FF |
30 |
ee |
FF |
FF |
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14 |
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25 |
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92 |
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Al |
1F19 |
15 |
D0 |
29 |
Fl |
30 |
15 |
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66 |
21C9:44 |
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29 |
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54 |
83 |
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2101:00 |
65 |
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88 |
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44 |
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62 |
2109:00 |
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28 |
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07 |
21F1:00 |
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38 |
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48 |
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0-28 COMPUTE
JANUARY 1991
PROGRAMS
D A V
W
MARTIN
Here's a utility that will greatly in- crease the readability of your BASIC programs. List Format- ter makes 64 or 128 program listings easier to comprehend.
If you have a 128, you're proba- bly aware of your computer's larger input buffer that allows you to enter lines in a BASIC program as long as 1 60 characters. This is considered a big improvement over the 64's capaci- ty of 80 characters per line.
The 128's larger buffer means that BASIC programmers can pack twice as many commands on one line. By doing so, they end up with a pro- gram that runs faster (since it has few- er line numbers) but is harder to read. Until now programmers had to decide between a program that was faster yet harder to read or one that was slower but easier to read. Now you can have the best of both worlds with List Formatter.
Getting Started
List Formatter is a small machine lan- guage program in the form of a BASIC loader. Since it's written in BASIC, enter the program by using The Auto- matic Proofreader; see "Typing Aids" elsewhere in this section. When you've finished entering List Format- ter, be sure to save a copy to disk.
A unique aspect about List For- matter is that it automatically deter- mines which system it's being run on (64 or 128) and configures itself to work within that system. This means you'll only need one copy of the pro- gram at any time and you'll never have to worry about which version to load. Load and run the program just as you would any BASIC program.
When List Formatter executes, it prints information about how to tog- gle the program on or off with a SYS call followed by a READY message.
You're then ready to load and list any BASIC program. At this point you can also list List Formatter to see how the program works. List Format- ter patches itself into the IQPLOP vector at 774-775 ($0306-50307), which handles the listing of BASIC text
The list command itself has not been changed. List Formatter looks for a colon on a BASIC program line and formats the line based on the lo-
cation of this character. A colon is often used to separate multiple state- ments on a line. Once a colon has been found. List Formatter prints each statement on its own line with the proper amount of indenting for uniform output. But that's not all.
MAKE PROGRAM ■ LISTINGS EASIER TO READ WITH THIS UTILITY FOR THE 64 OR 1 28
List Formatter a\so highlights re- marks (REM statements) in reverse video, making them easier to spot and read. As an example, consider the fol- lowing BASIC line.
500 FORI=-0TO100:PRINTl: NEXTI:REMARKS IN REVERSE VIDEO
Using the standard listing, the hne would list as above, but with List For- matter the line appears as follows.
500 FORI=0TOl iPRINTI :NEXTI
K! \ I Ksr
List Formatter is ideal for reading your programs or for printing out copies. Attempting to edit lines in this format, however, is not recommended because the length of the statement in the new format usually far exceeds the line's normal input length. If you must edit a line, first turn List For- matter off with the SYS address given when the program first runs.
Also note that the variable S used in the program can be changed to dif- ferent addresses in memory. This makes the program easy to relocate if
it interferes with another program. Once you use List Formatter and dis- cover how readable it makes your BASIC listings, you'll probably find it a welcome addition to your utility library.
