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91  COMPIflE  CHOICE  A 


INTRODUCING 

ALL  THE 
WRITE  STUFF 

FOR  SMALL  BUSINESS  TYPES 


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NX-2420 
RAINBOW 


NX- 1020 
RAINBOW 


NX- 1001 
MULTI-FONT 


NX-2420 
MULTTFONT 


For  a  while  there,  it  was  beginning  to  look  like  there  would  never  be  a  dot  matrix 
printer  versatile  enough  to  be  a  real  jack-of-all-trades.  But  no  more.  Now,  for  the  first 
time  ever,  there's  a  new  series  of  printers  designed  to  bring  you  big-business 
performance  at  a  small-business  price. 

Star's  new  NX  Series  printers  have  all  the  write  stuff  you  need  to  get  the  job  done 
and  then  some.  Let's  start  with  multiple  fonts.  Each  of  the  four  NX  Series  printers 
comes  equipped  with  an  incredible  variety  of  fonts,  sizes  and  enhancements, 

DESKTOP  NEWS     '^^^^^'  when  combined,  put  thousands  of  printstyles 

at  your  fingertips.  And  all  offer 
high  resolution  graphics  for  more 
professional-looking  presentations. 

Advanced  paper  handling  features 
(which  are  optional  on  most  printers) 


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continuous-feed  paper.  User-Jriendly  control  panel 

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converter  makes  them  simple  to  use  with  most  personal 
computers.  All  are  capable  of  high-speed,  bi-directional 
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THE  COMPUTER  PRINTER 


Clrelfl  Reader  ServJco  Number  1 15 


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. 


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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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Stunts:  So  tap  ahead, 
it's  not  even 
a  race. 


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 

But  it's  so  far  ahead,  it's  not  even 
a  race. 


See  your  dealer  oi  call  Braderbu  nd 
at  (800)  521-6263  to  order.        r- 

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connpuTE 


PC  View  PC-1 

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 
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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. 

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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 
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ROBERT  BIXBY 


8      COMPUTE 


JANUARY       1991 


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Loco  for  Logo 

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- 


be we  can  go  into  it  more  fully  in  a 
future  issue. 

Compliments 

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. 

HAROLDCHALL 
HLINTSVILLE.  ALA 

And  More  Compliments 

Finally,  there  is  a  magazine  that  cov- 
ers both  of  the  computers  that  I  use 
daily  as  a  journalist  and  hobbyist — 
the  Amiga  and  the  IBM.  Although 
there  are  a  few  roifgh  edges  (the 
Amiga  section  in  my  .Amiga  edition  is 
noticeably  short  on  graphics  and/or 
pictures,  for  example),  it  looks  like 
COMPUTE  is  well  on  its  way  to  be- 
coming the  "complete  home  com- 
puter resource,"  as  your  cover  states. 

JOEVIDUEIRA 

WRITER/EDITOR  l7.S7:i  MAGAZINE 

COCONUT  GROVE.  FL 


Correction 

The  Software  Toolworks  address 
and  telephone  number  (listed  on 
page  84  of  our  November  issue) 
have  changed.  The  new  address  is 
60  Lei'eroni  Court,  Novato,  Califor- 
nia 94949.  The  act-  telephone 
number  is  (415)  883-3000. 

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COMPUTE 


JANUARY       1991 


THREE  OF  THE  MOST  LAVISHLY  ILLUSTRATED 
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a  Cartlen  A  Century  of  Cartler  Wrlstwatchss 

by  George  Gordon.  12W  x  9i/4in./3l0  X 
234mm.  552  pages,  450  colour  illustrations,  in 
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962  7359  02  5.  Louis  Cartler  created  the  first 
man's  wristwatdi  in  1904  and  this  book  illustrates 
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D  Twentieth  Century  Wristwatches 
by  George  Gordon,  IVA  x  9Win./310  x 
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INTERNATIONAL 
COLLECTORS  OF 


A  magazine  comes  complimentary  with  your  membership.  Published  in 
English,  bi-monthly,  it  will  contain  reviews  on  what's  happening  in  the 
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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' 
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Membership  fees  are  USS75,00  per  year,  (If  you  require  your  magazine  sent 
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A  new  international  club  for  collectors  and  dealers  of  wristwatches  is  being 
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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) 
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New  York  in  December,  1990.  .More  details  will  be  provided  later,  but  the 
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and  dealers  from  around  the  world. 

We  want  to  organize  meetings  in  Italy,  Japan,  France  and  Oermany.  If  you 
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scheduled,  please  contact  one  of  the  clubs. 


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COMPUTE 


JANUARY       1991 


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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. 


GAUIT 

LIKE  YOU  SEE  IT 

DIALTHE  1991  COMPUTE 
READERS'  CHOICE  LINE  AND 
MAKE  YOUR  VOICE  HEARD! 

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Choose  one  winner  in  each  of  the  four 
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HOME  OFFICE 

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D  Ami  Professional  ^. 2b 
D  DeluxePaInt  Animation 
n  Express  Publisher 
D  Pacloll2000 

ENTERTAINMENT 

D  Crime  Wave 

D  Their  Finest  Hour 

n  Harpoon 

n  Mean  Streets 

n  PGA  Tour  Gotf 

DISCOVERY 

n  the  Manhole 

D  Super  Solvers  Midnight  Rescue 

D  Time  Machine  Earth 

D  Compton's  Multimedia 

Encyclopedia 
D  DeluxePaInt  Animation 

TECHNOLOGY 

n   Windows  3.0 

D  Switch-It 

D  The  Complete  Communtcator 

D   IBM  PS/1 

n  Microsoft  BASIC  7 A 

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JANUARY       1991 


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p^  With  sound  so  real  and  speed  so 
^^listering.  Stunt  Driver ''  mal<es 
l^^ther  race  car  challenges  seem  like 
driving  with  a  learner's  permit. 

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. 

Down  shiH  and  hit  the 

gas!  You'll  need  plenty 

of  speed  to  clear  that 

open  drawbridge! 


THE  OTHERS 
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You  can  almost  feel 

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G-forces  from  the  loop. 


The  recorder  mode 

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Screens  shown  are  IBM  EGA- 
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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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JANUARY        1991 


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We  create  worlds. 


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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 


20       COMPUTE 


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 
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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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COMPUTE 


JANUARY       1991 


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 
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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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by  Mike  Harrison 
Foreword  by  Jack  Nicklaus 
Si  2.95 


224  pages 


Ttie  Official  F-15 
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by  Richard  Sheffield 
Foreword  by  Sid  Meier 
S12,95 


224  pages 


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games,  including  Jack  Nicklaus'  Uuliniited 
Golf  &  Course  Dtsigii.  This  is  the  only  au- 
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computer  simulations  frorn  Accolade. 

The  Official  Book 

of  Ultima 

by  Shay  Addams 

Introduction  by  Lord  British 

$14.95  244  pages 

Written  with  the  assistance  of  Lord  British, 
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built  into  the  program,  but  you  can 
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The  program  is  packed  with  use- 
ful features,  such  as  a  spelling 
checker,  thesaurus,  and  print  spooler, 
and  gives  me  quick  access  to  the  vari- 
ous type  styles  and  graphics  supported 
by  my  printer.  While  WordPerfect  is 
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for  everyone.  The  program  doesn't 
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that  will  please  the  casual  writer. 


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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 


use  on  laptops  or  older  PCs  with  lim- 
ited memory  and  disk  storage.  While 
the  program  will  work  with  a  text-only 
display  card,  you'll  need  CGA,  EGA, 
VGA,  or  Hercules  graphics  to  use  the 
page-preview  feature.  In  addition, 
LetterPerfect  will  run  on  a  network.  I 
tested  it  using  a  640  K  turbo  XT  sys- 
tem with  EGA  graphics,  an  Epson  24- 
pin  printer,  and  a  hard  drive. 

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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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. 

i    Logology 

g    The  company  logo  is  one  of  our  cul- 

S    lure's  most  ubiquitous  art  forms.  Peo- 


CREATE  YOUR  OWN 
COMPANY  LOGO, 
LETTERHEAD,  OR 
BUSINESS  FORM 


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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logo  prominently,  as  will  your  busi- 
ness forms.  When  you  sponsor  soft- 
ball  teams,  their  uniforms  will  sport 
your  logo. 

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 


Figure  1:  Available  Typefaces  in  DrawPerfect 

Base  Font 

UP  Bodoni  Bold 
UP  Brodduay 

UP  Broaduay  Enjravcd  (Uppercase  only) 
■  UP  BrushScript 

UP  Century  Schoolbook 

UP  Chelnsford  Book 

UP  Connercial  Script 

UP  Cooper  Black  Bold 

UP  Courier 

UP  Courier  Bold 

UP  Courier  Italic 

UP  Courier  Italic  Bold 

UP  Courier  Sinplex 

UP  Eurostile 


UP  Helu  Bold 

UP  Helu  Italic 

UP  Helu  Italic  Bold 

UP  Helu  Simplex 

UP  Helu  Sinplex  llonaspaced 

UP  Hobo 

1  Select;  M  Mane  search:   t 


Figure  2:  Choosing  an  Appropriate  Typeface 


[Edit]  (Draul  inttributesl  IDptiousl  Fonts  lUiou)  IHclii] 


Baker  and  Rogers 

Bater  and  Rofers 
Baker  and  Rogers 


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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- 


Figure  4:  Completed  Text- 
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ma,  like  DrawPerfect,  is  designed  to 
create  presentation  graphics,  which 
means  it  has  a  built-in  facility  to  dis- 
play computer  screens  as  if  they  were 
slides.  Both  products  can  create  files 
that  can  be  turned  into  real  slides  for 
use  with  a  projector.  And  both  can 
create  a  number  of  different  graph 
types  based  on  values  provided  • 
through  links  with  a  spreadsheet  pro- 
gram or  entered  through  a  spread- 
sheet-like interface. 

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 


Figure  6:  Completed 
Name-with-GraphIc  Logo 


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I  recently  attended  a  confer- 
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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 
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communications  situations,"  she  said, 
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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. 

