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CONTENTS 



VOLUME 9, NUMBER 6, JUNE 1993 



FEATURES 

On Display 

By Sheldon Leemon iA 

Yes, we'll give you the specifics on a dozen 
and a half different monitor models. But we'll 
also show you hozv to choose — based on the 
system you have, what you use your computer 
for, and how much money you have to spend. 

In the Mode 

By Sheldon Leemon 31 

Whether you use your computer for produc- 
tivity, graphics, or video, understanding the 
many different display modes your Amiga 
oilers will help vou to work more effectively, 
From ECS to AGA, PAL to NTSC, HAMS to 
Super72 — we'll make sure you get the big 
picture on better displays. 

The A W Amiga Fonts Buyer's 
Guide — Part 2: Video Fonts 

By Geoffrey Williams 35 

More than 40 font collections in half a dozen 
categories for every kind of video-titlingjob 
you might encounter. With comparative 
evaluations, sample output, and expert 
recommendations. 

"Head-to Head" Competition 

By Morton A. Kevelson 41 

Scanning in photos, graphics, and even text is 
easier and more affordable than ever before. 
Here are comparative reviews of 1 5 scanners 
(plus software interfaces) spanning a wide- 
range of performance and price — from hand- 
held^ to wands to heavy-duty flatbeds. 



COLUMNS 

Editor's Drawer By Dennis Brisson . . 6 

"They also serve who only sit and evaluate" 
{often long into the night, the editor adds, as 
he takes die occasion of our Special Review 
Issue to salute those who participate in/lffi 
product-review process). 

Accent on Graphics 

By Joel Hagen 60 

Try diese easy techniques for creating fancy 
real-time animation tricks with simple paint- 
program graphics and an Ordinary genlock. 

Video Suite 

By Paulo de Andrade 64 

Knowing how to use special-effects software 




Yes, our Annual Special Review Issue has 
roundups, buyer's guides, and revieios of every- 
thing from monitors (above), scanners, accelera- 
tors, and video gear to font sets, graphics pro- 
grants, anisic software, and even the new 
Lemmings sequel. June is buslin ' out all over 
luith Amiga products galore! 

such as MorphPlus, ImageFX, and 

hnagemaster can provide you widi exciting 
yet economical transitions for your everyday 
video-production work. 



DEPARTMENTS 

Overscan 8 

Amiga news and new products. 

List of Advertisers 65 

Help Key 88 

Tim provides the "As" to your "Qs" when the 
subject is trouble with a capital "T." 

The Last Word 96 

Well lake a Message to Garcia, a Zimmerman 
Note, a Purloined Ix'tter ... or anything else 

AW Product 

Information 94 

To contact the developer of any product 
mentioned in this issue oiAmigaWorld, 
consult our all-in-one "Manufacturers'/Dis- 
tributors' Addresses" list. 



you care to send our way — right here every 
month, 



REVIEWS 

A1230 Turbo+ Accelerator 

(GVP) 14 

Combo board brings your Al 200 up to A4000 
performance levels. 

Bars & Pipes Professional 2.0 

(Blue Ribbon SoundWorks) 16 

Multimedia-control features highlight this 
update of top music software. 

Y/C Plus (Y/C Plus Inc.) 18 

Y/C input/output for the Video Toaster, 

Toaster Cozzy 

(Heifner Communications) 1" 

Enables A3000s to use the Video Toaster. 

PageSetter 3 (Gold Disk) 22 

New features for the popular DTP system. 

DeluxePaint IV AGA (V4.5) 

(Electronic Arts) 68 

DPaint now makes Full use of the AGA chips. 

Caligari24 (Octree) 69 

Major upgrade to a leading 3TJ package. 

GAMES 

Crib Notes By Peter Olafson 74 

A ffls games expert lakes on die challenges of 
Shadow of the Beast III in this month's tips- 
and-rrick5 column. 

Lemmings II: The Tribes 

(Psygnosis) 74 

The long-awaited true sequel is here — and 
diose cute liltle creatures now come in 12 
different varieties. 

A Lot Like Lemmings, Too 78 

four Lemmings-inspired games, including 
Troddlers (Storm), Pushover (Ocean), Goblins 
2 (Coklel Vision), and Contraption Zack 
(Mindscape). 

Short Takes 84 

Capsule reviews of new games: Nigel Mansell's 
World Championship (Gremlin), I look 
(Ocean), Nick faldo's Championship Golf 
(Grandslam), and Robocop 3D (Ocean). 



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IrVFflE LOOKING 
FOR A FEW GOOD 
AMIGA DEALERS 



Creative Equipment International*, newly 
appointed Commodore/Amiga distributor, 
is now recruiting Amiga resellers in the 
United States. Accepted applicants will be 
able to take advantage of special programs 
offered by CEI. We believe that our dealer 
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Commodore Business Machines 



Amiga World 

Dale Strang, Publisher 

Dennis Brisson, Editor-in-Chief 
Daniel Sullivan, Executive Editor 
Vinoy Laughner, Managing Editor 

Barbara Gefvert, Senior Editor 

Tim Walsh, Senior Editor/Reviews 

Ann Record, Assistant Editor 

Gene Brawn, David T. McCIellan, 
Joel Hagen, Peter Olafson, Contributing Editors 

Howard G. Happ, Art Director 
Laura Johnson, Assistant Art Director 

Ann Dillon, Designer 
Alana Korda, Manufacturing Manager 

Michael McGoldrick, Advertising Director 

Barbara Hoy, Sales Representative 

Heather Guinard, Sales Representative 

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Amiga is a regislerted trademark of Commodore-Amiga. Eric. 

All other trademarks are the property of fiielr respective owners. 

O T993 Great Valley Products. Inc. 



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£ DRAWER 

A tip o' the hat to some broad-minded AW staffers who keep readers 
informed about what's good . . . and what's not. 



Reviews in Revue 

Reviewers are the backbone of comput- 
er magazine publishing (next to edi- 
tors-in-chief, that is). Most readers, 
eager to discover the latest products 
and updates for their systems, immedi- 
ately turn to the review pages upon 
receiving their issues. 

So, it should come as no surprise 
that since its early days, Amiga-World 
has devoted the lion's share of its edi- 
torial in each issue to reviews. In a 
burst of originality, those first editors 
dubbed the section "Reviews," which 
provided a fresh look at the products 
that were being developed for the 
burgeoning Amiga market. 

In this, our eighth year of publish- 
ing, AmigaWorld pays homage to those 
humble beginnings, while seizing the 
opportunitv to incorporate several 
changes in the review process to ensure 
that reviews will remain an essential 
part of the fabric of the magazine. 

First, we are pleased to announce 
that newly named Senior Editor Tim 
Walsh will manage the Reviews section 
in each issue. Tim, a nine-year veteran 
of the computer wars, has yet to en- 
counter a piece of software or hard- 
ware that he couldn't tame. Me will 
supervise an extensive network of 
qualified freelancers, who are itching 
to get their hands on the latest Amiga 
equipment. 

Many readers and vendors will recall 
Tim in his roles as technical guru of 
RUN and AmigaWorld, as well as the 
driving force behind the successful 
special products division at both mag- 
azines. He now steps up to oversee A W 
reviews, and brings to the position a 
unique understanding of products in 



the Amiga market. Developers should 
send relevant information and prod- 
ucts for review to Tim's attention. 

Second, we've also taken steps to 
ensure that the entertainment side of 
reviews will he gamely covered. Games 
connoisseur Peter Olafson, who main- 
tains a playful perspective at all times, 
will considerably expand his involve- 
ment in the magazine's game reviews. 

Beginning with this issue. Peter adds 
a new feature to the Game Preserve 
column: a rating system that will tell 
readers at a glance whether or not the 
game merits their consideration. In 
addition, he's included key informa- 
tion — prominently displayed with each 
review — regarding compatible operat- 
ing system(s), copy-protection, and 
hard-drive installability. This makes it 
easier for you to glean the information 
you need. 

As long-lime AW readers will attest, 
Peter, who has been a keen observer of 
the games market for many years, has 
had an influential voice in the mag- 
azine's games coverage in the past. His 
opinions, couched in a sharp-witted 
writing style, are well-read and well- 
respected throughout the industry. 

In addition to these improvements 
in the regular review columns, it is 
appropriate to note the efforts of Se- 
nior Editor Barbara Gefvert in this, our 
annual Review Issue. Barbara has as- 
sembled an impressive array of feature 
reviews, roundups, and buyers' guides 
on a variety of essential items — includ- 
ing monitors for every kind of applica- 
tion, scanning devices and support 
software, and font collections for any 
video-titling job, 

At this stage in the Amiga market, it 
is particularly relevant to rededicate 
ourselves to offering complete, 
unbiased, and timelv reviews. Com- 



modore has introduced its line of AGA 
machines, which solidly positions the 
computer manufacturer at the fore- 
front of the graphics and video field. 
Third-parly developers have followed 
with products and applications that 
take advantage of the machines' new 
capabilities. And we can anticipate that 
we'll see more new products based 
upon emerging technologies. 

Hut innovation oftentimes breeds 
uncertainty. This "new generation of 
machines" has raised questions and 
confusion — about software applica- 
tions, upgrade possibilities, compatibil- 
ity with existing hardware, and new 
developments on the horizon. 

AmigaWorld will address these con- 
cerns regarding current products, and 
monitor new developments in this 
industry. We feel confident that reviews 
will continue to rank highest in popu- 
larity among A W readers, and serve as 
a haven for weary Amiga travelers 
seeking reliable evaluations and truth- 
ful answers to their questions. 

As always, the lines of communica- 
tion are open here at. AmigaWorld. We 
welcome your comments and sugges- 
tions regarding these changes or other 
industry-related topics. 




Dennis Brisson 
Editor-in-Chief 



6 June 1993 




the Building Blocks of Better Video 



G-Lock Makes Your Video Connections With: 

• Genlock features for crisp overlays of scrolling, or static titles, 
graphics over live video and recording to videotape with high 
quality results. 

• Simple, intuitive mouse-driven software control panels. Full 
ARexx, CL1 interfaces and Workbench interfaces. 

• Software selection of 2 composite video inputs or 1 Y/C 
( S- Video | input. 

• Software selection or mixing of 2 audio inputs with bass and 
treble control. 

• Software -driven video processing amplifier, |proc amp) offering 
complete real-time signal processing control, including hue, 
brightness, saturation and more. 

• Software-controlled RGB color splitter compatible with video 
digitizers like Newtek's Digi-View™. 

• Built-in transcoder converts input video to composite, Y/C, 
RGB or YUV outputs. 

• Full ECS/AGA support for full compatibility with new A1200 
and A4000 systems! 

• Compatible with popular titling software like AmigaVision™, 
Scala-Multimedia 200™ and Gold Disk's Video Director™. 

• Separate versions available for standards around the world. 
Compatible with NTSC, PAL and SECAM. 




Video: A Cut Above 

G-Lock's six video control 
panels enable you to perform 
a wide array of special effects 
on still or motion video 
including ... 

► Colorizing for unique visual 
effects. 

► Creating your own "classic" 
black and white videos using the Colorkill feature 

► Color filter effects. 

► High-quality keying effects with bitplane or 
chroma keying. 

► Manual or automatic (ARexx triggered) fades 
and cuts. 

Audio: Sound Designs 

G-Lock's dual-input audio panel switches, mixes and shapes 
sound for effects such as ... 

► Combining stereo channels or separate inputs without a "Y" adaptor. 

► Treble and bass equalization. 

► Plus, add DSS8 or any Amiga created/modified digital audio 
samples to your final mix! 

Professional video processing + audio processing + a powerful 
but simple interface + creative special effects, make 
G-Lock the cornerstone of your multimedia productions! 



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OVERSCAN 

News, New Products and Networks 



A1200 Star of WOCA Show 



NEW YORK CITY— After a faltering start, 
Commodore feels confident that it has solved 
its AGA-production problems and is ready 
to meet demand. Support of (he new Ami- 
gas — and of older models — was in evidence 
among both developers and users at the 
World of Commodore Amiga show in April. 

CBM Spotlight 

Commodore VP of Engineering Lew 
Eggebrecht kicked off the event with a 
keynote address full of details about devel- 
opment plans. Topping CBM's new-prod- 
ucts list are lower- and higher-end Amiga 
4000s (RS# 150). The former (A4O0O/030) is 
identical to the original AdOQO except that a 
68030 processor replaces the faster 68040, 
and its price tag is S2399. Meanwhile, the 
A4000 Tower (due for release around Au- 
gust) adds a SCSI-2 connector, and provides 



two video slots, five Zorro slots, three PC 
slots, six drive bays, and 250-watt power 
supply in an upright case. 

A new monitor (see the editor's note at the 
end of "On Display," p. 30) and a SCSI-2 
hard-drive controller board should be ship- 
ping when you read this. Later this year, you 
can expect a DSP (Digital Signal Processor) 
board with stereo codec (compression/de- 
compression) via a 66 MHz AT&T 3210 chip; 
a family of double-speed multisession CD- 
ROM drives for the A1200, A3000/A2000, 
and A4000 (CBM is negotiating with Kodak 
for Photo-CD support); and a display en- 
hancer that deinterlaces AGA video modes 
and provides screen promotion to 1280x 
1024 and scan-rate conversion to 72 Hz. 

More CBM plans involve full-motion video 
and sound MPEG, plus software and possi- 
bly hardware players and an authoring sys- 



tem to support MPEG for title development. 
An impressive video-only MPEG "technolo- 
gy demonstration" seemed to be the biggest 
attention-getter at Commodore's booth. 

Though it will be at least a year until we 
see results, Eggebrecht said chip-set devel- 
opment will take a bi-level approach, with 
one set addressing low-end needs and an- 
other for mid-to-high-level use. A primary 
goal in development of the "AGA-plus" 
chips, he said, is to maintain backward com- 
patibility. The low-end chip set will retain the 
architecture of current Amigas, but provide 
improved video bandwidth and resolutions, 
up to 16MB programmable chip RAM, an op- 
tional "chunky pixel" mode (wherein infor- 
mation is at pixel, not bitplane, level), 
16/24/32-bit color modes, and more. 

The high-end chips will introduce a new 
architecture with on-demand DMA (letting 



News About News 

ASDG's Art Department Profession- 
al has broken new ground with version 
2.3, which reads and writes in the 
NewTek Video Toaster's framestore 
format. This allows direct framescore-to- 
Dl transfer capabilities via ADPro's 
ABEKAS digital video driver. ADPro 2.3 
also provides a direct memory link to 
DeluxePaint IV AGA and OpalPaint. 
This link lets you load images — of any 
format ADPro supports — from within 
the paint software. There, you can ma- 
nipulate them using both paint and AD- 
Pro tools, and then save them — again, in 
any format ADPro supports. (RS# 131.) 

Thanks to a software update, OpalVi- 
sion is fully compatible with the Amiga 
4000 and its operating system. All the 
bundled software has been improved. The 
paint program, in particular, has many 
new features, including more drawing 
modes, overscan painting, on-line help, 
and ARexx implementation. Download 
the version-2 software horn the OpalVi- 



sion BBS (310/793-7142) or get the nine- 
disk set by mail from Centaur for SI 0; an 
extra S10 gets you revised manuals that 
reflect the changes. (RS# 130.) 

In its latest incarnation, Electronic Arts' 
music-composition software has a short- 
er name: DeluxeMusic. The 2.0 version 
promises complete input, editing, and 
notation with multiple document sup- 
port, Hide/Reveal Project options, im- 
proved MIDI support, definable macros, 
and ARexx linking. DMusic now provides 
a stand-alone player module and over 20 
instruments with multiple play styles. 
Plus, you can attach any instrument sam- 
ple or MIDI channel to an instrument 
name. The program allows printing of 
your work through a WYSIWYG screen 
display that allows 48 staves and resposi- 
tioning of notes, chords, etc, (RS# 132.) 

Digita International made a splash in 
the AGA pool with Wordworth 2 AGA. 
The updated word processor supports 
all new screen modes and graphics — in- 



cluding those in HAM8 format, and any 
created with DPaint 4. 1 AGA— plus PCX 
files and shared palettes. Contact Digita 
for the £10 upgrade. (RS# 133.) 

Aladdin 4D 2.1 promises speedier 
rendering, group levels, and a line-types 
attribute, plus support for AGA ma- 
chines and files created with Art Ex- 
pression (Soft-Logik). Simply send your 
registration card ioAdspec to receive the 
free upgrade. (RS# 134.) 

Real 3D has a new version — and a new 
North American distributor. The Real 
3D 2 (S699, Realsofi) animation, model- 
ing, and rendering program offers par- 
ticle animation, collision detection, in- 
verse kinematics, skeletonal control, CSG 
and cubic b-spline objects. Other new 
features include a fully customizable ed- 
itor, savable macros, open architecture, 
and hierarchical object construction. A 
ProDraw dip converter allows import or 
2-D fonts and shapes. Contact Godfrey 
& Associates for details. (RS# 135.) 



To locate the vendors of products mentioned, see the "Manufacturers'/Distributors' Addresses" list on p. 94. 



8 June 1993 



SCALA 

Everybody's talking multimedia revolution. 
Allow us to light the fuse. 



A lot of apples were bruised 
when we first introduced 
Scala, the professional pres- 
entation package. 
With the new Scala 
MultiMedia MM200, they 
will be blown into oblivion! 

Let us introduce a few of the 
features that make Scala 
MM200 combined with the 
Amiga the world's most 
powerful multimedia 
environment: 



Scala EX 

A revolutionary new plug & 
play system, for the inte- 
gration of laserdisk, still 
video, MIDI, or CDTV sound 
in your Scala presentation. 
Extra EX'es, such as 24 bit 
graphic support and VCR 
control are also available. 




Scala Wipes 

More than 80 amazing, 
smooth and professional 
transitions provide possi- 
bilities previously unseen on 
the Amiga. 

Scala Sound 

Enhance your presentations 
with voice-over, music and 
special sound effects! Scala 
offers total control of 
recording and play-back. 



$Jfy Scala Shi ier 

Instant viewing i your 
whole presentati d You can 
see up to 112 pages at one 
time. Simply shuffle them 
around with the mouse! 

fjf Scala SnarVead 

A series of advanced tech- 
niques make Sea!, load and 
display pictures and anima- 
tions faster than any other 

package! 



%jj Scala Battens 

Creating interactive hotspots 
has never been so easy! Scala 
MM200 even includes full 
support of variables. 



Scala LINGUA 

The multimedia language 
Lingua with its close link to 
ARexx puts the advanced 
user in total control! 



AnlmLab 

With this bonus program you 
can make your animations 
play up to four times faster! 

The press writes: 

"The word multimedia has 
been battered and misused... 
Scala on the other hand, 
know exactly what multi- 
media is and what to do with 

it!" Amiga User International (UK) 

"...the best program in show 
business." Amiga Format (UK) 

"Scala MM200 is the kind of 
software that many serious 
users simply cant't afford to 
be without." Amiga Computing (UK) 

Scala MM200 

— for video titling, training, 
business presentations, inter- 
active use — or any multi- 
media combination. 





Far a close leek at the 
market leader In multi- 
media software, contact 
your dealer today! 




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Why make it harder? 



V E R 8 C A N 



you specify bandwidth for individual tasks). 
Along with a performance increase of 12-20 
times over ECS chips, the system promises 
compatibility with ECS. Also on the high-lev- 
el list are DRAM and VRAM support, multi- 
ple blitters, 1Kx1K screens to 72 Hz, and 
eight-channel 16-bit stereo sound. 

Attendees asked Eggebrecht questions 
about the meaning of these announcements 
for currrent Amiga owners. In a nutshell, he 
answered that it's possible some current sys- 
tems will be upgradable to AGA-plus, that 
NewTek may (hint!) be working on a Toast- 
er for the A4000, that configuring pre-AGA 
machines to run the AGA chip set is proba- 
bly cost prohibitive, and that there are no 
specific plans for an AGA CDTV. 

A1200 Here We Come 

Amiga 1200s and Centaur's OpalVision 
board — now with software version 2 (RS# 
130) — were two of the hottest selling prod- 
ucts at the show. But if there was a theme 
among third-party developers, it was A1200 
expansion. MicroBotics may have been the 
first to develop for the A1200, with its MBX 
1200 math-chip/RAM board |RS# 152), but it 
was definitely not the last. GVP, for instance, 
augmented its A1200 product line with the 
new A1200 SCSI/RAM + , a SCSI controller, 
RAM, and math coprocessor combo (see the 
review of GVP's A1230Turbo accelerator on 
p. 14). (RS# 153.) And DKB Software an- 
nounced DKB1202 (S189.95), featuring a 
math coprocessor, sockets for up to 8MB 
RAM, and a real-time clock (RS# 154). 

From Elite Microcomputers come three 
A1200 products |RS# 155). The Modular Ex- 
pansion System ($50) lets you fit not one but 
two expansion boards in the trap door of 



your A1200. The 2 to 3, IDE ($50) lets your 
A1200 access two external hard drives. 
Meanwhile, both the Power Box (for the 
A1200, $175) and the Back Pack (A600 and 
A500, $110) accommodate additional SCSI 
and IDE drives — and provide power supplies. 
CSA added to its product arsenal the new 
TwelveGauge ($699), a 50 MHz 68030^accel- 
erator and SCSI-interface board with room 
for 32MB of RAM and a 68882 math co- 
processor (RS# 156), Similarly, ICD's new 
Viper 1230 (from S499) offers an '030 accel- 
erator, battery-backed clock, sockets for a 
math coprocessor and up to 32MB RAM. It 
also has a DMA port that accommodates a 
plug-in card (Viper S2, $199) with internal and 
external SCSI-2 connectors. ICD also showed 
its Trifecta 500 and 2000 units — combination 
IDE, SCSI, and RAM expanders for the A500 
and A2000, respectively. (RS# 157.) 

Other Business 

Scala showed off MM210, an upgrade to 
its popular presentation package. Amiga- 
World erroneously reported that the earlier 
MM200 worked with the AGA chip set, but 
this upgrade, with its improved wipes and 
scripts, truly does |RS# 158). 

GVP demonstrated the 2.0 version of its 
IV24 graphics board, which now comes with 
full-featured Caligari 24 3-D software, plus a 
redesigned MacroPaint, and MyLad and 
Desktop Darkroom programs. GVP's DSS-8 
eight-bii sound sampling hardware now 
comes in a clear-plastic case along with new 
software (RS# 153). 

Across the way, Microdeal (RS# 159) 
made sound waves with Clarity-16, a 16-bit 
sound sampler for just $249.95, and with 
Videomaster, a sound-and-video digitizer. 



Meanwhile, Electric Theatre played up its 
delightful Keys to Music, an interactive pro- 
gram that teaches both music theory and 
performance (RS# 160). 

Migraph's new ColorBurst Color Hand 
Scanner ($549) drew a crowd (RS# 161). So 
did Utilities Unlimited, with demos of its Em- 
plant board, which promises to run Mac, PC, 
and Atari software with the insertion of the 
proper ROM chips (RS# 162). 

Soft-Logik showcased its newTypeSmith 
font editor and previewed the upcoming 3.0 
release of it's PageStream DTP program, 
which will support AGA colors and gradient 
fills as well as ARexx. (RS# 163.) 

AGA support was also in evidence at the 
Gold Disk booth, which featured the latest 
versions of its publishing programs, Profes- 
sional Page and Pagesetter 3. Gold Disk 
demonstrated AGA support on its Profes- 
sional Calc 2 spreadsheet and Video Direc- 
tor VCR-hookup as well. (RS# 164.) 

Moonlighter Software introduced a com- 
panion to its Ami-Back disk-backup program: 
Ami-Back Tools provides disk recovery and 
optimization utilities, and more (RS# 165). 

What's It All Mean? 

While small by industry standards, the 
New York show attracted an enthusiastic 
crowd and provided a convenient platform 
for companies to demonstrate Amiga sup- 
port. This market continues to prove its re- 
siliency with dedicated users and developers. 

Commodore, meanwhile, seems bent on 
attracting new buyers. In fact, CBM hinted 
that it will make even more announcements 
at the National Association of Broadcasters 
show in Las Vegas. Check out next month's 
issue for that report! — DB and BG 




ON-LINE 

SCAN 



By Tim Walsh 



L 



While AGA-specific files have 
materialized on the networks 
more slowly than I had anticipat- 
ed (see the Jan. '93 On-line Scan), 
I have discovered a wonderful 
compatibility of AmigaDOS 2.0- 
specific programs under 3.0. 

Enhancing the Workbench 
and operating system of your 
Al 200 or A4000 requires a cre- 
ative mix of a half dozen 3.0 
programs and a couple of 2.0 
programs — all of which are 
available on line. A quick 
search of AGA, A1200, and 
A4000 files on BIX, Com- 
puServe, GEnie, and Portal 
yields virtually all of the pro- 



grams that follow. And installa- 
tion rarely requires more than 
dropping a program's icon into 
the 3.0 WBStartup drawer. 

One program for AGA own- 
ers with ample RAM is MPEG 
Player, which lets you play JPEG 
animations under 3.0. As of this 
writing, no other program can 
deliver photographic-quality an- 
imations quite like MPEG Play- 
er — without extra hardware, 

A lesser utility called New- 
Look Menus gives 3.0-Work- 
bench and -applications drop- 
down menus a serious, profes- 
sional appearance. Similarly, the 
latest version of Exploding Lay- 



ers (often called "Exploding 
Windows") gives a dynamic look 
that no other single utility can 
match. Serving duty on many 
non-AGA Amigas, it works like a 
charm under 3.0. 

N'ewPop 4.0 AGA an update 
of the beloved time, date and 
other-information keeper, takes 
advantage of the AGA chip set. 
PKJudge is another 3.0-specific 
utility. A mode-promotion pro- 
gram that automatically resizes 
your screen as needed, it is a 
must for A 1200 and A4000 users. 

ViewTek, which works nicely 
under 2.0, is a mandatory item 
for 3.0. Currently at version 1 .04, 



this small graphics viewer dis- 
plays most common formats and 
plays animations. Installed as a 
tool using Tools Manager under 
3.0, it can save significant time 
reviewing graphics in a hurry. 

Finally, the 3.0-specific Win- 
dow Blender creates a resizable 
window on a custom or Work- 
bench screen with up to 256 col- 
ors. It seems to have little or no 
purpose beyond creating win- 
dows of blending, cycling colors 
and user-defined Mandelbrots, 
but its download numbers sug- 
gest that it's the reigning champ 
of eye candy. 

Before I sign off: Last month's 
On-line Scan mentioned that 
you could access AmigaWorld's 
area on Portal with the com- 
mand GO AMIGA;3-,1. The ad- 
dition of another vendor in the 
same area requires that you type 
GO AMIGA;3;2 instead to enter 
the Amiga World forum. Q 



10 June 1993 



OVERSCAN 



Objects cI'Art 

If you can't own the car of your dreams, 
at least you can drive it through an Imag- 
ine or LightWave animation. 

Exotic Cars Volumes I and II ($34.95 
each, AmiGrafixj each features one high- 
performance speedster, plus bump and 
image maps for tires, instrumentalion, and 
license plates; less-detailed objects for 
low-memory use; and full articulation. De- 
pending on which 3-D package you spec- 
ify, you'll also get special features de- 
signed to take advantage of that particular 
program. (RS# 121.) 