LIST FORMATTER
BP 100 REM COPYRIGHT 1990 - CO MPUTE PUBLICATIONS INTL
LTD - ALL RIGHTS RESER VED
IFPEEK(4096a) 0148ANDPE EK (45056) O191THEN110 PRINT"{CLR}{DOWN}SETTIN G UP C64 MODE. . .":S=S28 : GOTO 120
S=2816:REM RELOCATABLE {SPACE} PROGRAM PRINT" {CLR} (DOWNlSETTIN G UP C128 MODE. . ." PRINT'MDOWNILIST FORMAT TER "
HEM LIST FORMATTER MACH INE LANGUAGE DATA 173,7,3,201,81,144 ,6,169
DATA 203,162,21,208,4,1 69,81,162
DATA 81,141,6,3,142,7,3 ,96
DATA 8,201,58,208,26,36 ,17,48
DATA 22,169,13,32,12,86 ,162,0
DATA 189,0,1,240,8,169, 32,32
DATA 12,86,232,208,243, 169,58,201
DATA 143,208,2,133,243, 40,234,76 REM POKE ML STARTING AT
ADDR = S FOR D=S TO S+63:READ Y: POKE D,Y:T-T+Y:NEXT:REM ARKS ARE HIGHLIGHTED L=PEEK(774) :POKED,L:POK ES+14,L
H=PEEK(775) :P0KED+1,H:P 0KES+16,H M=S+24:L%=M/256 POKES+10,L%:POKES+8,M-2 56*L%
IFPEEK (40960) =148ANDPEE K (45056) =191THENGOSaB37 0
PRINT :PRI»T"0N/0FF: SYS "S
SYS (S) : PRINT: PRINT"ENGA GED": PRINT: LIST231 END REM PATCH C128 CODE FOR
C64 POKE8 28+4,167;POKES+36, 71:POKES+37,171:P0KES+4 8,71:POKES+49,171 POKES+63,199:POKES+30,1 5 RETURN Q
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RX |
105 |
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106 |
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110 |
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KM |
111 |
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BP |
120 |
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130 |
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CQ |
140 |
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RR |
150 |
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PP |
160 |
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DC |
170 |
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DQ |
180 |
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QG |
190 |
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JJ |
200 |
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XA |
210 |
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EB |
230 |
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MF |
231 |
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RE |
290 |
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JR |
300 |
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XC |
310 |
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GH |
320 |
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GX |
325 |
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HD |
330 |
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BA |
335 |
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PP |
3 50 |
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RF |
360 |
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CR |
370 |
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GB |
380 |
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PX |
390 |
JANUARY 1991
COMPUTE G-29
D
ROGRAMS
JESUS MENDOZA ESCALONA
TO add some zest to your game instructions, messages, or any other text, try this short machine language routine that causes words to dissolve. You can also reverse the process with Dissolver and have words slowly appear.
Dissolver hides out of the way of your BASIC programs, ready to be called at any time. It uses one or sev- eral collections of 255 characters that may either be defined by you or taken from the 64's standard set.
Typing it In
Dissolver is written in machine lan- guage. Enter the program with MLX, our machine language entry program; see "Typing Aids" elsewhere in this section. When A/LA' prompts you, re- spond with the values given below.
Starting address: CE90 Ending address: CFFF
When you've finished typing, be sure to save the program to disk with the name DISSOLVER.OBJ. A demon- stration program that shows how to use Dissolver loads the program and looks for it by that name.
The demonstration program is written entirely in BASIC. To ensure accurate entry, use The Automatic Proofreader; see "Typing Aids" else- where in this section.
The Commands
To use Dissolver in your own pro- grams, make the call SYS 52880, swcopy, chrsetl, chrset2 — where swcopy, chrsetl, and chrsetl represent numbers that specify how the pro- gram will work. \i swcopy is 1, the pro- gram copies the standard 64 character set from ROM. If swcopy is 0, the pro- gram alternates between any of possi- bly several character sets that you may have in memory. It reads character data from the set stored at chrset2 and copies them to the chrsetl address.
The characters at chrsetl are copies of the source character set and are visible on the screen. These copies are the characters actually used during the dissolving process.
As a practical example, suppose that your character set is located at memory address 43088 and your copy is to be at address 14336. In this case
the character set is to be a copy of that in ROM. Therefore, the program call would be SYS 52880,1,14336,43088. If the character set were to be your own, you would need to poke the characters in starling at 43088 and use 0 in place of 1 as the first parameter in the above call.
Although any values from 0 through 65535 may be used as charac- ter set addresses, addresses under Ker- nal ROM, from 57344 on, are not accessible. Calls from this area will re- sult in garbage.
ADD DRAMA TO
YOUR 64 TEXT
SCREENS BY MAKING
CHARACTERS
DISSOLVE AND
MATERLMiZE
Now you can start having fun by dissolving characters. The dissolving process can also be used in reverse, with characters slowly materializing on the screen. To dissolve characters, use SYS 52963, swdiss, start, end — where swdiss, start, and ?n(^ represent more special parameters. The value of swdiss must be 0 or 1 . Use 0 if you want characters to dissolve and I if you want them to materialize. The numbers start and end may take on any values from 0 to 255 and tell the program what range of characters within your set is to be treated as dis- solvable text.