By  following  these  steps,  you'll  be 
able  to  get  your  message  across  clearly 
and  attract  new  clients.  .And  that's  the 
first  step  toward  a  successflil  business.  0 


42 


COMPUTE  JANUARY       1991 


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It's  all  part  of  the  most  sophisticated 
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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 


Or  as  low  as  'lOS**  per  month' 


Standard  SlimLine  Upgrades 

(Add  to  the  base 

system  price) 

1     12- Gold  Star 
Hard        VGA  Gray  Scale 
Drives            640  x  4S0       i 

Gold  Star 
14"  VGA  Color 

640x41(1 

$300.00 

Panasonic 

14"  VGA  Color 
1024x768 
$  400.00 
5  600.00 
$  700J» 

'         NEC  3D 
14"  VGA  Color 

1024  X  768 

40Mb  IDE      1         S    0.00 

i         $  6S0.00        ■, 

'         $  850.00    

$  9S0.00" 

80Mb  IDE               5200.00 

$500,00 
$600.00 
$900.00 

lOOMblDE     ■         $300.00 
200Mb  IDE             S6O0.O0 

$1000.00 

SI  150.00 

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"Northgate  stops 

at  nothing  to  please 

its  customers!"  pc 

Magazine  Sept.  25,  1990 

•  NEW  60-Day  No-Risk 
Trial  — if  you  aren't  100% 
satisfied,  return  iti 

•   Free  on-site  service  to 

most  locations  for  one 
vear  if  ^^e  can't  solve  vour 

•  Free  delivery  to  your 
office  or  home. 

•  I'^ull  one  year  warranty  on 
systems,  5  years  on 
OmniKey  keyboards 

•  Northgate  responds  to 
your  needs  with  overnight 
shipment  of  parts— at  our 

needs  over  the  phone. 

•  Unique  24-hoijr  toll-free 
technical  support— the 
industry's  best! 

•  For  your  convenience,  we 
accept  "VIS.^,  MasterCard 
and  Northgate's  Big  'N" 
card.  We  offer  leasing  and 

expense! 

financing  options,  too! 

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Northgate  Elegance.. 


Hie  industry's  highest  rated 
386  and  486  systems! 


When  we  say  Northgate  manufactures  the  highest-performing, 

best-supported  computer  systems  in  the  world  ...  it's  a  fact. 
Industry  experts  and  customers  worldwide  agree! 

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... 


"...Northgate  stops  at  nothing  to  please 


Its  customers.     PCMa^^mc  Scptembsr  15, 1990 


♦ 
♦ 


Free  deliverj'  to  your  office  or  home, 

NEW  60-Day  N^Risk  Trial!  To  serve  you  better, 

Northgate  has  doubled  its  No-Risk  Trial  period  to  60  days. 

Full  parts  and  labor  warranties;  1  year  on  systems; 

5  years  on  OmniKey*  keyboards. 

Overnight  shipment  of  replacement  parts— 

at  our  e.xpense. 

Northgate's  unique  24-hour  toll-free  technical  support 

leads  the  industry— most  needs  are  met  with  just  one  call! 

Free  on-site  service  to  most  locations  if  we  can't  solve 
your  technical  needs  over  the  phone. 

♦  Northgate  makes  state-of-the-art  povver  affordable! 
Charge  your  purchase  to  your  Big  'N"  card,  VISA  or 
MasterCard.  Ask  about  financing  and  leasing  options,  too! 

♦  Call  Northgate  before  you  decide  to  buy  elsewhere.  Youll  be 
amazed  at  our  new  hw  pricing! 


♦ 
♦ 


"What  WordPerfect  is  to  software  support, 
Northgate  is  to  hardware,  and  there  are  even  a 
few  things  WordPerfect  could  learn  from  the 
folks  in  Minneapolis." 


Bemie  Zilbergeld 

Bav  Area  Compucer  Currents 
August  14.  1990 


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 


S2499C 


Or  as  low  as  ^85"  per  month' 


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« 

Or  as  low  as  M05"  per  month' 


33  MHz  53299^0 

Or  as  low  as  M 15''*'  per  month' 


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 

♦  40Mb  hard  drive 

♦  64K  SR.^M  read/M-rite-back  cache 


floppy  drives 

♦  16-bit  VG,^  \  ideo  adaptci 

♦  14  "\'C;.A  gray  scale  monitor 

♦  (hiiiiKcv  kevboard 

♦  Novell  Certified  (486/25) 


25  MHz 


S5I99OO 


33  MHz 


S5799OO 


Z3  MHz    %J17  7  a  IVIHZ    01  y/ 

Or  as  low  as  M80™  per  month'       'Or  as  low  as  ^ZOO"  per  month 

Standard  Upgrades  (Add  to  the  base  svscem  price) 


M'  NEC              Gold  Star             Panasonic               NEC  ID 

Hard       VGA  Gray  Scale    M"  VGA  Color     14"  VGA  Color       14"  VGA  Color 
Drives            800x600       1       i40x480              1024  x76B              1024x768 

40Mb  IDE     1        J    0.00                 »00.00                1400.00        I         $  650.00  '    J 

80Mb  IDE               J200.00                  5500,00                 $  600.00                  $  850.00        ] 

lOOMblDE            $300.00 

$600.00                 $  7D0.OO        1         $  9SO.0O       I 

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the  illusion  of  motion.  Everybody  has 
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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. 


JANUARY       1991 


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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#  DISCOVERY 


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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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 

destiny  of  whole  worlds. 


Umm 


By  Erin  Murphy 

The  latest  and  greatest  peripherals  and  devices  to  help  you  get  more  out 

of  your  games. 


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- 
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over  the  past  three  years  as 


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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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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. 
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spite  of  the  economy  business  is  strong.  People  would  rather  do  with- 
out other  things  before  giving  up  their  hobby" 


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THE  BRAVE  NEW  .WORLD  OF  ELECTRONIC  GAMES 


13. 


'uck  is  not 
the  only  one  concerned  about  the  future:  TSR  has  other  worlds  in  mind. 

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 

ARE  MORE  FUN  THAN  EVER 


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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Challenge 
of  the  Ancient 
Empires! 
(left) and  Math 
Blaster 
Mystery  [bB- 
low)  let 

kids  play  while 
they  iearn. 


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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COMPUTE       73 


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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Meier  notes  that  the  next  gen- 
eration of  video  game  systems 
may  well  be  a  growing  source 
of  adult  entertainment  in  the  fu- 
ture. And  older  gamers  seem 
poised  and  ready  to  confirm 
Meier's  theory, 

"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 


BAT.  (above) 
provides 

danger  and 

adventure 

in  time,  white 

Moonbase 
(ri gilt)  takes  3 

iiard  iook  at 
exploiting  the 

tiarsti  lunar 
environment. 


trade.  Elite,  from  Firebird,  cre- 
ated a  vast  starscape,  popu- 
lated it  with  warriors  and  pi- 
rates, and  sent  players  forth  to 
live  or  die  electronically. 

Some  companies  have 
even  specialized  in  SF  soft- 
ware. Texas-based  Interstel 
built  an  entire  gaming  universe 
around  its  Starfleet  sehes. 
Fans  of  hard-core  space 
combat  flock  to  Omnitrend's 
products,  notably  the  Breacli 
line,  In  Breacti  you  assume  the 
role  of  a  leader  in  an  elite  mili- 
tary outfit:  Dropped  into  danger- 
ous situations,  it's  up  to  you  to 
command  your  troops,  accom- 
plish predefined  missions,  and 
keep  yourself  alive  so  that  you 
can  fight  again. 

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 


THESE  PIRATES  HAVE 

TONGUES  AS  SHARP 

AS  THEIR  SVyORDS. 


Lucasfilm™  Games'  swashbuckling  new 
graphic  adventure  lets  you  trade  insults  with 
some  of  the  saltiest  seamen  to  ever  sail  the 
seven  seas. 

In  The  Secret  of  Monkey  Island,"'  you'll 
sling  one-liners  with  a  fast-talking  used  ship 
salesman,  a  sarcastic  swordraaster,  a  wisecrack- 
ing corpse,  and  a  prisoner  whose  breath  would 
stop  a  horse.  You'll  also  hunt  for  buried  treasure, 
chase  after  a  beautiful  woman, 
and-perhaps-unravel  one  of 
the  twistiest  plots  in  tiie  history 
of  adventure  gaming. 
You're  short,  broke,  clueless 
and  friendless. 

And  you've  just  arrived  on 
Melee  Island  seeking  fame  and  fortune.  Explain- 
ing to  anyone  who'll  listen  that  you  want  to  be 
a  pirate. 

Being  the  easy-going  types  they  are,  your 
new  pirate  pals  invite  you  into  the  club.  Just  as 


soon  as  you've  completed  three  tiny  trials. 

Among  other  things,  you'll  need  to  sedate 
some  piranha  poodles,  burglarize  the  governor's 
mansion,  and  do  business  with  the  scum  of  the 
earth.  And  if  that's  not  enough,  you'll  have  to 
figure  out  whether  the  300-pound  voodoo 
priestess  covets  your  rubber  chicken,  fetid  fish, 
pack  ofbreath  mints,  or... 

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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A  DIVISION  OF  lUOSAinS  EKItKTWNMtNI  OOMP A.VY 


THE  BRAVE  NEW  WORLD  OF  ELECTRONIC  GAMES 


Crashing 

suns  and 

exploding 

spacecraft  are 

all  in  a 

day's  work 

m  Star  Control. 


liam  Gibson  and  George  Alec 
Effinger  have  seen  their  works 
become  interactive  computer 
games.  Interplay  transformed 
Gibson's  Neuromancer  \r\\o  an 
interactive  environment  that 
captured  many  of  the  novel's 
cyberpunk  details.  Effinger  him- 
self worked  with  Infocom  (a  di- 


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. 

As  interactive  electronic  me- 
dia become  more  widespread, 
and  their  capabilities  more 
supple,  we  may  see  whole 


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ALLIANCE  or 
FREE  STARS 


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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You  NEED  A 
SET  OF  THESE 


To  PLAY 
ONE  OF  THESE 


moGEo 


These  spheres  represent  the  elements  that  contain 
mystic  powers  you  must  achieve...  to  stay  alive  in 
NEO'GEO's  exciting  new  adventure,  MAGICIAN 
LORD.  As  ELTA,  you'll  fight  off  brutal  attacks  by 
fiendish  enemies  as  you  travel  through  a  terror-filled 
fantasy  world.  You'll  need  all  the  power  you  can  gel! 

MAGICIAN  LORD  is  just  one  of  many  challenging 
NEO'GEO  action,  sports  &  role  playing  fantasy 
games.  All  feature  today's  most 
advanced  4-dimensional  graphics, 
with  vivid  detail  and  effects,  65,()()() 
colors  and  an  amazing  15-channel 
real  voice  stereo  sound  track.  All 
pumped  out  by  330  meg  hardware! 

So  NEO'GEO  can  deliver  in-your- 
face  realism  that  Nintendo,  Sega,  and 
NEC  simply  don't  have  the  capacity 
to  match. 


NEO'GEO  also  has  great  Network  capability,  a 
unique  Memory  Card  that  lets  you  save  your  game  at 
any  stage,  and  coming  soon,  software  applications  for 
modem  play,  home  shopping,  banking  and  more. 


NEO-GEO  is  clearly  the  system  of  choice  for  vid 
freaks  of  all  ages.  The  question  is,  do  you  have  what 
it  takes? 


