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FEATURESNow HEAR THIS! BJ Mitch Wens .... 20Eight easy sampling tips to help you ere-ate beuer-qualhy, more polished Amigaaudio for your business presentations,home-video productions, or any otherapplication requiring sound or music.
PATCHWORK BJ Tim TaU, 26Harnessing the potential of MIDI synthe-sizers depends on effective patch editors.Which editor/librarian offers high-perfor-mance support for the synthesizer youneed?
MAKING 'SPARKS' FLYBJjanjacluon 32Noted jazz/blues guitarist and composerMelvin Sparks thinks using an Amiga lO
help him write music is definitely hip.
ARTICLESTHE AMIGA WORLD HARDWAREBUYER'S GUIDE Compiled byJan Jackson and Tim Walsh 34Nobody has an in with hardware devel-opers like our gal Jan. So when she says,"Is that a new add-on/peripheral in yOUT
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COLUMNSCHIEF CONCERNS B, Doag Barn" .... 6From the keyboard cacophony we'vebeen hearing from his office this pastmonth, we think the editor is ready 10
mount a synthesizer assault on CarnegieHall ... but if he fails we're laking awayhis music software and returning hisukelele.
ACCENT ON GRAPHICSBJ jo<l Hagen 56Take the "pencil test" this month in thefirst of a twa-pan series on freehand ani-mation using popular paint programs.
INFO.PHILE By MorA L. Von Nom~ andBill Catchings •.................... 58New Amiga users get more helpful Work-bench tips in the second installment ofinfo.phik's "Back to Basics" mini-series.
POINTERS B,john Foust 62"Routine" advice on managing memoryresources in C.
COVER PHOTOGRAPH BY ED JUDICEPIANO COURTf,SV Of HOUSE or GEUNAS
"Piny it again, Sam ... if you 've gol enoughRAM." Music and sound are the high notes Ihismonth. As time goes by, the Amiga is becoming aserious sound machine-s-umether for makingmusic or adding audio oomph to multimediaappluations.
DEPARTMENTSREPARTEE 8Drop us a line with what's on your mind.
NarEPAD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10Some great-looking pictures from outer'space are becoming available on Amiganets. Plus news from Commodore.
WHAT'S NEW? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. I()()We don't know whether hemlines will beup or down this spring, but we do knowwhat's in fashion in software, hardware,and other newware.
HORS D'OEUVRES 104Take a tip-take several-from your fel-low AW readers. .
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REVIEWS68030 ACCELERATOR BOARDS,A2630 (Commodore), HURRICANE 2800(IMtronics), and IMPACT A3000/A4000(Great Volt., Prodacls) 12Who will gain the pole position in the68030 Derby? Our reviewer rates threecontenders on performance, value anddesign.
MIDI SAMPLE WRENCH(dissidents) 80This MIDI sample-editing program hasdozens of wonderful features-but youcan't use it with every sampler.
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GAMESCRIB NarES 66Unlike Mr. Connery, "Crib Notes" colum-nist Peter Olafson may not be the "SexiestPerson Alive," but he's been getting ac-quainted with Sean, Harrison, and the restofthe crew in "Indiana Jones and the LastCrusade" (plus a few other game favorites)to give you tips on beating the odds. Gamereviews follow his column:
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USING COMPUTERS lD create andplay music is a double-edged sword.Swords are plenty of fun to hack awaywith, but not much fun when they sliceyour finger off.
For some musicians and composers,computers are the greatest thing sincegroupies. They can create artificial or-chestras, allowing an individual to com-pose and playa symphony withoutknowing how to play any of the instru-ments. They can help fill in the gaps inan undermanned jam session, and theytremendously ease the highly detailedand tedious work of creating complexcompositions.
Most importantly, they allow non-mu-sicians such as myself to make noise, andsometimes even pleasant sounds.
Also, computers in general are reli-able. Unlike real musicians, computersdon't have cars that break down, hang-overs, or appointments to keep else-where. They are never distracted byfans, and as long as the power supply isgood, they keep a good steady beat. Andin the long run they are world's cheaperthan a group of skilled musicians. Inshort, computers are an almost infallibletool that has helped ease the creationand playing of music.
Amigas are particularly good for mu-sic, and superbly adept at handling theintegration of music, video andanimation.
But computers-even Amigas-are notmusicians. They have trouble duplicatingthe raw sound of an acoustic guitar or aset of jazz drums. And it is very difficultfor them to be spontaneous.
Like all machines, computers have thenasty habit of throwing people out of
6 March 1990
CHIEF CONCERNSTune in or turn of!?
work. Rock drummers, particularly stu-dio-based one's, have really suffered fromthe advent of computer-driven drummachines. Instead of arms flailing, mi-crochips keep careful synchopation.There are fewer mistakes, but thatslightly off, unmistakably human soundof a real drummer is missing from studiotracks.
Sometimes computers are a bother inthe studio. For musicians who are notcomputer-oriented, computers can bemore annoying than a rock critic. Atsome jam sessions, the bassist and guitar-ists simply plug in, and the drummersets up. Then some technology-drivenkeyboard player gets the disk driveswhirring. After that, the pace is dictatedby the computer. "Oops! Wrong file.Hold it." Meanwhile, the real musicianssit idly by while the computer kills theentire spirit of the session.
There is a more insidious side to com-puters in music. While it is great thatcomputers allow people like me to createsound, it is not great if I force you tolisten to it. Computers have createdmore bad music than anything, exceptmaybe the ukelele. Computers them-
selves are not pioneers. They cannot dowhat Beethoven or Miles Davis or PeteTownshend have done, which is createnew ways of looking at music, and carrytheir vision through to its ultimate, hu-man manifestation.
Fortunately with computers, the goodusually outweighs the bad. And in music,computers have done many. many greatthings. No longer do composers sit withpen in hand, carefully forming notes,and then start all over again when theymake a mistake. Instead, they can put apiece through its paces, over and overagain, until it is correct. Then a laserprinter can deliver the score with speedand beauty. The end result is oftenmuch better than that created by a tiredcomposer with writer's cramp.
Computer musicians should keepthese lessons in mind, and use com-puters only where they are most appro-priate. Professionals and near-professionals should use computers, notabuse them. Sometimes an old-fashionedjam session is the way to go. Buddingmusicians should experiment as much asthey like, but keep the awful soundingresults to themselves.
As for me, I'll keep playing with thegreat music software packages that comethrough our offices. Because I happen tolike my staff, I'll try to keep the doorshut. •
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J. VANDER Brook's letterabout the marketing and salesof Amiga products ("Dealingwith Dealers," Repartee, Jan.'90, p. 8) was so much on tar-get it's uncanny! He's right.Retail outlets that sell Amigasare not much more than per-sonalized video arcades, wherestore staff engage in one-on-one sessions on games and inpersonal, time-consuming con-sultations on the use of thecomputer. On the other hand,stores that deal in IBM and/orApple products seem to takeeach customer more seriously.
I suspect this is because(after all these years), theAmiga line is still not beingtaken very seriously by thepublic. It's thought of as justanother great game machine.And Commodore's answer toall of this? Running TV com-mercials with flying houses,and calling the whole issue"creativity."
G. MajewskiChicago,IL
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8 March 1990
REPARTEEComments, complaints, and concerns
from Amiga World readers.
gered by Mr. Vander Brook'scondemnation of the Amigadealer as the source of poorAmiga sales.
Apple and IBM retailer'have the reputation and excel-lent marketing of their respec-tive companies to bolster thesalability (and prices) of theirproducts. Amiga dealers typi-cally have to do their own ad-vertising to stir up business.They must explain why such awonderful machine is not theleading computer, regardlessof its excellent capabilities andlow price.
The lower cost of Amigaproducts result in smallerprofits for the Amiga dealer,restricting their resources.That laser printer that Mr.Vander Brook wanted to seein every Amiga store wouldhave cost the Amiga dealeraround $4000-money thatthe dealer could more effec-tively spend on software andhardware that the typical com-puter enthusiast would bemore likely to buy.
I also take offense to his at-tacks on the capabilities ofdealership staffs. I was proudof everyone who sold and sup-ported the Amiga alongsideme, and I did my very best togive my customers what theyneeded. At the store I workedfor, we gave the customer freesupport for life.
Also, the people who putproducts on back order aredistributors, not dealers.