Cyclemuscles ($99, Spectronics) gives 
you gain without pain: two detailed body- 
builder caricatures in 24-bit and HAM ver- 
sions for use in Imagine. Running and 




Cyclemuscles can give your Imagine 
scenes a lift. 

walking cycles are included to get those 
muscles moving. (RS# 126.) 



Shadow Box 

Need more expansion options than 
your Amiga 500 allows? The Eagle 
Shuttle Board ($799, Spectronics) con- 
nects to the A500 to provide A2000- 
like possibilities. The black tower-style 
case offers a processor slot to accom- 
modate your Amiga's motherboard; a 
video slot and PC slots; four drive bays 
for mounting hard, floppy, and re- 
movable-media drives; and a 220-watt 
power supply for running it all. A sep- 
arate case is provided to house your 
Amiga's keyboard. 

Spectronics is promising another 
version later this year for those seeking 
similar options on the Amiga 600. 
(RS# 129.) 



Hebrew 101 

MA-PITOM Software's new interac- 
tive learning program MASPEAK-Jr. 
(S99) actually speaks Hebrew. The syn- 
thesized voice is adjustable in pitch and 
volume and has three default settings. 
With the help of four talking characters, 
this program aims to teach Hebrew with 
a directory of over 700 files of traditional 
and modern prayers and songs. If that 
is not enough, you can create your own 



texts by clicking letters with the key- 
board or the mouse while using the soft- 
ware's Hebrew Keyboard Map. 

Other features include the pronuncia- 
tion of accents such as Israeli ancl 
Sephardic Hebrew and a letter-identifi- 
cation mode that explains a letter's sound 
and use. The program requires Amiga- 
DOS 1.3-2.04, 1MB RAM, and a Work- 
bench 1.3 system floppy disk. (RS# 120.) 




OVERHEARD 



ShowBiz Expo West expects to attract some 
500 exhibitors (and many more video en- 
thusiasts) to the Los Angeles Convention 
Center June 5-7 for its tenth-anniversary 
event. Call 213/669-1811 for details. 



Seeing is Believing 

MacroSystemUS's new Retina can be the 

instrument of vision for your A2000, A3000, 
or A4000. The card comes in 2MB ($599) and 
4MB (S699) RAM configurations (the latter 
allows double-buffering). Because it does not 
require the video slot. Retina is compatible 
with NewTek's Video Toaster and Centaur's 
OpalVision. It can create a 16.8 million-color 
800x600 noninterlaced display — and can 
take 65,000 of those colors to create a 
1024x768 noninterlaced display, or 256 to 
display at 1280x1024 interlaced resolution. 
Retina lets you display Workbench at up to 
1900x1426, depending on your monitor. 
(The board's DB-1 5 VGA connector and ana- 
log RGB output make it compatible with 
1084, 1950, VGA, and better monitors.) 
What's more, Retina can display 24-bit im- 
ages while emulating Workbench, and any 
programs that open on Workbench (plus 
some that don't) can run at Retina resolu- 
tions. Finally, the board comes with VDPaint 
24-bit real-time paint software, and it sup- 
ports MacroSystemUS's VLab for 24-bit 
video digitizing. (RS# 125.) 

Picasso, from German developer v*/7- 
lageTronic, also promises increased color 
and pixel resolution for Amiga 2000, 3000, 
and 4000 owners. The Zorro II board 



promises to increase graphics performance 
significantly, even on an A4000. It offers 
several display options: a 24-bit (16.8-mil- 
lion-color) 640x480 display; 16-bit (65,536 
colors) in up to 800x600; plus an 8-bit 
packed-pixel mode (256 colors out of 
256,000, up to 1280x1024) and normal pla- 
nar modes with 2 to 16 colors. In conjunc- 
tion with its Intuition driver, you can use the 
Picasso display as a replacement for the 
Amiga's native display. The driver runs un- 
der AmigaDOS 2.x and 3.0 and promises 
compatibility with all "clean" 2.0-support- 
ing software. The board comes with 2MB 
display memory for linear or 64K-segment 
use. (RS# 124.) 

Harlequin Plus {Amiga Centre Scotland) 
offers everything the original Harlequin 
framebuffer does — and more. A full-screen 
four-bit overlay |16 colors from a 16.8-mil- 
lion-color palette) works independently of 
the main 24-bit display to give you 32-bit 
color resolution. You can now feed the Har- 
lequin's standard output through a 24-bit 
color lookup table to facilitate real-time 
gamma correction, color cycling, or color 
transformation. Among the board's modes 
are true-color 15- and 8-bit modes (for 
32,768 and 256 colors, respectively). 



There's also a pseudo-color 8-bit mode (256 
colors from a 16.8 million palette) with col- 
or cycling, in which the board can hold up 
to six full-screen images simultaneously, 
ready for instant display. Both the NTSC 
and PAL models offer several revised 
square-pixel screen resolutions. A 4MB lin- 
ear memory map is standard, as is a built- 
in genlock, and broadcast-standard output 
sync and signal levels.(RS# 123.) 

German developer X-Pert hopes to make 
magic on your system with its modular 
Merlin board (distributed by Spectronics). 
Providing resolutions up to 1280x1024 non- 
interlaced, the board fits into a Zorro II or 
Zorro III slot, providing compatibility with 
the A2000, A3000, and A4000. It features 
composite, Y/C, and 15-pin Sub-D output, 
and allows up to 4MB RAM (the 1MB con- 
figuration is priced at $699; with 4MB it's 
$999). The board comes bundled with a 
real-time Workbench emulator that sup- 
ports the A4000's AGA chip set, and TV- 
Paint Junior, a 24-bit drawing program. Two 
extension modules ($699 each) will plug 
onto the board to provide 24-bit digitizing 
(NTSC and PAL; 25/30 frames per second) 
and genlocking (video/computer-graphics 
overlay). (RS# 127.) 



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24-bit Video and Graphics System • 

The OpalVision™ 2.0 Main Board 



24-Bit fra 

resolution 
nony Amiga com 
ior enables stenc 



fading of pictures, colo. 

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■d display device with 16.8 million colors available for every pixel and a 

(580 PAL). An internal card, it operates automatically in NTSC or PAL 

■ video slot (including the Amiga 4000). It's powerful VLSI graphics 

host of transition effects and smooth, hardware-controlled 



j enecis. ine rjoaru s siuie-ui-inw-un utjsiyn unuws smuuu i 
'ing effects, and smooth, double-buffered 24-Bit animation. Includes 
' mingOpalPaint™, Opal Presents™ and OpalAnimMATE™ software. 



ew incredibly low price ... 

The Best is now even more affordable! 

OpalVision Video Processor™ 

; Plug this card into the OpalVision Main Board and add a wealth of additional features and 
functionality, it's a high-quality, real-time 24-Bit framegrabber which doesn't require a time-base 
corrector. And, it's a professional-quality genlocker with chroma and lunna keying. The 256-level linear 
transparency key allows the definition of transparency between two live video sources on a pixel-by- 
pixel basis for smooth vignettes, anti-aliased text and super-smooth effects. The Video Sandwich key 
allows you to insert chroma or luma keyed video between definable foreground and background 
layers of a 24-Bit image, ft also provides real-time color processing of live video and an unlimited 
number of transitions and Digital Video Effects using the included OpalVision Rooster Chip and 
software. These include cuts, wipes, fades, and special organic effects (soft- or hard-edged), plus an 
infinite range of flips, tumbles, picture-in-picture, page peels and image wrapping. 




.1 Video Suite™ 

A power-packed video and audic Hxing. switching, and transcoding device. This 1 9-inch, rack mountable 
unit is so advanced that it has its own internal computer and every aspect is software-controlled for precisely 
timed andaccuratefunctionality.The Video Suiteincludesawealth of inputs and outputs. There are9 video 
and 1 audio inputs available, plus the 24-bit frame store. Professional quality video inputs and outputs are 
available simultaneously in RGB or Y/R-Y/B-Y, Composite and S-Video. Choose any 2 sources from these 
inputs, assign a transition or special effect, and then trigger it manually or automatically. All of the transitions 
and effects provided by the OpalVision Video Processor are available for use by the Video Suite. 



Video Performance 

Video Input Standards 



(User selectable): 

Video Output Standards: 

RGB output Bandwidth 

Composite (Luma) Bandwidth 

S-Video Bandwidth 

Hue Control 

Video lock jitter 

Horizontal position adjust 

Horizontal lock range 

Subcarrier lock range 

Linear Keyer input speed 



NTSC. NTSC 4.4, PAL, SECAM 

NTSC, NTSC 4.4, PAL 

>7MHz 

4.5 MHz typical 

5.5 MHz typical 

+30 to -30 degrees 

<15ns 

-320 to +1000 ns 

+/- 1200Hz typical 

+/- 350Hz minimum 

>7MHz 



Audio Performance 

Audio Inputs 10 inputs (5 left, 5 right) line level 20k ohms 

Audio Outputs 2 outputs (Left, Right) line level 70 ohms 

Input Mode Differential for very low noise 

Frequency Response 20Hz * >20kHz 

Frequency Equalization points 59 Hz, 205 Hz, 790 Hz, 

2.95 kHz, 12 kHz Equalization Range +/- 15db 

Total Harmonic Distortion 0.05 % typical 

Mixing level contro!0to-70db(independentsoftwarecontrolledDAC's) 
VU meters 10 steps -20db to +3db range 



Save $600 on a complete OpalVision Video System! 

Buy an OpotVision Main Board prior to June 30, 1993 and receive coupons worth $600 off the Suggested List Price of Ihe Video Processor and Video Suite. 

Proof of Purchase required. Call Centaur for complete details. 



Let's Set the Record Straight 



OpalVision 2.0 

(Main Board, Video Processor " & Video Suite) 



NewTek 
Video Toaster '4000 






Hardware Operating Mode: 
Real-Time, 24-Bit RGB 



Supported Broadcast Standards: 
NTSC 
PAL 



Inputs/Outputs: 
9 Video Inputs 
5 Video Outputs 

Key in/out 
Master Sync In 




rating Mode: 
■ > Video 



Broadcast Stand 
NTSC 
NO 



/Outputs: 

4 Video Inputs 
2 Video Oulou 

NO 

NO 



Supported Video Standards: 


Supported Video 5k 


.ndo-ds: 


Composite Video 


Composite Vid 




S-Video 


NO 




Y/R-V/B-V (Ytrv / Betacam) 


NO 




RGB 


NO 




Audio Mixing 


NO 




S-Bond Equalization 


NO 





10 Audio Inputs (5 Stereo Pains) 
2 Audio Outputs (1 Stereo Pair) 



35ns Character Generator 



Compatible with all Amiga 30 software 

, 24-Btt, 16 million color real-time animation playback 
In multiple modes 



35ns Character Generator 



Includes Lightwave 3D 



HAM-S, Maximum 256.000 color animation playback 
generated" through Amiga 4000, not the Video Toaster Hardware 



Genlock with Luma keying 



Chroma Keying on an} 



Video Sandwich Keying 



Transparency Keying 



Integrates into the Amiga Environment 
Frame Butler accessible by all Amiga Software 



Numerous pre-set DVE effects 
Vector-based effects editor for unlimited custom effects. 



Optional de-interlacing of Video and Graphics 



Includes Award-Winning OpalParnt™ software with 
real-time 32- Bit painting 



Time-Base Correction unnecessary 
for Frame Grabbing 



Transparency Keying 

Takes over the machine 
Limited Frame Buffer accessibility to 3rd party so 

Numerous, pre-set DVE effects 
NO 



Includes Toaster Paint . Operates in Inferior quality HAM mode, 
renders to composite software for viewing 

Time-Base Correction usually required 
for Frame Grabbing 



$2099 



(Suggested Introductory Price) 



— ^OpalVision is Awesome!" .... "The verdict wasjinflrjimous. . . Brilliant. " 

— Camcorder — Amiga Shopper 

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"State-of-the-Art features" "The best painl program" 

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"The overall champion of Amiga paint programs." "...the finest, most versatile paint package on the Amiga." 

— Desktop Video World — TV Technology 



Free IMAGINE 2.0 software! 

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Board and get a free copy of 

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This is a limited time offer. 

Imagine 3D - the popular, besf-selling Amiga 3D rendering software now supports 
OpalVision! Andyou can get a free copy ($450 retail value!) if you purchase an OpalVision 
Main Board. This isn't a stripped-down, crippled version. This is a full version of the most 
powerful, award-winning 3D Tenderer, Imagine 2.0, now with full OpalVision compatibility 



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Accelerator 
combo board 

for the 
Amiga 1200. 



GVP A1230 Turbo + Accelerator 



Great Valley Products, $699. 
Hard-drive installable. 



System Requirements: A1200 
Installation: Easy 



Which Amiga model has six megabytes of 
RAM, comes with AmigaDOS 3.0, has full 
AGA graphics support, is faster than an 
A3000, and costs way under $2000? 
While the description almost matches an Amiga 
4000, the price of that particular dream machine is 
over S2500. With the new Al 230 Turbo+ acceler- 
ator from GVP, however, you can catapult the 
lowly .Amiga 1 200 to near-4000 levels of perfor- 
mance and expandability for almost SI 000 less than 
the cost of a 4000. 

The A1230 accelerator board provides a 
68EC030 processor running at 40 MHz, about 
one-and-a-half times as fast as the processor on the 
Amiga 3000. A major difference between this 
processor and that of the 3000 is that the EC '030 
does not have a built-in Memory Management 
Unit (MMU), Normally, an MMU is used to remap 
the Kickstart ROM to 32-bit RAM, but the A1230 
contains hardware that allows it to perform this 
task without an MMU. 

This board cannot, however, perform other func- 
tions made possible by an MMU, such as running 
the Unix operating system, utilizing the memory- 
management features of the A-Max Macintosh em- 
ulator, and using the Enforcer (a programmer's 
tool) or virtual-memory programs like GigaMem 
that allow you to use parts of your hard drive as 
extra memory. Moreover, the board uses a surface- 
mount processor, so you cannot simply substitute a 
full 68030 for the EC part. GVP has indicated that 
it may make a model available with a full 68030 if 
demand is sufficient, but since most of the func- 
tions requiring an MMU are pretty esoteric, most 
users will not notice the difference. 

SIMMply RAM 

The A1230 also includes a socket for a 68882 math 
coprocessor and two SIMM sockets for 32-bit ex- 



To locate the vendors of the products reviewed, see the 
"Manufacturers'/Distributors' Addresses" list on p. 94. 



pansion memory. The memory sockets can accom- 
modate only GVP's proprietary SIMMs, which the 
company sells in one-megabyte, four-megabyte, 
and six teen-megabyte sizes (the same modules used 
in its 68030 and 68040 accelerators for the A2000). 
You can use SIMMs of two different sizes in the 
same board, however, so it is possible to come up 
with the various configurations of 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 16, 
17, 20, or 32MB. 

GVP has indicated that its initial plan is to sell 
this board with a 68882 math coprocessor and a 
single 4MB SIMM. You will, of course, be able to 
add more memory just by plugging in another 
SIMM module (and setting one jumper if you add 
a 16MB module). Because the 16MB SIMMs are 
currently pretty rare and expensive, the most pop- 
ular memory configurations for the A1230 will 
probably be 4 and 8MB, at least for a while. My 
review unit actually had one 4MB and one 16MB 
SIMM, providing 20MB of fast RAM to go along 
with the standard 2MB of chip RAM. This total 
of 22MB is four more than you can fit on the 
motherboard of an Amiga 4000! 

The A1230 comes on a plug-in board that fits 
into the internal expansion slot of die Amiga 1200. 
Because this slot is covered by a plastic hatch, you 
don't need to disassemble the computer for in- 
stallation. .All you do is pry off the cover with a 
coin, insert the board, and snap the cover back on. 
This is easier said than done, however. Com- 
modore didn't provide a whole lot of room for the 
expansion slot, and GVP's board needs every bit 
of that space, so it's a tight maneuver. (Removing 
the board is actually harder than plugging it in — 
I had to push the edge of the connector with pli- 
ers as I pulled the board.) Still, the installation is 
much easier than taking the machine apart and 
putting it back together again. Even allowing for 
a brief struggle, the whole process took only about 
two minutes. 

After the A1230 is in place, you can start using 
it immediately, without having to install any soft- 
ware. GVP does, however, provide some utility 



H/une 1993 




software on a floppy disk to help yon 
take maximum advantage of the hoard. 
The disk includes Commodore's stan- 
dard hard-drive installation program, 
which makes it easy to move the soft- 
ware to the appropriate place on the 
drive if you so desire. 

Tools of the Trade 

The three main programs that come with the board 
are GVPCpuCtrl, MemTest and GVPInfo. 
GVPCpuCtrl is the program that allows you to move 
the Kickstart image into 32-bit RAM, It does not, 
however, let you bypass the accelerator board as it 
does with other GVP accelerators. {There is a hard- 
ware jumper available if you need to install an 
"on/off" switch For some reason.) The MemTest 
program checks the system's memory, which is 
helpful when installing an additional SIMM. 
Finally, the GVPInfo program provides informa- 
tion about your system's memory, drives, custom 
chips, and expansion boards. 

Adding the AI230 Turbo + board dramatically 
increases the speed of the 1200. IIAM8 animations 
that played back slowly on a slock system played at 
full speed after I added the accelerator. Tests with 
AIBB 5.5, a commonly used benchmarking pro- 
gram, show that the Amiga 1200 with theA1230 in- 
stalled is more than three times as fast as an unex- 
panded 1 200, and more than twice as fast as a 1 200 
with 32-bit fast RAM and a 14 Mhz G8882 math co- 
processor (see Table 1). 

It may be surprising, but the figures in Table 1 
showing that the 1200 with the PCMCIA memory 




card was slower than an unexpanded 1200 are no 
mistake. The PCMCIA interface may be fine for de- 
vices like modems and network adapters, but it cre- 
ates such a bottleneck that it is clearly not the way 
to go when expanding your memory on the 1200. 
Finally, when compared to Commodore's other 32- 
bit machines, our Turbo 1200 was about 1.5 limes 
as fast as the A3000, and not all that much slower 
than the A4000. 

GVP should be commended not only for the 
technical feat of cramming so much power onto 
such a little board, but for coming out with this 
product almost as soon as the Al 200 became wide- 
ly available. The 1200 is an impressive machine to 
begin with, but with the 1230 board, it is nothing 
less than astonishing. For about the same price as 
an A3000 close-out, and in a package not much 
bigger than the 3000's keyboard, you can have a 
system with more processing power, more mem- 
ory capacity, and far better graphics than the 
3000. The availability of the A1230 should go a 
long way towards convincing potential buyers that 
the low-priced 1200 is really a powerful and ex- 
pandable computer. 

— Sheldon Leemon 



GVP's A1230Turbo+ 
Accelerator can 
make your A1200 
perform like an 
A4000 — for about 
S1000 less than the 
cost of an A400Q! 



Table 1: AIBB Version 5.5 Results 



System 

1200 PCMCIA DRAM card 
1200 No Fast RAM 
1200 Fast RAM + 68882 
3000 25 MHz 68030 
4000 25 MHz 68040 



iteger 


Graphics 


Floating Point 


4.34 


1.6 


11.57 


3.64 


1.48 


7.27 


2.51 


1.26 


2.35 


1.57 


2.54 


1.58 


0.78 


1.07 


0.54 



Note: The values indicate the speed of the A1200 with the A1230 installed as compared to the other listed systems. 
For example, it is 1 .57 times as fast as an A3000 at integer operations, but only about three-fourths as fast as an A4000. 



AmigaWorld 15 



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Major update 

of multifeatured 

music 

software. 



Bars&Pipes Professional 2.0 



Blue Ribbon Saundworks, $429 

All models. 

Not copy protected. 



Minimum system: 2MB 
Hard drive recommended. 



A deep satisfaction of" reviewing Amiga 
software is watching programs evolve 
and mature. It is my pleasure to report 
that Bars&Pipes Professional has tome 
of age. .Already a full-featured composi- 
tion and scoring tool, the release of this 
major upgrade makes it the control cen- 
ter for all sorts of multimedia applica- 



tions. These include video scoring and 
editing, animation and graphics presen- 
tation, and devices such as the Video 
Toaster, IV-24, G-Lock, and SuperGen, 

Music for the Masses 

A multitude of improvements speed 
up the workings of Bars&Pipes Profes- 




The Wait is Over ... 

-. The addition of AMax II Plus to ReadySofts acclaimed series of Macintosh emulators brings powerful new 

capabilities to your Amiga. AMax II and AMax II Plus are hardware and software combinations that, once you 

supply Macintosh 1 28K ROMs, run almost all Macintosh productivity software at full speed Including Word, Excel, 

Quark XPress* and Illustrator*. A-Max II Plus is a n internal card which may be easily Inserted into a slot In your 

- Amiga 2000 or greater series computer. Once Installed, AMax II Plus provides AppleTalk* serial port, MIDI 

Y'C and disk compatlblity with the Macintosh. 

: ■ *■' The A-Max 2 .5 software also features: support for Amiga hard drives, mouse, keyboard, disk drives, serial and 
parallel ports, processor accelerators, RAM, all normal video modes and screen sizes, de-lnterlacers, playback 
. of Macintosh digitized sounds, Apple ImageWriter* emulation for 9 and 24 pin Epson* compatible printers, 
*" and access to Macintosh SCSI peripherals through a hard drive controller's SCSI port. 



AM.w II ind AWjji II Plut are tiademsr.1 of ReadySoll Incorporated. Apple, 
Macintosh. MM. Appl.Talk, LaterWrller. LoealTalk. ImageWlller all registered 
trademark* pi Apple Computer, Inc. All other trademark* aft the property ol 
their reipecllve owneil. 



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sional 2.0. -All graphical display and edit- 
ing features have been honed, seeming- 
ly to perfection: Windows scroll, resize, 
and update with dead-on accuracy and 
speed; the interface design has the 
amazing Workbench 2.0+ look and feel; 
score output (printing) is considerably 
improved and tuned up; the song-con- 
struction window, through which global 
editing and arranging tasks are per- 
formed simultaneously across multiple 
tracks, is vastly improved, as are the sec- 
tion, track, and list-editing functions. 

A lot of the good news has to do with 
B&P Pro's Tools, the program's unique 
method of doing almost everything, in- 
cluding input, output, transposing, cre- 
ating harmony and counterpoint, and 
making articulations and arpeggios, 



Multimedia producers will love Bars & 
Pipes Pro 2.0's Media Madness module. 

patch assignments, and looping and pat- 
tern passages. Many of the new tools be- 
long to the Media Madness control set, 
and are discussed below. 

Other new tools include Tempo Tap 
(receives tapped notes and creates an 
overall tempo map), Pattern (graphics- 
based pattern recording, editing, and 
playback — an alternative to linear track- 
based recording), ARexx Real Time In 
(converts ARexx messages into MIDI 
notes and feeds them into a track), and 
Pedal Meddler (simulates the three tra- 
ditional piano pedals). You can now or- 
ganize 'fools into as many as eight Tool 
Trays for each song, will: the arrange- 
ments and parameters of each tool saved 
along with the song. 

A number of new and revamped 
Accessories also complement B&P Pro 
2.0. These external programs, config- 
ured to work within the B&P Pro envi- 
ronment, include MMC (MIDI Machine 
Control), MTC (MIDI Time Code syn- 
chronization), AmiLink (controls the 
Amil.ink video-editing and machine- 
control software via ARexx), PIP (con- 
trols the IV-24 picture-in-picture func- 
tion), SyncPro (controls Blue Ribbon's 



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1 6 June 1993 



REVIEWS 



SMPTE sync box), SMoose and sMerFK 
(file converters for SMUS and MIDI for- 
mats), and Sun MITE and SnnSet (con- 
trol and allow access to SunRize's Studio 
16 software). Owners of Super Jam! or 
the One-Stop Music Shop will find 
Accessories that provide integration into 
the composing environment. 

Integration is the key word here. 
Every production task — from the sim- 
plest theme-music score to a complex 
video edit involving animations, syn- 
chronized music, sound effects, and di- 
alog — demands its own particular means 
and methods. Every producer has a 
unique stvle and preferred way of work- 
ing, One of die marvels ofB&P Pro's de- 
sign is its flexibility: There are always 
several ways to perform any task, and 
several levels of complexity and control. 
This means all functions are available to 
users at all levels of experience; it also 
means it is as easy to edit and arrange at 
the micro level as at the macro. 

Coordination Madness 

One of the challenges of multimedia 
production is that several different 
events must often occur at the same 
time. In the past, since most of us are en- 
dowed with only two hands, this has been 
an almost insurmountable problem, 
compounded by the fact that programs 
weren't designed to work together or 
even simultaneously. The Media Mad- 
ness Tool Set changes all that. These 
new enhancements allow for a wide 
range of simultaneous and synchronized 
media events. Wow! 

Media Madness works by assigning 
events to particular MIDI notes on a 
track, with each tool or controlled ap- 
plication having its own track. These 
triggers, or hits, are recorded into the 
song format, allowing precise timing in- 
ternally and externally. One tool, The 
Last Slide Show, shows IFF pictures on 
demand; ANIMal plays animations; 
Command Performance sends com- 
mands to an ARexx port, a file, or a de- 
vice (printer, serial, parallel); SunRize 
Out and SunRize Virtual Track control 
and trigger sample playback from either 
the 12- or 16-bit version of the board; 
Toast)' provides a graphical representa- 
tion of the Video Toaster's Switcher in- 
terface and a means for compiling 
ARexx scripts For all Switcher functions. 

Additional Media Madness tools can 
control GVP's G-Lock genlock and IV-24 
display board, Digital Creations' Super- 
Gen genlock, Scala (multimedia presen- 
tation program), Pioneer Optical 
laserdisc plaver, MediaPhile video-edit 
controller, and the Amiga's internal 
speech and eight-bit sound routines. 



As of this witing, I have been working 
with the new version for only two weeks, 
and have put it to strenuous use in a 
video-editing project that has inundated 
me. For the introduction to each of four 
tapes in a series, I had to create, trans- 
fer to video, and score a complex series 
of still frames, animations, and moving 
video. The audio tracks are a mix of nar- 
ration, sound effects, and music. Nor- 
mally, this would have taken multiple 
video edits, two additional audio inserts, 
as well as careful mixdown, limes four. 
By automating much of the procedure 



with B&P Pro's facilities, I cut produc- 
tion time for these segments at least in 
half, a quite respectable profit margin. 
The above is by no means an exhaus- 
tive list of features and capabilities. I 
keep feeling that I should have some 
constructive suggestions for improving 
the program or adding features, but I 
have been so busy exploring and work- 
ing with what is present that I am unable 
to generate a wish list. Bars&Pipes Pro- 
fessional has definitely come of age — 
mature, but by no means old. 

