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ISSUE 10 • FEBRUARY 1992 • £1.25 • YOUR DEFINITIVE GUIDE

S-SAMPLE IT!

How to turbocharge your Amiga's sound

PLUS: the top-notch Audition 4 .... page 27

AMIGA VIDEO

Desktop directing is easy with Showmaker

- but is it worth the money?.......... page 72

PROPAGANDA

We show you how to use your DTP package

to produce leaflets and flyers......... page 77

MIDI BEATS

How NOT to make your drum machine

sound like every dance hit ever. ...page 114

PD WORLD

Beat your budget with all the latest low-cost

and no-cost software..................... page 154

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A T A G L A N C E

G U I D E

L ooking back over the seven years of its

for. So why isn't Commodore UK nipping this in the

bud and offering you the benefits of an official

upgrade path right now?

Well, by the end of January it could well be

doing just that - and offering to fit it for you for an

all in price of £79. Which looks like your best bet

because replacing ROMS can be a bit tricky even

when you know what you're doing.

But what about the E C S ? Sometime in spring

seem s to be the earliest possible date here but do

you want to wait that long? It could well be mid

summer knowing how the usual delays set in.

So what's to do? Why not give WTS Electronics a

call on 0582 4 9 1949 and ask for Super Denise -

you might be pleasantly surprised!

short life you could easily be forgiven for

thinking it's about time an upgrade to the

Amiga's excellent graphics and audio

capabilities was brought to market. After all, seven

years is an eternity in computing and even though

our machine's audio-visual technology has set a

standard which the PCs and Macs of this world

have, arguably, yet to surpass, the much-vaunted

Enhanced Chip Set is still unavailable for A500,

1500 and 2000 owners in the UK.

So, why the delay? New A500 Plus and A3000

owners already have the ECS up and running. But

that's not all they have to hand. There's the new

Workbench and Kickstart too. At the moment if you

want these extra goodies you have to get them

direct from Germany and the USA or get a UK

distributor to do the job for you. Already, Aquarian

Public Domain are importing the new Kickstart

ROM, Workbench disks and manuals from the USA

and will let you have them for £89. It's only a

matter of time before other companies start to

undercut them and begin to get perilously close to

the price Commodore itself proposes to sell them

To help you find what you want

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and subjects covered in ihis

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

AmigaDOS 2

AMOS

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ARexx

101

Art Department Pro

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Beginners' Answers

Business

139

Buying advice

169

Competition

Editor

170

Count and Add

127

Desktop publishing

DPaint III

DPaint IV

Drum machines

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Education

127

Flow 3

130

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 resident PD sampler Jason

Holborn scans through his latest batch to review:

• Snap 1.4 - a smart clipboard for screen grabbing

• Liner - A budget thought processor

• Smart Icon - shrink a directory to a single icon

• Flash disk - A PD equivalent to the BAD optimiser

• Label Print - automatic disk labelling the easy way

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We answer questions every month on

Gold Disk Office

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Graphics

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Home Office Kit

145

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Learning

127

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CONTENTS

IN SIDE THI

SSUE

News

Will there be a portable Amiga released this year?

109

CText and SpriteX?, AMAL and ANIMX? All will become

clear as our resident expert unravels AMOS even further

The AMOS column

AMIGA SHOPPER

Issue 10 February 1992

Editor: Andy Storer

Deputy Editor: Cliff’Ramshaw

Layout Sub-Editor: Diana Taylor

Production Editor: Alison Harper

Consultant Editors: Jeff Walker,

Mark Smiddy, Phil South

Contributors: Jason Holborn, Pat

Winstanley, Paul Andreas Overaa,

Paul Oakenden, Jolyon Ralph, Gary

Whiteley, Dean Cracknell, Mick

Draycott, Jon Bates

Guest Composer: Frederic Chopin

Ad Manager: Margaret Clarke

Senior Ad Sales Executive:

Shaun Lancaster

Ad Sales Executive: Fran Clark

Production: Tracy O'Donnell

Illustrations: Kev Sutherland,

Jolyon Webb

Cover illustration: Maff Evans

Production Technicians:

Simon Windsor, Chris Stocker,

Jerome Clough

Assistant Publisher:

Stuart Anderton

Circulation Director: Sue Hartley

Promotions Manager:

Michele Harris

Group Publishing Director:

Greg Ingham

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Talking Shop

Starting out with MIDI 114

Dum De Dum De Dum need never sound so dumb again.

Read how to give your drum machine perfect percussion

in the fourth part of our MIDI series

Amiga Shopper's Editor replies to your letters

GBRoute Plus 2

Is this the cheapest way to get from A to B?

Art Department Pro

Education 127

The latest news and reviews of educational software this

month focuses on pre-school learning packages

True 24-bit image processing is now available with

ASDG's new graphics file handler. So just how good is it?

Get your brain into gear 130

Forever forgetting that bright idea? Or having so many you

can't keep track? What you need is a thought processor

Cashflow crisis?

139

Part 2 of our spreadsheet tutorial shows you how to

successfully manage your income and expenditure

D P a i n t D e s i g n 2 2 & 3 4

Forget Warhol, forget Hockney anci don’t even consider

Business on a budget 145

How to beat the recession with an integrated package

know to become a pixel Picasso with our DPaint III and

D P .m t IV tutorials Goon! .Get to grips, with giaphtcs

User Groups list 150

Get in touch with other Amiga owners in your area by

joining a club. We list dozens across the country

Amiga Answers 41

Still staying up into the early hours? Well, relief is finally

here with sixteen pages of expert advice on your real-life

difficulties from our unrivalled panel of experts

Beginners' Answers

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

Video 72

We review the impressive Showmaker and take a look at

the Rendale Super 8802 and Rocgen Plus genlocks

Desktop publishing 77

A hands-on guide to producing leaflets the easy way - all

the info you need from concept to completion

Sampled Delights 27

CF) qudtift 011 your Aang;: for pnlj £3D? yc^> it’s tftie

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Basic programming 82

The last in our series of tutorials on the advanced use of

the Basic language

Survey 87

Your chance to tell us exactly what you think of Amiga

Shopper and what you'd like to see in future

Public Domain World 1 5 4

All the latest in public domain and shareware software

put through its paces

AmigaDOS

Now AmigaDOS 2 is finally here we look at the

enhancements and ask: Was it worth the wait?

Buying advice

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Follow our simple rules for hassle-free buying

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win a copy of DPaint IV

170

All the new Amigas are being bundled with it - but how

does it function and is it easy to use?

Yep, we have 10 copies to give away - all you have to do

is answer three easy questions

AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 10 • FEBRUARY 1992

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