Those matters are completelyout of the dealer's control.
I pray that people with thisattitude about their Amigadealer someday go into busi-ness for themselves, so thatthey can see what it is like inthe dealer's shoes. Commo-dore is causing poor Amigasales, and the dealer is beingmade into the scapegoat.
Nikola DerpichWatsonville, CA
IN THE NAMEOF SCIENCEIN HIS NOVEMBER ·89 edi-torial (""ChiefConcerns," p. 6),Doug Barney deplores thelack of marketing of the Amigafor applications such as multi-media, desktop video and ani-mation. However, he makesno mention of the use of theAmiga for scientific analysisand presentation of data. Inthe Repartee and Help Keycolumns of the same issue, thelack of suitable software forsuch applications is pointedout, and I think it is for thisreason that the Macintosh iscapturing much of the ex-panding market of scientistsand science students.
Spreadsheet programs suchas MaxiPlan Plus (IntuitiveTechnologies) and Analyze!(Micro-Systems) will not fit
mathematical functions to dataand display the fitted curves.Math-Amation (faurus-Impex)has some of this capability, butlack, the ability to handle hy-perbolic and parabolic func-tions, fit multiple regressions,or carry out analysis ofvariance.
I cannot recall a single arti-cle in Amiga World that ade-quately dealt with the subjectand critically reviewed avail-able software. If good softwaredoes exist for scientific appli-cations, it is certainly notbrought to the attention of thecustomer.
May I suggest you invite sci-entists using Amigas to com-ment on software they use orwould like to see developed.This might bring to light pro-grams that many peoplewould find valuable and per-haps give guidance to softwaremanufacturers.
K.A. FergusonQueanbeyan, NSW, Australia
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Recently, Amiga owners have been treated to amazingly high-quality Voyager images on electronic bulletin boards, thanks toimaging specialist Bob Deen of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory inPasadena, California, command center for the craft's missions. Bobtransforms data from JPL's Multimission Image Processing Lab-oratory into IFF formal. He resizes Voyager's 800 X BOO-pixelres-olution images to fit Amiga resolution and aspect ratio, thenconverts them to monochrome IFF format, and downloads themto an Amiga. For color, the separate red, green, and blue com-ponents are merged using Perfect Vision (SunRize Industries)software into a single HAM image. Bob does not limit himself toVoyager images though; he alsoconverts data sent back by Viking,Landsat, and other craft. Mars,Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and evenEarth are represented in the gallery.
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A2630
HURRICANE 2800
IMPACT A3000/4000
Faster, faster, faster!
By Sheldon Leemon
THE FIRST AMIGA speedsters couldrun programs two or three times as fastas a stock machine by adding a 68020accelerator board LO their systems. Now,there is a group of 68030 acceleratorboards that run two to three times as fastas the 020 boards. and up to ten times asfast as an A2000. These screamers, Com-modore's A2630, Imtronics' Hurricane2800, and GVP's Impact A3000 andA4000, provide performance on a parwith the fastest of desktop computers.
Each of these boards fits into theAmiga 2000's Sti-pin coprocessor SIOland increases the computer's perfor-mance in a number of ways. For onething, the 68030 processor can operateat much higher clock speeds than the68000 (your computer's stock processor)or 68020. The Hurricane 2800 boardruns at 28 MHz, twice as fast as the68020 boards, and four times the speedof the standard A2000 processor, whilethe Impact board runs at speeds from 25to 33 MHz. The A2630 normally runs at25 MHz, but can also run faster.
Like the 68020 processor, the 68030has a 256-byte instruction cache, whichallows short program loops to run en-tirely within the processor's own mem-ory, eliminating the time required tofetch instructions. In addition, it has a
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256-byte data cache, so you can accessfrequently-used data without taking the.time to retrieve it from main computermemory.
Use of the data cache speeds up pro-gram execution significantly, but cancause problems with DMA devices, in-cluding DMA hard-drive controllers. Theproblem is that the CPU does not knowwhen DMA devices change the contentsof the memory. Thus, if the 68030 hasthe data at location 100,000 cached, anda DMA device changes the contents ofthat memory location, the CPU willthink that its cached data is valid, andwon't read from memory if it needs thedata at that location. Although such anoccurrence is not very likely, it intro-
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Y",I have eight megs of 32-bit RAM on my25 MHz Impact board and have foundit to be very reliable, although 1 wouldlike to exceed the nine-meg limit. I likethe fact that it has a host adapter forrunning a hard disk. GVP has beensupportive.
-Craig HoUnt1HJc1cCos Cob, CT
duces the possibility of error. All of theboards have hardware protection tokeep them from caching data containedin chip RAM, which can be changed byDMA devices like the blitter. But DMAhard-drive owners may want to refrainfrom turning the data cache on.
The 68030 has a built-in MemoryManagement Unit (MMU), which youcan use to relocate the Kickstart ROMsto fast 32-bit memory, reducing accesstime to ROM routines. The 68882 float-
ing-point math chip, a coprocessor thatis optional on these boards, performscomplex math operations at dozens oftimes the speed of comparable softwareroutines. The majority of programs-word processors, terminals, and games,for instance-never use floating-pointmath and are not affected by the pres-ence of a 68882. A math chip can speedup applications like CAD packages,spreadsheets, and 3-D graphics, how-ever, from ten to 100 times.
DESIGN SAYS.Despite their similarities, these boardshave important design differences. Likethe 68020 accelerator boards, the Hurri-cane 2800 uses a synchronous design,which means that it can run only at aneven multiple of the A2000's 7.1 MHzclock speed (in this case, approximately28.4 MHz). The A2630 and GVP Impactboards, on the other hand, are asyn-chronous, and can run at anyone of awhole range of frequencies (thoughCommodore sells just one version of theA2630, running at 25 MHz). Some earlyversions of the GVP board used 16 MHz68030 chips, but since faster processorshave become cheaper and more readilyavailable, GVP sells versions that run at25, 28, and even 33 MHz. Changing theoperating speed of the board can be assimple as putting in a faster processorand the appropriate oscillator crystal.
In fact, it is possible to increase theoperating speed of the Impact board orA2630 just by changing the clock crystal(the I mpact board's crystal is socketed,while the A2630's is soldered in). Run-ning a 68030 processor faster than itsrated speed, however, is controversial at
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best. Proponents of this practice, calledover-oscillation or over-clocking, pointout that the speed ratings on chips areonly approximate, and that they allowfor a fairly wide margin of safety. Moreconservative types argue that it's neces-sary to leave yourself a little leeway, be-cause running a chip too fast can cause itto overheat and possibly fail. The possi-bility of erratic performance is enough todiscourage them from pushing the chips.Besides, while increasing clock speedboosts performance, the speed increase isnot linear; running a board at 33 MHzwon't necessarily make it twice as fast asrunning it at 16 MHz. The speed atwhich the processor can access memoryis a limiting factor, so unless you havevery fast memory chips, you won't getthe full benefit of the higher dock rate.
Whether you are for or against over-docking, you should be aware that theHurricane 2800 is shipped with a 25MHz 68030 running at 28 MHz, whileGVP uses either a 25 MHz chip runningat 25 MHz (the A3000 model) or a 33MHz chip running at 33 MHz (MOOO).(GVP reports that it will be shipping 28MHz boards in place of the 25 MHzmodel when the appropriate parts be-come available.) The A2630 is availableonly with a 25 MHz processor runningat 25 MHz. The Hurricane math copro-cessor is clocked at a fixed 28 MHzspeed, while the GVP Impact board andthe Commodore A2630 can either beclocked at the same speed as the proces-sor, or at a different speed, using a sepa-rate clock crystal.
THE DRIVERS' SEAT
Both the GVP Impact and Hurricane2800 boards have built-in hard-drive in-
terfaces, but each takes a different ap-proach. The Hurricane 2800 boardfeatures the familiar SCSI interface com-monly used to attach up to seven harddrives to the Amiga. I could not evaluatethis interface, however, because thedriver software was not completed intime for this review. GVP's hard-driveinterface, on the other hand. has beenup and running for a while. The Impactboard includes an JU"·stylebus interfacethat allows it to connect with two IDE
Y'?c-;J= YOlJR TlJRN!~,'I have found the 25 MHz Impactboard to be quick and reliable. It iseasy to install, and the company hasmade some nice improvements to it.