— Michael Hanish i 




50MHz 68030 CPU 

Memory Management 

68882 MATH CHIP 

32-BIT WIDE FastRAM 

and REALTIME CLOCK 

M1230XA 

Get the fastest and most cost effective 68030 accelerator for your Amiga 1200. The 
M1230 XA comes standard with 50MHz processor and MMU. Run your Amiga 1200 at 
twice the speed of an A3000 or A4000/30! Install a 68882 math chip running at 50MHz 
and blaze your way through raytraces and morphs or any heavy-duty floating point task. 
The XA uses an industry standard, 72-pin, 32-bit wide SIMM Memory Module and 
supports a huge 1 28 megabyte memory capability- the largest FastRAM space available 
for the A1200! It can use the same commonly available SIMM as the Amiga 4000! Don't 
get stuck with overpriced, proprietary SIMMs and don't cripple your machine with ultra- 
slow "credit card" memory. Available SIMM's range from 1 to 1 28 megabytes; speeds as 
fast as 40 nanoseconds! M1230 XA is also available with a 33MHz 68030 or 40MHz 
EC030 installed. All processors are socketed for upgrading. AVAILABLE NOW! 



68881 MATH CHIP 

32-BIT WIDE FastRAM 

and REALTIME CLOCK 



MBX 12002 




Install MBX 1 200z in the 1 50-pin expansion bay of your Amiga, and bring your A1 200 up 
to full power- with hardware floating point math and up to eight megabytes of 32-bit 
FastRAM. Standard on the MBX 1200z is a Motorola 68881 clocked at motherboard 
speeds (1 4.3MHz). Speeds up math-intensive operations by as much as 55 times (Al BB 
v5.0 Savage benchmark). 25MHz or 50MHz 68882'soptional. Adda 72-pin SIMM to MBX 
1 200z and average system performance will increase to 1 93% of a standard A1 200 (or 
to 688% of a standard A500!). SIMM sizes supported: 1 ,2,4, or 8 megabytes. SIMM type 
is identical to that used in the Amiga 4000. Don't slow down your system with sluggish, 
1 6-bit wide "credit card" RAM! Get true 32-bit wide FastRAM access via MBX 1 200z for 
maximum performance. The realtime clock/calendar circuit is backed by a long-life, 
replaceable lithium battery and responds to AmigaDOS time and date commands. 



MlCroBotiCS, IRC. 1251 American Parkway, Richardson, TX 75081 

"Amiga 1200' is a registered Irademark of Commodore-Amiga. "Ml 230 XA" and "MBX 1 200z' are MicroBotics trademarks. 

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AmigaWorld 17 



R E V i i; w s 



Provides Y/C 
input/output 
for theVideo 



Y/C Plus 

Y/C Plus, Inc., $949 

2.0 compatible. 
Accelerator compatible. 
Installation: Easy. 



Minimum system: A3000, 
Video Toaster. 



Owners of Super-VHS or IIi8 format 
video equipment who plan to buy a 

Video Toaster are often disappointed 
when they discover thai the Toaster uses 
only composite signals, and not the sep- 
arated video signals that their equip- 



ment is able to produce. Some of this 
concern is misplaced; yon gel the en- 
hanced resolution of Super-VHS (about 
400 lines as opposed to about 240 for 
regular VMS) regardless of whether you 
use a composite or separated signal. 



Now Introducing 




List Price $599 95 w/2MB 



Retina™ - 24BU Frame Buffer and Workbench Emulation 

Output; DB-15 VGA Connector - Analog RGB output Supports 15 - 75KHz Hot*. Freq. and 50 - 95 Vert Freq. 

800x600 full 24Bil 16.7 Million color Display Non-interlaced. Allows multiple 8, 16, and 2-iBit Resolutions. 

Full Workbench Emulation isith resolutions such as 1024x768 or 1280x1024 in 16 colors or even more! Up to 

2400x1200! Compatible with Amiga 1950,1960 and VGA and up monitors. 

Ram Configurations 2 Megabytes or 4 Megabytes. 4MB allows double buffering for animations. 

Compatible with the A20M, A3GO0, and A4000 series Amigas. Installs into any 100 pin Amiga slot does not use the 

video slot. Compatible with the Video Toaster and OpalVision. 

XI Paint is a realtime 2-IBit paint program that comes with the Retina™. 

The Rctina U! can still he used to display 24Bil graphics while emulating Workbench. 

Compatible with programs such as AdPro, Morph Plus, MultiFrame, TV Paint, IniageFX, ProPage, ProWrite, 

PageStreatn, DynaCadd, lmagine2.Q to name a few. 

The Retina™ requires the 10 or greater operating system. 




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List Price S499 22 

VLab™- RealTime Video Digitizer 

Digitizes a full frame in l/30thofa second or 1 field in ]/6Qlh of a second. Digitizes in full Broadcast NTSC or PAL 
Will save images as 24Bit, YUV, or any Amiga format including AGA modes like HamH. 
The VLab M has 2 Composite Video inputs. 
The VLab 1 "- 1 will work in the A2000, A3Q0O and the A4000 series Amiga Computers and docs not use the video slot. 
There is also a VLabl200 that allows owners of the Al 200, A500, A600 to also use the Vlab™. 
The VLab™ docs not require a frame accurate video player to hold the image still to digitize. 
The Vlab TVI will in real-time digitize any frame from the video source that yon have connected. 
You can digitize images from cable TV, Broadcast TV, VCR, Video Disk Players, and Video Cameras. 
The VLab™ is supported by popular Graphics software such as ASDG's Art Deptr* M enl Professional, TVPahrt by 
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There is a special monitor window that allows you to see the video signal that you have attached to the VLab in a 
window on the VLab screen in up to 16 gray scales. 

The Vlab™ software requires the 2.0 operating system or higher and is fully ARexx compatible. 
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Thf real benefit of separating the lu- 
minance (the brightness or Y compo- 
nent) signal I'rom the chrominance (the 
color or C component) comes in the 
form of reduced color bleeding and dot 
crawl in areas of high color saturation. 
'Iliese improvements, while perhaps not 
as significant as the increased resolution 
afforded by S-VHS and Hi8, are nothing 
!o sneer al. Mavbe dial is why one of the 
most-requested additions to the Toaster 
is Y/C input and output capability. 

Separate Plans 

While NewTick hasn't announced any 
plans to offer a Y/C version of the Toast- 
er, Y/C Plus, Inc. has come out with the 
next best thing. Its Y/C Plus board takes 
the incoming Y/C signal from your sep- 
arated composite-video equipment, en- 
codes it to composite, sends ii through 
the Toaster, and then decodes the signal 
from the Toaster back to Y/C. 

The way it works is simple. There are 
six mini-DIN (S-Video) connectors on the 
rear bracket of the Y/C Plus board, four 
for Toaster inputs 1—4 and two for "Pro- 
gram Out." Each input channel has a 
jumper that allows you to select input via 
the standard composite Toaster connec- 
tion or through the Y/C Plus. For the 
channels that are set to Y/C input, the 
normal Toaster inputs are converted to 
composite outputs, which provides an- 
other source (or monitoring these inputs. 

There is no Y/C output for Preview, 
but since you don't normally record that 
channel, you should be able to make do 
with the standard composite output. In 
addition to the Y/C outputs, the Toast- 
er's normal composite output is still ac- 
tive. This output is terminated, however, 
which means you should not use it with 
devices like monitors and VCRs that are 
themselves terminated. The Y/C Plus 
manual suggests i hat you might use a 
video-distribution amplifier to isolate 
this terminated line when employing ter- 
minated devices. 

Installation of the Y/C Pius lakes only 
a lew minutes. The hoard plugs into the 
standard Amiga expansion slot that is 
closest to the power supply. It connects 
to the Toaster via a couple of ribbon 
cables that run from headers at the top 
or the Y/C Plus board to headers along 
the top of the Toaster board. After plug- 
ging in the board and configuring the 
jumpers for the desired combination of 
inputs, enable termination in the Toast- 
er Preferences screen for every S-Video 
input. There is no software control of 
any of the Y/C Plus functions. 

Many video peripherals such as TBC 
(time-base corrector) cards plug into the 
Amiga's IBM slots, so there is no conflict 



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between them and the Y/C Plus. There is 
a conflict, however, between the Y/C Plus 
and PreVue Technologies' Breadboard, 
which provides a composite "key out" and 
delay lines for timing the Toaster into an 
existing switcher. Both of the boards plug 
into header J P-2 on the Toaster. 

While you might use the Breadboard 
with Y/C Plus by fabricating a "Y" cable, 
this isn't too feasible a scenario. The 
Breadboard provides a 400-ns delay to 
compensate for the normal Toaster de- 
lay, but the Y/C Plus introduces an ad- 
ditional 1360-ns delay, which is beyond 
the range of the delay lines on the 
Breadboard. If you're planning to time 
a Y/C Plus Toaster into an existing 
switcher, you'll need to find another way 
to compensate for this total 1760-ns 
delay. According to Y/C Plus, Inc., how- 
ever, the board will work in a 3000 sys- 
tem in which a Toaster Cozzy is used. 

Testing, 1,2,3... 

To test the Y/C Plus, I installed it in a 
Toaster edit system consisting of two 
Panasonic AG-7650 S-VHS players and 
a 7750 S-VHS recorder. In operation, 
the Y/C Plus lived up to its claims of re- 
duced color artifacts and dot crawl. The 
difference was particularly noticeable 
when using one of the framebuffers to 
view Toaster graphics, such as the Toast- 
er logo that appears when you first boot 
up, or titles from the character genera- 
tor. The reduction in color smearing 
did, as advertised, make vertical and 
horizontal lines appear sharper. 

The manual states that using a TBC 
with Y/C inputs and outputs will increase 
picture quality, but we saw no difference 
between feeding the Y/C Plus from the 
Y/C or composite output of the decks — 
the degree of improvement appeared to 
be the same in each case. It appears, 
therefore, that if you use a TBC that 
does a good job of encoding the original 
separated video to composite, you will 
not lose any of the benefits that result 
from the Y/C Plus decoding the Toast- 
er's output to separated video. 

You will have to decide, of course, 
whether picture improvements that the 
Y/C Plus provides arc sufficient to justi- 
fy its price tag. Although these improve- 
ments are incremental rather than 
night-and-day, professional video pro- 
ducers seeking to improve the quality of 
their product are likely to find it well 
worth the price. Don't, however, expect 
this board to make up for poor editing 
equipment. If the Y/C Plus costs more 
than your edit decks, you will probably 
be better served spending the money on 
upgrading your basic gear. 

— Sheldon Leemon 



expansion box 
for the Video 



Toaster Cozzy 

Heifner Communications, S635 

2.0 compatible. 
Accelerator compatible. 
Installation: Easy. 



Minimum system: A30OO, 
Video Toaster. 



My, how time flies. Incredibly, the 
sluggish Amiga 2500 was king of 
the hill when the Video Toaster was de- 
signed, but by the time the board made 
it to market, Commodore had already 
released the A3000. The 3000 seemed 



like the ideal system for the Video 
Toaster, thanks to its built-in display en- 
hancer and fast 68030 processor. 

Unfortunately, there were two obsta- 
cles to putting the Toaster in a 3000. 
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First, the downsized A3000 housing cov- 
ers up the most important of the six 
BNC connectors on the Toaster. Second, 
the power supply on the 3000 is not ad- 
equate for a Toaster system, particular- 
ly one equipped with expansion boards 
such as time-base correctors (TBCs). 
There were ways to get around these 
problems, but they weren't pretty, They 
included modifying the Toaster board 
or cutting a piece out of the 3000's met- 
al case, and replacing the power supply 
with a heftier model. 

Toastin' and Coastin' 

Heifner Communications has come up 
with a far better way to add a Toaster to 
your Amiga 3000, one that doesn't in- 
volve renting the Jaws of Life. The 
Toaster Cozzy is an external box that fits 
on top of the A3000. It contains a circuit 
board with two video slots and a black- 
burst generator, plus a supplementary 
45-watt power supply. This neatly solves 
both the case and power-supply prob- 
lems, all without voiding any warranties. 

Installing the Toaster Cozzy is simple. 
Just connect the shielded ribbon cable 
that runs out of the box to a daughter- 
card, and plug that card into the video 
slot of the 3000. Then, installing the 
Coaster card in the Co7./.\ is just like in- 
stalling it in an A2000. Remove the lour 
screws, open up the box, and plug the 
Toaster into the open slot. There are 
even labels on the back of the Cozzy for 
the six BNC connectors on the Toaster. 
Plug in the power cable, turn it on, and 
you're ready to go. 

Operating the Toaster in a 3000 with 
the Cozzy is no different from using it in 
a 2000, except that the 3000 is much 
faster than a stock 2000. The built-in 
black-burst generator provides the Cozzy 
system with another advantage over the 
2000 system. On the back of the Cozzy, 
there are five BNC connectors that pro- 
vide synchronization signals for the 
Toaster and up to four video devices. All 
of your video inputs into the Toaster 
must be synchronized in order to switch 
between them, and using a black-burst 
generator is the preferred way of achiev- 
ing this synchronization. 

The only compatibility questions you 
might have about the Cozzy involve 
boards that plug into the headers on the 
Toaster, such as PreVue Technologies' 
Breadboard or the Y/C Plus, Heifner 
says that it has been working with those 
two companies, and it can make a spe- 
cial adapter thai allows you to install a 
board like the Breadboard into the sec- 
ond slot in the Cozzy, Aside from this, 



however, the second slot is currently in- 
active, and cannot be used for a board 
like Opalvision that uses the video slot. 
Amiga 4000 owners should also note 
that the Toaster Cozzy won't allow them 
to use a Toaster, at least not yet. Al- 
though it overcomes the problem with 
the cramped living conditions, the hard- 
ware and software of the 4000 are dif- 
ferent enough that they prevent the cur- 
rent Toaster from working. 

Beauty In a Box 

The Toaster Cozzy provides a seemingly 
elegant method of adding a Toaster to 
an A3000, and prospective Toaster own- 
ers will want to work out the costs and 
benefits of using a 3000 instead of a 
2000. Although the price of the Cozzy 
seems expensive for a mere expansion 
box, when you consider that it includes 
a five-output black-burst generator, nor- 
mally S300 or more, the cost seems 
much more reasonable. 

With the Amiga 3000 earmarked for 
eternity in the computer orphanage, the 
Toaster Cozzy provides soured owners 
with some relief in the form of Toaster 
support. Faced with the alternatives of 
selling their current system or redesign- 
ing them with a Milwaukee Sawzall, these 
owners are likely to Find the Toaster 
Cozzy a much more palatable, not to 
mention civilized, solution. 

— Sheldon Leemon 



Pagesetter 3 

Gold Disk, S99.95 
Hard-drive installable. 
No copy-protection. 
2.0 compatible. 
Accelerator compatible. 
Minimum system: 1MB RAM (1.5MB 

for A600HD systems), dual floppy 

drives. 
Recommended system: 2 + MB RAM, 

hard drive, accelerator. 



Basic desktop publishing with paint 
program and word processor. 



With the release of PageSetter3, Gold 
Disk is following the proven mar- 
keting strategy of offering "more for 
less." While this latest version retains the 
features that made earlier PageSetter re- 
leases popular, PageSetter 3 is packed 
with a surprising number of new features 
and capabilities. 

A Flexible Package 

All of these new features arc wrapped up 
in the familiar "frames" interface used in 



previous versions of PageSetter. This sys- 
tem requires that text flies or graphic 
objects placed in your document reside 
within a box. Once these boxes are cre- 
ated and filled with graphics or text, they 
can be resized, linked together, and 
moved about the document easily. 

Text to fill those boxes can come from 
a variety of sources, thanks to PageSet- 
ter 3's robust support for a wide range of 
word-processing formats. Text files from 
WordPerfect (both Amiga and MS-DOS 
versions), ProWrite, excellence!, scrib- 
ble! and Transwrite can all be imported 
into the program. For on-the-fly text 
generation, a text-entry tool is included 
for dashing out short bits of text such as 
headlines, titles, and subheads. 

Unfortunately, that same import flex- 
ibility is absent as far as graphics are 
concerned; only IFF bitmaps and Pro- 
fessional Draw clips are supported. 
While PageSetter 3 will display color 
graphics (up to 1 6 colors) on any Amiga, 
Al 200/4000 owners receive the added 
bonus of being able to display 256-color 
graphics on screen in their documents. 

While graphics add impact and in- 
crease the readability of your document, 
font handling is truly at the heart of any 
desktop-publishing svstem. PageSetter 3 
supports both Compugraphic and Post- 
Script Type 1 fonts, although only one 
font is shipped with the program: CG 
Times. 

The product packaging claims that 
PageSetter 3 supports PostScript Type I 
fonts; unfortunately, that support re- 
quires the use of the included "font man- 
ager" utility (created by Eyo Sama, former 
publisher of AmigoTimes), which converts 
Adobe Type 1 fonts into Compugraphic 
format fonts. The font manager is easy to 
use, although Gold Disk should have 
hard-coded support for PostScript Type 
1 fonts into the program. 

For desktop-publishing applications, 
the proof is in the printing. PageSetter 
3 offers more flexible printing features 
than any previous version of PageSetter, 
supporting color output to a wide vari- 
ety of printer types, including Post- 
Script. 

I tested PageSetter 3 on a number of 
different output devices, including a 
9-pin clot-matrix printer, an HP-com- 
patible laser printer and an inkjet 

printer, The Compugraphic font output 

was crisp and legible in all of the sam- 
ples I printed. Speed was a problem with 
Continued on p. 68. 



22 June 1993 




High resolution color scanners. 
New from Epson. 



Epson introduces eyes for Amiga. 
Coupled witli an ASDG ADPro driver, Epson 
offers the best flatbed scanning combination 
available for Amiga. 

Greater speed and higher resolution is a 
given for both models, and whether you opt 



for the 600C or 800C model, you always get all protected by Epson's one-year warranty, 
24-bit single pass color scanning with almost So drop by your computer store soon 

17 million colors. But Epson also offers an and take a look or call 1-800-289-3776 and 

automatic document feeder attachment and ask for representative 81 for more informa- 

an add-on transparency unit, which give you tion. Just don't be surprised if you end up 

the flexibility to scan slides. And of course it's with an Epson scanner. 



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WHAT'S THE BEST monitor for 
your computer? That question is 
not as easy to answer as it might 
seem. It's a little like asking what is 
the best car to buy. If you're 20 
years old and single, the answer 
might be a Miata, but if you're 40- 
something with five children, a 
Voyager is probably a better choice. In selecting a 
monitor, as with choosing a car, you must consider 
suitability as well as quality. 

This is especially true of choosing a monitor for 
use with an Amiga. Although the various Amiga 
models can be made to work, after a fashion, with al- 
most any kind of monitor out there, very few moni- 
tors work well with all Amigas in eveiy situation. To 
match a monitor with your Amiga, you must first un- 
derstand what kinds of signals the Amiga can gen- 
erate, and which of these signals the various types of 
monitors accept, 

Display Details 

All Amigas can produce the three main types of sig- 
nals computer monitors accept: digital RGB, analog 
RGB, and composite signals (though some models 
require the Commodore 520 adapter for the last). 
Therefore, the critical factors for determining 
whether or not a particular mode will display prop- 
erly on a certain type of monitor are the horizontal 
and vertical scan rates that the mode produces. (For 
details on the Amiga's display modes, see "In The 
Mode," p. 31.) 

The original Amiga 1000, 500 and 2000 models 
output their signals at a single scan rate, which dif- 
fers slightly depending on whether you are using 
the US display standard (NTSC) or the European 
one (PAL). These frequencies are 15.72 KHz hori- 



zontal and 60 Hz vertical for NTSC; 15.72 KHz hor- 
izontal and 50 Hz vertical for PAL. Because these are 
the same frequencies standard televisions employ, 
you can use either composite or RGB monitors with 
these modes. 

In Amigas that have the ECS or AGA chip set 
(which includes most newer AoOOs, A2000s, and 
A3000s, and all models released after the A3000), 
the display output frequencies are programmable. 
Under Workbench versions 2.0 and later, Com- 
modore offers a wide variety of new display modes, 
most of which require a special type of monitor. Of 
these new modes, only Euro36, which has a scan rate 
of 15.76 KHz horizontal and 73 Hz vertical, has a 
chance of working on CBM 1084-style monitors — 
and it works only on models that have a wide range 
of vertical adjustment. 

Several new modes are meant to work with stan- 
dard VGA monitors. These modes all have a hori- 
zontal scan rate of about 31.4 KHz, and a vertical 
scan rate of about 60 Hz, except for DblPAL which 
has a vertical rate of about 50 Hz. These rates arc 
only approximate because some versions of the mon- 
itor drivers use slightly lower frequencies to boost the 
overscan area. If your monitor has trouble adjusting 
to these slightly varied rates, there is a VGA-only 
driver you can use to ensure that all of these modes 
use more standard VGA rates, although it comes at 
the cost of some size and positioning flexibility. 

The new ECS VGA modes are Euro72, which of- 
fers a 640x400 noninterlaced display with a 70 Hz 
refresh (for even less flicker), and the misnamed 
Multiscan mode, a VGA clone that offers a 640x480 
noninterlaced display at a 60 Hz vertical scan rate. 
With the ECS chip set, these modes are limited to a 
maximum of four colors out of 64, but on the A1200 
and A4000 AGA machines, you can display 256 col- 



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MONITORS 



ors from the full palette oF16.7 million. AGA machines 
also also offer two new VGA-type display modes, 
DblNTSC and DblPAL— 31 KHz versions of the stan- 
dard NTSC and PAL modes that give yon noninter- 
laced versions of hi-res mode. 

Using one of these new modes with a VGA monitor 
is one way to get a noninterlaced display with more 
than 400 lines of horizontal resolution, but it is not a 
perfect solution. For one thing, your programs must 
either let you select one of the new modes or run on 
the Workbench screen in order for you to display them 
on the VGA monitor. This problem is alleviated some- 
what on the AGA machines, which provide mode pro- 
motion to allow most NTSC or PAL programs to dis- 
play in DblNTSC or DblPAL. The real problem with 
die Software/VGA solution, however, is with self-boot- 
ing programs like games that do not open from the 
Workbench. Because such programs take over the ma- 
chine, there is no way to convince them to appear 
other than 1 5 KHz PAL or NTSC modes. If you are de- 
pending on programmable modes to give you a non- 
interlaced VGA display, you'll also need a monitor that 
handles the lower scan rates in order to use self-boot- 
ing software. 

One alternative to using new modes to obtain a 31 
KHz display is to buy a device that converts the nor- 
mal 15 KHz display to 31 KHz in hardware. 
MicroWay's flickerFixer ($295) and Commodore's 
A2320 ($291) for the A2000, and ICD's Flicker Free 
Video ($299.95) and Micro R&Ds Flicker Blaster 
(S299.95) for the A500 and .42000, do just that. No 
such devices are available yet for the A600, A1200, or 
A4000, and none are needed for the A3000, which has 
built-in 31 KHz output capability. With such a display 
enhancer, all normal 15 KHz modes are converted to 
31 KHz. Noninterlaced modes are scan-doubled 
(which removes the black lines between rows), and in- 
terlaced screens are deinterlaced (lor flicker-free view- 
ing). Because this operation takes place in hardware, 
it works with all software, even games. In addition, 
most of these displav enhancers turn themselves off 
when the computer goes into one of its own 3 1 KHz 
modes, so they are compatible with these modes as 
well. The only modes that do not work with these de- 
vices are SuperHires and modes that use a horizontal 
scan rate of other than 15 or 31 KHz. 

Currently, the only display mode that uses an un- 
usual horizontal scan rate is Super72. This mode uses 
a 24.6 KHz horizontal scan rate, and a 72 Hz vertical 
rate, to provide display sizes from 400x300 noninter- 
laced to 996x628 interlaced. The ECS version is lim- 
ited to four colors, while the AGA version can display 
the full 256 colors. The only type of monitor that can 
be used for this mode is a multiscan monitor whose 
horizontal scan range includes 25 KHz. For further in- 
formation on how different types of monitors work 
with the various display modes, see the table entitled 
"Show of Support." 

Fixed-scan Monitors 

Now that we've examined the type of signals that the 
Amiga can produce, let's take a look at the various 
types of monitors, and see which Amiga modes they 
work with. Composite color monitors are generally the 
least expensive type of monitor to use with the Amiga. 
Manv people already own such a monitor — whether it 



is a Commodore 1802 from an old C-64 system, or just 
a television set — when they buy their first Amiga. Be- 
cause the A1000, A600, and A1200 have color com- 
posite output, you can hook them up directly to a com- 
posite monitor or TV. For other Amiga models, you'll 
need a 520 display adapter to make the connection. 

Acomposite monitor will allow you to use the default 
NTSC or PAL modes, but will not display any of the 
new modes available through Workbench versions 2.0 
and later. And though a composite monitor can display 
the full range of colors on the Amiga because it com- 
bines the red, green, and blue components of the sig- 
nal, it cannot display the sharp detail needed for work 
with 80-column text. Therefore, a composite monitor 
is suitable if you use your Amiga strictly for game play, 
or if you use the computer primarily for video work, 
because it accurately reflects how your computer 
graphics will look on video. But if you want to mn pro- 
ductivity software like word processors and such, plan 
on using a composite monitor only as a stop-gap un- 
til you can afford an RGB monitor — one that preserves 
the red, green, and blue signals and therefore gives 
better clarity. 

Be aware, though, that not all RGB monitors are 
created equal. There are several varieties of fixed-si an 
RGB monitors, some of which are not really suitable 
for use with the Amiga. One example is the old CGA 
color monitor developed for use on the IBM PC. This 
is a digital RGB monitor, which means that although 
it can display sharp text, it can handle a maximum of 
eight or 1 6 colors. Because you probably chose your 
Amiga in part because of its colorful graphics, using 
this kind of monitor is self-defeating. Still, if you al- 
ready have a CGA monitor, it's nice to know that you 
can use it for your Amiga in a pinch, providing that you 
can come up with the proper cable. Companies like 
Redmond Cable often make custom cables if your deal- 
er does not carry the type yon need. 

The proper type of fixed-scan monitor to use with 
an Amiga is an analog RGB variety. Moreover, to dis- 
play the default NTSC or PAL modes, the one you 
choose must have a horizontal scan rate of about 15.75 
KHz. This combination is pretty rare — only a few 
manufacturers, including Magnavox and Thompson, 
ever made such a monitor. The only such model cur- 
rently in production — at least as far as we could find — 
is Commodore's own 1084S. Priced at S388, the 1084 
is the least expensive analog RGB alternative for most 
Amiga models. It is also quite versatile. In addition to 
RGB video, it provides stereo sound output, compos- 
ite video, and separated Y/C composite video (S-YI IS 
and Hi8 formats). This means that your computer 
monitor can double as a video monitor. Although 
most 1084 models have a full range of important con- 
trols — such as mode (digital or analog RGB and com- 
posite) and horizontal and vertical size and position- 
ing — there are a lot of 1084 models, each with 
different variations on the controls. For instance, the 
most current model as of this writing, the 1084S-D1, 
has all these controls on the back of the unit. The 
1084D, however, has a handier placement of mode 
switches on the front. 

One major drawback of the 1084 is its .41 mm dot 
pitch, which means that it is not quite as sharp as some 
other monitors. Its other major failing, though, is its 
inability to handle anv of the new 640x400 noninter- 



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MONITORS 



laced modes. And because the 1084 does not accept 
the output of flicker-reduction devices, this means that 
the monitor's display will always flicker in high reso- 
lution. What's more, there are three different types of 
1084 cables, and the one you require depends upon 
the particular 1084 variation you have. 

