AmigaShopper45-Jan95.pdf

The m agazin e for hardcore A m iga enthusiasts!

ISSUE 45 JANUARY 1995 4 £2.95

From the makers of

FORMAT

Spaced

Foundation Imaging show you how to

create images like this on your Amiga!

Plus - we review and

rate a dozen Amiga

music packages from

£30 up. Which one will

turn you into a star?

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M I S C E L L A N E O U S

Distant Suns 5................................ £35.9!

M U S I C / S O U N D

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Bliz Basic 2..................................... £53.9!

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P U B L I C D O M A I N Top 21

Amiga CD-ROM drives/util^PDACDI) 2disk£3.5

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Clipart Disk 9 (Garfield)......(PDAC09) 1 disk.£1.5

Clipart Disk4 (Food)........... (PDAC04) 1 disk.£1.5

Ami Base Pro v 1.8...........(PDAC01) 1 disk.£1.5

9 Fingers Demo..................(PDA033) 2 disk.£2.2

Edword Pro V4................(PDA005)1 disk.£1.5

EasyCalcPlus.................. {PDA006)1 disk.£1.5

Klondyke AGA................(PDA013)3disk.£2.7

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PC Task Emulator...........(PDA019) 1 disk.£1.5

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Spectrum Games Disk..... (PDA028) 1 disk.£1.5

Fit Chicks AGA..................(PDA030) 2 disk.£2.2

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First Fonts Diski................(PDAF01)1 disk.£2.5

U T I L I T I E S

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G P FAX 2.3 software.......................£49.9

Xcopy Pro inc. hardware.................£21.9

V I D E O A N D G R A P H I C S

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Make Path for Vista........................... £8.9

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Final Copy V2 U K..NewLowPrice!...£.48.9

Pagestream 3 U.K. version...........£249.9

Pro Page V4..................................£109.9

Protext 4.3 W/P...............................£39.9

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R ib b o n s

Citizen Swift mono ribbon.................£4.99

Citizen Swift Colour ribbon.............£13.99

Star LC100 mono...................................£3.69

Star LC200 mono...................................£4.99

Star LC100 colour..................................£7.99

Star LC200 colour...............................£12.99

Star LC24-30 mono.............................£8.99

Star LC24-30/200 Colour.................£11.99

Re-Ink Spray for mono ribbons.......£11.99

C O V E R S

Star LC10/20 cover....................................£4.99

Citizen Swift/ABC...................................... £5.99

HP 500/550/510...........................................£5.99

Star LC24-300/30/100/200........................£5.99

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Canon BJIOcartridge..............................£18.99

Double life 500 cartridges.......................£24.99

HP550/500 Colour cartridge..................£24.99

Star SJ48 cartridge...................................£18.99

Star SJ144 mono or colour (3 pack).....£21.99

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Printer Switch Box 2 way........................£12.!

Printer Switch Box 3 w ay.......................£17.!

PrinterStands(Universal)saveon space.£4.99

3 Metre pri nter cable..................................£6.99

5 Metre printer cable..................................£8.99

10 Metre printer cable..............................£12 "

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Amiga 500/600/1200 PSU..............................£39.99

Amiga 500.-500 Plus keyboards..........£45.99

Amiga 500 Plus Motherboard........................£29.99

Amiga 500 Plus cases.....................................£12.99

QUALITY MOUSE MATS..................£3.99

10 CAPACITY DISK BOX...............£0.99

20 CAPACITY DISK BOX................£2.99

40 CAP LOCKABLE DISK BOX........£3.99

100 CAP LOCKABLE DISK BOX.....£5.49

*90 CAP STACKABLE BANX BOX..£9.99

*150 CAP STACKABLE POSSOBOX............£17.99

'add £3.00 delivery if purchasing just one Posso or Banx box.

Normal delivery when purchased with other product or

when buying 2 or more.