To better understand Dissolver, examine the demonstration program and the REM statements that explain the different calls. Then put the pro- gram to work spicing up your own text screens.
DISSOLVER.OBJ
CE90:23 9E CF B4 02 20 9E CF C5 CE98:ac AC CF 8D AD CF 20 9E . 36 CEABjCF 8C AE CF SD AF CF A5 SC
CEA8; CEBH: CEB8: CEC0: CEC8; CED0; CED8: CEE0: CEE8; CEF0 : CEF8: CF00[ CF081 CF10: CFie; CF20: CF28; CP30: CF38: CF40i CF48: CF50; CF58; CF6fl: CF68; CF70: CF78; CF80: CF88: CF90i CF98; CFA0; CFA8; CFBfl: CFB8: CFC0: CFC8: CFD0: CFD8: CFE0: CFE8: CFF0: CFF8:
02 D0 CF 95 8D 0D 01 AZ FA 91 E6 FD ai 09 0D DC 20 9E 84 04 31 85 31 D0
03 BD 10 F7 08 6D A9 08 90 06 83 D3 3F 85 23 85 95 FA B2 CF 05 Bl 3D BA
18 A9
04 E6 CC A5 00 CA FE C6 A2 A9 AE 20 00 00 00 D0 00 04 08 13 04 23 20 02 30 43 08 10 01 01
01 60 FA CA DC A5 as A0 PC C8 E6 FF
04 85 60 20 CF 34 98 38
23 C9
02 A9 AC CF A4 03 A8 CF 6D AA EE A9 E3 A9 FE A9
22 A2 CA 10 A8 A6 FC 4C CF F0 A9 08 08 65 FB E6
24 F0 D0 FD FF 10 37 85 8A AD 00 00
05 01
32 01
23 08
33 02 04 40
02 04 01 80 40 08 00 00
10
80
40 20
13 04
A2 35 10 F8 01 29 00 Bl
00 F7 CA D0
01 A9 9E CF 03 20 E5 03 D2 B0 03 SS 9D A8 F3 ID 8D A8 CF 8D CF EE 36 85 07 8 5
03 BD F8 A6 FE A5 60 CF
04 51 6 5 FA FC 8 5 FD C6 OA A0 38 D0 AA A5
01 60 20 F7
00 30 03 06
02 40 40 38
01 10 13 20 83 04 34 80
03 02 20 01 03 00
BD AC A9 7F FB 85 FE 91 E6 FB EE AS 81 8D 84 02 9E CF 18 69 04 A9 24 A2 CF CA 18 A9 CF 18 AA CF AB CF
01 A9 FF AS A8 CF FF BD
02 F0 Bl PA FA 91 8 5 FA FC 90 22 D0 0F A2 FA C6 FE 13 20 FD B7 60 00 38 02 37
01 40
08 40
02 08
20 80
04 10
10 04
80 32
30 30
F2 DE 80 E8 A4 5B 51 89 26 3D 84 30 25 50 EF C3
es
D2 47 71 EB 40 EB 43 5E 66 EI 17 19 5C FA 7C 41 70 DC 90 3B 92 9F 2B 31 7B BA
DISSOLVER DEMO
AC IC
PS 63 CB 7 0
CK 80
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160 |
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DJ 200
REM COPYRIGHT 1990 - COM
PUTE PUBLICATIONS INTL L
TD - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
PRINT CHRS{147)
POKE 53281, 0:POKE5328a, 1
1
PRINT CHRSO) ;SPC(244) ;C
HRS {152) ; "LOADING DISSOL
VER OBJECT CODE. . ."
