AmigaShopper11-Mar92.pdf

EXPERT ADVICE • TOP TIPS • BEST BUYS • NO GAMES!

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24-BIT PAINT

Why the Harlequin graphics card gives you

more than just 16 million colours. ..page 22

ISSUE 1 1 • MARCH 1992 • £1.25 • YOUR DEFINITIVE GUIDE

FRACTUAUTY

Find out how to produce fractal animations

with the impressive Genesis ........... page 24

STEREEEEOOO!

Just how good is Stereo Master, the

successor to MasterSound?........... page 31

GET ON-LINE!

What you need and why it’s worth joining

the world of Amiga comms.............. page 34

EASY PRINTS

All you need to know to gain complete

control over your printer.................. page 82

PD WORLD

Who on Earth is Fred Fish - and why does

he have 580 PD disks for sale?... page 154

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Just got an Amiga? Turn to page 69

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Got a problem? Pages

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in the space of one

A500P version

now ready

and gives you

total 2Mb Chip

Ram. When

ordering state

which one you

require.

Now Available

with or without

MS-Dos

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HARD DISK

Most hard disks are supported with

version 3.0. To be sure give us a ring.

The KCS Power PC Board adds 1Mb memory to your Amiga and a

real time clock

Think how much 1Mb memory plus a clock costs

£_

Think how much MS-Dos/GW-Basic/Shell/Dos-Help costs

£_

Which leaves the cost of an AMIGA/PC just £— —

For so little outlay the Power PC Board turns your Amiga into an up and

running powerful PC, with no hidden costs. The cheapest PC in the world?!

Run heavyweight professional PC software on your Amiga/PC

VGA

Version 3.0 of our software (Nov/91)

comes with VGA colour and mono

option. EGA/VGA w ill w ork on all

sta n d a rd Am igas irre sp e ctive o f which

chip s e t you have.

Microsoft flight simulator 4.0

Some extra Goodies:

• F L IC K E R F R E E F IX E R in P C in te r la c e m o d e . W ill w o r k

w ith a ll A m ig a s . S o ftw a r e e m u la te d .

• P R O C E S S O R S P E E D c a n b e s lo w e d d o w n fr o m 1 0 0 % to

a s lo w a s 1 6 % , s o if y o u h a v e n e v e r re a c h e d t h e h ig h e s t

le v e l in a g a m e , n o w is y o u r c h a n c e .

• K C S P C - M O U S E d r iv e r w ill w o r k w ith y o u r A m ig a m o u s e .

• P A U S E c a n b e a c tiv a te d a t a n y tim e d u rin g a g a m e o r

p r o g r a m , a llo w in g y o u to c o n t in u e a t y o u r le is u re .

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PRICE

Including MS-DOS

and on-board

memory

£ 219.95

Inc VAT/Carr.

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NE8 1RS ENGLAND

TEL: (091) 490 1919, HELPLINE: (091) 490 0202

FAX: (091) 490 1918

C om o a tib ilitv is e xce lle n t b u t no-one can guarantee every single program available, th e re fo re if your purchase depe nds on a

p a ? u 3 a r program plea se a sk us fir s t or J L in a copy o f th e program . (W ith su ita b le S.A.E. if to be returned). Pnce su b je ct to

change w ith o u t notice.

£ 7 4 .9 5 Inc. Wholly Developed And Produced In The Netherlands

A v a ila b le fro m y o u r local c o m p u te r s h o p (If th e y h a v e n 't g o t it - A s k th e m w h y not!). O r d ire c t fro m B itcon D e vice s

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W E L C O M E

AT A G L A N C E

G U I D E

T his month we finally decided to ta ke a

good hard look at C om m odore's Dynam ic

Total Vision - CDTV. One helluva nam e,

of co u rse , but is it really so visio n ary or

d oes it ju s t put the hype into hyperm edia?

CDTV w a s designed a s a m achine to s it am ong

the hi-fi rather than on the d eskto p ; pitched firm ly

into the co nsu m er electro n ics m arket. Com m odore

initially w ent to great lengths to literally d istan ce

the m achine aw ay from com p uters by in sistin g th at

CDTV should never be displayed next to them in

high stre e t sto re s. B e ca u se com p uters are, a s we

all know, horridly com plex th ingies w hich only

boffins in an o raks buy, right? Not Mr Jo sep h

Punter. No w ay. He h a s enough trouble with his

video recorder.

But now the e m p h a sis h a s changed. CD TV has

recently been officially re-christened 'Am iga CDTV'

and had £ 1 0 0 lopped off its price. W hether th is is

due to poor s a le s of CDTV or trem end ous s a le s of

the Am iga is hard to sa y. At any rate, CDTV is now

officially w hat it w a s all along. A black box with an

Am iga and CD-ROM drive in sid e, controlled by a

neat infra-red hand-set.

