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Also in this issue

News:

Alt.WoA and K4 show reports

PCI Update

Features:

Reader’s Wives

Reviews:

Draw Studio 2

Photogenics 5

Earth 2140

Support:

Samba Printing Tutorial

Draw Studio Tutorial

Issue 8, Spring 2001

NEWS

Amiga Show

“ Dahn South ”

Contents

News

SEAL Update ...................... 4

Kickstart 4 Show Report ..... 4

Alt.WoA Show Report ......... 5

Amiga Update ..................... 9

PCI Update ......................... 12

Choosing a free call ISP ..... 27

Features

Reader’s Wives................... 10

Networking Explained ......... 14

Reviews

Draw Studio 2 ..................... 20

Photogenics 5 ..................... 24

Artec Scanner ..................... 26

Earth 2140 .......................... 28

Movie Players ..................... 30

PD Paradise........................ 32

Support

Top Tips .............................. 34

Samba Printing Tutorial....... 36

Draw Studio Tutorial............ 40

Nick Bigadike

Clubbed.info

Clubbed is published quarterly by South

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Only Amiga Made it Possible

Clubbed is designed and laid out using:

Hardware:

Amiga 3000

CyberStorm PPC/060

CyberVision PPC

128Mb RAM, about 8Gb HDD space.

Software:

Amiga OS 3.9 by Amiga

PageStream 4 by Softlogik

ImageFX 4 by Nova Design

Photogenics 5 by Paul Nolan

Final Writer 5 by Softwood

There are also some essential utilities we

couldn’t live without: Directory Opus 5,

SGrab, MCP, Turbo Print 7, MakeCD.

Our thanks to the creators of this and all

the other great Amiga software out there.

Clubbed is entirely created on the Amiga,

no other machines are used at any stage of

the design or layout process.

We have some sad news to report, long standing SEAL member Nick Bigadike

passed away in May 2001.

Nick was one of SEAL’s founding members and has always been a regular at

meetings, even before we had a venue and used to meet at member’s homes.

Nick used his Amiga for professional video work and gave an excellent SCALA

presentation to the club. One of SEAL’s most colourful characters, Nick was

always ready to debate the latest news and offer his opinion based on industry

experience. He was always looking forward to the next generation Amigas and it’s

sad he will not be here to see them released.

O k lets get the bad news out of

the way first, there will be no

SEAL-O-RAMA in 2001, boo

hiss I hear you say (well possibly), now

for the good news SEAL, ANT, Kickstart

and ASA will be hosting a new show,

World of Amiga South East which will be

sponsored by Amiga Active! This show

will be held at Hutton Poplars Hall,

Brentwood, Essex (10 minutes drive

from the M25 Junction 28 or 10 minutes

walk from Shenfield station) which is a

larger not to mention plusher and more

expensive venue than any previous UK

usergroup show.

So who’s gonna turn up at this party

then? Amiga are expecting the

AmigaOne and OS 4 to be available to

purchase at the show, and Fleecy Moss

will be attending in person. As manufac-

turers of the AmigaOne, Eyetech will

have a strong presence at the show (lets

hope they bring enough A1’s for every-

one who want’s one). As sponsors of the

show Amiga Active will be attending and

you can expect to see extensive

coverage in their magazine. Also con-

firmed are (in alphabetical order)

Analogic, Blittersoft, Forematt Home

Computing and Kicksoft. We are also

currently in negotiations with just about

every other UK based Amiga company

out there (and several overseas) and it’s

looking positive at this early stage.

All at SEAL will miss Nick, and we offer our condolences to his friends and family,

particularly Tracey his partner.

Editorial

working feature acts as a good introduc-

tion to the topic and helps you decide

which combination of the network hard-

ware and software is right for you. Then

we have a big list of links to resources that

should help you with the detail of setting

up your network (we couldn’t possibly

cover this in detail, the feature is already

the longest we’ve ever had). Finally what-

ever you think of Microsoft and Windows

many people have a Windows PC in addi-

tion to their Amiga so we cover setting up

shared printers with Samba, a topic that

doesn’t seem to be well covered on the

‘net.

If you have subscribed to Clubbed for

some time you’ll no doubt have got used to

the fact that the magazine rarely comes

out on time (but it does always come even-

tually). We are sorry about this and we do

try our best to be on time. As I hope you

appreciate with everyone volunteering

their services, work, family and other

SEAL matters (organising meetings and

shows for example) often interrupt our pro-

duction. Anyway all that has to change for

the next issue as we have to get issue 9

out in time for World Of Amiga South East.