A = A + 1
IF A=l THEN LOAD "DISSO
LVER.0BJ",8,1
REM »** COPY ROM CHARAC
TER SET ****
SYS 52380,1,14336,40960
REM ***** ENABLE ON BLO
CK ZERO •***
POKE 53272,30
REM *** DISSOLVE ALL CH
RS SET *****
SYS 52963,0,0,255
PRINT CHR$tl47)
REM *** PRINT 'INVISIBL
E' LINES ***
PRINT SPC(48) ;CHRS(155)
; "DISSOLVER IS A PROGRA
H"
PRINT SPC(9)" THAT ALLO
Q-30 COMPUTE
JANUARY 1991
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220 |
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230 |
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240 |
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250 |
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263 |
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270 |
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280 |
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290 |
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30Q |
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310 |
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CF |
320 |
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3 30 |
WS VOU TO
REM »*» UNDISSOLVE HALF
SET ****** SYS 52963,1,3,127 FOR T=l TO 1000:NEXT PRINT SPC(84) ;CHRS(152) ; "DISSOLVE ONE CHARACTE R AT A TIME" FOR T=l TO 10a0:NEXT PRINT SPC 156) ;CHR$ (158) ;"01234" FOR C=4a TO C+4 REM *** DISSOLVE A CHAR ACTER ****** SV:S 52963, 0,C,C NEXT
REM *• ANOTHER 'INVISIB LE' LINES ** PRINT SPC(48) ;CHRS(152) ;CHRS(13) ;"0R WORK WITH
A GROUP" PRINT SPC(8) ;CHRS(1B) ;" {3 SHIFT-SPACE)OF CHARA
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370 |
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380 |
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390 |
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SR |
430 |
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410 |
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420 |
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PG |
430 |
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443 |
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ER |
450 |
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460 |
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470 |
CTERS(SHIFT-SPACE)
{2 SHIFT-SPACEl";CHE$(l
46)
REM *** UNDISSOLVE HALF
SET ****** SYS 52963,1,128,255 FOR T=l TO 1500:NEXT PRINT SPC(56> ;CHR$(153) ,-"01234" REM *** UNDISSOLVE FIVE
NUMBERS ** C = 4S
SYS 52963, 1,C, C+4 PRINT SPC(44) ;CHR$ (152) ;"0R WITH A COMPLETE CH ARACTER SET" REM *** PRINT 255 CHARA CTERS ****** FOR C=0 TO 255 POKE 1704+C,C NEXT
FOR T=l TO 1500:NEXT REM *** DISSOLVE FULL S
PX 4S3 XE 490 DK 500 CP 310
AQ 520
AE 530
SC 540
JA 530
SJ 560
CK 590
EB 600
GC 660
FF 670
PM 680
g>p *********
SYS 52963,0,0,255
FOR T=l TO 1503:NEXT
PRINT CHR$(147)
REM *** PRINT 'INVISIBL
E' LINES ***
PRINT SPC(166) ;CHR5(155
);"0R CHANGE BETWEEN DI
FFERENT"
PRINT SPC (52) "CHARACTER
SETS." REM *** UNDISSOLVE FULL
SET ****** SYS 52963,1,3,255 FOR T=l TO 150a:NEXT REM *** DISSOLVE OLD SE iji **********
SYS 52963,0,0,255
FOR T=l TO 15a0:NEXT
PRINT CHRS(147)
REM *** START AGAIN ***
************
DR 690 GOTO 120
M
C K A E L
J .
G f B B O N S
Programmers quickly learn through frustration the memory limitations of the 64 when trying to design and write large pro- grams. When confronted with such a problem, one may be tempted to pack the program with as much BASIC code as possible, but this can leave the program difficult to read and filled with potential bugs. Module 64 is a belter alternative.
Module 64 is a machine language routine that loads BASIC subroutines (modules) from disk and links them as needed to form your main pro- gram. With this capability, you are no longer restricted to program size, as you can store sections of your pro- gram on disk to be loaded and execut- ed as required.
Unlike chained programs, Mod- ule 64 lets you keep your main con- trolling program in memory at all times, and program variables are ac- cessible to all modules. With Module 64, you'll be able to write much laiier programs than before.
Getting Started
Module 64 is written entirely in BASIC. To prevent typing errors, use The Automatic Proofreader to type it in. See "Typing Aids" elsewhere in this section. When you've finished typing in the main program, be sure to save a copy of the program.
To help demonstrate the power of Module 64, we've included a calen- dar program that has three modules. This demonstration requests you to enter a day, month, and year. The program then displays a calendar of that month. The main program calls modules 1, 2, and 3. Type in each of the three modules and save them to disk separately. Be sure to save them with the appropriate filenames, as the main program will call them by those names.
When run, the demo program will load and call module 3, which will prompt you for a date. Enter any date between 0 and 2300, using the formal shown. The program will then load and run module 1, which prints the month, year, days of the week, and a grid pattern used with the calendar. Finally, the demo loads and calls module 2, which prints the dates to the appropriate squares, highlighting the day chosen.