A  Quantum  Leap  Forward  In  Video 
Entertainment. 


Authorized  SNK  Dealers: 

•  Video  Express  Inc. 
Neo-Geo  Hotline 


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THE  BRAVE  NEW  WORLD  OF  ELECTRONIC  GAMES 


Piraies!{lop) 
sends  you 
forth  to  con- 
quer the 
Caribbean, 
while  Tfie 
Secret  of  Mon- 
key Island 
(bottom) 
offers  more 
humorous 
explorations. 


INTERACTIVE  ELECTRONIC  VOYAGES  OF  DISCOVERY 
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The  impulse  to  explore  is  as 
old  as  the  human  race.  It's  an 
impulse  that's  been  eagerly 
adopted  by  developers  of  en- 
tertainment software. 

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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TAKEOVER 
THEWORLDi 


you  gef  seven  worid  scenarios  plus 

unlimited  random  planets.  So  you'll  never 

be  strictly  eanUbound 


Mess  with  fhe  worfd  and  if  becomes  an 

unhappy  p/ace  to  live.  When  you  re  smiling, 

though,  the  whoie  world  smiles  with  you. 


SimEarth  plays  all  your  favorite  cataclysmic  hits. 

Including  volcanos.  meteor  strikes,  earthquakes, 

and  contirtental  drill. 


Find  out  what  precisely  makes  your  world 
tick.  And  what'll  make  it  stop  licking. 


Use  your  animal  instincts  and  your  planet 

will  thrive,  producing  a  rich  abundance 

olhfe. 


Make  the  wrong  decision  and  you 

could  wipe  out  life  as  you  know  it.  Hey. 

nobody  said  the  job  was  going  to  be  easy. 


The  only  way  to  follow  an  act  like  SimCity-1990's 
runaway  Number  One  game-is  to  think  globally 
The  result  is  SimEarth!" 
Instead  of  a  city  to  run,  SimEarth  gives  you  the  reins 
to  the  entire  planet.  Evolution,  continental  drift,  climate, 
atmosphere,  hurricanes,  nuclear  fallout,  acid  rain, 
civilization,  and  a  bunch  of  other  disasters.  All  the  cool 
stuff  you  need  to  rule  the  world. 

Play  SimEarth  to  the  end  of  time.  About  10  billion  years 
or  so,  give  or  take  a  milienium.  Getting  raves  everywhere, 
SimEarth  is  indeed  destined  to  take  over  the  world. 


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your  task  the 
establish- 
ment of  a 
successful 
railroad. 
SimEarth 
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gives  you 
whole  worlds 
to  play  with, 
entire 
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screen  long  enougti  and  it  be- 
comes a  world  in  itself.  A  grow- 
ing number  of  game  designers 
are  taking  advantage  of  that  to 
create  games  in  wfiich  players 
build  self-contained  worlds. 

"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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JANUARY       1991 


Three  New  I^tasies  From  WicroProse. 
Only  One  Of  Them  Is  Make-Believe. 


For  the  latest  Information  on  release 
dates  and  availabilities,  call 
MicroProse  Customer  Service  at 
301  771.1151,  ©1990  MicroProse 
Software,  Inc.,  180  Lakefront  Drive, 
Hunt  Valley,  MD  21030. 


Make-believe  is  best  wfien  it's 
believable.  That's  wfiy  Darklands  is 
so  exciting.  It's  a  fantasy  role-playing 
quest  tfirough  medieval  Germany 
re-created  just  the  way  medieval 
Germans  actually  believed  it  to  be. 
The  troubled  realm  cries  out  for  a 
true  hero  to  deliver  it  from  its 
demons,  alchemists,  superstitions, 
unholy  religions  and  a  whole  host  of 
other  fantastically  believable 
challenges. 


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Cost:  $649.  Contact: 
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and  destroy  It  with  a 
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CONTINUED  FROM  PAGE  62 

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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JANUARY       1991 


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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 
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Austin  Cooler 

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. 

If  you  have  any  other  technical 
questions,  Austin  has  a  very  respon- 
sive technical  support  staff  available 
at  (800)  752-4171. 

Release  Me! 

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. 


Virtual  Drives 

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? 


EDWA.RD  DANSltER 
BLDO.MnELD.CT 


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. 

The  first  parameter,  DEVICE 
=  \  path  \ RAMDRIVE.SYS,  tells 
your  PC  where  to  find  the  device 
driver.  It  assumes  you  have  created 
a  subdirectory  called  SYS  and  cop- 
ied RAMDRIVE.SYS  to  it. 

The  second  parameter,  size, 
tells  your  computer  how  much 
memory  to  reserve  for  the  ramdisk 
Sectoreize  tells  the  PC  how  many 
bytes  to  reserve  for  each  sector.  This 
can  be  either  128,  256,  or  512.  The 
final  parameter,  entries,  specifies 
the  number  of  directory  entries  the 
ramdisk  can  hold. 

If  you  have  extended  memory, 
appending  the  /E  switch  tells  the  PC 
to  use  extended  memory  for  the 
ramdisk.  Thus,  the  entry  DEVICE 
=  C.-  \SYS  \RAMDRIVE.SYS 
128  256  64  /E  tells  the  system  to 
create  a  128K  ramdisk  in  extended 


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. 

Once  the  ramdisk  is  created,  it 
can  be  used  like  any  other  type  of 
drive  You  can't  DISKCOPY a  ram- 
disk, but  you  can  copy  individual 
files  to  or  from  it.  This  can  be  very 
useful  for  computers  without  a  hard 
drive.  If  you  own  a  PC  with  only 
floppy  drives  and  you  want  to  use  a 
ramdisk,  add  the  following  lines  to 
your  AUTOEXEC.  BAT  file. 

COPY  A:  \C0MM4M).C0M  d: 

SET  COMSPEC=rf:  \COMMAND.COM 

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? 

ROBERT  REINAUER 
BAINBRIDGE  ISLAND.  WA 

/  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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They  lend  to  stock  what  is  most 
popular  without  giving  much 
thought  to  hardware  market  share. 

In  a  few  years  the  situation 
may  be  reversed  Make  your  dealer 
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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 

#1 

A=L0F(1) 

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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[//  /  god,  his  multiple  hands  in  several 
f  w     different  attitudes,  holding  sym- 
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neously dances  and  meditates.  Humans 
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time,  despite  the  fact  that  we  have  only 
two  hands.  We  can  switch  between  tasks 
fairly  rapidly. 

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DOS  is  designed  to  take  on  a  single  task, 
complete  it,  and  move  to  its  next 
assignment. 

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Multitasking  Environments 

Two  popular  programs,  DESQview 
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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> 


JANUARY       1991 


COMPUTE       PC-11 


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 
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Moving  into  IVIultitasking 

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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HOW  THEY  COMMRE 

Here's  an  item-by-item  comparison  of  Windows  and  DESQview  features  and  requirements. 


DESQview 


Windows 


Cost 


Minimum 

System 

Requirements 


User 

Interface 


Bundled 
Applications 


Mouse  Support 

Runs  Standard 
DOS  Programs 

Runs  Graphics 
Programs 

Adjustable 
Windows 


$129  (DESOwew  only) 
59  (QEMM  memory  manager) 
179(D£SOweiv386 
combination) 

Any  [BW-compatible  PC 
51 2K  of  RAM 
Any  display 
DOS  2.0  or  higher 
Hard  disk  recommended 

Character-based  display 
with  pull-down  command 
menus 

None 


Yes 
Yes 

Yes 

Yes 


$149 


286-based  AT  (minimum) 
640K  of  RAM 
Graphics  display 
DOS  3.1  or  higher 
Hard  disk 

Graphical  interface  that 
includes  iboth  icons  and 
pull-down  menus 

Write,  Paintbrush, 
Termini,  Cardfile, 
Calculator,  Calendar, 
Clock,  Notepad,  Macro 
Recorder,  File  Manager 

Yes  (recommended) 

Yes 

Yes 

Yes 


Uses 

Macros 

Yes 

Yes 

Cut-and-Paste 
Text 

Yes 

Yes 

Cut-and-Paste 
Graphics 

No 

Yes 

Data  Exchange 

Mark-and-Transfer  Feature 

Windows  clipboard 
Also,  allows  dynamic 
linking  of  data  between 
applications  designed 
to  support  the  Windows 
DDE  feature 

Runs  Standard 
DOS  Program 

in  Small 
Windows 

Yes 

Only  In  386-enhanced  mode 

Minimum 

Multitasking 

Requirements 

XT  compatible 
with512KofRAM 

286-based  AT  with 
1MB  of  RAM 

Minimal 
Recommended 
Multitasking 
Environment 

386-based  system  with 
2MB  of  RAM 

286-based  AT  with 

2MB  of  RAM 

Multitasks  on 
808e-Based 
XT  Compatible 

Yes  (providing  all 
open  applications  fit 
in  conventional  memory) 

Yes  (providing  all 
open  applications  fit 
in  conventional  memory) 

Multitasks  on 
286-Based  AT 

Yes  (providing  ail 
open  applicatbns  fit 
in  conventional  memory) 

Yes  (providing  all 
open  applications  fit 
in  conventional  memory) 

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- 
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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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D  Express  Graph  (1106)  Turns  raw  data 
into  great  business  grapfiics. 

DBIakbook  (1603)  Great  for  keeping 
track  of  addresses  and  phone  num- 
bers. Prints  an  address  book. 

D  Form  Letters  (1607)  1 00  busi  ness  and 
legal  forms  (contracts,  employment 
applications,  filings,  etc.). 

SPC-Payroll  (1608,1609)  A  complete 
and  powerful  payroll  system.  (2  disks) 

Dstock  Charting  (1612)  A  complete 
stock  ctiarting  and  analysis  package. 

D Smalt  Business  Accounting  (1617)  A 
must  for  all  small  business  owners! 

D  PC-Books  (1621)  A  complete,  easy  to 
use  bookkeeping  system. 

n  PC-Loans  (1628)  Ttiis  package  sup- 
ports ail  common  loan  methods. 

DEasy  Project  (1629)  A  powerful 
project  manager  software  package. 

D  FormGen  (1630)  Design  and  print  any 
office  form,  easily! 

DFormFill  (1631)  Helps  you  more 
quickly  and  accurately  fill  out  forms 
created  with  FormGen. 

[DACS  In-Conlrol  (1644,  1645)  A  com- 
plete system  for  sales  prospecting, 
lead  tracking,  and  billing.  (2  disks) 

D  Power  Desk  (1653)  A  complete  desk- 
top productivity  package.  hD 

HKwikStat  (1314,1315)  A  professional 
statistics  package.  (2  disks) 


DATABASE/MAIL  LIST 


D  Wampum  (1710)  An  excellent  dBASE- 

compatible  package,  hd 
DDr.  Data  Label  (1717)  A  professional 

mail  list  manager.  HD.  512K 


SPREADSHEETS 


D  As-Easy-As  (1805)  FANTASTIC  Lotus 
1-2-3  compatible  spreadsheet. 

n  Lotus  Macros  (1807)  A  large  collec- 
tion of  Lotus  macros  and  templates. 