We always appreciate contributions to the

magazine but because of this tight dead-

line they would be doubly appreciated for

issue 9. If you have ever thought of writing

something or sending in some of your work

for inclusion in Clubbed now is the time to

do it! Remember we accept any type of

article as long as it’s Amiga related, an

opinion piece is just as valuable as a

review or tutorial. Also if you don’t feel up

to writing something major, don’t worry,

why not try something short like a PD soft-

ware review? I would only ask that before

you embark on a major contribution please

contact me (at any of the addresses in the

.info panel) to ensure someone else isn’t

already working on something similar. The

deadline for contributions to issue 9 will be

mid September 2001.

Enjoy the mag,

Robert Williams, Editor

W e’re finally here with another

issue of Clubbed, welcome to

the all the new subscribers who

joined us at the Alt.WoA and Kickstart 4

shows (for those who couldn’t attend these

events we have reports starting on page 4)

sorry you had to wait so long for this issue.

Talking of shows you’ll now know all about

the new World of Amiga South East show

that SEAL is organising with ANT, ASA

and Kickstart. With four big usergroups

involved, two of whom have run shows

before, we are bringing a lot of knowledge,

resources and energy to the show. The

combination of this with new Amiga soft-

ware and hardware releases should make

World of Amiga South East something

really special, and there’s only one way to

find out if we pull it off, come along on the

big day.

Since the last issue some big things have

been announced by Amiga and their

partners, in particular Eyetech. It looks like

we may well be seeing new hardware in

the form of the AmigaOne 1200 accom-

panied by a new OS version in the form of

4.0 in October. Read all about the announ-

cements in our Amiga Update on page 9.

In the mean time it has to be said that

things have been pretty quiet in the Amiga

marketplace, new software releases have

been very thin on the ground.

One area of the market that is very

definitely not quiet are the PCI bus boards!

There are now three companies: DCE,

Elbox and Matay with boards available to

buy and all three have further products on

the drawing board. With so much PCI

news to report we once again have a

dedicated PCI Update feature on page 12.

In this issue we have several articles on

networking, an area of computing that can

be very complex and frustrating. However

when you do get a network up and running

it can be incredibly useful especially if you

have several people who want to use your

computers. Hopefully you’ll find our net-

Outside the venue (top)

The main hall (bottom)

Mailing List.......................... 43

Next Issue........................... 43

Gallery ................................ 44

cluding presentations held in a separate

suite. Topics are likely to include the

AmigaOne, Amiga OS4, and various

applications, keep an eye on the show

website for details.

The venue has a licenced bar that will

be available throughout the show (hic)

and we will also be providing snacks

and hot drinks for the hungry and thirsty!

Do The

This show will be the first in the UK to

showcase new Amiga computers since

the release of the A4000T in 1997, it’s

what we have all been waiting for all

these years, visit the show website now

to find out how to get your ticket, go on

it’s only £3!

Hyperion will be in attendance and are

sponsoring the games arena, where you

will be able to compete against other

Amiga fanatics to win copies of the

latest Hyperion games. There will be

many other attractions at the show in-

Thing

Legalese

The views expressed in this magazine are those

of the author of each piece, they do not

necessarily reﬂect the views of the editor, other

contributors or SEAL.

Please Note: Clubbed is produced by SEAL

members in their spare time, while we will always

strive to produce the magazine on time and

include all the advertised contents this is not

always possible due to other commitments. The

price you pay for Clubbed covers our costs and

nothing more, we don’t make a proﬁt from it.

If you wish to contact a contributor please send

your message to one of the addresses above and

we will pass it on.

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All other trademarks mentioned are the property

of their respective owners.

We’d like to make Clubbed more “in-

teractive” so we need your input!

www.worldofamiga.co.uk

Got a question you’d like answered

or an opinion you’d like to share?

Write to us and we’ll include it in a

letters page.

Got a tip for other readers or even an

article up your sleeve? Send it in and

you could very well see your name in

print.

Got a suggestion or comment on the

magazine? Let us know and we’ll try

and make Clubbed better for you.

The modern room

for presentations.