Now, a s far a s softw are is concerned it's still

early d a ys. T h e re 's only a handful of title s th at do

ju s tic e to C D TV 's cap ab ilitie s. But w hat should we

exp ect from future re le a s e s ? After a ll, 6 5 0 Mb or

so of storage on a single CD is probably ju s t about

enough sp a ce to fit every 'se rio u s' piece of Amiga

softw are ever re le a se d . Oh alright th en , m aybe two

a t the m ax. All th at sp a ce alone should resu lt in

so m e useful d is k s in future - font catalo g u es,

m oving video clip s and 24-bit im age libraries ju s t

for sta rte rs. But it all re sts on hardw are s a le s to

get the developers moving.

So le t's hope the keyboards and disk-drives

com ing out for CDTV and the im m inent A 6 9 0 CD-

ROM drive for the Am iga will se ll in droves.

B e ca u se interactive CD is the future.

To help you find what you want

quickly and easily, this is a cross-

referenced list of all the products

and subjects covered in this

month's Amiga Shopper. The

subjects covered in Amiga Answers

are detailed on page 49; the many

PD programs covered on page 154

are listed there. The page numbers

given are for the first page of the

article in which the product is

mentioned.

Amiga Answers 41

AmigaDOS 90

AMOS 110

Archivers 35

Assembly language 104

Beginners' Answers 69

Boot disks 90

Bulletin boards 34

Buying advice 169

CDTV 15

Charts & Graphs 153

Code Conundrum 149

Comms 34

Competition 170

Desktop publishing 77

DTP 77

Elan Performer 2.0 72

For sale 148

Genesis 26

Graphics 22,26

Harlequin 22

KCS Power PC 143

Languages 101

Letters 13

MIDI 116

Modems 34

Music 116

NComm 36

NCommand 111

News 7

PC emulator 143

Power Scanner 77

Printers 82

Programming 104,13 3,151

Public domain 158

Reader ads 148

Samplers 31

Shareware 158

Stereo Master 31

Subscriptions 122

Talking Shop 13

Term 1.8 37

Touch Up 77

Trojan LightPen 28

TurboPrint 155

User groups 150

Video 72

Video Ease 75

Are there any products or

subjects you'd like us to take a

look at? Well, just drop a line to:

A m iga S h o p p er,

30, Monmouth Street,

Bath BA1 2BW.

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Editor

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SIXTEEN PAGES DEVOTED EXCLUSIVELY

TO ANSWERING YOUR QUESTIONS

there are thousands of Amiga programs which are

available for little more than the price of a disk. And

many more which allow you to try the software free

before you buy. Each month in Public Domain World

we examine the best of these programs and explain

how to get hold of them.

This month our new PD sampler Ian Wrigley

scans through his latest batch to review:

•Filesearch - a great err..file searching utility

•PowerSnap - a neat cut and paste screen grabber

•Terml.8A - a brilliant shareware comms program

•DirWorks - a powerful disk/file manager

•Plasma - a fast and furious fractal generator

AND THAT'S NOT ALL!... JUST TURN TO PAGE 158

Every month in Amiga Answers our panel of experts

answer more genuine reader questions than any

other Amiga magazine. And for beginners our

starter page will help you get to grips with your

Amiga, and understand the other features In this

month's issue.

We answer questions every month on

Workbench • The CLI • Comms • Programming •

DTP • Video • Business software and more.

THE ANSWERS START ON PAGE 41

BEGINNERS TURN TO PAGE 69

F 0 H A FULL LIST OF CONTENTS. TURN THE m m

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DUST COVER, 10 BLANK DISCS, DISC BOX, MOUSE MAT,

MICROSWITCH TURBO JOYSTICK

1MB AMIGA....................... ................................. £389

12MB AMIGA........................................................ £43f

\ With Philips 8833 Mk I! Monitor + Leads.................. .£588

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PLUS: Home pack including Word Processor/Spell Check, S preadsheet,!

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1MB AMIGA................... ............................ £345

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CARTOON CLASSICS S/W Games only......... £ 1 9

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Full Amigo 5 0 0 pack, WITHOUT Cartoon Classics, BUT WITH:

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PLUS: JOYSTICK

1 MB AMIGA.......................................... £325

2 MB AMIGA.......................................... £375

With Philips8833 Mk II Monitor + Leads....... .£524

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PLUS: JOYSTICK + DELUXE PAINT 11 + 10 BLANK DISCS