AMIGA A500 DUST COVER.............£3.99

AMIGA 600 COVER............................£2.99

14" MONITOR DUSTCOVER.........£6.99

Keyboard Membrane Covers........£14.95

AMIGA TO SC ART CABLES.............£9.99

STD 1.8 MTR PRINTER LEAD......£4.99

MODEM/NULL MODEM CABLES..£9.99

AMIGA CONTROL STATIONS

A500 or 1200 VERSION....................£36.99

A600 VERSION.....................................£29.99

£49.99

£89.99

£137.99

1 mb by 8/9 SIM M S (1 Mb)...........£34.99

4 Mb by 9 SIM M S (4 Mb)................£144.99

1 Mbby4DRAMS(1Mb)....................£39.99

1 Mb by 4 ZIPS(1 12 Mb)......................£32.99

256 by 4 ZIPS................................(each) £5.99

256by4DRAM(DILs)...............(each) £5.99

Kickstart1.3..........................................£23.99

Kickstart2.04........................................£28.99

Kickstart 2.05 (for use in A600)......£28.99

Fatter Agnes 8372A............................£26.99

I Super Denise........................................£18.99

6571 -0326 Keyboard controller.....£13.99

CIA 8520A I/O controller....................£8.99

PRIMA CO-PRO & RAM

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1 MB RAM............................................£91.99

2 MB RAM .........................................£129.99

|4 MB RAM .........................................£194.99

} MB RAM ........................................£339.99

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CONTENTS

FEATURES

R EG U LA R S

IN THIS ISSUE

MUSIC SOFTWARE

NEWS 4

Have CEI bought out Commodore? What will

this mean for the Amiga?

Which sequencer could be your new

creative partner? Maff Evans (Reviews

Editor of Future Music) looks at all the

alternatives for making star-studded music

with your Amiga.

AMIGA SHOPPE* JANUARY 1995 No 45

COVERDISK 8

Find out how to use your Devpac and Day to

Day coverdisk!

J f t nd so this is... no, I can’t

i P V bring myself to say it. Anyway,

Seasons Greetings and all that to

everyone. This month we have

the usual stonking selection of

wonderful reviews, amazing articles

and titanic tutorials.

We have managed to secure the

services of Ron Thornton, the

Emmy award-winning 3D artist for a

new tutorial this month. Starting on

page 28, he will be showing you how

to create stunning 3D images with

programs like Lightwave and

Imagine. Keep this frequency clear...

Richard Baguiey - Editor

THE THREE DS OF 3D 2 8

Ron Thornton and Mojo Seffa of Foundation

Imaging let you in on the secrets of creating

professional 3D images.

NEXT MONTH 3 2

Get ready for what’s coming up next month!

You won't believe your eyes!.

INDUSTRY COMMENT 3 5

Industry figures speak about the Internet

and PCs.

PUBLIC DOMAIN 91

Graeme Sandiford checks out the latest

low-cost and no-cost serious software.

AMIGA SHOPPER

AWARDS 3 6

Your chance to vote for the great and the

good and win a £400 spending spree!

R E V IE W S

TOUCH SCREEN 18

Gary Whiteley looks at a whole new way of

letting your Amiga know you care.

READER INTERVIEW 4 0

Why did Bath University Student TV choose

the Amiga? Find out in our interview.

The m usic of

CD 1 2 0 0 2 2

Graeme Sandiford looks at a new CD add

on for the A1200 from Gasteiner.

MARKETPLACE 4 2

Amiga Shopper’s own classified section.

Check out the bargains!

CD-ROMS 2 5

Graeme Sandiford looks at two new CD-

ROMs, including the sequel to the Syndesis

3D CD-ROM.

AMIGA ANSWERS 4 4

Our expert panel provides solutions to more

of your real-life Amiga problems.

E L ! L J

i :

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MOMIGA AND

BERNOULLI 2 4

Could one of these removable drives spell

an end to the “Disk Full” nightmare?

Richard Baguiey investigates.

SPECIAL VOUCHERS 5 0

Save £25 off Emplant, £10 off Workbench

3.1 and loads more offers!

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SUBSCRIPTIONS 6 8

Don’t miss your monthly dose of Amiga

facts or your subscribers' disk - subscribe!