D  On-Side  (1506)  Prints  your  spread- 
sheet (or  any  file)  sideways! 


EDUCATION 


[a  Spanish  I  &  II  (1205,1206)  Spanish 
vocabulary  and  verb  drills.  (2  disks) 

D  Pre-Calculus  (1218)  An  excellent  pre- 
calc  tutor  Reviews  algebra  and  trig. 

D  World  (1221)  A  computer  encyclope- 
dia of  global  information.  CGa 

DXyping  Tutor  (1224)  Helps  you 
improve  your  speed  and  skill.  CGA 

D Balloon  Speller  (1230)  An  introduc- 
tion to  spelling  for  children.  CGA 

DMath  Lessons  (1233)  A  great  pro- 
gram that  teaches  algebra.  CGA 

n  Computer  Tutor  (1235)  Become  a 
more  effective  computer  user. 

DPIay  'n'  Learn  (1236)  A  collection  of 
learning  games  for  kids.  CGA 

DGoogol  Math  (1243)  A  math  learning 
system  for  several  grade  levels.  CGA 

D  Total  Recall  (1245)  This  program 
helps  you  to  quickly  memorize  words 
and  information  on  any  subject. 

n  School  Mom  (1251)  Teaches  kids 
(2-14)  the  basics  of  art,  music,  spell- 
ing. English  and  math.  FANTASTIC! 

D  Word  Whiz  (1252)  A  challenging  word 
game  that  tests  your  vocabulary 

D  Word  Gallery  (1256)  Teaches  children 
to  associate  the  printed  word  with  the 
object  it  describes. 


MICROSOFT  WINDOWS  3.0 


D  Almanac  (1470)  A  fantastic  calendar 

program  with  many  features. 
D  Active  Life  (1472)  Keep  your  life 

organized  with  this  great  scheduler. 
D  Icons  (1480)  A  collection  of  over  250 

icons  to  be  used  with  Windows  3,0. 
n  Wallpaper  (1484)  A  great  collection  of 

wallpaper  for  Windows  3.0. 


WORD  PROCESSING 


D  Readability  Plus  (1340)  A  computer- 
ized writing  style  analyzer. 

[g  PC-Write  3.03  (1851-1853)  The  BEST 
word  processor  for  under  S200!  Com- 
plete w/spell  checking.  (3  disks)  5i2< 

HJWP  5.0  Learning  Sys.  (1863,1864) 
Helps  you  learn  to  use  or  become  a 
better  Word  Perfect  5.0  user  (2  disks) 

HWP  5.1  Uarning  Sys  (1865-1867) 
Learn  all  the  powerful  new  features  of 
WP  5.1.  HD 

\B  ClipArt  (1875,1876)  A  huge  collection 
of  art/graphics  for  WordPerfect  5,0+. 

D  Letter  Blltzer  (1882)  A  mail  merge 
and  letter  writing  program.  HD.  51 2 K 


HOME  and  FAMILY 


n  CheckMate  (1102)  A  complete  check- 
book manager.  Handles  unlimited 
accounts  and  does  reconciliation. 

DHome  Budget  Manager  (1103)  Tracks 
all  your  household  expenses  and 
helps  you  to  set  budgets  and  goals. 

n  Home  Inventory  (1105)  Keeps  track  ol 
all  your  personal  property. 

m  Edna-ls  Cookbook  (1118, 1119)  An  elec- 
tronic cookbook  with  several  great 
recipes— add  your  own!  (2  disks) 

[S Brother's  Keeper  (1120,1121)  A  great 
genealogy  program  that  allows  you  to 
trace  your  family  history  (2  disks). 

DWitl  Kit  (1343)  Create  your  own  will 
valid  in  all  50  states. 


GRAPHICS/PRINTING 


n  Banner  Maker  (1502)  Prints  banners 
in  various  sizes,  styles,  and  fonts. 

DPrintShop  Graphics  (1503)  A  large 
collection  of  Printshop  clip  art. 

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! 


UTILITIES 


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! 


GAMES 


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 


(The  following  require  EGA  monitors) 

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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disks  FREE  (limit  3  free  disks  per 
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Like  life  itself,  they  are  a  struggle  of 
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They  demand  brutal  intrigue 
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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. 


British  ships  of  the  line  after  Nelson's  triumph  at  Aboukir  Bay. 


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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. 


MUSKETS  &  MULES 


A  French  hussar  and  a  dragoon  talk  ™th  their 
sentries  posted  nearby. 


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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Telephone  number 


D  WORLD  WAR  11 

P/ease  number  countries 
in  order  of  preference: 

Greater  Germany  ,    , 

The  Soviet  Union  (and  theCCP] 

The  British  Empire 

The  Japanese  Empire  

The  United  States  of  America 

The  Italian  Empire 

The  French  Republic  

Nationalist  China 

Other  Power  (e,g,  Poland) 


(lto2) 

Field  Commander 


[Uo:i] 
Army 

Strategic  Commander     Navy 

Political  Leader Air  Force 


D  THE  NAPOLEONIC  WARS 

please  number  countries 
in  order  of  preference: 

Republic  of  France 

Great  Britian ,  . , ,  , 

The  Habsburg  Monarchy 

The  Empire  of 

all  the  Russias        

The  Kingdom  of  Prussia 

The  Ottoman  Empire 

Other  Power  (e.g.  Spain)     


(1  to  2) 

Field  Commander 

Strategic/Political 
Commander   . . . . . 


{Uo2) 
Army 

Navy 


D  MUSKETS  &  MULES 

Please  number  countries 
in  order  of  preference: 
(7  to  3) 


French 
Austrian 


Russian 
Prussian 


C-12 


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EWS  &  NOTES 


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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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 


PC-24       COMPUTE 


JANUARY       199    1 


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using  0  single  computer  with  any  combinotion  of  keyboard, 
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•  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 
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GERMAN  U-BOAT  SIMULATION 


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. 

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you  deal  with  threats  below  nni/ above  the  surface  in  a  true  three 
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send  and  receive  Information. 

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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 
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We'll  make  two  attempts  to  return 
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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- 


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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- 
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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- 
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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 

%1 

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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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 


DENNY         ATKIN 

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 


-C-0   M  P-U  TE      A-1 


NOTES 


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 


f 


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, 

continued  on  page  A-27  \? 


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y  regular  sojourns  through  information 
networks  and  trade  shows  provide  opportunities 
to  talk  with  many  Amiga  owners,  and  I've  no- 
ticed some  consternation  about  the  new  Amiga 
operating  system,  Workbench  2.0.  Most  people  make 
positive  noises,  yet  many  of  them  wonder  why  they 
should  bother  with  it  since  Workbench  1.3  seems  to  do 
the  job.  I  hked  Workbench  1.3,  too,  but  I'm  here  to  tell 
you  that  once  you've  tried  Workbench  2.0,  you'll  never 
want  to  see  1.3  again,  much  less  be  stuck  using  it.  > 


PEG   G   Y        HERRINGTON 


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. 

A-8      COMPUTE  JAI 


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 

There  are  2 1  fewer 
commands  in  the 

2.0  Workbench's  C 
directory  than  in 

its  1.3  counterpart, 

but  don't  let  that 

fool  you. 

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. 

U    A    R    Y       19    9    1 


New  AmigaDOS  Commands 

There  are  2 1  fewer  commands  in 
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than  in  its  1.3  counterpart,  but 
don't  let  that  fool  you;  30  com- 
mands are  already  resident  in 
memory  when  you  boot,  resulting 
in  faster  response  times  when 
they're  called.  And  floppy  users 
won't  have  to  insert  the  Work- 
bench disk  every  time  they  want 
to  execute  one  of  those  com- 


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mands.  New  AmigaDOS  commands 
include  CPU,  EndShell,  Gel.  IPrefs, 
Make  Link,  Set,  UnAlias,  Unset,  and 
UnSetEnv.  The  majority  of  old  famil- 
iars have  been  rewritten  and  opti- 
mized. 

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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The  improved  Pointer  editor  is  just  one  of  many  new 
stand-alone  Preferences  programs. 


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. 


Get  Your  ROMs 

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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soldering  or  advanced  technical  knowledge  and  frees  the  video  slot  in  Amiga  2000  computers  for  other  uses.  FFV  is 
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Both  PAL  and  NTSC  are  automatically  recognized  and  fully  supported.  Full  overscan  is  supported,  not  just  a 
limited  overscan.  Three  megabits  of  random  access  memory  are  used  to  ensure  compatibility  with  overscan  screens 
as  large  as  the  Amiga  can  produce. 


AdSpeed^ 

ICD  expands  its  line  of  innovative  enhancement  products  for  the  Amiga  with  the  introduction  of 
AdSpeed,  a  full  featured  14.3  MHz  68000  accelerator  for  all  68000-based  Amiga  computers.  kdSpeed 
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AdSpeed  will  make  your  Amiga  run  faster  than  any  68000  or  68020  accelerator  without  on-board 
RAM.  AdSpeed  works  with  all  68000  based  Amiga  computers,  including  the  500,  1000,  and  2000.  In- 
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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 


A-14       COMPUTE 


JANUARY       1991 


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ABACUS 

Amiga  DOS  ToolbOK 

B«ckerta(i 


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ABACUS  BOOKS 

D*sJfioc  V^fleo  Book       .  16 
Afritga  Be^tfVtBt^  Btak  .           ,   14 

Amiga  TrK:>^T>ip&  Book  *  16 

Amiga  Basic  In Oul  Book-  19 

Graoh^s  tnOjlBooh  -  21 

Ptog  Gi>cJ&  Bot*  -  24 

Adv  Prog  Gu>^  Book  -  24 

Dfrves  In-Oul  Book  -  22 

AfnigaDOS  In  Oil  Book  ^  16 

Comparwici  Disk  Aval  '3 

ACADEMY  SOFTWARE 

Tycoq  Tuiw  ?l 

ACCESS 

He«wV  W«H3l  30 

LeadwtKurd  Dual  Pai  ?t 

World  Class  UUertKdnl  i7 

WnldCEassFC  #1  IS 

ACCOLADE 

BIl#  AnwU  30 

BubtJleGhCKJ  ?! 