CLUBBED - Issue 8

Summer 2001

NEWS

Alt.WoA

SEAL Update

Kickstart 4

N ow in its fourth year the

Kickstart show has become a

regular event in the UK Amiga

calendar. This year’s show was held on

Saturday the 26th of May in a new

venue at Banstead, Surrey, just off the

M25. The new venue was much bigger

than previous years with a spacious

entrance lobby, a large hall for commer-

cial exhibitors and smaller rooms for the

games competition and usergroups.

AGM

SEAL held its second Annual General

Meeting on the 16th of March. The

meeting started with an overview of

SEAL’s activities in the past year which

was followed by Financial reports for

SEAL and Clubbed magazine. The main

task of the AGM is to elect the club com-

mittee, three committee posts were

vacant as Gary Storm, Roy Burton and

Jeff Martin had decided to step down

(thanks to them for all their work). None

of the committee posts had more than

one candidate so the following members

were elected unopposed:

Meetings

As usual we have been holding our

regular meetings every other Friday,

meeting topics have included a Scala

tutorial by Elliott Bird and an OS3.9

demonstration by Robert Williams.

When there is not an organised topic we

have a Workshop meeting where

members bring along their Amigas to get

help with problems or to show off their

system and software. This often leads to

informal demos, in the last few weeks

we have seen IFusion, Shogo,

Photogenics 5 and many more products

demonstrated in this way.

A mazingly there hasn’t been an

Amiga show in the north of

England for many years

(maybe there has never been one),

Huddersfield Amiga User Group decided

to change this by holding a show in their

native Huddersfield on the 25th of

February.

Gloustershire Amiga Group, Amiga

Support Association and Amigroups UK

had tables along with a couple of in-

dividuals. Most groups were selling

second hand gear and handing out

advice and they all had machines demo-

ing various software. Of particular inter-

est were two Mediator machines on the

GAG stand where you could get help

and advice on installing and using this

exciting new product. Paul Qureshi on

the AmigroupsUK stand brought along

the A1200 based in-car MP3 player he

is building complete with dashboard

LCD display which was very impressive.

On the SEAL table in the usergroup

area we were selling Clubbed magazine.

Even though we didn’t have a new issue

for this show sales went well, this was

largely thanks to Haydn and Chris

Emmins who manned the stand for most

of the day while Mick Sutton and I were

busy in the games area.

Kickstart had a table in the lobby where

they were attracting new members, also

on this table was a very large (21”) mon-

itor which was showing various pro-

grams during the day including Mac

Emulation and Scala. In the main hall

Eyetech had the biggest stand complete

with the Amiga One board mounted in

one of their Z4 towers populated with

PCI cards. Although the A1 was not run-

ning it was interesting to see it in the

flesh after looking at so many photos on

the ‘net. Going round the hall Weird

Science had a huge number of CDs at

knock-down prices, Amiga Active were

selling mags and taking subscriptions,

Blittersoft had some hardware and soft-

ware including IFusion on sale,

Forematt Home Computing had their

range of utilities and games as well as

100% Amiga magazine, Analogic had a

selection of hardware and last but not

least KickStart’s own KickSoft were sell-

ing their range of registered shareware.

The venue for the show was the night

club below a large pub just off the M62,

very easy to get to even for us soft

southerners. Although a night club

seems an odd venue (and this one had

all the accoutrements such as black

walls, mirrors, lasers and even bubble

tubes with floating fish!) it proved excel-

lent with enough room for the exhibitors

while still feeling friendly and cosy. The

games arena was located in the “chill

out” zone so there were plenty of

cushions to sit on while you waited to

play Sensible soccer (organised by the

guys from Blackpool I think) or Heretic II

which we organised.

John of Forematt Home Computing

looks like he’s having a good time!

In addition to these attractions Fleecy

Moss was there and seemed very im-

pressed with the show. Eyetech brought

along pictures of the Amiga One mother-

board and held a presentation at the end

of the show on the current status of the

new machine. During the show

representatives of the user groups

gathered for the first meeting of

AmiGroups UK, a new UK Amiga

usergroup organisation which began as

a mailing list organised by Paul Qureshi

of ASA. The meeting mainly consisted of

introductions and brainstorming for

ideas to help usergroups help each

other. These discussions have continued

ever since on the mailing list.

From a SEAL point of view we had a

fantastic day of magazine sales, issue 7

was fresh out at the show and sold like

hot cakes and we also did a good trade

with the few back issues we had in stock

(we could have sold many more).

Because we were meeting lots of people

for the first time we sold lots of subscrip-

tions as well as single issues. Thanks to

SEAL members Elliott Bird, Paul

Mountsey and Dave Kennedy for man-

ning our busy stand during the show and

helping out with the games arena.