1 MB Amiga................. ........................................... £379

Absolute Beginners s /w pack........ .................... £55,

With Philips 8833 Mk II Monitor + Leads ....£5 74

FULL AMIGA 500 PACK, PLUS: A 5 0 1 5 1 2K RAM expansion Lets

Spell ot Home, Music Mouse, Prowrite WP, InfoFile spreadsheet, Deluxe Paint

II, Deluxe Print, Music Mouse, LOGO, Talking Turtle, BBC Emulator, 5 BBC

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HOBBYTE 30 EASY CHILDREN'S GAMES, 10 disc pack

inc; Train Set Gome, Flashbier. PLUS JOYSTICK

1MB AMIGA................................................ £449

2MB AMIGA................................................ £499

DP III instead of DP II A D D ........................ £29

With Philips 8833 Mk II Monitor + Leads............ .£648

First Steps Software Upgrade Pack.............. £149

AMIGA 1500/2000

Full UK spec, latest veson with 1MB RAM, mouse, expansion as

B2000, manuals and operating discs, including Workbench V2, Hard

disc configurations include the nigh performance GVP llcontroller+ RAM

card, expandable to 8MB. Fast reliable Quantum drives only are used.

AB systems indude 35 Programme Hobbyte PD Greats Pack

including Vims Killeis, the BEST Star Trek,Computer Conflict, Breakout and

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: Processor/Spell Check, Spreadsheet, Database.

AVAILABLE WITH OR WITHOUT THE Al 500 SOFTWARE

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Paint III, PLUS EITHER: Sim City, Populous, Their Finest Hour,

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OR: Puznik, Toki, Digita Home Accounts, Amiga Book

Without Al 500 With Al 500

Software Pack Software Pack

DUAL DRIVE 545 or 3 7 9 * 595

) + GVP + 20 MB HD 699 759

ID D + GVP + 52 MB HD 845 895

' ) + GVP + 52 MB + 2MB RAM 9 1 5 o r 7 9 9 * 965

) + GVP + 1 0 5 AAB HD 999 1039

DD + GVP +105 MB +4MBRAM 1099 1139

EXTRA RAM (FITTED IF REQUIRED) £70 PER2MB

SPECIAL MONITOR DEALS WITH Al 500/2000

i Philips 8833/C B M Colour Monitor and leads................ ADD £195

j High Res Colour Monitor CBM 1950 and flicker fix e r...... ADD £545

* These prices when you trade in your ownold A 500.

I Additional trade in allowances for most ASOO peripherals.

Trade-ins available on other configurations.

PHONE FOR DETAILS

* SOFTWARE *

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OR ANY Fun School OR Digita Home Accounts

PLUS: 10 Blank Discs, Disc Box, Mouse Mot, Dust Cover, joystick +

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1MB Amiga Pock......................................... £439

1MB Amiga Pack PLUS Monitor.................... £628

As above PLUS Star LC 200

Colour Printer + Leads............ .................... £819

£39.99

Platinum Works

£SfcW

£49.99

£ A *.¥ i

Amos

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Fun School 4

£14.99

£ 2 4 .5 9

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Hobbyte 52 MB, A590 Hard Drive for Amiga 500

Reviewed 'BEST BUY' by Amiga Computing Dec '91 £399 INC P+P

extra 2 MB RAM £70

EXTRAS in c VAT

Star LC200 colour printer with leods..................................................................£ 1 7 9

Stor LC24-200 colour printer with leads............................................................ £ 2 6 9

Citizen Swift 9 pin colour printer with leods.......................................................£ 1 7 9

Citizen Swift 24e pin colour printer with leods................................................. £ 2 7 9

Citizen Swift 224 colour p rinter..........................................................................£ 2 3 9

Commodore stereo colour monitor, + leads.......................................................£ 2 2 9

Second external 3.5" drive with doisychoin through port and disable switch.....£ 4 7

| A501 The Official CBM 512K RAM exp.................................................................. £ 3 9

512K RAM Expansion + Clock..................................... .........................................£ 2 9

1MB RAM Expansion for Amigo 500 Plus.........................

GVP A500 52 MB H0+2MB...............................................

I AT once AT Emulator for A500............................................

! A590 20MB Hard drive.....................................................

I A590 20MB Hard drive + extra 2MB...............................

! A590 52MB Hard drive.....................................................

10 blonk discs 100% guaranteed with PIN no in box......

50 blank discs 100% guaranteed with PIN n o .................

Supro A500 RX 8MB RAM expansion, populated to 2MB

G2 Genlock for 2000/1500 .............................................

A2300 internal genlock for 2000/1500..........................

A2088 XT Bridge Board, 640K, MS DOS 3.3 + 5.25" drive, for 2000/1500 ..£119

2286 AT Bridge Board......................................................................................... £ 34 9

A2058 8MB RAM exp board, populated to 2MB, for 2 000/1500 ................... £ 1 9 9

8UP 8MB RAM exp board, pop to 8MB for 2 00 0/1 50 0 ...................................£ 3 9 9

A2630 68030 card, populated to 2MB for 2000/1500....................................£ 9 9 9

Microway Flicker Fixer for 2 000/1500............................................................. £ 1 2 5

G V P/20M B C

GVP/52MB Quantum HD (for A2000/1500 takes up tc

GVP/100MB Quantum HD (for A2000/1500 takes up to 8MB RAM)..

