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While other programs claim to have quality 
printing, Final Copy II is the only word 
processor on the Amiga that will produce 
excellent quality printouts on any 
Workbench (1.3. 2.0 or higher) supported 
graphic printer. If you have a PostScript 
printer, Final Copy II is the only word 
processor on the Amiga that has true 
WYSIWYG PostScript print capabilities - 
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and a limited number of sizes. Final 
Copy II supports NimbusQ, Compugraphic, 
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access to thousands of commercial and 
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Final Copy II 's word processing features 
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columns; search and replace; header and 
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tabs; paragraph justification; and automatic 
date, time, and page number insertion. 

Final Copy II's graphic features include; 




object-oriented, 

structured tools for drawing 

boxes, ovals, lines, arrow-tipped lines, and 

rounded cornered boxes; cropping; graphic 

sizing; object locking; and graphic depth 

arranging. Full AGA support lets you work in 

screens having up to 256 colors. 

Final Copy II now available in American 
English, British English, German, French, 
and French-Canadian versions is the best 
selling word processor for the Amiga in the 
world. As stated in a recent AmigaWorld 
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If you're thinking about getting an Amiga' 
special effects or image processing 
product, here are some facts to consider: 

• ASDC's Art Department Professional 
was named the "Best Image Processing 
Program" for 1 992 by the readers of 
Amazing Computing Magazine and "Best 
Video Software" by Germany's Amiga Plus 
Magazine. 

• American Software And Hardware 
Distributors and MicroPace Distributors 
(the two largest Amiga 1 ' software 
distributors in North America) cite ADPro 
and MorphPlus as the best selling 
products of their kind. 

• ADPro placed third among ALL Amiga 8 
software products on the MicroPace 
1992 Top 50 Sellers List. 

• The Post Croup, one of the largest post 
production houses in the world, has used 
ADPro and MorphPlus in the production 
of special effects for the prime time TV 




show Quantum Leap and for major 
motion pictures. 

• Mark Swain, an AmigaWorld 
reviewer (and animator for Foundation 
Imaging, the creators of the special 
effects for Babylon 5), said, "MorphPlus 
produces the most realistic shape 
shifting special effects I have ever seen 
on a desktop." 

• David Duberman, Executive Editor 
of Video Toaster User, said in a 
comparative review of Amiga" 



morphing products, "MorphPlus is the 
Rolls Royce of Amiga 6 morphing 
software... it will pay for itself with one 
job." 

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VOLUME 9, NUMBER 12, DECEMBER 1993 



FEATURES 

Games Engine — Par 

Excellence! 

By Peter Olafson 26 

Tile .Amiga CD32, Commodore's new 32- 
bit interactive multimedia player, is one 
mean game machine. Lei's get acquainted 
with the new system — and the 50+ CD 
game titles under development. 

AGA ATTACK By Peter Olafson 31 

We've got the latest on an even 50 titles 
designed lo take advantage of the Ami- 
ga's AGA capabilities. PC gamers take 
note: The Amiga aims lo regain its No. 1 
ranking — and it's Liking no prisoners! 

Player's Choice Awards: 
All-Time Amiga Game Hits 

fly Tom Malcom 37 

Hie readers chose em (we gol thousands 
of ballots), so we know these 15 favorites 
represent the best games developed on the 
Amiga so far. Check 'em out and see how 
they stack up against your own all-time list. 

ARTICLES 

The Spin Doctors — Part 2 

By Morton A. Kevelson 41 

Part 2 of our hard-drive controllers series 
focuses on 13 cards for low-end Amigas — 
A500, 1200. 1000, CDTV— wilh sum- 
maries, benchmark results, and recom- 
mendations lo help von get faster access 
and better all-around performance. 

COLUMNS 

Editor's Drawer 

By Dennis Brisson 4 

lite editor's been on the West Chester 
beat to check out new developments at 
Commodore. 

Accent on Graphics 

By Joel Hagen 48 

Learn how to use image-morphing 

techniques to produce more interesting 
and dynamic results in your painting 
experiments. 

VIDEO SUITE By Paulo de Andrade . . . 5 
The first of a two-part series on support 
products for the Video Toaster shows till' 
some hot software designed to keep your 
Toaster cooking. 



COVER PHOTOGRAPH BY EDWARD JUDICE 




December marks AWs sixth Annual Games 
Special, mid recent developments could make the 
upcoming Mar the most prolific one yet for Amiga 
gamers. Our theme, "The Nan Amiga Games," 
covers just over a hundred lilies targeted baih at 
the new Amiga CD32 (cover inset, above) and the 
new AGA machines. There'll he more color, more 
detail, and more action than you've ever seen 
before, so let your hair down and gel ready for 
some fun! 

Contest Winner! 

Meet the winner of AWs "Player's Choice 

Contest," who took down the Grand Prize 

of a brand-new Amiga 1200 — seep. 38. 



DEPARTMENTS 

Overscan 8 

A report from the World of Commodore 

Amiga show in Pasadena plus other news 
and new products — and the second of 
three "On-Line Scan" roundups or the 
best of PD "93 (this month: games). 

Help Key 94 

Tim's checking your technical wish lists 
twice to make sure you get satisfaction 
without having to go all the way to the 
North Pole. 

The Last Word 104 

Of the readers, by the readers, and for the 
readers. 



REVIEWS 

BRILLIANCE (Digital Creations) 14 

'Hie long-delayed 24-bit paint program 
appears well worth the wait. 

ProControl (ASDG) and 

MULTlFRAME (MacroSystems) 16 

Two support products offer excellent 
batch-processing control over ADPro. 

Bernoulli Box 150 
Transportable (Iomega) 19 

Top-notch, roomy removable-media drive. 
Scenery Animator 4.0 

(Natural Graphics) 21 

Fractal landscape generator goes AGA. 

CygnusEd Professional 3.5 

(ASDG) 52 

Maybe the ultimate text editor. 

TVPaint 2.0 Professional 

(MacroSystems) 54 

A 24-bit paint program that comple- 
ments many high-color display boards. 

Lightworks Graphics 
Synthesizer (Euphonies) 56 

Real-time graphics control for multimedia. 

THE DELI (Personal Video Wizards) ... 73 
Multifunctional sequencer for the Toaster. 

GAMES 

CRIB NOTES By Peter Olafson 80 

More aid for Lady, as the maestro helps 
you guide Dr. Jones towards Atlantis. 

Defender of the Crown II 

(CDTV Publishing) 80 

The CD version of Defender is a beauty. 

ISHAR II (Silmarils) 88 

An AGA role-player with size and style. 

Short Takes 90 

Capsule reviews of new Amiga games. 

AW Product 

Information 100 

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



AmignWorld 3 



EDITOR'S DRAWER 

In the months aliead, CBM will be improving the 
Amiga lineup — and with a new chief. 



The Promise of CD32 

The big news in Amigadom these days is die introduction 
oFCD32, which marks Commodore's return to the games 
arena, where they were so successful Tor so many years. 

The CD32 is an impressive product that promises excit- 
ing 32-bit gaming entertainment and, with the introduc- 
tion of the MPEG module, full-motion video playback. 
Judging from the enthusiastic response it has received in 
both Europe — where it debuted in July — and Pasadena — 
site of its US premiere — the CD32 has captured the 
imaginations of many delighted game players. 

At the Pasadena show. Commodore unveiled both the 
product and a marketing plan in response to critics who 
may question the company's new direction. Facing the task 
of competing on two computer fronts, Commodore will 
concentrate on improving its existing line of products, 
while, at the same time, promoting its games machine. 
While the CD32 firmly entrenches CBM in the low-end 
games-machine market, CBM plans to maintain its com- 
mitment to the A4000 line with its focus on video, graphics, 
animation, and kiosk-type applications. Success in the 
games area won't hinder, but should enhance, activity and 
development in other applications areas. Commodore 
anticipates that enthusiastic CD32 users will also be attract- 
ed to the rest of the Amiga platform. 

While CD32 captured the spotlight at the World of Com- 
modore-Pasadena show, it, of course, was not the only 
product of interest. In fact, we were struck by the number 
and quality of new products and the high enthusiasm level 
among users and developers. (For a full report see p. 8.) 

In his keynote address, US Commodore head Jim 
Dionne was candid in discussing Commodore's massive 
reorganization efforts. "Commodore is a much stronger, 
and more efficient company," noted Dionne, who cited 
increasing production efficiency, lowering overhead, and 
simplifying operations as steps taken to ensure a more solid 
and profitable organization. 

Which is not to say that development of new products 
has come to a standstill. VP, Engineering, Lewis Egge- 
brecht outlined CBM's future launch plans, which include 
such products as the A4000 Tower (available later this fall), 
a new AAA chip set ("10-20 times an improvement over 
AGA"), and AmigaDOS 3.1 . 

On a more personal note, I'd like to take this opportu- 
nity to bid farewell and extend best wishes to Jim Dionne, 
head of Commodore US and one of the truly nice guys in 
the industry. Jim, who ran the Canadian operation before 
coming to the US almost three years ago, is a 1 5-year vet- 
eran of the home computer wars and traces his origins with 
Commodore back to the days of the PET. 

Taking over as general manager of the US division is 
Geoff Stilley, who formerly served as VP of the US sales 
division. We wish both well in their future endeavors. 



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Editor-in-Chief 



AmigaWorld 

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Dennis Brisson, Editor-in-Chief 
Daniel Sullivan, Executive Editor 

Barbara GefVert, Senior Editor 

Tim Walsh, Senior Editor/Reviews 

Ann Record, Assistant Editor 

Peter Olafson, Games Editor 
Joel Hagen, Contributing Editor 

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

Ann Dillon, Designer 
Alana Korda, Manufacturing Manager 

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4 December 1993 



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The Video Processor otters real-time color 
processing of bofh live video and framestores. 
Create glows, shines, luminance effects, 
posterlzations, nuclear effects and more. 

The 256-level linear keyer (Alpha channel and 
transparency effects) allows the definition of 
transparency between two video sources on a 
pixel-by-pixel basis for excellent vignetting and 
super-smooth shadow effects. The keyer can be 
taken from the Video Processor or an external 
video source, and/or output to another 
production switcher. The Alpha channel also 
gives you the ability to c reate highly realistic soft - 
edged transitions and organic effects. Superb 
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The Opal Character Generator offers full 35ns text 
capability on the A3000 or 4000. Supports Amiga, 
Compugraphlc and Color fonts. CG pages may 
be incorporated directly into the switcher. 

OpalVision Roaster Chip 
The exclusive technology of the OpalVision Roaster 
Chipprovidesanendlessnumberot user-definable 
Digital Video Effects. Take any two video sources 
(or an Amiga or OpalVision generated graphic). 
Flip it . Scale it. Rotate It on the X, Y or Z axis, Move 
it along a path. Zoom In. Move out. You have 
complete control. Build your own custom library of 
useful wipes and effects and give your videos a 
unique style. OpalVision is the only video system in 
its price class which gives you this kind of power. 
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Opal Character Generator features selectable 
font size, color, outline, drop shadow and anti- 
aliasing. The CG also creates draggable boxes of 
text, graphic separators, or IFF brushesand pictures. 



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ten audio inputs are available simultaneously in 
RGB, Y/R-Y/B-Y, Composite and S- Video. Choose 
two sources from these inputs, assign a transition 
or special effect provided by the Video Processor, 
andtrigger it manually orautomatically. The linear 
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stereo audio inputs available on the Video Suite. 
Sliders control volume and/or 5-band EQ. 

OpalVision Scan-Rate Converter/TBC 
Add this card and achieve 3 5 Khz, non-interlaced 
output of Amiga and OpalVision graphics and 
any incoming video source in either PA L or NTSC. 
Includes full time-base correction of incoming 
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WOCA Premiers CD32— And More 



PASADENA, CALIFORNIA— The 
September World of Commodore Ami- 
ga show began with a press conference, 
wherein Commodore announced the US 
release ol'CD32 (see "Gaines Engine Par 
Excellence!" on p. 26). "Once people 
compare what it can do at $399 versus 
what the competition can do," said now- 
former company president Jim Dionne, 
"they will see that it's a good value." (See 
"Editor's Drawer," p. 4, for information 
on Dionne's resignation.) 

Dionne said consumers should be able 
to buy CD32 — somewhere — by early No- 
vember. "We're not sure computer deal- 
ers are the best channel to sell CD32," he 
stated. "We're still investigating that." 
CD32's "national rollout" won't occur 
until the giant January Consumer Elec- 
tronics Show, after which CBM may do 
national advertising through magazines, 
cable television, and TV infomercials. 
Meanwhile, a new manufacturing plant 
ill The Philippines is reportedly crank- 
ing out 20,000 units a week! 

Expansion on the Horizon 

VP of Engineering Lew Eggebrechi 
noted that CD32's single bus allows for 
RAM, processor, audio, and video ex- 
pansion. (We heard later from develop- 
ers who are planning CD32 expanders 
but would not give details.) CBM, mean- 
while, is still working to arrange DOS- 
level Kodak PhotoCD support; another 
area of interest is the company's imple- 
mentation of MPEG, data-compression 
technology that will bring 30 frames-per- 
seconcl (fps) video and near-CD-quality 
audio to CD32 in late November. 

John Campbell, Director of Com- 
modore Amiga Technical Services, ex- 
plained that CBM got users and software 
developers involved in the design phase 
of CD32, and said one of the machine's 
strengths is its mature development en- 
vironment. He also noted that produc- 
tion costs for CD32 discs are less than for 



oilier systems; while Nintendo and Sega 
cartridges cost $20 to manufacture, CDs 
cost just SI each, and Commodore's S3 
per-unit licensing fee applies only to 
games sold — not to all produced. 

Commodore reps also discussed plans 
lo add CD32 capabilities to the A1200 
and A4000 via a peripheral drive, and to 



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Click, drag, and go with VideoStage Pro. 

release the A4000 Tower by year's end. 
AmigaDOS 3.1 is essentially finished, 
they said, and RTG (retarget table graph- 
ics) and the AAA chips may be linali/ed 
mid-year '94. DSP (digital signal pro- 
cessing) development has been sus- 
pended until '94, and Commodore is 
now licensing other technology for third 
parties to finish, (RS# 120.) 

A Show for Firsts 

Meanwhile, on the show floor, ex- 
hibitors displayed standby products, up- 
dates, and brand-new items (we'll con- 
centrate on the latter two). There were 
even a few companies new to the market. 
Case in point: US Cybernetics, whose 
Warp System transputer features a 32- 
bit parallel processor with a 64-bit lloat- 
ing-point unit. The chip works with the 
Amiga's main 680x0 processor. Four se- 
rial links allow it to communicate with 
other transputers in a linked network. 
Fhe chip can speed applications as much 
as a 68040, and each additional one po- 
tentially doubles that speed. (RS# 121.) 

Systems Development Services intro- 



duced its first Amiga product: Robokeet 
presents basic spelling lessons in a game- 
like environment. (RS# 122.) 

Newcomer Pride Integrated Video Sys- 
tems announced the Pride Music Li- 
brary Catalog, which lets you audition 
sound tracks in small bites from your 
computer. (In cooperation with music- 
library publishers, Pride is producing au- 
dio catalogs of entire product lines.) 
Adding Pioneer's CAC-V3200 CD Auto- 
changer to your CD drive lets you sam- 
ple digitized music with one keypress, 
and cue ihe disc with another. The cen- 
terpiece of Pride's display was the PrV- 
2001 , which allows integrated video-edit- 
ing and control over the Toaster's 
switcher. Basic FIV hardware offers eight 
RS-422A serial ports and as main 1 GPI 
trigger outputs. (RS# 123.) 

The Editors Are in 

Stalwart video-editing developer 
AmiLink announced AmiLink CIP 
(Consumer. Industrial. Professional) 
Personal Video Editor, which is de- 
signed to bridge the gap between con- 
sumer-industrial and professional equip- 
ment. Control for a variety of affordable 
gear (all Sony "L" and at least seven 
Panasonic AG-series \-TRs) comes stan- 
dard; to control pro-level devices, simply 
add a new module and cable. (RS# 1 24.) 

Scala introduced a video editor, too — 
this one aimed at the consumer market, 
Scala Echo EE100 works with the newest 
version of Scala's multimedia program, 
MM300, or its InfoChannel 400. The 
package includes an intelligent cable 
that plugs into the Amiga's serial port 
and has two outputs: one for infrared 
send/receive and one for bidirectional 
control of LAN C equipment. (RS# 125.) 

Nonlinear editing was the tag line at- 
tached to Digital Micronics' Digital 
BroadCaster 16 (S2495) and Digital 
BroadCaster 32 (S3349) handouts. Both 
boards, designed for use with A2000.' 



To locate the vendors of products mentioned, see the "Manufacturers'/Distributors' Addresses" list on p. 100, 



8 December 1993 




Close encounters nightly. 



For the cold reaches of space, there's an awful lot 
of chummy people here. 

That's because Federation II is no mere shoot-the- 
ship computer game. It's an online universe full of 
people, romping and role-playing their way up the 
interstallar ladder of commerce, busily building their 
fortunes. And they'd love to throw some work your 
way so you can do the same - after the proper amount 
of bargaining, buying and bulling, of course. 

Good thing you can afford to stay and enjoy 
yourself. Our standard connect charge rate on GEnie 
is just $3.00 an hour in non-prime time. The 
subscription rate is only $8.95 a month. And 
that includes a credit for your first four hours of 
standard connect time each month! 1 

So stop in for a visit, and see what an adult space 



fantasy is like. Meet us in Federation II — only 
on GEnie®. 

Sign up now: 
1 . Set communication software for half duplex 

(local echo) at 300, 1200 or 2400 baud. 2. Dial toll 

free: 1-800-638-8369. Or in .Canada, 1 -800-387-8330. 

Immediately upon connection, enter HHH (Please 

note: Every time you sign onto GEnie, you need to 

enter HHH upon connection.) 

3. At the U#= prompt, enter XTX9923 1 , SPACE 

then press <RETURN> 4. Have a major credit 

card ready. In the U.S., you may also use your 

checking account number. (There is a $2 monthly 

fee for all checking accounts.) In Canada, VISA 

and MasterCard only. For more information about 

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3000 and 4000 machines, work in full- 
screen, real-time (30 frames per second 
NTSC; 25 PAL), and S-Video broadcast 
resolutions (Broadcast 32 adds compo- 
nent-quality resolution, too). They digi- 
tize the video signal, and compress the 
frames to hard disk in real-time (you 
choose the compression ratio). Editing 
software is included; edited productions 
are decompressed and either encoded to 
composite signals for recording or out- 



put as RS-170 RGB signals. (RS# 126.) 

Picasso and Pals 

Picasso made an appearance at the 
Expert Services booth. The 24 -bit board 
promises greater speeds than AGA ma- 
chines and compatibility with system- 
friendly AGA software. Imagine running 
AGA programs in up to 1280x1024 with 
256 colors! Picasso II RTG (Relarget- 
table Graphics) also supports custom 



screen modes with 16 million colors as 
high as 800x600. The Zorro II/III board 
claims complete integration with your 
A2000, 3000, or 4000. (RS# 127.) 

Not to be confused with Picasso, 
DKB's Piccolo (S699) promises the same 
resolutions and works with the same 
Amiga models. It uses EGS support li- 
braries to ensure compatibility with ex- 
isting software, and promises to run any 
program that opens on a screen on i 




This has been a very good 
year for freely distributable .Ami- 
ga games. We saw new board 
games for lo-res Workbenches, 
multiplayer games, shoot-'em- 
ups for PAL modes — and a few 
truly tasteless ones (for the most 
part, the good far outnumbered 
the bad). Games guru Peter 
Olafson helped me ensure an 
accurate look at the best of *93. 
Few can match his depth of 
knowledge on computer games. 

Hard to Describe 

My biggest gripe with freely 
distributable on-line games con- 
cerns their descriptions. Often, 
it seems, system requirements 
are an afterthought. Some 
games do not work outside PAL 
mode, which is understandable 
given their European origins. 
Others do not work with older 
operating systems — also to be 
expected. On the flip side, some 
can't progress far enough on the 
newer operating systems to dis- 
play an error message. Again, 
no sweat, since serious gamers 
are likely to have a device such 
as DKB's MultiStart for select- 
ing among AmigaDOS verions. 

A few games bear downright 
misleading descriptions that 
promise "virtual reality" play. 
Virtual reality is achieved after 
donning a Dardi Vader helmet 
and having your senses assault- 
ed, manipulated, and generally 
pummeled into thinking you're 
experiencing another world. 
The day true virtual-reality 
technology trickles down to net- 
works, it will make headlines. 

The Envelope, Please 

With that out of the way, here 
are some of the best available 



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on-line games from 1993. You 
will find just about all of them in 
the Amiga game areas on the 
major nets and in freely distrib- 
utable disk collections. 

WBGames 

If you're curious which PD 
games are my personal fa- 
vorites, the WBGames collection 
wins hands down. This sixdi edi- 
tion by Marat Fayzullin is writ- 
ten for Workbench 2.04 and lat- 
er. The live-game set includes 
WBTctris 1.6, WBColumns 1.5, 
WBMineSweeper 1.5, WB15 
1.3, and WBBoxMan 1 .3. 

The graphics on all five are 
first-rate and sport an embossed 
look, especially on a hi-res 
screen. All perform remarkably 
well, even when run simultane- 
ously. WBBoxMan is particular- 
ly tough (and the most addicting 
or the lot), and tests your pow- 
ers of deductive reasoning, as 
you try to push stones around a 
maze without getting stuck. 

Lab of Life 

If you're desperately seeking 
one of the most refined and in- 
tellectually inspired game on 
the nets, look no further. 
Stephen Lepisio of Accursed 
Toys gives Amiga users another 
look at Life, a strategy game for 
deep thinkers. At a glance, 
you'll find plenty to like. There 
are ways to customize the game 
with different playing pieces, 
options for changing the rules 
of the game, and a generous 
portion of thorough documen- 
tation, including on-line help. 

UTG 

Done in the tradition of the 
commercial Ultima series of 



Tim Walsh 

graphic adventures, Chris Hur- 
ley's UTG 1.0 is a high-quality 
game for AmigaDOS 2.04 or lat- 
er. UTG offers sophisticated 
graphics and music, and a com- 
prehensive plot. I initially had 
trouble getting the hang of this 
game, but once I cleared that 
hurdle, the play was not bad. 
Considering the game's sophis- 
tication, I found it hard to be- 
lieve that UTG is the author's 
first C program. 

AHextris 1.0 

WithAHexlrix 1 .0, Ives Aerts 
brings us it well-written, $15 
shareware hexagonal version of 
Tetris. Unlike other PD versions 
ofTetris, this one has beautiful- 
ly detailed graphics that show 
off a stone-like look. Great, ad- 
dicting fun to play and gentle 
on your multitasking Work- 
bench 2.04 or later. 

Amiga Boulder Dash 

Recently updated to version 
1 1909, Amiga Boulder Dash by 
JefF Bevis is brimming with nice 
touches beginning with the doc- 
umentation in AmigaGuide for- 
mat for rapid, painless access. 
I lie program gives you ;i cave 




editor, plentiful play options, 
and the look and feei of a com- 
mercial game. AmigaDOS 2.0 
or later is required, as is a gen- 
erous helping of fast RAM. 

Blood Ball 

I'm not sure whether to de- 
scribe Kevin Shelter's shareware 
as either an ancient or a futuris- 
tic football game. It features an 
eye-catching, scrolling, concrete 
field of elves and odier medieval 
characters. Plenty of strategy is 
required to determine where to 
place the players and which ball- 
carrying duties to assign to each. 

Gammon 1.3 

Marc Fishtin of Germany 
wTote this nicely detailed rendi- 
tion of backgammon for Amiga- 
DOS 2.04 or later. It oilers one 
of the most superb backgammon 
screens in the land of freely dis- 
tributable software — and that's 
only part of the picture. Options 
include a choice of board colors, 
the selection of a human or a 
computer opponent, varying 
levels of play, antl the ability to 
save game settings. 

Scorched Tanks 

This $10 shareware game 
from Michael Welch is a two- to 
four-player artillery-type game 
based on Scorched Earth, 
found on the PC block. There 
is plenty or strategy and ex- 
citement here to keep every- 
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10 December 1993 




We don't know from friendly skies. 



You've beaten all the flight sims? A furball 
doesn't raise a sweat anymore? Ten minutes of 
WWI combat isn't even challenging? 

Hmm. . . Maybe you are ready for Air Warrior". 

It's the most realistic combat flying there is. This 
game does more than correctly model 28 different 
aircraft, right down to spins, stalls and buffeting. 

In Air Warrior, you're facing the ultimate foes — 
other human beings, aviation fanatics, playing online, 
in real time, for as long as you all can go. 

Good thing you can afford to stay and play. Our 
standard connect charge rate on GEnie is just $3.00 
an hour in non-prime time. The subscription rate is 
only S8.95 a month, and that includes u credit for 
your first four hours of standard connect time 
each month! 1 



So if you think there are no challenges left, you've 
got to try this one. Air Warrior — on GEnie®. 

Sign up now: 

1. Set communication software for half duplex 
(local echo) at 300, 1200 or 2400 baud. 2. Dial toll 
free:l-800-638-8369. Or in Canada, 1-800-387-8330. 
Immediately upon connection, enter HHH (Please 
note: Every time you sign onto GEnie, you need to 
enter HHH upon connection.) 

3. At the U#= prompt, enter XTX99229,COMBAT 
then press <RETURN> 4. Have a major credit 
card ready. In the U.S., you may also use your 
checking account number. (There is a $2 monthly 
fee for all checking accounts.) In Canada, VISA 
and MasterCard only. For more information about 
GEnie in the U.S. or Canada, call 1-800-638-9636. 



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and selected holiday:*. 

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trademark of General Electric Company, Graphic- interface required and available for 
selected machines. Effective dale an of 7/1/93. Prices subject to change without notice 






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Workbench (2.0 or higher). DKB is now 
the exclusive North American distribu- 
tor for the German-developed board, 
and for the higher-end Rainbow display 
cards, plus the Peggy MPEG decoder (a 
JPEG board is slated for year-end 
release). DKB also introduced a RAM 



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GMR Productions now handles sales, dis- 
tribution, and support of all Vortex 
ATonce, Golden Gate 386SX, 486LC, and 
Monitor Master products. For update and 

pricing details, call 718/967-1509. 

card: DKB 3128 adds up to 146MB to 

all A3000/4000 systems. (RS# 128.) 

MacroSystems US, displayed its up- 
dated V-Lab video digitizer and Retina 
display card/AGA emulator, and a new 
hi-res, low-cost sound digitizer/editor. 
The company also announced a buying 
incentive: With the purchase of any 
MacroSystems product, you can get The 
Bernoulli Box 150 removable-media 
drive for just $499. (RS# 129.) 

Another company with lots of prod- 
ucts was GVP (RS# 130). Warner Bros, 
animator Rusty Mills appeared to pro- 
mote his ImageFX tutorial videotapes, 
and demonstrate how the image proces- 
sor is used in the TV series Animaniacs. 
GVP showed two other new items, the 
EGS-28/24 Spectrum 24-bit graphics 
board and TBCPlus. Spectrum, an en- 
try-level Zorro II/III card, displays 
video-resolution (NTSC, PAT, SECAM) 
and hi-res (1120x832) screens. It sup- 
ports Workbench 2.1 and up, and 
promises compatibility with Com- 
modore's forthcoming RTG graphics 
standard. For true single-monitor con- 
venience, it has a pass-through connec- 
tor for the native Amiga RGB display. 
Spectrum uses EGS device libraries for 
broad software support, and comes bun- 
dled with graphics programs. 

TBCPlus, a Zorro II card for the 
A2000, 3000, or 4000, operates as an in- 
finite-window time-base corrector using 
eight-bit 4:2:2 digital-signal processing. 
It offers a real-time framegrabber, 24-bit 
frarnebuifer, and SMPTE/EBU time- 
code reception/generation in all VITC/ 
LTVC formats and standards. Plus, it 
transcodes composite and Y/C inputs 
into simultaneous composite and Y/C 
outs, and has amp controls. 