Chairman - Mick Sutton

Secretary - Robert Williams

Committee Member - Chris Emmins

Committee Member - Elliott Bird

Website

The policy of updating the website after

every meeting has been well received

and we have followed it pretty strictly, in

fact the site is often updated between

meetings too. Recently we have added

a new Gallery section, the idea of this is

to show member’s Amiga related work

including images, websites and pro-

grams. So far Roy Burton, Gary Storm

and Robert Williams are featured and

we hope more members will submit work

they are proud of for inclusion soon.

The member who had agreed to stand

as treasurer did not attend the meeting

and had not offered an apology or ex-

planation. In his absence none of the

other members present were willing to

stand for the role so Mick Sutton agreed

to continue as Chairman and Treasurer.

The main sponsor of the Event was

Eyetech who had a large stand in the

centre of the main hall, other retailers

included Forematt Home Computing,

Kicksoft and Weird Science. User or-

ganisations were strongly represented, I

remember Kickstart, SEAL, Amibench

and Trogsoft and I’m sure there were a

couple of others I’ve forgotten (sorry

guys). The attendance was rounded off

by and Internet cafe run by Wirenet and

a stand selling printer supplies.

Throughout the meeting many useful

points and suggestions were raised in-

cluding how to make meetings more

welcoming to new members and ideas

for local advertising. Since the AGM the

new committee has implemented some

changes to the layout of the meeting

room that we hope will make it more

welcoming. We are also planning some

changes to meeting structure once the

quiet summer holiday period is over.

On the big screen in the games area

was the ever popular Sensible Soccer

tournament organised by the Blackpool

Amiga Group who had also brought

along several machines which were run-

ning other games, I noticed Quake and I

think Napalm amongst others. Mick

Sutton and I ran the Shogo tournament

on our machines which went really well

apart from a few crashes. Everyone

seemed to be impressed with the look

and speed of the game. The final winner

of Shogo was Paul Qureshi who won a

hard drive from Analogic and a years

subscription to our Clubbed magazine.

Altogether we enjoyed the show and

thought the venue was a great improve-

ment over previous years, sadly I think

that the attendance was lower than the

organisers hoped. This was probably

mainly due to the excellent bank holiday

weather and possibly to the current mar-

ket position where new products like the

Amiga One have already been

announced and extensively previewed

on the ‘net but are not actually out yet.

Anyway thanks to everyone involved at

Kickstart for all the effort they put into

the show.

Amiga Acrive

Issue 22 (July 2001) of Amiga Active,

has an excellent four page feature on

Amiga usergroups. It describes the

many ways usergroups contribute to the

Amiga community and the reasons

people might want to join their local

group or even start a new one. The

article includes quotes from SEAL’s

chairman Mick Sutton, a paragraph or

two on this very magazine and SEAL’s

contact details. Also included are a

photo of our stand at the alt.WoA show

and a screengrab of this website. As if

this wasn’t enough later in the mag you’ll

find a Shogo review written by SEAL

member and publicity guy Gary Storm.

Thanks to Amiga Active for the excellent

coverage!

In addition to the Amiga vendors there

were also two generic suppliers one with

a huge range of paper, ink and other

printer supplies and the other with

generic hardware including scanners

and printers. On a slightly negative note

I was disappointed to see that apart

from the Kicksoft stand (where Ray

McCarthy was doing his usual excellent

demos and sales pitch) none of the

other exhibitors had a single Amiga run-

ning to demo hardware or software.

Club Amigas

SEAL has purchased an A4000 desktop

club machine for use by members at

meetings. This started life as a basic

‘030 machine with a Picasso II, over the

last few months we have upgraded it

with a Commodore A3640 ‘040 ac-

celerator which was donated to the club

by Elliott Bird and a Picasso IV, another

donation. These are two of several equi-

pment donations which have been mode

to SEAL over the last few months, in the

near future we will be making this equip-

ment available to members of the club

for a small donation to funds, some of

the larger items may be raffled.

The usergroups were housed in a small

but airy room with big windows along

one wall, in addition to SEAL

Overall everyone we’ve spoken feels

this was a great show, the excellent

venue gave the show a very friendly

feeling and having a bar so close by was

also a boon (except for those of us who

had to drive :) ). Perhaps because this

was the first show for so long in the area

all the visitors seemed really keen and

positive and by all accounts the retailers

did very nicely. Hearty congratulations to

the HAUG guys who handled their first

show like old pros!