Fa£l  BvaK  27 

Fourth  Jl  fcTches  lb 

Fogrlti  j  kv^lws  Trwh  10 

H4idb4ll  II  30 

Harmony  27 

Keal  Wilvn  27 

Jade  NKkdus  Gon  30 

JNickl»isCoursa  1  a  7  I6 

Grand  Rrs«  C'CUii  18 

M«an  ia  27 
Moan  la  F  Courses  k2             .   15 

Shocn  Em  Up  Consuucnon  15 

5mkeAc«  30 

Test  Dnve  I  15 

lost  Dm«  II  3C 

CtMotnia  CKaii«Age  t6 

EufOfMan  Outtlonga  16 

Super  Ca-s  16 

Uusr^  Cir^  16 

ACTIONWARE 

Achonw^fe  Husv  Gwi  .  39 

CiMiyre  Z* 

PO.W  2< 

Pnson  24 


BRODERBUNO 

Piciionary  2^ 

Sim  Teriam  Ecttor  II 

Sf»ce  Racer  ? 

Star  Wars  2' 

Wings  of  Fury  2< 

BROWN^WAGH 

Pen  P.1I  ft 

BfTE  BY  BYTE, 

Scoip:^;)^  !& 

CADVISION  INT. 

KCao  Des^ne'  H  9i 

XCad  Proiessionai  30 

CALIFORNIA  DREAMS 

aiockOui  ? 

StiMi  Rod  2^ 

TunrwU  Ct  Ann«gOd«n  2< 

V«gvG>n4}ter  2i 

CENTAUR 

SAD.  y 

My  Pan)  S 

Woru  Alias  3i 

CENTRAL  COAST 

Dos2  Dos  3- 


ANTIC 


ARTWORX 

Bnd^  6  0 
OtWloU  SqfJVti 
|jn*.-w0rd  Fifificn 
Lmtwwd  GermAn 
MiVwnrd  Gteeit 
l^ilemorii  rtatan 
Lntwotd  Spanish 
Puji^  UjTba 
Slrp  Pofcwll 
"S  Pok«f  Dsig  ijfla 

ASDO 

C^grxts  Ed  Pio  60 

BAUDVIILE 

Award  Uikw  Pvs  30 

Award  Uidcw  Daia  Sfxirls  Ifi 

Award  Usine*  Dao  ^^Jucsoon^'  1 8 

Video  Vegas  21 

BETHESDA  SOFTWARE 

Damoclas              ,  27 

Dragon's  Lwr  II  42 

C^noton  IS 

WiyM  &•«*>  MocMy  M) 

BLUE  RIBBON  BAKERY 

Bars  &  PpaS  1  BO 

WhoWalWbere'When'  60 

BRITANNICA 

DesignasauniS  30 

Jigsaw  7  J 

BRCDERBUND 

Cftm*n  USA  30 

Cami*r  Europe  30 

Ca-mcn  Wodd  30 

Joan  0^  A/t  27 

Omni  Pld^  Bashelbnll;  30 

Omni  Pi3^  horse  Rapng  30 

ShuWlepock  Cafe  24 

Kah^-sFaim  24 

McGm  24 


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CINEMAWARE 

Brain  BiasKM  ?« 

Dart&fde  24 

0»aB*(ingei  2& 

Delenler  ol  The  Ciown  30 

Feburwon  33 

li  Caft«  Frort  IT*  Oesea  32 

Desert  [l  Daila  DisX  %i 

KmgiOfCMCMO  17 

Lorcta  of  Th*  RiiM^g  So"  32 

RoCkel  Rafig*  Three  Sk»5«  32 


SOI 


17 


Stf«ad 

Spmdbari  2« 

TheKroial  32 

TV  Sports  BaskelbaJi:  32 

TV  Spons  Football  12 

Wir<gj  32 

COMMODORE 

Amiga  Lego  66 

COMPUTE!  BOOKS 

ArntgaDOS  Relerofiw  Gwd?  1* 

Be^mrt  GuKle  Arrvoa  ^4 

Anuga  Programrriets  Gjide  <6 

InutK*  An^i  Gf-nyw:!  IS 

El^m^niarv  Atruqj,  B^bK  '3 

Advancud  Am^a  Basic  14 

ML  Prontammin^GuKte  16 

KkJs  A  ff*  ArTSfla  t3 

Amiga  App<a»r^&  <i 

is!  oc2rKJBooha1Amga  14 

CONSULTRON 

Cr04S  Dim  v4  24 

DATA  EAST 

BwJDuOh  ?7 

Baunan  A/caOe  o<  Mov«  2? 

ChMttm  (A  Sc^Uuianti  30 

Drakheri  36 

North  Ji  South  27 

Robocw  30 

DAVIOSOK 

H4Th  Blaster  Pigs  30 

DESIGNING  MINDS 

Gieai  States  )l  24 

Home  front  60 

TopFomi  « 

DIGITEK 

Hom  if^  Ofit  Mifii*lu'«  Gorl  24 

HdUkpCW  DAtB  '3  IS 

targhan  24 

DISC  COHPAMY 


DISCOVERY 

AfKartMl 
Hytvis 

DISNEY 

Anomalion  Slbxho 
Duch  Tales 

DR.  T  SOFTWARE 

Cop/ist  DTP 
KCS  LsMei  II  v3 
Tiger  Cub 


EAGLE  TREE 

Butchei  ?i 

Disiam  A/mios  ?7 

ELECTRONIC  ARTS 

eeS  AHarh  Sub  32 

6flfi  Anacii  Sub  Hmts  1? 

Ailefed  EesiX  32 

Aq^naul  26 

Bards  Tale  i  15 

SifiM  Tale  n  38 

Bards  I  or  41  Hmts  10 

Chofsrrwsler  2000  29 

o«4uic>e  Pnottiao  as 

DrtJi.e  PatfiTlll  95 

3uOt*3n  W 
D^uca  Musc  ConsirucMjn         63 

Deluxe  PFrl  II  &i 

Dehiie  Video  ttl  ^5 

EvI  Wsavpr  BnMbali  32 

Witav*r  Convm  Dsk  15 
Wsavei  8S01  a9Stati       .       15 

EnpiiH  32 

f-!6  Comd»lP.lol  32 

F  AlfllMtrCBptor  IS 

Fhood  26 

Hound  0'  tfie  Shadow  26 

Hunt  Fm  Bed  Oci  20 

Irr^Kfuri  26 

Ustfts  Beacon  typing  32 

Mi9fi4  &  Mattel)  36 

MiQM  A  Maqc  11  Hmis  13 

Nuctoai  War  32 

PopuJus  32 

Po#(tf*MTW  26 

Pf&UKTV**  26 

Pro  T«m»  Tour  ?e 

PuiTYsS^a  23 

Slarftqht  :3Z 

Sarftght  HrB  13 

Tuf&oOuOun  32 

Uireal  32 

ELECTRONIC  ZOO 

Bertn  I94a  Z4 

BiackGoU  24 

LAQfrod  ol  WAam  T«il  24 

Twvu  Cup  24 

Truaure  Trap  24 

VdongChM  24 

ETHOS 

Cas«)  Fewr  24 

Poher  Sotttaie  21 

FREE  SPIRTT 

Am4k(t  Onvc  Ahgn  30 

Samev  Btai  Farm  21 

Bamffy  B«a>-SchEOi  2l 

Bamvy  QM(-5pa»  Zl 

Dra^oriscape  24 

Dortw  Am  30 

Fa 

Ourgaon  Waster  2* 

Dongeon  IA9W  HkKs  12 

GOLD  DISK 

ConwSMW  SO 
CoomcSefler  Arl  SupeniOfMl  2i 
ConHcSefiw  Art  Soerca'  Fv       21 

OomcSetior  Art  Funny  F^jures  2\ 

Oaskiop  Budgoi  42 

Font  5«t  I  21 

GotdSpefr-ll  27 

LBser$cnpt  27 

MkwSeni^r  60 

TheOtfce  iBO 

Pagssettee  II  76 

Professior^ai  D^a*  i?D 

Profeswjnal  Pa^e  1 80 

IMPULSE 

TirtoSrfwr  120 

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BUTTEBFIELD 


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. 

But  CLI  knows  nothing  of  any 
-info  file  and  starts  a  program  without 
reference  to  any  such  supplementary 
data.  For  example,  if  you  type  ZONK, 
the  program  called  Zonk  will  begin  to 
run  immediately.  The  Amiga  wUl  take 


no  notice  of  a  file  called  Zonk.info  or 
its  contents. 

Many  programs  also  allow  you  to 
specify  options  as  part  of  a  CLI  com- 
mand line.  These  options  usually 
serve  the  same  purpose  as  the  data 
within  a  .info  file.  Options,  or  switch- 
es, are  often  preceded  by  a  dash  char- 
acter. For  example,  the  WordPerfect 
icon  might  contain  a  Tool  Types  op- 
tion named  WORK  AREA.  To  invoke 
this  same  option  from  the  CLI,  you 
would  type  WP  -w  followed  by  the 
size  of  work  area  you  needed.  As  al- 
ways, check  the  program's  documen- 
tation to  see  how  it  handles  this  kind 
of  thing. 

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. 

In  contrast,  a  program  started 
from  the  CLI  will  often  not  change  the 
current  directory  that  is  active  at  that 
time.  If  such  a  program  looks  for  files, 
it  may  look  in  your  currently  specified 
CLI  directory  rather  than  in  the  direc- 
tory containing  the  program  and  sup- 
port files. 

Suppose  your  current  directory  is 
RAM:  and  you  decide  to  start  a  pro- 
gram by  typing  its  full  path  name, 
DF0:SOURCE.  The  program  will 
start  to  run  and  might  start  to  look  for 
special  files.  Chances  are  it  won't  look 
in  DFO:,  where  the  files  are  actually 
stored.  Instead,  it  will  look  in  the  cur- 
rent directory,  which  is  RAM:,  and 
won't  find  the  files  it  needs. 

If  you  suspect  that  this  is  your 
problem  with  a  program  started  from 
the  CLI,  the  fix  is  easy.  Just  change 
the  current  directory  to  the  one  con- 
taining the  program  and  support  files 
before  you  start.  In  the  previous  ex- 
ample, you  would  type  CD  DFO:  and 
then  type  SOURCE.  a 


A-16 


COMPUTE 


JANUARY       1991 


ON  DISK 


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 

Take  on  a  friend  or  a  sophisticated 

computer  adversary  in  this  fast- 

action.futuristic  arcade  duel. 

24  INTUITION  MAKEDIR 

DALEMcBANE 

Tired  of  opening  a  CLI  to  find  in- 
visible drawers?  Here  are  two  utili- 
ties that  will  make  handling 
drawers  a  snap. 

24  HOW  TO  GET  THE  DISK 


EsanSBsa 


'Tinr^n? 


ALSO  ON  DISK 

26  Download:  Mach  III 
30  Art  Gallery 

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i9es.  1906, 1967.  arvl  1968,  Comfnodore-Amiga.  Inc.  Al  rights  reserved. 