-Charles Bor1Jao1omewAudubon, PA
(Imegrated Drive Electronics) harddrives, a style designed for use with [BMAT-cornpatible computers. GVP offerscombination accelerator/hard drive pack-ages that include a Quantum Al"" harddrive, the same drive used by Comrno-dare in its PC-40 III computers. Boot
At the atartIng line are(top to bottom): GVPs 1m-poet A3OOO, •••• A2630from Commodore, and theImtronic:s 2800.
ROMs that plug into the Impact boardenable the computer to auto-boot fromthe accelerator's hard drive, using theFastFileSystem. The included drive-in-stallation software makes it easy to parti-tion the drive, and to install Workbenchonil.
Using 32-bit RAM speeds up an accel-erator because it eliminates the bottle-neck that results when the 68030 proces-sor has to slow down to talk with 16-bitmemory (such as chip RAM) and thecustom chips. All three accelerators canuse 32-bit memory, but only the A2630provides space for this RAM on the mainaccelerator board. In order to add mem-ory to either the Hurricane 2800 or theImpact board, you must plug a separatememory board into the main acceleratorboard. This results in a somewhat bulkytwo-board sandwich, but gives you a lotmore flexibility in configuring the sys-tem. With the Hurricane and Impactboards, you can initially purchase themain accelerator board by itself, and add32·bit memory as your budget permits.The Hurricane 2800 uses the samememory board as previous Hurricaneaccelerators-one socketed for either ••
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one-megabit (256 x 4) or four megabit(1024 x4) RAM chips. You can addmemory in increments of a single mega-byte using the smaller chips. or four mega-bytes using the larger ones, up to amaximum of fOUT or 16 megs respec-
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lively. The GVP memory board usesnybble-mode addressing, which allowsfaster memory access, but requires thatmemory be added in four-meg incre-ments. The GVP board uses eight-mega-bit-by-one bit nybble-mode SIMMs (not
to be confused with the page-modeSIMMs used in the Macintosh and PS/2computers) to add either four or eightmegabytes of 32-bit RAM.
With the Commodore A2630, yourchoices are a bit more limited. ILcomes ~
LET'S Go!For purposes of comparison, I per-formed the same speed tests on the68030 accelerator boards that I usedfor the 68020 boards (see p. 38 in theJuly '89 issue). Although some of theprograms used in the prior test havebeen upgraded since then, I used thesame program versions so as to main-tain comparability. Three categories oftests were performed. The first timesapplications that do not use floating-point math. The RAM speed tests (FastRAM/Chip RAM/RAM Speed) on theeSA disk clock instructions executedfrom fast RAM and chip RAM with theinstruction cache turned off. Nsievecomes from eSA, while the other Sieveprograms (Sievel100 and CPU/Mem-test) come from Ronin, developers ofthe Hurricane board. These run varia-tions on a famous program that findsprime numbers, a common test of non-floating-point compute speed. TheSearch/Replace test shows the time re-quired to perform 800 search-and-re-place operations in a 96,OOO-charactertext file, using the TxEd text editor byMicrosmiths. The Remap test showshow long DeluxePaint II (ElectronicArts) takes to reduce a 640 x 400 pic-ture from 16 colors to two colors.Write Pixel docks the time it takes to filla rectangle on the screen with color us-ing the ROM Kernel Write Pixel func-tion. FinaUy, Speed is a benchmarkrecently devised by Jez San to comparethe speed of 68030 accelerators withthe A2620.
The second class of tests show how68030 boards can speed operationsthat use software floating-point rou-tines. The two Savage tests give you theresults of a famous floating-pointbenchmark, as executed by the pro-grams on the eSA and Ronin disks.The MandelTest program comes fromthe CSA disk, and shows the time re-quired to draw the Mandelbrot set, a
graphic that requires calculation of 68881 either directly or through theover two million floating-point opera- Amiga IEEE math libraries. The finaltions. The Worldmap test shows the test in this category shows the time totime required to draw a map of the render a 3-D image of the Utah teapotworld using a set of about 5000 coordi- in 320 x 400 HAM mode using thenates and an orthographic projection floating-point version of Impulse'sscheme. (This program has a greater Turbo Silver. All accelerators testedratio of drawing time to figuring time used the 68882 math chip running atthan the MandeITest.) same speed as the main processor.
The third set of tests show how much They aU used 32-bit RAM, though thefaster the various floating-point pro- access times of those RAM chips variedgrams executed when written to take (the A2630 was supplied with lOOnsadvantage of the 68881 math co-pro- RAMs, the Impact board with 80nscessor. Mostly duplicates of the Fast chips, and the Hurricane 2800 withFloating Point tests, these use the 70ns RAMs).
Non Floating. Point Tests A2630 GVP25 GVP28 H2800 GVP33RAMtest Fast (sees) 2.04 2.08 1.90 1.52 1.58RAMtest Chip (secs) 9.52 11.06 10.46 7.91 7.98RAMspeed (MHz) 20.39 20.39 20.67 26.72 25.00CSA Nsieve (secs) .27 .27 .23 .23 .20eSA Nsieve (gain) 8.61 8.76 10.01 10.79 11.81CSA Write Pixel (sees) 3.98 3.66 3.34 3.34 3.10CSA Writepixel (gain) 3.60 3.90 4.20 4.30 4.60Ronin Sieve (sees) 5.70 5.66 5.06 4.76 4.25Ronin CPU/Memtest (gain) 10.62 10.62 11.50 12.55 14.53Search/Replace (sees) 58.40 57.00 48.20 44.90 46.60Remap Colors (sees) 6.00 5.90 5.60 5.60 5.50Speed (ticks) 116.00 96.00 85.00 89.00 71.00Speed (gain) 2.01 2.43 2.75 2.62 3.29
Fast Floating-Point TestsCSA Savage (secs) 6.30 5.90 5.32 4.94 4.34CSA Savage (gain) 8.71 9.27 10.28 11.07 12.60Ronin Savage/ffp (secs) 1.53 1.38 1.22 1.20 1.03Mandeltest 68000 (sees) 53.58 48.48 44.54 42.88 37.74World map ffp (sees) 7.90 6.60 6.10 6.10 5.21
68882 Floating. Point testsCSA Savage/020 (sees) .22 .22 .19 .20 .15Ronin Savage/ieee (sees) .43 .42 .38 .38 .30Ronin Savagel881 (sees) .22 .22 .19 .18 .15Mandeltest (secs) 11.92 11.56 10.40 10.32 9.04Mandeltest (gain) 35.40 36.50 40.60 40.90 46.70Worldmap/ieee (secs) 5.30 5.30 4.75 4.60 3.70Worldmap/882 (sees) 2.75 2.45 2.23 2.23 2.05Silver render (mins:secs) 61:04 36:38 33:52 39.46 31:26
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take advantage of this feature unless youcare to unsolder and replace the stan-dard memory chips. As with the otherboards, the A2630 has a connector thatprovides access to the 32-bit bus, leavingopen the possibility of faster memory ex-pansion beyond the four-meg mark.
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Although the 68030 processors inthese accelerator boards functionally re-place the 68000 processor, it is possibleto temporarily disable the 68030 and usethe 68000 for running that rare piece ofsoftware (copy-protected games, for themost part) that will not work with the030. In the case of both the Impact andHurricane units, this is accomplished bymeans of a hardware switch you mustbuy and attach to a pair of jumper pinson the board. With the switch in one po-sition. the computer boots using the68000 processor; in the other position, ituses the 68030. Commodore's A2630board uses a more sophisticated ap·proach: If you hold down both mousebuttons at boot time, a menu appearsletting you choose AmigaDOS on 68000,AmigaDOS on 68030, or Amix (theAmiga version of Unix). Despite the fact •.
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Turning off the 68030 board restoresfull software compatibility, but also dis-ables everything anached to the board.This means that neither the 32-bit mem-ory nor the 68882 coprocessor is accessi-ble when in 68000 mode. Likewise,GVP's hard-disk interface does not work
REV E IV Swhen the 68030 is turned off. Imtronics,however, claims that its SCSI hard-driveinterface will continue to operate in68000 mode.