Want to know more?

Members and non-members alike are

very welcome to visit the SEAL website

where you can find up to date meeting

reports and news of all the latest hap-

penings, surf to: www.seal-amiga.co.uk.

Eyetech’s AmigaOne 1200 Prototype.

Fleecy at the SEAL stand.

CLUBBED - Issue 8

Summer 2001

NEWS

Individual

and Petsoff

have Flipped!

Boing is Back

Hyperion News

BPlan Pegasos Prototypes

Amiga have released an update to

AmigaOS 3.9, in the form of Boing Bag

1. In addition to some minor updates

and bug fixes BB1 includes a Reaction

GUI for Genesis prefs and the long

awaited ASyncWb utility. The latter adds

asynchronous copying and deleting to

Workbench, now you don’t have to wait

for these file operations to complete

before you do something else with

Workbench, most excellent!

Download the update now from:

www.amiga.com/3.9

Just before Christmas last year German

company BPlan announced their inten-

tion to build a new PowerPC based

motherboard codenamed Pegasos.

BPlan state that they see two main mar-

kets for the machines based on the

motherboard, LinuxPPC and Amiga

users. BPlan are working with the

MorphOS team to get their PowerPC

Amiga compatible OS working on the

Pegasos in fact some of the MorphOS

team also work for BPlan. We also know

that there have been some discussions

between Amiga and BPlan although no

results have yet been announced. The

initial specifications for the Pegasos are:

As we have reported in previous issues

Hyperion have been busy porting a

number of top games for high end

Amiga gamers. Their first game, Heretic

II, was very well received and now their

second is out...

The Petsoff Partnership have joined

forces with Individual Computers (of

Catweasel and Buddha fame) to pro-

duce a new version of Petsoff’s Delfina

DSP sound card. The new board known

as the Delfina “Flipper Edition” has been

partially redesigned to improve bus per-

formance, it can now achieve over

5Mb/s transfer rate across the Zorro II

bus. This enhanced performance allows

more voices to be played at once and

lower CPU usage per channel played

than previous Delfinas (and other sound

cards according to Petsoff’s announce-

ment). The Delfina’s Digital Signal

Processor is (as far as I’m aware)

unique among Amiga sound cards and

means it can perform special effects and

even play MP3’s with minimal load on

the Amiga’s CPU. The first new boards

should be available this summer and will

cost 189 Euros which is around £120.

Shogo

Shogo is a manga themed first person

perspective 3D shooter. Shogo’s action

is tied together by a story line that allows

you to fight both on foot and in giant

mechanical robots. This gives a lot of

variety in locations and game play, for

example you might be outside in a city

or desert in your Mech or inside a build-

ing on foot. The two modes also have

different weapons, yet more variety.

Shogo requires a PPC system but

seems to run a little faster than Heretic II

overall.

PowerPC G3 or G4 processors, the

highest currently available speed is

733Mhz.

releases so far, even a 68K version is on

the cards (no promises at this stage)

although that would need a 3D graphics

card. The game features advanced

physics and breathtaking 3D effects in-

cluding deadly asteroid fields and

massive capital ships. The missions

form a detailed campaign where your

performance makes a difference to the

game’s progression. Both the enemies

and your wing men are controlled by

sophisticated artificial intelligence which

adapts to your abilities. Sounds like a

blast!

iFusion

Released

• Micro ATX Motherboard

• 133Mhz Processor slot and 133Mhz

SDRAM

• AGP slot

• 3 PCI slots

• USB and Firewire

• 10/100 MB/s Ethernet

• 100Mb/s UDMA IDE controller

• PS/2 mouse and keyboard, serial and

parallel ports

• The board will support one or two

In April BPlan posted the first images of

a prototype Pegasos with LinuxPPC run-

ning. Ralph Schmidt, the lead program-

mer of MorphOS, has said that the work

on the Pegasos verion of their OS is

progressing but they won’t show it at

Amiga events until it is completed to

their satisfaction.

After a very long wait Microcode

Solution’s Power Mac emulator, iFusion,

has been released. Sadly due to a prob-

lem with WarpUp iFusion only works on

Amigas with a CyberStormPPC card

and not the more popular BlizzardPPC

cards for the A1200 at the moment.

According to Blittersoft, Microcode’s dis-

tributor, there is nothing they can do

about the problem until Haage and

Partner can modify WarpUp, which is

being worked on.