WINDOW SHOPPER 3 4

Graeme Sandiford and friends looks at all

the things we had no space to review

elsewhere.

If music be the food of love,

which cookery book should you

use? Maff Evans reviews and

rates Amiga music programs.

P A G E

1 2

MAIL ORDER 7 0

Find out what bargains we have in store

for you.

TUTORIALS

COMMS 5 8

Wavey Davey Winder looks at the people

campaigning to keep comms free. Should

you fight for your right to E-Mail?

READER ADS

Pick up a bargain with our free reader

advertisements.

USER GROUPS 8 8

Get in touch with Amiga users in your area

and around the globe.

CHESS 6 2

The computer finally makes its move in our

on-going chess tutorial. Don’t forget the

source code on the subscribers' disk!

AMOS 8 6

Simon Green looks at how to make money

from your programming efforts, plus a

complete "Asteroids" style game.

BACK ISSUES 6 4

Catch up on all those exciting articles you

missed before.

BUYING ADVICE 9 6

You’d be mad to make an Amiga purchase

before reading this vital advice.

ASSEMBLER 9 6

Get the most out of your coverdisk with our

on-going Assembler tutorials.

LETTERS 85

What do you think about the future of the

Amiga? Express yourself and win £25!

Your chance to vote on the

best Amiga products! Plus,

you could win a spending

spree! See page 36.

Foundation Imaging (the people behind the

graphics for the TV program Babylon 5)

shows you how to create 3D images like this.

AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 45 • JANUARY 1995

NEWS

Com m odore

WORLDWIDE

AMIGA SHOW.

I f you want to find out the latest news on the

sold to C EI?

Is the end finally in sight for the Commodore

saga? Could American company CEI have

made the concluding bid?

T he ongoing saga of the

Commodore sale, don’t forget the World of

Commodore Show which will be running in the

Wembley Exhibition Centre from the 9th to the

11th of December. This show is being organised

by Commodore UK, and most of the Commodore

management will be present at the show, so you

should be able to find out what’s really going on.

There will also be a large number of stalls,

including one where you can meet the people who

produce both this magazine and the other Amiga

magazines published by Future Publishing.

Various Amiga celebrities will also be appearing

at the show, including Jim Drew, the designer of

the Emplant emulation system, who will be

appearing on the Blittersoft stand. He is promising

a first showing of the long awaited(!) PC emulation

module, although it is not clear if this product will

be on sale at the show. Tickets for the World of

Amiga Show cost £6 for Adults and £4 for children.

The ticket hotline is on ® 01369 7711

were owed money by Commodore

International) have also placed a

number of obstacles in the way,

as many of

them were

outbid the others.

All of the companies who

have been involved in the bidding

will be invited to participate in

this process, including

companies such as Samsung,

Philips and Escom who may have

dropped out earlier. This rather

unusual process has been

settled on at the insistence of

the US creditors of

Commodore International,

who are concerned that

they may not get the

maximum possible price if

the bidding is not directly

competitive.

These complications now

means that there is absolutely

no chance of any new Amigas

arriving on the scene for

Christmas, and it would

probably be at least February

before any new stock would

arrive at the dealers.

CEI boss Alex Amor has

claimed that he is already

starting the process of setting up

new production lines for Amigas,

which he claims would cut 30 to

40 days off the time it takes to

get new stocks out of the

manufacturing plant.

Whether he will actually be

able to use these new production

lines to start building Amigas

remains to be seen.

Commodore liquidation and

sale appears to be nearly at an

end. The remains of Commodore

International (which went into

voluntary liquidation in April) are

currently being sold by the

liquidators, who are confident

of finalising the deal within

the next few weeks. At the

Future Entertainment Show

in late October, David

Pleasance said that he was

confident of completing the

deal by the end of November,

although there was no sign

of a deal being completed as

we went to press.

The deal was supposed to be

completed in early November, but

there were a few extra problems

which caused the delay “We have

had some delay, and what we

hoped to happen today is not

likely to happen, “said Franklin

Wilson, the Chief Liquidator of

Commodore in early November.

These problems appear to have

been based around the incredibly

complex corporate structure of

Commodore International and its

subsidiaries.