These days, the most popular type of fixed-frequency 
RGB monitor is the VGA monitor used on IBM sys- 
tems. Although this accepts analog RGB input, it syn- 
chronizes only to a signal whose horizontal scan rate 
is about 31.5 KHz. This means that while it displays 
the new 640x400 noninterlaced modes with no prob- 
lems, in most cases it cannot display the default NTSC 
or PAL modes. The only exceptions are the Amiga 
3000, which has a built-in scan converter, and flick- 
er-reducer-equipped A500 and A2000 computers. 
For these computers, a VGA monitor is an excellent 
solution, as it can display all modes except Super72, 
Euro36, and NTSC/PAL SuperHires. Because this is 
i he dominant monitor in the industry today, there is 
a dizzying array of models and styles from which to 
choose, and the menu changes almost daily. Selec- 
tion is highly subjective, so my best advice is to try 
them out (because they are IBM compatible, you 
need not limit yourself toan .Amiga dealership). One 
feature to look for among these monitors is a wide 
range of horizontal size and position adjustments. 
Many VGA monitors are not made to display from 
edge to edge, and therefore leave a thick black bor- 
der (which some Amiga owners find annoying) 
around the screen. 

For the majority of Amigas, which do not have hard- 
ware scan conversion of 15 KHz modes to 31 KHz, a 
VGA monitor is a much more dubious choice. On the 
A4000 and A1200, a VGA monitor will display most 
programs that ran from the Workbench via Mode Pro- 
motion, which "hijacks" most requests For NTSC or 
PAL screens, and converts them to DblNTSC or 
DblPAL, It will not, however, be able to display self- 
booting programs, such as games that do not run from 
the Workbench. On ECS machines, a VGA monitor 
works only with programs that run on the Workbench 
screen, and not with most programs that open their 
own custom screen. On either AGA or ECS machines, 
you'll still need a 15 KHz monitor to perform the 
initial setup, because with a VGA monitor you cannot 
even see the default Workbench screen from which 
you choose a 31 KHz mode! 

MULTISCANNING MODELS 

Since the various .Amiga display modes use different 
horizontal scan rates, the optimum solution is to find 
a monitor that handles all these rates. At one time, 
multiscanning monitors that handled the Amiga's 
range of frequencies (15-31 KHz) were very popular. 
Unfortunately, when IBM's 15 KHz mode (CGA) dis- 
appeared, so did most low-scanning multifrequency 
monitors. .Although you may find a few of these mon- 
itors on store shelves, or sold as used equipment, very 
few are still being manufactured (see the sidebar 
"Where Have All the Multisyncs Gone?"). Of the re- 
maining models, the least expensive is Commodore's 
"own 13-inch I960 (S699). (The inches indicate the 
measurement of the screen diagonally from corner to 
corner.) Because the 1960 works with all Amiga display 
modes, it is an excellent choice for use with anv Ami- 



ga model. Other advantages include a .28mm dot pitch 
for a sharp, clear display, and an "overscan" switch 
that lets you extend the display from one edge to the 
other, eliminating the black border. Unlike current 
1084 models, all the 1960's controls are at the front — 
a definite plus. About the only thing that the 1960 
lacks is sound capabilities, but this deficiency can be 
easily remedied with a pair of inexpensive amplified 
speakers, such as those sold for tise with Sony Walkman 
radios and IBM PC sound cards. 

For diose Amiga owners with special needs, there are 
a couple of multiscanning alternatives to the 1960. 
IDEK makes 15-, 17-, and 21 -inch monitors that 
should satisfy those who need a larger-than-1 3-inch 
display. IDEK loaned AmigaWorld a 17-inch MF- 
5017sp for this article; it is the finest monitor I have 
seen on an Amiga. Despite its large display size, the 
unit itself is rather compact. It uses a Flat Square Tube, 
so that its screen is perfectly flat, rather than slightly 
convex as are those of most monitors. This substan- 
tially reduces distortion, particularly at the corners, 
and eliminates the bowed look you get with many mon- 
itors. The display is very bright, and the .31mm dot 
pitch makes it sharp. The monitor has controls for ad- 
justing horizontal and vertical size and position, which 
are placed at the front of the screen and clearly marked 
for easy access. The range of the size and position con- 
trols is extremely wide, so .Amiga owners will have no 
problem filling the entire screen without seeing a bor- 
der. The monitor accepts signals with horizontal scan 
rates of 15 to 40 KHz, so it can handle all of the Ami- 
ga graphics modes. It also makes an excellent choice 
for use with a Bridgeboard and a SuperVGA card, dis- 
playing a 1024x768 interlaced screen under Microsoft 
Windows with no problem. 

In addition to the 501 7sp, IDEK makes the MF- 
501 7Ip, which uses a long-persistence phosphor. 
Long-persistence monitors substantially reduce inter- 
lace flicker, which may make the 501 71p the best choice 
to use with the 800x600 interlaced Super72 display 
mode. IDEK also makes the short-persistence monitor 
in 15- (MF-5015) and 21-inch (MF-5021A) models. 
IDEK' 5 pricing is fairly low as oversized monitors go. 
The list price of the 15-inch mode! is S695, both 17- 
inch models are SI 195, and the 21-inch 5021A is 
S 1995. The company has recently started selling these 
monitors direct to the public at a discount, however. 
The 17-inch version I tested, for example, is available 
direct for S945. 

If multimedia versatility is what you crave, you'll be 
interested in the Sony GVM-1311Q(S1295), which com- 
bines multiscan RGB capabilities with composite video. 
As a multiscan RGB monitor, the 131 1Q covers a hori- 
zontal frequency range from 1 5 to 3 1 KHz, which allows 
it to display all -Amiga modes. .As a general-purpose au- 
dio/video monitor, it provides a wide variety of switch- 
able inputs, "lliere are two RGB inputs, one ofwhich has 
an audio input, video-A input and output with BNC 
connects, video-B input and output with Y/'C connectors 
and termination switch, and audio-in and -out for lines 
A and B. There is also a remote jack for switching the 
inputs, and another for controlling picture settings via 
a Sony Comrol-S device. The multiscan characteristics 
extend to the composite-video inputs also, allowing the 
monitor to handle NTSC, PAL, and SECAM signals. 
The monitor uses a Sony Trinitron tube with a .26 mm i 



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MONITORS 



HOW OF SUPPORT 



HOW COMPATIBLE ARE the various types of monitors with the several Amiga display modes? 
Here's how ... 





NTSC 


PAL 


Etiro36 


Mu 


Horizontal 


1572 


15.60 


15.76* 


31.4 


Scan [in KHz) 










Vertical 


60 


50 


73' 


60* 


Scan (in Hz) 










Composite? 


Partly 1 


Partly 1 


Partly* 


No 


CGA? 


Partly 2 


Partly 2 


Partly 4 


No 


1084? 


Yes 3 


Yes 3 


Partly " 


No 


VGA? 


A3000 only 
A500/2000 
w/enhancer. 
No Super- 
Hires 


A3000 only 
A500/2000 
w/enhancer. 
Mo Super- 
Hires 


No 


Yes 


High Multi? 


A3000 or 


A3000 or 


No 


Yes 


(SVGA) 


A500/2000 
w/enhancer. 
No Super- 
Hi- res 


A500/2000 
w/enhancer. 
No Super- 
Hi-res 






Low Multi? 


Yes 


Yes 


Yes 


Yes 


(1960) 











Multiscan Euro72 DblNTSC DblPAL Super72 

31.43* 29.20* 29.45* 24.62* 



70* 

No 

No 
No 
Yes 



59* 

No 
No 
No 
Yes 



50" 



72* 



No 


No 


Mo 


No 


Mo 


No 


Yes 


No 



Yes 



Yes 



Yes 



No 



Yes 



Yes 



Yes 



Yes 



* Scan rates and overscan display sizes for ECS and AGA modes are approximate. Because these modes are totally pro- 
grammable, figures vary slightly depending on which version of the monitor drivers you are using. Some drivers lower 
the horizontal scan rate slightly in order to get a wider overscan area for modes like DblNTSC. More standard rates 
can be obtained from all modes by using the VGAOnly driver. 

1 While composite monitors display all colors in NTSC and PAL modes, the display is generally too blurry for use with 
80-column text. 

2 Digital RGB (CGA) monitors display sharp 80-column text, but with a maximum of eight or 1 6 colors. Not only is this 
less appealing, but because a large number of colors get translated to the same CGA color, some text and graphics may 
become indistinguishable from the background, rendering them invisible. And to use a digital RGB monitor with an 
Amiga, you must find (or make) a fairly rare 23-to-9-pin cable. 

3 American 1084 monitors are guaranteed to work only in NTSC mode, and European models to work only in PAL. 
Because the horizontal scan rates of these modes are so close, however, the only real distinguishing factor is the 
vertical sweep rate. The control used to adjust this rate is the Vertical Hold knob. In several 1084 models, the range of 
adjustment is wide enough to lock to either 50 or 60 Hz, allowing the same monitor to be used with both PAL and 
NTSC modes. 

4 Euro36 has a horizontal scan rate very similar to both PAL and NTSC, but a vertical rate of 70 Hz. In some 1084 models, 
the adjustment range of the Vertical Hold is wide enough to accept Euro36; in others it is not. — SL 

Nate: The different colors indicate which modes are accessible via the different chip sets, tied indicates pre-ECS machines, blue means 
ECS or A GA, and green means A GA only. Two popular public-domain programs, A IBB and SI, can tell you which chip set your machine has, 
if you are uncertain. D 



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HERE HAVE ALL THE MULTISYNCS GONE? 

TIME WAS, EVERY multiscan monitor was perfect for the .Amiga. Since SuperVGA display cards have come out for the 
IBM, however, anew generation of incompatible multiscans has sprang up, and the old generation has almost completely 
disappeared. If you look around, however, you may still be able to find one of these once-popular models gathering dust 
on some dealer's shelf, or being sold as a used or display model. 



Model 

CM-324 
CM-326 
Multiscan 3436 
AUM-1381A 
Flexscan 9060S 
MultiSync* 
PanaSync C1391 
Ultra 1200 
MultiVision 770 + 



Size 

Manufacturer (inches) 

AOC International 14 

AOC International 14 

CTX International 14 

Mitsubishi 13 

Nanao 13 

NEC 13 

Panasonic Communications 13 

Princeton Graphic Systems 12 

TAXAN America 14 



Horiz 
KHz 

15-36 
15-38 
15-38 
15-36 
15-38 
15-37 
15-36 
15-38 
15-37 



Vert 
Hz 

50-90 

50-90 

50-90 

45-90 

50-90 

50-80 

40-80 

45-120 

50-90 



1 Only the original Multisync or Multisync 3D uses these scan rates — all newer models scan from 30 KHz up. —SL □ 



aperture grill, which is roughly equivalent to a .28 mm 
dot pitch. 'Hie monitor has a full range of front-panel 
adjustments, and the horizontal size and position con- 
trols allow you to almost fill the screen with minimal 
border. A 20-inch variation on the same theme is Sony's 
GVM-2020, which lists for $1595. The Sony units are 
not cheap, but are by far the least expensive monitors 
with this particular combination of features. NEC's 27- 
inch Multisync 3PG, for example, which covers the 
same range of RGB and composite frequencies, carries 
a price tag of more than fSOOO. 

The final class of multiscan monitors are the mod- 
els designed to bridge the gap between VGA and Su- 
perVGA, scanning at horizontal frequencies between 
about 30-50 KHz. Although these are the most com- 
mon type of multiscanning monitor you'll find today, 
their capabilities are largely wasted on the Amiga, 
which has a maximum horizontal scan rate of 8 1 KHz. 
For all intents and purposes, high-scanning multilre- 
quency monitors function no better or worse on the 
Amiga than fixed-frequency VGA monitors. Unless you 
plan to use these monitors with a PC as well as an Ami- 
ga, you'll be paying extra for features you cannot use. 

Show Down 

The Amiga has very different display needs from oth- 
er brands of computers. For this reason, the monitors 
Commodore designed specifically for the Amiga are 
still the best bet for the vast majority of Amiga owners. 
The 1 084 is good for video enthusiasts, since it can dis- 
play both composite and V7C video in addition to RGB. 
It is also the least expensive RGB monitor you can find 
for your Amiga. The 1960 is more desirable for tradi- 
tional computer applications, particularly for A4000 
and A1200 owners, as it displays the "no-flicker" hi-res 
modes. Those who demand the very best, however, 
should look to IDEK's line of low-scanning Multi-Flat 
monitors, particularly the MF-5015, which is reason- 
ably priced for a 15-inch screen. 



The monitor situation is very different, however, for 

Amiga 3000 owners, and A2000 or A500 owners with flick- 
er-eliminating devices. Because these boards convert all 
norma! 15 KHz modes to ,31 KHz, owners of these ma- 
chines are bee to choose virtually any VGA Or high-scan- 
ning multiirequencv monitor. If you decide to go this 
route, l<K)k for a monitor with a fairly low dot pitch (.31 
or ,28 mm), and a wide range of horizontal size adjustment 
in order to avoid a black border around your display. 

What if you're considering a move to AGA? A mon- 
itor such as the IDEK will leave your options wide 
open, and allow you access to self-booting software 
from AGA But while there's no Mode Promotion in 
hardware now among the AGA machines, Commodore 
may well provide it in the future. ■ 

Sheldon Leemon is a frequent contributor to computer publi- 
cations, and lite author of two books covering the Amiga. 
When he's not writing, he's often working at Slipped Disk, 
an Amiga dealership in Madison Heights, Michigan. 

(Editor's note: At press tinw, AmigaWorld learned of Com- 
modore's plans to replace the 1084 and I960 monitors with 
a new analog RGB model. The Quad Sync 1940 and 1942 
are two variations on the same theme: The former has a dot 
pitch of '39 mm, while the latter provides a sharper display 
with a .28 mm dot pilch. Only the 1942, which is scheduled 
to retail for less than S699, -will be sold in the US. 

The Quad Sync name refers to the monitor's ability to sync 
at the four horizontal frequencies Amiga modes require. The 
14-inch swivel-based unit provides the most commonly used 
controls on the front panel, plus stereo sound via built-in 
speakers. 

Commodore expects the new monitor to be available by the 
time you read this. While the company found that early pro- 
duction units did not support the popular Super? 2 (800x600 
interlaced) mode, the issue is being addressed and, according 
to Commodore, anyone purchasing a 1942 should not have 
problems. Tune in to future issues for details.) 



30 June 1993 



In The 



Can't swing the Amiga's big band of display modes'? 
We'll compare them, offer tips, and help you orchestrate their use. 



AS AN AMIGA owner, you play band leader to 
many more graphics modes than IBM or Mac 
users. When you open a program like Deluxe- 
Paint IV, you can select a low-resolution, medi- 
um-res, interlaced, or hi-res screen; standard, 
maximum, or no overscan; NTSC or PAL for- 
mat; and 2, 4, 16, 32, 64, or HAM color levels. 



To some extent, every graphically-oriented 
.Amiga program (and aren't they all?) oilers the 
same sorts of choices. While you may feel put 
upon for having to make all of these decisions, 
this flexibility 7 lets you do it "your way," Ifyou've 
been improvising on modes thus far, it's time 
you started directing them to your advantage, i 



~B>y, t^ht-tAon XjUmon 











ILLUSTRATED BY KATE MARION 



AmigaWorld 31 



D I S P L A ¥ 



MODES 




To appreciate all the Amiga's modes, you must un- 
derstand how computers display pictures. A computer 
screen is made up of rows and columns of colored dots. 
The more rows and columns of dots, die higher die 
pixel resolution. The more colors from which to choose, 
the higher the color resolution. High pixel resolution 
is most useful for applications such as desktop pub- 
lishing or computer-aided design that require very de- 
tailed displays. High color resolution is most important 
for working with continuous-tone photographic im- 
ages, such as pictures of people and scenery. 

While large pixel arrays and lots of colors are both 
desirable, it just is not possible to use the maximum 
amount of each. Adding pixels and colors not only in- 
creases the amount of memory needed, but also de- 
creases the speed at which the computer can redraw the 
display. A display with 3000x3000 pixels and billions 
of colors would make our computers too expensive and 
slow to use. It would also be difficult to find — let alone 
afford — a monitor that could take advantage of such a 
display. For this reason, every computer display must 
make trade-offs between size and number of colors. 

In the IBM world, a limited number of display modes 
are available. Most users run alt of their applications in 
just one mode: and it is not easy to change modes with- 
in a program. 

On the Amiga, however, each program can choose 
the display characteristics of the screen on which it 
appears. Furthermore, applications often leave this 
choice up to the user. This arrangement is well suit- 
ed to the multitasking Amiga because it lets you al- 
locate scarce system resources among several pro- 
grams. So that you can take advantage of this 
flexibility, let's examine the choices in terms of screen 
characteristics. The chart on p. 33 lists the specifics 
of each mode. 

Screen Size 

Display size selections include horizontal resolution 
(lo-res, hi-res, orSuperlliRes), vertical resolution (non- 
interlaced or interlaced), and overscan (which includes 
the outermost edges of die screen area). Machines with 
Commodore's ECS (enhanced chip set) or AGA (ad- 
vanced graphics architecture) graphics chips and 
Workbench software versions 2.0 or later have an even 
greater selection of size configurations. (Most com- 
puters made within the last two or three years contain 
the slightly updated ECS chip set; the new A 1200 and 
A4000 contain AGA chips.) 

The greater the horizontal resolution, the more de- 
tailed your display. In lo-res mode (320 dots across), 
for example, you can get only 40 columns of text on 
screen, but with hi-res (640 dots across), you can see 
80 columns, which is the full width of most documents. 

Using hi-res mode does have its price, however. It 
takes twice as much memory as lo-res mode, which 
may make a difference to users of older 512K ma- 
chines. The largest chunk or memory that machines 
prior to the A4000 can use for a single screen display 
is about 1 28K, while AGA screens can be twice as large. 
This is a significant amount of memory 7 , but it won't 
make much of an impact if you have 3MB or more 
RAM. Performance is another issue to consider. Pre- 
AGA computers slow down somewhat when in hi-res 
mode with eight colors, and significantly in hi-res 
mode with 16 colors. This effect is most pronounced 



if you have only chip RAM, but may still be noticeable 
even if you have fast RAM. Finally, hi-res screens in 
Amiga 500, 600, 1000, 2000, and 3000 models are 
limited to 16 colors. The new Amiga 4000 and 1200 
models can display the full range of colors in hi-res 
mode, however, and performance does not begin to 
drop off until you get over 64 colors. 

Under Workbench 2.0, the ECS chips provide a new 
horizontal resolution, SuperHires (1280 dots across). 
This mode is most useful when maximum detail is crit- 
ical, as when trying to display very smooth, crisp-look- 
ing titles for video work. SuperHires incurs the same 
performance penalties as hi-res with 16 colors, but has 
even more severe color limitations — a maximum of four 
colors from a palette of 64. These limitations do not ap- 
ply to the AGA machines, which can display tip to 256 
colors in SuperHires mode, and do not slow down un- 
til you get to die upper range of the number of colors. 

Your other size choice deals with vertical resolution, 
but the issue is actually a little more complex than 
that. To achieve greater vertical resolution, the Ami- 
ga uses a process called interlacing. Instead of draw- 
ing even' line of the display during each screen update 
(which happens 50 or 60 times per second depending 
on whether you are using a European PAL or Ameri- 
can NTSC display), an interlaced screen draws only 
half of the lines each time. Your eye combines the odd- 
numbered lines drawn in one pass with the even-num- 
bered lines drawn in the next. The result is a screen 
that is twice as high as a noninterlaced screen (400 
lines in NTSC, 512 in PAL). 

My Friend Flicker 

Although interlaced screens require twice as much 
memory as noninterlaced screens, they do not incur 
performance penalties or suffer any color restrictions. 
That's because interlaced screens do not display more 
information at any one time than noninterlaced 
screens. In effect, you're alternating between display- 
ing two noninterlaced screens, one sifter the other. In- 
terlacing does have a nasty side effect, however. Thin 
lines appearing on one alternate screen but not the 
other cause flicker, making the whole display look like 
it's vibrating. On the plus side, the Amiga's interlaced 
display is compatible with standard television signals, 
which are also interlaced. Interlacing may not work 
well with detailed computer images, but it looks fine 
with photographic material, and is absolutely essential 
for television compatibility. 

There are special display boards that take the draw- 
back out of interlacing by converting interlaced screen 
displavs at video scan rates to noninterlaced screens at 
VGA scan rates. They require special monitors (see "On 
Display," p. 24, for details). 

Another way of fighting flicker is with new display 
modes. Under Workbench 2.0, ECS and AGA ma- 
chines can display Muliiscan Productivity and Euro 
72 Productivity modes, both of which provide a non- 
interlaced display of 400 or more lines. The ECS ver- 
sions are limited to four colors out of 64, but their 
AGA equivalents can display up to 256 colors from a 
palette of 16 million. AGA machines also provide 
DblNTSC and DblPAL modes, which include a hi-res 
"no-flicker" mode. All these modes are very similar, 
differing only slightly in screen size, and all require 
a special monitor. But other new screen modes com- 



32 June 1993 



S P 



A V 



M ODES 



^yCtten 


Pt 


*i* 














Here are the specifics 


you need for masterful mode 


maneuvei 


ing. 








NTSC 


PAL 


Euro36 


Multiscan 


Euro72 


DblNTSC 


DbiPAL 


Super72 


HORIZONTAL SCAN 


















[in KHz) 


15,72 


15.60 


15.76* 


31.44* 


31.43* 


29.20* 


29.45* 


24.62* 


VERTICAL SCAN 


















(in Hz) 


60 


50 


73* 


60* 


70* 


59* 


50* 


72* 


GENLOCK 


















COMPATIBLE 


Yes 


Yes 


No 


No 


No 


No 


No 


No 


DISPLAY- 


















ENHANCER 


















COMPATIBLE 


Yes 1 


Yes 1 


No 2 


No 2 


No 2 


No 2 


No 2 


No 


HORIZONTAL 


















RESOLUTION 


















(in pixels): 


















Lo-res 


320 


320 


320 


320 


320 


320 


320 


N/A 


Hi-res 


640 


640 


640 


640 


640 


640 


640 


400 


Overscan 


724 


724 


724 


640 


640 


676* 


676* 


448 


Super HiRes 


1280 


1280 


1280 


N/A 


N/A 


1280 


1280 


800 


VERTICAL 


















RESOLUTION 


















(in pixels): 


















Noninterlaced 


200 


256 


200 


480 


400 


200/400 


256/512 


300 


Interlaced 


400 


512 


400 


960 


800 


800 


1024 


600 


Overscan 


482 


566 


400 


990 


800 


934 


1128 


628 


MAXIMUM 


















COLORS: 


















Lo-res palette map. 


32 


32 


32 


16 


16 


256 


256 


N/A 


Lo-res EHB 


64 


64 


64 


N/A 


N/A 


64 


64 


N/A 


Lo-res HAM6 


4096 


4096 


4096 


N/A 


N/A 


4096 


4096 


N/A 


Hi-res palette map. 


16 


16 


16 


4 


4 


256 


256 


16 


Super palette map. 


4 


4 


4 


N/A 


N/A 


256 


256 


4 


AGA palette map. 


256 


256 


256 


256 


256 


256 


256 


256 


AGA HAM8 


262,144 


262,144 


262,144 


262,144 


262,144 


262,144 


262,144 


262,144 


* Scan rates and o 


verscan di< 


splay sizes for ECS and AGA 


modes are approximate. Because these modes are totally programmable. 


figures vary slightly 


depending 


on which version of the mon 


itor drivers you are using. So 


ne versions lower the horizor 


tal scan 


i rate slightly in order 


to get a wider overscan area for such m 


odes as DblNTSC. 








' If you have a di 


splay enhancer, you will need to bypass 


it when in SuperHiRcs mode 








2 None of these n 


todes work 


with MicroWay' 


s original fli 


ckerFixer. Some flicker cards 


bypass 3 1 KHi modes; some 


must be 


disabled manually. 


















N/A This resoluti 


on is not available in this mode. 













bat flicker without requiring a special monitor. The 
Euro36 and Super72 modes redraw the screen 70 
times a second instead of the normal 60 limes (50 in 
PAL format). This does not eliminate flicker alto- 
gether, but does make it much less noticeable. Su- 
per72 makes some trade-offs between horizontal and 
vertical resolution to give you a screen size that is 
800x600 interlaced, but it works only with a Com- 
modore I960 monitor or its equivalent. 



Increasing the refresh rate to 70 Hz reduces flick- 
er, but also reduces the maximum screen size. In gen- 
eral, modes with a lower refresh rate can display more 
lines. The European PAL mode, for example, which 
refreshes at the lower 50 Hz rate, has 256 lines in non- 
interlaced mode, compared to the 200 lines you get 
with the 60 Hz NTSC display used in the US. Under 
Workbench 2.0 and higher, of course, American users 
can switch to PAL mode for more lines, while Euro- 



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peans can switch to NTSC mode for reduced flicker. 
The final factor affecting screen size is overscan. The 
Amiga lias always been able to slightly extend I he 
screen into the border area, although prior to the re- 
lease of Amiga DOS 2.0, there was no standard way to 
do so. Using the 2.0 Overscan Preference editor, you 
can now select a slightly larger screen than the stan- 
dard one provided in any mode. The standard over- 
scan sizes you can set are Text (in which the entire 
screen appears within the visible area), Graphics (ex- 
tends to the edge of the viewable area), and Max (ex- 
pands the screen as far as possible). Extending the 
screen with overscan, as with any other method, in- 
creases memory use. Increasing the horizontal di- 
mension can also decrease performance. Increasing 
the screen vertically with overscan, however, has no 
such effect on performance, Rather than making the 
system work harder each line, it only decreases the 
amount of time the it rests between drawing the bot- 
tom of the display and going back up to the top. 

Color Depth 

"Hie number of colors displayed on screen can be just 
as important as the size of the screen. Most Amiga 
graphics modes use a palette-mapped scheme to de- 
termine which colors are displayed, Palette mapping 
means that instead of assigning a red, blue, and green 
color value to each pixel, you assign it a much small- 
er register number. That register number refers to a 
hardware location where the red, green, and blue col- 
or information is stored in the computer. Without 
palette mapping, you would need 12 bits of data for 
each pixel to get the 4096-color range older Amigas 
enjoy, or 24 bits of data for the l(i-mi!lion color range 
of AGA Amigas. With palette mapping, you need only 
one data (sit for two colors, each of which can be any 
of the 4096 or 16 million colors. 

In palette-mapped modes, the total number of colors 
displayed is determined by the number of information 
bits pei- pixel. A single bil yields two colors, two gives 
four colors, three means eight colors, and so on up to 
the maximum number of bitplanes (five bits or 32 col- 
or registers on non-AGA machines, eight bits or 256 col- 
or registers for AGA). On pre-AGA machines, hi-res 
mode can have only 16 colors, instead of the maximum 
32, and SuperHires modes can display a maximum of 
four colors from a palette of 64, AGA machines always 
allow the maximum number of colors to be displayed, 
regardless of screen size. 