OVERCOME THE 64'S
MEMORY
LIMITATIONS WITH THIS
PROGRAMMING
UTILITY
This demonstration is rather sim- ple, but it shows how Module 64 works. When writing your own pro- grams, you can write much larger pro- grams, using as many modules as you want. Module 64 is best suited for pro- grams that call several interrelated functions upon some type of condi- tion, such as menu selections.
Using the Program
Using Module 64 is fairly simple, but you must follow a few rules. First, your main program, which will reside
in memory, must begjn with line 1000, even if it's just a REM state- ment. Second, you must include lines 2000-2040 of Module 64 in your main program. Then a simple GOSUB 2040 reads the data into memory. Third, all the modules must use line numbers less than 1000 and each must end with line number 999. This is so Module 64 can link the end of the modules to the beginning of the main program.
Finally, you must save your larg- est module along the main program to disk. This is required so enough space will be allocated at the beginning of your program for the other modules. Notice that in the demo programs the main program begins with line 1000 and each of the modules ends with 999. The largest module, 2, is includ- ed within the main program as re- quired. To find which of your mod- ules is the largest, load a module and type PRINT PEEK(46) * 256 -I- PEEK(45) ~ 2048.
This will print the size in bytes of each module. All that your main pro- gram needs now to load and run a module is to execute the command SYS 49 \ 52," module name" (where module name is the disk name of the module you want to load). Once the module has been loaded, you need only GOSUB to the first line to be ex- ecuted of that module. You may also execute the above command in direct mode, which will simply load the module and link it to your program if it's in memory.
Keep in mind that you should not use constant strings in modules if you want them to be accessible to other modules or the main program. If you must, make it a concatenated string by adding a null string con- stant to the end (for example, A$ = "HOUSE" + " "). This will make cer- tain the siring is stored in memory as
JANUARV 1991
COMPUTE 0-31
PROGRAMS
opposed to being embedded within the module BASIC text.
MODULE 64
AF 1 REM COPYRIGHT 1990 - COMP UTE PUBLICATIONS INTL LTD
- ALL RIGHTS RESERVED RK 10 GOTO 1300 HD 20 LY = 0 AE 30 D = VAL(HID$(CC$,INT (YR/
100)+2,1)) MG 35 L = YR - INT (YR/100)*100 RA 40 D = D+L:D = D + INT(L/4)
+ VAL{HID5(HCS,MN,1)) PD 50 D=D+1:IF (YR/4-INT (5fR/4)
)=0 AND MN<3THEN D=D-1:L
Y=l CA 60 D=D-INT (D/7)*7+l:IF D>6
{SPACEjTHEN 0=0 KB 70 PRINTCHR${19) :PRINT:PRIN
T: PRINT :PRI NT :C=D:A=0:R$
=CHR$(13) JJ 75 M=VAL(HID9(MD$, {MN-l)*2+ l,2)):IF LY=1 AND MN=2 T
HEN M=M+1 XC 80 PRINT SPC(2+S*C) ;:FOR L=
C TO 6:A=A+1:IF A>M THEN L=7:GOTO100 MB 85 IF A>M THEN L=7:GOTO100 AR 87 IF A=DY THEN PRIKTCHRS(2
8);
GC 90 PRINT RIGHT$(" "+STR$ (A)
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HM 2010 DATA 32,158,173,169,13 ,208,5,162,22,76,55,16 4,32,166,182,32,189
FS 2015 DATA 255,169,0,32,213, 255,169,3,141,131,192, 169,231,141,130,192,32
PA 2020 DATA 84,192,173,132,19 2,160,0,145,251,173,13 3,192,200,145,251,96,1 69
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These days, if you're going to intro- duce a high-end spreadsheet pro- gram, it had better be good. In a field already crowded with top- seUing apphcations from the industry giants — Lotus, Microsoft, and Bor- land— your program would have to hit the ground running and never look back.
Informix has taken up the chal- lenge with its Windows spreadsheet program, IVingz. While it has the usual array of noteworthy features and functions, IVingz adds outstand- ing three-dimensional graphics and a powerful scripting language.
H^ingz has 20 basic types of charts, in both two and three dimen- sions, with a variety of title, legend, color, and pattern choices. It's almost embarrassingly easy to create a chart in Wingz. Simply select the data range by holding down a mouse button, and click on the chart icon. Then define the area on the spreadsheet where you want the chart to go by holding down a mouse button, dragging to define the chart's size, and releasing the button. That's it. You can use the pull-down menus to change the type of chart, move legends or titles, or perform a variety of other chart modifications.