JANUARY       1991 


COMPUTE       A-17 


ON  DISK 


STEVE  TIBBETT 

AND 
BRAD  SCHENCK 


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 

To  play  Spheroids,  plug  one  or  two 


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joysticks  into  your  Amiga  and  then 
double-click  on  the  Spheroids  icon. 
After  a  short  delay,  the  game  screen 
will  appear.  Before  each  game,  you 
must  select  a  battlefield.  There  are 
seven  to  choose  from:  Open,  Quad- 
rate, Diamond,  Cyclone,  Corner, 
Cross,  and  Lattice;  these  are  selected 
by  pressing  Fl  through  F7,  respective- 
ly. Each  battlefield,  with  the  exception 
of  Open,  contains  mounds  and  de- 
pressions. These  appear  as  diamond- 
shaped  objects  on  the  screen  and 
come  in  three  different  sizes.  Mounds 
are  yellow,  while  depressions  are  gray. 

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. 

At  times,  your  craft  will  fall  into  a 
depression.  If  you  simply  thrust  in  the 
direction  that  you  want  to  go,  it  will 
take  you  a  while  to  escape.  The  quick- 


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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. 


L.  C.  HASELMAN 

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. 


OTHER  PROGRAMS 
ON  DISK 

There  are  a  few  handy  programs  contained 
in  the  A  miga  Resource  Disk 's  C  director;- 
that  some  readers  may  not  be  familiar  with. 

RD 

A  Speedy  program  for  reading  text  files,  RD 
works  from  ilie  Workbench  or  CLl.  Copy 
RD  10  ihc  C  directory  of  your  Workbench 
disk.  To  use  il  from  the  Workbench,  use 
the  Info  menu  item  to  change  the  Default 
Tool  of  your  tcxi  file's  icon  to  C;RD,  From 
the  command  line,  you  jusi  type  RD  filetf 
ame(sj,  wbc(cfilenamefs)  is  the  name  or 
names  of  the  files  you  wish  lo  read.  RD 
also  supports  both  AmigaDOS-  and  ARP- 
style  wiidcards;  typing  RD   *.info  will 
allow  you  to  read  all  flies  that  don'i  end 
with  the  .info  extension. 

New  in  RD  I  A:  Screen  handling  is 
up  to  two  (imes  faster.  It  no  longer  needs 
arp.librar),  so  you  can  add  il  to  almost- 
full  Workbench  disks.  RD  now  handles 
complex  escape  sequences  and  supports 
Workbench  2.0-slyle  scroll  bars  and  sys- 
tem fonts. 


This  utility  displays  both  standard  IFT  and 
Sliced  HAM  pictures.  The  stripped-down 
version  included  on  this  month's  disk  no 
longer  requires  the  1 7K  arp.library  file  but 
only  works  from  the  Workbench. 

To  use  I '.  copy  it  lo  (he  C  director)  on 
your  Workbench  disk  and  change  the  De- 
fault Tool  of  your  picture's  icon  to  C:V. 
Then  jusi  click  on  your  picture's  icon  to 
show  it. 

ColorBench 

This  liny  utility  adds  an  extra  bitplane  to 
your  Workbench  screen  so  you  can  utilize 
eighKolor  icons.  Just  copy  il  lo  the  C  di- 
rectory of  your  Workbench  diskandadd 
Ihe  command  COLORBENCH  lo  your 
Sislartup-sequence  file. 


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ON  DISK 


Dale  McBane 

Intuition  MakeDir  (IMD)  is  a 
replacement  for  the  MakeDir  pro- 
gram that's  found  in  the  C  directo- 
ry of  your  Workbench  disk.  It 
works  the  same  way  that  MakeDir 
works  except  thai  it  can  create  a 
Workbench  icon  for  the  directory.  If 
you  use  IMD  on  a  directory  that  al- 
ready exists,  that  directory  will  be 
unchanged,  but  il  will  now  have  an 
icon  so  that  you  can  view  it  from  the 
Workbench. 

MakeEmpty  is  a  MakeDir  pro- 
gram for  Workbench  users.  It  lets  you 
create  a  directory  called  Empty.  Nor- 
mally, you  must  duplicate  a  drawer  (a 
drawer  is  the  Workbench  name  for  a 
directory)  called  Empty  to  create  a 
new  directory.  Then  you  must  drag 
that  drawer  over  to  its  destination.  By 
using  extended  selection,  MakeEmpty 
lets  you  create  a  new  drawer  wherever 
you  want  it. 

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. 

Here  are  a  few  examples  of  how 
to  use  IMD. 

IMDRAMifred 


IMD  creates  the  directory  R.\M:fred 
and  then  looks  for  the  file  S;Drawer- 
.info.  If  IMD  finds  S:Drawer.info,  it 
copies  the  file  to  RAM:fred.info,  If  it 
doesn't  find  the  file,  the  program 
writes  a  default  icon  to 
RAM:fred.info. 

IMD  RAM:fred  SYSrEmpty.info 

IMD  creates  the  directory  RAM:fred 
and  then  looks  for  SYSiEmpty.info.  If 
it  finds  SYS:Empty.info,  it  copies  the 
file  to  RAM:fred.info.  If  it  doesn't 
find  SYS;Empty.info,  it  tries  to  copy 
S:Drawer.info.  If  that  fails,  it  writes 
the  default. 

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: 

ALIAS  MakeDir  "IMD  1 1 
NOICONS" 

Then  you  can  type  IMD  if  you  want 
an  icon  created  or  MakeDir  if  you 
don't. 

If  you  don't  like  IMD's  default 
icon,  you  can  replace  it  with  your 
own  icon.  Simply  copy  a  drawer  .info 
file  to  s; Drawer. info,  and  IMD  will 
automatically  use  that  .info  file  from 
now  on. 

Using  MakeEmpty 

Using  the  Workbench,  drag  Make- 
Empty from  the  Resource  Disk  to 
your  Workbench's  Utilities  drawer. 
When  you  want  to  make  a  drawer, 
open  the  Utilities  drawer  so  that  you 
can  see  the  MakeEmpty  icon.  Click 
once  on  a  disk  or  drawer  icon  to  select 
it.  Then  hold  down  Shift  and  double- 
click on  the  Mi3/:^£'mp/j/ icon.  It's  that 
easy.  Because  of  a  limitation  of  the 
Workbench,  you  may  need  to  close 
the  destination  window  and  reopen  it 
to  see  the  new  folder.  Use  the  Rename 
Workbench  menu  item  to  change  the 
name  of  the  drawer.  s 


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COMPUTE       A-25 


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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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inactivity.  All  of  these  features  may  be 
disabled  or  adjusted. 

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 


A.26       COMPUTE 


JANUARY       1991 


NEWS  &.  NOTES  contmwdfmmpageA-2 


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 
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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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Artist  Saveen  Reddy  created  this  colorful  hand-drawn  (or  should  we  say, 

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RICK 

John  Perkins 

Corsica  na,  TX 

This  picture  was  digitized  and 
then  touched  up  using  a  paint 
program  found  on  the  Amiga 
Appetizer  disk  that  came  free 
with  John  Perkins's  computer. 
Although  John  has  owned  his 
Amiga  500  for  only  a  few 
months,  he's  been  program- 
ming and  drawing  on  a  Com- 
modore 64  for  five  years. 


WORKSTATION 

William  Christjaener 

St  Paul,  MN 

Workstation  was  created  with  Sculpt 
Animate  4-D.  Artist  William  Christ- 
jaener says,  "I've  been  using  several 
ray-tracing  programs  for  about  three 
years,  Sculpt  3-D  being  the  first  one  I 
purchased.  I  just  recently  upgraded  to 
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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 


A-32       COMPUTE 


JANUARY       1991 


64/128  VIEW 


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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NEWS  &  NOTES 


:  Don't 
:  Get 
Puffed 

:   out 

Enter  the  Alien  World  and  face 
*       one  challenge  after  another  in 

'       Pujfy's  Saga  ($29.95),  a  muhilev- 
el  arcade-slyle  maze  from  Ubi 

;      Arts,  1 820  Gateway  Drive,  San 

',      Mateo,  California  94404). 

As  Pufiy  or  Puffyn,  your  goal 
is  to  advance  from  one  level  of  a 

\      maze  to  another  by  collecting 
Power  Goms  (power  dots).  You 
can  also  search  for  Magic  Goms 
that  will  increase  your  abilities 

\      and  speed  and  give  you  the  op- 
tion of  changing  from  Puffy  to 
Pufiy  n. 

Race  through  20  different 

\       levels  or  explore  each  one  thor- 
oughly, accumulating  weapons, 
energy,  and  points.  Secret  pas- 
sageways may  hold  keys  to  hid- 

\      den  treasure  chests  or  acid 

puddles,  one  of  the  many  types  of 
enemies  you  must  avoid. 

\  Hey,  Dudes! 

'     Those  outrageous  guys  who  took  you  on  a  wacky  travel  through  time 
\     and  history  now  star  in  the  latest  release  from  Capstone  Entertainment 
.     (14160  SW  I39th  Court,  Miami,  Florida  33186)  in  Bitland  Ted's  Ex-         '. 

•  celient  Adventure— The  Computer  Game  ($39.95).  Based  on  the  hit 
1     movie,  this  arcade/adventure  game  is  available  for  the  64. 

\             Bill  and  Ted  are  failing  history  class,  and  only  an  awesome  final           \ 
,     report  can  save  them.  At  the  Circle  K  you  meet  an  ultracool  messenger      '. 

•  named  Rufus  and  his  time-travehng  phone  booth.  Just  step  in,  dial  a 
■     year,  and  take  ofTIn  time.  You're  on  a  most  excellent  adventure  to 

\     find  some  famous  dudes.  Your  goal  is  to  bring  them  back  to  school  for       | 
,     the  most  bodacious  history  report  of  all  lime.  You'll  need  to  find  at            '. 

1     the  burger  joint  and  off  to  military  school  for  the  two  of  you. 

:   i  line  for  a  Word  or  Five 

•  Timeworks  (444  Lake  Cook  Road,  Deerf  ield,  Illinois  600 1 5-49 1 9 )  has 

1     released  Word  Writer  5  for  the  64.  The  updated  version  of  this  popular 
\     word  processor  allows  you  to  add  graphics  to  your  documents  with  a          [ 
.     built-in  art  library.  You  can  link  files  to  print  out  long  documents,              ' 

•  specify  page  breaks,  and  mix  single-,  double-,  or  triple-line  spacing. 
1     You  can  also  read,  crop,  flip,  or  invert  GEOS  or  Doodle  pictures. 

',            And  you  get  all  the  features  Word  Writer  has  offered  before,  in-           \ 
.     eluding  an  85,000-word  spelling  checker,  an  integrated  thesaurus,  a            ! 
built-in  outliner,  and  an  80-column  preview  mode. 