One advantage of palette-mapped graphics is that 
you can change every pixel of a particular color just by 
changing the contents of one register. This makes it 
easy to change all of the colors on screen at once, for 
"color-cycling" or flashing effects. Another advantage 
is that you can select just the number of bitplanes you 
need. If you are using a terminal program that re- 
> ' quires maximum performance, cut hack to two colors; 
if you're trying to get near-pholographic results in 
paint software, use the maximum number. 

In addition to palette-mapped modes, the Amiga of- 
fers a couple of extended-color modes. Both modes 
work only in lo-res or lo-res interlaced sizes on pre-AGA 
machines (the A4000 and A 1200 offer all color modes 
in all resolutions). The first is Exira_Hallbrile, which 
doubles die maximum number of apparent colors (6-1 
for the original Amigas, 5 1 2 for AGA machines). The ex- 



tra colors this mode provides duplicate those in the col- 
or registers, but are half as bright in intensity. An even 
more useful extended-color mode is Hold and Modify 
(HAM). HAM uses hardware compression to give you 
12-bit color (4096 shades) for six bits of data on earlier 
Amigas, and 1 8-bit color (262,000 hues) for eight data 
bits on the AGA machines. Compression is important 
when animating images with lots of colors, because the 
less data there is to move, the faster the rate at which 
Vou can Hip through pictures in the animation. 

Making Beautiful Music 

Once you understand the trade-offs, you can make the 
Amiga's graphics modes work for you. Here's how r : 

* If your animation files are too large to fit on a disk 
or to plav back in memory, or if the animations play 
back too slowly, consider reducing the number of col- 
ors or switching from high to low resolution. Four or 
eight colors may be plenty for cartoon-like art or text, 
and the memory savings will be significant. 

•If you want to display photographic images only, 
you will probably gel the best results using interlaced 
HAM. If you need to include text or detailed graphics 
on the same screen (as for video titling), you're better 
oil' with a hi-res interlaced screen, unless you own an 
AGA machine that can do hi-res HAM. A program 
such as Imagemaster (Black Belt) or Art Department 
Pro (ASDG) can do a surprisingly good job of con- 
verting a full-color picture to 16 colors. 

•When running productivity software, use as few- 
colors as you can. A desktop-publishing program, for 
example, will update the screen much faster in four- 
color mode than with 16 colors. When working with 
text-based programs, you may even want to use just two 
colors. The same goes for your Workbench screen. Is 
a "pretty" Workbench really worth the decreased mem- 
ory and performance you get when you use all those 
colors? Stick with 16 or fewer colors for an AGA ma- 
chine, fewer than four for older models. 

•A good-c]tiality gray-scale image will often look 
sharper than the same image in 16-color or HAM 
mode. You ma)- even be able to get away with eight or 
four shades of gray — a considerable memory savings. 
When detail is more important than aesthetics, con- 
sider gray. The same advice applies to output for a 
black-and-white printer. Why design text and graph- 
ics in color when your printout is limited to gray? 

•HAM mode yields good results when a program 
creates the HAM image, but may not do as well when 
you are editing the picture manually. Never alter the 
contents of the color registers on an existing HAM im- 
age — the result will probably be a smeary mess. 

•Use the new modes in AmigaDOS 2.0 and up to 
create a comfortable working environment. If less flick- 
er is more important to you than a large screen size, 
set your Workbench screen to one of the new 70 Hz 
modes like Euro36 or Euro72. If flicker doesn't both- 
er you, switch to P.M. or .Super72 to gain real estate. 

• Because vertical overscan takes few system re- 
sources and vertical size is easily adjusted on most 
monitors, feel free to use the maximum vertical over- 
scan. Be a bit more cautious widi horizontal overscan. 
By si retching die width to 672 pixels or so, you should 
be able to see 80 columns of text and still have room 
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The AW Amiga Fonts 

Buyer's 
Guide 

PART 2 




IX SURVEYS OF video-production facilities, the 
most common use of computer graphics by Ear 
is for titling. Whether you are using a character 
generator or a 3-D program, you will need fonts 
to help you communicate your message most 
effectively. 
Although we present information on most of the 
many Amiga fonts available, this guide cannot hope 
to be all-inclusive. Also, in the case of multivolume 
font series compiled over a period of time, we have 
tried to include information on the newer additions 
rather than rehashing descriptions of older volumes 
in the series. 

The guide is divided into sections covering standard 
Unmapped Fonts, UolorFonis. An im Fonts, Toaster 
Fonts, Compugraphic (CG) Fonts, and 3-D Fonts. A 
section on Foni Utilities completes the guide. 



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Bitmapped Fonts 

If MAPPED FONTS ARE actually individual pic- 
tures of each letter that have been assigned to the 



keyboard using the standard Amiga font structure. 
While the most common format for Amiga fonts, it 
does have a number of limitations. Since the Amiga 
font structure lacks kerning pairs (in which the excess 
space found between some letter combinations is re- 
moved), you have to kern the letters together manu- 
ally, and not all fonts support this without cutting and 
pasting in a paint program. Because video is fairly low 
resolution, there are not enough pixels to properly 
render a font so that it looks smooth and crisp, hence 
the jagged appearance of some curves and angular 
lines. You also have to have a separate font for each 
size that you want, 

600 Amiga Fonts 
Pushbutton Software 

distributed by Vertical 
S30 

This is a mixed bag for video, as a majority of the fonts 
are too small to be useful. Even so, there are 250 type- 
faces, each in a number of sizes. These fonts were orig- 
inally part of the BMUG Macintosh font collection. 
They were converted bv Lion Kuntz, who recently sold 



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the rights to Pushbutton Software. The conversions 
are well done, and there is a booklet showing all of the 
funis in all ol'tlie available si/.es. ( ihances are that you'll 




Allied's Hi-Fi Fonts includes this among 67 typefaces. 

Bnd use for some of them, and because they are very 
inexpensive it may prove useful to have them around. 

Font City 

Allied Studios 

$225 

This collection of 46 typefaces with a total of 270 fonts 

is a bitmapped version of Allied's 1st Prize Toasted 

Fonts (see below). Sizes are 50, 60, 80. 100, 125, and 

160 pixels tall. Included is a booklet showing all let- 

ters ol all the fouls and u keyboard-layoul guide. 

Hi-Fi Fonts Fonts 
Allied Studio 
S67 

What makes this collection of 67 100-pixcl-high fonts 
unique is the inclusion of Professional Page metric 
files. While this does not make them liillv scalable, as 
with Compugraphic fonts, when used with Profession- 
al Page they can be scaled for better results than yon 
would get in DeluxePaint. They also offer good typo- 
graphic control through features such as built-in kern- 
ing pairs. For video litling, you can lay out the text in 
Professional Page (any version) and use a screen-grab 
utility, included is a CLI-based screen-grab utility, 
which is nice to have but awkward to use. There are 
much better PD hot-key-based screen grabbers. While 
21 of these fonts are also found in the Font City col- 
lection, that collection does not include the metric files. 
A sheet showing all of the font names in the corre- 
sponding style is provided, 

ColorFonts 

ONFI WAV IN which the Amiga's bitmapped fonts 
really shine is when they are used in the Color- 
Font standard, in which fonts can have their own 
palette of up to 16 colors. While other platforms can 
render colored fonts, the technique is proprietary to 
each program. They lack a standardized color-font 
Structure that allows any program to use them. 

lire only downside to ColorFonts is that they nor- 
mally use eight colors, which is a lot in hi-res when you 
have only 16 colors available. With Workbench 3.0 and 



its support of 256-color palettes, however, ColorFonts 
prove extremely useful because you do not have to 
worn- about using half your color palette for each font. 

Masterpiece Anti-Aliased Fonts 
ARock Computer Software 
S199 

While these louts appear to be monochrome, addi- 
tional colors have been added along the edges to cre- 
ate smoother curves and angles. This process of adding 
colors that transition from the font color to the back- 
ground color is called antialiasing. While it is simple 
to change the palette to make the antialiasing match 
the background color (instructions are given on how 
to do this), you may have problems using these fonts 
over a background with a lot of light and dark colors. 
Even so. the antialiasing looks very good, and this 
huge collection of 1 10 typefaces in multiple sizes rang- 
ing from 18 to SO pixels tall will definitely come in 
handy. Included is a four-page sheet showing samples 
of all of the fonts, and a booklet of complete instruc- 
tions. All of the fonts have been PowerPacked (a great 
compression utility available from your local dealer), 
reducing a font file from over 50K to about 16K — a 
great savings in disk space. You do need to run the in- 
cluded PPl.oadSF.G program first, which patches the 
system to automatically decompress these fonts when 
you load them. 

Video Fonts II 

Shereff Systems 

S99.95 

These fonts also have built-in antialiasing, but unlike 
the Masterpiece fonts (which have three levels of anti- 
aliasing), these have only one. In most cases, the fonts 
look just as good, as they were designed for video in 
the fust place to avoid most of thejaggies problems. 
Only a few of the fonts that 1 examined would have 
benefited from more levels of antialiasing. 

This set has the same fonts found in SherefFs Bread 
and Butter set for the Toaster. Each of the 17 fonts 
comes in 26, 38, 50. and 66 scanline heights. 

Kara Fonts 

Kara Computer Graphics 

Prices van' 

Of all the ColorFonts available, none are belter than 
these beautifully designed, well-executed sets. Kara 
sqtteezes more out of a limited palette than almost 
anyone, creating stunning fonts that look like glass. 
shiny metal, wood, and so on — all with realistic three- 
dimensional detailing. The newest font packages, 
Headlines 3 (S79.95) and Headlines 4 ($79.95), adapt- 
ed from the outstanding Toaster CliromaFont series, 
are some of the best work yet. 

The fonts come with a booklet describing how to use 
them, and ihe packaging displays full-color pictures of 
the fonts for reference. These fonts also support man- 
ual kerning by using the < and > keys to move the 
character a pixel at a time forward or backward. 

Too Many Fonts 
Mediascape 

$79.95 

While the thinking behind this brand-new font set may 
be obvious, the results are unique. WhaLyou get are ten 



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The word Color was created with Kara's Headlines 3; 
the word Fonts is from Mediascape's Too Many Fonts. 

antialiased ColorFonls, each in two sizes, with kerning 
buili in. The main body of the fonts are a single color, 
bul included with the set arc 200 brush patterns in 
various categories. They can be used in DeluxePaint, 
where von can either fill the fonts using a brush fill 
(which works very well, as the brushes arc large enough 
so that yon do not notice that a single brush is used on 
each letter), or stencil out all but the font color and do 
a tile lil! of the entire screen. .Although I looked at a 
prerelease version, what I saw was well executed and 
very promising. There is a lot of variety in the fills, let- 
ting you create fonts with rivets, metallic looks, various 
textures, gradients, and a great deal more. 

AnimFonts 

ACTUALLY, ANIMFONTS ARE not really fonts 
at all, but a set of animbrushes for each letter of 
the alphabet. Because of the amount of work required 
to create them, there are few products available. 

Kara AnimFonts 

Kara Computer Graphics 

Prices vary 

The originator of AnimFonts, Kara now has five sets 







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At top, one face from Kara's AnimFonts 4 collection 
rotates the word Animated onto the screen; at bottom, 
an Olo Animated Font 3 face depix elates. 



available. AnimFonts 4 ($59.95), at 115 scanlines tall. 
are a shiny metallic script in which the outline of the 
character sparkles as the solid letter is drawn from left 
to right headed by a glowing sheen. A very pretty ef- 
fect. With AnimFonts 5 ($59.95), at 104 lines tall, each 
character burns itself onto the screen in a fuse-like 
sparkling pen stroke. The effects of both are hard to 
describe in words, but the color pictures in the pack- 
aging provide a good idea of the results. I use Kara's 
AnimFonts frequently and strongly recommend them. 

Olo Animated Fonts 

ArtoVinjett 

$59.95 

This is a three-disk collection of the regular Color Font 
versions of Olo Animated Fonts. Set I (Marmor) is the 
most bizarre of the three. Lumps of rock transform 
into rock-formed three-dimensional letters, and then 
become veined as if made from marble. Set 2 (Glider) 
is a three-dimensional-looking script font in which 
each letter appears in a burst of light. Then a sheen of 
light with sparkles moves slowly across the face of the 
letters, highlighting the face and the sides. It's quite 
pretty. In Set 3 (Gold), characters start out as a box of 
two to four squares that fly straight in and then pixel- 
ate into the letter. 

Toaster Fonts 

TOASTER CG FONTS are a proprietary an- 
tialiased font format for use with NewTek's Video 
Toaster. If you thought having a proprietary frame- 
store format was stupid, how about a font format that 
is not even compatible with the developer's own paint 
program? Toaster Fonts can be used only by the Toast- 
er character generator. Because of this, many font de- 
velopers also include bitmapped versions of their fonts 
for use in ToasterPainl. 

Fun Fonts 
Allied Studios 

$39.95 

This is a collection of eight nicely designed, showy 
typefaces in several sizes from 40 to 80 scanlines for a 
total of 46 fonts. Also included are double-size 
bitmapped versions. The names are fairly representa- 
tive, with fonts such as Circus, Frankenstein, and Flash 
Caps. The set also includes a very good manual show- 
ing all characters. 

Variety Pack 
Allied Studios 

S99.95 

If you are looking for a larger collection of novelty 
fonts, this offers an entirely different selection of 38 
typefaces (105 fonts) in Toaster Font format only. You 
get unusual fonts made from bones, electricity, drip- 
ping blood, vines, and so on, along with some very 
nice scripts. There is a lot of variety and a very good 
selection to choose from. There is also a booklet show- 
ing all of the characters of each font. 

1st Prize Toaster Fonts 

Allied Studios 

$150 

Originally a five-pack set (at $69.95 each), these 39 



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typefaces have been bundled into one huge package 
offering 228 fonts. As will) the original, this is a nice- 
ly designed collection consisting primarily of tradi- 
tional sans-serif headline font styles. It is one of your 

best choices for a basic set of 'Toaster Fouls. 



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Kara's Toaster Fonts 3 puts words in your Toaster. 

Masterpiece Toaster CG Fonts 

ARock Computer Software 
S99 

This is ARock's huge Masterpiece collection of 110 
typefaces with a single size of each in Toaster Font for- 
mat. The average size is about 60, although fonts can 
range from -10 to 70. It includes an 1 Ixl 7-inch folded 
sheet showing samples ol all of the faces. 

1st Prize Toaster Fonts, Latino Accented 
Allied Studios 

SI 20 

With 1 1 typefaces in six sizes each, this is a good col- 
lection of standard faces that will prove quite useful for 
those working in the huge l-atino market. These Toast- 
er CG Fonts also include bitmapped versions. 

Russian Toaster Fonts 
Allied Studios 
$359 

This is a collection of 24 fonts in the Russian Cyrillic 
alphabet. The burgeoning Russian market oilers a lot 
of opportunities, so the release is timely and useful, 

EuroFonts Video 
Classic Concepts 
$164.95 

A set of 14 typefaces supporting more than 20 Euro- 
pean languages, EuroFonts are extremely easy to 
use. The set contains 18 distinct accents and diacrit- 
ical marks that can be added to any letter with a sim- 
ple keystroke. The fonts are provided in both Toast- 
er and bitmapped formats, and this set has the best 
documentation around. You get a booklet on Toast- 
er Fonts, one on video fonts, one on font basics, a 
plastic-coated keymap, a plastic-coated color card 
showing all of the letters in each font, and a booklet 
showing large versions of all of the fonts and a sam- 
ple font set in several European alphabets. Out- 
standing overall. 



Kara Toaster Fonts 
Kara Computer Graphics 
$99.95 each 

Volumes 3 and 4 each add four new Toaster Chroma- 
louts in two sizes. Volume 3 provides a Gothic gold, 
metal, and a shiny gold metallic, as well as an extrud- 
ed Roman font with a silver face and gold edges. Vol- 
ume 4 provides three 3-D script fonts in gold, blue, and 
silver, and a gold calligraphic font. Unlike ColorFonts, 
ChromaFonts cannot use alternate palettes, but these 
fonts are so beautiful you'll be quite happy with the 
original coloring and design. 

Compugraphic Fonts 

AS WITH PRINTED output, the future of video 
titling lies with scalable fonts, where instead of 
pixels, each font is described as a series of mathe- 
matical lines and curves. This lets you scale fonts to 
any size with a minimum of jaggies when rendered 
in bitmapped form (as they will be for video — for 
print use they can be output at the maximum reso- 
lution of the printer). The official format for Work- 
bench 2.0 and beyond is the Compugraphic (CG) 
format, also known as Intellifont. There is yet no 
character generator for the Amiga that can load scal- 
able fonts (although Montage, announced by Inno- 
Vision Technology but not yet available, will have 
proprietary scalable font technology). 

Video Fonts 
Gold Disk 
$99 

There are four sets currently available. These are ba- 
sically the same fonts available for Cold Disk's Profes- 
sional Page software, but they have been selected for 
video use. The most important part of the package is 
the Video Font Maker utility. It lets you render each 
type style as a complete bitmapped font usable in any 
program. You can control the horizontal and vertical 
aspect ratio, add a variable italics angle, adjust hold- 
ing both horizontally and vertically, and even gener- 
ate a version in Toaster Font format. .An instant pre- 
view lets you see what the font looks like before 
rendering. While there are only three fonts in each 




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package, because of the flexibility you can render an 

entire font family (bold, italic, expanded, narrow) in 
any size you want from a single font 

3 -D Fonts 

ACTUALLY, 3-D FONTS are really collections of 
objects that can be loaded into 3-D programs. A 
handful of sets are available for those with 3-D titling 
requirements. 

Broadcast Fonts 3D 

Unili Graphics 

S 149.95 

In my experience, these are the best of the lot. There 
are three sets currently available, each with a nice vari- 
ety of nine fonts. Unili provides versions for Imagine, 




This Palladium face, from Unili's Broadcast Fonts, 
was rendered in Lightwave. 



Caligari, and LightWave. Each object has additional, 
carefully placed points along the curves so that you can 
fly through the letters and they still look good. The 
brief manual conveys the basics, and it explains Phong 
shading (supported through multiple joined objects 
used for the sides to achieve the best output). 

Pop Arts 
Pop Arts Inc. 

S49.95 

Each of the four volumes contains nine fonts and a 
disk of textures. The fonts are attractive and have a 
reasonable number of points so you can get fairly 
close and maintain the sides as separate objects for 
more accurate Phong shading. Personally, I prefer to 
spend a little more and get sets with more fonts in 
them, but if you wish to be selective, you can save 
money and get just the fonts you want. 

Masterpiece Fonts for Imagine 
Masterpiece Fonts for LightWave 
ARock Computer Software 

S99 each 

Unlike the other 3-D fonts, these are not extruded 

and have little detail, which explains how ARock can 
get 50 fonts on only eight disks. This is die extreme 
low end among font selection. 



Font Utilities 

THE NUMBER OF font utilities on the market is 
quite slim. We do not have any text-effects pro- 
grams like those available For other platforms. Cur- 
rently, there is not even a good font editor available. 

FlightPaths 

Mediascape 

S49.95 

The Move requester in DeluxePaint is not the most 
intuitive, especially if you want to create smooth 
curved movement paths. FlightPaths solves this prob- 
lem by taking advantage of DeluxePaint IV's ability 
to load and save moves from within the Move re- 
quester. By stamping down text and then loading a 
sequence of moves into the Move requester and 
selecting draw, you can get some incredible anima- 
tion sequences for moving text on and off the screen. 
Curves, flips, spirals, zig-zags, loops, ripples, and 
many more effects are easy with this collection of 1 30 
multistage movements. The manual describes each 
move to help you find the effect you are looking for, 
and there are some striking effects you would never 
think of on your own. 

It also comes with several CoIorFonts, which, 
while attractive, are not well designed for video use 
as there are some horizontal flicker problems. Even 
without the fonts, though, this package is more than 
worth the price. 



Font Flyer 
MD Grafix 

$89 

"Tedious" best describes the process of loading in 
text objects into a 3-D program and lining them up. 
If you are a LightWave user, that process has been 
greatly simplified by Font Flyer. It lets you choose a 
:S-1) foni and then select how it should be laid out 
from a set of nine options. Text can be set in a 
straight line or in several circular or arc configura- 
tions. The program then creates a scene file that you 
can load into LightWave, It's easy to use and does the 
job, and it also includes three fonts: Clarendon, 
Dom, and Times, 

AntiA 

Zen Computer Services 

S59 

A simple utility that does a good job of adding 
antialiasing to any font, AntiA produces a full anti- 
aliased ColorFont from the original at sizes from 1/2 
to 1/12 the original size. It is fast and effective. A 
conversion of a full character set took only a few 
seconds, and the four-level antialiasing looks very 
smooth. ■ 



Geoffrey Williams is executive producer ofCBC Communi- 
cations and director and newsletter editor ofth e A m iga Video- 
Graphics Guild. Write to him c/o AVGG, 1833 Verdugo 
Visla Drive, Glendale, CA 91208. Please vote: Backgrounds 
for the fonts screen shots illustrating this artiicle are from 
OpaiPamt, J EK Graphics, and Texture City. Graphics were 
created by Geoffrey Williams and Dave Thomas. 



40 May 1993 



Head to Head 

COMPETITION 




We put all Amiga scan heads together 
to come up with recommendations 



for the best scanning solutions. 



f the pen is mightier than the sword, then what is the power of an image? A 
thousand words, at the very least — although the ability to get just the right 
image into your computer when you need it can be priceless. 

Sometimes what you need on your computer screen is a photo. And now 
that OCR (optical character recognition) software has come to the Amiga, get- 
ting a picture of printed text can be equally valuable. But to incorporate such 
sources into an Amiga application, vou must first convert them to digital data. 
The scanner is the instrument of choice for digitizing anything two 
dimensional — and even very thin three-dimensional items. Video digitizers 
can bring both 2-D and 3-D images into your Amiga — but usually at lower 
resolutions. With a scanner, you can get professional print quality. 

Thanks to the folks who have developed Amiga software interfaces to 
scanner hardware, there are more choices available to Amiga 
users today than ever before. They come in a dramatic 
range of sizes and prices. The smallest is about the 
size of the sandwich you had for lunch and 
can cost less than SI 50 through mail 
order. The top-of-the-line, profes- 
sional models are bigger than your 
computer and command upwards of 
SI 2,000. Amiga-compatible scanners 
break down into three categories: hand- 
held, wand, and flatbed units. Let's start 
our exploration at the low end. 
(The addresses and phone numbers of ven- 
dors mentioned in this article are listed on p. 94.) 

Give a Hand 

HAND SCANNERS ARE the least expensive of 
all image-input devices. Don't let that fact fool 
you, though: The monochrome resolution of a 
hand scanner is as fine as that of a flatbed mod- 
el. And a hand scanner's size and portability 
make it more suitable for some than any oth- 
er type. Tradeoffs are lack of a true gray- 
scale in the current crop, the limited size 
of an original you can scan in a single 
pass, and the additional work you must do 
to input the image. 

I looked at four hand scanners, which 
have more similarities than differences. ■ 

By Morton A. Kcvelson 



PHOTOGRAPHED BY EDJUDICK 



AmigalVorld 4 1 



S C A N \ li R S 



All look like the business end of a hammerhead shark, 
and provide switch-selected scanning resolutions or 
100, 200, 300, and 400 dots per inch (dpi). A second 
switch lets you choose among line-art, text, and hard- 
ware-generated dither modes (the latter is designed for 
scanning photographs). In all cases, the scanning soft- 
ware can convert the dithered patterns into true gray- 
scale images. Keep in mind that the resulting image 
has one-sixth or one-eighth of the resolution used for 
the scan, and that the converted images are a fraction 
of the size of the original scan. Tlvree dither patterns 
of various dot sizes are available in a photograph 
mode, and a rotary control lets you compensate for the 
brightness or contrast of the original material. 

All the hand-held models have scanning windows 
four inches wide, which translates to 1632 dots at 400 
dpi. While that limits the width of the scan, the length 
is limited only by your computer's available memory, 
and the length of the connecting cable, or your arm. 
A button on the scanner initiates the scan, and a small 
light on top indicates overspeed (too-fast movement). 
A green-tinted window lets you view the original as 
you sweep the paper. 

Each of the hand scanners connects to the Amiga's 
parallel port via a supplied adapter. Finally, all come 
with their own power supplies. 

Pyramid 

Both the hardware and software components of the 
Pyramid hand scanner (S229.95, Omni-Eureka) are 



The software 
for the Pyramid 
scan kit is 
comparatively 
minimal. 



Many hand 
scanners 
come with 
versions of 
M (graph's 
Touch-Up 
software. 




made in Taiwan. Although the Pyramid carries the low- 
est price of all Amiga scanners, it does not lack features. 
The parallel-port interlace, at 5-1/2x1-1/2x4 inches, is 
larger than that of the other three, but it's the only one 
with a switchable pass-through connector, which means 
you can leave both a printer and the scanner plugged 
in to the Amiga at the same time. A two-foot cable lets 
you put the interface wherever is convenient for you. 

Clicking once on die Pyramid's scan-mode button 
starts the scanning operation. A second click interrupts 
the process and lets you reposition the scanner; a third 
restarts the scan. Not needing to continuously hold the 
button makes the Pyramid a little more convenient to 
operate than the other hand-held units. The scanner's 
overspeed indicator is nice: It remained dark until an 
overspeed was detected, flickered to intticalea possible 
loss of data due to overspeed, and glowed steadily when 
certain overspeed occurred. This scanner is the only 
one that also sounds a beep to signal overspeed. 

The Pyramid software (version 1.30) is minimal 
when compared to thai supplied with the other units. 
It lets you select among the four scanning resolutions 
and set the scan length. You can save, load, and view 
IFF images, and easily clip and save parts of the im- 
age separately. The software also lets you process, view, 
and save a single-bitplane scanned image as a true 
gray-scale graphic. IVramid software supports gray- 
scale images with 10, 32, and 04 levels — based on both 
6x6 and 8x8 dither matrices — although you can view- 
only 16 levels of gray on screen. The supplied hard- 
ware generates photo-dithered images based on a 6x6 
dot matrix, which limits true gray scales to 32 levels. 
The on-screen scanning window is limited to 640x200, 
or half of a hi-res, interlaced display. 

I found the software to be partially compatible with 
the Amiga 1200. I was able to generate and process 
some scans, but each time 1 did, the software eventu- 
ally crashed. According to Omni-Eureka, this prob- 
lem should be resolved by the time you read this. 

Migraph Hand Scanner and Touch-Up 
Migraph Super Hand Scanner Bundle 

The Migraph scanning head is made in japan. The 
l-l/2x2x4-l/2-inch interface plugs directly into the 
computer's parallel port. Migraph has indicated, 
though, dial the next batch of scanners may include a 
short parallel cable. 

Unlike the Pyramid, the rest of the hand scanners — 
including Migraph's — require that you hold down the 
scanning button while you move the head over the pa- 
per. Simply releasing the button and moving the head 
then interrupts the scan (this is useful for assembling 
an image from parts of the original). I discovered that 
the Migraph unit scans slightly faster than the other 
hand-helds. It generates a 6x6 halftone pattern in 
photo mode, which the software can convert into a 
true 32-level gray-scale image. 