CBM 1950 Monitor + Microway Flicker Fixer...

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St. Albans, Herts AL3 5DG. Please allow 7 working days for

cheque clearance. Subject to availability, despatch is norm ally

w ith in 2 4 hours o f receipt o f cleared p aym ent. Prices are correct

a t tim e o f going to press, however, w e ore som etim es forced to

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Small comsumables X Despatched by post, please check

software items charges when ordering

Other item s, except losers N ext doy courier service, £ 1 0 per box

Laser printets Next day courier service, £ 1 7 .5 0

Offshore and Highlands Normal rate plus £ 2 0 + VAT per box

In addition w e offer the follow ing express services:

Saturday deliveries

CBMCDTV

WITH FREE LEM MINGS, HUTCHISONS nnun

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4 4 7

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FULL RANGE OF ACCESSORIES AND TITLES AVAILABLE

NO DEPOSIT CREDIT FACILITIES (U K m ain lan d )

Credit terms a t 34.8% APR (variable) can be arranged fo r puchases over £ 1 5 0 ,

subject to status. Competitive leasing schemes are also available fo r businesses,

including sole traders and partnerships. Just telephone fo r written details and

application form .

S Quantum HD (for A2000/1500 takes up to 8MB RAM) .£189

Juantum HO (for A2000/1500 takes up to 8MB RAM) ...............£329

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PHILIPS 8 833 COLOUR MONITOR, LEADS

(W ITH A NY PACK)

GOLDSTAR W/MONITOR

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AMIGA SHOPPER

Issue 11 March 1992

Editor: Andy Storer

Deputy Editor: Cliff Ramshaw

Layout Sub-Editor: Diana Taylor

Production Editor: Alison Harper

Consultant E d ito rs: Jeff Walker,

Mark Smiddy, Phil South

Contributors: Jason Holborn, Paul

Andreas Overaa, Jolyon Ralph,

Gary Whiteley, Dean Cracknell,

Mick Draycott, Phil Harris,

Ian Wrigley

G u est Com poser: Benjamin Britten

A d M anager: Margaret Clarke

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N e w s

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Three brand new Amigas, a 386SX Bridgeboard and the

A690 CD-ROM drive are ail waiting in the wings

How to get good grabs with a digitiser - Plus NewTek's

Elan P erform er 2 . 0 - the best presentation package yet?

T a l k i n g S h o p

1 3

D e s k t o p p u b l i s h i n g

7 7

Amiga S h o p p e r's Editor replies to your letters

News of a top-notch low-cost hand scanner

H a r l e q u i n 2 2

24-bit colour boards are arriving thick and fast but there

are 16.7 million reasons why this is one of the best

A m i g a D O S

9 0

How to create your own custom boot disks

L a n g u a g e s : A s s e m b l e r

1 0 4

G e n e s i s 2 6

Creating detailed fractal worlds has never been easier

Just how iow can you go to program efficiently?

T h e A M O S c o l u m n 110

AMOS TOME laid bare, easy sprite positioning and Oasis'

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B r a v e n e w w h i r l s

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M a s t e r i n g M I D I

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How to get your MIDI codes under complete control

P r o g r a m m i n g 1 3 3

Learn to program like the professionals with our brand

new beginners' guide

Hypermedia or just plain old hype? Black beauty or white

elephant? S h o p p e r spins the top disks through

Commodore's CDTV and asks whether it has a future as

a machine for the serious user

U K U s e r G r o u p s

1 5 0

Get in touch with other Amiganauts in your area

C o d e C o n u n d r u m

Win yourself £50 with a little cunning coding!

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W r i t i n g w i t h l i g h t

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Does a lightpen make grappling with graphics easier?

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S t e r e o M a s t e r

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S h o p p e r sounds out the latest MIDI sampler

T h e w o r l d o f C o m m s 3 4

Find out why and how you can benefit from going on-line

with the first installment of our new Comms series

B i g B l u e A m i g a s 1 4 3

The days of PC emulators with 4 colour CGA graphics

are over. KC S's new Power PC board is the first to

handle VGA - but is it worth buying?

A m i g a A n s w e r s 4 1

How to stop hair loss the easy way! You need never have

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Turn here for all the latest PD and shareware releases

P e r f e c t P r i n t i n g 1 4 3

Don't be perplexed by your Printer Preference panel

any longer. This six-page special tells you all you

need to know to get the most from your printer

B u y i n g a d v i c e

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B e g i n n e r s ' A n s w e r s

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If you're new to the Amiga, this is the place to start

AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 11 9 MARCH 1992

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