More Video 

Other video-type products included 



Centaur's OpalVision. The long-awaited 
Roaster chip, which adds real-time live- 
video effects, should be available by the 
time you read this. (RS# 144.) 

Oxxi's new VideoStage Pro lets you 
create video and on-screen interactive 
productions. It has different tracks for 
graphics, animated titles, sound, ARexx, 
genlock, and control events; it supplies 
more than 60 transitions. The program 
replaces VideoTitler in Oxxi's lineup, 
and comes in two versions, both of which 
allow remote control via modem (the 
distinguishing feature: support for 
DMI's Digital BroadCaster). (RS# 133.) 

Digital Creations announced Super- 
Gen SX (S stands for S-Video, X for 
external). The broadcast-quality gen- 
lock ($749) attaches to the RGB port of 
any Amiga. It promises the proper col- 
or clamping and dynamic range for 
AGA machines; a disable switch lets 
you use Productivity mode without dis- 
connecting. Digital Creations also dis- 
played its Video Slot Box, a compact 
chassis with four video slots, three 
PC/AT slots, four drive bays, and a 
230W switching power supply. The Slot 
Box works with A2000, 3000, and 4000 
models. (RS# 134.) 

Along the same lines, Ambitious Tech- 
nologies showed a larger version of its 
Toaster Oven. For $799 you get the abil- 
ity to use 1 1 card slots at the same time, 
an extra 9 drive bays, and a 300W pow- 
er supply. (RS# 135.) 

Axiom Software lias updated Pixel 3D 
and AN1M Workshop, and its new 
WaveMaker lets you create flying-logo 
animations with NewTek's LighiWave 
3D (Toaster) software simply by clicking 
buttons. It even provides animations that 
you can drop your logo into. (RS# 136.) 

Another product designed for use 
with LightWave, LightRave (Warm and 
Fuzzy Logic) is a hardware module that 
lets you run NewTek's program without 
the Video Toaster. Unlike the Toaster, 
it runs even on A500s and A1200s (of 
course, you'll need NewTek's Toaster 
3.0 software kit). LightRave also adds 
features to LightWave, and promises to 
render images faster. (RS# 137.) 

And More Yet 

In a booth with medieval decor, 
Terra Nova Development displayed its 
new Magic Lantern utility. The pro- 
gram takes IFF picture and sound files 
as input, and generates animations 
that run on various framebuffers (in- 
cluding Retina and GDA) in up to 24- 
bit color. You can edit the result via 
the graphical interface or the ARexx 
port. (RS# 138.) 

Nearby, Moonlighter displayed its 



TapeWorm FS software, which promis- 
es to make your tape drive behave as a 
removable hard disk. (RS# 139.) 

Ckaocity announced two new prod- 
ucts. GeoForge, a digital-elevation mod- 
el landscape-design tool, enables you to 
create entire fractal ly-designed planets. 




Studio 16 3.0 puts on a better face. 

You place the major features, and Geo- 
Forge does the rest. You can then fine- 
tune to a single meter of resolution! The 
other program, Fridae, promises to 
keep track of events and appointments, 
and to remind you as many times as you 
wish. Fridae can even remember to start 
rendering images overnight when you 
forget. (RS# 140.) 

Some companies used the show to in- 
troduce new versions of old favorites. 
CSA, for instance, announced an econo- 
my version of its Twelve Gauge for the 
A1200. Twelve Gauge L C ($599) runs 
its 68030 processor at 33 instead of 50 
MHz, yet is fully upgradable. (RS# 141.) 

Soft-Logik previewed PageStream 
3.0, with its new trapping and plate- 
control features, and Pro Page file-im- 
port function. This version makes it 
easier to apply attributes to text and 
objects, and auto kerning, auto hy- 
phenation, and Pantone-system sup- 
port are now standard. Soft-Logik is 
also updating its TypeSmith font edi- 
tor, which now has an auto-trace fea- 
ture. (RS# 142.) 

Also on the upgrade path was Sun- 
Rize, with Studio 16 3.0, the new version 
of its digital-audio hard-disk recording 
and editing software. This incarnation 
has a more intuitive lime-line-based cue 
list, automated fades and cross fades and 
mixing, external MIDI mixer support, 
SMPTE chase, assignable tracks, and 
more. SunRize also mentioned its up- 
coming DD524 Digital Audio I/O 
board, which adds an AES/EBU or 
S/PDIF in/out interface to your A2000, 
3000, or 4000. (RS# 143.) ■ 

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■w- » yhen Digital Creations released DCTV, my 
1 \ I colleagues and I raved about its interface. 
A! \j At long last, we had paint functions and 
controls that Amiga artists could use for 
"painting" in all but the truest sense of the word. 
But the image quality was not up to par for 24-bit 
standards, making DCTV tough to use for profes- 
sional work. "When I saw early advertisements for 
Brilliance many months ago, I imagined it would 
usher in a new era in Amiga paint programs, per- 
haps using DCTV's interface and painting tools, 
but with support for HAMS and the AGA support 
replacing DCTV's black box, and doing an all- 
around better job in the process. 

Two for the Price of One 

Brilliance is a hefty package with lots of documen- 
tation and two programs: Brilliance and TrueBril- 
liance. Brilliance loads images with a register-based 
palette of 2 to 256 colors, but does not accept any 
form of HAM or True Color images or animations. 
For that, you need TrueBrilliance, which paints in 
HAM or HAMS modes, depending on your Amiga's 
chip set. It also loads and saves 15-bit (32,000 col- 
ors) and 24-bit images on ECS Amigas. 

For example, you can load a 24-bit image into 
a HAM screen, paint on it and save it in 24-bit, 
maintaining full-color accuracy, much as Toaster- 
Paint (NewTek) does. Viewing the image with a 24- 
bit display card verifies the quality and integrity of 
the 24-bit image. The interfaces for both pro- 
grams are virtually identical, with the exception of 
some HAM-related functions. As expected, both 
versions run on accelerated and nonaccelerated 
.Amigas. 

Brilliance compares wetl with DeluxePaint IV 
AGA in its tools, functions and features, and also 
goes head to head with it in overall performance. 



To locate the vendors of the products reviewed, see the 
"Manufacturers'/Distributors' Addresses" list on p. 100. 



Surprisingly, it performs some functions better than 
DeluxePaint, and the TrueBrilliance program does 
one thing DPaint cannot — it maintains 24-bit image 
data so you can paint in HAM or HAM8 and save 
in 24-bit. 

Many of the keyboard equivalents are identical. 
Both Brilliance and TrueBrilliance handle the 
creation of animations in much the same way as 
DeluxePaint IV AGA, offering Op-5 byte (DPaint) 
animations and animbmshes, and both programs 
also save frames in a sequential format. You'll find 
the new Op-8 WORD and Op-8 LONG animation 
formats are supported as well. 

Those familiar with animation processes in 
DeluxePaint should have no trouble with the tran- 
sition to the animation controls in Brilliance. The 
Tweening menu in Brilliance performs all the func- 
tions of DeluxePaint's Move requester, and its 
Opacity, Decay, and Trails options add nice decay- 
ing trails effects. Unlike DPaint, Perspective is avail- 
able only through the Tweening menu, instead of 
being a separate function, and brush morphing is 
found with the animbrush functions. Unfortunate- 
ly, Brilliance lacks a DPaint-like "Light Table" op- 
tion for animators. 

Fills and Frills 

A very nice feature is the Realtime Preview mode, 
which displays text and other clipped brush ob- 
jects, showing the effect of certain painting op- 
tions. For example, with Transparency turned on, 
the brush appears partially transparent, even be- 
fore being applied. Other options include Tint, 
Colorize, Brighten, Darken, and Negative. A slid- 
er controls the amount of brightening or darken- 
ing you apply. The effect of each of these is shown 
in a real-time environment as you move the brush 
over your picture. 

Among other painting modes are Smear, 
Smooth, Range, and Mix. When these are com- 
bined with Transparency, they create extremely 
smooth blends and soft edges, particularly in 



14 December 1993 




HAMS mode. Various dithered-fill and brush-fill 
options parallel those found in DPaint, but I was dis- 
appointed to find no watercolor-painting mode, 
such as that provided by DCTV, and that the more 
unusual fills from DCTV were missing. 

The airbrush tool has size, flow, and focus controls 
that you can combine with the variable transparen- 
cy settings for nice control. But, unlike DPaint, this 
airbrush cannot be used with Smoodi or Smear. 

Rotating a brush on its z-axis normally distorts the 
aspect ratio, since pixels aren't square, but Brilliance 
offers a much-appreciated aspect-correction option 
on rotated brushes. The program can store up to 
eight brushes for instant access. Simply cut a brush 
from your screen and click on one of eight Brush 
Wells in the Brush menu, and it becomes an iconi- 
fied image. To use the brush again, click on its icon 
and paint with it. 

My hat is off to Digital Creations for incoq:>orat- 
ing multiple undos in Brilliance. Your ability to 
undo and redo changes to your heart's content is 
limited only by the amount of RAM in your Amiga, 
and you can preset the size of the undo buffer as a 
tooltype in the program icon. The presence of Bezi- 
er curves is also welcome. 

The User Interface 

Unlike DPaint and most Amiga programs, Brilliance 
does not use pull-down menus; instead, you access 
all functions through stackable menu panels. You 
can toggle all open panels on or off together. When 
off, there's access to the full image for painting or, 
when on, simultaneous access to several panels of 
functions. The keypad numbers 1-9 are preset hot- 
keys that call up sets of menu panels, and you can 
easily reconfigure them for any combinations you 
desire. There are also more than 45 tooltypes that 
you can set in the program icon to preconligure the 
program on startup, including everything from 
screen mode and size to default palette and ellipse 
rotation. 

The right edge of the main menu is the user-feed- 
back area. Along with other information, it continu- 
ously displays a text description for any button, slid- 
er, or string gadget in your current menu panel. If 
you don't know what a gadget does, just place the 
mouse pointer over it and a description instantly ap- 
pears. With this option, you hardly need the well-or- 
ganized manual of some 175 spiral-bound pages. 

You can expand the main-menu palette display to 




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view up to 256 color registers at once. The palette- 
mixing menu provides four mixing options and has 
the usual sliders for color mixing in RGB and HSV, 
plus CMY and a HAM color cube. This cube, a 
clever two-dimensional representation of a 3-D col- 
or cube, allows for the selection of remixed colors 
from the cube in RGB and CMY mixtures. 



HAMS never looked 
better, while the 
animation-control 
panel gives 
Brilliance plenty ot 
functionality. 



The Good, the Bad, and the Dongle 

Brilliance is user friendly, doing an excellent job 
with nearly every function and option it offers, and 
the interface is well planned and highly functional. 
I can certainly recommend it for what it does. I 
could actually get along without DeluxePaint IV 
AGA if I had Brilliance and TrueBrilliance, but it 
would take both of them to replace it. 

The package has certain weak spots that bear 
mention. In contrast to the finer points of the in- 
terface, the Stencil menu is confusing and inade- 
quate. All you can do is add to, subtract from, or re- 
place the current stencil, and there is no way to 
know what colors are currently included. Also, the 
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tool, being strictly a wo- or four-point 
x/v-axis mirror. 

Although Ti"ueBrilliance handles 24- 
bit data, it provides no means of display- 
ing a 24-bit image, and it has no ARexx 
port. Incorporating ARexx would at least 
allow users to send 24-bit images via a 
hot-key direcdy to a display board, like 
the Fireracker (Impulse) or the Toaster's 
framebufFers, Omitting ARexx from a 
professional-level 24-bit graphics pro- 
gram in today's Amiga market is not wise 
software engineering. 



In my opinion, Digital Creation's 
dongle is a lapse of reasoning in Bril- 
liance's design. Its presence is an un- 
welcome blemish on an otherwise first- 
rate paint program that does a line job 
at practically everything. The dongle 
serves only as a gauntlet thrown down 
before the pirating community. Let's 
hope the future will see a better form of 
copy protection from Digital Creations 
and other productivity software manu- 
facturers. 

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Not copy protected. 

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roice to W.P. Kinsella in his pop- 
ular novel, Field of Dreams. Over time, 
ASDG has enhanced .Art Department 
Professional into a wondrous image-pro- 
cessing program. As anticipated, ex- 
tended control has appeared in the form 
of ProControl and MultiFrame. Botli 
programs offer simplified control over 
AD Pro's functions and facilitate batch 
processing of images. 

Instances where batch processing can 
come into play go far beyond the format 
and size conversions commonly em- 
ployed by ADPro, users. One batch scen- 
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from a series of frames and accurately 
enhancing those frames to match one 
another with equal brightness, color, and 
hue levels. Another scenario might be 
the assembling of a series of frames, each 
containing text positioned in the same 
location over each frame. Still another 
use might be the creation of flying logos, 
transitions, and even morpliing tech- 
niques spanning groups of frames. 

Both ProControl and MultiFrame ac- 
complish the same end results, but go 
about their business in different ways. 
ProControl runs a series of different 
frames through a sequence of ADPro op- 
erations, applying enhancements to each 
frame. MultiFrame is mainly oriented 



16 December 1993 



toward applying one process to a num- 
bered sequence of frames, then running 
the same sequence of frames through 
any remaining processes. 

In Control With ProControl 

ProControl is billed as a batch-processing 
front end lor AD Pro and MorphPlus. It is 
easy to use, with a control screen that dis- 
plays all available loaders, operators, and 
savers, llehind the graphical interface, 
ProControl builds and transmits an 



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ARexx script to ADPro, which it automat- 
ically launches. A double-click on any item 
injects it into the script window. Inserting 
blank lines to add ARexx commands into 
the script is also just a click away. 

You can choose multiple image files 
from any combination of directories. 
(You can configure the program to work 
with ASDG's Sentry program, which 
scans a spccilicd direclory for new files 
and sends [hem to be processed.) Fur- 
thermore, long-term users of ADPro will 
be happy to hear that they can apply and 
reapply any image operators to the cho- 
sen images in any desired sequence. You 
can set all options — resolution, palette, 
color balance, dithering, or image ori- 
entation — for the linal output file and 
select the destination device, in any spec- 
ified graphics format. 

This level of flexibility also exists in 
.scripts, which can be nested within other 
scripts to provide for fast, complex 
effects. You can subject the combined or 
individual script liles to multiple iterations, 
producing a complete animation file. 

You can edit scripts to the limited ex- 
tent of inserting and deleting lines, using 
a set of keyboard shortcuts to speed the 



process. You can also save scripts and 
identify their functions and purposes with 
comments for later use. In addition, you 
can save and reload the entire "state" or 
status of ProControl at a given moment, 
including both active scripts and 
input/output filenames. Because commu- 
nication between ProControl and ADPro 
occurs through ARexx, system-error mes- 
sages are a big help in debugging scripts. 
ADPro itself is accessible through but- 
tons on the ProControl control screen or 
by using the standard "flip screens" hot- 




MultiFrame's buttons are intuitive. 



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the necessary access to ADPro is provided. 
It's easy to get to ADPro's screen, load the 
image for processing, experiment with the 
parameters, and do test renders. Then, 
you must write down the numerical values, 
return to ProControL and enter them into 
the appropriate requester. II" anything is 
particularly clumsy and slow about Pro- 
Control, it is tliis. There is great flexibili- 



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and solid program. 

Manipulating With MultiFrame 

MuhiFrame takes a different approach 
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MorphPlus and rcsave them. Whereas 
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A nice feature of MultiFrame's design 
is that it provides a graphical front end 
for setting the control parameters of 
many of its operators. The control screen 
is simple and easy to read, with buttons 
controlling virtually all the primary op- 
erations of the program. For instance, 
the press of a button selects source and 
destination files, operator, configura- 
tion, and other options. When the choic- 
es are complete, the program begins its 
ARexx-command calling routine. As 
simple as that. Like anything else, it's 
the variations that increase its flexibility. 

You can assign any name to single im- 
ages, but when a series of images is to be 
processed, each one must have the same 
filename with sequentially numbered 
suflixes. After processing, you save the 
files with the same numerical suffix. You 
control all input and output options 
from a separate screen, including loader 
and saver formats, output resolution, 
and color, dithering, palette and image 
type information. 

MultiFrame's method of working with 
the ADPro or MorphPlus operators is in- 
teresting, powerful, and flexible. All the 
operators are available, plus a few cus- 
tom-designed combinations ol opera- 
tions. In addition, you can run an ARexx 
script as a process, giving plenty of op- 
tions for running special-purpose com- 
binations. Stan and end values can also 
be Specified, making it easy to do grad- 
ual changes over a defined period of 
lime. For example, it's a snap to process 
all the frames of an animation to pro- 
duce an increased bluish hue. 

A number of other features bear men- 
tioning. There's a nonlinear path control 
screen that allows for altering the way 
MultiFrame interprets data parameters 
over the range of frames to be processed. 
You also have direct control over the 
Retina (MacroSystems), Firecracker (Im- 
pulse), OpalVision (Centaur), and DCrv 
(Digital Creations) framebuller displays. 
Another nice touch is automatic trigger- 
ing of up to four GPI outputs, with some 
additional hardware in place, so that you 
can access external switchers, digital disk 
recorders, and other devices. Finally, 
you can later recall every control para- 
meter and variable of the MultiFrame 
configuration, making standard changes 
to graphics free from deviations. 

Now, Which One? 

It is difficult in comparing these two very 
similar programs to say which is die bet- 
ter. Both fulfill their promise of providing 
batch processing and enhanced control 
over ADPro and MorphPlus. Both are 
quite straightforward to work with. And 
both come with clear, well-written manu- 



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als and thoughtfully designed interfaces. 
While similar in function, each pro- 
gram does take a different approach, 
and this may be the deciding factor as 
you consider your particular needs and 
most likely applications. You won't be 
disappointed in either of them. 

— Michael Hanish 



Bernoulli Box 150 
Transportable 

Iomega, S699 
All Amigas. 
SCSI connection. 
1.3/2.0/3.0 compatible. 
Accelerator compatible. 
Minimum system: Any SCSI port- 
equipped Amiga. 
Installation: Easy. 



Transportable removable-media 
Bernoulli drive. 



Wl 



hen I sal down to write this review, 
I was ready to tell how the Bernoulli 



Box 150 Transportable makes an at- 
tractive storage device for a select group 
of professional Amiga users whose needs 
justify the high cost of the drive. Then 
Iomega went and ruined my plans by re- 
ducing the retail price by over 40%, 
while also improving the overall perfor- 
mance and capacity. Finally, if that 
weren't enough, it released a model cer- 
tified for Amiga use! 

Now 1 have to start all over by stating 
that the Bernoulli Box 150 is a. greet 
choice for any Amiga user who is seeking 
virtually unlimited storage capacity at a 
reasonable price. (Iomega also oilers an 
internal version that fits in a 5.25-inch 
bay and retails for $599.) 

Well-Cushioned Data 

An external drive complete with a car- 
rying handle, the Bernoulli Box 150 
Transportable is a handy device. Instal- 
lation is a snap — -just plug the drive into 
the DB-25 connector on the back of an 
Amiga's SCSI controller and power up. 
Switches on the rear of the drive control 
SCSI address and termination, making 
configuration for your particular setup 
fast and easy. 



Bernoulli drives have been around for 

a number of years in varying capacities. 
They use the Bernoulli effect, where air 
pressure is used lo spin a 5.25-inch disk 
at hard-disk-like speeds. Protected by a 
durable hard-plastic shell, the nigged, 
reliable Bernoulli disks store up to 
150MB of data. Until recently, though, 
it was hard to recommend Bernoulli dri- 
ves to casual Amiga owners, for the ear- 
ly models were much slower and more 
expensive than hard drives, and, due to 
problems with Iomega's older SCSI 
code, they were not 100% readable on 
Amigas. 

Quicker, Too! 

I initially used Hi) IbolBox to prep a re- 
movable disk as a single 1 50MB parti- 
tion. Iomega recommends one partition 
per disk due lo problems that may arise 
when using multiple partitions on re- 
movable AmigaDOS devices. I format- 
ted the drive and copied the contents of 
my work partition to it. Alter using oth- 
er removable drives, I was expecting the 
Bernoulli to be somewhat sluggish, but 
I was pleasantly surprised with its per- 
formance. The Box 150 is about three 



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and it benefits from the addition of a 
256 K read/write buffer; Iomega rates its 
access speed at 18 ms. Although bench- 
marks show it at a disadvantage, the 
drive wasn't noticeably slower than the 
Quantum in my A3000 in regular use. 

The Bernoulli is a great solution to 
[he problem of hard drives always filling 
to capacity: When you need more stor- 
age, just buy another 150MB disk for 
less than $100. You can even use 
Bernoulli disks to back up your hard 



drive; although the media's not cheap, 
it's much faster than traditional tape 
backup. (The drive will also read and 
write 85. 65, 90, and 105MB cartridges, 
and will read 44MB cartridges, which is 
great lor data exchange with people who 
own older drives. The cost per megabyte 
is higher on smaller cartridges, though, 
so you may want to stick with I he 150MB 
units.) 

The unlimited storage is great for 
large rendering projects, and the porta- 
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NEW ADVANCED FEATURES: 
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Supported cards include the GVP IV24, 
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as Amiga, and Amiga-AGA displays. 

Pal Compatible: LightRave makes 
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Fast Animations: Full screen preview 
animations previously only available on 
the Toaster-4000™ are now available to 
all Lightwave 3D 1 " users. Animations are 
stored in standard Amiga "Anim" anima- 
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edited by other Amiga programs. 

Networking: Lightrave is fully network 
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tions. It's also less expensive and nearly 
as fast to overnight-mail a Bernoulli car- 
tridge than to transfer dozens of 
megabytes of data via a modem connec- 
tion. Furthermore, it's a handy way to 
take your data on location: If your client 
has a Bernoulli, just bring along a disk; 
if not, you can pack up the entire drive 
and cany il along, [list plug it into the 
external SCSI port of any similarly- 
equipped Amiga with an RDB (Rigid- 
Disk Block) compatible controller, and 
you will immediately be up and running 
with your data. 

Platform Manager 

The Bernoulli is a boon to Amiga users 
with PC and Mac emulators. Instead of 
dedicating a si/able chunk of valuable 
bard-drive space to Mac or PC programs 
and files, you simply buy a cartridge for 
each emulation mode. 

I successfully tested the drive with Util- 
ities Unlinrited's F.mplant Macintosh em- 
ulator (just move the cable to the Em- 
plant's SCSI port for the best 
performance) and Commodore's 
A2386SX Bridgeboard. The Bernoulli 
cartridges also come in handy for trans- 
ferring to Macintoshes or PCs data files 
that are too large to lit on floppies. You 
can use the commercial version of Con- 
sul tron's CrossDOS to mount the 
Bernoulli as an MS-DOS partition and 
dien read that disk in a Bernoulli drive at- 
tached to a PC. Similar transfers are pos- 
sible with Macs. 

Although Iomega calls this an Amiga 
drive, it's actually [list the latest version 
of the Box 1 5(1 packaged with a two-page 
set-up guide that explains how to install 
it on the Amiga. No software is includ- 
ed, but everything you need to set up 
the drive is on your Amiga DOS Install 
disk. I lappilv, Iomega's tech support de- 
partment is familiar with the Amiga: 
When I had a question about formatting 
the Bernoulli disk with CrossDOS, I was 
transferred to Macintosh tech support, 
where the person I talked to was well 
versed in Amiga mailers and answered 
all of my questions. Support is also avail- 
able via CompuServe, the Internet, and 
Iomega's BBS. 

'ITie drive itself is of high-quality con- 
struction and looks as if it will stand up 
well to being transported. The heavy- 
gauge case has a cooling fan and two 
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backs the drive and media with one- and 
five-year warranties, respectively. 

Great Between Meals, Too 

I travel with the Bernoulli as though it 
were my lunchbox, transporting it be- 
tween an .43000 at work and my A2091- 
equipped A4000 at home. It seems unaf- 
fected by the jostling and remains 
completely trouble-free. My complaints 
about die drive are few: For one, the SCSI 
cable is too short to allow convenient 
placement with multiple setups and is sure 
to spell problems for ASOOCrT owners; but 
this is easily remedied by buying a longer 
cable. Also, although the drive is easily 
transportable, there's no compartment or 
clip for the power or SCSI cables, so you'll 
need to cany them separately. 

These are minor complaints, however, 
and I'm extremely pleased overall with 
the Bernoulli, especially in view of its 
new low price. The drive oilers almost 
twice the storage capacity of its closest 
competition, the Syquest 44/88, along 
with faster performance and a lower 
price. In your quest for more storage, 
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Hard-drive installable. 
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Scenery Animator began as a demo 
fractal landscape program, called 
SceneGen, which amazed the market 
back when the .Amiga 1000 was cutting- 
edge technology. Scenery Animator 4.0 
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Scenes for All Seasons 
Scenery Animator 4.0 comes with a 
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an ".88 1 " version for accelerated Amigas 
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eral DEM landscape Files, two anima- 
tion-viewer utilities, and something new: 
3-D objects. 

AGA support comes in the form of 
allowing rendering in 16, 32 and 256 
colors, HAM and HAM8, IFF24, DCTV, 
and PCX graphics formats. Non-AGA 
.Amigas can also render HAMS and 256- 
color images, except that you'll output to 
a lile instead of the screen. Displays now 
me hide low- or high-res, interlaced, and 
overscan ranging from standard 
352x480 up to 768x482 video format. 
AGA machines can also render up to 
1536x482 overscan in new Super res. 
Animation formats are likewise expand- 
ed, with AN'IM-5 (DeluxePainl compat- 
ible) animations in all the above formats 
except IFF24 (frames only) and PCX (no 
frames or AXIMs). 

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tion Maps (DEMs), which are small 
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The program generates realistically 
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Scenery Animator's interface. 




A view from behind. 

bathed in moonlight to barren land- 
scapes from alien planets. 

Learning "Geo"graphy 

AGA support is a welcome and timely 
addition to Sceneiy Animator, but that's 
not the only new feature. Version 4.0 lets 
you place 3-D objects in .GEO format 
(V'ideoScape 3D) anywhere in your land- 
scape and even animate with them, 
opening a whole new range of creative 
possibilities. You can also individually 
place Oak and Redwood fractal trees 
generated by Scenery Animator any- 
where on your map. This is useful for 
adding trees around a building, along a 
river bank, or near the camera for com- 
positional framing of a scene. Tightly 
bunched trees placed partially below 
ground level give the appearance of 
thick bushes. 

You are provided with a nearly endless 
supply of supplementary goodies in con- 
version utilities that change other 3-D 
objects to .GEO format The accompa- 
nying rendered image of two Stealth jets 
flying above a river valley uses the 
stealth. geo object from the program 
disk, and several other .GEO objects that 
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tremendous power and is sure to become 
a real hit. 

A New World Order 

New controls on the main screen make 
Scenery .Animator simpler than ever to 
use. A flat terrain is now represented in 
the Preview window until you choose a 
fractal or DEM. Camera view movement 
is greatly simplified with the four cursor 
(arrow) keys for up, down, left or right, 
and the Frwd and Bkwd buttons. These 
move your camera the distance in meters 
that you enter into the Distance string 
gadget, giving precise control down to 
one meter. The Max button replaces the 
old Distance button, and a welcome new 
Undo button lets you change your mind. 

The Pitch and Bank controls now look 
like clock faces, which are visually logi- 
cal and easy to use. Stretching out. a box 
of any size in the Preview window zooms 
that area to fill the window, and the Ob- 
ject and Box buttons speed up Preview 
window updates when you move the 
camera. An A4000/040 updates the pre- 
view in about one second, even with 
more than 180 objects loaded into a 
landscape, but non-accelerated ma- 
chines might well take advantage of 
these buttons. 