Unlike other spreadsheet pro- grams, Wingz lets you create a chart on the screen right next to your data. This is a true WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) spreadsheet. To move the chart, you simply click on the chart and drag it across the page. To resize it, you click on the chart and move the chart's resizing handles. While Wingz offers a full-page pre- view, you probably won't need it — the screen accurately shows how your page will look.
The scripting language for Wingz. HyperScript, is equally impressive. You can create custom menus, dialog boxes, slider controls, buttons that call
other scripts, and spreadsheet func- tions not included with the program. The menu system is also a script, so you can modify it. With the Learn command, you can have the program record your keystrokes and mouse movements and translate them into HyperScript commands. And, as if writing and recording scripts weren't enough, Wingz lets you enter Hyper- Script commands directly for immedi- ate execution.
With Wings you can easily create eye- catching three-dimensional graphics.
As might be expected with the first version of a major new applica- tion, Wingz does have some prob- lems. When you change a cell to a larger font, you have to manually ad- just the cell's row height. While you can load the data and formulas from most 1-2-3 spreadsheets (WKS and WKI, but not WK3, WRI, or WGI), you have to leave your macros be- hind. The Learn command translates all cell and mouse movements into absolute addresses — with no option for relative references. And 1 was able to repeatedly crash the program by creating a simple 3-D chart and select- ing Contour from the Gallery menu.
Wingz doesn't offer full compati- bility with the industry standard Lo- tus 1-2-3. and it isn't a mature Win- dows spreadsheet program, as is Microsoft Excel. But if you dream of creating eye-popping charts or if you love programing, you'll fail head over
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BALANCE OF THE PLANET
As a game, Chris Crawford's Bal- ance of the Planet is no great shakes. As a challenging intellec- tual puzzle, it's quite effective. As an intriguing educational experience, it's unmatched. If managing and un- derstanding the delicate balance of the ecological and economic forces that hold our beloved mother earth togeth- er appeals to you, you're in for hours of fascination,
.As the United Nations High Commissioner of the Environment, your job is to set global policies. You control ten taxes and 1 2 ways to use government funds. Change the poli- cies to match your theories, tell the computer to advance five years to evaluate the consequences of your policies, and display the results. You
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get nine five-year cycles lo save the world.
Sounds simple, but lurking be- neath that simple surface is a massive set of awesomely complex interrela- tionships. Take, for example, the wood stove subsidy. You can subsi- dize poor people's wood stove pur- chases, thereby increasing the number of wood stoves, .''is you scan through the screens of this game, jumping
from related topic to cause to effect, you find that increased use of wood Steves in third- world countries de- creases the use of wood as fuel. Why? Most fuel wood is now used in open fires, which burn far more wood than stoves. Shifting to the more fuel-elFi- cient wood stoves leaves more forests standing, which helps retard desertifi- cation and forest clearing. Forest clearing affects the amount of carbon
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The fate of the world rests in your hands with Accolade's Balance of the Planet.
Perhaps because it started on a Macintosh, the game is primarily black-and-white with only CGA-qual- ity graphics, even on a VGA monitor. Color serves only as a background for selected screens. No effort has been made to exploit modern computer graphics.
Don't come to Balance of the Plane! for an escapist adventirre. Come to it for thoughtful consider- ation of the ultimate puzzle you share with world leaders. .And be ^ad that when your people stan'e and die of skin cancer as a result of your deci- sions, it's not permanent. Just start over, try a different mix of policies, and hope to keep more of us alive for a little longer.
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AMIGA
THE GAME OF HARMONY
With a name like Harmony, you'd expect this game to be soothing and relaxing, freeing you from the nerve-racking tension and violence of other games. Think again. The challenge is any- thing but relaxing, and that's what makes it so much fun.
To harmonize the different col- ored spheres on the screen, you must bump spheres of like color together using a cue ball-like cursor. When the spheres touch, they let out a little mu- sical sigh and disappear happily in harmony. But if spheres of different colors touch, they create a new, small- er sphere of a third color, which can be gobbled up for extra energy. If this smaller sphere is left alone, it will grow into a full-sized sphere also cry- ing to be harmonized. To add to the challenge, the game places walls of various shapes in the way.
It sounds easy, but it's a real challenge
to keep your cool as you manipulate
the spheres in Harmony.