>  • 

Welcome  to  "Gazette  Gallery."  Each  rr 
tures  a  collection  of  the  best  64/128  artwork 
We  pay  $50  for  each  piece  of  art  we  accept  a 
the  one  selected  as  Picture  of  the  Month. 

Send  your  original  64/ 1 28  art  in  Doodl 
ular  format  to  Gazette  Gallery,  324  West  W 
200,  Greensboro,  North  Carolina  27408.. 

Fly 

Fly,  by  Jerry  A.  Shaver     * 
and  Clifton  B.  Ryan  of 
Cambridge,  Ohio,  is 
this  disk's  Picture 
of  the  Month.                   ; 

lonth  the  Gazette  Disk  fea-        [ 
submitted  by  our  readers.        ', 
nd  an  additional  S50  for 

e,  Koala,  or  any  other  pop-        ' 
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1 V9)  has  developed  a  new  BASIC 
enhancement  called  Realfasl  64 

.      BASIC  (RFB).  RFB  ($30.95)  adds      . 
more  than  90  unsigned  integer 

•      commands  to  the  64. 

1              Speed  increases  of  2- 1 5               | 
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ware written  using  RFB.  All  other 
BASIC  commands  can  be  used 

I      without  changes,  and  its  structure      [ 
commands  allow  you  to  create 
new  programming  words.  RFB 
occupies  only  4K  of  RAM  and 

1      can  be  used  with  other  software         ] 
such  as  MetaBasic.                           '. 

G-»       COMPUTE 


JANUARY       1991 


Memory  Expansion! 

GEORAM 


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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- 
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Give  me  a  game  that  takes 
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wrecks.  A  player  accumulates 


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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 
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feature  into  its  official  version 
ofScrabble. 

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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- 


SCRABBLE 


mannered  player  will  learn  to 
come  to  the  computer  armed 
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assault  rifle. 

Scrabble  is  a  great  game  to 
bring  home,  whether  you  play 
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clock,  traversing  tremendous  graphic 
scenerj',  eluding  road  hazards  and  po- 
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World  Geography  is  an  elegant  pack- 
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music  that  entertain  and  stimulate; 
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G-13 


LEN        POGGIALI 


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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 
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heads  down  a  dry  river  bed,  and 
the  Beer  Shoot  (a.k.a.  the  Soda 
Shoot),  in  which  your  buddies 
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with  your  trusty  shotgun. 

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Throw,  Marlin  Fishing,  and 
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out  your  directives. 

You  can  modify  existing  scenari- 
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Hidden  in  an  Egyptian  pyramid  is  a 
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destroy  the  shrine  before  the  next 
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traversing  muliitiered  chambers,  and 
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As  a  member  of  the  Centauri  Alliance, 
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tail traveling  to  twenty-third-century 
worlds,  combating  aliens,  avoiding 
deadly  traps,  and  negotiating  mazes. 

Success  requires  that  your  party 
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HOSTAGE  MISSION 

Although  somewhat  improbable  even 
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Pictures  and  Text 

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? 

JOHN  GREEN 
FREEPORT.NY 

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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COMPUTE!  and  COMPUTEI's  Ga- 
zette since  1984.  On  Monday  I  re- 
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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 

Some  readers  who  subscribed  to 
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modem.  We  sent  messages  to  each 
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The  other  day,  while  working  at 
my  computer,  1  grew  tired  of 
looking  at  the  four  walls  around 
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age— a  fantastic  voyage  of  the 
imagination. 

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trol panel  on  my  computer  screen.  I 
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1961,  and  there  was  John  F,  Kennedy 
telling  the  world  that  America  was  go- 
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I  was  on  the  moon  with  Neil! 
(That's  how  my  imagination  works, 
folks!) 

For  a  while  I  watched  my  astro- 
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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 
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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 
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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, 

Voila!  Man  on  the  moon!  It  had 
taken  America  almost  a  decade  to 
accomplish  this  feat,  but  it  took  me 
only  20  minutes.  In  a  world  of  digital 
cutting  and  pasting — where  new  vir- 
tual realities  can  be  crafted  in  under 
an  hour — almost  anything  is  possible. 
Even  the  sky  is  no  longer  the  limit. 

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. 

His  reaction  was  priceless.  He 
was  dumbfounded!  He  recognized  his 
voice,  he  knew  he  must  have  said  what 
he  was  hearing,  but  what  a  speech! 
Had  he  suffered  a  micro  attack  of  am- 
nesia, a  short  burst  of  dementia? 

No,  folks.  It  was  far  worse.  He 
had  entered  the  Virtual  Zone.  B 


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Circle  Reader  Service  Number  165 


JANUARY       199f 


COMPUTE       0-23 


BEGINNER  BASIC 


W^^^9 


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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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 


RX 

105 

GX 

106 

XA 

110 

KM 

111 

BP 

120 

EX 

130 

CQ 

140 

RR 

150 

PP 

160 

DC 

170 

DQ 

180 

QG 

190 

JJ 

200 

XA 

210 

EB 

230 

MF 

231 

RE 

290 

JR 

300 

XC 

310 

GH 

320 

GX 

325 

HD 

330 

BA 

335 

PP 

3  50 

RF 

360 

CR 

370 

GB 

380 

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 


SE 

90 

MH 

100 

BG 

110 

HR 

120 

XK 

130 

RA 

143 

JG 

150 

PM 

160 

EF 

170 

AH 

180 

SG 

190 

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 


AR 

210 

MJ 

220 

E>S 

230 

KP 

240 

DA 

250 

GD 

263 

FP 

270 

XF 

280 

JJ 

290 

FD 

30Q 

XS 

310 

CF 

320 

XF 

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 


KF 

340 

SX 

350 

FR 

360 

BO 

370 

HB 

380 

XP 

390 

SR 

430 

FK 

410 

PD 

420 

PG 

430 

PP 

443 

ER 

450 

PG 

460 

FX 

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 


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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) 

2 )  •  SPC  ( 3)  ■ 
HH  100  PRINT  CHRS(5) ; :HEXT:PRI 
NT  R$;R$:C=0:IF  A<M  THE 
N  30 
SF  110  PRINT  CHR$(19);F0R  L=l 
{SPACElTO  23:PRINT:NEXT 
:PRINT  SPC (13) ; "PRESS 
{2    SPACES) ANY  KEY" 
JK  120  GETA$:IF  A$=""  THEN  120 
SS  130  RETURN 
GG  999  END 
CF  1000  DIM  MNS(12) 
XA  1010  CC$="01234567898765436 

4206420" 
KB  1020  HCS="033614625035":MDS 

="31283130313031313031 

3031" 
BK  1030  MN$ (1)="JANUARY":MN$(2 

)="FEBRUARY" 
JR  1040  MNS{3)="MARCH":MN$(4)= 

"APRIL" 
HA  1050  MN$(5)="MAY":MN9(6)="J 

USE" 
GO  1060  MN$(7)="JULY":HNS(8)=" 

AUGUST" 
GA  1070  MNS(9)="SEPTEMBER":HNS 

(10)="OCTOBER" 
RB  1080  MNSdl)  ="NOVEHBER":MNS 

{12)="DECEMBER" 
BH  1085  POKE53280,14:POKE53281 

,6 
HJ  1090  GOSUB  2040 
KC  1100  SYS  49152, "M0D*3":G0SU 

B20  REM  GET  DATE  INPUT 
DX  1110  SYS  49152, "M0Dtl":GOSU 

B20  REM  PRINT  GRID 
ES  1120  SYS  49152, "M0D#2":GOSU 

B20  REM  PRINT  DAYS 
QF  1130  GOTO1100 
AS  2000  DATA  169,3,141,131,192 


,169,232,141,130,192,3 
2,84,192,165,251,141,1 
32 

SG  2005  DATA  192,165,252,141,1 
33,192,32,253,174,169, 
1,166,186,168,32,186,2 
55 

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 

CM  2025  DATA  8,133,252,169,1,1 
33,251,160,2,177,251,2 
05,130,192,208,9,200 

RA  2030  DATA  177,251,205,131,1 
92,208,1,96,160,0,177, 
251,72,200,177,251,133 

XQ  2035  DATA  252,104,133,251,1 
65,252,201,0,208,219,9 
6,231,3,170,9,0 

JB  2040  M=49152:FORL=0TO132:RE 
ADA: POKEM+L , A : NEXT : RET 
URN 


M0D#1 


XD  20 


QR  21 


QC  25 
JP  30 


MX  40 

GK  45 

KK  50 


OF 

55 

DH 

60 

BF 

70 

CP 

100 

BF 

200 

RD 

210 

GG  999 


REM  COPYRIGHT  1990  -  COM 
PUTE  PUBLICATIONS  INTL  L 
TD  -  ALL  RIGHTS  RESERVED 
M5=MNS(MN) : PRINT  CHRS(14 
7) JCHR5{5) ;SPC( (40-LEN{M 
5))/2);M5 
PRINT  SPC(17) ;YE 
PRINT:PRINT"{3  SPACES}SU 
N{2  SPACES )M0N{ 2  SPACES} 
TUE{2  SPRCES}WED 
{2  SPACES}THU{2  SPACES}? 
RI{2  SPACES} SAT" 
FOR  T»l  TO  6 

H$=CHRS(167)  :L2S=CHRS(1 
75) :L3$=CHR$(ie6) 
PRINT  CHRS(144) ; :GOSUB20 
0 :GOSUB210 :GOSUB210 INEXT 
:GOSUB200 

RS=CHRS(13) :PRINT  CHR$(1 
9 ) ; RS ; R$ ; R$ 

FOR  L=l  TO  6:PRINT"  ";L1 
S:PRINT  SPC(36) ;L1$ 
PRINT  SPC(36) ;L19:NEXT:P 
RINT"  ";L1$ 
RETURN 

PRINT"{2  SPACES}"; :FOR 
{ SPACE }L=1  TO  7: PRINT  L 
2$;L2$;L2$;L2S;L3$; :NEX 
T:PRINT:RETURN 
PRINT"  "; :FOR  L=l  TO  7: 
PRINT  Ll$;"{4  SPACES}"; 
:NEXT:PRINT:RETURN 
END 


M0D#2 

XD  20  REM  COPYRIGHT  1990  -  COM 
PUTE  PUBLICATIONS  INTL  L 
TD  -  ALL  RIGHTS  RESERVED 

HE  21  LY=0 

AE  30  D=  VAL(MID$(CCS,INT(YR/1 
00)+2,l)) 


MB 

85 

AR 

87 

GC 

90 

HH 

100 

JP 

110 

HG  35  L=  YR  -  INT (YR/100) *100 
RA  40  D=D+L:D=  D  +  INT(L/4)+VA 

L(MID$(MC$,MN,1) ) 
PD  50  D=D+1:IF  (YR/4-INT (YR/4) 