This has made the process

of working out exactly what can

be sold from Commodore

International extremely difficult.

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concerned that the deals being

negotiated by the liquidator would

not get them the highest

possible price.

What will now happen is that

one bidder (probably CEI) will

submit a written bid and pay a

non-refundable deposit on this

bid. The Bahamian supreme

court will then have to approve

this deal, and details of this bid

will be supplied to the other

bidders. A process similar to an

auction will take place, with all

the involved parties attempting to

Info-Nexus is a new file and data manager.

IN TO THE N E X U S

O ptonica have announced two new products:

Info-Nexus and Data-Nexus. These are the

first two in a new range of cheap productivity

tools for the Amiga which Optonica will be

coming out with over the next few months.

Info-Nexus is a file and data manager which

works in a broadly similar way to program such as

SID or Directory Opus. It can be used to move

files, play animations, sounds or CDXL files.

Optonica are on 01455 558282.

Chelsea to wind up Commodore?

C helsea Football club is taking legal action against Commodore

NEW ROLL OF

THE DICE

F ourth Level Developments (the distributors of

UK to get hold of a sum of money it is owed as part of a

sponsorship deal. Commodore UK signed a five year sponsorship

deal with Chelsea FC in 1987, which lead to the Amiga logo being

emblazoned on all of the shirts of Chelsea players.

Chelsea FC now claim that Commodore UK have failed

to pay a sum which was due as part of this deal. They are

currently planning on taking legal advice to recover this money.

Commodore UK do not seem overly worried by this possibility. “If

Chelsea had been able to wind us up, it would have been done

by now. However, they must prove that there is a genuine dispute

and there is an argument as to whether there is a valid

complaint," said a Commodore spokesman to CRN, a computer

trade newspaper.

the MoMiga system reviewed in this issue)

have been appointed as the UK distributor for

Matt Dillon’s acclaimed DICE C compiler system.

This system (a version of which was included

with Cliff Ramshaw’s "Complete Amiga C" book) is

widely regarded as one of the best C compilers

available for the Amiga.

Matt has recently finished version 3, which will

only be available as a commercial product. If you

order the program before the 31st of December, it

will only cost you £99.88. After this date, the price

will rise to £129.25. Various upgrades from previous

versions of DICE are also available. Fourth Level will

be offering technical support by E-mail, fax or

phone. Fourth Level can be contacted at: dicesales

@Flevel.demon.co.uk or on ® 0117 955 9157.

Commodore sponsored Chelsea FC over a period of three years,

with the Amiga logo appearing on every Chelsea player’s shirt.

AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 45 • JANUARY 1995

NEWS

E L S P A S T R I K E S A T C A R B O O T P I R A T E S

g LSPA ( the European Leisure Software Publishers

Association) has carried out a major raid on 14

stalls at a car boot sale in Killingbeck, Leeds. Over

7,00 0 disks were seized, with an estimated “street

value” of over £ 100,000.

"ELSPA was behind a similar raid in Killingback almost

eighteen months ago. We recently received a tip-off that

the situation there now was perhaps worse than before

that raid, and as a consequence we set about

investigating trading activities there”, said ELSPA’s chief

investigator John Loader.

The raid took place in early October. It's not clear at

the moment how this has affected the piracy scene, but

ELSPA hopes that if a sufficiently stiff sentence is

delivered against the people caught in this raid, it may

deter others .

“ In general, we’ve found that it’s not simply a few

individuals trading in illegal computer software, “said John

Loader,” the activity is widespread and can be very

organised... Some of the disks we have received in the

past have.even contained illegal pornographic images.”

down in price

The price of the CD32/CDTV

authoring system Interplay has

been reduced. It’ll now cost you

£750 (but that does include a

royalty-free stand alone player).

Optonica are also now working

on Interplay II, which will have

support for AGA screenmodes, as

well as the ability to create ISO-

9660 images which can then be

used to cut CD-ROMs.

Due to a production error, the

credit for the Interplay software

was missed off the second edition

of Amiga CD32 magazine, which

was recently released.