U sounds simple enough, and in Mantra mode it is. There's no time limit, and new spheres aren't created when spheres of different color col- Ude. You just take your time, and eventually you'll find that things work out.
In Normal mode, the challenge increases — and so does the excite- ment. Here, you're rewarded for calm and deliberate movement. Now the spheres pulsate faster and faster until they just can't stand the discordance any more and explode, costing you a lot of energy. Run out of energy, and
you lose a life. Lose all your lives, and the game is over.
Harmony can be as frustrating and tension producing as any other game, especially in Normal mode with spheres pulsating and exploding around you. It can also be very addicting.
It's one of the easiest games to learn that I've seen in quite some time. You can literally master the con- cepts and gameplay in one or two minutes.
Harmony cries out to be played on a VGA system. With EGA graph- ics, the game looks good and plays well. On a VG.A system, Harmony's graphics are strikingly appealing. Background colors change and merge, and the spheres take on convincing depth. .\ Roland, CMS, or Ad Lib sound card adds considerably to your enjoyment.
To start the game, you must go through a copy-protection scheme that, unfortunately, uses annoyingly hard-to-read red paper. But at least you can make a backup copy of the disk and load it easily onto your hard drive.
With 50 different screens to har- monize, this is not a game you'll blast through in an afternoon. The real challenge is not only in harmonizing the screen but in doing it in a quick and graceful manner without a whole lot of bumping around. After a few game sessions, you should be able to begin to see patterns in the spheres, and elegant solutions will become more apparent. This is when the real fun begins.
RICHARD SHEFFIELD
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igraph has teamed the Omron hand-held scanner with its Touch-Up software to create an excellent low-cost scanning solution for .A.miga users. The scanner can be conveniently operated with either hand, although its activating push button is located on the left side. In fact, based on the size and shape of the scanner, operating it is like han- dling a large mouse, except that the tail is at the wrong end. The scanner can be positioned prior to the scan, and the object can be viewed during the scan by peering through a green- tinted window at the front of the scan- ner while the scanner light is on. The scanner light is controlled by Mi- graph's Touch- Up software. The light stays on during the scan and shuts off automatically after the scan buffer has been filled or within ten seconds after the scan button has been released.
Inside Migraph's Scanner: The scanning window and light source are at the bot- tom, and imaging optics are at the top.
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gravings, and, of course, line an. The three photo settings are used when scan- ning photographs and continuous-tone graphics that you wish to represent with some tonal gra- dation. The scanner uses a 6 X 6 dot dither pattern to sim- ulate 31 gray levels. As a result, the effec- tive resolution in the
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The 7oifch-t/p software included with the Migraph Hand Scanner uses dithering to simulate gray scales in scanned Images.
Photo mode is about 66 lines per inch. A rotary control lets you set the threshold for the Line-Art mode and the middle gray for the Photo mode.
The active width of the scan head is 4.08 inches, which generates an image with a maximum width of 1632 dots. The length of the scan can be 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, or 14 inches. You connect the scanner to the Amiga's parallel port with a custom interface. The scanner and interface are powered from a power supply that plugs into the interface.
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194 Pro-Tronic A-25
168 Psygnosis 89
117 Public Domain G-19
104 Radio Sfiack 30, 31
221 Ramco lOQ
170 Rent-A-Disk A-29
152 Rio Computers G-10, G-1 1
209 Saxman Systems A-25
116 Sexxy Software 100
227 Sierra-on Line P-13
228 Sierra-on-Line BC
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The Touch-Up software does far more than control the scanner and store the digitized image data. Touch- Up is also a full-featured bitmapped paint program. The size of the bit- maps Touch-Up can handle is limited only by the available memory. Page sizes can be specified in pixels, inches, or centimeters. As a bitmapped draw- ing program, Touch- Up is limited to black-and-white images or images with a single bit plane. This makes sense because the scanner can only generate single bit-plane image data. Nevertheless, Tbuc/i-f.'p can import any color or monochrome IFF image. Color images are converted as they're loaded in. The conversion can be to black-and-white, or it can utilize a va- riety of dithering modes and patterns to simulate the original colors as a gray scale.