Experienced users of Scenery Anima- 
tor will notice changes on the Map 
screen, too. 1 especially like the new Lens 
and Dir buttons that independently lock 
the lens focal length and direction of 
view. Moving the camera no longer re- 
quires readjusting these settings as be- 
fore. The Zoom, Normal, and Frame 
buttons provide for zooming the map 
up to 512X magnification, thus allowing 
fine control when positioning 3-D ob- 
jects on the map. The Cam and Obj but- 
tons toggle between camera/animation 
controls and the new object controls. 

Deleting or adding 3-D objects and 
fractal trees to the map is as easy as click- 
ing the mouse. You can scale 3-D objects 
independently and they will rotate 
around three axes called East, North, 
and Vertical. These axes are relative to 
the map, not to the object, so if a north- 
facing object turns to face the east, its 
north axis changes to its east axis, and 
vice versa. This gets confusing, since you 
don't know at what point the axes swap. 
Rotation is entered as degrees of change 
from the current setting, which is always 
shown as zero. I would much rather use 
the object's axis with pitch, bank, and 
compass heading, just like the camera, 
and have a numerical indication of the 
current setting in degrees (or each axis 
on each object. 

When animating with .GEO objects, 
you will find they have a direction, pitch, 



and speed totally independent of the 
camera. This allows, for example, a jet 
coining from behind the camera to zoom 
past it into the horizon even as the cam- 
era itself flies across the landscape. What 
a great effect! 

The Best-Made Plans 

Other than the problems with control- 
ling object rotation, Scenery Animator 
falls short in a few other areas. It would 
be helpful to have more options for an- 
imating objects, including curved paths 



and rotation while moving. Nonetheless, 
Scenery .Animator 4.0 is a solid step for- 
ward, adding AGA support and endless 
possibilities with its new 3-D object fea- 
tures. It's still easy to learn and even sim- 
pler to use. The additional power to 
place and animate scalable 3-D .GEO 
objects and fractal trees anywhere in the 
landscape is going to make this version 
a real hit. Natural Graphics has another 
winner on its hands. 

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offers no elegant way of bouncing back 
and forth between the two. Another 
minor nuisance is that clips didn't seem 
to easily snap to one another when 
dragged into the timeline. When com- 
pared to the sophisticated timeline 
trimming abilities of Avid's Media Suite 
Pro, this aspect of Media 100 has a little 
catching up to do. 

Once you are finished editing your 
program, outputting could not be easier: 
Simply select Create Master from the 



Program menu. With your analog tape 
device connected. Media 100 lays down 
an ultra-high-quality video and audio 
output of your digital data. 

Eager for the Next Phase 

Media 100 lacks a few features that 
early adopters of the system will proba- 
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kind of Media 100 QuickTime codec to 
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that comes to mind, but there is promise 
that this is not far off. Much of the 
Media 100 literature suggests that fu- 
ture versions of the product might be 
controlled directly from within Adobe 
Premiere. This would truly be a coup, 
and if Data Translations could pull it off, 
they would win the hearts of many in 
the digital video community. 

The engineers at Data Translations 
should be commended for bringing full- 
motion images on the Mac to a new level 
of quality. This product will surely fill a 
gap in a market that presently requires 
you to build your post-production studio 
piece by piece or buy a turnkey system 
with some annoying restraints. The fact 
that this is version 1.0 of Media 100 leads 
me to believe that future incarnations 
will continue to improve and be more 
powerful, fulfilling the promise of digital 
video. 

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By Peter Olafson 



S the folks at Sega might say, "Welcome to the 
next level. " After years of ducking the "games 
machine" tag, Commodore lias finally owned 
Lip that it makes a pretty damn good game ma- 
chine after all, and released a dedicated console 
version of the Amiga. 
It's called CD32, and you're going to be hearing a lot 
about it — not the least within these pages. The technical 
stuff will have been around the block and back by the time 
you read ibis, so I'll keep it brief. CD32 looks like a gray 
and somewhat elongated version of the Sega Genesis — the 
main difference being the top-loading CD-ROM where 
the cartridge slot would be, with the legend "32-bit" em- 
blazoned across its center. 

Welcome to the next level indeed. CD32 is both a sig- 
nificant step up for game play on the Amiga and it is an 
Amiga — and a blow against the consoles and piraq 7 that 
have threatened to erode the .Amiga's European base. 

Console Features 

Internally, it is essentially a rearranged A1200: a Moto 
rola '020 processor, AGA chip set, and 2MB of chip RAM. 
New is the double-speed CD-ROM drive; a planar chip, 
which permits on-the-fly graphic conversions to Amiga bit- 
planes (which should usher in an era of Wolfenstein 3-D 
style games); and Kickslart 3.1 in ROM (the .1 principal- 
ly being adjustments to support the CD-ROM drive). 

Otherwise, it is very much a console. No floppy 
drive. No keyboard. No hard disk. (For saves, it uses IK of 
non-volatile RAM, which is likely to mean password sys- 
tems.) The single controller — broadly similar to that of the 
Super NES, but shaped more like a pilot's control wheel — 
has seven buttons and a four-way directional pad. It plugs 
into the standard Amiga joystick/mouse ports on the ma- 
chine's left side. 

Not to say that expansion isn't a possibility for the fu- 
ture. Tile screw-down (lap at the right rear conceals a good- 
sized expansion port. Commodore isn't saying much about 
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ture Experts Group) module, which is expected to ship 
later this fall with a price around S200 and will give 
CD32 full-motion-video capability. With this option, 
you'll never know you weren't watching television. Once 
developers begin to put MPEG to use, you're going to 
see some unbelievable cinematic effects. In addition, 
you can play audio CDs. watch CD+G and Video GD 
movies, and plav most GDTV titles. Commodore is also 
talking about A1200 and A4000 CD-ROM chives that 
will let you play CD32 games on your AGA machines. 
CDS2 supports GDXL. bin Commodore has yet to fi- 
nalize an agreement to license Kodak CD for the new 
machine. 

The possibilities for CD32 are enormous. Coupling 
the graphics power of AGA and "(120 speed to the vast 
storage capacity of the CD-ROM and 16-bil stereo au- 
dio — with a list price (estimated at $400) on a par with 




The popular Zoo! character makes its way to CD32. 




Flair's Oscar Illustrates the promise of CD32. 



Sega's less-powerful CD system and one substantially 
less than the $700 projected for the first 3DQ-based 
machine — it has the potential not only to relieve CBM's 
current cash crunch, but also to put Amiga technology 
into millions of homes — much as the A500 did in 1987. 

The US appears a step or two behind Europe in terms 
of support for this machine, which debuted overseas 
two months before the machine's introduction in 
Pasadena in September (for more about the US unveil- 
ing, see p. 8). According to Commodore, CD32 will ini- 
tially he available in "limited quantities" and sold at 
"strategic areas" in the US before the national push slat- 
ed for CES in January. (CBM reportedly moved an en- 
couraging 8000 units within days of CD32's release in 
Europe.) 

CBM has gone to the source of its current strength; 
its powerful European developer network. And that, at 
least initially, is where the games will come. Europeans 
have had the specs since last spring, and initial PAU 
versions shipped in early September. (US developers 
were conspicuous by their absence from a developer list 
provided by Commodore.) 

Games Lineup 

Of course, a machine is only as powerful as the soft- 
ware available to run on it. Technically, there are eight 
years' worth of sterling Amiga software waiting on the 
shelf — much of which could be converted to run un- 
der the new specs — and a good share of the initial run 
of games can be expected to be in this vein or straight 
ports over from the A 1200. (For more on A1200 
games, see "AGA Attack" on p. 31.). For instance, 
Gremlin Graphics is bundling all three of its Lotus car- 
racing games on a single CD. Mindscape has a two- 
pack TV Sports offering that includes baseball and 
boxing games. System 3 reportedly will reissue all three 
in its Last Ninja series — Ninja Remix and Last Nin- 
jas II and III — for CD32. (For that matter, don't be 
surprised if Europe's enterprising budget labels use 
all this extra closet space to put together compilations. 
flu- possibilities are mind-boggling.) 

But it's early yet, and at this writing (late September), 
there were just three CD32-specific games available. 
Two were bundled with the machine in Europe — Mil- 
lennium's Diggers strategy /arcade game and Flair's 
platform game Oscar — and Millennium's James Pond 
II: Robocod was in some London shops even before 
the machine. (At press time, Commodore hadn't indi- 
cated what software would be bundled with the ma- 
chine for its American launch in October.) 

Oscar is bound to gel attention; it's a lovely bit of 
sight-seeing. It was first conceived as a follow-up to 
Trolls II, and, like Trolls AGA its 256 colors beam out 
of the screen. It is like virtually nothing you've seen in 
terms of richness and density of color — both in the 
background and up front — and while I hankered for 
a joystick over the controller's directional pad, the 
game play is there as well. 

James Pond II: Robocod was exceptionally well re- 
garded in the platlbrm-game field when it made its ini- 
tial appearance on the Amiga in 1991, and it has aged 
pretty well. This version is substantially identical to the 
A1200 version — which is to say larger, faster, and with 
just a bit more sparkle in its pictures. Solid stuff, 

Diggers is quite different You use icons to control 
a team of five Lemming-sized men whom you send off 



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to dig for jewels (which you can sell). Of course, there 
are three other races working alongside you... and at 
odds with you. It's not a quick game — it covers an enor- 
mous area — but it seems to have a decent amount of 
depth and variety, and I found myself drawn back to it 
again and again. (We'll look at all three in detail in "The 
Game Preserve" in the not-too-distant future.) 

More Games in the Offing 

There's more coming — a lot more — and many will be 
out by the time you read this. In fact, some were set to 
follow the machine straight into the shops. In Septem- 
ber, Gremlin Graphics was expected to release a CD32 
version ofits platform hit Zool, with a new level, 3-D ren- 
dered shots, and a CD soundtrack; Renegade is releas- 
ing a CD32/CDTV version ofits well-regarded Sensible 
Soccer; and Mindscape International plans a version of 
Jordan "Prince of Persia" Mechner's great isometric- 
puzzle game, D/Generation. 

Commodore estimates that CD32 will also run about 
60 percent of existing CDTV titles — among them the 
brand-new Defender of the Crown II, by renowned 
.Amiga artist Jim Sachs, which is reviewed in this month's 
"Game Presen'e" (p. 80). And we can expect to see a 
number of compatible latter-day CDTV games that 
weren't released in that format. 

Here's a sampling of other entertainment packages 
from Amiga game developers you can expect in the 
coming months. 

Bullfrog: You knew the Populous/PowerMonger boys 
would come through, right? Expect to see a high-pow- 
ered CD32 version of Syndicate — incorporating some 
new features that will be included in a data disk late this 
year and others (like the rotatable view and interior cut- 
aways) specific to CD. Other projects farther down the 
road sound mind-blowing: Reportedly the Bullies are 
working on a CD32 version of Theme Park (an amuse- 
ment-park construction set); a new underwater first-per- 
son God sim called Creation; and a flight simulator (for 
want of a better description) using a magic carpet and 
inspired by The Arabian Nights. 

Flair: The beat-'em-up Surf Ninjas and the beautiful 
graphic adventure Genesis are planned, along with ver- 
sions of the AGA games 1869 (trading in the 19th cen- 
tury) and Whale's Journey (futuristic RPG). 

Grandslam: The wonderful greens game, Nick Faldo's 
Golf, is on the way — in 256 colors, no less, with voices — 
and there reportedly will also be a soccer game, England 
World Cup '94. 

International Computer Entertainment: Amiga Fonnat 
magazine reports that ICE is doing a game based on the 
Japanese cartoon Akira, It's said to involve some motor 
cycle racing, and to have "plenty of blood and gore." 
Yummy. 

Krisalis: Soccer Kid and Sabre Team are slated to make 
the transition — the former with improved animation, 
the latter with extra levels. 

MicroProse: Well, uh, it isn't a done deal. An MPS rep 
in Europe indicated the company hasn't committed to 
any CD32 projects yet, but is keeping an eye on things. 



Given past performance, it's Likely MPS will join in the 
fun. (The haunted-house game The Legacy is the name 
most frequently bounced around in the UK gaming 
press.) 

Millennium: The massive third episode in the James 
Pond line — Operation Starfish (diat's not a typo) — and 
the arcade/puzzle game Morph are headed for CD32. 

Mindscape: Mindscape and its parent company, Soft- 
ware Toolworks, have long been active in the CD mar- 
ket, so small surprise that it's bringing out four CD32 
titles. After TV Sports and D/Generation comes the 
silly 11 -level platform game, Alfred Chicken. But the 
big one is the CD32-only Liberation — Tony Crowther's 
follow-up to the hit futuristic role-player Captive — with 
4096 computer-created plots and more than 36,000 




It's a matter of time travel in Genesis from Flair. 




Bee on the lookout for Storm's Lawnmower Man. 



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The colorful (about 256) Plnball Fantasies from 21st Century. 



possible locations in each of its cities. Plural. 

Mirage: I have four words for you: Rise of the Robots. 
This one — headed up by a former Bitmap Brother — 
could be big; Mirage indicates it's more like a movie 
than a game. You're a cyborg sent into a robotic manu- 
facturing plant to save it from a super-smart (but virus- 
infected) robot that has taken over the plant. In the 
process, you'll light five types of robots — each with its 
own AI. The chief robot (The Supervisor) has some 



moves that make him sound like something nasty out 
otTerminator2. The ray-traced images in the slide show 
running at the European Computer Trade Show 
(ECTS) looked great. If the game play measures up, 
we're all going to be very busy come January. 

Ocean: Look for the giant UK label to do versions of 
Ryder Cup Golf, Sleepwalker, Jurassic Park, along 
with DID's flight games T.F.X. and Inferno. 

Psygnosis: You can expect versions of Microcosm — a 

gorgeous first-person shoot-'em-up — and Dracula. 

Renegade: This outfit will follow Sensible Soccer with 
the sideways shooter Uridium 2 and The Chaos En- 
gine. 

Storm: The Lawnmower Man — from appearances, a 
string of challenging arcade sequences in a 3-D envi- 
ronment — is being developed for CDTV, and a CD32 
version, while not definite, is a fair possibility as well. 

Supervision: A version of Donk!, that neat platformer 
featuring a samurai duck, is planned. 

System 3: Look for Putty 2 to grace the CD32. Putty 
was a splendid arcade/puzzle game in very much the 
same mold as Morph (only prettier and tougher). 

Team 17: Alien Breed 2, Body Blows, and Body 
Blows Galactic are all in line for the CD32. And 
spokesman Martyr) Brown notes that X2, the follow-up 
to the spectacular sideways shooter Project-X, may be 
CD32-only. 

Thalion: There will be a CD32 version of Ambermoon 

(sequel to Amberstar), a massive free-scrolling role- 
playing game — the second of that type (after Legends 
of Valour) to reach the Amiga. 

21st Century: A 256-color Pinball Fantasies is planned 
for CD32. 

US Gold: An enhanced version of the arcade-adventure 
Flashback is a possibility. 

Virgin: Like MicroProse, this label's plans seem a bit 
indeterminate — nothing was formally announced at 
ECTS — but it's been reported elsewhere that Virgin 
plans to do a CD32 version of Dune with speech and 
enhancements to the travel scenes. Virgin's Amiga sup- 
port has always been strong, and it's likely as not that 
the company will jump in with a project or two. 

The question on everyone's lips is whether there is a 
Sonic or a Super Mario World hiding in this lineup or 
on the drawing boards — a game that will drop jaws, 
suspend disbelief, and compel people to buy the ma- 
chine in order to play it. Well, that remains to be seen, 
but the games in this initial batch are good, solid of- 
ferings that begin to draw on CD32*s potential. ■ 

Wild-eyed Peter Okifson, AWs Games Editor, has recently re- 
turned from ECTS, a major UK-based computer games shout, 
where he witnessed much support and excitement for CBM's 
new interactive game machine. 



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AW SPECIAL: THE NEW AMIGA GAMES-2 



Are you game ? 

Brace yourself for the onslaught 

ofAGA games just in time 

for the holidays. From Air Bucks" 

to "Zool 2, " here's a sneak peek 

at what's in store for 

thrill-seeking Amiga gamers. 

D acience has always been a useful commodity for [he 
devout Amiga gamer. Patience for loading. Pa- 
tience for installation. Patience for copy prorec- 
. • tion. Patience for the games that don't appear on 
time, and patience even for the ones that do. (Patience 
with gloating IBMers you want to hit with a wrench, for 
that matter.) 

But whoever said "Patience is a virtue" never had 
an A] 200 and a gamer's bloodlust for something hot 
and deep to populate it. 

It's been some wait. At this writing (mid-Septem- 
ber), nearly a year has passed since the first A1200s 
appeared in London's High Street shops, and up un- 
til now there hasn't been a single exceptional game 
available that was designed expressly for AGA (Ad- 
vanced Graphics Architecture) machines. And 
there've been fewer than 20 of those. 

True enough, we've had plenty of sonic and graph- 
ic upgrades of good games conceived for OCS and 
ECS Amigas. True enough, we're beginning to see the 
expected trickle of VGA IBM-to-AGA Amiga conver- 
sions. And, true enough, even without the flood of 
AGA-titles, there's a certain pleasure to be had in re- 
discovering how too-slow flight sims and disk-intensive 
role-players suddenly seem just fine under an '020. 

But that probably wasn't the plan most of us had 
when we plunked down our money. U'e wanted games 
conceived for our hot new 32-bit machine. (Otherwise, 
it's a little like buying an A500 so you can run a CG4 
emulator.) And it's a short step from "Patience is a ►• 

By Peter Olafson 




Hi 




Amiga World 31 



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virtue" to "We're mad as hell and we're not going to 
take it anymore." We've had the salad, we've eaten all 
the bread, and we've had an animated chat with the 
folks at the next table. Now, where's the beef? 

It's here. With the first full Christmas season since 
the machine's release just kicking off, we're suddenly 
on the cusp of a regular flood of A1200 games — flight 
sims, driving games, platform games, sports games. By 
the time you read this, you'll be hip deep in the stuff — 



most of it from Europe, especially the UK — and 1994 
appears to hold more of the same. The Al 200 is about 
to come into its own. 

In that spirit, here's a buyer's guide to existing and 
real-soon-now A1200-specific games with not a few pre- 
views, first looks, and no-such-luck-pals thrown in for 
good measure. The last year has been rather dismal and 
gray — much like England's autumn weather — but the 
future's looking so bright, I've got to wear X-Specs. 



Air Bucks 1.2 
Impressions 

At press time, it appeared this ex- 
cellent and challenging run-your- 
own -airline strategy game would be 
the first AGA game to see formal 
US release. (It's been available 
overseas for a while in its initial ren- 
dition, but Impressions considered 
it too slow for release here.) It is, to 
all intents and purposes, a twin of 
the IBM VGA version, with more 
of a head for business than compa- 
rable Amiga games like Black Gold 
and Ports of Call. 

Alien Breed 2 
Team 17 

A little introduction may be neces- 
sary here, as the original Alien 
Breed never got much attention in 
the US. A shame, too: It was essen- 
tiallv an Alien-ish storv line trans- 




Allen Breed 2 



planted onto a spiffed-up version 
of the Into the Eagles Nest engine. 
It was simple enough to appeal to 
anyone — basically, you were col- 
lecting keys, ammo, and dosh to 
spend on better weapons at the 
computer consoles — and atmos- 
pheric as hell. This new one is as 
crisp as they come, with fantastic 
hard-edged graphics and more of 
everything that made the original 
such a grabber. 

Beneath a Steel Sky 
Virgin 

An improved version of Revolution 
Software's futuristic follow-up to 
Lure of the Temptress — a collabo- 
ration with Watchmen Comic Book 
author Dave Gibbons — is planned 
for the A1200. Called the "first 
computer-based animated comic- 
book adventure," Steel Sky is set in 
a world ruled by corporations (a la 
Syndicate). 
They've de- 
stroyed die envi- 
ronment — the 
wasteland out- 
side the huge 
city-states is 
known as The 
Gap — and the 
game opens 
with gap-dweller 
Robert Foster's 
mysterious ar- 
rival in a city. 

Body Blows 
Galactic 
Team 17 

Follow-up to the 
superb set-piece 
beat-'em-up 
Body Blows. 
Not previewed, 
but it's appar- 
ently an off- 
planet variation 



on BB and is said to put two BB 
characters up against the best 
fighters of seven alien races, with 
new moves, better sound, and im- 
proved backdrops. 

Brutal Sports Football 
Millennium 

Millennium has been touting this 
as "Beastball" for some time, and I 
finally had a chance to take a peek 
at it at the European Computer 
Trade Show (ECTS) in September. 
And Beastball is right: It's enjoy- 
ably violent and in its way really 
quite funny stuff — essentially a bar- 
barous version of US football 
played out by genetically-engi- 
neered monsters. (Remember 
Grand Monster Slam?) After a 
game, the field looks as though it's 
been plowed for planting. 

Burning Rubber 
Ocean 

Finally, some competition for Nigel 
Mansell in the arcade racing genre. 
This is an Outrun-type arcade rac- 
er in the Jaguar/Lotus vein, with a 
range of cars and scenery, a shop to 
pick up add-ons, cops on your tail, 
and pedestrians (if you're not care- 
ful) as hood ornaments. 

The Chaos Engine 
Renegade 

This two-player strategy shooter 
from the Bitmap Brothers — a 
Gauntlet with good looks and a 
brain — is in the pipeline. It's said to 
make use of 256 colors and to have 
better sound than the original. 

Civilization 
MicroProse 

This 256-color version of Sid 
Meier's strategy classic has actually 
been out for a while, but only over- 



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seas and only as part of a hardware 
bundle (the first external hard disk 
for the A1200). As I write this, it 
should finally be out as a solo prod- 
uct — and as pretty or prettier than 
the VGA original version. (Of 
course, beauty was never Civ's 
strong suit anyway.) 

Day of the Tentacle 

LucasArts 

Rumor Quashing Dept: A .DMS 
archive purporting to be an Amiga 
demo of this follow-up to Maniac 
Mansion has been making the 
rounds of BBSs. However, Lu- 
casArts folks swear that nothing of 
the sort is in the works (though 
they're still keeping an eye on the 
Amiga market). 

This apparently was someone's 
idea of a joke, 

Dennis 

Ocean 

Not much info available on Dennis 
(as in "the Menace"), but it's evi- 
dently a license based on the 
dreadful John Hughes film, and, 
as it's also planned for the Super 
NES, I'll lay odds it has a platform 
or two in it. 

Diggers 
Millennium 

Lemmings as miners, more or 
less. (Someone ought to get those 
guys a union.) The CD32 game, 
in-bound in a trimmed-down ver- 
sion for the A 1200, is an interest- 
ing composite of game styles: con- 
trolling five tiny miners (unless 
you leave them alone too long, at 
which time they go off and do 
their own thing); some managing 
of resources (they mine for jew- 
els); horning in on three comput- 
er opponents; and the broad, 
simple pleasures of exploring a 
vast underground. 

DONK 
Supervision 

This platformer from The Hidden 
development team — featuring a, 
uh, samurai duck — was called 
"Dong" in its initial rendition for 
the sadly defunct DMI label. 
Needless to say, some stores were 
not amused and the name was 
changed to the more accessible 
Donk. Good thing, as this defi- 



nitely deserves an audience. It's 
gorgeous, with big sprites, lots of 
colors, and a split-screen two-play- 
er mode that out-consoles the 
consoles. 

Dungeon Walk 
Public Domain 

Not a finished game, actually, but 

an encouraging interactive demo 
for techniques that will be put to 
work in one. This AGA-only offer- 
ing — available via FTP over Inter- 
net — is a seminal dungeon crawl 
with smooth scrolling as you move 
between squares, occasional car- 
toon)' monsters, and continuous 
on-screen auto-mapping, 

1869 
Flair 

Worthwhile if only because it's dif- 
ferent from anything else to reach 
the 1200: a trading game for up to 
four players set in... wot the title 
sez, mate. Trading games can be a 
bit dull, but this is a notch or two up 
from standard fare in that it's more 
a simulation. 1869 appears simple 
at first, but there's rather more to 
do than just buy and sell com- 
modities: crews to keep happy, ad- 
vice to hear, newspapers to read, 
and so on. 

Fatman The Caped 

Consumer 

Interactivision 



Delightful plat- 
former in the 
Superfrog vein 
from a new Dan- 
ish developer, 
it features a 
chubby main 
sprite who belts 
baddies with his 
big belly (Chuck 
Rock style) and 
gobbles tons of 
munchies. The 
levels go on for- 
ever, and they're 
packed wi t h cute 
stuff. 

Genesis 
Flair 

A richly drawn, 
icon-driven 
time-travel ad- 
venture — the 



scenes I saw looked as though parts 
had been digitized from life — fea- 
turing a young woman of. ..well, 
less-than-extensive wardrobe. (Flair 
indicates that she'll be better 
draped in the release version.) It's 
set in the Jurassic and Medieval 
eras and winds up in a composite of 
the present and the future. 

Giger-Tetris 

Shareware 

The second freely distributable 
AGA game — it's a wonder there 
haven't been more — is a pretty 
straight version of the classic 
falling-block game, with a lovely 
backdrop drawn from the cata- 
logue of the artist who inspired 
Dark Seed. What's next, AGA 
Minesweeper? 

Inferno 
Ocean 

Many of the games here will be out 
bv the time you read this. This one 
won't be until 1994. This smooth 
spaceflight simulation from DID 
apparently began life as a follow- 
up to Epic — hence the subtitle 
"The Odyssey Continues" — but the 
demo I saw at ECTS suggests it's 
gone well beyond that. Lots of 
smooth flight and big fights in elab- 
orate environments on seven plan- 
ets and three moons. The list of 
features is simply staggering: a vast * 




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environment — planets with light 
and dark sides, weather, and grav- 
ity; a light-sourced cockpit; up to 
80 missions in a given game; and 
300 or more ships in a battle. 
1994? I'm not sure I can wait. 

International Open Golf 

Championship 

Ocean 

Remember Zany Golf? Well, this 
here is Ghastly Golf. It just doesn't 
do very much right. The graphics 
ache from hunger. The interface is 
too simple. The promising follow- 
the-ball view turns out to be simply 
a pitiful series of slow snapshots 
(even on a 40 MHz machine). And 
I especially like the way the move- 
ment of the ball follows completion 
of the swing. I can't go on; it's just 
too painful. Better golf games were 
released for mortal Amigas four 
years ago. And Ocean UK seems to 
know it, too; they're pulling it and 
teeing up for the forthcoming Ry- 
der Gup instead. 

ISHAR 
Silmarils 

This update to Silmaril's excel- 
lent Ishar is the first RPG to be 
rendered in AGA. Not that it 
matters much; the original was 
great with a lovely impression of 
mist in the distance, a sense 
throughout of quiet intimida- 
tion, assertive characters who re- 
sisted being bossed around, and 
a happy reliance on the player's 
abilities over such matters as 
mapping. All that remains in 
place here, and Ishar's high col- 
or is a bit higher. Recommend- 




The Chaos Engine 



ed, and an AGA version of the 
excellent Ishar II (see this issue's 
"Game Preserve," p. 88, for a re- 
view) is around the corner. 

James Pond II: Robocod 
Millennium 

The first of the AGA platform- 
game conversions to really add any- 
thing substantial to the mix, with 
six new levels, hard-disk installabil- 
ity, and marginally better graphics. 
(JP was a pretty handsome little cod 
to begin with.) .As fun as ever. 

James Pond III: 
Operation Stajrfi5h 
Millenium 

Woody' s World (see next month's 
"Game Preserve") is calling itself 
the biggest platform game. J P III 
calls itself the biggest and the best. 
It has (it savs here) more than 140 
levels, 24,000 screens, 400 secret 
rooms or bonuses, a new character 
(a frog) and [he largest J P sprite to 
date, lots of new gadgets, and all 
this at twice the speed as Sonic the 
Hedgehog. 

Jurassic Park 
Ocean 

This may be Ocean's first really 
worthy licensed game. It has the 
potential to be a metaphorical 
Tyrannosaurus Rex among the lit- 
tle Velociraptors of the Amiga 
game world this Christmas. JP is es- 
sentially a composite of two action 
games: an angled-down Ultima VI- 
style point-of-view for the out of 
doors, and a free-scrolling Wolfen- 
stein 3-D blastfest indoors. 