SiN to be AmigaOne Only

Hyperion have decided that SiN, a

Police themed 3D shooter set in the fu-

ture, that was to be released soon will

now be held back until the Amiga One is

released as it needs too much power to

play well on existing Amiga PPC

systems. Although it is based on the

same Quake II engine as Heretic II other

aspects of the game make it more

demanding. According to Steffan

Hauser, one of Hyperion’s developers,

“Sin has really heavy AI Code... this is

the problem”.

www.bplan-gmbh.de

www.morphos.de

for more information visit Hyperion’s

website at:

The Petsoff and Individual Computers

websites can be found at the following

addresses:

www.petsoff.com

www.jschoenfeld.com

Repulse is Spreading

www.hyperion-software.com

After several delays Alien Design’s

Repulse sound card is now available

and pre-orders have been shipped. The

Repulse is a high quality Zorro II card for

any Amiga with Zorro slots (A2/3/4000

and A500/A1200 with Zorro II bus

board). Some of its features include:

• All inputs (except S/P-DIF) can be

mixed together. It’s possible to record

not just from one input, but from all

simultaneously.

Their games can be purchased from

your friendly Amiga dealer.

Petsoff’s Delfina lite,

one cool looking Zorro card!

On those machines where it does work

iFusion seems to be a bit of a mixed bag

(speaking as a user with an CyberStorm

in my A3000) the core emulation seems

to work well and is compatible with most

Power Mac programs. However iFusion

does lack many useful features, there is

no serial port, parallel port or networking

support so surfing the net and printing

are out. Also the current release of

iFusion does not have accelerated

graphics drivers so the screen redraw

can be slow, this makes the emulation

seem slower than it really is.

Included software:

• AHI driver

• Toccata emulation

• Stream player to play encoded data

via S/P-DIF output

• Stream extractor to extract encoded

streams S/P-DIF input

• Full version of SoundFX!

• Driver for ProStation Audio of

AudioLabs

• Many tools, shareware and demo ver-

sions on CD.

Descent: Freespace The

Great War

This “space combat simulator” is likely to

be Hyperion’s next release, it is set to

have the lowest requirements of all their

• Sampling rates from 8 to 48 kHz in-

cluding 44.1 kHz and 96 kHz S/P-DIF

• Support for 16 bit, 18 bit, 20 bit and 24

bit (S/P-DIF) samples in mono or

stereo

• Enhanced full duplex recording

• 1x optical digital output (max 24 bit/ 96

kHz, S/P-DIF compatible)

• 1x optical digital input (max 24 bit/ 96

kHz, S/P-DIF compatible)

• 1x stereo line in (extern)

• 1x stereo line out (extern)

• 1x mono microphone in (extern)

• 1x independent stereo headphones

out (extern)

• 3 internal stereo inputs to connect CD-

ROMs etc.

Open YAM

YAM (Yet Another Mailer) is probably the

most popular Amiga EMail program,

largely due to its freeware status and

powerful set of features. YAM’s author

recently made it open source so it could

be developed by any member of the

Amiga community and soon a team

formed to continue development. The

first fruit of their work is now available in

the form of YAM 2.3. The new version

includes new features, bug fixes and

changes, many to make YAM use the

latest MUI custom classes, there is also

a MorphOS version available. The new

features in this first open source release

are fairly minor but much bigger things

are promised for the future, keep your

eye on the YAM website at:

Kicksoft Gives You More

(and gets Clubbed!)

Development is continuing, some initial

problems have been fixed and one

major feature, sound support, has been

added so there is hope, upgrades are

available from the Blittersoft website.

Whether the WarpUp problem can be

sorted remains to be seen.

Since our last issue Kicksoft have greatly

extended their range of pre-registered

shareware and commercial Amiga soft-

ware. They can now supply products such

as Photogenics, Art Effect, Pagestream

and many more, some of which have been

difficult to source in the UK, you can even

buy your Clubbed subscription through

Kicksoft! As we go to press Kicksoft have

just unveiled their brand new website

which has on-line ordering in US dollars,

sterling, French Francs, Deutsch Marks

and Euros on a wide range of credit and

debit cards. Facilities are also available for

people who would rather order over the

phone or pay by cheque.

If you can’t find what you want listed on

the Kicksoft website or in their advert in

this issue, contact Kicksoft via EMail or

give them a ring. They can often order a

product for you and are always adding

new products to their range.