How FAST Is FAST?The speed increase realized with theseboards depends on the application,though there will be a marked boost inany application. Floating-point mathaside, these boards perform most opera-
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The performance tests I conductedcame down, as expected, in favor of theboards with the fastest clock speeds andthe fastest memory. At the 25 MHz clockspeed, the GVP Impact board using80ns RAMs was faster than the Commo-dore A2630 which uses lOOns RAMs. At28 MHz, the Hurricane 2800 with 70nsRAMs was marginally faster than theGVP with 80ns RAMs. But at 33 MHz,the GVP Impact board was clearly thefastest of the systems tested.
The same factors that made the Com-modore A2620 a favorite among 68020accelerators work to the disadvantage ofthe A2630. Selling just one configurationof the board makes sense when it runs ata fixed processor speed, but not whenthe board uses an asynchronous design.And the fact that the board comes onlywith relatively slow lOOns RAMs is notgoing to please the performanceminded, either. Although the tests showthe A2630 to be a bit slower than theother boards in most categories, it didparticularly badly in the ray-trace test, inwhich the 68020 version of Turbo Silver(Impulse) was used to render the Utahteapot. While most other boards ren-dered the picture in about half the timerequired by the A2620, the A2630 wasonly about 15% faster than its pre-decessor. Unless you are willing to re-place the processor and the memorywith faster versions, the A2630 is notyour best choice if speed is your primaryconcern. Its low price and the Cornrno-dore label are its best selling points.
Like its 68020 counterpart, the Hurri-cane 2800 gives you a lot for your·money. For about the same price as theA2630, it provides faster performance,easier memory expansion, and a SCSIinterface to boot. There are, however,factors that might make you think twiceabout its purchase. Because the SCSI in-terface is not yet operational, there is noclear indication how it will perform. The
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for making better sound samples to use in any Amiga production
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By Mitch Wells
nless you are a musician, you mightforget the many ways that sound fig-ures into all the things you can do withyour Amiga. So consider for just a mo-ment: voiceovers and narrations for
business or professional presentations; sound tracksfor home video productions: sound effects for ani-marion sequences; musical accompaniment for slideshows; or just some wild sound show of music, voices,and off-the-wall effects of your own design. The listof possibilities is endless.
Effectively using the sound-sampling capabilities ofyour Amiga is the key to doing any or all of thesethings. And the following hints and tips will makeyou a better Amiga audio producer, musical director,sound technician -or whatever other role you needto play.
You can use the Amiga to produce sound in threeways: through its built-in speech synthesizer, by mod-ifying the registers in its sound chip, or in samplingwith the help of digitizing hardware and software.The first, and most primitive method, is known tothose of you who plowed through the introductorymanuals. The second, and probably least useful, issomething for the technical aficionado who is at homeprogramming a professional synthesizer. Althoughthere are a few good programs that can help you outhere-notably, Sonix (Oxxi, 79.95) and Synthia (The
Other Guys, $99)-creating original sounds can betedious. Sampling, however, with its entire range ofreal-world sound and music at ready disposal, isclearly the easiest route and has the most widespreadapplication.
Sampling, simply, is the process of converting ordi-nary, analog sounds into digital information (throughthe sampling hardware's analog-to-digital converter,or ADC) to be stored in the Arniga's memory. This in-formation is then reconverted into analog soundwaves, through one offour digital-to-analog converters(DACs)within the system's Paula chip, a stereo pream-plifier also found within the Amiga, and your soundsystem (or the amplifier within your monitor). In orderto make samples yourself, what you need is some exter-nal sampling hardware (sound digitizer), samplingsoftware, and something to sample.
As for the hardware and software, there are anumber of fairly inexpensive packages to choosefrom. Hardware {digitizer)-and-software (sample ed-iting program) combinations include Perfect Sound(SunRize, $89.95); A.M.A.S. (Microdeal / MichTron,$169.95); Stereo Sound Sampler+ Jammer (Darel,$99.95); and SP8 (Creative Sound Systems, $100). Ifyou already have the digitizer, you can purchasesample-editing software separately; AudioMaster I I(Oxxi, 59.95) and Studio Magic (SunRize, S99.99)are two that readily come to mind. For the purposes •.
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of this ankle J will refer to a system consisting ofPerfect Sound hardware and Audio Master I I soft-ware. Although Perfect Sound can be a bit noisy, Ilike AudioMaster II. The two complement eachother well.
Don't worry. however, if this particular duo is notyour own setup. because the techniques and tips 1will discuss will apply to just about any combination.(For comparative evaluations of the sampling hard-ware and software products mentioned above-andfor a compatibility chart to guide you in mixing andmatching cornponenu-csee "Sizzling Sounds," p. 48in Oct. '89 issue.)
# 1 Is TlJls on the Level?To get the best results, preparing for sampling canbe as important, if not more important, than actuallytaking the sample. Although some sampling hard-ware will give you a choice between input types, mostsampling hardware requires that the sound comefrom a "line-level" source. Line-level devices includeCD players, cassette or reel-to-reel tape recorders,audio outputs from videotape, an AMJFM receiver,a keyboard, or a "live" source recorded with a mi-crophone and a mixer. Trying to sample from aheadphone or speaker output, when the hardwarerequires line level, will usually cause distortion. Sam-pling from a microphone without a preamplifier (ormixer) will create large amounts of noise. In short,use the right hardware.
Deciding what to sample is obviously the next step.Perhaps you know a section of a pop song or classicalpiece that would work great at the beginning of youranimation, or maybe you recorded voice onto cassettefor a narrative. If you have a CD player, there are anumber of professional sound and sound effects li-braries available. A favorite with many professionalmusicians is the ProSonus Sample Library. You canfind similar offerings among the numerous cassettelibraries advertised in the c1assifieds of most keyboardmagazines. Also, many record stores and public li-braries carry sound-effects records.
Whatever your source material, choosing the bestsounds for sampling should meet the followingcriteria:
The sound should beeasily isolated. If you choose a sectionof music or narration from a tape or CD, silencebefore or after the sound is preferable. Backgroundnoise, especially noticeable from cassettes, is not. CDplayers offer the advantage of allowing you to accu-rately pause and play small sections of a CD withouthaving to get "up to speed" and leaving you withthat annoying click or glitch usually accompanyingsuch transitions.
The sOlmd should have an "even" dyna.mic range. Soundsthat get loud and then soft (or vice versa), or have along decay (as you would get by holding down apiano key), are not as desirable as sounds with a quickdecay (like the beep of a car horn), or those with aneven volume level.
The sound should 110tbe distorted, but it should be a good,strong Level.This is especially important when workingwith cassettes. When recording or choosing a soundon cassette to be sampled later, the sound should beat or around 0 vu on the meter. Having a volumecontrol at the source of the sample (as with a keyboardor a cassette player with an output knob) will helpyou match levels to overcome "sampler noise" (moreabout this later).
The sou lid should be the best fidelity possible. Again, CDshave obvious advantages here. For creating your ownsounds from scratch, however, a good microphoneand mixer beats a cassette recorder any day. If youdo not already own a microphone and mixer, don'twaste your money on the cheap ones made for homevideo recording. If you are interested in acquiring agood mic and mixer for a one-time sampling session,contact the music and NV rental stores in your area.The occasional rental will probably not break yourbank account, and you will enjoy all the benefits ofusing superior quality equipment.
# 3 Thanks for the Memory ...Before you actually make your sample, there is stillanother consideration: memory. How much, andwhat kind of memory you have relates directly tohow high a level of fidelity you can achieve, so decidehow you are going to use the sample first If youplan to use your sounds in Sonix (Oxxi), DeluxeMusic Construction Set-DMCS (Electronic Arts,599.95), or with a sequencing program such as KCS(Dr. T's Music Software, S249) or Dynamic Studio(New Wave, 199.95), you will probably want thehighest fidelity possible. Most sample players use chipmemory; if you have more available, your samplecan be longer and of higher fidelity. Installing a one-meg Agnus chip on machines with one megabyte ormore will be a great help when working with longersamples. (You may already have the new one-megAgnus chip in your A2000 if it was purchased afterSeptember 1989-type AVAIL in a ell window tosee how much chip memory your machine has avail-able.)
How much memory )'ou have also may determinethe sampling rate at which you will take your sample.(The sampling rate denotes how many times persecond the computer takes the "picture" of )'oursound.) The more samples an ADC takes per second,the more accurately it will record the sound (hencethe higher resolution-and greater fidelity-e-whenthat sound is played back). The Amiga's maximum
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playback rate, however, is 28,867 samples per second(sps), so it does not really matter if your digitizer cansample at higher rates. Also, when sampling in stereo,the sampling rate is automatically cut in half, from28k to 14k. Fortunately, most people do not hearsounds beyond 15k.