The software supplied with the Migraph Hand Scan- 
ner ($299) is Migraph's own Touch-Up version 3.1, a 
combination scanning, image-processing, and paint 
program designed to manipulate single-bitplane 
monochrome images thai the hand scanner generates. 
The Migraph Swper Hand Scanner Bundle (S399) 
adds Migraph OCR Jr. version 1.4., which can convert 
scanned text from images to ASCII charaters for load- 
ing into word processors, spreadsheets, and so on. The 



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SCANNERS 



Jr. version of the OCR software has all the features of 
the full S300 version (for details, see the review, Oct. 
'92, p. 56), except the ability to load IFF images. This 
means it can process into text only things that the hard- 
ware scans in directly. "These versions of the software 
proved to he compatible with the A1200 and A4000. 

(Editor's Mole: By the time you read this, Migraph will 
have debuted the Amiga's first color hand seamier — the CS- 
6000 — at the World of Commodore Amiga show in April. 
This exciting new unit promises 18-bit color scanning (for a 
total of 262,144 colors), plus tme six-bit, 64-level gray-scale 
output at resolutions to 400 dpi. The CS-6000 is the same 
size as the other hand-helds, and will retail for $549.) 

Golden Image 

The Golden Image Hand Scanner's (S239) scanning 
head and interlace is made in Taiwan. The interface 
is the same size as Migraph's, but connects to the com- 
puter via a six-inch cable. When data loss occurred 
during scanning, the overspeed indicator flickered and 
then turned oil. 

I Found the Golden Image scanner to be the slowest 
of the hand-held units. It generates an 8x8 halftone 
pattern in photo mode, however, which lets the soft- 
ware generate a true (i-1-level grav-scale image. 

The software supplied with the Golden Image Hand 
Scanner is Migraph's Touch-Lp 3.07 and Migraph 
OCR Jr. 1.3. These versions are identical in die ones 
supplied with the Migraph scanner, except they do 
not yet support the new AGA chip set. 

AlfaScan 
AlfaScan-Plus 

The hardware AlfaData provides in both its packages 
is similar to that of Golden Image. Also like the Gold- 
en Image unit, AlphaScan-Plus (S299.95) comes with 
Migraph's Touch-Up (3.07v) software. Instead of OCR 
software, though, AlphaScan-Plus provides Merge-It, 
which lets you combine a pair of parallel scans lo cre- 
ate a larger single image. And to help you position the 
scanner on a letter-size sheet to create scans suitable 
for processing with Merge-It, the package includes a 
plastic guide. This guide sets only the starting [joint for 
the scan, however; the rest is done freehand. 

The AlphaScan package (SI 99.95) includes the 
same components, except that a program called Scan 
and Save replaces Touch-Up. 

Wand To Scan? 

CURRENTLY ONLY ONE scanner occupies the 
brand-new wand category: Migraph's PS-400 Wand 
Full-Page Scanner. It is essentially a larger version of 
i he hand-held units, able to scan a full 8-1/2 inch-wide 
sheet in one sweep. An optional sheet feeder cradles 
the wand and draws the paper under the scan head at 
just the right speed, giving you a hands-off solution. 

Migraph PS-400 Wand 

The scanning unit of the Migraph PS-400 ($899, Mi- 
graph) is 9-3/4 inches wide, 4-1/4 inches deep, and 
2-1/2 inches high. It fits comfortably in the hand and 
pulls smoothly across a page on four rollers, 

You can set the scanning resolution from 1 00 to 400 
dpi, in 10-dpi increments. In addition to line-art and 
letter settings and a brightness-adjustment wheel, 




A black-and- 
white original 
was the source 
for this 1 6- 
level, 300 dpi 
scan created 
with Migraph's 
PS-400 Wand. 
Scanning the 
same image 
with a hand- 
held unit pro- 
duces remark- 
ably similar 
results. 



The PS-400 
Wand uses an 
8x8 dither 
pattern to 
produce 64- 
level gray- 
scale images 
such as this 
300 dpi 
sample. 



Produced from a 4x6 color original, this 300 dpi, 16-level Wand scan 
appears at exactly the same size on the screen as it does here. 



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SCANNERS 



there are four photo-gray settings that you enter via a 
three-button switch pad. (These settings are retained 
when the scanner is turned off.) The unit generates 
photo grays using an 8x8 dither pattern, which permits 
the creation of 64-Ievel true gray-scale images. One- 
tenth of" the resolution value is displayed on a pair of 
LED digits (34 represents 340 dpi, for instance); an- 
other set oFLEDs shows the current photo or letter set- 
ting, and indicates when an overspeed occurs. 

The PS-400 Sheet Feeder (5249) is an optional ac- 
cessory that automates scanning. It has a 13x1 0-1/2- 
inch footprint and stands 10 inches high, including the 
sheet holder, which folds down For storage. The wand 
drops right into the sheet feeder, but must be removed 
from the cradle in order to change the resolution and 
Photo/Line Art settings. The feeder holds up to ten 
sheets at a time, and via software you can rapidly scan 
a series of pages, saving the Files to disk. This applica- 
tion would benefit from a program ARexx interface, 
which would allow automatation of the process. 

The PS-400 comes with Touch-Up 3.1 1, which has 
settings for the wand (for use with and without the 
sheet feeder), as well as for the hand scanners. Touch- 
Up always inputs a lull-width scan from the wand. Al- 
though the program makes it easy to trim away excess 



Flatbed scanners can give 
you a full 256-lowel gray- 
scale scan, such as this 
one created with HP's 
ScanJet Plus. 



The Scannery 
software 
provides a 
high-contrast 
preview of 
your scan. 




material, scanning the full width eats up a lot of mem- 
ory, especially at high resolutions. This can limit the 
maximum length of the scan from the wand if the com- 
puter has insufficient memory. 

Besides Touch-Up, the PS-400 comes with the full 
version of Migraph OCR, which can load previously 
scanned and saved images. 

The Lords Of Flatbed 

FLATBED SCANNERS ARE general!)' the most capa- 
ble type, but also the largest and most expensive. Ami- 
ga software supports Hewlett-Packard, Epson, and 
Sharp flatbeds. Unlike the hand and wand scanners, 
software interfaces for flatbeds are generally sold sep- 
arately from the hardware. Let's look at the hardware, 
and at the Amiga products that support it. 

Hewlett-Packard ScanJets 

Scannery, from Concise Logic, consists of software and 
a parallel-port interface cable for use with Hewlett- 
Packard's ScanJet and ScanJet Plus Although both 
models have been discontinued, they are still available 
on dealer shelves for around S600-S700, or through 
used-equipment channels. 

I tested Scannery with the ScanJet Plus. The software 
offers full control of all scanner features via an easy-to- 
use single-screen interface. Half of the screen displays 
a low-resolution, monochrome preview of the entire 
scanner surface. While you can quickly crop the preview 
image using the mouse, the display does not zoom to 
the size of the clip. The absence of a zoom feature and 
the high contrast of the preview combine to impede vi- 
sual fine-tuning with the mouse. The mouse's position 
and the clipped image's si/e automatically display on a 
digital readout to a resolution of l/100tli inch. The size 
of the clip in pixels is automatically updated to match 
any scan resolution you select, and you can direct the 
final scan to any storage device in IFF, PCL, EPS, view- 
able EPS, TIFF, and Applied Engineering fax formats. 

The ScanJet Plus's hardware scanning resolution is 
300 dpi; vou can increase its vertical resolution by slow- 
ing the scanning speed. The device can also generate 
12 to 1500 dpi resolution scans using built-in software 
routines; it produces data for resolutions of more than 
300 dpi horizontal and 600 dpi vertical by interpolat- 
ing from the lower-resolution hardware scan. Vou can 
vary the scanning resolution by single-dpi increments, 
specifying the vertical and horizontal settings inde- 
pendently. You can also adjust both the brightness and 
contrast of the scan over a range of 2")") to 1 . The Scan- 
Jet Plus can generate scans with 256 true gray levels. 
All of these features are supported by Scannery. 

Scannery images include monochrome, true gray- 
scale with 16 and 256 levels and four dither patterns: 
4x4 Fatting, 8x8 Fatting, 4x4 Bayer, and 4x4 Vertical. 
Scanner)' also includes ARexx support. When used 
with a ScanJet, the true gray scale is limited to 16 lev- 
els, the contrast adjustment is not available, and the 
brightness adjustment has only three levels. 

The Scanjet and ScanJet Plus have been superseded 
by HP's new monochrome ScanJet lip and color Scan- 
Jet lie. Because the Up and lie provide SCSI instead 
of parallel connection, they are incompatible with 
Scanner)'. ASDG, however, plans to oiler Amiga own- 
ers access to the ScanJet He via a driver package that 



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should be released by the time you read this. The He 
provides 400 dpi resolution (800 dpi through ASDG's 
software) and retails For SI 599. 

Epson ES Series Scanners 

The Epson ES-600C ($1129) and ES-800C ($1499) 
are 24-bit color flatbed scanners. Both can generate 
16-mil!ion color scans, as well as eight-bit mono- 
chrome images with 256 gray levels, and single-bit 
black-and-white line art. The hardware scanning res- 
olution of the ES-600C is 300 dpi, which can be dou- 
bled to 600 dpi via built-in software routines. The ES- 
800C's resolution is 400 dpi. though the scanner can 
double it to 800 dpi. The maximum scanning area for 
both units is 8.5 inches by 1 1.6" inches. 

While both devices provide tremendous flexibility, 
there are definite practical limitations to their capa- 
bilities. A full-bed scan at 800 dpi would require more 
than 250 megabytes of RAM for 24 bitplanes, 125MB 
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scanning large images at low resolutions can produce 
excellent displays for video. 

The ES-600C has a 13.3x22.7-inch footprint and is 
five inches in height. The ES-800C is about 1 percent 
larger all around. Both accept an optional trans- 



ASDG soft- 
ware drivers 
for the Epson 
and Sharp 
scanners 
provide the 
same inter- 
face. 




This Epson 8-bit scan only hints at the power of the color flatbeds. 



parency unit (S959) and sheet feeder (S599). 

The software driver for the Amiga, which includes 
a parallel-port interlace cable and also supports the 
older Epson ES-300C and F.S-450, comes InimASDG. 
Two versions of the software are included in one pack- 
age (S200). One is a stand-alone "loader" that saves the 
image directly to disk. The other functions as an im- 
age loader and is designed for use with ASDG's image 
processor, Art Department Professional ($295), which 
is ideal For manipulating and displaying scanned im- 
ages. ADPro also can produce a color display of scan- 
ner-generated 24-bit data; the actual appearance de- 
pends on the number of colors and screen resolutions 
your Amiga supports. High-resolution HAMS images 
rendered on an Amiga 1200 were superb. 

The software presents a two-part screen containing 
a preview window and a control panel. The window 
shows a low-resolution scan of the source material. 
Using the mouse, you can quickly crop the preview to 
define the size of the final image. You can adjust the 
clip precisely as the display zooms in on it. The con- 
trol panel shows the dimensions of the clip area in 
English or metric units as well as in pixels. 

Yon can set the scanning resolution over the full 
range supported by the hardware. The scanners pro- 
vide both gamma and color correction for two kinds 
of CRT displays and three types of color printers: the 
software supports these as well. You can scan in full 
24-bit color, eight-bit gray with up to 256 true gray 
levels, or one-bit monochrome with seven dithering 
options. Settings are provided for seven levels of 
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bed transparency/Film scan unit (SI 195). 

The JX-450 ($4995) provides 300x600-dpi scanning 
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21 inches deep, and seven inches high, it requires a 40- 
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You've got quite a selection to choose from, and the 
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#52 

A continuing series 

of tips, techniques, 

and tricks for 

creating more 

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By Joel Hagen 



Real-Time 
Genlock Effects 



GENLOCKING COMPUTER GRAPH- 
ICS effects over video is one of the 
Amiga's strong points. While sophisti- 
cated video-graphics systems built 
around your Amiga can be expensive, 
we'll explore some real-time tricks you 
can try with just an ordinary genlock 
and a paint program. You may be 
surprised to learn these techniques can 
turn an otherwise complicated project 
into a lew minutes' easv work — and 
provide some fun in the process. 

A genlock attached to your computer 
allows Amiga graphics to be mixed 
with a video signal from a camera or 
VCR. The mix can then be viewed on a 
composite television monitor, recorded 
to a second VCR, or even passed to 
another Amiga/genlock station for 
further layering of video and graphics. 
At the simplest level, a genlock allows 
an input video signal to show through 
any part of the Amiga screen that is 
color zero, the first position in the 
palette. For example, if you clear a 
DeluxePaint (Electronic .Aits) screen to 
color zero, any video coming through 
the genlock will fill the screen of a 
video monitor attached to the genlock 
output. Paint a line or a blob of any- 
other color and it will be superimposed 
over the video. 

Fly Fly Birdie 

Often, it is desirable to synchronize an 
animated computer effect to a section 
of video or to wild sound. For exam- 
ple, you might want to create a video 
showing a cartoon bird Hying over a 
real landscape, suddenly (lapping 
higher in the sky to avoid a passing 
truck. Or perhaps you want a ray- 
traced rocket sled speeding through a 
forest, doclging trees and ducking 
under branches. Your first thought 
micht he to shoot the video, time vari- 
ous movements of the sequence, and 
then use an animation program to 
create movement paths for the bird or 
rocket sled that will synchronize with 
the tape. This can be done, but it 
would be a laborious process eating up 
a lot of disk space. 
.As an alternative, try these quick low- 



tech methods. For the bird project, 
create a looping animation of four or 
more frames in DPaint showing a com- 
plete flapping cycle. Pick this up as an 
animbrush (as in the accompanying 
illustration), clear the screen to color 
zero, and turn oir the tool and menu 
bars. Press the Delete key to turn off 
the pointer and play the videotape 
sequence through the genlock, observ- 
ing the result on a video monitor. 
Watch the sequence once or twice to 
get the feel of it, then try the anim- 
brush. Press and hold the 8 key to 
cycle the eels of the animbrush in a 
continuous loop while you move the 
mouse around. Do not press the mouse 
button. You will see the bird fly around 
the screen, superimposed over the 
video. It is easy to respond in real time 
to the action and move the bird higher 
on the screen as the truck passes. 

The rocket-sled project employs a 
variation on this idea. Shoot the video 
at a slow frame rate while walking 
through the woods. When it is played 
back later at 30 frames per second 
(fps), you will sec a dizzying effect of 
high speed. Render or paint the rocket 
sled seen from the rear as though you 
arc following it. A color-cycled blinking 
light adds to the realism. Rotate the 
sled to create a minimum of three 
positions for level flight, left bank, and 
right bank, respectively. Experiment 
with intermediate frames if you like. 
Save these frames as an animbrush as 
you did with l he bird. 

Now play the video sequence of the 
forest chase and keep the animbrush in 
a clear path as trees whip past. Have 
two fingers resting on the 7 and 8 keys 
while you control the position of the 
brush with the mouse. Again, do not 
press the mouse button, just guide the 
brush. The 7 key moves backward 
through animbrush eels and the 8 key 
moves forward to bank the rocket left 
or right as you dodge around trees. 



60 June 1993 



Take a genlock, some simple graphics, add a 

little digital sleight-of-hand, and— presto!— you can create 

fancy animated tricks in a matter of minutes. 



You might be surprised at how effec- 
tive three eels can be when the object is 
being moved in real lime with the 
mouse. On the other hand, rendering 
a similar animation to synchronize with 
events in the tape could be a night- 
mare. 

And Now for a 
Few More Tricks! 

You can also get great real-time effects 
without an animbrush. liven the simple 
blue ball in the illustration (top right) 
can be amazingly effective in a video if 
you stage the scene well. For example, 
you can create the illusion that the ball 
is glowing by projecting blue light onto 
the face of a character in the video as it 
is shot. Later, move the brush in sync 
with the movement of the light for a 
superb illusion. You can even capitalize 
on the "chroma-crawl" of over-saturat- 
ed colors. Purposefully use saturated 
blue 01* red to give a soft-edged glow to 
the brush in NTSC. You can use the + 
and - keys to give the illusion of move- 
ment into the z-axis of the scene. To 
complete the illusion, direct your ac- 
tors to react to the ball (which will 
actually be added in post-production). 

Bouncing-ball sing-along effects 
(illustration, lower left) are also a good 
use of real-time synchronization to 
sound. In addition, subtitles (illustra- 
tion, lower left) are easy to sync to 
dialogue by creating an animation of 
the series of titles against color zero. 
Simply use the 2 key in DPaint to ad- 
vance through the frames on cue. You 
can also tise the j key at any time to cut 
to a transparent screen. 

Try creating a moving-mask effect 
(illustration, lower right) such as a 
binocular view or a telescopic sight that 
tracks a character. Assuming color zero 
is already black, make a second black 
somewhere else in your palette. Use 
this black to create a border that ob- 
scures the edge of the overscan frame 
but leaves a window in the middle for 
the action. Use the same black to make 
a brush the size of the screen with a 



■ma-glow 



Sing-along 

ubtitles • . . ^ ovm § Mask 



color-zero hole in the middle. Move 
this mask brush around the screen to 
track your character. The overlap with 
the black overscan border prevents the 
video image from leaking around the 
edge of the moving brush. 

These simple real-time tricks are not 
as clean as double-buffered animation, 
but they often work surprisingly well. 
For moving large or complex brushes 
you may need to use low resolution to 
minimize the flashing that can occur. 
The character of the final NTSC image 
helps cover up flaws. ■ 

Joel Hagen's credits include work in art, 
astronomy, science fiction, and software 
development. Write to him at 10512 
Sawyer, Oakdale, CA 95361. Please 
include a stamped, self-addressed envelope 
for a reply. 



The screen above illustrates many of the 
real-time genlock tricks presented in the 
article. Brushes are synchronized to 
sound and video action by hand rather 
than as rendered animations. 




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Special-effects programs can be just the ticket for many 
everyday video situations. 



By Paulo de Andrade 



SOME PEOPLE FEEL special effects 
are, well, "special" — that is, they're very 
useful, but only for working in high-end 
projects, music videos, or expensive 
television commercials. Fortunately, that 
just isn't so. The kinds of effects possible 
with programs like ADSG's MorphPlus 
(S295), Black Bell Systems' Image-mas- 
ter (SI 99.95), or GVP's Image FX 
($249.95) can help you in your everyday 
productions by providing you with 
imaginative transitions, economical 
special effects, and even quick fixes for 
common video image problems. 

Let's examine some practical uses for 
these programs that you might find 
useful in your day-to-day video-produc- 
tion work. Be advised that to take ad- 
vantage of most of the techniques de- 
scribed here, you will need not only the 
software but also a fraraegrabber and a 
frame-accurate VCR. 

Morphs as Transitions 

Morphing, for example, offers one of 
the more effective transitions when you 
are dealing with "before-and-after" 
situations. Let's say that you are produc- 
ing a video for a diet center and you are 
supplied with several photos of clients 
who have lost a lot of weight. Anyone 
could place the photos side by side for 
comparison, but creating a transition 
between them would be more interest- 
ing. While you could do a dissolve from 
one to the other, you can morph be- 
tween the images to produce an even 
greater impact. The person will seem to 
lose weight before your very eyes, and 
the transition will appear to be much 
more subtle than with a dissolve. 

Similarly, you could use morphing to 
demonstrate how a bodv builder has 



gained mass during a certain period. 
With morphing between the before and 
after pictures, you can create a very 
interesting transition that intensifies the 
feeling of progress. If you remember to 
keep the angle, lighting, and other 
details the same in shots, the effect will 
be smooth and quite successful. 

Morphing transitions can also replace 
dissolves in many other situations, such 
as in showing the progress of the con- 
struction of a building, the fixing of a 
damaged car by a body shop, or the 
transformation of a person's appearance 
through plastic surgery. 

The Digital Dissolve 

While morphs can often replace dis- 
solves, there are other occasions when 
the latter are the best and most effective 
transitions. But you may be surprised to 
learn that morphing packages can also 
be used to create digital dissolves be- 
tween two images. For example. GVP's 
CineMorph (included as part of Image- 
FX), has a built-in "Dissolve Only" 
option especially for this purpose. 

Digital dissolves are useful in a variety 
of situations. The simplest one involves 
creating a dissolve between two images 
as part of an animation that can be 
played back in real time on your Amiga. 
Jttsi make sure the dissolve is rendered 
in the same screen mode as the rest of 
your animation. Digital dissolves are 
also handy when you don't have access 
to a switcher or two playback YTRs. 
Simply grab the two images, perform 
the dissolve, and then output the frames 
back to tape. If you have access to a 
single-frame recorder and a good 
framebuffer, the rendered images will 
look as good as the originals. 



Another great use for digital dissolves 
is in simulating surface-texture morph- 
ing in 3-D animations. NewTek's Light- 
Wave 2.0, for example, allows you to 
morph between two objects but not to 
morph their textures. The texture 
mapped to the first object is automati- 
cally transferred to the second. But by 
using your morphing software to per- 
form a digital dissolve between two 
textures, you can map the resulting 
frames as a sequence on the first object. 
Be sure to create the dissolve with the 
same number of frames as your morph. 
When you play back your animation, 
you will get a perfect morph between 
the objects, including the textures. 

No More Jump Cuts 

Another type of transition where mor- 
phing comes in handy is the jump ait. 
A jump cut occurs when there is a sud- 
den change in an image while the cam- 
era is paused in the same position and 
there is a need for continuity. A very 
common example is in the case of inter- 
views, when there are no cutaway shots 
available to be inserted to disguise nec- 
essary editing. If you simply cut part of 
an answer off, your on-camera talent 
will suddenly "jump" on screen, sort of 
like Max Headroom. 

Before the advent of the accessible 
morph, editors used to perform dis- 
solves between the images to minimize 
the problem. Dissolves, however, cannot 
cover big changes in images, and they 
give the edit away. Morphs, on the 
other hand, are powerful transitions 
that when applied well can perfectly 
disguise jump cuts, just make certain 
thai the morph does not last more than 
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a few frames. Also, be sure to use as 
many control points as possible to en- 
sure that you avoid distortions. 

The One-Frame Morph 

Besides providing effective transitions, 
morphing can also save your video 
footage when you gel in a fix. liy using 
a one-frame morph. you can replace 
damaged frames with excellent results. 
As an example, when L work with 3-D 
animations, I usually render my frames 
to a hard disk before recording them a 
frame at a time on video — instead of 
recording them as they are rendered. 
This way, if anything goes wrong during 
die recording process, fixing the prob- 
lem docs not involve having to render 
all i he frames again. On one occasion, 
however, 1 had to render directly to 
tape because 1 was temporarily out of 
storage space. Of course, something had 
to go wrong. A bad sync cable caused 
the single-frame controller to record 
two blank frames during the animation. 
As I could not afford to render the 
whole animation again, I resorted to 
morphing to fix my problem. 

First, I grabbed the frames immedi- 
ately before and after the missing ones. 
I then took the first couple of frames 
into the morphing software and per- 
formed a one-frame morph between 
them. The resulting frame was a perfect 
interpolation between the two images. I 
repeated die operation for the second 
missing frame and then recorded the 
new frames at their respective places. 
When I played back the animation, it 
seemed like nothing had ever been 
wrong with it and no one was able to tell 
it had been fixed. Best off all, it took 
very little time to accomplish. 

You can use this technique to replace 
frames with almost any kind of glitch, 
including bad dropouts. 

Moving Backgrounds 
.and Overlays 

All three of our special-effects packages 
also allow you to create die kind of 
rolling backgrounds that you see all the 
time on CNN, MTV, and the odier TV 
networks. The background moves 
smoothly in a given direction while the 
graphics in the foreground remain 
static, or even white another layer of 
graphics moves in a different direction. 
The secret to producing such an effect 
is to create a seamless background, that 
is, an image that will not show a seam 
when moved around. 

Once your background image is 
perfect, you can have the effects pro- 
gram perform the roll effect for the 




With MorphPlus' 
Perspective effect 
you can have a 
two-channel DVE 
at your disposal. 



number of frames you need. After the 
roll animation is finished, you can su- 
perimpose your graphics by using either 
a switcher or software capable of creat- 
ing good overlays. FRED, the frame 
editor that comes with both ASDG's Art 
Department Professional and Morph- 
Plus, offers excellent layering capabili- 
ties. You can even create a second layer 
of movement by leaving open spaces in 
your screen or by using transparency in 
the compositing process. If the layers 
move in different directions, you get a 
great sense of depth. 

This same effect, which can be so 
easilv rendered with your Amiga, often 
requires very expensive digital-video 
equipment when created in traditional 
post-production suites. 

Program-Specific Tips 

MorphPlus not only provides great mor- 
phing capabilities, but also includes 
several other handy operators. One of 
the most useful is Perspective. With it you 
can achieve results veiy similar to those 
using an Ampcx ADO or other sophisti- 
cated high-end D\T (Digital Video Ef- 
fects) generators capable of perfect com- 
pression and perspective. Although 
NewTek's more affordable Video Toaster 
offers lots of nice DVEs, it can't perform 
this particularly useful ellect on its own. 
Let's suppose that you need to display 
a graphic in a small, slanted window, just 
like you see everyday in the television 
news. Simplv use MorphPlus' Perspective 
to compress and position your image 
where you want it. After a few minutes of 
rendering, you will end up with a very 
high-quality graphic. You can dien key 
the graphic in with the Toaster (or any- 
other switcher). If rendering lime is not a 
problem, you can use MorphPlus to 
animate the perspective and even apply 
multiple layers of moving graphics to 



create a very dynamic presentation. 

If you're handy using ARexx scripts, 
you can animate practically all of lm- 
agemaster's effects to create some very 
interesting transitions. For example, 
you can use the Spiral Blur function to 
progressively increase the amount of 
blur for the first image; when it he- 
comes indistinguishable, cut to the 
second image — using the same amount 
of blur — and gradually decrease the 
effect until it is completely gone. A 
transition like this may be impossible to 
reproduce even with very expensive 
DVEs. Other interesting effects thai can 
be used for effective transitions include 
Water Color, Relief, Implode/Explode, 
and even the Contour filter. 

The ARexx interface included with 
ImageFX also allows you to create veiy 
exciting transitions. Ever wanted to re- 
create the classic spinning front-page 
newspaper-headline sequence used in 
old black-and-white films? ImagcKX's 
Rotate operator makes this an easy task. 
Or how about having unlimited wipes at 
your disposal? The program's Wipe 
ARexx script creates a transition be- 
tween the main and swap image buffers 
by using an animation and an alpha 
channel to control the mixing. All you 
do is design the wipe you want. 

While I would love to show you 
dozens of other nifty effects these pro- 
grams can perform, there is just not 
enough space to do so. But that doesn't 
mean you can't go out and experiment 
for yourself. Perfecting your expertise 
with your program's features will in- 
crease vour confidence — and keep you a 
step ahead of the competition. ■ 

Paulo de Andmdc is president of a company 
lliai usesAmigas in broadcast-quality video 
production. 



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larger documents; documents with sev- 
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than a dozen pages took considerably 
greater amounts of time to print. 