King's 
Quest VI 

Sierra 

Yup, you read 
correctly: King's 
Quest VI. Sierra, 
which quit the 
Amiga market 
last year in the 
wake of Con- 
quests of the 
Longbow, has 
quietly re-en- 
tered it with an 
A 1 200 (and a 
standard 32-col- 
or Amiga) ver- 
sion of Roberta 



Williams' latest entry in the saga of 
Daventry's first family. 

It's the first Amiga conversion 
the company hasn't done itself. 
(Hurrah! Yippee! Yahoo!) KQ6 was 
farmed out to England's Revolu- 
tion Software (developers of the 
Virtual Theater adventures Lure of 
the Temptress and the forthcom- 
ing Beneath a Steel Sky). The char- 
acters in this 32-Color version move 
much more smoothly and quickly 
than any of Sierra's latter-day Ami- 
ga products. The A1200 version 
should, God willing, look and play 
substantially the same as the VGA 
version. 

MORPH 

Millennium 

I raved and drooled about this ele- 
mental puzzle game — in which you 
literally wander lonely as a cloud. . . 
and an inferno. ..and a puddle... 
and a bowling ball — a couple of is- 
sues back (see Oct. '93, p.79). It was 
pretty then, and I can't imagine 
that they could do much to liven 
up the graphics. But they have 
added 12 more levels. 

Mr. Nutz 
Ocean 

He's a squirrel with a feisty look on 
his face. Can't say more. This plat- 
former, once intended for standard 
Amigas, appeared destined only for 
the consoles. Maybe the A 1200 
brought it back to life. 

Naughty Ones 

Interactivision 

A polished, minor-key platform 
game with cute, squat figures. The 
graphics in the little demo I played 
were charming and detailed, and 
the game play surpisingly addic- 
tive. In the final version, there will 
be more than 50 screens arrayed 
over five worlds, and a single- 
screen two-player mode. 

Nigel Mansell's World 

Championship 

Gremlin, distributed by EID 

The second game lo get bumped 
up to AGA, and a more sensible 
choice than the two platform games 
lhat bracketed it. It loads much 
faster (the original took forever), 
handles better, and looks margin- 
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tile of a second AGA version that al- 
legedly features more graphic en- 
hancements. 

Pinball Fantasies 

21st Century 

"Hie best pinball game ever to appear 
on any computer gets bumped up to 
256 colors. (Apparently about half of 
'em got used on the ball itself, which 
now looks very realistic.) They've also 
improved the speed, which I 
wouldn't have thought possible. 

Pinball Illusions 

21st Century 

Still some ways away (like a year), 
the third release in this series will 
Feature, among other things, the 
ability to put more than one ball in 
play simultaneously, Unfortunately, 
the prosepcts of a construction set 
aren't looking good. 

Prime Mover 

Psy gnosis 

Psygnosis makes its move to AGA 
with, of all things, a motorcycle rac- 
ing game — the bitmapped kind, a 
la Super Hang-On. (Not another 
Red Zone, thank goodness.) I've 
seen only the standard Amiga ver- 
sion, which was already quite 
breathtakingly fast. 

Rally 

Eurosoft 

Remember Lombard Rally? It was 
a rather good racing game from 
the late '80s that managed to con- 
vey a real sense of being on the 
road. (Not to mention the sense of 
vertigo when coming over the 
crest of hills.) This is a sequel of 
sorts, and if the artwork and ink 
I've seen is any indication, it's 
looking very good. 

Ryder Cup 
Ocean 

All I have on this golf game is a 
press release, but it sounds promis- 
ing. You control a team of 12 
golfers (12? I can barely manage 
one) competing for the cup under 
tournament itiles. The graphics are 
supposed to be realistic — "you can 
almost smell the grass" — and use 
Gourad shading. And the folks at 
Ocean say it's better than Interna- 
tional Open Golf. 



Sabre Team 
Krhalis 

Another interesting choice for the 
AGA treatment. This game — an 
angled-down variation on games 
like Breach II and Special 
Forces — came out last year in a 
standard Amiga version that was 
intriguing in concept, but, unfor- 
tunately, burdened with an awk- 
ward control system that made it 
hell to play. This new version has 
better graphics and. since the 
1 200 version will take off from the 
IBM. it will also inherit the sim- 
plified, sensible controls. 

Sim Life 

Mindscape International 

The first game to make its initial 
appearance in an AGA version. 
Budding geneticists: This will 
save you a lot of money on lab 
equipment. SimCity fans: Wait for 
Si in farm. 

Sleepwalker 
Ocean 

Get this whichever machine you 
have. It's a wonderful game — faith- 
ful dog protecting sleepwalking 
master from the hazards of a 

cityscape-cum-platform game — but 
I have to admit it's an odd choice 
for conversion. What was done — a 
few extra colors, mainly — didn't 
change much. (It's slightly 
smoother and faster.) 

Soccer Kid 
Krisalis 



A great arcade- 
adventure, us- 
ing the same 
engine as the 
excellent Arabi- 
an Nights, that 
puts me in 
mind of Sleep- 
walker. (You 
can manipulate 
your soccer ball 
to get to places 
you can't.) No 
specifics, but 
the 1200 ver- 
sion will proba- 
bly look and 
sound a bit bel- 
ter — not that it 
needs to. 



Star Trek; 

Interplay 



25th Anniversary 



Ah, linally! I hear this is getting 
bumped up to the AGA treatment. 
It's a multicharacter graphic ad- 
venture that captures perfectly the 
charming flavor of the series — 
something Interplay's always been 
good at — mingled with smooth 
space-combat sequences. This 
should be dazzling. 

Surf Ninjas 
Flair 

I don't know much about this, I'm 
afraid. A beat-'em-up — progres- 
sive, rather than set-piece — appar- 
ently based on the movie of the 
same name. 

Survival 

Interactivision 

Nothing after the apocalypse 
should look this pretty. It's a large- 
ish strategy game, set in Europe 
and the US, in which your object is 
to unify the survivors of World War 
III and rebuild civilization. That re- 
quires building, transport, some 
sort of military (not everyone's as 
friendly as you are), and new tech- 
nology to bring it off. 

Syndicate 

Electronic Arts 

Not! The announced A 1200 ver- 
sion of Bullfrog's dark strategy 
game was to feature a rotatable 
point-of-view and cutaway shots of » 




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the interior of buildings — the latter 
a decided improvement over the 
pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey routine 
used in the standard Amiga game. 
.Alas, it's not to be; they're doing it 
for the CD32 instead (see "Games 
Engine — Par Excellence!" on p. 26). 

T.F.X. 

Ocean 

If you can't wait for Inferno, this 
may tide you over. It's from the 
same outfit, and is a Follow-up, of 
sorts, to DID's flight simulator F- 
29 Retaliator. It features F-29's 
silken flight, an amazing level of 
ground detail, eight theaters, a 
choice of three aircraft, and 
around 200 missions. And the 
polygons don't look much like 
polygons any more. 

Transarctica 

Silmarils 



Oscar, and well it should, for Os- 
car started life as Trolls II. Its pre- 
cursor is probably the best of the 
A1200 pure platformers: absurd 
characters with perpetual gri- 
maces and Don King hair, lovely 
shading and detail throughout, 
and above-average game play. 
Trolls AGA really begins to ex- 
ploit the power of the machine. I 
can tell because my mouth is still 
hanging open. 

UChess, v. 2.31 

Public Domain 

The first AGA game in the public 
domain looks great, plays a won- 
derfully aggressive game, and keeps 
getting better — as author Roger 
Uzun (of Heart of the Dragon fame) 
seems committed to regular up- 
grades. But don't even bother look- 
ing for this unless you have buckets 
and buckets of extra memory. 



Wing Commander 

Electronic Arts UK 

A long story with (apparently) a 
happy ending. Wing Commander 
Amiga received a generally warm 
reception when it appeared a year 
ago, but complaints about its speed 
on low-end machines and limited 
palette made it a natural candidate 
forA1200dom. 

First that was a go: Mindscape 
International was planning to fol- 
low up WC with a 256-color ver- 
sion. Then it was postponed, as 
Mindscape's conversion contract 
lapsed and Electronic Arts ac- 
quired WC publisher Origin. And 
now it's a go again, under the aus- 
pices of EA, and, at this writing, 
was planned for October release 
overseas. Reports indicate that pre- 
release versions are looking very 
tasty. Now, where are those Secret 
Missions disks? 



The original Transarctica left me a 
bit chilly, and 224 additional warm 
colors in the AGA version haven't 
nudged up the thermostat a bit. 
This futuristic strategy game — 
based around a giant train roaming 
an icy post-nuclear world in search 
of the sun — has a lot of nice inter- 
nal toys, but needs more help in 
the boredom department than with 
its palette. (Watching a little choo- 
choo chugging around a liquid-pa- 
per landscape just doesn't set my 
blood to boiling.) 

Trolls 

Flair 

This will remind you right off the 
bat of the bundled CD32 game. 




Uridium II 

Renegade 

Back in eight-bit days, Uridium 
was one of Ae sideways-scrolling 
shoot-'em-ups on the C64. Uridi- 
um II, from Fire & Ice author An- 
drew Braybrook is bound to be 
hailed as one of the sideways 
scrollers for the Amiga. The stan- 
dard version will rip along at 50 
frames per second, and the A1200 
version will throw in extra sampled 
sound and graphics and something 
called "a mayhem mode." 

Whale's Journey 

Flair 

A futuristic role-playing game, 
Whale's Jour- 
ney is fat with 
data (on seven 
floppies), and 
there's a fair 
amount to do 
(choosing the 
parents in the 
character- 
creation stage is 
a real hoot!), 
but I found the 
story line a bit 
too thin. I'm 
still exploring 
it, though, and 
you may want 
to give it a look 
for yourself. 



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ZOOL 

Gremlin Graphics, 

distributed by EID 

This conversion of the heavily- 
hyped platform game was first of 
its kind in late 1992, and so is 
bound to be thought of with a cer- 
tain lingering affection — perhaps 
lingering longer than was its due. 
The A1200 version has more mu- 
sic and new background graphics 
that tend to obscure the baddies 
and make an already tough-ish 
game all the tougher. 

Zool 2 
Gremlin 

The game play apparently is pretty 

much the same, but the new Zool 
is otherwise much bigger and 
more varied. He's acquired a girl- 
friend (Zooz), a two-headed dog 
(Zoon), and a host of new enemies 
for this most recent trek through 
nine large levels (which can be 
completed via different routes de- 
pending on which character you 
select). Time limits have been 
stiffened to spice up the chal- 
lenge, and Zool himself has been 
given some new abilities. Of 
course, I haven't actually played it 
much yet, but patience, eh? 
Review coming, ■ 

Peter Ola/son writes AW's monthly 
game section, "The Game Preserve." 



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By Tom Malcom 

YOU SAW, YOU played, and you voted. And vote you did! After bulldozing our way through 
some Four thousand ballots in the first-ever Player's Choice Awards, we came up with your "Top 
5" favorite Amiga games of all time — plus an "Honor Roll" of the ten next most popular titles. 
In addition, one lucky reader took dovm a brand-new Amiga 1200 in the Player's Choice Con- 
test Grand Prize drawing (see profile on p. 38). 

Since the Amiga debuted nearly a decade ago, there have been so many excellent games and 
entertainments written for it that picking the best of die best can only be accomplished by a gen- 
eral consensus like this one. While your own personal list will almost certainly be different, we hope 
you feel proud at being a part of the selection process — and AW wishes to thank each and every 
one of you for participating. So, starting from the top, here are the "Player's Choice" winners: 



1. Lemmings 

Psygnosis 

Lemmings is the game that made Psygnosis a 
superstar in game publishing. Il struck just the 
right blend of arcade and puzzle gaming and 
gave us die must engagingly cute characters 
ever seen in a computer game. Saving lem- 
mings from themselves quickly became an ob- 
session with Amiga owners who had never even 
played a computer game before. Above all, the 
game had personality and charmed the socks 
oil' everyone who played it; Lemmings is de- 
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2. SimCity 

Maxis 



3. Wings 

Cinetnaware 




With SimCity, Maxis brought system simulations out of the Arguably Cinemaware's best effort, Wings let us be World 
realm of computer theory and into the world of computer War I flying aces and gave us the chance to be heroes. With- 
entertainment. Laying out cities and keeping their resi- in the trademark movie framework, Cinemaware also ere- 




dent sims happy made SimCity more fun than an ant farm 
(and inevitably led to another Maxis success, SimAnt). And 
who could resist the perfect whimsy of being able to turn 
Godzilla loose to stomp into rubble the city you worked so 
hard 10 make"- SimCity is so well done that, not surprisingly, 
it has become a serious tool for teaching city planning. 
Now, who would have ever thought that something like city 
planning could be this much fun? 



And the Winner Is . . . 

AMIGAWORLD IS PLEASED to announce the win- 
ner of its Player's Choice contest. He is Tim Hurley, 
20, of Roselle, \'J, who will receive an Amiga 1200 
computer as the Grand Prize. Tim's entry was se- 
lected from among those of thousands of Amiga World 
readers who cast their ballots for their favorite games, 

A current A500 owner, Tim uses his system for a 
variety of applications, including computer art, an- 
imation, music, and telecommunications. Anxious 
to maximize the capabilities of his prize machine, 
Tim plans to outfit the Al 200 with a hard drive and 
other accessories. But most of all, he can't wait to en- 
ter the exciting world of AGA games. He lists Lem- 
mings, Prince of Persia, and Dragon's Lair as among 
his all-time favorites. 

Congratulations, Tim, and good luck with your 
new machine.We would like to extend our apprecia- 
tion to all of our readers who entered the contest. 
And our special thanks to TechMedia Publishing's 
Li/. Abbott who put in countless hours tabulating your 
votes. D 

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ated a first-class flight simulator that redefined the genre, 
making it accessible to game players who weren't willing to 
learn the complex controls of traditional flight sims. Like 
Cinemaware's other games, Wings was true to its 
cinematic origins and captured the essence of the movies 
it drew from while translating that essense into a highly 
playable computer game. 



4. 

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Fantasies 

21st 
Century 

If you have ever 
shoved a quarter 
into an actual 
pinball machine, 
you must have 
loved Pinball 
Fantasies. Easily 
the best comput- 
er pinball game 
ever done on 
any platform, 
Pinball Fantasies 
provided superi- 
or play on a 
choice of four 
equally smash- 
ing tables. Excel- 
lent graphics, 
perfect sound, 
flawless physics, 
and, most of all, 
the accurate cap- 




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Hiring of the feel of playing pinball all combined to make Pin- 
ball fantasies a must for every Amiga gamer's collection. 

5. FA- 18 Interceptor 

Electronic Arts 

In the overcrowded flight-simulator market, FA-18 Inter- 
ceptor remains a standout. Realism, speed, and more real- 
ism gave Interceptor its edge. Flying a fighter like this isn't 
an easy thing to do, and learning the enormously compli- 
cated controls required considerable time and commit- 
ment. The rewards, however, amply repaid the effort with 
some of the most exhilarating flight and frantic aerial bat- 
tles ever seen on an .Amiga monitor screen. 




. . . And 10 More for the Honor Roll! 



6. Out of this World 

Interplay 

A lot of jaws dropped when Interplay re- 
leased Out of This World. Previously, poly- 
gon-based graphics didn't have much in 
the way of visual interest. OOTW changed 
all of that: Using close-ups, pans, fades, and 
the other techniques films use to catch and 
retain our interest, litis otherwise basic ar- 
cade-type graphic adventure was a grabber 
from the first. Besides being a fast-paced 
killer arcade adventure, it also gave us a 
glimpse of the direction virtual-reality ad- 
ventures arc likely to lake. 

7. Civilization 
MicroProse 
Sid Meier's Civilization gave us the chance 
to not just read about history and culture, 
but to shape and guide il ourselves. The 
distant, dusty past suddenly tame very 
much alive, and along with providing an 
enormously entertaining way to waste a few 
millennia in front of the computer, the 
game succeeded in the more subtle task of 
showing us how our civilization came to be 
what it is. 

8. Dungeon Master 
Software Heaven 
Before Dungeon Master, fantasy and role- 
playing games were, for the mosl part, re- 
mote-controlled affairs with overhead views 
and interfaces more concerned with statis- 
tics than payability. Dungeon Master, how- 
ever, slapped us in the face with a first-per- 
son viewpoint and dungeon adventuring 
the way it was meant to he done: up front, 
personal, and very dangerous. And Dun- 



geon Master was tough: Endless hours of 
telecommunications lime were spent look- 
ing for help to get through sticky spots and 
discussing the merits of the game. Dun- 
geon Master remains the prototypical un- 
derground graphic adventure. 

9. Populous 
Electronic Arts 

Who could resist being a god? Certainly 
none of the thousands who played Popu- 
lous, It gave everyone the chance to help 
nurture his or her favorite tribe of mor- 
tals while raining destruction and devas- 
tation on its enemies. Bullfrog struck a 
basic human chord with the theme of 
Populous and did it with a technical bril- 
liance that set a new standard in the 
process. Graphics, sound, animation, and 
a powerfully sophisticated interface were 
combined to perfection in a game that 
was far more than the sum of its parts. 

10. Wing Commander 

Origin 

Probably the most popular IBM game ever, 
the Amiga version of Wing Commander 
proved to be just as compelling. A mission- 
based outer space entertainment, Wing 
Commander was one of those rare games 
where winning or losing is secondary to the 
experience of playing. Wing Commander 
was endlessly involving, in large part be- 
cause it placed more emphasis on skill than 
on chance. 

11. Eye of the Beholder 

Electronic Arts 

Eye of the Beholder was an evolutionary 



step forward in fantasy/role-playing 

games — not to mention an enormous suc- 
cess for SSI — and tipped the standard for 
both graphics and interface. 

12. Shadow of the Beast II 

Psy gnosis 

One of Psygnosis' very finest. Shadow of 
the Beast II was a stunner — awesome not 
only for its graphics, but also for its noi- 
quite-impossihte gameplay. 

13. Pirates 

MicroProse 

Caribbean swashbuckling combined with 
elements of arcade gaming, conquest, and 
high-seas derring-do made Pirates a must- 
have for every would-be Errol Flynn. 

14. Monkey Island II 
LucasArts 

Attention to detail, a sense of humor, and 
a "hyperscreen" point-and-click approach 
to gameplay let Monkey Island II far out- 
shine its namesake original. 

15. Gods 

Konami 

Undoubtedly the Bitmap Brothers' best 
creation yet. Cods showed that classic fast- 
paced British arcade gaming still had the 
ability to dazzle us. ■ 



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magazine, covered the Amiga games heat for thai 
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CD32, every Amiga model ever made has 
current options for hard-drive control ex- 
pansion — even though the oldest has been 
out of production for six years! The Amiga 
1000, discontinued in 1987, still lias one ded- 
icated hard-drive controller on the market (a 
version of Xetec's Fasttrak), and at least two 
others are adaptable to it. Plenty of peripherals are still 
available for the popular Amiga 500, which was dis- 
continued more recently. There's even a SCSI adapter 
made specifically for Commodore's CDTV, a system 
that never sold well. 

The market for the Amiga 1 200. on the other hand, 
is new and growing. We tested two SCSI controllers for 
the A 1200, and received notification of more. Before 
we get into descriptions of the products, though, let's 
check the medical history of hard-drive control for 
these machines. 

Prepping the Patient 

Last month, the first installment of this series covered 
some basic groundwork about hard drives, cable con- 
nections, interface standards, and other conventions. 
While we will recap briefly some of this information 
here, refer to Part I (Nov. '93, p. 49) For a more de- 
tailed discussion. 

As with the higher-end Amiga systems, there are two 
types of hard drives from which to choose: SCSI (Small 
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drives are well supported in the 
IBM PC market and are marginally less expensive. 
In an effort to cut A 1 200 costs to the bone. Commodore 
built an IDE interface into that machine. IDE drives, 
however, have several drawbacks when compared to 
SCSI drives: generally slower data-transfer speeds, more 
limited expansion options, and a very restrictive cable 
length (about two feet). In addition, SCSI devices are 
not limited to hard drives (you can add CD-ROM drives, 
tape drives, optical drives, scanners, and so on), and the 
SCSI bus also allows the networking of systems in order 
to share some of those expensive peripherals. 

Assembling your ow r n expansion peripherals re- 
quires some basic skills (if you are unsure, have a deal- 
er do the job). To install a hard drive you must be able 
to handle the components and hook up the appropri- 
ate cables. Static electricity can damage electronic com- 
ponents. Always discharge your body by touching the 
metallic pails of the computer's main chassis. For the 
Amiga 500, the internal radiation shield is a good place 
to start. Avoid touching the active components of the 
circuit boards and disk drives. Try to handle chips by 
their ends while avoiding the protruding contacts. For 
peripherals that do not include hard-drive enclosures, 
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also have to provide an enclosure, power supply, and 
interconnecting cable for the external drive. 

A little knowledge of tine physical dimensions of hard 
drives is also helpful. The dimensions of older disk- 
drive modules corresponded to the original 5. 25-inch 
floppy drives supplied with the IBM PC — although 
diese were later replaced by half-height models. You 
may be able to find SCSI peripherals of this type for very 
attractive prices. Keep in mind, though, that these are 
usually older models whose speed and capacity are 
much less than the current crop of 3.5-inch drives, many 
of which are low-profile units only one inch high. Re- 
cently, '2.5-inch drives — originally developed for laptop 
computers — have entered the scene, and even smaller 
drives are starting to appear as the si/e of portable com- 
puters continues to shrink. In general, drives smaller 



than the 3.5-inch models sell for a higher cost per unit 
capacity. (Note that the dimensions refer to the diame- 
ter of the magnetic platters that are built into the 
drives and not to their external dimensions.) 

All the systems I examined come with easy-to-use 
drive-preparation and set-up software. After partition- 
ing and formatting the drives, 1 used the AmigaDOS 
2.0+ installer program to install the operating-system 
software. Note that CDTV still uses AmigaDOS 1.3. 

?3 JrlarA-j^rtvc outre tiers 

Feature summaries for 13 hard-drive interfaces for 
low-end Amigas are grouped by the Amiga model(s) 
for which they are intended. Within each group, cards 
are presented alphabetically by the name of the de- 



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Performance tests Cor all SCSI controllers were run with a Quantum 
LPS525S hard drive, a fast SCSI-2 device with an average seek lime 
of only ten milliseconds. (SCSI-TV for CDTV' was the exception; it 
was tested with an older Quantum ProDrive 4 OS.) Likewise, I tested 
all IDE controllers with a Seagate ST35 l.VX drive. Host adapters 
that control SCSI and I DE devices were tested with both drives. 

You'll notice two sets of figures For the A500 controllers. I tested 
diese systems first with the basic Amiga (results shown on the left) 



and then with Supra's Supra'I urbo28 6HO00 processor accelerator 
(figure on right). I have not included separate results for Xetec's 
Fasttrak on the the A1000; performance should be the same as on 
the A500. 

Keep in mind that many factors can affect the results of these tests, 
and that you won't always gel faster results with a more powerful sys- 
tem under certain conditions. Bin while it is difficult to interpret 
these numbers directly, they tan give you a basis for comparison. 



Syslnfo 3.14 

Testing system read speeds. 

All values represent multiples of 1000 bytes per second. 



HOST ADAPTER 
AS00 

Data Flyer 500 
DataFlyer Express 
A500-HD8 + 
•AdIDE 2 
Trifecta 500 
SupraDrive 500XP 
•Fasttrak 

A1200 
Twelve Gauge 

SCSI/RAM + 



MANUFACTURER 


SCSI 


Expansion 


Systems 


505/655 


Expansion 


Systems 


503/648 


GVP 




2125/2178 


ICD 






ICD 




2891/2891 


Supra 




649/930 


Xetec 




503/527 


CSA 




880 


GVP 




2209 



IDE 

698/988 
687/956 

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Testing directory manipulation speed. 

All values represent number of files per second. 



HOST ADAPTER 


MANUFACTURER 


CREATE 


OPEN 


DIR. SCAN 


DELETE 


SEEK/HEAD 


A500 with SCSI 






18/23 


46/66 


139/197 


71/113 




DataFlyer 500 


Expansion 


Systems 


62/68 


DataFlyer Express 


Expansion 


Systems 


18/25 


46/79 


141/254 


73/144 


59/76 


A500-HD8+ 


GVP 




18/27 
36/81 


45/72 
52/114 


106/153 
168/329 


62/116 
78/180 


63/83 


Trifecta 500 


ICD 




55/73 


SupraDrive 500XP 


Supra 




20/24 


47/85 


133/271 


77/152 


57/77 


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Xetec 




22/26 


45/70 


119/165 


68/101 


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veloper. Benchmark-test comparisons of ten of the 
cards can be found in the accompanying sidebar. For 
informal ion on contacting the individual developers, 
consult tbe "Manufacturers'/Distributors' Addresses" 
list on p. 100. 

fM500/flttiafllOOO 

Expansion Systems 
Expansion Systems contributed two products for the 
A500 category: DataFlyer 500 and DataFIyer Express. 
DataFlyer 500 (available in three versions: SCSI only, 
1189.95; IDE only, SI 79.95; SCSI/IDE, $239.95) fea- 
tures a newly redesigned, all-metal enclosure thai 
matches the profile and contours of the A500. The 
case lacks a power-indicating LED, but it does have a 



hard-drive-activity LED. When installed, DataFlyer 
5()0's case adds nearly six inches to the overall width 
of the system. Its design is modular, which keeps down 
the initial cost by letting you add features as you need 
them. Inside the enclosure there is a single Amiga 
2000-style 100-pin expansion slot. The basic system is 
built around the DataFlyer host adapter for the A2000, 
which has both SCSI and DDE connectors. 

An optional memory board piggy-backs onto a 1 00-pin 
header on the drive interface card. The eight sockets on 
the memory board accept either 256K or 1MB SIMMs. 
The possible memory configurations are 512K, or 1, 2, 
4, or SMB. Bodi the hard-drive interface and the mem- 
ory card can be removed and installed in an Amiga 2000. 
The internal mounting plate accepts either a 3.5-inch 
half-height or 2.5-inch hard drive. An optional power i 



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supply can be installed inside the case. Connection lo ex- 
ternal SCSI peripherals is via an optional DB25 SCSI 
connector that mounts on the hack of the case. 

DataFlyer Express (also available in three versions: 
SCSI only, S275.95: II1H only, $259.95; SCSI/IDE, 
$329.95) integrates all of DataFlyer 500's expansion 
functions onto a single board. Its metal enclosure 
matches the profile and contours of the Amiga 500 
while adding less than five inches to the overall width 
of the system. The main circuit board, however, is an 
A500-only card and cannot be transplanted to an 
A2000. The top of the case has both drive-activity and 
power LEDs. Both SCSI and IDE connectors and 
cables are included with the system. 

A low-profile, 2.5- or 3.5-inch drive can be installed on 
the internal mounting bracket; half-height devices will 
not lit in the enclosure. A DB25 connector for external 
SCSI devices is mounted on the rear panel, which also 
sports an A500-compatible external power connector if 
you have a spare Amiga 500 power supply. Eight sock- 
ets accept either 256 K. or 1MB SIMM modules; possible 
memory configurations are 5 1 2K. or 1, 2, 4, 6, or 8MB. 

GYP 
GVPs A500-HD8+ ($399 with an SOMB hard drive) 
and A530 Turbo (S599 with SOMB drive and 1MB 
RAM) are housed in plastic cases that match the pro- 
file and styling of the A500 and add about 5.5 inches 
to its width when installed on the side. Underneath 
their exteriors, both are mounted on all-metal chassis 
with sufficient shielding to meet FCC requirements. In- 
side, there is space for a low-profile, 3.5-inch SCSI drive. 
An internal "mini-slot" connector accepts such CAT 
peripherals as the GY17PC286 16MHz IBM PC/AT 
emulator. Connection to external SCSI peripherals is 
via a DB25 connector on the back of the case. Both sys- 
tems come with an external "brick" type power supply. 