Thus, if you are going to use your sample withsomething memory-intensive like an animation, con-sider sampling at a lower sampling rate to conservememory. A sound sampled at 28.000 sps will takeless memory than the same sound sampled at 44,000sps; sam piing the sound at 16,000 sps will takeeven less memory. The fidelity ceiling (calculatedat half the sampling rate) of the sound sampled at28k will be 14k, while that of the sound sampled at16k will be 8k-which might be okay for someapplications.
You will have to decide your own level of acceptabletrade-off for fidelity vs. memory constraints, but,in general, sampling at lower rates is usually agood, practical idea for capturing long passages ofsound and music if you have a system with limitedmemory.
# 4 The GreatE'luaUzerNo matter what sampling rate you decide on, thereare a few tricks that can provide you with betterresults. One of the most effective is equalization.Equalizing (or EQing) a sound involves running aline-level sound through a series of filters, usuallycalled high-pass/low-pass, band-pass, or parametricfilters. These filters emphasize or de-emphasize cer-tain frequency bands-hence the names. Hi-pass/low-pass is most commonly found at the bass and treblecontrols in stereo systems. Using your stereo systemfor EQing would be fine if you could sample fromthe speaker outputs, but, as mentioned earlier, mostsampling hardware will not allow this. Unfortunately,using the bass and treble controls on most stereosdoes not affect the line outputs (the tape monitoroutput, for instance). Thus, you need an in-line EQthat can be put after your source device but beforethe sampling hardware.
The most common type of in-line EQ is the 10-band Graphic Equalizer available almost anywherestereo equipment is sold. Radio Shack makes a 10-band Graphic EQ for under $80, while Teac offers aIO-band with an LED frequency analyzer (to showwhich frequencies are the loudest) for not muchmore. Many others sell for around $100; if you planto do much sampling, owning one of these is a must.
Don't go overboard when using a graphic EQ. Theproper use of any EQ is to correct aural deficiencies.EQing for a cassette source often involves just slightlyde-emphasizing frequencies above 12k to reduce tapenoise, while emphasizing 8-12k to make up for thereduced highs associated with cassettes. EQing a livevoice might mean emphasizing high frequencies a
.,.",.-------small amount to increase sibilance, and cutting downon the very low end to decrease pops from P's andB's. With instruments, many have specific mid-rangefrequencies that make them sound somewhat nasal,so here you might want to use EQing to reduce these.In the back of some music theory or audio engi-neering textbooks, and in the manuals of all graphicequalizers, you will usually find a chart showing thefrequency ranges of various instruments and voices.These are very good sources to have around forreference.
# Ii Hlgh·§peed FldeUtyAnother way to increase the perceived fidelity ceilingis to speed up the sample. Speeding up the samplealso reduces the likelihood that you will notice "0 toA noise" (a fuzziness usually heard in the high fre-quency range of a sample). This noise is distortioncreated by Digital-to-Analog converter errors whenthe DAC reads in-between steps of a sample; it ispresent in all samplers. When a sampler takes "pic-tures" of a sound (digitizing), it takes a number ofpictures (or samples) to make up the complete wave-form. In 12- and l6-bit samples, there are morediscrete steps to the sample, so fewer errors occurthan with an 8-bit sample.
Recognizing that this distortion is a problem, Com-modore put low-pass filters in all Amigas. While thefilter reduces the distortion, it does so at the price ofeliminating frequencies above 7.5k. Thus, in manysituations you need to bypass the output filter. Whileyou cannot do this on the A 1000 without a hardwaremodification, the filter is software switchable on theA500 and A2000. With the public-domain programLED (found on the Sonix 2.0 disk and on many •.
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networks), for instance, you can [Urn the filter off thelatter two models.
Once the filter is disabled, of course, you have yourdistortion problem again. If you speed up the sample,however, not only do you raise the frequency (pitch)of the sample. but you also elevate the frequency ofthe noise as well. With a sample that was made at28k and moved up an octave. most of the Duo-Anoise will probably occur out of human hearingrange! Your sample, however, will play back twice asfast-which probably is not exactly what you wanted.
One way LO get around this is to get a fairly high-quality dual-speed tape deck. Most consumer reel-to-reel decks, such as those made by Sony, Panasonic,or Teac, offer two speeds; if expense is a problem,you might be surprised how often you can find theseat many second-hand stores. In addition, there areseveral four-track casseue recorders, such as the Ya-maha MT3X or the Tascam 644, that offer dual-speedoperation. Also, in the back of some music magazinesyou will see dual-speed casseue decks advertised forguitaris,s wanting to learn licks from their favoritetapes. Many old turntables offer dual (or more)speeds, too.
In whatever way you get your equipment,the trickhere is to record your desired sound onto tape athigh speed, then sample the sound while playingback the tape at low speed (which is almost alwaysan octave jump). Finally, kick the sample up an octavewith your sample-editing software. When using Au-diomaster Il, choose Tune Waveform from the Spe-cial Effects menu. Click once on the Octave slider tothe right of the indicating bar. Now click on theWaveform gadget in the bottom half of the screen tohear your changes. Finally, click on OK within theTune Waveform window to accept the octave jump.
Be prepared, however, because this eats up a lotof memory and is usually best done with short sam-ples. Sampling in stereo eats up even more memory.so if you sample is stereo, be sure you really needstereo. Many programs, such as Dr. Ts KCS, forexample, do not support stereo samples.
# 6 Got the Signal'!After you have decided the rate at which you willsample, and you have set up your EQ. making thesample is pretty straightforward. Have your software"listen" to your sampler before actually starting yoursound. This way, you can see how much noise (if any)is being introduced by the sampling hardware. PerfectSound, for instance, is quite noisy. In order to get agood sample with it, I first adjust the input controlto find the point at which there is the least noise, butthe most input signal. J need to make sure my inputsignal to the sampling hardware is pretty "hot"-almost but not quite dipping. Clipping is distortioncaused by the input signal level being too great foreither the sampler to handle, or the source device
(or tape itself) to put out (or record) properly. OnAudiornaster I J, it is easy to tell when the signal clips;the waveform displayed will break up. Once the signalseems right, try making a few samples. Save yourwork often, and sample and save different versionsofthe same sounds for comparison. Experiment andhave fun!
# 7SampHng SaversMost programs use the I FF format, so saving yoursamples to I FF files is the safest bet. If you want tomake an entire soundtrack from IFF samples, Sonixcan take these and use them as segments of a songrather than instruments. Compose a complete songby sampling entire bars of music that can repeat, andassign these samples to any of the four instruments.The instruments can then be thought of as verse.chorus, and so on. Simply compose with whole notesand rests. When using Dr. T's KCS, you can assignup to 16 samples to specific MIDJ channels andkeyboard ranges. Allocating four sounds to four noteranges and one MIDI channel will create some for-midable keyboard splits.
# 8 Let's Get Looped!If your samples are going to repeat after they areplayed out once, you will need to tell your editingsoftware where to begin to repeat a loop. Somethingto remember about making loops is that an instru-ment gets it perceived characteristics from the firstfew milliseconds of attack. Even for complex instru-ments and sounds, the loop does not have to be long,although the initial auack might have to be. Audio-Master II offers two features to help you make thebest loops possible: Seek Zero and Seek Loop. Theselook for the quietest points in a sample (zero meaningno volume) (0 set repeat points in a loop. Seekingzero points helps to avoid clicks in loop repeats. Suchclicks are simply jumps in both volume and waveformcomposition. When making a loop, I frequently movethe beginning and ending loop pointers manually tomake my loop as short as possible, while still retainingthe characteristics of the sound. I then use the SeekZero function to find the best repeating point in thevicinity of the loop pointers. Looping the samplemerely requires a little experimenting. Thus, savingdifferent versions of your sample with different looppoints is a crucial element in making the bestsample .•
Mitch Wells runs an audio-recording, video-production,and desktop-publishing service in Michigan. He has workedin a number of recording studios, both as an engineer anda session musician. He has also taught classes in MIDI andother aspects of computer-assisted music production. Writeto him c/o Amiga World, Editorial Dept .• 80 Elm St.,Peterborough, NH 03458.