You can find the Kicksoft website at

www.kicksoft.co.uk or phone them on

+44 (0) 1737 219280.

The Repulse costs about 200 Euros

which is about £125 direct from Alien

Design, currently I have been unable to

find a UK distributor. For more details

visit the Alien Design website:

www.aliendesign-gbr.de

iFusion is available from Blittersoft at

£149.95 and also requires MacOS 8.6 or

above (it won’t run OS X). The Blittersoft

website at www.blittersoft.com has on-

line ordering or you can phone them on

+44 (0) 870 7462118.

For more big news don ’ t forget our

news features starting on page 9!

www.yam.ch

CLUBBED - Issue 8

Summer 2001

FEATURES

NEWS

Payback

Loads to report from

Amiga this issue, Robert

Williams gets stuck in!

DynAMIte

Amiga Update

S ince our last issue Amiga Inc. have

Ever fancied blowing up your friends?

Well now here’s your chance with

DynAMIte, a freeware bomberman /

dynablaster-clone which is designed to

be played (in fact it can only be played)

over a TCP/IP network which of course

includes the Internet. Dynamite is

programmed by the Author of the excel-

lent Ami Trade Centre (the only FTP

client with built-in Tetris) so it deserves a

close look.

look), designed by players, can be

downloaded from the Dynamite website.

Anyway check it out for yourself at:

• AmigaDE hosted directly in the AmigaOS

• Personal Java

• SHEEP scripting language

• Audio System made PPC native with

drivers for EMU10K1 PCI cards.

• USB2.0 support with drivers for mouse,

keyboard and hub.

• Amiga.devices reimplemented as retar-

getable, removing the requirement for

old Amiga hardware to be present

AmigaOS 4.5

AmigaOS4.5 represents the final stage in

the creation of a native PPC OS. Its tasks

include:

• All remaining 68k OS code to be con-

verted to PPC native.

• All hardware features of the zico spec.

made accessible to developers.

• New user environment.

AmigaOS 5

AmigaOS5 represents a revolution in the

development of ‘other’ operating systems

and the evolution of the AmigaOS as it

seeks to provide the best way forwards for

users and developers. Its feature set in-

cludes:

• Brand new services model providing

• Virtual Memory

• Memory Protection

• Symmetric and Asymmetric modes

• AmigaOS4 sandbox

• and many more advanced features.

take a look at the extensive Technical

Update linked from Bill McEwan’s 12th of

April update at: www.amiga.com

Amiga One

As we mentioned above the AmigaOne

from Eyetech is scheduled to be the first

machine running AmigaOS 4.0. Since our

last issue development of the A1200 ver-

sion has continued apace, prototype

boards have been shown at several Amiga

shows in the US and the UK but so far no

machines have actually been seen run-

ning. According to the latest update on the

AmigaOne website OS4.0 shipped with the

Amiga one will support 1GB of main

memory, UDMA IDE and SCSI controllers,

Ethernet cards 2D drivers for VooDoo3

PCI/AGP and Matrox G450 PCI/AGP &

G550 AGP graphics cards. Warp3D/Mesa

3D drivers will also be shipped with the

first release of OS4.0. Sound card (with

Paula emulation), USB (keyboard and

mouse) drivers will follow as downloadable

updates so we won’t have to wait until

OS4.2 for those facilities. Eyetech now

expect the AmigaOne and OS4.0 to be

shipping to customers in the first week of

made some major announcements

relating to both the Amiga DE

(Digital Environment) and the future of

Amiga OS. From the point of view of exist-

ing Amiga users the most interesting an-

nouncement is probably that the AmigaOS

will continue to be developed to version 4

and beyond. I don’t think this means that

the 50,000 copies of OS3.9 were sold

which Fleecy Moss originally suggested

was a requirement for OS 4, instead the

strategy has been reworked so a radically

enhanced OS 4.x and 5 running on new

hardware complement the Amiga DE.

Amiga have now issued a clear plan for

OS 4 development, here is a summary of

the key features for each release:

AmigaOS 4.0

Version 4.0 is the first step to a PowerPC

native AmigaOS that takes full advantage

of Zico (Amiga’s specification for future

“Amiga” computers) compliant computers.

In this release key aspects of the OS will

be ported to PPC and the remaining 68k

code will run under emulation, no 68k

processor will be required. Even with ver-

sion 4.0 new features will be added that

have never been available in the

AmigaOS.