The internal bard drives CAT provides with these 
systems have Amiga DOS installed. The first time you 
power up vour CAT system, the (hive identifies the 
kickstari ROM in the computer and automatically con- 
figures the bard drive with that version of AmigaDOS. 

The A500-HD8 + is a combination SCSI host 
adapter and RAM expander. The four sockets on the 
main circuit board accept either] MB or 4MB SIMMs 
for a total of 2, 4, or 8MB of RAM. The sloping front 
panel of the A500-HD8+ sports a pair of power and 
drive-activity LEDs. and a game switch that disables the 
hard drive but does not afreet the expansion RAM. 

' 1 he A530 Turbo combines a S( LSI adapter. RAM ex- 
pander, and 40 MHz 68EC030 accelerator. The main 
board hasa socket For an optional 40 VII 1/. 68882 math 
coprocessor (for speeding math-intensive operations). 
Two sockets on the main board accept either 1 or 4MB 
32-bit SIMMs for totals of 1, 2. 4, or 8MB of RAM. The 
unit's sloping front panel provides three lights to indi- 
cate power, drive activity, and processor status. It also 
oilers a turbo switch, which disables the accelerator, 
hard drive, and RAM, leaving the A500 sans expansion. 

GVP units apparently can sense certain system de- 
fects and limitations and reconfigure themselves to op- 
erate at reduced performance. This is apparently what 
happened when I conducted the speed trials lor the 
A530 Turbo, which is why it is not included in the table. 
Normally, says CAT, you'll get faster speeds with the 
Turbo than with the HC8 + . 



ICD 

[CD provided two products, AdIDE 2 and Trifecta 500 
I.X, for our review. AdIDE 2 ($79.95) is probably the 
smallest Amiga hard-drive interface ever made. It is 
also the only A500 host adapter that does not plug 
onto the side of the machine.To install AdIDE 2, open 
the computer's case, remove the internal shield cover, 
and extract the 08000 processor and plug it into 
AdIDE 2. You then insert AdIDE 2 into the socket va- 
cated by the 68000. The installation violates Com- 
modore's warranty, but as A500 production has been 
discontinued, this should not be of concern. The sys- 
tem is completed by installing either a 2.5-inch or 3.5- 
inch hard drive inside the computer. 

It is possible to attach an external hard drive, bin 
you must figure out how to run the cable (remember: 
IDF, cable is limited to about two feel). Installation of 
an internal 3.5-inch drive requires the Prima Mount- 
ing Kit (S29.95), which includes ICD's Shuffle Board. 
Shuffle Board lets you replace the A500's internal 
floppy drive with a hard drive, and designates an ex- 
ternal floppy chive as dfD:. Installing an internal 2.5- 
iuch drive requires the Novia Mounting Kit 
(SI 4. 95) — a three-legged bracket that sits on the 
ASOO's motherboard. 

AdIDE 2 precludes the use of external processor re- 
placements on the expansion bus. For example, the 
system would not work with SupraTurbo 28. Internal 
processor replacements can be installed, but thev must 
be stacked atop the AdIDE 2 — thus vertical clearance 
inside the computer's case becomes a limiting factor. 
AdIDE 2 also obstructs the adjacent Kickstart ROM 
socket, which in my case necessitated removal of a 
ROM switching device. With some minor soldering, 
the A500's floppy-drive LED can be adapted to indi- 
cate hard-drive as well as lloppy-drivc activity. 

Although it is possible to install AdIDE 2 in an Ami- 
ga 2000, it was really intended for the A500. AdIDE 2 
can also be adapted for the Amiga 1000 and CDTY. 

The design of the Trifecta 500 LX ($179.95) is es- 
sentially the same as that of the Amiga 2000 version 
presented last month in Part 1. Trifecta 500 is housed 
in a plastic case with a metal chassis that matches the 
color and profile of the A500. The case is about a half- 
inch taller than the computer at its highest point Re- 
moving a single screw at (he back of the case lets you 
Hip the plastic lid and expose the main circuit board, 

The LX version I used can interlace to both SCSI 
and IDE hard drives, and 44-pin IDE and 50-pin SCSI 
connectors are provided, (Trifecta 500 EC, a lower-cost 
IDE-only version, was recently discontinued but can be 
upgraded to full LX functionality through the instal- 
lation of two chips.) There is space to mount either a 
3.5-inch or 2.5-inch hard drive directly on the board 
(an adapter cable is needed for 2,5-inch drives). The 
mounting holes extend through the underlying chas- 
sis, simplifying the installation. Trifecta 500 also has a 
single internal 100-pin expansion bus that is electri- 
cally similar to that of the Amiga 2000. Future acces- 
sories may be developed to connect to this bus. 

The system comes with its own "brick" type power 
supply. On-board jumpers let you choose between 
ci imputer power or external power. Connection to ex- 
ternal SCSI devices is via a 25-pin "D" connector on 
the back pane 1 which also sports a pair of miniature 
toggle switches that disable the hard drive and ex- 



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pansion RAM. You can add RAM toTrifecta 500 by in- 
stalling up to 16 !MBx4 ZIP chips in its sockets; pos- 
sible memory configurations are 2, 4, 6, or 8MB. 

Supra 
SupraDrive 500XP (S499.95 with a 120MB 
drive) is a combination SCSI host, adapter and RAM 
expander. The all-metal enclosure matches the color 
and profile of the A500, although it is set back about 
three inches from the front of the computer and ex- 
tends about an inch and a half behind. When installed, 
it adds about 4.5 inches to the width of the system. 

The XP provides an A500 bus-passthrough connec- 
tor for adding other peripherals to its left. The back 
panel sports a DB25 SCSI connector, a switch to dis- 
able the hard drive, and a jack for an optional exter- 
nal power supplv — although the computer itself sup- 
plied power for the unit 1 used. The right side panel 
provides miniature DIP switches for setting the SCSI 
ID for the internal drive and disabling the RAM. 

Inside SupraDrive 500XP there is space for a 3.5- 
inch, half-height drive and up to 8MB of RAM. The 
memory sockets accept either 256Kx-l or 1MBx4 
DRAM DIPs. The available (116111017 configurations are 
512K, or 1, 2, 4, or 8 MB of fast RAM. The package 
includes easy-to-use installation-and-set-up software, 
as well as a backup utility. (Systems purchased with 
bundled drives have the set-up software preinstalled.) 
When the system is powered up, it will check the com- 
puter's Kickstart ROM and then let you automatically 
modify the startup-sequence accordingly. 

Xetec 
Xetec's Fasttrak (SI 75) SCSI adapter lot the 

A500/A1000 is housed in a brick-shaped, all-metal 
enclosure 9 inches deep and 1.75 inches high; it adds 
about 3.75 inches to the width of the Amiga 500. One 
corner of the case projects above the sloping portion 
of the A500's keyboard. The basic system houses a 
SCSI adapter that is similar to Xetec's MiniFast card 
for the Amiga 2000. Fastlrack accepts the optional 
Xetec Fast Ram RAM card, which has four sockets for 
256K, or 1 or 4MB SIMMs. (Its possible memory con- 
figurations are 512K, 1, 2, 4, or SMB.) Fasttrak 5 en- 
closure leaves no room for a hard drive or other SCSI 
devices. Instead, the drive must be housed in and 
powered from a separate external enclosure. 

Fasttrak comes with Xetec's SCSI-MAC adapter, 
which is a DB25-to-50-pin ribbon cable, a six-foot 
DB25-terminated cable, and an eight-inch length of 
50-pin Hat-ribbon SCSI cable. All SCSI devices attach 
to the DB25 connector on Fasttrak's back panel, Fast- 
trak also sports a bus-pass through connector; howev- 
er, the dimensions of the opening surrounding the 
passthrough are less than Amiga standard. Some pe- 
ripherals, such as SupraTurbo 28, will not fit through 
the opening, 

The Amiga 1000 version of Fasttrak is a mirror im- 
age of the A500 version, with an attached bracket that 
elevates it to the height of the A1000 bus port. 

Xetec's set-up-and-installation software is a bit 
cumbersome, as separate utilities format and parti- 
lion the drive. When used with Kickstart 1.3, the boot 
partition must be formatted with the old file-system 
software. Fasttrak can boot from a Fast FileSy. stem 
partition when used with Kickstart 2.04. 



Editor's note: At press time, AmiTrix announced an 
option for owners of Commodore's A570 CD-ROM 
drive for the Amiga 500. SCSI-TV570 adds a SCSI in- 
terface to the A570's rear expansion port. 

nnicifl 1200 

CSA 

The CSA Twelve Gauge (from $699) is designed to of- 
fer as many basic enhancements (memory, data stor- 
age, and processing power) on a single "belly board" 
(for the ,A1200's underside expansion slot) as possible. 
Twelve Gauge achieves its high-performance density 
via a multilayer board and surface-mounted compo- 
nents on both sides of the board. The top of the 
board — the side facing up after installation — sports a 
single 72-pin SIMM socket that accepts 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 
or 32MB of 32-bit dynamic RAM. (Given Twelve 
Gauge's speed, a 60-nanosecond or faster DRAM 
SIMM is a must.) The lower side holds a 50 MHz 
68030 chip. (A lower-cost version based on the 33 MHz 
68030 is also available starling at S599.) The board I 
tested had an optional 50 MID. 68882 math co- 
processor, auloboot ROM, and 4MB of 32-bit RAM. 

Last, but not least for the purpose of this article, 
the board supplies a SCSI host adapter. It includes a 
short ribbon cable and a DB25 connector that installs 
in the knock-out port on the AI200's back panel. The 
cable and connector are small enough to thread 
through without opening the computer, and in- 
stalling Twelve Gauge's host adapter does not violate 
the computer's warranty. In the Sysinfo 3.14 bench- 
marks {sec table), the system clocked in very impres- 
sively at 7.2 times the speed of the basic Amiga 1200. 
It was, however, not nearly as fast as some other sys- 
tems I tested. CSA mentioned that customers have 
asked for faster SCSI speeds, and plans to provide an 
upgrade that, should nearly double the speeds we got 
(it may be available by the lime you read this). 

The computational power of this board generates 
substantial heat. While I have not run any long-term 
checks, I assume CSA considered Twelve Gauge's pow- 
er consumption and heat generation in designing it. 

GVP 
GVP's SCSI/RAM+ (from S249) also fits into the Ami- 
ga 1200's belly-board slot. It features a SCSI-2 host 
adapter (for an internal 2.5-inch drive), an optional 
68882 math coprocessor, and a pair of 32-bit SIMM 
sockets that accommodate up to 8MB of RAM. The 
board I tested had 4MB of 32-bit RAM, a 33 MHz 
68882 math coprocessor, and 4MB of 32-bit fast RAM. 
The possible RAM expansion options are 1, 2, 4, or 
SMB. If you use a PCMCIA RAM card (for the credit- 
card slot on the A1200's side), SCSI/RAM+ is limited 
to 4MB of 32-bit RAM. 

You can add a SCSI drive internally or externally, 
but either way, you must open the computer, which 
voids the warranty. The board comes with a 40-pin 
header and a short matching ribbon cable. If you want 
a larger, external drive, the SCSI/RAM + SCSI kit (for- 
merly optional at S60 but now bundled with the card) 
provides a longer cable and a DB25 connector that in- 
stalls in the knock-out port on the computer's rear 
panel. You must provide your own case and power 
supply for external drives. ►» 



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CONTROLLERS — 2 



Editor's Note: Two developers have announced oth- 
er drive adapters For the Al 200, but neither was avail- 
able in time for this article. Expansion Systems' 
DataFlyer 1200s is a SCSI controller for the compa- 
ny's Baseboard 1208 multifunction board (RAM, co- 
processor, and clock); the DataFlyer XDS Expansion 
Drive System will accommodate both IDE and SCSI 
devices. ICD's Viper S2. designed For use with [CD's 
Viper 12;UI accelerator/RAM/coprocessor/clock com- 
bo provides internal and external SCSI-2 connectors. 

CDW 

AmiTrix Development 
SCSI-TV (SI 50) is a compact SCSI host adapter that 
(its into the expansion port on CDTV's rear panel. 
Simply remove the port's cover plate, slide SCSI-TV 
into place, and secure the assembly using screws in- 
cluded in the package. The unit extends about two 
inches out the back of the system and includes a tog- 
gle switch to disable the host adapter. Connection to 
external SCSI devices is via a DB23 plug on the back. 
The circuit board is large enough to accommodate a 
2.5-inch drive inside the enclosure. The system pro- 
vides both a 50-pin SCSI connector and a four-pin pow- 
er jack for internal installations. An optional DT-327S 
installation kit ($16 separately; $10 when purchased at 
the same time as the adapter) includes cables and an 



adapter for the high-density connector used on 2.5- 
inch drives. To set up and format a hard drive with 
SCSI-TV, you also need an external floppy drive and a 
compatible keyboard. (A "real" mouse is also helpful.) 
Once SCSI-TV is set up, you can boot CLT1V from a 
hard drive or from its built-in CD-ROM drive. 

Recommendations 

All of these systems do the job for which they were de- 
signed. For the Amiga 500, ICD's Trifecta 500 is the 
clear winner in terms of performance; it also oilers the 
greatest expansion for the least cost. GVP's A500- 
HD8+ runs a close second in both areas, and the A530 
Turbo lets you add as much power as possible (accel- 
erator included) without (spelling the computer. 
Xetec's Fasttrak is the choice if space next to the com- 
puter is a problem, and Kit's IDE control voir want, the 
DataFlyer units give the best results. 

The two A1200 products cater to different needs; 
CSA's Twelve Gauge wins on computational prowess, 
while GVP's SCSI/RAM + runs ahead in terms or SCSI 
performance. Check your requirements and your 
pin ketbook, and. espet ially with the single-slol A I 200, 
consider future needs before you buy! ■ 

Morton A. Kevehon, an electrical engineer, is a frequent 
contributor to Amiga publications. Contact him c/o Amiga- 
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A continuing series 

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By Joel Hagen 



Adjust Your Paintings 
With Morphs 



AS TIME GOES by, I find myself using 
morphing software more and more as 
an experimental graphics laboratory. 
Rather than set-king [he literal transi- 
tion between two objects, 1 find myself 
using morphs for image development 
during the painting process. To try this 
yourself, use Imagemasier (Black Belt), 
lrnagcFX (GYP), or Morphl'lus 
(ASDG) with your own pictures and see 
if this column gives you ideas for some 
experiments. 

One technique you might try is to 
bracket a painting's form and structure 
almost as a photographer brackets an 
image with a series of different expo- 
sures A> i he pin ilographci i an then 
choose an image with preferred tones 
and values, so can the Amiga artist 
select an image from a sequence that 
has the most interesting form and 
structure. This is a process of strategic 
discover)' and planned accidents. The 
artist envisions and creates the limits to 
a form or composition, then the soft- 
ware generates intermediate variations 
from which to choose. This can be a 
fascinating collaboration and is effec- 
tive on both abstract and representa- 
tional images. 

I particularly like the results of mor- 
phing between paintings done in air- 
brush or "spatter" modes as shown in 
the accompanying illustration. The 
irregular dither in these images seems 
to lend itself to effective morphs. The 
upper inset shows the original paint- 
ing, while the lower inset reveals the 
painting that was created as a destina- 
tion limit to modify the original. The 
main idea was to explore shorter faces, 
more cat-like in nature, than the origi- 
nal. The large image that comprises 
the rest of the illustration shows a 
resulting midpoint mutation I liked 
between the two images. 

Strategic Morphing 

Remember that in this case the second 
image was painted specifically to modi- 
fy the first. In creating it, I devoted 
more strategic thinking to the face 
than to the rest of the image. I drew 
the eyes of the second painting in 



about the same screen position as those 
of the original image because eyes are 
such a focus of attention in any por- 
trait. The less they need to move dur- 
ing a morph, the crisper they remain. 
Not much attention to position was 
required in painting the remaining 
facial features, other than being aware 
of the approximate orientation of the 
figure. What you should strive to create 
in your own experiments are extreme 
features that go beyond the alteration 
you envision for your original image. 
The point of the morph is to give 
yourself incremental adjustments of 
your image — laced 1 would hope with 
some inspiring surprises. 

I set up my morph [joints at pre- 
dictable spots: eyes, nose, outline of 
mouth, chin, cheeks, and the contours 
of the face. Face contours were con- 
nected as edges to lighten the integrity 
of that transition. On the body, a few 
value details were steered toward each 
other as is evident in the distortions on 
the large image, but most of that area 
was left to simply undergo a trans- 
parency shift — letting elements of the 
second image gradually fade over 
elements of the first. Sometimes it is 
most interesting to simply see what 
happens when parts of two composi- 
tions affect each other without any real 
plan. In this image, I used a straight 
zero-to-maximum transparency curve, 
although sometimes it is useful to 
eliminate transparency transitions and 
just warp the original image toward a 
destination. 

For this experiment. I specified a 
nine-frame morph and, to save render- 
ing lime, stipulated that only frames 4, 
5, and 6 be rendered. That was the 
region of mutation that interested me. 
If you want more subtle increments of 
change, specify a 20- or 30-frame 
morph, but still render only a few 
frames from the range that interests 



48 December 1993 



Instead of morphing sheerly for the sake of the effect, make your morph 
transformations an organic part of the painting process itself. 



you. The morph is untouched for this 
illustration, but in reality it would be a 
starting point for a finished painting. I 
like the basic change in the face and 
what happened around the ears. The 
scraggiy teeth were a nice surprise and 
are ripe for minor enhancement. The 
detail in the body area suggests a new 
direction that would never have oc- 
curred to me without the planned 
accidents of the morph. 

Further Experimentation 

Another experiment you might try is to 
morph between a photograph and a 
painting or drawing. I have had some 
real success scanning a photographic 
porcrait and a charcoal drawing of a 
face and following the same morph 
procedure mentioned above. With a 
zero-to-maximum transparency curve, 
there are frames in the middle of a 
sequence that have a very unusual 
quality, somewhat realistic yet retaining 
the character and simplification of the 
charcoal drawing. I would say the most 
successful of these are in grayscale or 
some other monochromatic palette. All 
three morph programs function well in 
24-bit color space, but I find that color 
can sometimes create distracting areas 
in morphs of this sort that do not 
appear in grayscale. 

I also created a "generic" charcoal 
face and am currently experimenting 
with morphing it to a variety of photo- 
graphic portraits. My success rate so 
far is about 50-50 in terms of what 1 
consider to be interesting results. 
Another experiment I am trying in- 
volves a hill screen of random gray 
noise, a homogenous dither of pixels 
of all values. This is then warped to- 
ward the features in a photograph. I 
am having only limited success with 
this one, but some results are tantaliz- 
ing enough that I am not giving up on 
the concept. There are so many ways 
that origin points can be organized on 
a variety of homogenous planes that I 
don't want to quit until I have exhaust- 




Morphing software was used to strategically create an image Intermediate between 
the two paintings shown in the small insets. 



ed my ideas. I am beginning to try 
random clumps of values rather than 
uniform homogeneity in the source 
screen. This follows the cluster theory 
of probability and may be a better 
starting point. Perhaps you will have 
greater success, seeing lines of thought 
that have eluded me. 

In any event, I am continually drawn 
to these wonderful morphing pro- 
grams as creative tools of exploration 
and discovery. 11' you haven't tried 
them yet, I strongly recommend that 
you add them to your set of graphics 



tools. Set aside any preconceptions 
about morphs and experiment. ■ 

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




AmigaWorld 49 




Making Your 
Toaster Cook- 1 

Toaster-specific products can make your hot video board 
even hotter... and they're in abundant supply. 



By Paulo de Andrade 



ITS TRUE, NEWTEK'S Video Toaster 
has revolutionized video. But the 
Toaster by itself is not a solution to all 
problems, and so a market has grown 
up around NewTek's card. There are 
all manner of products that happen to 
work well with the Toaster, but some 
are designed specifically to improve 
the card's performance. We've rounded 
up a few such products and, for the 
next two months, will discuss how they 
can help you. 

Next month we'll examine hardware 
and hardware/software combination 
products designed for use with the 
Toaster. But we'll start things off now 
by looking at some Toaster software 
utilities. These are programs that offer 
better image manipulation, better 
character generation, more effects, 
better organization, professional- 
quality audio, and more. 

AD516 Toaster handler 

S249, SunRize Industries 
SunRize's AD51G board and Studio 16 
software does for audio what the Toast- 
er does for video. It allows you to 
record and play up to eight CD-quality 
audio tracks directly to and from your 
Amiga's hard disk. And the board's 
SMPTE interface lets you sync your 
soundtrack to your video precisely. It 
also lets you mix down all eight tracks 
into two for stereo sound. 

To integrate this system with the 
Toaster, SunRize released the AD516 
Toaster Handler. It enables you to sync 
Toaster transitions to the board's au- 
dio. The only problem is that the 
Toaster software takes over the Amiga, 
thereby limiting audio playback to two 
simultaneous tracks. You can overcome 



this by mixing multiple tracks into two 
in advance or by doing more complex 
audio work after the video edits. 

Another interesting use for this 
handler is in automated cable TV situa- 
tions, where a Toaster is used to dis- 
play Framestores while Studio 16 plays 
music. I recommend this setup to any- 
one who is serious about audio and 
suffers limitations imposed by a \TR's 
limited audio channels. 

Art Department Pro 2.3 
S295, ASDG 
The familiar Art Department Profes- 
sional is better than ever now that it 
can load and save Framestores. This 
allows you to easily manipulate Toaster 
images using any of AD Pro's operators. 
It also lets you convert between several 
file formats. 

But the Toaster fun doesn't stop 
there. You can grab an image using the 
Toaster directly from ADPro, manipu- 
late it, and then send it back. Or you 
can simply display an image directly on 
the Toaster's framebuffers. This fea- 
ture is particularly useful because it lets 
you conserve space by saving F'rame- 
stores as JPEG files. Then, when you 
need to use the images again, just use 
ADPro to load the JPEG files and send 
them directly to the framebuffers. 

Alto Pain i 
S89,95 (J 4+ Development 

This program works in conjunction 
with Toaster Paint to let you create 
nice pages with beveled boxes of vari- 
ous shapes, with or without shadows. 
Each box can have an image, and the 
background can also be a separate 
screen. Auto Paint comes with several 



teni plates to help you create that fancy 
look you have been wanting for your 
CG pages. 

A+ Development also includes a few 
utilities: Frame Management lets you 
delete and renumber Framestores, while 
Flash Directories lets you assign keys Fl 
to F5 to different directories so you can 
easily find the Framestore you need. 

Montage 

S499.95, InnoVision Technologies 
If you want your character-generator 
pages to look like those you see on TV, 
look no further. Montage is by far the 
best looking CG for the Amiga. It uses 
scalable fonts, multiple transparency 
levels, positionable text blocks, several 
colors and text attributes per line, and 
an amazing one-nanosecond font reso- 
lution. Even if you are using the Toast- 
er's new CG (Toaster 3.0/4000), you 
will find Montage superior. It even 
comes with software drivers that im- 
prove the Toaster's output. Its text 
scroll is very smooth, and you can 
easily import or export text to or from 
any word processor. 

When Montage is installed, a new 
button appears on the Toaster switcher 
screen. Clicking it transports you di- 
rectly to Montage's CG screen. Unlike 
the Toaster CG, you work in color with 
Montage, doing away with guesswork; 
you don't need to preview as often to 
find out what the pages will look like. 
Montage has several great features, 
including embossed and beveled text 
and soft shadows. You can also assign 
text attributes to function keys for easy 
recall. 

I would like to be able to completely 
replace the Toaster CG with Montage, 



SO December 1993 



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The fastest and easiest-to-use morphing program 
you will find. Includes high end features found 
in expensive systems-without the Rolls Royce 
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to set up with fast, accurate rendering. 

MSRP $99.95 




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Video Enthusiasts call Crouton Tools 4000 "The Easy- 
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Video Toaster was once a complex task. 
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but unfortunately I cannot. Montage 
lacks features that even earlier versions 
of the Toaster CG have, such as text 
crawl and the ability to rotate text. 
These abilities would make Montage 
absolutely perfect for the Toaster, but 
even as it is, nothing on the Amiga 
compares in quality. 

The Toaster Toolkit 2.0 

SI 79.95, The Byte Factory/DevWare 
This excellent utilities package offers 
features similar to those of ASDG's 
T-Rexx. One I particularly like is 
MacroFX, which lets you run an Ami- 
ga program or a script by clicking on 
a Toaster Crouton, 

The Toaster Toolkit is an indispens- 
able tool for an}' serious Toaster user. 

T-Rexx Professional 2 
$249, ASDG 

This amazing package allows you to do 
so man)' things that you wonder how- 
you managed without it. 

ASDG divided the software into 
several modules, according to function. 
The T-Rexx Pro module lets vou cre- 



ate presentations that run automatic- 
ally, similar to what can be done with 
The Deli. Framestore FM catalogs your 
Framestores and displays them in 
thumbnail format on either the Amiga 
screen or the Toaster's framebuffers. It 
also enables you to compress Frame- 



"The Toaster by Itself 

is not a solution to 

all problems." 



stores to save valuable hard-disk space. 

A Project Editor lets you create your 
own effects banks, so you can discard 
the effects you never use or create 
banks of those you use most frequently, 
Other modules do things like create 
custom Toaster wipes, convert Frame- 
stores to IFFs and vice versa, and orga- 
nize Toaster files in a variety of ways. 

This program is another must for 
serious Toaster producers. 



While this is a good sampling of 
Toaster-specific utility programs, there 
are more on the way. For instance, 
DevWare is promising a system called 
The Scene Machine, comprising sever- 
al modules that offer various Toaster 
utilities. The first module, Crouton 
Tools (S79.95), allows you to integrate 
such programs as .AD Pro, Bars&Pipes 
Pro, ImageFX, and AmiLink and Per- 
sonal SFC software into your Toaster's 
working environment, where you can 
activate them with a mouse click. Fu- 
ture modules will let you create story- 
boards, log tapes, and so on. 

Although Byrd's Eye Software has 
discontinued its ToastMaster product, 
that company, too, promises new 
Toaster utilities. Toaster F/X and 
Toaster Vision should be shipping by 
the time you read this. 

Come on back next month to discov- 
er other products that can make your 
Toaster productions cook! ■ 

Paulo de Andrade is president of Kinema 
Graphics, an Amiga-based broadcast-video 
aiid 3-D animation company in Seattle. 



R E V I E W S Fromp.23. 

CygnusEd 
Professional 3.5 

ASDG,$-\ 19,95; upgrade from V3: S35 
Hard-drive installable. 
Not copy protected. 
1.3/2.0/3. 0/AGA compatible. 
Accelerator compatible. 
Minimum system: 512K RAM. 
Recommended system: 512K RAM. 



Powerful, option-laden text editor 



Even the lousiest text editor is like a 
cashmere sweater when compared to 
the typist's equivalent of a hairshirt — an 
old Underwood typewriter. Bui while 
that old manual clacker is no match lot- 
its computer-driven offspring, neither 
are all text editors created equal. The 
best are borderline word processors that 
let you concentrate on your writing, not 
what you're writing with. The worst are 
saddled with obscure UNIX-like com- 
mands or the sluggishness and quirks of 
AmigaDOS's Ed text editor. ASDG's lat- 
est solution is CygnusED Professional 
(CEDPro) 3.5. This text editor packs the 
power, speed, and flexibility that writ- 



ers, programmers, and hobbyists alike 
will appreciate. 

A Constellation Revised 

CEDPro has long been a favorite with 
Amiga programmers, and its latest ver- 
sion doesn't feel like an old program 
with new features slapped on top. Al- 
though it's still compatible with Amiga- 
DOS 1.3, it now sports slick 2.0/3.0 fea- 
tures such as public screens, standard file 
and font requesters, and full support for 
both ECS and AGA screen modes. 