Scanned images tend to be larger than the Amiga's display screen. As a resuh, Touch-Up will look best on a hi-res interlaced screen. Since Touch- Up runs on the Workbench screen, you'll have to set Interlace mode from Preferences. An option to have Touch-Up run from its own screen would've been more convenient. The Workbench screen will let Touch-Up run on a megapixel display device, such as a Viking or 2024 monitor,
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WHERE IN TIME IS CARMEN SANRIEGO?
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The other games in the series look players around the world, teach- ing them about different lands and cit- ies. The first game included the entire world in its domain. The second and third games concentrated on the Unit- ed States and Europe, respectively. .Al- though more specialized than the first game, these two were just as enjoy- able, and they expanded the audience of users. These three games were based on geographical knowledge. Where in Time asks questions about history.
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a valuable book you use lo investigate clues. The first three titles in the series included the World Almanac and American and European travel guides. You'll find The Nen' American Desk Encyclopedia in Where in Time.
Follow Carmen through geography and time in her latest caper.
Every time I received a new Car- men Sandiego game, I sat and played it for hours. Afterward, it felt as if my brain were about to explode with facts, but I found out later that I had actually retained a lot of the infor- mation. Ultimately, that's the goal of the Carmen Sandiego games — to teach youngsters and oldsters alike about geography and history while they're having fun solving a crime in a fast-paced game.
Where in Time is my favorite in the series because of the vast base of knowledge from which it draws. I stumbled upon some facts that I had learned in school, but a lot of the information I had never studied. This time around. Carmen and her gang have stolen a time-travel device called a Chronoskimmer. This allows them to go anywhere in the world anytime, from the year A.D. 400 to the 1950s. You have a Chronoskimmer of your own for tracking down criminals, but the amount of time that you can use it is limited by the Federal Time Travel Commission. In most cases, you have just enough time to identify the crimi- nals from clues, issue a warrant for their arrest, and catch them.
In order to successfully catch a crook, you have to uncover enough information lo single out him or her from Carmen's gang of thieves. Some members share physical characteris- tics, so you usually have to gather three or four clues that uniquely match the thief If you issue a warrant for the wrong person, you have to be-
gin a new case. The characteristics are gender (given to you by the Chief at the Stan), hair color, eye color, favor- ite author, and favorite artist. Once you have a match, a warrant will auto- matically be issued.
You gain additional clues about the thief if you're on the right trail. If a memt)er of the V.I.L.E. criminal orga- nization pops up when you try for a clue in a location, you'll know you're headed in the right direction. In some locations, if you choose to talk to an informant or witness, you'll be pro- vided with other characteristics. Soon enough, you'll know the criminal, but you'll still have to corner him or her.
As you can imagine, Where in Time can easily have you going in the wrong direction. Don't let that ency- clopedia out of your hands if you want to be successful. The game's in- terface is designed for children and is very easy to use. The left side of the screen contains a picture of the cur- rent location, reflecting its time peri- od. On the right are buttons to push below a communication window. These are for time travel, clues, data, and aborting the game.
The graphics in Where in Time are simple, but well drawn. The thief and V.I.L.E criminals are animated, as is the ACME building elevator that lets you visit the lab and lounge areas. I can't say enough about Where in Time. That's why I selected it as one of my Reviewer's Choices for the 64.
Where in Time Is Carmen San- diego? is fun. It challenges you with many cases to solve and facts to dis- cover. 1 recovered such stolen items as Salvador Dali's moustache and the first Santa Claus, and I laughed at oth- er creative heists. Where in Time has a practical purpose as well. With all the facts I've learned, I'd like to get on "Jeopardy!" some day. Happy sleuthing!
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And pic ture this if yoii wilt— ^' Joan of Arc's nose on Napoleon's mouth. What a combination!
Rack up the score by making perfect or mixed laces, but rememl>er there are no points for "double chins" in this game! For an unparalleled, fun time,
playTtteES in the head -to- head mode. When you create a perfect face, your opponent gets a stack of face pieces -.v^vO;-."-.- dumped onto his screen. It's ' funny, it's obsessive, and vcju'II keep coming back for more of this soon-to-be-unforgelUible FACES from the Soviet Union!
Available for ISM In C6A, EGA, VGA/MCGA, Herctiles and Tandy. Coming soon for Macintosh/Macintosh II and Amiga.
Discover the shape of things to came in the worfd of science.
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Hx^xnience the trutgical world of King's Quest V, and discover why more peopUi have played King 's Quest than any- other computer game series in r. ■.' history. ' . ■ . ■ ,. i .
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