Apologies to Optonica for not

crediting the part that Interplay

took in creating this product.

Optonica are on ® 01455

558282.

W izard Modems

S te re o

C A D s

I f you fancy getting hold of a

modem which differs from

the norm, you should check out

these new X-Link modems from

Wizard developments. Two models

are available: the X-Link 14.4K

gives a V32bis connection and

costs £13 9 .9 9 .

A V-Fast model is also available

for £249.99. Both models can also

be used to send and receive faxes,

and Wizard will be more than happy

to sell you a copy of the excellent

Amiga Fax program GP Fax for an

extra £35. Both models are BABT approved. We’ll be reviewing both in a future issue.

Spookily enough, U.S. Robotics have also just launched a new model in their

extremely successful Sportster range. The snappily named Sportster 28,800 uses the

new V.34 protocol to send data at a whopping 28,800 bits per second, twice as fast as

a V.32bis modem. This modem is priced at £299, although the street price is likely to

be around £250.

If the Amos Action column

in issue 43 sparked off

your curiosity for those

weird 3D stereogram

things, you may be

interested to know that

JCA Europe have just

launched "Stereo CAD", an

object-orientated

Stereogram creator.

This program (which

costs £29.95) will import

any IFF file and convert it

to a stereogram, or you can

create your own “3D”

scene within the program.

JCA Europe are on:

a 01734 452416,

Fax: 01732 451239

IS f-l 1*4®

Bruce Smith books have launched

the latest in their Mastering

AmigaDOS series. Mark Smiddy

has written “Mastering AmigaDOS

- Scripts Programming", a 320

page book which covers the

incredibly powerful scripting power

of AmigaDos.

The price of the book is

£19.95. Bruce Smith Books are

on ® 01923 894355

DIRECTORY OPUS 5

In an unrelated move, Wizard Developments will also be handling Directory Opus 5,

which will hopefully be released in December. The author of Directory Opus (Jonathan

Potter) has split from Inovatronics and. is working with Greg Perry, the author of GP Fax.

Directory Opus 5 will cost £59.95, with an upgrade offer of £24.99 from previous

versions. Wizard developments are on ® 01322 272908 and U.S.

Robotics are on ® 0753 811180.

Autoboot gets

booted down

Following our review in issue 44,

the author of the program

“Autoboot” (Colin Yarnell) has

decided to drop the price to £4

(including p&p).

Colin can be contacted at: 93

Manchester Road. Wilmslow,

Cheshire, SK9 2JQ.

Meet our sisters

but, oh so sadly, they failed to secure

the exclusive review of this year’s

biggest game - like what we did.)

Understandably, you might not be

into beat-em-ups, so for the more

serious Amiga users A F takes a

close look at R IS C processing,

reviews the latest CD hard and

software, examines a trio of 3D

effects packages and pits Wordworth

3 .1 against Final Writer 3 .”

Zeewolf, Cannon Fodder 2 and -

exclusively - Sensible World of

Soccer. And as you reach the end,

and find yourself back at the cover,

you’ll spot two disks packed with

demos of Aladdin, Zeewolf and

Sensible Golf.”

AM IG A

Chroma have launched the first in

o co rio Q n f H IQ U Q a im p rl a t th p

AM IG A

M O R T A L O

Jonathan Davies, Editor of Amiga

Power - “The sleek, black December

issue of Amiga Power is ideally

suited to Amiga owners with an

interest in playing games. It opens

to reveal a six-page feature on

Mortal Kombat 2, followed by the

exclusive revelation of an Amiga

version of Super Street Fighter 2.

Further page-turning will uncover a

huge feature on why helicopter

gam es are so good, reviews of

Steve Jarrat, Editor of Amiga Format -

“A F67 can be summed up in three

words: Mortal Kombat two. It’s on

the cover, on the back page, in the

contents and, nestling between

pages 4 5 and 49, we have the

world’s first full review of the Amiga

version. But to find out if it’s any

good, you’ll have to buy Amiga

Format. (You could buy Amiga Power

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AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 45 • JANUARY 1995

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