Setup is a snap, thanks to ASDG's use 
of a standard CBM Installer program. 
CEDPro consists of four programs: CED, 
the editor itself; Ed, a tiny program that 
loads or activates CED; MetaMac, a new 
CED macro editor; and RecoverCED- 
Files, a disaster-recover)' utility. 

CEDPro's biggest advantage has al- 
ways been speed, and the new features in 
version 3.5 make it dramatically faster 
than any text editor I've tried on any 
platform. Custom blitter-based screen- 
scrolling routines let you whisk through 
your documents even on unaccelerated 
machines. CEDPro took only five sec- 
onds to replace 28,600 occurrences of a 
string in a 400K file on an A4000/040, By 
comparison, Oxxi's TurboText took 25 
seconds, and the AmigaDOS 3.0 version 
of Ed took almost 13 minutes! 

The Search mechanism has a new his- 




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tory feature that lets the cursor keys 
move through a list of 20 previous 
search-and-replace strings — no more re- 
typing of complicated expressions. You 
can use wildcards in your searches and 
select case- and whole-word-sensitive 
searches. You can even paste the clip- 
board contents into the Search buffer, 
effectively avoiding even more typing. 

Safety Net 

CEDPro's automatic timed-save feature 
makes it hard to lose important work. 
Whereas previous versions made you 
acknowledge a requester at save lime, 
this feature is now truly automatic. 



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CEDPro now performs safe saves, where 
the original file isn't deleted until the 
new version is safely on disk. CEDPro 
can automatically keep a backup of your 
previous version, although it won't keep 
multiple levels of backups, a feature 
many programmers find handy if they 
need to examine a section of code from 
six saves ago. 

If your system crashes before you save 
a file, the RecoverCEDFiles utility 
searches through memory for lost text 
and allows you to save it to disk. CEDPro 
also protects you from your own mis- 
takes — a size-adjustable L'ndo buffer lets 
you perform hundreds of Undo opera- 
tions, memory permitting. 

CEDPro has both recordable macros 
and ARexx support. Unlike previous re- 
leases, you can edit recorded macros us- 
ing the new MetaMac utility. You can 
also now automate requester entries, so 
your macros won't grind to a halt when 
a search requester pops up. ARexx sup- 
port has been beefed up with new com- 
mands and an easier-to-use Status facil- 
ity, and compatibility with macros 
milieu for previous releases is excellem. 
so you won't have any trouble using the 
vast array of earlier macros. Most com- 
pilers, such as SAS/C 6. 1 , include ARexx 
macros for interfacing with CEDPro. 

When vou load a file with an extension 
(.c or .doc, for example), CEDPro 
searches for a configuration file with that 
extension. This makes it easy to have dif- 
ferent sets of macros and screen config- 
urations for various programming lan- 
guages or editing jobs. You can have 
many different configuration files active 
simultaneously. 

CEDPro allows you to open multiple 
views on one document, or open up to 
30 documents in each running copy. 
Support for the 2. 1/3.0 ScreenModes re- 
quester means ECS and AGA owners can 
use modes like SuperHires or Super72 
for larger views. And CEDPro 3.5 not 
only can make its own screen public, btit 
it can open on — or move to — any other 
public screen as well. 

Among other improvements are sys- 
tem clipboard support, localization 
(English and German, so far), Amiga- 
DOS wildcard support when loading 
files, the ability to match C language 
comment delimiters along with other 
brackets, and better conformance to the 
Amiga User Interface Style Guide. And 
you gel all this is in addition to the fea- 
tures that made earlier versions of CED 
popular, such as easy mouse-based 
screen scrolling, freeform layout modes, 
powerful block and column operations, 
one of the most complete manuals 
around, and the ability to leave CEDPro 



in memory for instant activation with a 
hot-key. 

Polished Product 

Finding fault with this program isn't 
easy, but the Ed activator utility should 
have a different name so that it doesn't 
overwrite the system-standard Ed editor, 
whicb you may want to keep around. Al- 
though the keyboard equivalents are 
more Style Guide-compliant this time 
around, some remain nonstandard 
(Aniiga-S is almost always Save in Ami- 
ga applications, but here it's Search). 
And there is no file requester for choos- 
ing individual ARexx macros. 

These are minor complaints, however. 
CEDPro has always been a very good 
text editor. Release 3.5 is nearly the per- 
fect expression of what a text editor 
should be, and should make even the 
most demanding writers and program- 
mers happy. 

— Denny Atkin 



TVPaint 2.0 

Professional 

Distributed by MacroSystems US; SS99.9S 
(Retina version); S799.95 (Multiple version) 

A2000, A3000, A4O00. 

2.0/3.0 compatible. 

Hard-drive installable. 

Not copy protected. 

Accelerator compatible. 

Minimum system: 24-bit graphics 
board. VGA monitor, accelerator, 
8MB RAM. 

Recommended system: Same as mini- 
mum system. 

Installation: Moderately easy. 



Paint program with 24-bit graphics 
support. 



Amiga standard graphics reigned 
supreme until PC-compatible mak- 
ers released 256-color VGA graphics. 
Caught unaware, it took Amiga devel- 
opers a few years to produce a multitude 
of highly functional 24-bit Amiga graph- 
ics boards. But powerful graphics hard- 
ware is nothing without powerful soft- 
ware, so that was the next step in 
restoring the Amiga's position as leader 
of the graphics pack. TVPaint is the lat- 
est entry in a new breed of 24-bit paint 
programs. 

Color TV 

TVPaint Professional 2.0 is a versatile 
package designed for use with a variety 



of display cards. It works with the Reti- 
na (MacroSystems), AVideo (INOVA- 
tronics), Resolver (DMI), Harlequin 
(ACS / Haitex), Impact Vision 24 (GVP), 
Rambrandt (Progressive Peripherals), 
and Visiona (MicroPace) boards. It can 
even be used in conjunction with 
NewTek's Video Toaster. Distributed by 
MacroSystems US, it's no accident that 
TVPaint makes that company's 24-bit 
Retina card shine, as it easily creates 
breathtaking graphics on the Retina in 
16 million colors. 

This feature-rich, genuinely non-stan- 
dard paint environment loads and saves 
24-bit images in a variety of formats, in- 
cluding JPEG and Delta compression, 
and uncompressed formats such as 
ILBM, ILBM12, Targa, and Caligari's 
Rendition format. It also takes advan- 
tage of all the screen resolutions avail- 
able to the 24-bit board on which it is 
running, from lo-res 320x200 to hi-res 
800x600, 1024x786, and 1280x1024. 
It'll even reach 2400x1200, the resolu- 
tion at which the Retina I tested it on bit 
the stops. A so-called Big Edit feature 
lets you work on images far too large to 
fit on screen or in RAM by retrieving 
portions of the image from the hard 
chive as you move around the image. 

All the standard paint features are 
present and accounted for, including 
freehand mode and tools for lines, 
splines, curves, ellipses, polygons, air- 
brushes, and fills. Also available are mag- 
nification, brushes, grids, spare page, 
undo, masking, full palette control, col- 
or ranging and cycling, fonts, perspec- 
tive, and keyboard shortcuts. 

In addition to the basic coloring 
mode, TVPaint provides a full range of 
standard 24-bit paint-manipulation 
modes such as stamp, smooth, blur, 
smear, shift, shade, light, transparency, 
colorize, impress, and grain. The im- 
press mode creates strange, impression- 
istic effects by lifting portions of the im- 
age on the spare page into the graphic. 
Grain adds texturing and gives a feel of 
solidity to "3-D desperately clean im- 
ages," as the manual puts it. The air- 
brush, chalk, and pencil add a range of 
routines that begin to move computer 
art a little closer to traditional art media. 

Pajnt Mixing 

Four basic palettes come with TVPaint, 
including one composed of non-saturat- 
ed colors for video work. You can save 
and load your own palettes or create new 
ones by mixing colors — -just like real 
paint. Unfortunately, there's only one 
user interlace to access the color-mixing 
process. Having the full range of TV- 
Paint tools to mix the colors would be i 



54 December 1993 




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nice. Adding those mixed colors to the 
main palette is a tedious process, as you 
must add each color by hand. Painting 
with a color chosen directly from the 
mixture is an inefficient two-step process 
that involves pressing the right mouse 
on the current color indicator before you 
can select the new color from the mix. 
You should be able to grab a color from 
the mix with a single click.. 

TVPaint also provides a slew of special 
features, including automatic, real-time 




TVPaint brings the power of 24-bit 
painting to the Amiga. 

antialiasing. There's support for pens, 
pressure-sensitive tablets, and the popu- 
lar three-button mouse. You'll find con- 
volution filters for image-processing 
functions, density settings, Redo, ARexx 
automation, and digitizer connection. 

The antialiasing (lawlessly smooths art 
and fonts on the fly. The density settings 
provide a range of powerful, extraordi- 
nary (ills and put the power of those 16 
million colors solidly in the user's hands. 
Like a more versatile Undo command, 
Redo lets you try the same structures 
over and over with slightly different 
modifications. 

Boosting all this power is a solid 
ARexx implementation. You can auto- 
mate the art functions and literally build 
new ones with the existing tools through 
ARexx scripts. The samples included are 
a lot of fun. (Press Shift-Fl to see TV- 
Paint draw its own logo.) It's important 
to note that while other computer plat- 
forms often don't even let users add sim- 
ple macros to their art programs in or- 
der to automate common chores, Amiga 
users have access to a standardized, flex- 
ible, full-featured language that dynam- 
ically [inks with other programs running 
simultaneously. Now that's power. 

The links to digitizers are very conve- 
nient, as they allow TVPaint to grab im- 
ages directly from the video source. This 
feature works with the Impact Vision 24 
and the Rambrandt boards, as well as 
with MacroSystem's VLab. 



Further securing TVPaint's place in 
the video studio is yet another special 
feature. TVPaint is actually more than a 
24-bit paint program — it's really a 32- 
bit program. In addition to 24 bits of 
color per pixel, TVPaint adds an addi- 
tional eight bits for the video Alpha 
channel. This allows the user to bring a 
video source into the 24-bit image, 
antialias the two together, and set trans- 
parency effects. 

Awakens the Artist 

Computer painting with millions of col- 
ors is no less a revelation to me now than 
was the original 32-color DPaint. Smear- 
ing, shifting, and smoothing all those 
colors is a lot like working with the real 
thing. Smears with an oily vibrance, 
blends that resemble water colors, and 
layers of precise airbrushing are there 
for the taking. However, the most strik- 
ing aspect of TVPaint isn't the lush col- 
or, nor the micro-fine resolution; rather, 
it's the smooth, responsive speed and 
brisk movement of the tools. Complex 
operations in TVPaint bog clown a bit, 
but most respond with a strong sense of 
immediacy. 

In keeping with its focus on artists, 
TVPaint supplements its numeric Pref- 
erences settings with interactive graphic 
settings. It's easier and more intuitive to 
set the density or airbrush pressure by 
tracing a curve with the mouse than it is 
with numbers. 

TVPaint is hard-drive installable and 
multitasks nicely, although on a Retina 
you need to press a different key se- 
quence to bring it up. Despite the fact 
that the package is imported, the man- 
ual is authoritative and useful, clearly ex- 
plaining most of the technical informa- 
tion and even including specific 
instructions for each display board. It 
could benefit from more comprehensive 
tutorials, but it covers the program well. 

Painted into a Corner 

TVPaint does have a few nuisance as- 
pects: For starters, the program bypass- 
es Intuition and puts its file requesters 
on a separate screen. In higher resolu- 
tions, the controls and icons become tiny 
on a 13-inch monitor, although they're 
still usable. More tools that replicate nat- 
ural media, such as textured surfaces, 
would be nice. Some of these can be con- 
structed from tool combinations, but 
they are not available at a click on an 
artist-friendly icon. 

The worst feature of TVPaint is its joy- 
stick-port dongle. If you misplace the 
tiny piece of copy-protection plastic, 
you're done for the day. It also precludes 
running TVPaint with other dongle- 



protected software (Scala Multimedia 
200 and Digital Creation's Brilliance, to 
name but two). Fortunately, you can get 
a joystick-port Y-spIitter dongle from the 
manufacturer. 

Dongle or not, die combination of TV- 
Paint and a good 24-bit graphics card 
puts the Amiga squarely back into the 
graphics game, and at a price that can't 
be beat by any comparable clone. 

— Daniel Greenberg 



LlGHTWORKS 

Graphics 
Synthesizer 

Euphonies, S599.95 
All non-AGA Amigas. 
Parallel port connector. 
Hard-disk installable. 
Not copy protected, but requires use 

of included GS-100 control box. 
1.3/2.0/3.0 compatible (AGA version 

due late 1993). 
Accelerator compatible. 
Minimum system: 2MB RAM. 
Recommended system: 2MB chip 

RAM, 68030 or 68040 accelerator. 
Installation: Easy. 



Hardware and software for real-time 
graphics manipulation. 



It's time once again to break down and 
buy some love beads and bellbottoms, 
as the Sixties are back, courtesy of 
Euphonies and its Lightworks Graphics 
Synthesizer. With the intimidating label 
of an "integrated, interactive computer 
graphics performance tool," Lightworks 
can input computer, MIDI, and audio 
signals and output colorful, changing 
graphics in return. Just think of the di- 
mensions that flexibility would have 
added to the light shows of long-ago 
rock concerts at the Fillmore in San 
Francisco and the Grande Ballroom in 
Detroit. Lightworks is nebulous, but 
then, so were the Sixties. 

The Ten Percenter's Club 

When I first examined Lightworks, the 
Summer of Love didn't spring to mind. 
In front of me sat a software and hard- 
ware package that swapped screen 
palettes and performed screen wipes on 
the fly. Big deal. According to the Eu- 
phonies staff, my reaction to the product 
was in line with nine out of ten Amiga 
users. It's that tenth person that sits in 
the sights of Euphonies' marketing 
gun — the multimedia performer seek- 
Continued oi> p. 73. 



56 December 1993 



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The core unit of the modular OpalVision 
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Consistently rated the best image 
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SCANNER ACCESSORIES 
ASDG HP1IC SCAN DRVR 134.95 
EPSON SCNR DOC FEED 499.00 



Color Scanners 

High quality flatbed scanners 
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ES-600 C • 24-bit, 300 dpi 
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Highly popular page layout 
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400 dpi black and white hand 
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Drawing Tablets 

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Truly integrated 
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Buy PageStream 2.2 now and get 
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PageStream 3.0 has over 1 000 new feature}, including 
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• Works on oil Amigai 

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• Perfect monitor For OPALVI5IQN! 

• Available in short or long persistence 



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Professional 

If you are considering an Amiga special effects 
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From p. 56. 

ing a new means of expression. Display- 
ing and controlling graphics driven by 
the beat oflive music is the most visible 
aspect of Lightworks' capabilities. 

Lightworks accepts MIDI signals and 
audio frequency-level input as continu- 
ous controllers for presentations. If 
you're hoping Lightworks breaks entire- 
ly new ground in graphic arts, you may 
be disappointed. It doesn't allow artists 
to generate graphics; instead, it allows 
for creative real-time control and ma- 
nipulation of previously created images. 




Command performance with Lightworks. 

The package lets computer artists con- 
trol graphics the way nightclub equip- 
ment gives DJs powerful, real-time con- 
trol of music. There's nothing here that 
can't be duplicated with a good multi- 
media authoring system. The big differ- 
ence is that Lightworks requires no pre- 
vious experience or mastering of com- 
plex programming and procedures, and 
it lets you do it live. While Bars&Pipes 
Pro 2.0 (Blue Ribbon), for one, does let 
you perform some of these effects live 
using its Media Madness module and a 
MIDI keyboard, it's not as versatile. 

Lightworks lets you control specific as- 
pects of a non-HAM IFF file and its pre- 
sentation. Control, as it's used here, im- 
plies manipulating graphics images and 
their associated presentation parameters 
(color, luminance, wipes, and fades, to 
name a few) in real time, much as a mu- 
sician controls pitch, timbre, and vol- 
ume. A bank of manually-controlled slid- 
ers on the included GS-100 controller 
box, plus stereo audio input, constitute 
the hardware side of things. You input 
signals via the mouse or keyboard, or you 
can route audio from a stereo system or 
microphone, or even send MIDI events 
or continuous controller messages. 

Cause and Effect 

Lightworks weaves its magic through 
user-wTitten scripts, needed for all func- 
tions. Its fully menu-driven, English- 



based scripting language coordinates all 
aspects of a performance. Further ex- 
panding its versatility, you can trigger 
scripts from within other scripts. De- 
signing a large, complicated perfor- 
mance using small scripts is far easier 
than creating a single ungainly file. Even 
nonprogrammers can create Lightworks 
scripts using simple English-type com- 
mands. Scripts contain three compo- 
nents; Cause, Effect, and a Controller. A 
sample script might appear as: 

Display Picture "Motif, iff' 
When Amiga spacebar is pressed 
With wipe time fixed at .667 seconds 

Causes include information from the 
keyboard, audio, or MIDI input. Effects 
entail procedures such as displaying pic- 
tures, manipulating palettes, starting an- 
other script, or any other function Light- 
works can perform. Controllers include 
the mouse, MIDI input, sliders on the 
GS-100 box, and audio signals. You can 
test scripts at any time to view the effects 
you are creating. 

You can work with a whole IFF file or 
combine portions of pictures using mul- 
tiple wipes and fades. There are two 
palettes in Lightworks, a main palette 
and a second palette, both of which you 
can edit and save with the Palette Editor. 
Most of the controls in the Palette Edi- 
tor will be familiar to users of Amiga 
paint programs. 

You can use timers to control all 
events of a script or just a few repeating 
commands while you control other 
events in real time. You may specify 
times from I/30th of a second to a delay 
interval of 192 hours, and you can loop 
a timer by making it both the Cause and 
Effect in a command. 

Signals are a type of macro in Light- 
works. If you set F 1 as the trigger for 
half a dozen events and decide you'd 
rather have F2 as the trigger, you'd have 
to edit half a dozen entries. However, if 
you assigned the six events to Signal A, 
then you'd only have to edit the line 
"Send Signal A when Amiga Fl key is 
pressed." This lets you create expansive 
modular scripts that actually comprise 
many small, linked scripts. 

Read and Heed 

All other software and hardware manu- 
facturers could learn something from 
the Lightworks manual, for it is one of 
the best I've seen. You'll find well-pre- 
sented material and tutorials that leave 
nothing to chance. That's good, for the 
current version of Lightworks provides 
no easy way to set up the tutorial or oth- 
er data files on your hard drive. You'll 



need to create directories for scripts, 
palettes and pictures on your own, and 
then set up the appropriate ASSIGN 
commands for the OS to recognize the 
program. As expected, Lightworks is a 
heavyweight program that slows down 
requester displays and most other oper- 
ations when multitasking. My A3000 
even ground to a halt several times when 
WordPerfect ran in the background, al- 
though no error messages appeared. 

Euphonies does not recommend mul- 
titasking in real-time performances in 
any case, and for good reason. I invoked 
error messages regularly when I tried to 
load other programs through hot-keys 
defined with MachrV while Lightworks 
attempted to run a script. Warnings 
aside, the program's domination of the 
OS is acceptable, albeit a little unsettling, 
since Euphonies has aimed Lightworks 
at an ill-defined market, where a "techie" 
might not necessarily be an expert in the 
computer field. There'll be no shortage 
of disgruntled users if Lightworks insists 
on crashing in multitasking midstream. 

Artists interested in new fields of art 
will find Lightworks to be a do-anything 
box. At its list price of roughly S600, it 
is meant as a serious tool and not aimed 
at the casual user. If, however, a multi- 
media presentation or performance lies 
in your future, Lightworks should be 
your jumping-off point, regardless of 
your skill level or area of expertise. 

— Rick Manasa 



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Tf nothing else, successive incarnations 
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a company to buck the trend, Personal 
Video Wizards recently released "The 
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The array of Toaster products already 
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kit and T-Rexx Pro, which allow you to 



AmigaWorld 73 



R E V 1 E V S 



create scripts that execute a series of 
Toaster moves automatically. By taking 
an approach that differs slightly from 
existing products, PVW has positioned 
The Deli to become the product of 
choice for those seeking a simple way to 
display a series of framestores. 

Those familiar with Toaster se- 
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buttons for each of the Toaster's ARexx 
commands. While selecting a button is 
more convenient than typing commands, 
you still must perform a series of steps in 



order to display a framestore picture 
from within a script. The process typi- 
cally entails selecting an unused digital- 
video buffer on the Preview bus, loading 
the framestore into that buffer, selecting 
an effect and speed, performing the ef- 
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The Deli makes life with your Toaster 
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such, there's the usual assortment of bugs 
and anomalies. For example, the font- 
conversion utility looks for the ToastFont 
program in the wrong directory, and the 
utility would not work until I had moved 
the ToastFont program into the YT: di- 
rectoiy. Also, a guru appeared once when 
I tried to use the Freeze function, while at 
other times that function worked fine. On 
the whole, however, these problems were 
not serious, and should be Fixed soon 
{send in those registration cards, folks). 

I was also somewhat disappointed by 
the manual, which is written as a 
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TALK ABOUT A long gap be- 
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heritage and graphic beauty than to any real strength of char- 
acter. The pictures and animations were delightful; they al- 
tered forever our concept of what a computer game could look 
like. No longer a blocky toy. ibis was a virtual art gallery. 

The game itself., .ah, well, there really wasn't much to it. At 
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attached action sequences were either too easy (swordfighting 
and running the siege catapult) or far too difficult (jousting). 

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(CDTV Publishing, $39.95)— from title screen to tournament 
trumpeters to castle in peril. Sachs, who assembled the entire 
project himself under The Director 2, indicates that only about 
a half-dozen new screens were added — as well as some 
trimmed from the original game to squeeze DOC onto two 
disks. (The sideways view of the charger that accompanies this 
review, for instance, is new; Sachs also modeled the new ver- 




One of several new screens in Defender of the Crown II. 

sion of Robin Hood in this game on himself.) 

This may give the impression that DOC II isn't exactly a new 
game, and that's true; it's closer to a "director's cut" of the orig- 
inal DOC that repairs the obvious weaknesses, gives the game 
engine more muscle, and takes advantage of CD storage. 
(Note: While it's not an AGA game, it runs line on the CD32 
and the code has been optimized to take advantage of the 
speed of that machine's '020 processor.) 

DOC II occupies about 150 megabytes on CD — much of it 
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MusicX) and digitized readings, in five languages, of about half 
the game's 1 pages of text. It's very professionally done — the 
English-language reading is the work of a Shakespearean ac- 



Indiana Jones and The 
Fate of Atlantis 

As a German colonel must have 
said to Indiana Jones in a sinister ac- 
cent at some point, "Mein gut dok- 
tor, I've afraid ve haf had a slight 
shange of plannn..." It seems the 
Nazis have stolen AW's Christmas 
game-cheats column, and are plan- 
ning to use it in an attempt to find 
Atlantis. (All those type-in codes, 
y'see.l The interests of saving the 
free world, and using up AW's sup- 
ply of blue ink, demand that we stick 
with Indiana Jones [LucasArts] for 
at least another month. 

Last time, we'd just wrapped 



CRIB NOTES 



things up in Monte Carlo by acquir- 
ing the Sunstone. That allows Indy 
to move on to the Greek island of 
Thera, where he's looking . . . well, re- 
ally just for a way to get oil the 
Greek island of Thera, which is only 
a waystation. It doesn't look good, 
though: The portmaster says there 
will be no boats or planes for a 
week, and that, for the time being, is 
where his helpfulness ends. 

You should be able to find an al- 
ternative mode ol tranportation by 
poking around the crates toward the 



middle ol the dock — by balloon! — 
but the portly Fellow wants an in- 
voice first and won't surrender the 
big basket over by his shop without 
a souvenir from the dig in the moun- 
tains. (However, you can nail the 
fishnet hanging to the right of the 
shop without interference, so grab 
that at your leisure.) 

Well, there was a dig in the moun- 
tains — some rather Monkey Island- 
ish business getting there, too — but, 
as in Algiers, it's abandoned. Very 
convenient for you, as you can go 



picking things up with impunity. Start 
with the invoice, which is on the lid 
of the empty crate outside the dig 
(which you'll have to close), and the 
entrenching tool inside. Naturally, 
your arrival sets off a cave-in, and 
opening the tool to dig your way out 
reveals a note from — who else? — 
Sophia, who's managed to get her- 
self kidnapped by the Nazis and is be- 
ing packed off on a U-boat down at 
the boondocks. (Hey, 1 thought there 
were no boats for a week I) 

You probably want to race after 
her — but in what. Dr. Jones? You'll 
need a basket for your balloon, and 
you still haven't retrieved an appro- 



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t or — an d lends a good deal to the game's sense of theatre, 
along with things like the splendid silhouette of a galloping 
horse inserted between scenes. 

Of course, we'd expect these things from an artist, but the dif- 
ferences here are more than cosmetic. Now, says Sachs, "it's a 
pretty deep game. It's like chess. There's a lot going on behind 
the scenes that people who just jump in don't know about." 

For one thing, in this version, you're no longer trying to be- 
come king yourself, but to raise £20,000 to ransom the im- 
prisoned once and future King Richard — a more noble (and 
not insignifcant) task. The catapult can now fire two sizes of 
boulders and firepots — the latter with an impact on enemy 
morale (also a new concept). (Unfortunately, the catapult's ini- 
tial setting for each type of boulder is identical from use to use.) 
The raid and rescue sequence has been made notablv 
tougher — there's a method to the swordplay noiv — and the 
tip of your lance no longer dances crazily as it approaches 
your foe's shield in the joust. 

You can have the option to let your advisors control your re- 
sources — they're a stingy lot — and the game now incorporates 
concepts of spying, castle guards (in addition to the knights 
and soldiers, and the buying and selling of land. And just in 
case you wondered, 12th century England frowns on the prac- 
tice of selling land and then marching in your army and tak- 
ing it back by main force. 

It's much more fun to play, and considerably tougher. (I had 
to straggle with the game for better than a week to muster 
more than £10,000.) Sachs promises that those who do per- 
severe the game with be rewarded with a spectacular conclu- 
sion. That's unusual in itself— most games are "you're done, 
get out, goodbye" — but then this is an unusual story. 

Nice to have you back, Jim, Any chance of finishing up 
"20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"? 

Continued on j).S8. 



CRIB NOTES 



From p. 80. 

priate souvenir for the portmaster. 
You're not alone; a number of peo- 
ple found this tricky, Cfose the door 
at the far left side of the dig, and a 
little compartment will open up to 
the right of the door. Insert the sun- 
stone, and then look at it. 

Hey, it looks almost like the 
game's copy-protection scheme I But 
what's the right setting? Like so 
many other things, it's in — all to- 
gether now— Plato's Lost Dialoguel 
Specifically, on the bottom left of the 
third page marked by a paper clip. If 
you get it right, you'll hear a click, 
and when you open the door again, 
you'll find an ancient carved sign. 
Take it and head back to "townO" to 
make your swaps of invoice for bal- 
loon and sign for basket and connect 
them with the fishnet (with a free 
translation of the sign's inscription 
thrown in). 

Now you know you're bound for 
Crete, but there's still no gas in your 
tank. You need to inflate the balloon, 
and there's just one filling station on 
the island: the natural-gas vent out- 



side the mountain dig, (You'll need 
the hose from the Algiers dig here as 
well. | And now you're off, in over- 
head mode again, trying to come to 
grips with the wind and control sys- 
tem and find the sub. (Notice how 
the natural gas is now "hydrogen" 
and the balloon has suddenly ac- 
quired "ballast"?) 

This has proved another difficult 
business for some of you, much like 
the search for Omar back in Algiers. 
Note that the balloon won't go 
down anywhere except on land; 
won't deviate from a straight-tine 
horizontal course when at its low- 
est possible altitude; and can be 
"steered" with the compass when in 
the higher air. (Looking for LeChuck 
Dept.: If anyone found anything of 
interest on the islands you can land 
on along the way. I'd like to hear 
about it. I dropped in on a half- 
dozen, and never saw a thing.) 