More for Your Money 

Since Gold Disk has taken the "value- 
added" approach with PageSetter 3, a 
variety of utilities and mini-applications 
have been thrown in to sweeten the 
deal. Chief among these are the graph- 
ics editor and article editor, a paint 
program, and a word processor. Ad- 
mittedly, the paint program is limited 
to 32 colors and the most basic of draw- 
ing tools. The article editor is actually 
a version of Gold Disk's Transwrite 
word processor, modified for use with 
PageSetter 3 and equipped with a 
90,000-word spell checker. 

Maximizing the usefulness of these 
programs is a "linking" feature that lets 
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object (text or graphic) in the appro- 
priate editor, then send the edited item 
back into PageSetter 3. For the artisti- 
cally challenged, Gold Disk has also 
bundled more than 100 pieces of struc- 
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graphic solution for Amiga publishers 
looking for jaggie-free clip art. 

PageSetter 3 requires at least two flop- 
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The program ran politely under both 
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In the final analysis, PageSetter 3 is 
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publishing today. The underpowered 
graphics editor, limited font support, and 
weak graphics importing capabilities, 
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DeluxePaint IV 
AGA (V4.5) 

Electronic Arts, S1 99.95 
(upgrade for registered users, S37) 

Hard-drive installable. 

Not copy protected. 

Accelerator compatible. 

AGA compatible. 

Requires Amiga DOS 2.04 or greater 
(does not support Kickstart/Work- 
benchl.3), 2MB RAM, 2 floppy 
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ACA version of DPaint tv 
graphics software. 



Much to the delight of Amiga 1200 
and 4000 owners, the AGA version 
of DeluxePaint IV has arrived! Owners of 
earlier Amigas can also use it, but you're 
limited to the colors and modes your 
original or ECS chip set provide. 

Installing to floppy-disk or hard-drive 
systems is simple. First-timers must en- 
ter name, company, and registration 
number, which ate then coded into the 
program and become a nuisance, as they 
pop up each time you start the program, 
A totally new screen-format requester 
checks your Devs/Monitors drawer and 
makes a scrolling list from the dozens of 
new screen modes that accompany the 
A1200 and A4000. My limited list, for in- 
stance, contained 60 options. 

This same requester provides other 
helpful information, including inaxi- 




DoluxoPaint IV V4.5, supports all the 
new AGA graphics modes. 

mum pixel size and colors available in 
each mode. A slider controls palette size, 
while a cycle gadget shows overscan op- 
tions, with text-entry gadgets for custom 
pixel dimensions. One problem with this 
requester, however, is that the screen 
mode always defaults to my 640x200 
Workbench resolution, whereas all my 
graphics require overscan and interlace 



for my specialized video applications. 
On every startup, therefore, I must scroll 
through 60 choices to find my selection. 
The addition of a user-defined default 
Preferences setting would be nice. 

Gonzo Graphics 

As the name implies, DeluxePaint IV 
AGA supports the new graphics chips, 
so you can create, manipulate, and con- 
vert images in every AGA resolution up 
to 1472x482 pixels. With my A4000 and 
I960 multisync monitor in place, I have 
all the original Amiga color options at 
mv disposal, plus the new 256-color and 
HAMS 262,000-color IFF formats. You 
can now also load IFF24 images. 

Don't be misled, however, for you still 
need a 24-bit display board to view im- 
ages in true 24-bit detail. DPaint will sim- 
ply load and convert a 24-bit image to 
your current screen format for display. It 
performs remarkably well, particularly 
in 256-color and HAMS modes. As a ref- 
erence, DPaint converted 24-bit images 
down to 16 colors better than did Art 
Department Pro V2.2 using Floyd-Stein- 
berg dithering. While the new Player 
utility handles HAM8 and 256-color im- 
ages, it can't read 24-bit images. 

Animation is available in all 262,000 
colors, but animation and animbrush 
resolution is limited in a few cases, al- 
though this is likely to affect only those 
working in such exotic modes as 
NTSQSuperHiRes interlaced overscan 
1472x482. 

Helpful Selections 

Other than AGA support, other new fea- 
tures fall into the "handy" category. A 
new Rub Through feature combines 
Transparency and LightTable to rub an 
image area from the back screen to the 
front. Sounds great on paper, but in 
practice it worked only with the current 
background color. The difference is that 
the transparency setting allows a partial 
or "transparent" rub through. While not 
a true rub through, you can create some 
nice effects with skillful application. 

The system Clipboard now uses Copy 
and Paste to move brushes between 
DPaint and other programs. You can 
free buffer memory occupied by spare 
brushes by using the Brush/Free menu 
selection, which can make a big differ- 
ence if, as I do, you frequently use large 
brushes. Selecting your brush handle has 
also been greatly simplified. Alt-x now 
cycles the brush handle through all 
four corners and center, while Alt-z still 
allows custom handle placement. 

With V4.5, you can move around in 



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requesters and make selections with the 
keyboard. For example, clicking (he Pic- 
ture/Load requester's Parent button lists 
the Parent directory. Bin now the "P" in 
Parent is underlined, meaning thai you 
can list the Parent directory with the 
shifted-P key instead of clicking the Par- 
ent button. 

Ranges provide smooth gradations 
with the ACJA color options of 256-color 
and HAMS modes, bin the screen-wide 
dithering ''show" bar Formerly available 
from the Range requester is gone. One 
nice new feature is that the current col- 
or's number appears under the Selected 
Color box in the Range requester and 
the Palette. With hundreds of colors to 
choose from, this is a blessing. 

Other refinements include the addi- 
tion of an Applcon for Workbench, plus 
the ability to specify Prefs Menu Tool- 
Types when running DPainl from a 
Shell. If you use TriMedia's pressure- 
sensitive tablets, DPainl has built-in pres- 
sure On/Off and brush-size controls. For 
PC users, the PBM (Packed Bitmap) files 
created by PC-compatible versions of 
DPaint now load directly into this new 
.Amiga version. 

Bad Flashbacks 

Two nagging problems remain, bow- 
ever, from earlier DPaint versions. First, 
in both HAM and HAMS, menu selec- 
tions are still in what appears to be pale 
green text highlighted in another pale 
green, making them nearly impossible 
to read. While I seldom used the old 
FLAM mode due to fringing and lack of 
resolution, the new HAMS mode is ex- 
ceptionally useful and I foresee putting 
it to regular use. Secondly, this is the 
fourth version of DPaint that shows only 
53 font names in the font requester, out 
of the 88 font styles I have available, 

A call to Electronic Arts posing as a 
user with complaints was met with help- 
ful advice from a knowledgeable lech- 
support person. He invited me to for- 
ward my suggestions, which I did. 

Other than a few minor improvements, 
DeluxePaint IV AGA is exactly what the 
name says: DeluxePaint IV with support 
added for the AGA chip set. The absence 
of changes to the program's function- 
ality allows you to start viewing and con- 
verting older graphics in the new AGA 
modes. DPaint is still the standard by 
which all other paint and 2-D animation 
programs are measured, and no Amiga 
artist, animator, or active user with an 
AGA machine should be without it, 

— Fred Hurteau 





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Unlike other 3-D programs, Caligari 
drops you dead center in the remarkable 
3-D world. You become the camera, ob- 
servering the universe from a 3-D per- 
spective view, and as you move through 
this world, objects redraw themselves in 
real time. Octree has optimized its code 
to give Caligari24 users the fastest screen 
updates available on the Amiga. 

The effect is much like a virtual- 
realilv environment, making it a snap to 
set up complex scenes. If an object is too 
finely detailed for real-time updates, the 
program .switches to a bounding-box dis- 
play, where objects are replaced with 
outline rectangles. For old hands who 
prefer the standard fare — the top. side. 
and front views used by other pro- 
grams — Caligari has these options also. 

Functionally, Caligari differs from 
most Amiga software in another impor- 
tant way: Pull-down menus are nowhere 
to be found. Instead, all menu options 
appear on the bottom of the screen, out 
of the working area. IFyou need to access 
more than one menu at once, just stack 
them on top of one another any way you 
wish. While it's refreshing to see litis dif- 
ferent approach, it's a mixed blessing, 
For the anxious user must deal with the 
learning curve associated with a new in- 
terface in order to get started. 

The mouse works in a different fash- 
ion as well. The left mouse button con- 
trols X and V movement within a scene 
in the working area, while the right but- 
ton takes care of Z movement. Thank- 
fully, this arrangement makes lots of 
sense in a 3-D world, because it sure 
doesn't otherwise, 

Mucho Modules 

Caligari24 is not a small package. You'll 
find modules for each part of the ani- 
mation process: object design, scene set- 
up, animation sequencing, and render- 
ing. The standout in the crowd is the 
object-design module. A built-in library 
provides 18 primitive shapes, the build- 
ing blocks with which you form more 
complex objects. These primitives can 
be easily moved, scaled, and rotated in 
space, and if you prefer to create your 
own, you can switch to a point editor and 
build new ones from scratch. Virtually 
any function pertaining to primitives is 
available. You can extrude, lathe, con- 
nect, copy, and mirror them. And don't 
worry if you make a mistake; an Undo 
button undoes the damage. 

Some of the better modeling functions 
are unique to Caligari. The sweep func- 
tion adds new polygons that project from 
the originals. Slice adds a new cross-sec- 



lion to an object. Care to pinch an object 
in the middle? Just add a new cross-sec- 
tion slice and scale it smaller. There's 
c\ en a quad-divide tool thai breaks down 
an existing polygon into smaller pieces. 
Yet, while these tools are powerful, they 
pale next to the organic deformation 
module, which places a deformation box, 
i onsti in leil with as man) points as \ on 
wish, around your geometry. Moving a 
point of the box distorts the original 




While it may take time to adjust to Cali- 
gari24's interface, the effort is worth it. 

geometry. Just grab a point and twisi or 
deform the box, and the original object 
iwisls and deforms in the same way. "Hie 
results are very natural, with the object 
taking on a clay-like consistency that per- 
mits incredible manipulation. 

After warming up in the modeling 
arena, vou move into animation staging, 
where the virtual-world interface comes 
into its own. Select an object with the 
mouse, move it wherever you want, and 
then click on the Set button, which sets 
a new keyframe for the animation. You 
can then slide through the sequence to 
whatever frame you want, move the ob- 
ject to a new position, and then click Sel 
again — giving you your second kev. This 
quickly results in a very complex series 
of moves, and it couldn't be easier. 

You can also view the object's motion 
path, which appears as a white line in the 
scene area. I fit's too irregular, you can 
smooth it with a click on the spline bill- 
ion. Should you need more detailed in- 
formation, you can view all the keyframes 
graphed on a timeline. You can generate 
wireframe previews of the entire sequence 
and then view them with a VCR-style con- 
trol system. Moving the mouse back and 
forth plays the animation forward and 
backward. All this power and flexibility is 
both intuitive and easy to access. 

Rendering: The Final Frontier 

I he last module on the lisi is for ren- 
dering. You can set every object with dif- 
ferent colors, transparencies, textures, 



and shaders. You can place textures with 
an easy-to-use utility program and pro- 
ject them on your object in several dif- 
ferent ways — from planar to spherical. 
Caligari24 also allows for cubic-environ- 
ment maps, where you can map even' 
side of the world — including the ground 
and sky — onto your object. The effect is 
extremely realistic, giving the finished 
picture a ray-traced appearance. 

Yet another powerful option is the 
choice of shaders. Most programs use 
only Phong shading, but Caligari24 also 
lets you choose Gouraud for speed, or 
Cook-Torrance (metal) for realistic, shin) 
surfaces. In addition, all the common 
frame-buffers are directly supported. You 
can render to DCTY. HAM-E, Fire- 
cracker, Harlequin, IV-24, OpalVision, 
and the older Mimetic's Framebuffer. 
Even Targa cards connected to an Ami- 
ga bridgeboard present no problems. 

There's a lot to praise here. Caligari 
supports all standard Amiga display 
modes, including HAM and the new 
ACIA. The manual is one of the best I've 
ever seen for any product. Installation is 
straightforward, and an extra version is 
included that works on older, unacceler- 
ated Amigas. After lots of use and abuse, 
the software remained rock solid. 

Caligari 24's one glaring weakness is the 
lack of direct, true-color IFF support Ren- 
dering to a 24-bit IFF file means jumping 
through a few software hoops. You begin 
by selecting the Null Framebuffer to ren- 
der the picture in 32-bit Rendition format 
and I hen save it. To create an IFF file from 
the 32-bit image, you must load it in with 
an image converter such as ASDG's Art 
Department Professional, and then 
change it into IFF format. For such a pow- 
erful package, this awkward procedure 
seems like an oversight. {Editor's Note: Oili- 
jTari promises a free upgrade in the near future 
for 24-bit IFF output) 

Another shortcoming is multitask- 
ing — it's virtually nonexistent. Cali- 
gari24 disables the rest of the OS while 
it's in action. You can open a Shell win- 
dow, but that's about the limit to real- 
lime multitasking. Thankfully, when you 
quit Caligari, background programs will 
be idling as you left them. 

Despite these glitches, Caligari24 is 
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It's also tougher. The new levels are sizable, and often scroll 

Continued on p. 80 



It wasn't difficult to settle on Shad- 
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it to the top and head right again. 

Get the gold, blast the critters 
heading for you, and, continuing 
right, shoot the wheel three times 
to bring the hanging platform up to 
your level. Then hightail it to the 
grenades, which you'll need to take 
out the guns on the four moving 
platforms farther to the right. 

As you ride those platforms, 
you'll notice that down and to the 



left there's another gold cache be- 
hind a locked door, which you can 
open with the key on the far-right 
platform. Now head right again, 
across the moving platforms, until 
you find a sort of goblin outpost. 
There's evidently an inexhaustible 
supply of them, so kill the ones that 
are doing immediate damage, climb 
up to the lookout, and then jump 
off the right-hand edge. 

Well, now I've gone and done it, 
eh? Put you right in the middle of 
the goblin camp, and they seem to 



be coming at you every which way. 
Fortunately, they're not very hardy 
creatures, and a sharp eye and 
good timing will prevent your pre- 
cious little store of life from be- 
coming too greatly diminished. You 
have bigger fish to fry. Head right 
and you'll come upon a piece of 
meat roasting on a spit. Shoot it re- 
peatedly to knock it down, and 
then push it until it's squarely un- 
der the swinging spiked block. 

Along the way, you'll collect an- 
other key that goes to the cage — 
the one with the big critter inside 
it — to the far left. Release the mon- 
Continued on p. 80 



A— Wow! Exquisite. A must far your games library. C— Meets expectations. Good, solid, performer. 

B — Great fun. Plenty of entertainment value here. D— Disappointing. Lots of room for improvement. 

F — A real stinker. Don't waste your time. 
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Troddlers 



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TRODDLERS (STORM, about 
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I have to mention it, since it's the 
most unabashed of the Lem- 
mings-inspired games — essentially a hybrid oFLemmings and 
Spherical whose little critters are cheerfully free of the re- 
quirements of gravity. (Walking on ceilings seems to be their 
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PUSHOVER (OCEAN, S49.95) is 
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noes, of all things, with the chief ' 
toppler and domino-organizer being a soldier ant named, uh, 
G.I. ANT. G.I. can lug most of these spotted blocks around, 
including up and down ladders to other platforms — except the 
trigger block, which is immovable and must be the last to fall. 
It's unexpectedly challenging (certain dominoes have un- 
usual properties), it's tightly focused (each level is confined to 
one screen), and it's cute (love the way they give you the level 
codes). And behind Robocop 3-D it's the best game Ocean has 
brought over since it started handling its own distribution here. 

GOBLIINS 2 



Hard-drive installable. 
Copy-protection. 



GOBLIINS 2 (COKTEL Vision, 
about S40) — itself a sequel — is 
from a different tribe entirely. 
It's closer in spirit to tradition- 
al adventure games. Get the object, use the object, discover the 
object doesn't work in this situation, yell something nasty at 
the screen. You supervise two goblins — who are maneuvered 
individually with the mouse — and two livelier, goofier faces 
you've never seen on computer-game critters. 

That goofy look carries over into the game. The designers 
have evidently thought out all the consequences of doing the 
wTong thing, with the result that the game is engaging and fun 
even when you don't know which end is up. Gobliins 2 just 
won't stand still. Take too long to click, and Fingus and Winkle 
peer from the screen in bemused anticipation, or do backflips. 

I do wish the story had a spark of originality. (A demon has 
kidnapped the king's son . . . hmmni.) It's not as logic-orient- 
ed as other members of this troop — governed more by a lext- 
adventure-like willingness to try anything and everything un- 
der the sun — but it's big enough that you'll appreciate dial it'll 
go on hard disk. 




Contraption Zack 

FINALLY, THERE'S Contrap- 
tion Zack (Mindscape, S39.95) — 
the onlv US-made game in the 
bunch. Zack's the new boy on the 
job, and his co-workers have pulled a little initiation rite and 
scattered his tools throughout the plant. His task is to recov- 
er them while repairing various dysfunctional systems, and 
that's a tall order, since the plant is a regular minefield of in- 
terlocking puzzle rooms. You'll need to hop on pressure pads 
to lower floor spikes, ride catapults to rise above them, and 




Factory life can be tough, but it's challenging fun in Zack. 

pull switches to reverse conveyor belts. And, once the tool box 
begins to fill up again, you'll find ways to put it to use as well. 

Lovingly done up in 64 colors and a Populous point-of-view, 
and equipped with a rapidly rising difficulty curve, it's im- 
mensely agreeable stay-up-late stuff. It installs on hard disk. 
(Indeed, it's one of a handful of Amiga games that require one.) 

And vet, in technical terms, Zack could use a lew repairs. 
The speed on an unaccelerated A500 is sluggish — while this 
sort of game ought to be the Amiga's bread and butter — and 
even on an A3000/2") it slowed clown when Zack walked dur- 
ing a machinery animation. I'd recommend a fast machine. 
The joystick routines seem unreliable when dealing with Zack's 
menus, and the clipboard notes on a player's progress were 
rendered in a virtually unreadable color scheme on my A500. 

A critically important detail on saving games is missing Irom 
the printed documentation. It seems you can't save Zack just 
anywhere — only in certain specified areas. But you're not told 
that when you try to save outside those areas. The info appears 
only in a text file on Disk One — a spot usual!)- reserved for 
manual addenda rather than essentials. *■ 



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in several directions. And simply completing a level — there are 
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the next level only the number of Lemmings who survived the 
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ster and jump on a ladder to get out 
of its way. Once you return right, 
you'll find that the beast has taken 
the bait, the spiked block has fallen, 
and your path.to another gold 
cache is clear. 

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sically another elevator — but rock- 
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You'll want to have it bear left, but 
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der that's waiting midway up the 
shaft, so as to carry the boulder up 
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boulder will still be there.) At the 
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With the boulder, however, 
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The wall that erupts behind you is 
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rods that pop out of the ground. 

Over the bridge and past the 
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stream of shurikens yourself, and 
he'll soon be history. Take his skull 
as a souvenir. _ 

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D Paint IV Video Guide h Sacdleback Graphcs' 
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DQ7Biabcci.: Amiga "C" Tutorial - Tins is the most com- 
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V0I1: Imagine Enhancer - T3D QOIWWH t-nagir.e objects to 
OFF. NFF. VORT. Raysh-ade. MIF, DXF and POV formats. 
VOID: Imagine Enhancer iCoons and -EL supplement the 
c-b.ec: and scans M Sons 

FD&E: UCheea: The siicncest playing Chass program avail- 
ape Io* the- Amiga period Req &XQQ.-, Wortiberch2.. 4MB 
RAM SuppolaAGA 

FD64: Qimi! Deluio PaeMan is better than the ongma!- 
20* mazes, special "pewer-ups* with austartd/ng arapnies 
Ih n^Aman-a is ttse ctoc game -ot concern ration --witi bftattf'' 
fuiyd'awn HRfls images. 

WB1ZS: Super Virus Killer ■ From Safe Hex Intl, wno cata- 
logs and kifls Amiga Viruses wprfoWj-pe-a compete virus sys- 
teni that Knows an Amiga viruses ..updated often. Ren WB 2- 
WB128: ColorFont* - contains IE color bitmap fonts for use 
wth OPflint or any software thai supports ColorFonis Perfect 
for tJSng 

WB127: Blanker* - Ovof 20 different screen Wanders. Most 
run on Workbench 1 3+ , a few require 2.0* 
VYB126: EdPlayer rr.ns c MOD play&r vi.iv looks.. act; and 
pays line your CD player . AmigaWorid's *t MOD uUity Pius 
MOO songs 

DD92; Developer Contains the olficial Commodore develop- 
ars kits for the AmigaGurde and Commodore Install Utilities. ..a 
■must have for ell serious- developers 

DD91: PaiBench - Allows you to easily connect 1 network two 
Amiges:'CDTVs together and share sipragn devces. Req"s 
WB2* and custom cable {does to make cao-'w included^easy). 
DD90: Advanced Ulllillei - Compre-ssDisk doubles the 
.CflpaCi|y -at your h.iro-dnvo on She fy with c-amp-riess cr" Also 

:ontam5 disk optimizer, SCSI mount utility, Key map editors. 
Enlor£er. Undeleler £ more Mofil programs rftqclre 2.0+ 



Fun Disks / 



FDtj: GAMES! ■ This disk is chock M of games nebpng. 
Checke's, Clue. Goid - A new slide tne pieces puzre. Jtcpard 
■ An enhanced version of Risk, RusttHour ■■ Surpnangfy adciict- 
ng. and SpBceWai - Best described as a cross between 
Zo-r^a- Tanks and a*ier&id* 

£0?: Pjicmin - This diU conis-rts several pacnan typo 
games induing. PacUan&7. MazfrMan ar>d Zonix 
f Dt 0: MackLllt - A -dung-eon adventure game Considered a 
must-have dassc Th;s is :t« ?nd le ease ot this game Giea; 
graph* interface Pay imesevera; wesKs 1 
FDii: Las Vegas- and Card Games - Las Vegas Craps- The 
best Las Vecas Craps simdatjon even/ wntten. tor any com- 
puter. Coniams e*sensi»e HELP fesiuies. Also Thiny- 
O^e.VideoPokef and mote. 

FD12A,FD)2B: Star Trek, The Game ■ This * by faf the best 
51ar Tren garre ever wn!!*n lor an^ cnmpuler n featg'es 
momse contioL good giaohict. Oigiinea souno elfects and 
great gameptay Counlt as 2 disks Heq. 1Mb and two dnves 

(or her) 

F09 3: Board Games - contains Monopoly. Don. tool. 

Paranoids, and oilers 

FDU: Dungeon Master Hints and Arcade Games - DM 

maps, spells, item location, and hints and more, also on :-. s 

d.sk, Hball - an arka nod. "break out type game. Tnx - a Q-.t r,yp*> 

done, 

the -running of MS-DOS sutiwara rtfth Amirjo progmmatll 
Comes gompMt^wnlh prcgFams to (urn your Amiga llQRPy 

■ : -':-'U'drrv«. 

FD17: Educational Gomea - This disk inouckis Several names 

io> yaungslers -ncVdmg geography, ninth, science, and word 

gamas. also includes Wneei ot Fonune. 

FD2Q: TbciIcdI Garnet - MechForce: A game tnai simulates 

combat between two -or iriOre gianl ropois. Simple wcrds can't 

begin to give you the feel ol piloting a 30 - -4D lool tali, lire 

breaking, earth shaking colossus that obeys your every wtiim. 

FD27: Arcade Gbitwji - Ttvj. disk >s loaded win some great 

games inoudvs. Raceorama a great racing car game w-ih ten 

diftereni courses, H>n Blait a helicopter ounsriip type clone. 

Shark in :ne same dasa as Hogger, and SBreakoui me original 

Breakout with more 

FD29: Shoofem up'* - WVfll you re tne plot ot a WWJI 

plane flying Ihrough ererry terntc-ry, you ve |,ust been spotted. 

jood Itrck on you mifj-on, SpyKilier - try bmi penetrate enemy 

ines with this game, and Retaiator • ano-ner great game 

FD31: Games! - A- Traffic Control - a good ATC simulason, 

Sa:-. Jack Lab ■ a U leatured «.■_■: o! card 5a— ■-:■ C'ess"-:- ■ 

play chess with your ffi&fc in 0i5t3.ii and remote p-'aces with 

ri s game and a modem, la&ynnth ■ a well done lex! adventure 

game (like an inlocom game], and MojseTtap - a 3d maje 

game 

FD.32: Flight Simulator - An instrument flight s>mu<atO( tor a 

DC10 

FD33i Arcade Game* - Ftieddy a, Mauo Brothers type ot 

game, Gerb.is a target practice game. PrpeLme a German 

ntarpreaspn pi Pupa D^eans. Tron a tigni cycles ver^on. and 



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WetrOidS a wonderful version of asteroids with a hilanrjufi IwiSI 
FD3S: Omega {v 1.3j - An outslandirg oungeon and ouldoois 
adventure game in a similar vein as haefc. rouge, and mona. 
This ver&on ss co ns- iter ably faster and better ;ha! all previous 
versions. Play time: weeks 

FDM-: Gaines - Ctbbage Master - A g-ea; crbbage game and 
tutor. Spades - a well cone card- cawe. ChlneseChtckeht - A 
computer version ol ttirs Classic. Puii - a Slr.de piece puiife 
game arc! conslructon set 



WB105AB: Workbench 2+ Extras #2 

includad tritf> Vi'BS* Th-ji-a powerlkjl i;n itus taKe lufl 
BJOVamage. of ine many new capabofes ihat aw available in 
Wartflersds 2+. Jnckides; Too! Manage* - a wwwhflul uiB- 
ty !o add programs to your TOOL menu. Virus Prcsscuon • 
Degrader. icon - E^iances Wcrtbench's "Sho* AT to oU- 
ptayovef 40 cfesontl rtons for oifeter:! types offrtw Btrrop 
FftiLEdtw. Screen EUnkers - eta fraclars and KAners and 
swarming b*as! Rvqusster Enhance™ andCPUBkl Two 
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FD39A&B: Star Trek. The New GertiiuL .- 
piete'y different ve'sion of S:a* Treh nan that lound on FD12 
This one was created by tne German author Tobias 
Exce'lent 1 "' Counts as two asks Requ res 5l2k 
FD50: Subm&Hne Game ■ Sea'ance. one ar.e a hit yea's n 
the making, this, is an putsian-rjing S'Jbmanna :acticat game. 
Comme'ciai Quality, highly recommendeo. 
FDS7: Arcade Games - Includes 2 truly commercial quality 
games MegaBail. an Arkanoid-ish game, teatuies 5- musical 
scores and addicting gameplay. Grfltf ty Attach is a psychoce*- 
lie tnp through several d'tlerent worlds — each different 
FDS9: Game Potpourri - Xenon J II is an aimosl enact done of 
the commercial gams of ihe same name . a great Ehootemup. 
Crossword wiil sake lisis of words & automancaJly generals 
word-search puzzles tor any Epson compatible printer. 
FD60: Games - In Nebula, race over a 3d world to destroy 
enemy installations Interferon; a oreal Dr Mario clone. 
Enigma; is rt a game- or puzzle? 