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SYNTHESIZERS USED 10 look like some-thing out of an old Buck Rogers movie. Rowsof knobs, dials, sliders, and buttons covereda panel attached to a piano-like keyboard.Programming the syrnh required you to setevery control at the right level to create a"patch" that produced a sound. These earlyanalog synths had no memory. so gettinganother sound required resetting each con-trol, a time-consuming and inexact process.
Today's electronic instruments give youmore control-but at a price. Their internalsoftware lets you program multiple sounds(patches), store them in the synthesizer'smemory. then recall them at a touch. Gone.however, is the array of controls that servedas a map of every parameter's setting andhow they interrelated. Modern synthesizersoffer sometimes as few as four programmingbuttons with which you can change func-tions. Youbase your decisions on the readoutfrom one (typically tiny) LCD screen. whichshows a single setting at a time. Often youmust scroll through dozens of cryptic nu-meric parameters to find the one you want.
••••Programming with the LCD-screen interfaceis tedious, unintuitive, and frustrating.
The alternative is software that lets youuse the Amiga's power to edit the synth'ssettings. The field of Amiga synth editors isdominated by two companies: Sound Questand Dr. T's Music Software, each of whommake editor/librarians for over 25 instru-ments. In addition, a number of small com-panies offer programs for individual synths.(See the accompanying chart for a completelist of supported synthesizers.) Prices rangefrom $35 to $195. averaging around $150.
The ideal editor should speed and easeediting by using a screen that gives an at-a-glance map. as did the old-fashioned hard-ware controls, displaying an overview of allparameters while letting you focus on a par-ticular control or group of controls. It woulduse the precision inherent in alphanumericsto augment, not replace, these graphic icons.With it you should be able to move easilyfrom parameter to parameter as you set upa patch and see how the various settingsinteract, much as the Sound Quest editor •.
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for the Roland D-50 does (Figure I). Unlike the D-50 editor, however, the perfect program should letyou play your synth, just as you would in a realsituation, then continue editing the patch until youhave a sound you like. The program would also letyou edit a symh's characteristic features, such aslayering of sounds and MIDI SysEx settings. A goodeditor would include a librarian for storing soundsin banks matching the configuration of the synth'smemory. and let you load these banks without unduefuss, so you can get back to the music.
DISCORD IN PARADISEBe warned: Amiga editor/librarians are not ideal.Their user interfaces have serious limitations. and
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the documentation is atrocious across the board. Mostlibrarian functions are handled straightforwardly andsimply,but the editors enhance personal productivityonly because the alternative-LCD-screen program-ming-is such a struggle.
Consider, for example, the ubiquitous YamahaTX81Z FM synthesizer. At its basic level, this instru-ment contains 32 editable patches to which a TX81 Zeditor must devote a screen. On a higher level, theTX8lZ has configurations called "performances," inwhich you can assign up to eight patches to playtogether on anyone key. In addition to a patch-editing screen, a TX81Z editor needs a separatescreen that facilitates editing a performance andshows the relationships between a performance andthe individual patches you can load into it. Theseneeds are only partially addressed by Dr. Ts andSound Quest's programs.
Although both programs extensively use alpha-numerics to communicate parameter values, theirpatch-editing screens make only fair use of graphictools. The programs do use graphics effectively inthe display and editing of the instrument's complexenvelopes. With Dr.T's there is a further nice graphictouch in the "virtual slider," found at the left of thescreen, with which you can adjust any parameter:Highlight the parameter's value, then dick and dragon any blank point of the screen.
Editing a TX81Z performance is another matter.Youmust juggle a performance's structure, selectingand placing up to eight patches and occasionallytweaking a patch. Quick recognition of individualvalues and the ability to see an overview are para-mount, but both programs' performance editorsdrop the ball. Aside from the Doctor's virtual sliderand Sound Quest's turning altered values orange, nographic communication occurs. Relative volumes-prime candidates for graphic representation-are allnumeric.
Knowing which patches comprise a performanceis also difficult. Dr. Ts lists a performance's patcheshere by name, there by number, and Sound Quest'sprogram can read only patch numbers, not names,from one of the synthesizer's banks. To see a list ofavailable patches, both programs make you go toanother screen.
In contrast with such unfriendly screens is theediting interface in C-ZAR, Diemer Development'sed/lib for the Casio CZ series of synthesizers (Figure2). Though the CZ synths have six eight-stage en-velopes, up to four waveforms per patch, and a num-ber of other parameters, C-ZAR is able to displaythem all at once. During a complex editing sessionyou will appreciate this help in keeping oriented. C-ZARalso uses easy-to-read, on-screen knobs to showvalues both numerically and graphically; to change avalue, click on the knob. The interface is not onlyhighly intuitive, but also communicates very well withthe user. The CZ synths are less complex than theTX81Z, true, but Sound Quest's 0-50 screen, and ~
Synthesizers Supportedby Amiga Editor/Librarians
eRB Diemer Sound Synthetic TriangleProd. Develop. Digitools Dr. T's MIDITALK New Wave Quest· Reality Audio
CasioeZ-101/lOoo • • • • •cz-i • • •eZ-3000/5OO0 • • •VZ-I •
E-MProteus • •
EnsoniqSQ·80 • •ESQ-I/M • •VFX •
KawaiK-l • •K·4 •K-5 •
KorgMI • •MIR •M3R •OW-8000 •EX-8oo0 •
LexiconPCM-70 •
OberheimMatrix 6/1000 • •
Roland0-11011 0/20 • •MT-32 • •0·50 • •0-70 •
YamahaOX-711 • •OX7IID/7IIFD •OX7 • • •OX7S •OX9 • •TFI •TX7 • •TX802 • •OXII •TX81Z • • •OX 100/27/21 • •F8-01 • • • •
valse available: Synergy-Universal Editor/Librarian, which can control most MIDI synthesizers.
AmigaWQrld 29
figure 3. The graphJc sliders In DweI tor the Korg DW-8000let you seeall your settings at once.
Synthetic Reality's Dwel for the Korg DW-8000 (Fig-ure 3),both prove that a simple interface to a complexinstrument can be created.
SLAVE LABOROne of the benefits of MIDI is the ability to play onesynthesizer from the keyboard of another or from analternate controller you play like a guitar or windinstrument. In response, manufacturers have builtsmaller and less expensive "slave" synths that comewithout keyboards and can be played only via MIDI.The units typicallyoffer very few on-board controls,but Amiga software developers have answered thecall for controlling help, offering editor/librarians forOberheim's M-IOOO, Roland's D-llO, Yamaha'sTXSIZ, and several others.
That an editor for such a synth would not allowyou to play it from an external controller would seemcounterproductive. Yet this is just the situation pre-sented by both Dr. T's and Sound Quest's programs.Both product lines let you play the instrument youare editing only by clicking the right mouse button:high notes on the right of the screen, lows notes onthe left. This is not an effective, real-world way totest the usefulness of a patch. For wind and guitarcontrollers, for which aftertouch and pitchbend areessential, it is useless. Even with a keyboard, unlessyou patch and repatch your MIDI connections eachtime you make an edit, these programs give you noway to test a sound's response to aftertouch, modwheel or pitch bend movements, or any tonal subtletybut velocity,which you control by the mouse's verticalposition.
Aside from their superior interfaces, C-ZAR andDwel offer about the same levels of performance asSound Quest and Dr. T's programs. Others, such asMIDITALK's TXS, are primitive. Triangle Audio'sData Filer for the Yamaha FB-O1 offers adequatelibrarian functions, but no editing controls.