When you do find the sub, save 
the game and try to land as close 
by as possible. To get you on the 
sub— and off again |no easy feat)— 
we'll have to wait for the next in- 
stallment 



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It's the best yet. This right hand could teach the left a thing 
or two about RPGs. 



For one thing, they've addressed the tyrannical control play- 
ers typically are given over a party. You can't just recruit char- 
acters and kick them out as you please. This little govern- 
mental unit is a democracy, and the other members have a 
vote. (Listen up: They may be trying to tell you something.) 
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have personal likes and dislikes. 

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on the weapon you want to sock the enemy with. 

A notable addition to Ishar II is the inclusion of on-line maps 
that show your precise position within the game. (In Ishar, you had 
a game map, but knew your position only relative to landmarks.) 

Movement is still square by square, but the lovely scenery is 
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This handsome hut empty-headed 
sideways-scrolling thing {Alternative 
Software, about S25] is based on the 
celebrated and peculiar English TV se- 
ries Doctor Who. You save the Earth while getting chased by what look like 
Irate salt and pepper shakers. It's dated and unsophisticated, if varied — 
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The thoroughness is more than commendable — it's almost dream-like 
for devotees of the parent game — and these add-ons seem to work well 
both within the main program and with the GM/owners disk (which per- 
mits trades). However, I wish they'd gone one more step. No new stadia 
are included, so you're still limited to the three in the master program — 
and that isn't likely to encourage many MicroLeague managers to set up 
leagues. And while this is now probably the best stat-based baseball 
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MicroLeague Baseball: The Manager's Challenge. They include season disks 
for the years 1982 to 1992 ($19.95 each); World Series disks for each decade 
from the '50s to the '80s ($24.95 each); All-Star disks for ten seasons as cur- 
rent as 1983 and as far back as 1933 ($24.95 each); and franchise history 
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I banged Merit's Fighting for Rome 
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probably be banging it pretty hard, too. The Micro Miniatures system used 
in this Roman wargame is still ponderous (especially used on this scale); 
the control icons still don't look like what they're about; and the arrows 
move as though they have inertial guidance systems. At times the whole 
thing puts me in mind of one of those vibrating football games in which 
the opposing lines stand there shaking at one other, with none of the fever 
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But for all that, I'm surprised to find I can't bang Cohort II very hard, 
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If you haven't heard of Project-X 
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MS-DOS jockey. This be-all-and-end- 
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usually reserved to the end of levels. It's no wonder the genre has more or 
less died out of late; Project-X may have upped the ante so high that no 
one else wanted to play. 

Trouble is, the original Project-X was unplayable by mere human beings. 
Er, I mean, you could play it... but you couldn't get very far without an Ac- 
tion Replay cartridge, the reflexes of a wood elf, and a strong sense of self- 
preservation. File under "interactive demos." 

In this budget reissue, the developers have allowed the game's innate 
potential to seep through, with a rookie mode that allows you to get 
much further into the game, significant tweaks (mostly in the weapons 
division) to improve play, and three disks instead of the original four. 
Cheers to Team 17 for not just handing out the same stuff all over again. 
Project-X remains a steep uphill battle, but it no longer feels like a tilted 
one, if you get my drift. ■ 



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This month, the Hi8s and lows ofoutputling graphics to 
film, and the smart shoppers guide to modems. 



What Price, Modem? 

Q. I've been considering gelling a modem 
for my Amiga 600. Is lite SupraModem 
2400 a good choke? What kind of soft- 
ware do I need, and where can I find it? 
Finally, how much does it east to dial up u 
bulletin board? 

Jimmy Engstrom 
Basking Ridge, New Jersey 

A, Well, those are general questions 
best addressed with specific answers. 
Many incarnations of the SupraMo- 
dem exist and you should choose the 
best one that suits your needs and 
budget. The basic no-frills SupraMo- 
dem 2400 is a good choice for your 
A600. Want to spend a little more 
money? The SupraModem Plus has a 
few extra bells and whistles, including 
error-checking correction and logic. If 
you are willing to spend even more, 
there are also offshoots of the 
SupraModem with 2400/9600 V42.bis 
options — the international standard 
protocol for a 4:1 data compression 
and error-detection technique that 
recognizes if files being transferred 
have been compressed using ARC, 
ZIP, or other popular compression 
utilities. With V42. bis options, text or 
binary data is compressed "on-the- 
fly," resulting in shortened file trans- 
fer times (up to four times faster). 

There are also various SupraMo- 
dem 2400i models, which are internal 
modem cards for A2000, A3000, and 
A4000 users. 

Initially, you shouldn't worry too 
much about a telecommunications 
program — nearly any modem that you 
buy will come with at least a simple 
terminal program for initially getting 
on line, and assorted programs for 
configuring your hardware and soft- 
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By Tim Walsh 

cations software comes in many forms. 
There are popular commercial pack- 
ages for your Amiga, such as ATalk III 
(packaged with some Supra modems), 
but you should also consider some 
freely distributable offerings. A pro- 
gram that springs to mind is Term, by 
Olaf Barthel, recently updated with a 
version for 68000/680 10-based Ami- 
gas, such as your A600. It's a hefty 
package that you can find on just 
about every major network, and some 
PD disk collections. Other lop-notch 
freely distributable options include 
X-Comm by Edward Lawford and 
William Waring, and NClomm 3.0 by 
Torkel Lodberg. 

That brings us to your final ques- 
tion: What does all this cost? For local 
BBSs, the cost is usually minimal. If it 
is a "free" BBS, and you are making a 
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involved beyond the initial outlays for 
hardware and software. Most major 
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between S10 to S20 per month for 
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during non-prime (evening and week- 
end) hours. This is an absolute bar- 
gain, once you discover the new di- 
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On To Hi8 

Q. / haven't had any luck finding compa- 
nies or products capable of transferring 
computer graphics to Hi8 or 16mm film. 
Can you help? 

Frank Slabinak 
Lyons, Illinois 

A. Outputting first-generation com- 
puter graphics to professional quality 
HiS (a more popular video format 
than 16mm) equipment in itself isn't 
difficult, provided you know the op- 
tions at your disposal. 

Most Hi8 cameras and VTR decks 
accept composite video input, and 
(like S-video compatible VCRs and 



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accept signals as input through a four- 
pin DIN, a single port with separate 
Y/C picture and color channels. 

Here are a few Amiga-to-video 
Output scenarios', bear in mind that 
there are numerous hardware and 
software combinations that allow for 
the flow of video signals between your 
Amiga and video equipment. For 
starters, get a high-quality external 
genlock to move video signals be- 
tween your computer and the video 
equipment Two come to mind: Great 
Valley Products' G-Lock and Digital 
Creations's SuperGen SX, both of 
which have the ability to input, 
transcode, and output either Y/C or 
composite video signals. You will 
never outgrow the need for a good 
transportable genlock, no matter how 
expansive your video hardware inven- 
tory becomes. 

Since vou are limited to precious 
few video input/output options if all 
you have is a genlock, a lew more 
pieces of hardware are needed. If your 
video equipment is frame-accurate, 
one option is to invest in hardware 
that allows the output of 24-bit anima- 
tions directly to professional quality 
videotape. The traditional method has 
been single-frame recording; however, 
the best solution is Digital Processing 
System's Personal .Animation 
Recorder ($1995). 

You will also need time-based cor- 
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The Kitchen Sync (SI 295) from Digi- 
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and RayShaoe - a very good raytracing program, creale your 
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WB37: Educational - Educational games and puzzles that 
cover math, geography, spelling, and books. Ages 5-15 
WB3B: Plotting and Graphics - Plotxy is a powerful full fea- 
tured plotting package Used by marry colleges and universi- 
ties Highly recommended Plans - a incredibly well done 
Computer Aided 1 Drafting program, very full featured 
Tessefator • a program mat helps generates lantastic looking. 
recursrve M C Ecsher type pictures 

WB41: Music - MED an incredibly well done, full featured 
music editor Create your own stunning music directly on your 
:*ii3 An 7.::. i-niar to SoundTtacKer but better. Very powerful 
easy to use program Version 3 20- -compatible with WB2-K 
WB43: Business - This disk contains AnalynCalc - probably 
the most powerful spreadsheet program on the Amiga A lull 
featured spreadsheet wrlh many features expected in a com- 
mercial package Req 12 MB 



Special Product • New Release!! 

QT3: The A64 Package VfitstOH 3 - A very complete 
Commodore £4 emulator Supports any CPU and is 
fu% compatible with WB1 .3 & 2.0 and now 3.0! This 
version includes a special adaptor that will allow you 
to connect your 64's 1541 disk drive to your parallel 
port ot your Amiga for total emulation. All-new trans- 
fer SQ-rtwarel Special price $59.95 -with hardware. 



WB4B: Clip Art ■ Higf Me?e, clip ait with the fallowing motifs - 
embellishments (borders, dodads .. ,}. people, & transportation. 
WB47: Clip Art - Hires dtp art MotiEs - hair, drafting, summer, 
animals and maclood 

WB40: Clip Art - Hires :&p an Mollis - HokJa/s. music, medi- 
cal, and misc. 

WB50: Animation ■ Seven of Ihe best euro-style animations or 
"Demos", induding - scientific 451, subway, sunride. thrstde- 
mo. fjitght, waves, and woow 

WB53: Graphics < Raytracing programs generate absolutely 
Stunning realistic looking planes, rockets. buiWtngs.... and sur- 
real images C-Ughl is the mosi powerful EASVTO-USE of 
its kind we have seen to date This is easily berter. and more 
lull leatured. than similar commercial programs costing in the 
hundreds of dollars Also. sMov>o a fult featured video tent 
Mler similar to ProVidoo. Broadcast Tiller. Great video 
scfotfang, wipes, special effects, and more... 
WB54: Printing - This disk contains several routines to help 
with the chore ol printing. Includes Gothic - Finally a Banner 
printer for the PD! Pnn:Siudio -a wetl implemented all-purpose 
printer-utility with a very comfortable graphic interface and 
many advanced toaluies, Lla - with ease. pnn| ASCII fifces 10 a 
PostScript printer, and more 

WB55: Application XCopyill a full featured disk copier, 
make backups of copy protected disks RoadRoule - find the 
quickest route from one cily to another, highway description 
included Diary ■ a diary piogiam Like "Duugy Houser M.D". Gal 
- a calendar program, Magman ■ database tailored for arti- 
cles and putHications. 

WB57: Animation - This disk has several "Demo" style ani- 
mations. Including. Blitier, Lolly, SunS, vertigo, vortex, and 
xenomorph, 

WB62: Midi Utilities - Several uselul nidi uiililies including, 
programs lo transfer lo and irom several music programs to 
midi, a mnli sysex dander, a midi recorder with timebase, dis- 
play midk info, file sequence player, and a lew scores 
WB63: Disk Utilities *3 - Several highly recommended are- 
olaris to aid in removing duplicate liles from your hard drive, 
performing file backups. Binary editing. East formatting, lile 
recovery, disk irack recovery, and forced disk validation of cor- 
rupt disks, 

WB56: Icons #2 Lot's of neat icons Also, several wonderful 
programs thai to let you creale your own icons, modify and 
manipulate icons and infa structures, 

WB69: Music ■ 90 rnmutos ot classical and modem electronic 
!:.r.; try you Amiga 
WB7S: Muilt - over 100 instruments files (.irtSl) and sample 

sound Mas (.si) 

WB79: Home & Business Accounting - Includes Ckbaccf - 
the most complete checkbook accounting program going. 
LCDCaic - this well done calculator has a very large display 
and operates Irom she keyboard or mouse. Mileage master - 




monitor your automobile mileage with ihis mileage log. 
Grammar - a gramma; checker, arvj Workttime - find out what 
time it is nup lo 50 -global ctties. 

iseotecflofl contains cwgr -oo 

rf Pagc^ageSfir* 3* or 

n output to any laser pnnt 

* ordot-m." rhanks lo nvtMn* 

VeTJ prplooking 5 Shi* SSV. CtHmll OS 4 

V.'B|I: Great Applications - DalaEasy a very easy to use. 
database program. Don't let the ease ol use fool you. this is a 
very full featured database program including full pnnier control 
for address labels and mail meige applications. Also includes. 
TypeTui a good typing tutor, RLC a lull featured label printer, 
Banner, a multi-font banner maker, and Budget a home 
accou-iiing in a program. Highly recommended 
WBB2: Animations > Four full length, wolf done "movie" style 
animations Including. Coyote, Juggler!!. GhostPool, $ 
Mechanix 2 disks, counts as 1. 

WB93: Workbench 1.3 Extras #2 Contains Ihe utilities that 
Commodore should have shipped with the Amiga: VirusX4,0. 
Snap, FinDisk (recover corrupt deleted liles). Disk Optimizer 
(floppy 4 hard). Machlll (screen blanker, hotkey, mouse acoel . 
macro, cfock utility). GOMF {a gu rub uster lend PrintStudio 
WB9S: Checkbook Accountant 2.1 - Defrnitely commercial 
grade; we've seen many checkbook programs and this is the 
best- Full budgeting, transact on recording & nport generation. 
WB96: Dupers - Contains Xcopylll a Nib which wilt backup 
Copy ■profected programs FreeCopy removes copy protection 
from several programs, and SuperDuper wilt crank-out last 
AmigaDOS copies 

WB99: Lltestytes • Includes AGane— family tree program thai 
backs up to 600 people manages alt Landscape is a CAD 
program to create gardens- landscapes. Loom simulates an B 
harness loom; experiment wilfi pattern design with Instant 
feedback. 



Memorex blank disks-3 1 : " DSDD 

10 for $8.00 (,80ccnisca) 

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WB1G2: Telecommunications Contains Ihe programs 
NComm 2.0 and VT10O-29B. Zmodom proiocols. XPR proto- 
col support, lull VT100 emulation NComm's scnpl lanouape is 
so powerlul it can create a lulFleatured BBS system. 
WB10S: Home Manager - This is a gioal oil-ln-ono address 
book with an autodialer/noiepad'to do iisL'appointment sched- 
ulei/hame inventory database and phone number dialer. 
WB103: OcuMED - This breakthrough program doubles your 
Amiga s sound capabilities from 4 channels Id an ear-popping 
8 eharnelsi All the renound editing capabilities ol MED plus 4 
more channels! II you thought your Amiga sounded good 
before ..you aint heard nutrrin" yetl 

WB109: VerseWlB-e • Display, search and print The New 
Testament 

WB113: Sid II Why pay 40 bucks fw a directory utility, when 
this one win do rt all plus much motu* A truly otofessional-cfli 
rber program Sid f was our basl. now conipfalely rowntten 
Sid 2 will astound you 

WB114: Fonts SI • Conlains 36 bitmap system fonts 
WBllS: Teteeommu nice lion - If you have Am>gaDOS 2.04* 
and a modem, then. Bus is THE program lor you. Term telatly 
conforms lo the User Interface Style Guide lor 2 04. has an 
ARex* port, and supports all popular file-transler protocols 
ihrougn XPR libranes We wish all programs were this good. 
WB116: Databases ■ This is what you've been wailing fori 
Conlans 5 uniquely specialized database programs for flack- 
ing: Videotapes. CD's. Magazine Articles, Comic Books and 
Trading Cards! 

WB120; Grinder ■ a complete graphics conversion package 
that supports GIF's. jPeg. Neochrome. Degas. PCX, Taiga. 
TIFF, HAM-E and IFF format pictures. An invaluable lool for all 
desktop -videographers and desktop publishers. 
WBilSt Amfca Begmner v?u ,is*.jrf tor Ht A c=empto» 
tiffewlsl *or thi '■■:.■■ ■ ualng tttd Amiga Btartsyouofl 
at She powi?f- switch and saket; you Utiough to llie CLL'Sfiet] 
and ?M point* In betweon Boons! Also included vn f6- 

WB121 : ProPage3 Enhsncor - This disk contains over 40 
"Genies" for use wnh ProPage 3.0. including useful ones like 
Make Pie Chart and Resize Tent lo hi Bo* lo name a. tew Also 
includes structured & bitmap rliparl tor unique borders, a must 
fun for all PPage 3 users 

WB122: System Optimizer - KCommodily enhances your 
system, gives memory meters, mouse "keyboard enhance- 
ments, online timers prus man/others too numerous to listl 
REorg will optimize hard and 'loppy-d'Sks for a big speed 
increase HDMem will allow you lo use up lo 2 megs ol hard- 
drive space for virtual memory' (Req 6B020* w -I.1ML) All 
programs require 2.1%. 

WB123AB: Flags of tne World - same as WB124. bui Tor 
Workbench 1.3 Req. 1MB 2 disk set, counts as two. 
WB124: Rags ol the World - Two modes: click and loam or 
a game to tesi your knowledge. Gjeal graph >cs -fantastic 
learning tool. Has current Russia & Yugoslavia tepub'ics. 
Req. Workbench 20* S> 1MB RAM 



Dev Disks/ 



D054: Compression - This disk is loaded with all ol the best 
file compression programs and .'id 5 for Ihe Amiga Many ol the 
programs can be used by the now user. Includes Arc. Lharc, 
Lhwarp, Pka*. PoworPacker a must hav& by all, 2]ip. Warp. 
and Zoo. 

0D71AB: C Compiler ■ This disk contains DICE. Ma||hew 
Dillon's lull featured, powerful C compiler & environment. 2 
disks, counts as 2. 

DD86: The Programmer - Includes GadToofs and REQTools 
which will allow you to create your user interlaces and then the 
program will automatically generate "C" source code or 
Assembfy-code. Requires, and writes code for. AmigaDOS2t 
ODSS: UEdil - Probably ttia most powerful lext editor ever 
written lor the Amiga, Previously commercial, now public 
domain Req 1 MB. 

DD9T : ParBcnch AHows you to easily connect/network two 
Am ig as/ CD TVs together and share storage devices fteq's 
custom cable {docs 10 make cable included -easy) 
DDS0: Advanced Utilities - CompressDisk doubles the 
capacity of your hard-dnve on the fly win compressionM! Also 
contains: disk optimizer. SCSI mount utilrty. Keymap editors. 
Enforcer. Undelaier & more Most programs require 2 0* 

Video Disks / 

VOS: Modeling - Thus demo. Venom, allows you 10 create 3-D 
Objects without using Ihe abstract X, Y and Z views Loads 
5culpt-3D.'40. Turbo Silver. Imagine. LrgntWave. GEO and 
WaveErpnt forrnals, MagicTween will melamorphasize any 
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A powerful spline-based animation system provid- 
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Powerful Imageanimaiion tool for ADPro users- 
Perform complex image processing tasks. 




Pixel 3D 

Professional 




ANIM Workshops* $109.95 

Newest Version! The tools you need for creating, 
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Video Toaster System integration software. A 
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PC-TASK Ver 2.0 

The only software-based PC-XT emula- 
tor with Super-VGA graphics'! 
This amazing program lets you actually RUN MS- 
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lask on it's own screen -leaving your other Amiga 
appljcations free to continue to multitask 
It is a software-based emulator > 
and. as such, is not as quick as^ 
a hardware pridgeboard. but it* 
is also hundreds of dollars less! . 
Perfect tot your occasional MS-DOS needs. The 
laster your Amiga, the faster the emulator will run. 

S-VGA graphics requires an AGA Amiga T5Q72 




Multi 3D format interchange software. 
Now includes three high-end Converters for 
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Syndesis 3D-R0M n*wi t 90 h 5149.95 



AD516 

JAudic-Video synchro- 
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Industries" studio 1 6. T5055 $1229! 





Crouton Tools 4000 



Full Featured Toaster 
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Tool, T5012 




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Mozart's Music Master 

Easily learn music reading and theory) Includes 
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OctaMED Professional v. s 

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"OctaMED was already by lar the best MIDI and 
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T5051 $69.95 

OctaMED Professional 4 h you are more 

budget conscious or only have Kickstart 1,3, this is 
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T40CJ1 $39,95 

Amiga Music File Converter Pro 
Converts, between SMUS, MED, OctaMEO, Music- 
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MiDI. T5101 S29,95 

AMFCP + OctaMED 5 T5102 $79.95 

Home Manager Pro 

Organize your file with this indispensible 
information manager! t«35 cop 95 



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The easiest, most accurate 
way to motion-animate i 
with Lightwave 3D!~^H 



LightRave 



You can now use Lightwave withoul the Toaster' 
bghirave emulates a El necessary Toaster functions 
needed by UghtWave 3D. Faster rendering ol 
images than is possible with Amiga-equipped 
Toaster! True 24-Bit Display -- Supports most 24- 
bit graphics cards! Fast Animations? PALNTSC 
and AGA compatible. T51Q3 $419.95 



ROLL'EM 



Use your Amiga 500 or 1200 as an automatic 
telepfomptmg and Idling program, powerful enough 
to satisfy your most demanding professional appli- 
cations. T5013 $69,95 

WaveLink 

Double the speed ol LightWave* Allows two 
Toaster systems to render at the same time. Also 
allows tile sharing. T5155 $1 1 9.95 




A Powerful Morphing System, 
atari Affordable Price! 

Cocoon ts a lull-featured, professional morphing 

system without the Rolls Royce price. 

You can load any IFF imai 

including AGA formats, and 

save Irames as 24-bit. HAM 

HAM-8. or 16-level grayscale? 

T5056 



rofessionai; morphmg 
ce price. * 



AsimVTR 



Record your animations to your hard drive, as well 
as move, save, and load frames. Combines both 
frame- accurate edilfng functions with ieal-iime play- 
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spend hundreds more! T3050 $53.95 




HomeBuilders CAD 

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A full-featurec CAD program. Includes: 
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*Over SO predefined doors and windows. 
Contractor's Upgrade allows you to have up to 
1000 items (instead of 450) per layout. Library 1 
is a library of furniture and custom kiichen cabi- 
nets. AmigaDOS 2 compatible. Requires 2.5MB 
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T4032 

HomeBuilders CAD 2 

Includes all of the above except Contractor's 
Upgrade and Library \. AmigaDOS 2 compatible. 
With 2 disk drives, requires 1MB. with hard drrve. 
requires 1.5MB Original list price: S249-00 

T204O $59.95 



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A complete, high-level programming language 

True BASIC 2.0, Student Edition^ 

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Powerful multimedia authoring system 
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A tulMeatured paint, and 2-D animation program. 
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Toaster Toolkit 4000 



Indispensible collection of utilities for Video 
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Desktop Video Software 



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Broadcast 3D Fonts Mslr Packs 

Broaocasi Tntler II 

Broadcast Titter II Super Hi -Res 

Broadcast Tiller II Font Pack 2 

Cinnamon Toast Fonts I or II 

Kara Fonts Vol l-IV 

Masterpiece Toaster Fonts 

Pro Fills Vof I {JEK) 

Pro Fills Vot II (JEK) 

ProVic)eoCGJf(Shereff) 

ProVideo Post (Sherefl) 

Scala Home Video Titter 

Scala Murtimedia 210 (AGA OK] 

Texture City CDFtOM (100 txtres] 

ToaslBfF/X 

Toast&f Te«tures JSOTextufes) 

ToasierVision 

Video Director (Gold Disk) 

Video Toaster User Kbd Ovrys 

WaveWriter (Unili) 



Amiga CD-ROM 

AsimC^lFS V2 just rrt^n^. 1 Allows yotpr 
CDTViCI.-fOM driva Iq access any ISO-96G0. High 
Sierra oi Mnc HFS lormaiied disc. Comes wilh 
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kodak Photo CD viewer, upgraded lite system, new 
Meferences editor, audio playback systen. 
advanced playback lealures! T5092 $69.95 

AmINet T5077 $27.95 

Audio Resource T5076 $23.95 

Bibles and Religion TSnS $29.95 

Case Cautious Condor :oiv> T5079 $44.95 
Classic Boiwd Games T508T $44,95 

Color Magic T51 16 $39.95 

Cookbook Heaven T51 1 7 $34.95 

Faniazia Fonts T5G63 S49.95 

Fred Flsb Collection T5064 $59.95 

Fun School Over 7's (COTV) TSOSS $44.95 
Goforth Clip Art T5087 $27.95 

Graphic Resource TS1 IB $29.95 

Llbrb Brittanica T503S $59.95 

Mege Media T5119 $34.95 

Uultlmedla T5089 $49.95 

NASA: Tho 25th Year iCOTvj T5090 $24.95 

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Super Space T5122 $29.95 

Texture City Over 1 00 Txtrs T501 6 S1 1 9.95 
Texture Heaven arwai value' T5151 $79.95 

World Traveler T5114 $29.95 

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Space Wars & Olhor Animations V4027 S16.95 
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Animation - Entertainment 

Computer Animation Festival Now Release! 
W.rarr.11 brings ycu 21 awaTd-winn-ng computer animations, 
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mnyles. V2CK3 516-95 

Beyond the Mind's Eye Best Sellart This one is even 
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Malory ol the Amiga V2Q42 S14.95 

Listen lo the trials and tnbulalions wren Jay Miner, P. J. and 

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AMOS Professional Compiler T5M4 £93.95 
ToaslerVlaion * Video Guide to ToaslerVision 

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Imagine 2.0 • Understanding Imagine 2.0 Book 

T3066 £199.95 
Imagine 2.0 i Imagine 2.0. The Detail Editor Video 

TM94 £199.95 
DCTV T3S01 S289.95 

DCTV + Killer Graphics Vol I & II T3M7 £325.95 
DPalnt IV Video Guide + Adv. Teen V2062 S34.95 
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Adlia Video ■ Any 3 {specify) V2093 £79.95 
Adlfa Video ■ All 7 Videos V2094 £174.95 

Sony EVO-9700 Training 1 4 II V4ot2 S46.95 
Animation Videos Vol. I & II V2079 £19.95 

Amiga Animation Hollywood Style, Animation 
101, How To Animate Videos vjo?g £46.95 
History of (he Amiga, How To Animate, 
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Min ds Eye, Brjyond Mind s Eye V2C84 529 .95 

Animation/Graphics Software 

AlitJdrn 4D (Adpsec) T?03i S25S.95 

Art Doparfmeni Pro 2-3 (ASDGj T t tec 51 49,95 

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KwikStart II™ Utilize 1 3 and 2.0 ROM )nyourA1000....$59.95 

DKB1202™ FPU. RTC. Alarm and Memory-Allows A1200 
owners to inslallafloaling point unit co-processor (up to 40 MHz using 
the 68882). a real-time dock with date/time and "alarm" functions, and 
the ability 10 ado up loS meg ol true 32-bit RAM. Great lor ray-tracing, 
etc. Puce includes 68881-16 MHz FPU $139.95 



AMIGA DIAGNOSTICS FOR EVERY N EED 

ADVANCED AMIGA ANALYZER 

AN INEXPENSIVE DIAGNOSTIC ANALYZER 
THAT WORKS ON ALL AMIGAS 

Amiga Shopper magazine (U.K.) says 
"without doubt, this is the linesl diagnostic 
equipment I have ever seen, and I address all 
Amiga repairers and practical-minded users 
when I say this is really something worth having." 
A complete diagnostic hardware and software analyzer 
(uses poinl and click software interface). The analyzer 
plugs inlo all Amiga ports simultaneously and through 
sophisticated software displays 6 screens to work from. 
Shows status of data transmission/signals: Tests game 
port function, parallel port, serial port, cisk drive, video 
ports, memory (buffer) checker, system configuration and 
aulo test. Reads diagnostic status of any read/write errors 
from track to track 79. Soltware automatically tells what 
errors are found and the chips responsible. 85% lo 90% of 
the problems presented lo service centers are lound with 
this analyzer. Saves you lots of money on repairs and no 
end user or repair shop can afford to be without one. Don't 
be fooled by its low cost Simply plug in cables from Ihe 
analyzer box. This sophisticated diagnostic tool is used by 
end users and Amiga repair centers worldwide ... S69.95 



AMIGA TROUBLESHOOTER" 
IS IT WORTH S9.95 TO LOCATE YOUR PROBLEM? 