• PPC native Exec (OS kernel) allowing for

the following execution of PPC, 68k and

mixed (PPC+68k) executables.

• A PPC 68k emulator.

• Virtual Memory System for new ap-

plications and games.

• Graphics system with support for modern

graphics cards, Voodoo3 and Matrox

G450 drivers included in this release.

• Audio system with integrated AHI and

CAMD (for MIDI) support.

• PPC native reimplementation of FFS with

higher performance and reliability.

• New TCP/IP stack optimised for PPC,

multiplayer gaming and content serving.

We understand that initially OS4.0 will sup-

port only the Eyetech AmigaOne and an

A1200 will be required. Presumably other

hardware such as Elbox and Matay will be

supported as development continues.

AmigaOS 4.2

4.2 will continue the work started in 4.0

with more of the OS code running natively

on PPC, it will also allow all applications to

run without an older Amiga attached. More

of the features of Zico specification hard-

ware will be supported. Release 4.2 will

also see the integration of the Amiga

Digital Environment into AmigaOS.

Since releasing their criminal themed

overhead “drive-em up”, Payback, Apex

Designs haven’t stopped enhancing the

game, firstly several updates have been

made available on their website to fix

bugs and add new features. Next lots of

new maps created by players are avail-

able which extend the game a great

deal. Probably the most interesting

development is that a PowerPC version

utilising WarpUp is in the works, not only

will this play more smoothly but it in-

cludes better quality shading and realis-

tic lighting which, by the screenshots

available, takes the game to a new level

of graphical quality. The PPC version

will be a free upgrade to existing owners

so you got no excuse, buy this excellent

game now, you can even do so on-line

at Apex’s website:

amisource.de/dynamite

One of the features that is making the

game popular on the ‘net is that it can

be customised, both new levels and

styles (which give the characters a new

EMail Made

Simple

USB

Central

Simple Mail is a new open source EMail

program with a MUI GUI, in many ways

similar to YAM (which wasn’t open

source when the Simple Mail project

started) however its programmers aim to

implement features differently and add

new ones. For example Simple Mail al-

ready has a threaded message view and

hierarchical message folders not found

in YAM. The threaded message view is

a real boon as it makes reading mailing

lists much more comfortable.

www.apex-designs.net

Many Amiga users would love to be able

to add USB ports to their machine, im-

agine access to the world of cheap USB

hardware, from mice to scanners. As

with many things this is not as simple as

hooking up a USB controller to a Zorro

slot or other likely port and plugging

devices in. The USB ports themselves

need a driver and on top of that each

device needs a driver too, some devices

like keyboards and mice are pretty

generic but complex ones like scanners

will need a driver for each model.

Michael Böhmer has put together a very

interesting web page that aims to collect

information about efforts to bring USB to

the Amiga. Surprisingly he even has pic-

tures (shown below) of a USB interface

which attaches to the A1200 clock port,

so even though it has no drivers yet

there is some progress being made,

take a look at:

Simple Mail already has the basic

features required to handle simple

EMailing and it is an on going project.

New releases are made available

regularly and each one has a slew of

additional features. Download the latest

version from:

simplemail.sourceforge.net

You might ask how this fits in with Amiga’s

plans for the DE? It seems that plans for

OS 4 and beyond came about because

extending the DE to a full desktop operat-

ing system was found to be incompatible

with other key target platforms such as

PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants) and

other portable devices. For example a

modern desktop OS needs features like

memory protection and virtual memory

which are not part of Amiga DE and

adding them would be over kill on a mobile

phone. Therefore Amiga’s aim is to make a

computer running AmigaOS 4 and above

the home server which stores digital con-

tent such as video and music for access

by other devices running AmigaDE. This

computer can also be a “powerful com-

puter in its own right”. From version 4.2

AmigaOS will have Amiga DE integrated

so it can run all software and “content”

developed for the DE, another benefit will

be access to Tao’s Personal Java, giving

compatibility that AmigaOS has lacked for

a long time.

For full details of the new Amiga strategy

October this year.

For full details visit the AmigaOne section

of the Eyetech website at

www.eyetech.co.uk/amigaone.

Sharp

Amiga have announced their first “house

hold name” partner, consumer electronics

giant Sharp. Amiga will be providing

AmigaDE based “content” (that is ap-

www.e3b.de/usb/

Three shots from the upcoming

PPC Payback show the new subtle

lighting and shadow effects.

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Summer 2001

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