The arrival of such pro-level Amiga sequencers asDr.T's KCSand Passport's Master Tracks Pro createsthe potential for the Amiga to become a serious musiccomputer. If the machine is to aid productivity in aMIDI environment, fast and friendly synth editorsare a must. Both Sound Quest and Dr. T's are talent-laden organizations, and have done impressive workon the machine side. Now it's time they address theuser interface .•
Timothy Tully is a former editor for Electronic Musicianand umus about and reviews music products extensively.Write to him c/o Amiga World Editorial Dept., 80 ElmSt., Peterborough, NH 03458,
Manufacturers' AddressesCRB Productions15 Norton St.Nashua, NH 03060
DigiToolsPO Box 7417Buffalo Grove, II. 600893121459-8781
Diemer Development12814 Landale SI.Studio City, CA 916048181762-0804
Dr. T's Music Software220 Boylston SI.Suite 206Chestnut Hill, MA 021676171244-5243
MIDITALKPO Box 211Averill Park, NY 120185181674-8466
New Wave SoftwarePO Box 438SI. Clair Shores, MI 480803131771-4465
Synthetic RealityPO Box 6066SI. Cloud, MN 563026121259-9499
Sound Quest Inc.1573 Eglington Ave. WestSuite 200Toronto, OntarioCanada M6E 2G94161256-04668001387-8720
Triangle AudioPO Box 1108Sterling, VA 221703011526-6224
30 March J 990
Jazz/bI •••• 8ubrlst MelvIn SpMtc; ••
A COMPUfER WITH some mu-sical notation on screen doesn't ex-actly conjure up visions of DexterGordon wailing on his sax, or B.B.King wringing the blues from hisguitar. Yet, many jazz. and bluesmusicians-including MelvinSparks-have found that com-puters help considerably withmany time-consuming detailswhen composing. "Imagine ifDuke Ellington or Quincy Jones
AMIGA PROFILE
Making 'Sparks' Flyhad had a computer," musesSparks, a noted blues/jazz guitarist,composer, and Amiga proponent."Just think of all the music theyproduced-and all handwritten!"
Sparks started out with a C64and then traded up for an Amigalate in 1985 after he heard aboutan Arniga composition programcalled SoundScape (Mimetics). "Itwas exactly what I wanted and Iwent right out and bought it." Tra-ditionally, musicians would gatherin a loft somewhere and just play,he explained. While Sparks wouldbe the first to say there's no sub-stitute for jamming, the truth is,he admus, that musicians justdon't play together as often any-more. Solitary musicians are com-pelled to look for alternativemethods to develop and perfecttheir music. Many, like Sparks, dis-covered that computers converttime previously spent document-ing scores and testing for mistakes
into time devoted purely to thejob at hand-making music.
And Melvin Sparks knows morethan a little about making music.Sparks left Houston, Texas, at age16 to play with legendary per-former Little Richard and hisband, The Upsetters. He's playedwith the likes of Sam Cooke.jackieWilson, Dr. John, and GeorgeBenson. Moving from rock to jazzand blues, he went to New Yorkin the late '60s. Under the influ-ence first of Jack McDuff and laterLou Donaldson, Sparks went onto record six albums, while ap-pearing on more than two dozenothers. His latest venture. a 1989release, teamed him with saxistHank Crawford and organistJimmy McGriff.
Sparks remained loyal toSoundScape as long as possible,but found support for it lacking.He began searching for the pro-gram's author, Todor Fay, now at
Blue Ribbon Bakery in Atlanta.Sparks discovered Fay's latest pro-ject-Bars & Pipes-was just whathe wanted. Now he's back in hisMt. Vernon, NY-based studioworking on his next recording.
"Bars & Pipes is so much bet-ter," claims Sparks. who especiallyfavors the program's graphic in-terface. "Other programs wantyou to grab a calculator. With Bars& Pipes, I just play and get backto the music and don't worryabout the computer. It's like a taperecorder ... no typing."
Sparks is equally enthusiasticabout the Arniga's role in his workand believes he has personally sold10 to 12 machines to other musi-cians. "I really love this computerand I've seen them all," he laughs."I really mean it; I think it's thebest. People who come by and seemine wind up getting an Amiga."
Are you listening, Commodore?-Jan Jackson
, Sensational Service With
Sprite %clinofogyORDERS: 800-634-9315
SOFTWAllEDesign 3D................... . $59Draw 2000 . $1691Jurlaj> U'~ies...... . $50Exce.ence. .$185HiSott BASe Professional $106IriroCAD.............. .. $54Max~1an Plus ..$94On lila P1alioom $97PAGErender3D. . $99pagestteam .. $125Pen Pal $94Performer/Elan.. .. $38Pixit Scrip!:........................ .. $94Professional Draw.. . $123Professional Page $246Prowrite 2.5 .. $78Ouartefback....... . 1«WOIl!Perlect...... . $185WofW)era,1.3Update... . $19WOfks Platinum $156GAMESArch~elagos $24Chessmaster 2000 $34Dislant SIXIS $44Dragon's lair .. $39Dungeon Master... . $25Eye of HonJS $24Kingdoms of England. . $28Magic JohnsorV1 M.. .. $31Om_I BaslteM $35Popubus.... .. $38 Holiday GIU PICk-Pro Tennis TotX..... . $28 Master Type, PHA$AR 3.0, Who·What·Sim Cky...................... . $30 Where-When, F· 40, Hole il One GoW, aSpace /Q . $37 pystkk, $310 valoe $89
I!OefecMl ret.ms ITUSttlaYe a retJm a.nhoriz~on OOrrDer. ShiWing and handing ire non~efuncl.ilie.RetLrTlSsuqtd 10 restocking fee. We cannot guarantee COf'l1)ata~li!y. All sales are final. Pricessu~ect to chal'lll8 without nob. Allslodl.ed ilems not listed. Ask lor otJ' co~ete proOOClbtin~
HARDWAllEAmga 500 CAll.Amga 20M HDlA500 $649Amiga501 RAM Card $159Amga 520 Video Adapler $4<lAmiga 1010 Ex. Drive $l29Amiga 1084 Monitor $:K»Amga 2000 CAll.Amga 2000HD CAll.Amga 2500. . CAll.Amga 2500130 . CAll.Amiga 2010 In. Flcppy $159Amga 2088 Bridgeboanl $499Amga 2288 Bridgeboanl .•............... $l125Amga 2091 SCSI C"'roIer $2993.5"ln. FIoppyJChinon $1123.5" Ex. FIoppylC.A $139CSA Tulboi5OO CAll.Frame Grabber CALlGenOne ..........................•............... $589GVP Hanleatds CAll.GVP 68030 Accelerator. .. CALlMictobotics8UP $172Mictobotics Hard Frame .$246Maotlolics SlerB2· 0KI1 M CAll.MicroWay Rkker RX8f .$489Panasonie 1410 camera w/lens $241
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Scanlock.... . $879STAR Rairbow pmer .. $254~rGen........ . $699&4lerGen 2000s .. CAlLSi4>ra 512KiA500 $110S~ra 2400 Modem $124S\4lra Internal Modem....... .. $134Sl4lra 8M12MRAM A2OOO $349Si4>ra 8 WOK RAM A2OOO $175Sl4lra Hard Drives...... . CAlLVIDEOANlMagic.................. . $63Animalion Apprentice $185Animotion.................. . $63Broadcast Tiller $189Deluxe Pan: III $99DV-Pan: 3 ....$62DiglVlewGoId 4.0.. . $149Oirec1or......... .. $45Fanlavision... .. $38Moden., 30 . $63Photon Pail12.0 $94ProVideo Gold $195Sculpt Animale 4D Jr $94TIMbo SI... . $125Vdeoscape 3D.................... .. $125Vdeotkler. .. $93
32 March J 990
MUSIC WARE'!'MAS. MmSam~er $127Audiomasler II . $62Bats & Pees $188Deluxe Music..... . $65Dr.T> Cql~~ Pro $165Dr.T's KCS $156OrTs KCS Levell! $219Master Trax Pro $237Music X $186M lor Amiga $152Pertect Sound 3.0 $75Pro MIDI Studio.... .. $126Sonix... . $50Synlhia. . $63Texture... $94
AIIGA ACCESSORIESGol Cap - grey or while. ...$8Gol Shirt·L or Xl.. . .$18Sweat StWI-L or Xl $16Sport. Bag $19
SOOY BLANK DISK SPECIALSOOY OS 00 (box of 10) $13.85SOOV HD (box 0(10) $ 29.95BULK OS DO (no Iabels) 99 cents each
Starter Software Kit·TV Text, Money Mentor, Text Craft Plus,Marold, Graphics Studio $79
Circle 206 on Reader Service card.
Amiga II a registered tradernar1l; of Commodofe Bualneu Machines, INC.
The difference between theGEnie'" service and Cornpuserve"could make a big difference to you.Here's why.GEnie's rate for 1200baudaccess isjust $6 per non-prime hour:"Theirs is more than twice as much.Which means GEnie lets you stayonline longer for lots less.
So you'll have more time for ourcomputer Round'labies, multi-playerganles and more.