The Amiga Troubleshooter Is simple, easy-to-use lor 
diagnosing faulty components on all Amiga computers 
II takes you through logical steps leading you directly to the 
source of your problem in seconds. Over ninety percent ol 
Amiga problems are readily fixed by simple substitution of 
integrated circuits (ICs) in existing plug-in sockets. The 
novice as well as the experienced technician will find it 
simple to use. No other toots or equipment are needed. 

Over thirty of the most common failures in the lollowmg 
categories are listed; power-up problems, Amiga 
keyboard, mouse /joystick port, vkleo display, serial port, 
parallel port, disk drive, and audio problems. S3. 95 

AMIQUEST 

2H - PCMCIA ADAPTER FOR IDE REMOVABLE DRIVE 
tarMntNMZM 

AMI0 U EST 1 s a removable fiard disk expansion modu lefor 
the A600/1200 thai plugs into the PCMCIA port. 
AMIQUEST is small and self-contained (4.1 " x 2.9"), about 
the size ot a 2,5" disk urit. it uses a standard, inexpensive 
IDE 2.5" hard drive. AMIQUEST can be plugged in and 
removed while Ihe machine is on. It is recognized by the 
operating system just like an ordinary floppy disk and the 
case does not have lo be opened S119.9S 

+ AMIGA EMERGENCY STARTUP KIT + 

Stop sending out your Amiga for repairs. Save a lol of time ard money by repairing your own, Over 90% ol defective 

Amigas are easily repaired by this plug-in replacement kit. Kitcorrects 28 symptoms and includes: Two 8520A CIA Chips. 

8362, 8364, 68000-8. Chip Puller. Fuse. Schematic. Amiga Troubleshooter and the Final Test diskette. 

• Emergency Startup Kit (#DIA 14). A S11400 value for S64.50 

Same as DIA 14 and includes 8373 Super Denise (tOIA 14B) $79.95 

Same as DIA 14 and includes with 8372A 1 meg Agnus (ffllA 14C) S94.50 

Same as DIA 14 and includes with 8373 and 8372A (fflHA 140).. $104.50 



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COMMODORE FACTORY SURPLUS 

w-fc NEW AND REFURBISHED 

m^^ecently, Commodore elected to consolidate their stateside operations, thus making them financially stronger. 
J. 1L One of the first steps taken uas to reduce their inventory in both the U.S. and Canada. In doing this, select 
distributors were given the opportunity to purchase sizable amounts (over V> million pounds) of new and factory 
refurbished parts at extraordinarily low prices. This section contains these new and refurbished items, which are 
indicatedbytlieletters''N''or"R"totheleftofeachproduct.Refurbisheddoesnotmeanusedorpre-owned,butsimpty 
factory remanufactured, Some units may have minor imperfections hardly noticeable. With the exception of a minor 
imperfection, if any, most everything appears "m int. " Of course everything carries a full 90 day warran ty and some 
items a full year. This is your opportunity to purclmse Amiga/Commodore parts and equipment at up to 80% less 
than an authorized dealer pays. Every month weadditems to this list that have just arrive from Commodore. 






MONITORS 

R 1802 composite video high resolution color 

monitor with cables. Production monitor prior to 

1084 series. Works on 64/128 series. Also an 

excellent VCR or Toaster monitor.. ,5114.95 

R 1702 composite video color monitor with 

cables $84.50 

R 1403 high resolution VGA monochrome video 

with cable $49.95 

N A520 RF modulator. Allows you to connect an Amiga (A500/2000/3000) to a 

TV or composite video monitor. The A520 converts the RGB video signal into 

composite color video, Complete kit with instructional book S19.95 

N A2300 Commodore Genlock Board (A2000/3000) Simple plug-in board/ 

software (specify A2000 or A3000) S64.S0 

COMPUTER SYSTEMS 

R Amiga 500 with power supplyand software 

(no mouse) $179.95 

With STAflTERPACK software add S9.50 

R Commodore CB4Cw/ power supply (latest 

design and revision) ...589.95 

R Commodore C64 w/ power supply. .$64. 50 
R A2000 with all chips including 8372 Agnus, 

2.04 ROM. keyboard, mouse, power supply and manual S469.95 

R C128 with power supply (no manual) $99.95 

R C12BD with built in 1571 drive, keyboard and power supply $139.95 

R PC10III (XT) No hard drive $149.95 

R PC20III (XT) 20 meg hard drive .S169.00 

R PC40III (AT-2BB) 40 meg hard drive $299.95 

SPECIAL PACKAGE PRICES 

BONUS PACKAGE E: 

R Commodore C64/power supply/SOltware with 1541 floppy drive & 
Commodore color monitor $184.50 

BONUS PACKAGE F: 

R Commodore C64C power supply/cables/soltware (latest version made) w/ 
1571 high density floppy drives commodore composite color monitor.. $259. 95 

SOFTWARE PACKAGE G: Amiga Discovery Kit includes: 
Kindwords (program, dictionary & superfort disks), Deluxe Paint II (2 disks), 
Ports of Call and 226 page manual explaining all software $9.59 

SOFTWARE PACKAGE H: Amiga Starter Kit includes: 
Kindwords, Indiana Jones. F40 Persuit, F/A18 Interceptor, Fusion Paint and 
1B0 page manual explaining all software S9.50 

MISCELLANEOUS 

N MPS1230 Commodore printer (same as Citizen 120) (ractor/friction ,.,559.95 

R A2300 Genlock Board (A2000/A3000) software/manual $64.50 

N New Housing for A500. Includes top & bottom $16.95 

N Printer Port Adapter.* Interface any Commodore printer to work any PC/PC 

clone S29.95 

DISKETTES 
N 3W" (720K) Commodore diskette with various software that can be erased. 
This is a new disk available at a low price. 

Package of 10 $3.80 Package of 50 $18.00 

N Just Released 2.1 Series Diskeltes (same software as 2.1 kit) 

2.1 install disk (370166-01) $3.95 2.1 lonts disk (370169-01) S3.95 

2,1 locale disk (370129-01) 53.95 2.1 extra disk (370168-01) 53.95 

2.1 workbench dtsk(370167-02)..53.95 Set of all 5 diskettes $17.50 

SOFTWARE SURPLUS BLOWOUT! 

Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego (Amiga or Commodore) 515.95 

Arkanoid (Commodore) 55.00 

Test Pilot (Commodore) $5.00 

Tetris (Commodore) S9.95 

Animation (Commodore) S6.00 

Money Mentor (Amiga) SB. 95 

Art Department Pro (Amiga) $119.00 

Appetizer (Amiga) 57.95 

Graphics Workshop (Amiga) 59.95 

Deluxe Paint II (Amiga) 510.95 

Scala Multistat (Amiga) CALL 



MOTHERBOARDS 

N A500 (rev, 3} Complete with ail chips including 'A meg Agnus/1.2 $89.95 

N A500 (revision 5 and up) Includes 8372 1 meg Agnus S 1.3 ROM $129.95 

N A1000 Last chance to keep a spare 569.95 

R A2000 Includes 8372A 1MB Agnus S new 2.04 Operating ROM $299.95 

N A2056 Commodore A2000 8K RAM expander (2MB installed) $149.50 

R A3000 (various revisions) CALL 

N A3000 daughter expansion (Zorro) board ..,.$84.50 

N VGA 286 laptop motherboard by Commodore $149.50 

R 1541 replacement control board only $24.50 

N 1571 control motherboard $39.95 

R C64 motherboard (1984-7 version) Includes all chips $34.95 

N C64C motherboard (revision E) $54.50 

N C128 motherboard (with new ROMs) S69.95 

N C128D motherboard (with new ROMs) $74.50 

N PC30/40/60 III CALL 

N 1750 RAM expansion board (no outside case) ..,$19.50 

N Slingshol Pro: * Gives A2000 slot for your A500. New desig n with passthroug h. 

Now take advantage of all A2000 plug in boards 538.50 

N A501 original Commodore for A500— 51 2K memory upgrade $24.50 

N A2300 Commodore Genlock board (A2000/3000)/software (specify A2000 Or 
43000) $64.50 

KEYBOARDS' 

N A500 (American version) $27.50 

R A500 (U.K. version] $22.00 f 



N A600/1200 529.50 ' 

R A1000 554.50 N C64 515.95 

N A2000 549.50 R C12SO 525.95 

R A3000 $49.95 N PC Series $42.50 

N Encoder Board (Mitsumi) (A500/2000/3000) 519.00 

N CiDTV in black 534.50 

N 286/386 laptop 569.95 

POWER SUPPLIES 

N A500 Exact Commodore replacement $29,95 

R A500 (240V U.K. & Europe) $24.50 

N A500 Big Foot* (A500/600/200 watts) A must (or Toaster users $79.95 

N A1200 Big Foot/200 watts 579.95 

N A2000 (Switchable from 110/220V) $89.95 

N A2000Big Foot* (300 watts) $135.00 

N A3000 Exact Commodore replacement $84.95 

R A3000 (220V) (U.K. & Europe) $79.95 

N C64(sealed/nonrepairable) 1,5 amp S9.95 

N C64 (repairable)* 1.8 amp $24.95 

N C64 4.3 amp heavy duty (also used with 1 750 RAM expander) $29.95 

N CI 541 11/1581 (external) Limited quantity. Going fast $19.95 

220 Volt version available for $24.95 

N C128D (internal) $12.95 

N C128 external 4.3 amp (exact replacement) $29.95 

N PC20 (75 watt) $49.95 

N 16BO power supply for A1200RS modem $11.95 

DRIVES 

N A500 internal 880 K drive: Exact drop-in replacement S59.95 

R A590 hard drive (20 megs) with controller & power supply $169.95 

With extra 2 megs installed add $74.00 

R A1010/1011 Amiga external 3'/;" floppy (with case) $54.95 

N A2000 high density drive (1.76 megs) $91.50 

N A2000 internal drive $79.95 

N A3000 internal 3V!" drive $89.95 

N A2090A hard drive controller (no memory) $17.95 

N Sony tape cartridge (OD 6150) used with A3070 tape backup $18.50 

R 1541 complete floppy drive with cable ...,...,.,,, , S54.95 

H 1541-11 complete stand alone floppy drive with P/S $79.95 

N 1571 complete stand alone floppy drive (Selling out fast) $99.50 

R 1571 same as above but refurbished S69.95 

N 1581 Hoppy drive replacement .559.95 

N IBM/Commodore bridgeboard floppy (5'i-i.2 megs) S37.50 

'NOT A COMMODORE PRODUCT. 



SEND SASE FOR FULL LISTING OF ALL COMMODORE/AMIGA SURPLUS PRODUCTS fc2 



Crele 30 on Reader Scrv.se card 



Manufacturers'/Distributors' Addresses 




Alternative Software 


Hei filer Communications 


Ocean Software 






Units 5-7, Baileygate Industrial 


4451 1-70 Drive N.W. 


Distributed by Electronic Arts 


User group leaders: 




Estate 


Columbia, WO 65202 






West Vorkslnre WF8 2LN 


314/445-6103 


Persona! Video Wizards 






England 




7836 Second Ave. South 


Want vour organization to 




97-779-7777 


ICD 


Bloomingtott. MN 55420 


appear in Amiga]l''ortd's user 




Ambitious Technologies 


1220 Rock St. 
Rockford, IL61101 


612/881-3340 


group listing? Then send 




1519 W. 1 34th St. 


800/373-7700 


Pride integrated Video Systems 


your group's name, plus a 




Gardena, CA 90249 




2715 Australian Ave. 


contact person's name, 




310/379-1425 


Impressions 
7 Melrose Drive 


W, Palm Beach. FL 33407 
800/678-3942 


address, and phone num- 




Blue Byte 


Framingham, CT 06032 




ber to: User group list, c/o 




Distributed by Kompart 


203/676-9002 


Silmaiils 


AmigaWorld Editorial, 80 
Kim St., Peterborough, NH 




CDTV Publishing 


InnoVision Technology 


Distributed by Daze Marketing 




1200 Wilson Drive 


1933 Davis St. 


Soft-Logik Publishing 


03458. Or fax us: 603/924- 




West Chester, Pa. 19380 


San Leandro, CA 94577 


11131 South Towue Sq., 


4066, aun. User group list, 




(215) -131-9100 


415/638-8432 


Suite F 








St. Louis, MO 63123 


AmigaWorld Editorial. ■ 




Chaority 


Interplay 


314/894-860S 






221 Town Center West, #259 


17922 Fitch Ave. 






Santa Maria, CA 93454 


Irvine. CA 92714 


Strategic Simulations 




805/925-7732 


714/553-6655 


Distributed by Electronic Aits 


Virgin Games (UK) 
338ALadbroke Grove 


Cinemaware 


Iomega 


Summit Software 


London W10 5AH 


Distributed by Electronic Arts 


1 82 1 West Iomega Wav 


A division of Alternative Software 


England 
31-960-2255 




Roy, UT 84067 




Commo<lore Business Machines 


800/777-6179 


SunRize Industries 




1200 Wilson Drive 




2959 S. Winchester Blvd.. 


Vision Software 


West Chester, PA 1 9380 


Kompart 


Suite 204 


distributed by Kompart 


215/431-9100 


Guilford House 


Campbell, CA 95008 






20 Guilford Road 


408/374-4962 


Warm and Fuzzy Logic 


Daze Marketing 


St. Albans 




2302 Manioc Road 


2 Canficld Place- 


Herts, Aid 5JY 


Supra 


Richmond, VA 23229 


London NW6 3BT 


England 


7101 Supra Dr. S.W, 


804/285-4304 


England 


72-786-8005 


Albany, OR 97321 




71-328-2762 




800/727-8772 


Xetec 




Konami 




2804 Arnold Road 


Desktop Video Systems 


900 Deerfield Parkway 


Systems Development Services 


Salina, KS 67401 


14121 West 9th St. 


Buffalo Grove, IL 60089 


Route 4, Box4LAA 


913/827-0685 


Lertexa, KS 662 1 5 


708/215-5100 


Parkersburg,WV 26101 




913/782-8888 




304/863-6592 


V'C Plus Inc. 




Krisalis Software 




14 10 S. Kansas Ave. 


DevWare 


Teque House 


Team 17 Software Lid. 


I'opeka. KS 66612 


12528 Kirkham Court. 


Masons Yard 


Prospect House 


St 13/235-3481 


Suite 11 -A 17 


Downs Row 


Borough Road 




Poway, CA 92064 


Moorgate 


Wakefield 


Zeppelin Games 


619/679-2825 


Roiherham S60 2HD 


West Yorkshire WF1 3AB 


9D Ash Way 




England 


England 


1 loughton-le-Sprtng 


Digital Creations 


70-937-2290 


92-429-1867 


Durham DH4 6JW 


2865 Sunrise Blvd., 






England 
91-385-7755 


Suite 103 


MicroLeague Interactive Software 


21stCcrmtrv 


Randio Cordova, CA 95742 


2201 Drummond Plaza 


561} Milton Park 




916/344-4825 


Newark. DE 19711 


Abingdon 






302/368-9990 


Oxfordshire OX 1 1 IR\ 




Electronic Arts 




England 




1450 Fashion Island Blvd. 


MicroProse 


23-583-2939 




Sail Mateo. CA 94404 


1 Hampton Road Industrial Estate 






800 '245-4 525 


Tetbury 


US Cybernetics 








Glostershire GI.8 81.D 


1 950 Stemmons Freeway, 


AW SHUCKS! 




Euphonies 


England 


Suite 5001 






138 N. Main St.. 


66-650-4326 


Dallas, TX 75207 


In the article "Double For 




Suite 1 1 
Sehastopol. CA 95472 
707/823-1380 


Millennium Interactive 

Quern House 


214/746.5844 
403/289-0252 


Nothing" regarding ParNet 
networking (Oct. '93, p. 39), 






Mill Court 


US Gold Ltd 


author Rob Hays's bio notes 




Expansion Systems 


Great Shelford 


Units 2/3 


incorrectly state that a ParNet 




11862 Osgood Road 


Cambridge CB2 5I.D 


Hoirord Way 


setup allows him to access 




Fremont, CA 94539 


England 


Holford 


AGA modes from his A3000. 




510/656-2890 


22-384-4894 


Birmingham BO 7 AX 
England 


What it should say is that the 
network enables Hays to use 




Gold Disk 


Natural Graphics 


21-625-3366 


his A3000's hard drive from 




20675 South Western Ave.. 


4603 Slate Ct. 




his Al 200. Sorry for any con- 




Suite 120 


Rocklin, CA 95677 




fusion this mistake caused. 




Torrance, CA 90501 


916/624-1436 








213/320-5080 











100 December 93 




Software Hut 

Foicroft East Business Park 3 13 Henderson Dr Sharon Hill, PA 1 9079 



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Full line of Hardware, Accessories & Peripherals.. IN STOCK • Call if you don't see what you want 



Video Products 




rv 


$289.00 


hen Sync TBC 


1279 00 


lerGen 


539.00 


lerGen SX 


Call 


iMsion 


629.00 


sonalTBC4 


Call 


5 Personal Animation Controller Call 


12 ASA 


134.95 



A600 Specials 



.imited Quantities • 1 Mb RAM 
• Full CBM Warranty 
• Factory Installed HD 

.600 w/40Mb HD $329.00 

AE0Q w/85Mb HD $429,00 



Amiga 4000/040 

& 030 models 

IN STOCK. 

CALL!!! 



Amiga CD-32 

Call for pricing and 
latest software titles. 



A/B2 Upgrades 



DOS 2.1 Kit w/ROM - $78.00 
1 Enhancer - no ROM - $45.00 

2620/A2630 Eprom Kit $35.00 

lulll-Stan 2 v6A 500/600/2000 38.00 
2091 Rev 7 Eprom Kit 32.00 

S217EnhancerDocsforAl200 26.95 



Accessories t Modems 




lie Mouse 


$27.00 


■fly 16 


169.00 


Analog Joystick Adaptor 


16.00 


den Image Amiga Mouse 


29.95 


"-3X Software Generic 1 


59.95 


vis Gamepad Controller 


22.95 


: DSS8* Sound Digitizer 


89.95 


us 2.1 Upgrade Kit 


35.00 


It Triple Trick Trackball 


40.00 


n 2400 External Modem 


69.00 


ra Faxmodem 14.4 


225.00 


( Sporsler 14,4 Fax/Modem 


239.00 



A500 Upgrades 



'as, we still support A5Q0 owners. It you 
'o not see what you need, please call us. 

590 HD 20Mb $169.95 

570 CD ROM Drive w/sottware 199.95 
iotherboard Rev 5 (All chips) 133.00 
S00 Case 23.00 

500 Internal Replacement Drive 49.95 

501 512KRAM 29.95 
500 Keyboard 39.95 
VP A500 HDo w/No Drive 179.00 
VPA500HD8w/120MbHO 389.00 
VP A530 Turbo (Various Types) Call 
alaFtyer Express SCSI or IDE 169.95 
ataFryer Express Combo 219.00 
iseboard OK 85.00 
isebeard w/2Mb RAM 172.00 



RAM & Other Chips 

We stock all RAM chips, CPUs 

and FPUs. Please call for price 

and availability. 



Power Supplies S Expansion Boards 
Bigloot Power Supply 500/600/1200 $69.00 
A2000 300W Power Supply 169.00 

Action Replay Mark 3 A2000 69.95 

DataFlyer 8Mb Board w/2Mb 1 65,00 

DKBMegathip w/2Mb Agnus 195.00 

DKB RAM Exp A30OO/40OO 319.00 

FaslLane Z3 RAM Exp A3OOO74000 549.00 
Sunrlze 1 6 Bit Audio Digitizer 1259.00 



Retina Special 



We have just made a special purchase 
ol 4Mb Retina AGA Video Boards which 
can be used with Amiga Z000, 3000 
and 4000 computers. Compatible wllh 
OpalVIsion, Video Toatler, and many 
additional packages. 

Retina 4Mb- $479.00 

Otner praauas available from 

MacroSystem US: 

Multllrame - AdPro $74.00 

5lurJio printer Sotlware $59.00 

VUb $399,00 

VLabY/C $459.00 



A1200 Blizzard 



•4Mb Ot32 bit Fast RAM 

• Socket lor an additional 4Mb RAM 
•2 Year Warranty 

• Built in Calendar Clock w/batlery 
■ Uses Inexpensive PLCC Math-Co 

Limited Qty. - $279.00 



r — i 

Accelerators 


& Hard Drives 


Accelerators 




GVP G-Force 03Q/40/4074Mb 


Call 


GVP G-Force 040/33/4Mb 


Call 


Supra Turbo 28 A5O0 or A2O0O $159.00 


3.5" SCSI Hint Brim 




Quantum 52Mb LPS HD 


129.00 


Quantum 240Mb LPS HD 


289.00 


Quantum 1.2GlgHD 


1059.00 


Conner 120Mb HD 


189.00 


Maxtor 240Mb HD 


279.00 


Maxtor 340Mb HO 


399.00 


Bernoulli Drives 


Call 


SyQuest 88/44 5110CHD 


339.00 


SyQuest 8SMb Cartridge 


109.00 


Toshiba LOGIgHD 


929.00 


Toshiba 1.2GigHD 


1029.00 


Dual bay Ext. Case w/cabllng 


109.00 


3.F IDE Hint Orirti 




Maxtor 240Mb HD 


269.00 


Maxtor 340Mb HD 


359.00 


Seagate 525Mb 3655A HD 


639.00 


Seagate 525Mb 3600A HD 


689.00 


2.5' IDE Hjrd Drives 




Conner 40Mb HD 


$139.95 


Conner 84Mb HD 


229.95 


Seagate 85Mb HD 


239.95 


Seagate 127Mb HO 


315.00 


Seagate 210Mb HO 


419.00 







Amiga 1200 



• AGA Chips &14M1 68EC020 

• 7fi Million Colors & OS 3.0 

• PCMCIA S Flicker Free Support 

A12D0 $335.00 

A1200w/40MbHD 535.00 

A12CCW/85 Mb HD 649.00 

A1200w/128MbHD 719.00 

A1200W/210 M'jHD 859.00 

Please add $20. 00 tor Hard Drive 
Installation & formatting, 

MBX1 200 68881 20 W OK $1 39.00 

MBX1 200 68882 33Mz OK 209.00 

MBX1 200 6B8B2 50M2 OK 309.00 

DKB12D2 0K16Mzw/CIOCk 169.00 

RAM- 1,2, i, 8Mb tor above Call 

GVP 1230 Turbo* 40/0/0 359.95 

GVP 1230 TurbOt 40/40/4Mb 579.95 

GVP 1200 SCSI/RAMt (All) Call 

DKB -The Clock lor A1 200 25.00 

PCMCIA Card 600/1 200 2Mb 1 39.95 

PCMCIA Card 600/1 200 4Mb 229.00 
IDE Cable 1 Software -600/1200 20.00 

15-23 Pin Converter 19.95 



Hi-Density 
Floppy Drives 



As we have been unable to obtain 
CBM's HD Floppy Drives we are 
now carrying Power Computing's 
hi-density units. 

■1.76MB Capacity 

• Use With A-Max & 386 Emulators 

• 1 Year Warranty 

• Must use with OS 2.1 or higher 
■ Twice as fast as CBM's model 

External Only - $179.00 , 

Motherboards 

A2000 flev 6.X Mot herboard $449.00 

A4DC0 Motherboard 599.00 

A2000 w/swap-Rev 6 or above 225,00 

A30O016MZW/Swap 249.00 

A3000 25Mz w/swap 299.00 

A500 Motherboard Rev 5 139.00 



CBM Parts & 


Peripherals 


A2D91 Controller 


S65.O0 


A520 Video Adapter 


23.00 


A60O/12O0 Int. Floppy Drive 


69,95 


A10O0 Internal Floppy Drive 


59.95 


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I was very disappointed to read about 
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AGA card or motherboard revision 
than sell my machine at a loss and 
then shell out more money for an 
equivalent A4000. Someone might 
argue that other platforms do not 
have the graphics, modeling, render- 
ing, or music software that is available 
for the Amiga, but this is becoming 
less true all the time. 

1 really do love my A3000, but my 
point is that Commodore needs to 
either drop the price of die new AGA 
machines or produce an AGA card 



and/or motherboard revision for the 

A2000/3000. Most of the Amiga users I 
have seen do not have the money to 
dump their machines at a massive loss 
and then turn around and spend thou- 
sands of dollars on a new AGA machine. 
John Giersdorf 
Fort Ord, California 



CD32 Critique 

At first glance, the Amiga CD32 looks 
like something the designer of the TRS- 
80 would have created. I must say, this 
doesn't look good for its future in the 
US, and if Commodore markets the 
machine like it has done with others in 



The CD32 . . . secures 
the Amiga for game- 
machine status. 
Commodore has taken a 
huge step back for a 
wonderful computer. 



the past, then I don't have any hope of it 
having much of a future. Is Commodore 
going lo advertise on television to the 
younger generation who doesn't know 
anything about Ainigas, megabytes, or 
68EC020 processors? I hope for once 
that Commodore realizes that the US 
market isn't the same as the UK's. 

Joseph Drippe 
Bellbuckle, Tennessee 



Power Up Problems 

I find it interesting that your maga- 
zine can devote two issues to the new 
Amiga 1200 and then not even write 



or create any columns, articles, or 
reviews of software which may be 
compatible or even available for the 
A1200. I was an owner ofa 1MB A500 
and after reading the January issue, 
weighing the upgrade cost, and con- 
sidering the advice ofa friend who 
purchased one, I decided to make the 
move to the "mainstream Amiga." 
After reviewing the June and July 
issues, I'm beginning to wonder if I 
made the right choice. I am still wait- 
ing for my free software from Com- 
modore since the end of March. Long 
distance calls to a number concerning 
the Power Up software, [proa 1 need a 
message stating] that it was shipping 
over two weeks ago. Are there that 
many of us A 1200 owners? 

Paul May 
Atlantic City, New Jersey 

Editor's Note: If you participated in Com- 
modore's Power Up program for a new 
A 1200/4000, and still have not received 
the free software, please rail Commodore at 
21 5/43 1-9420 and leave your name and 
address. 



Crossed Signals 

I would like to correct an error in 
the October '93 issue concerning Bob 
Lindstrom's article, "Cross-Platform 
Computing." Under the section cover- 
ing MIDI and sound-sample conver- 
sion, Mr. Lindstrom states that "cur- 
rently, only Syiuhia Professional 
. ..supports cross-computer conver- 
sion... with support for AIFF (and) 
Sound Designer." Dissidents' Sample 
Wrench 16-bit sound-sample editor 
supports AIFF as well as Sound De- 
signer with or without MacBinary 
header. Studio 1(5 from SunRize In- 
dustries also supports AIFF. Indeed, 
man) users of Sample Wrench utilize 
Studio 16/AD516. and transfer sounds 
between the two applications using 
the AIFF format. 

Jim Fiore 
Dissidents 



104 December 1993 




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• XIPaint real-lime 24BU paint program comes 
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• The Retina 1 " can still be used to display 24Bil 
graphics while displaying Workbench. 

• Retina animation software included to make 
8, 16 or 24 Bit animations. 

Just some of the many packages supporting the 
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• Requires VGA and up monitors. 

• Rain Configurations 2 MB or 4 MB. 

• Compatible with the A2000. A3000, and A-1000 
series Amigas. Installs into any 100 pin Amiga 
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• Compatible with the Video Toaster and 
OpalVision. 

Requires the 2.0 or greater operating system. 

TVPaint 2.0 Professional 

The State ofthe Art in 24Bit Painting for the Amiga. 
TVPaint is the fastest 24 Bit Paint Package available 
for the Amiga. 

Some ofTVPalnt's features: Automatic Antialiasing 
on drawing tools. Powerful Airbrush lools. Density 
control on tools. Full Undo/Redo. Spare/Swap 
screens. Convolution Effects. Definable 
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According to Malt Drablek. of AVideo magazine 
"MultiFrame is a must for Amiga video users who 
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