FD61; Games - So :a '-e. great graphics, plays two versions. 
Klide; an interesting pi&ce of eye candy. Extreme Violence. 2 
player w.i I o- be killed game. YATC; A Tetns clone with ArtilicaJ 
Inielligence. Genesis; create realstic 3d (racial worlds. 
FD62: PomPom Gunner. Ar, entromely smgarn are! woU dono 
World War II gunner simulation. Requires 1 megabyte ol 
memory. 

FD&4: Games - Wuzy's Quest - a "g-eai" 50 level game with 
great graphics. Cubus - a 3-dimensional Tetns type game 
((otate and move in 3 dimensions). Husker Ou - Colors and 
pattern rasher than shape in ths Teirisesq^e game; 5 screens 
and 3 levels of drtficurry Requires Fa; Agnus il Meg ol Chp> 
FD67; Arpade - includes biamatron a weii-oone Robot'on' 
done. Hate is a 'terrific' Za«ion dona with multiple 
leveiS'wOrlds and smooth diagonal scrolling, a 10! 
FQ63: MlndGamrs - Had enough cf shooi-em up garnet 
Resax anc ei ihese 3< games e-e'ese your imno mne-ad ot 
your wrist 

FD71 A£ B: Star Trek: TNG Trivia Challenge - So you think 
you know The Uexi Ge-.e-a'jon. huh' Compiate with (antas.:^ 
Oamptod scun-ds and d giieo images, tti s game even looks 
and so-uTitiS. tke a. ger^jne Star Tiek tertrenalf VERY morough 
and cornp'-ene! Counts as 2 disks 

FD73; Arcade Series - Intruder Alerj' is a MULTI level 
"Berserk" clone. Features smooth gameplay. great fifapn-ts & 
d-gitifed sound 1 It 

FD74: Arcade Series - R-ngWar is an 'Oute' Limits* don) 
with vectomed graonics. MotnerLede ■« a "Looe Runner* 

done with 50 levels' In Bl.liTa.nkS, they're coming al yo-j trom 

ail directions" Call in a-r slnkes and use your heavy artillery to 

survive! 

FD75: Arcade Series ■ Descender s a clone ot the classic 

arcade garns- "Terrpesr; co-nip^ie with veciur;;ed graphics. 

Tanx is the ciassc battle o! traiecfones ar.d inertia between 

two tanks. — incredibly wet! done! Search us a ma?e game 

uni.ke any ether — indud-ed is a revel editor ioo iTans requires 

l meg chip ■ne'ne.ry-Fat AgnuSJ 

FD77: Arcade Series - Galaga'92 is a clone ot the arcade 

game wiih several gameplay enhancements-with smooooth. 

sharp grapKcs, it's better "nan ihe oicm' Phoraphs Curse <9 

a done ol the original C5A classic. Dplomacy is a beautifully 

computerized version ol the Avalun HHI board gar-ie-conque- 

n-bacor-cuereo 

The AmigaVVokld "Best-Of" Set! 

FD&SABCO: Am£gaWorld*s Beat ■ Th-me- (cur t}">^5 uasjin 
rha* frottzsi p!ti ggrnes Ot ttt inc!irf« Mo-her Lode. Morlfl. 
Mirwttekf. Potng, Intruder Alen. Oelure Pa^Mnn Rocky and 
Sup* AnjiMfy {see D«. "Si ■' 
counts as three). 

FD81 i SuparGames - Some o' tm best ga~-es- Oonkay Kong 
ls oerter mar. the ong-raJ win nn eitra /tftei" Fragile F'eoo-e 
and Tra.ilBla2er are both fast-paced arcade games Mad 
Bomber is the dass c game ot *Kaaoom"' redone wih an Amtga 
flan?. A:iof:hsse games are eKce^enti 

FD82: Intrepid - tn The Arctic «:e. you carstrol a lank on a mis- 
siQfl to rescue hostages in this superbty carted Amiga ongmai 

Workbench Disks / 

WBl Telecom muni cation - Tens e-s-k contars soveiai »"Cei 
leni pd communcat'on programs: Access i 42. Comm 1 .3* a 
Handshake 2.12a. See jsa WB<02 & WBM5 

WBS: Fonts #1- SeveraJ tonts |3iS) tor me Amiga, also nnclud- 

#d are five ^ageSneam lonts.anci ShowFont - a lont o-spiay 

prog-am. 

WB6: Fonts #2 - ShowFon: allows you to quickly and 



painlessly view all 255 characters in a typical font Includes 
large Am rj a Dos system (onis (many up to 56-pis). 
WB7: Clip An ' This O-si s loaded win Dtack ana «n ie c -p 
art Art includes, trees watches, tools. US and State maps 
and more 

W"SB; IcsfM - Truly a rrsuilitude ol various types and kmos, 
AJsO indudts leoflMt WMW . IconLtt, aval others great ut dties io 
help generate icons, 

WB10; Virus Klllars - The best: Virus* («,<■}. Kv(2.1). and 
ZeroVmd III. 

WBI2: Disk Utilities This great tos loaded wvth wondertul 
uW'te-a lor evarylhing ircfudkng making ask labels, disk cata- 
loging, d.sk ep; mating disk and file recovery bjcMm and orga- 
nij.ng. ano ait sorts ol file mampuletion. A must have 1 
WB13AB; Printer Oilveft and Generator - over 70 ditferent 
Onvers [including HP LaserJet 3 & V}. also- >n: jdes a pnn'er- 
dnver generator Two disk set counts as two. 
WB15: Business - This c-_-. contains a spreadsheet, a 
database, a pipjecuiirne management program and financial 
analysis (stocks]. 

WBtfl: WsrdrTud Proceaaors ■ This drsk cuntains the best 
editors. Includes.Te^tPJjs [v2.?e) a full featured word proces- 
sor, Dmo(v1 35) a great programmers editor with strong macro 
leaiutes.Ta-iED{v2 B) an enhanced Emacs type editor, and a 
spell checker 

WB22: Fonts #3 - Several' more great lonts These, tike (he 
other font disks work great with Dpamt ano WYSIWYG word 
processors. 

WB23: Graphics and Plotting - Plot, a 3-0 mathematical 
function plotter. Can p'ot any user defined hjncticn. BeiSiid2 . 
produce awesome pictures o! objects one could turn on a 
lathe. Can also map IFF imagg hies gntp any surface treat it 
can draw. Now compatible with most 3D packages, and 
VScreen - makes a virtual 1 screen anywhere. 
WQ2k: Educational - On ihis disk are two programs that can 
generate maps of differing types, World Data Base uses the 
CIAs data base to generate data-led maps o' any entered use' 
g'Db.ii -coordinates. Also Paradox a gieat demonstration of 
Albert E-nslein Genera! Theory ot Relativity 
WB27: Nagel ■ 26 Patrick Nagel pictures of beautrfut women. 
WB23: Grapnk* and Sound - This dsk has severa) different 
Mandelbrot type piograms producing stunniig grapttics, 
ir-ciuoes MandeiMcvntams - a realistic terra n generator. 
Ftaogen - generate lecursive fraclafs from user input. 
M.i-ide b'ot and Tna-eel - two tast mandelbrot generators. 
a:so Mostra - the best IFF dsplay program to dale. Sound - a 
great IFF sound player, w.ll play anything, 
WB J3:CircuH Board OeiJgn * seve'31 temhc routines tor the 
elect r D mc erti^siasl Including PCBtool - a circuit board 
design tool, LogcLab - orcul logic tester, and Mead ( 1 26) a 
wall done new release of this PD CAP program, now comes 
wiih predrawn common drcuit components for .nsenion into 

scte-rii: :•- 

WB35: 3D Graphics - ThLS d.sk contains 3Fon!s - Futt vector 
torn set for use with 3d p'ograms. FontMaker - make 3d fonts 
!rom any system ton;, Maka3DStiape ■ create 3d straiws from 
any image, Dump'olFF - creale 3d animations preserves pat- 
let, WortOJd ■ a rJemp of a front end lor use with DKBRender 
WB36: Graphics On IMa d>sk ate several piograms to cieate 
■tunning graphical images including,. T.IPaln - creates swirlmg 
galaiy images, Roses - produce an unlimited number ol vaca- 
tions of images thai a symmetrically similar to a rose. SimGen - 
display (hose spectacular images as pan of your workbench, 
and RayShade - a very good raytraccne program, create your 
own beautilul 3d graphic modefs with this one* 
WB37; Educational - Educational games and puzzles that 
cover main, goograprty, spelling, and books. Ages 5 - 15 
WB33: Plotting and Graphics - Ptofxy is a poviertul full fea- 
tured p'ottrng package Used by many colleges and universi- 
ties. Hgtiiy recommended. Plans - a incredibly well dona 
Computer Aido-d ratting program, very U featured- 
Tesselator - a program that helps generates tantasbc looking, 
recursive M.C Ecsher type pictures. 

Special Product! 

QT1 : The A64 Package - A very compfete Commodnr;e 
64 emulator. Suppcns any CPU aftd is fully orjmpatrbte 
with WBI.3 & 2.0. This version includes a special 
adaptor that will allow you to connect your 64's 1541 
disk driver |o your parallel port ot your Amiga for total 
emulation Two disk set, counts a$ two. Special price 
$49.95 ■ Including hardware. 

WB41: Huilc • MEO an incredibly well done, bra featured 
muse ed'tor Create your own stunning mus* arecsy on your 
Vi- Amga S t ia- tp SouHfTncter but uetMi. Ve*y powerful 
easy to use program. Version 3.20— compattre w in WB2-. 
WB43: Business ■ This n-sk con-^ins AnalytCaC - nmeably 
the most powartui spreadsheet program on the Amiga. A M 
featured spreadsheet with many features expected in a com- 
mercai package Peq 1 2 MB 

WB46- Clip Art - HignRBS e r ip an wiin the following mo&fs - 
emboi: shm#na (borders, dooads , ..}. people, t trartsporta-jori 
WB47. Clip A/1 Hires d>p art MotrfS - hair, draftng, summer, 
nn.mals and mactood. 

WB4S: Clip Art - Hires cip art Motifs - Holdays, muse, medi- 
cal, and mite, 

WB5Q: Animation ■ Seven ot the oest euro-style animations or 
"Demos", including - spantide 451, subway, sunride. Lnrstde- 
mo. tnign!. waves, and ivoow. 

WB53: Graphics ■ flaytracmg progpams generate absolutely 
Stunning rea'iStiC lOCkirg planes, sockets, bui d:ngs.... and sur- 
ieal images C-Lighi s Ihe most powerful fiASY-TO-LISE ol 
its kind we have seen to date This is easily bener, and more 
tuli featured, than similar commercial programs costing m the 
hundreds of dollars Also, sMovie - a lull leatureo video taxi 
Mler similar to ProVidoo, Broadcast Tiller. Great video 
scrolling, wipes, speciat effects, and more,.. 
WBS4: Printing - This disk contains several routines to help 
wiih (he chore of pnnimg. Includes Gothic - Finally a Banner 
printer for Ihe PD 1 PnrsStudio -a well impJemented al-curpcsa 
printer-utility with a very comfonable graphic interface and 
many advanced features Ua - wth ease, print ASCII files to a 
PostScnpi printer, and more. 

WR55- Appllcailon - XCopylll - a full featured disk copier. 
make backups of copy protected disks. RoadRoute - find ihe 
quickest route from one city to another, highway description 
Included D<ary - a diary program lie "Dougy House* M.O", Cat 
• a calendar program, vtagman - a database tailored lor arti- 
cles arxJ QuPications 

WB57: Animation ■ Ins dish has several -Derro' style ani^ 
mabons. IncfuOing. BliRar. Lolly, SunS, vertigo, vortei. and 
jcenOmorpti. 

WB62: Midi Utilities - Several useful midi utiles tndu&no. 
programs to transfer to ano IrOm Several music crograms. to 
midr. A mdi sysei nanpler a nd recoroa' w in ::— ?nase c s- 
ptay midi info. Me seouarvce player, and a few sco'es. 
W063: Otek UrtllHet a*J - Several hguy recomrnended pro- 
grams to ad in removing -Bupi-cate files Irpm your hard dnve, 
performing f [« backups. Binary editing, tast foimatring, Lie 
recovery, dak track recovery, and forced disk vaiCatrpn of cor- 
rupt disks 

WB66; Icons *2 Lots of neat icons Also, severa' wonderiut 
programs that to let you create your own icons, modify and 



manipulate icons and info strudures, 

WBW: Mui-le ■ 90 minutes o! cumieat and m-pda 

musictof you Amga 

WB75: Music - over 100 instruments dies l.mst) ind sample 

sound "ties [ sa) 

W079- Homfl & Bu»lne»s Accountlnfl ■ includes Ckbacct - 

Ihe must complete Checkipook accouning program gc-rg. 

LCOCalc - this well done ca:cuiaior -ni a very large display 

and operates from tn* keyboard pr mouse. Mileage master - 

monitor your automobile mileage witn this mileage log. 

Grammar - a grammar Checker, and WorkTt'ffi* - firtd out wfat 

time :t rs in up to 50 global c t m 

WeilfiABCOE: Font Set Tniaco'«t*n coniams owr 100 
typefaces for us* *,mJi Prof*is.cn.\l Pugt- Pn^fi; 
PagoSttream 2 u, Tne*»fon»wti output to wry user smtiar 
Of i;c:-i-^;iu. prinle• with no )agg>i- h flunks to ovtl-n* fofts. 
Vety p^lOOkifig. 5 db* fief. CCWfllS ■»* 4. 
West: Great Applications - DaiaEasy a very easy io use. 
database program Don t <et ihe ease of use fool you. this is a 
ve-y tu I featured dnlabase prog*.m inCJuding full printer cont'Ol 
tor address labels and mail merpe applications Also includes, 
TypeTyl a good typing tuior, RLC a full featured label pnmer. 
Banne 1 . a mulii-loni banner maker, and Budget a hone 
accounting in a program Highly recommended. 

WB32: Animation) ■ Four full length, well done 'movie" slyla 
animations. Including, Coyota, Jugglerll. GhostPoal, A. 
Mechanm. 2 disks, counisas 1. 

WB93: Workbench 1.3 Extrai #2 Contains Ihe utilities that 
G-ommodore should have shipped with the Amiga; VirusX4.0. 
Snap. RxDbfc (recover corrupt deleted fi'es}. Disk Optimizer 
frioppy 8 hard]. Macnin (screen blanker, hotkey, mouse accel.. 
macro, clock uiilily) GOVT ..a gurubuste'land PrintSludo. 
WB93: Checkbook Accountant 2.1 - Definitely commercal 
grade; we've seen many checkbook programs and this is the 
best Full buoVjeliag. transaction recording & report guneratrcn 
WB96: Duptri - Contans XcopyiM t. No which will backup 
eppyp'otectect programs FreeCopy removes copy protection 
from several programs, and SuparDuper will crank-out fast 
AmigaOOS coptes 

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Nigel Mansell's 
World Championship 



1.2/1.3 • 



Hard-drive installable. 
Copy-protection. 



Give me a sec while my brain floats 
back into normal position. There. Whew. 
This driving game from England's Grem- 
lin Graphics [about $45) is quite the little runabout. On a basic A500, it's 
just cumbersome enough to feel realistic. On an A300G725, it's a holy ter- 
ror. Build a cabinet around it and you could put it in an arcade. The only 
thing flashing by faster than the trackside scenery was my life when I 
zoomed into a hairpin turn at something over ZOO KPH. 

Like other recent speedy driving games, NMWC is a hybrid of action and 
strategy. Unlike any of them, it goes on hard disk, which speeds up disk- 
loading. Too bad the codewheel copy protection slows it down. 

It doesn't have a track editor — it's tied to a Grand Prix Circuit — and the 
view doesn't have quite the depth of field of some of the competition 
(namely, Core Design's Jaguar XJZ20 and Gremlin's own Lotus III). But I'm 
not complaining — especially not with an AGA-specific version inbound. 



Hook 

Steven Spielberg's syrupy yarn about 
a yuppified Peter Pan rediscovering his 
roots arrives on the Amiga as an animat- 
ed adventure [Ocean, $49.95) with easy- 
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in a difficult-to-read color), on-line hints from Tink, and the occasional deli- 
cious graphic detail. Initially, it'll put you in mind of The Secret of Monkey 
Island, and nothing which does that could be entirely awful. 

But this simply isn't much fun. It feels oddly dead on its feet — as though 
it's watting around for you to interact with it. The graphics look like left- 
overs from Darkman and The Untouchables. And we don't need another 
four-disk game that doesn't go onto hard disk. Hook, you're a schnook. 



3.0 • 

Not hard-drive Installable. 
Copy-protection. 



Nick Faldo's 
Championship Golf 



1.2/1.3 • 



Not hard-drive installable. 
Copy-protection. 



I' m eve n wo rse at co mpute rgolfthan 
at the real thing, but I love this game 
from England's Grands/am label. It's bet- 
ter looking than any golf game except 
Links (and these graphics are drawn rather than digitized). It also has nice 
tucked-away info screens (which pop out when you want 'em) and a sen- 
sible emphasis on the art of making contact with the ball and picking clubs 
(which is assumed in other games). 

Caveat: It's a long load, and so would benefit from hard-disk installa- 
bility. And it's a PAL program, so you'll need a meg of chip and a PALboot 
program to play it. {Degrader works fine. I 



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Great just got better. The review of 
Robocop 3D a few issues back was 
based on the European version. I've 
since seen the US incarnation, which is 
notably better. Ocean has replaced the 
dongle protection with the manual-based variety, and the manual is far 
more readable without the weird color scheme. Wish it worked on the 
A1200, though. ■ 



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Upgrading — How to do it and when you might consider 
AGA. Also, some summer reading. 



Unpleasant Memory 

Q. With the recent addition of an 8MB 
internal RAM expander to my A50U, a 
guru message occasionally appears, but 
otherwise it works well. I use my Amiga 
primarily for graphics and music. Should I 
upgrade it further or consider one of the 
newer Amigas? Finally, which books would 
be best for learning the Shell or ARexx? 

Derek M. Cans 
Norfolk, VA 

A. Past experience with internal RAM 
expanders on the A500 makes me no 
stranger to your dilemma. First, try to 
reseat the expander to make certain 
the connection is solid. Utile guru 
messages persist, contact the manufac- 
turer or your dealer. The board or one 
ol its components mav be defective. I( 
it's slill under warranty, you may be 
able to exchange it for a replacement. 

It's a tough decision whether to 
continue to upgrade your A500 or 
invest in one of the \\cw AGA Amigas. 
Last month's Help Key (May '93) listed 
numerous upgrade options for the 
machine at various price points. Many 
A500 users like yourself hear the siren 
song of the low-priced Al 200. It oper- 
ates roughly three times faster than 
your A500, has increased chip RAM for 
more expansive graphics and sound 
capabilities, offers 256 simultaneous 
screen colors at higher screen resolu- 
tions, and conies complete with the 
vastlv improved Amiga DOS '5.0 operat- 
ing system. 

While ail additional investment in 
AGA-specific versions of graphic pro- 
grams (such as EA's DeluxePainl IV 
v.5) are needed, there's the benefit of 
added graphics capabilities. Equip- 
ment used with your A500, such as the 
monitor, disk drives, and external 
modem would work fine on the A 1200. 

Required reading on AmigaDOS 
would be incomplete without Amiga \ 
Intern ($39.95), a recent book focusing \ 
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By Tim Walsh 

\ ARexx knowledge comes in printed 
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iby Merril Callaway. You can order it 
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Bridging the A2000HD 

Q. As the owner of an A2000HD, complete 
with a llridgebatird and the standard 1MB 
of RAM, I'm looking lo upgrade m\ com- 
puter. How much l{.-\M should I add to the 
machine? I'd also like lo know how to 
program the Bridgeboard and get it work- 
ing properly. Lastly, which modems work 
well with tkeA2000HD? I'm interested in 
both Prodigy and CompuServe net-works. 

Charlie Wilkim 
Sohm. ME 

A. When it comes to adding RAM to 
the A2000HD, as with the A2000, it's 
remarkably easy. Unlike the newer 
A3000 and A4000, the A2000 would 
not accept SIMM-style RAM chips on 
the motherboard. Therefore, your best 
bet is to buy a Zorro El-compatible 
RAM card that will plug into any free 
expansion slot on the motherboard. 
You have a couple of options when 
choosing the card. You can get an 
unpopulated board and buy some 
plug-in static RAM chips for it. Just ask 
the dealer for RAM chips when you 
buy the card, or shop around for the 
lowest price. Once you have the chips, 
just press them in place in 2MB incre- 
ments on the board's empty sockets. 
Regardless of which one you get, it's 
vital to make sure they're all of the 
same nanosecond speed rating and 
that you refer to the instructions for 
selling the Jumpers so the computer 
recognizes all the RAM installed. 

The second choice is to buy a board 
already populated with either 4- or 
8MB of R.AM. Typically, the price 
difference is minimal between the two, 
so 8MB versions are preferable. 
Thanks to the popularity of the A2000, 
finding a RAM board is easy, with 



offerings over the years from GYP, 
ICD, Progressive Peripherals, Supra, 
and Commodore, to name a few. 

To get the Bridgeboard working, 
you need to get the latest revision of 
the [anus libraries and accompanying 
documentation for vinir Uridgcboard, 
which could either be an A2088 XT 
model, the A2286 AT, or the faster 
A2286 SX version. You can find the 
model identification etched on the 
Bridgeboard controller card, [anus 
libraries are available through both on- 
line sources or by contacting your 
Commodore dealer. 

Virtually any external standard or 
fax modem can be connected to the 
A2000 via a 25-pin serial cable. 
Supra and US Robotics are only two 
ol a number of manufacturers thai 
make a wide variety ol modems. 
Supra internal modems come com- 
plete with the latest version of A'l'alk 
III, a complete Amiga telecommuni- 
cations package. To minimize desk 
clutter. Supra also offers a small 
variety of internal Amiga modems, 
complete with installation software. 
I've bad great success transporting 
Supra internal modems between the 
A2000, A3000, and A4000, 

Finally, concerning the networks. 
vou need lo have PC-specific telecom- 
munication software in order to con- 
nect willi Prodigy — a worthy reason to 
get your Bridgeboard in operation. 
While Prodigy is a satisfactory net, it's 
no match for CompuServe. Besides 
offering an expansive Amiga area, 
CompuServe has sheer numbers ol on- 
line services, files, and areas of interest 
that virtually no other network can 
match. It's an expensive net, so be sure 
lo check the price structures of others 
covered ill On-line Scan, including 
Portal, BIX, and GEnie. ■ 

Do you have a question about Amiga coin- 
puling that just won't leave you alone? 
Pack it up and send it to Help Ke\, Amiga- 
World, 80 Elm St., Peterborough. NH ' 
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259.99 


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259.99 


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119.99 


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3195 


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339 99 


DCTV 


91689 


299 00 


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C1S127 


2299 03 


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97387 


151.99 


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97281 


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95877 


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91183 




21999 




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THE LAST WORD 

Kudos, complaints, comments, concerns, and contributions from our readers. 



Speech Error 

I keep reading that the A4000 is 
compatible with existing Amiga soli- 
ware, yet Amiga Basic software is not 
supported in any 2.0 or higher OS. 
Workbench 3.0 does not have speech 
so any program that uses speech will 
not work on the A 1200 or A4000 as 
shipped. If you have upgraded from a 
2.0 system, the immediate solution is to 
copy the missing files to the new Work- 
bench. If you do not own Workbench 
2.0, you will need to purchase it first 
Speech is essential for educational 
software and it is a terrible loss thai it 
is no longer standard. 

Maggie Hettinger 
Lebanon junction, KY 



If You Can't 
Beat 'Em . . . 

As most users of Imagine already 
know, Impulse has begun to release a 
PC version of Imagine 2,0. Although 
Impulse appears to be targeting the 
lower end of the professional audience, 
I still think they aspire to compete 
with 3D-Studio 2.0, which is the 3D 
rendering and animation package for 
the PC. If they are to succeed at all, 
they will need to fully support the 
-DXF object format. It's up to us, as 
loyal Amiga users, to petition Impulse 
and tell them that this support is a 
requirement. I've already called diem, 
I suggest that others do the same. 
Cross-platform data sharing assures 
the Amiga's survival, not it's demise. 

James Schroder 
Brooklyn, NY 



Modus Operandi 

In his article, "Advanced Opera- 
tions"(April '93, p. 46), Sheldon 
Leemon states: "By default, the chips 
power up in Original mode to help 
provide compatibility with programs 
that are not AGA-aware." I have pur- 



chased an A1200, and by default, the 
chips power up in Best Available mode. 
I cannot verify (bis information with 
the A4000, but 1 wanted this clarified 
for potential owners of the A1200. 

Jim Maciorowski 
Safe Hex International 

According to Commodore's documenta- 
tion, the AGA chips power up in compatibil- 
ity mode, hut are set to enhanced mode by 
the Setpatch command whenever you run 
Workbench. This is difficult to test since 
programs such as Showconjig (in the Tools 
drawer) always recognize the AGA chip set. 
My main point was that the existence of a 
compatibility mode makes it likely lliat 
games will work with the new graphics 



Speech is essential for 
educational software and il 

is ti terrible loss that it is no 
longer standard. 



chips. I apologize if I suggested that the 
compatibility mode would ever prevent the 
user from taking advantage of the enhanced 
capabilities of the chips, which is clearly not 
the rase. 

Sheldon Leemon 



Third-Party 
Commercials 

I have never seen any TV commer- 
cials for CDTV, Come to think of it, 
I've hardly seen any advertising for 
Commodore products since the C-64 
days. If they can't afford to produce 
commercials. I'm sure many Amiga- 
based production companies would be 
glad to make a commercial I'or Com- 
modore. It would be great if Com- 



modore could hold a contest for Amiga 
and CDTV commercials, and award 
prizes for the best ones. 

Tony J. McKimm 

Event Horizon Productions 



It's All in the OS 

Less than an hour after he brought 
his new A1200 home, my friend had 
AmigaDOS 3.0 tunning on his (14 
MHz G8000) Blizzard board-equipped 
A1000. It runs about 20 ( ;{ faster than 
on the "No fast Ram" A1200. Judging 
by this, I can state that most of the 
speed of disk I/O on the A1200 is due 
to improvements in the OS and not to 
the AGA chips as you implied in one of 
your articles. I expect that adding fast 
RAM or an accelerator to the A 1200 
would be a whole different ball game. 
Richard L. Smith 
Tampa, FL 



Middle East Relations 

I bought a paint program more than 
a year ago and immediately sent in the 
user registration card. For some rea- 
son, I didn't receive a response. Maybe 
the US companies think it's too much 
trouble to handle Israeli customers, but 
if they give proper customer support, I 
will continue to buy their software. 

Nir Hennoni 
Qiryat-Ono, Israel 

I would like to express my gratitude 
towards GVP Inc. i'or their fast response 
to a problem that I encountered that 
was not even their fault. I bought the G- 
Lock from a dealer in the US, but upon 
receiving the package, the disk included 
was completely damaged. I sent them a 
fax telling them of the problem, and 
within ten days I received a replacement 
disk. Not many companies look after 
their overseas customers, but GVP has 
been outstanding towards us. 

Ahmed Balfakih 
feddah. Saudi Arabia ■ 



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