) =0  AND  MN<3THEN  D=D-1:L 

Y  =  l 
CA  60  D=D  -  INT  (D/7)*7  +  l:IF  D> 

6  THEN  D=0 
KB  70  PRINT  CHR$(19) :PRINT:PRI 

NT: PRINT: PRINT :C=D:A=0:R 

$=CHRS  (13) 
JJ  75  M=  VAL(HIDS (HDS, {MN-1)*2 

+1,2) ) :IF  LY=I  AND  MN=2 

[SPACE}THEN  M=M+1 
XC  80  PRINT  SPC(2+5*C) ; :FOR  L= 

C  TO  6:A=A+1;IF  A>M  THEN 
L-7:GOTO100 

IF  A>M  THEN  L=7:GOTO100 

IF  A=DY  THEN  PRINTCHR$(2 

8); 

PRINT  RIGHTS {"  "+STRS(A) 
,2); SPC  (3); 
PRINT  CHR$(5) ;:NEXT:PRI 
NT  ES;R?:C=0;IF  A<M  THE 
N  80 

PRINT  CHR5(19):FOR  L=l 
{ SPACE }T0  22  SPRINT: NEXT 
:PRINT  SPC(13) ;"PRESS 
{2  SPACES}ANY  KEY" 

JK  120  GETAS:IFA5=""THEN120 

SS  13  0  RETURN 

GG  999  END 

M00#3 

XD  20  REM  COPYRIGHT  1990  -  COM 
PUTE  PUBLICATIONS  INTL  L 
TD  -  ALL  RIGHTS  RESERVED 
PRINT  CHRS(147) :PRINT:PR 
INT 

PRINT"ENTER  a  DATE  (MM/D 
D/YYYY) :"; ; INPUT""; AS 
HN=  VAL(LEFTS(AS,2) ) :DY= 
VAL(MIDS(A$,4,2) ) :YR=  V 
AL (RIGHTS (A$, 4) ) 
IF  MN<1  OR  MN>12  THEN90 
M=  VAL{MIDS(MD5, (MN-1)*2 
+1,2)) 

IP  DY<1  OR  DY>M  THEN90 
IF  YR<1  OR  YR>2300  THEN 
{SPACE}90 
RETURN 

PRINT:PRINT''INVALID  DATE 
":PRINT:GOTO30 

GG  999  END  B 


COMING  NEXT  MONTH  . .  . 


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No  telling  whom  you'll  meet  when 
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but  keeping  track  of  all  those  an- 
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sheets  and  pedigree  charts  by 
hand,  but  in  this  article  you  can 
team  how  genealogy  software  for 
your  64  or  128  can  simplify  your 
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The  scripting  language  for  Wingz. 
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As  might  be  expected  with  the 
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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 


Take  a  Giant  Leap  in 
Simulations! 


You  iarc  cymmandcr  of 
Project 

NASA's 
long-ranige 
plan  ti> 

colonize  Eanh' 
[TUMin.  From 
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annual  budgets,  vn.i 
must  cistahiinh  a 
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gruMth  iniu  a  full- 
fledged,  independeni 
colony.  With  savvy  land 
lucfcli  you  niay  crca!e  a. 
wlf-sufficieni  ciiy  on  ihc 
Moon,  t>u[  riol  wilhaul 
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Explore  and  exploit  the 
Moon's  surface 

["ApLiic  jnJ  iLinjr  ^urtj^L*  hir  new  iiiimng 
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Air  feak  In  solar 
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I'lL'Ti-iLtiL-  lo>3 ...  r^diaiinfi  Icais  ...  pafttr 
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Circle  Reader  S«rvlce  Number  22S 


dioxide  in  the  air.  which  is  involved 
in  the  greenhouse  effect  and  the  global 
warming  trend.  Desertification  in- 
creases soil  erosion  and  reduces  food 
supplies  by  destroying  usable  farm- 
land, leading  to  star\'ation,  and  on 
and  on.  Clearly,  wood  stoves  can 
make  a  difference.  .A.nd  that's  just 
wood  stoves.  Imagine  the  ripple  ef- 
fects of  tampering  with  oil  supplies 
and  natural  gas. 


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. 

RICHARD  O.MANN 


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THE  GAME  OF 
HARMONY 

With  a  name  like  Harmony, 
you'd  expect  this  game  to  be 
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you  from  the  nerve-racking 
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To  harmonize  the  different  col- 
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spheres  touch,  they  let  out  a  little  mu- 
sical sigh  and  disappear  happily  in 
harmony.  But  if  spheres  of  different 
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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 
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Ude.  You  just  take  your  time,  and 
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drive. 

With  50  different  screens  to  har- 
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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. 


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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. 
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custom  interface.  The  scanner  and  interface  are  powered 
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ward the  front  and  two  small  rollers  toward  the  rear  for  sta- 


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Damark    95 

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120  DCS  Industries 97 

199  Direct  Link   93 

167  Financial  Services  Marketing 

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177GEnie 5 

261  Gentry  Software 99 

198  Gold  Hill  P-19 

166  Grapevine    A-23 

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Historical  Simuiatkjns P-20,  P-21 

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250  Nortfigate 49 

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186  Odyssey  Software   A-3 

235  Origin  19 

266  Origin  P-27 

108  Paradise  Software   G-15 

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127  PC  Globe  7 

192  Professional  Cassette  Center    P-32 

194  Pro-Tronic    A-25 

168  Psygnosis 89 

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111  Software  Support  Infl    G-17 

112  Software  Support  Int'l    A-19 

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COMPUTE'S  Readers  Cfioice  16 

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scanned  data  has  to  be  transferred  to 
the  computer  while  the  scan  is  being 
made.  A  steadily  glowing  green  light, 
located  on  top  of  the  scanner,  indi- 
cates that  all  is  well  during  the  scan. 
Scanning  speeds  range  from  about 
three  inches  per  second  at  100  dots 
per  inch  to  a  bit  less  than  one  inch  per 
second  at  400  dots  per  inch.  .At  these 
rates,  a  typical  scan  takes  no  more 
than  a  few  seconds. 

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, 

Touch-Up  operates  in  one  of 
three  modes;  Paint,  Clip,  or  Scan. 
Drawing  tools  include  spray,  box,  cir- 
cle, b-spline,  and  Bezier  curves. 
Touch- Up  also  includes  36  predefined 
fill  patterns,  including  pure  black  and 
pure  white,  which  are  used  with  the 
drawing  tools. 

The  Clip  mode  is  used  to  perform 
operations  on  the  entire  image,  such 
as  cut,  paste,  flip,  mirror,  rotate, 
stretch,  compress,  and  distort.  The 
Paint  mode  performs  operations  at  a 


pixel-by-pixel  level. 

You  use  Scan  mode  to  interact 
with  the  scanning  hardware.  You  can 
scan  images  directly  onto  the  page  or 
into  a  predefined  clip  box.  This  lets 
you  combine  a  series  of  scans  into  one 
image.  Touch-  Up  has  four  writing 
modes  that  determine  how  subse- 
quent operations  will  interact  with  the 
existing  image.  In  the  Replace  mode, 
the  latest  image  or  operation  takes 
precedence.  In  Transparent  mode,  the 
white  parts  of  the  overlay  do  not  af- 
fect the  existing  image.  The  XOR  (ex- 
clusive OR)  mode  writes  only  where 
one  of  the  images  is  black;  it  generates 
white  when  both  are  black.  Reverse 
Transparent  is  like  Transparent  with 
black  and  white  reversed. 

Scan  mode  also  lets  you  convert  a 
dithered  photo  scan  into  a  true  1 6- 
level  Amiga  gray-scale  image.  This  op- 
eration takes  each  6X6  dot  area  of 
the  scanned  image  and  converts  it 
into  a  single  pixel  of  the  appropriate 
shade  of  gray.  The  resulting  image  is 
272  dots  wide.  Touch-Up  can  also  gen- 
erate a  544-pixel-wide  image,  with  31 
gray  levels,  by  dithering  image  data. 

In  addition  to  the  Amiga's  stand- 
ard IFF-image  file  format,  Touch-Up 
can  also  load  images  in  IMG,  PCX, 
TIFF,  MacPaint,  and  PrintMasler  file 
formats.  Touch-Up  will  save  files  in 
these  formats  as  well  as  EPS,  Degas, 
and  GIF.  You'll  have  to  use  a  pro- 
gram' such  as  CrossDOS  to  exchange 
files  with  PCs,  or  A-Max  II  or  Mac-2- 
DOS  to  transfer  files  to  and  from 
Macintosh  disks.  A  modem  will  work 
as  well. 

At  a  fraction  of  the  cost  of  a  full- 
size  desktop  scanner,  the  Migraph 
Hand  Scanner  with  Touch-Up  is  well 
worth  considering  if  your  scanning 
needs  can  be  met  with  a  hand-held 
unit. 

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WHERE  IN  TIME 
IS  CARMEN 
SANRIEGO? 

The  Carmen  Sandiego  series  from 
Braderbund  is  an  established  in- 
stitution in  the  software  industry. 
The  series  is  so  popular  that  now 
there  are  a  kids'  game  show,  a  cartoon, 
a  board  game,  and  a  storybook  series 
planned.  In  addition,  you  can  buy 
Carmen  Sandiego  merchandise  direct- 
ly from  Brederbund.  If  you  haven't 
caught  the  bug,  it's  not  too  late — Bro- 
derbund  has  just  released  its  latest  in 
the  popular  series,  Where  in  Time  Is 
Carmen  Sandiego?,  for  the  64. 

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. 

In  all  of  the  Carmen  titles,  you 
act  as  a  detective  for  the  ACME  De- 
tective Agency.  Your  goal  is  to  find 
and  apprehend  Carmen  Sandiego  or  a 
member  of  her  band  of  thieves  who 
has  made  a  big  heist  somewhere  with- 
in the  domain  of  the  game.  The  starl- 
ing point  of  the  game  is  the  scene  of 
the  crime.  Here  you  pick  up  clues 
from  people  or  objects  left  behind  that 
will  point  you  in  the  direction  of  the 
thiefs  travels.  .After  yoti  caich  ihe 
thief,  you're  promoted  to  a  higher 
rank,  and  your  status  is  saved  to  disk. 

As  you  solve  more  crimes,  the 
clues  given  are  more  difficult,  and  you 
have  less  time  to  track  the  thief  If 
eventually  you  achieve  the  highest  sta- 
tus, you  must  use  an  alias  to  play 

again.  In  effect,  your  character  has 
been  retired.  In  each  game  package  is 


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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- 
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Where  in  Time  is  my  favorite  in 
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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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