Signing up is as easy as one,
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press RETlJRJ~. And have a majorcredit card or your checking accountnwnber ready. For informanon in theU.s. or Canada, call 1-800-638-9636.Or write GE Information Services,401N.WJshington,Rockville,MD 20850.
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IT BEGINS AS a wistful look in your eyes when yourfriend's powerhouse Amiga tears through applica-tions in mere seconds, while your stock system, sansaccelerator and hard disk, plods along like an oldfarm tractor.
Then you begin imagining how much more pro-ductive you could be if you only had a hard disk andother fancy stuff. We've seen this kind of thing before;SLOp fantasizing and buy yourself some hardware.
To help satisfy your wishes, our list includes every-thing from mini replacement mice to mega 32-bit68030 boards.
Clocks ..............•......... 36Coprocessors 36Drives/Controllers .....•.•....... 36Expansion 38Graphics/Video .......•......... 39
Information listed here is subject to change as themarket fluctuates. The companies we contacted sup-plied us only with products they expect to ship byMarch 1990. Where prices had not been set, "Call"was placed in the price column-meaning, contactthe manufacturer, not us. For items with price ranges,the starting price is listed. The Port column describeshow items are installed: Peripherals installed exter-nally connect to pons; boards are installed internallyin slots. The Machine column codes are as follows:A=A500, B =AlOOO, C=A2000 only, and D=A2000series.
Interfacing/Networking .40Memory .40Miscellaneous .42Music/Sound .44Manufacturers' Addresses .46
Compiled by Tim Walsb and Jan Jackson
34 March 1990 ILLUSTRATED BY JACK TOM
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Mou.seTime MicroBotics $ 39.95 B Mouse Clock.
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02H 50002H280003H 500MH!800..-IIHZIGO68020 CPU BoardA2088D BridgeboardA2286D BridgeBoardAUOI U••••••• Il.il-_.A2630A300 I Upgrade KitHurricane 500 (olH 500)........u_~ .u_1l.UIII
~_I'Impatt A2000..o30116
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IMtronics
IMtronia
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68020/16 accelerator with 68881116 coprocessor.68030125 accelerator and 68882/25 coprocessor.68020116 accelerator and 68881/16 DRAM controller.-,......,..6I8!tOtI5 ' ialUf •••• 18882I2S cupi ••ocoe_on.-. ~.68020 Board; opuonal 16-33Mhz 68882, 68030/16.Intel 8088 coprocessor, Sv., 360K drive.Intel 80286 coprocessor board. Sv. drive.
I ""M. biI· RAM.••do__ 6888I._I......., •••••••••••••• 2MB RAM._ 68881. _I •• MB RAM.68030 ac<:cLer.ator boards.
28Mhz 68030. 68882, w/4MB bit-wide RAM and drive.68020116 accelerator.
Widi8M1152••••·wide RAM np. dausJuefboanl.68030 SI-Ilk MotanJIa CPU. wl6888! C&protttIOI'.
68030 32·bit Motorola CPU w/16Mhz clock.68030 32-bit Motorola CPU w128Mhz dock.68030 32·bit Motorola CPU w128Mhz clock. 68882.•• _ , r ••••••.68881 _ dod, oUcly cIiK. parity dlod.
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tOMB SCSI Drive &: Cootro Comp-U-Save $ '89.00 A,B B", 20MB SCSI hard drive and controller.~~••utemal Floppy Commodore $ 299.9' All Drive 880K micro floppy disk dr-ive.3Y," Disk Drive Comp-u-Save $ 145.00 All Drive Single Dappy drive with power supply.0\1000 SCSI 1_ Supra 199.00 B IIUi PUS Ibru. au • iiiCJUdei ••••••••_I. Commodore $ 199.9' D Dri¥e SIal 880K miao floppy _ dm..
A2090A HD CoIIIIrOIIer Commodore $ 599.00 D SIal ST506. SCSI DMA control~.ASOOHD Controller PacifM:Peripberals Call A 8", SCSI controller, can hold up to 2MB RAM.A500 SCSI Interface Supra $ 199.00 A Bus Optional 2MB RAM.MOO Commodore $ 799.00 A Bus 20MB HO, allows 2MB RAM expansion and SCSI porL,- ..-ALF·AF·IIFII 01' au. Pre' op«t Cal D SIal -...•...•.....•......ALF-AG-MW 01' au. •••.••op«t c..a A lui Induda .un oIw in PROM •••••.
•••.• ·""·SCSI Pre sped Call A Bu, Controller w/ALF2 S/W in PROMS.ALF·DCMFM or RLL Pre'spect Call 0 Siol V,-card controller, autoboot.ALF·OE·MFM or RLL Pre'spect Call A.B Bus Controller, adaptor wlo case ..u.F·~MnI 01' llLL •••.••op«t UUI A,B •••• .._.ALF·Jt&.MnI 01' au. •••.••op«t Cal D SIal CaaInlIa-. 1\ <ani, oIw. __
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'1200.00 0199.00 AD
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'IH.OO AD'195.00 AD
149.00 C$ 119.00 D$ 35.00 As 395.00 All, 199.00
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44MB HD, •• lemaI ('1400). SCSI.MacinloslHDm tibIe 3V.· . use w/emulators.Converts non-autoboot COil troller to autoboot.DMNSCSI overdrive controller.External floppy disk drive.3y'-inch extemal8oppy.Extemal80ppy w/BAD. accekrator 5Oftware.EnhancaXT8~rd, uptoI.OM81l~.Allows full autoboot of 2090 and 2090A.DRAM controller.Dual Iloppy drive, power supply and 6' cord.W/out pown' supply.Atigns diu. _ perlOnno ceadIwrit< •••••.~ diu. dri>a. modIwrile _.
Interface for hard disks and devices.Two 3Yt-inch external floppy drives in one case.Dual drive with built-in virus protection.5Yr oopp,. w,1:Kiih-1n VIrus protectKln.
Adw.nced autobool Eprom w/l'ftDOwb&e media ItOnF.
t10pp drive.SCSI interface card.SCSI DMA controllers, autoboot.SCSI controller, supports 3Vt-inch drives on card.Suranung tape up Iystenu, toComplete system wl20MB drive. Fast RAM option.Quantum drift 40MB SCSIcontroller.Up to 8MB RAM option, SCSI, software included.
SCSI controller, RAM expansion 8MB and up.SCSI cntroller, with optional RAM up to 8MB.
Dual &opp, diu. dm<.31-114MB capodty, Jo.h; ••••• ronnatt<d.
32 124MB ($1677) w/fan.20--180MB ($1899) available.SCSI DMA controller, Burst, Share, Throttle modes.SCSI DMA ronti"oUeT. Burst. Shared;Throu)e moon.Autoboot. SCSI controDer: 90. 136. 182MB available.SCSI DMA controller. Bunt. Share. Throttle. modes.32MB hard card, 48MB: $939.95.SCSI interface. autoboot, DMA.3Vt-inch external drive.Kit lOr SCSI hard diIll)'lteJD.
20MB drive'. SCSI conuoIIC'r. 40MB available.20MB. 30MB: .95. availabar wl2:MBRAM $269.95.DMA SCSI hard disk interface, auto-booting.32MB hard drive.20MB to 6660MB capacities.n 8 Drive.
32M8 hard dri~ and fMBIO KB.HD ~1CI'facr; ST·SC)6 MFM or RLLSCSVRAM DMA autobooting controller, up to 8MB RAM.20.30, 45MB, 4OQ, 8OQ. IOOQ HD, RAM subsystems .•
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'499.00 C'119.115 AI,$ ~.OO B$ 246.00 0$ 336,00 A
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20, 30, 45MB SCSI HO on autoboot HOD controller.40, 80, )00 Quantum SCSI HD on autoboot, DMA.20, 30, 45MB SCSI HO. autoboot, DMA controller.40. 80, 100 I HD •••_ 5_ Diok •••••••.
44Y HDController, SyQuest drive. removable media.floppy disk drive.Sy'·inch floppy drive.-... diPal40YB _ w/QJd ••••• _.
8801t miao lloppy dill drift •
AutobootingISCSl. supporu removable media.HD SCSI controller, supports removable media.SCSI controller. supports removable media devices.Auto<onlip•••••a• ...-s from,... bard disk.1_•••bard diob ad __
High-speed SCSI interface. clock.Byte sync, SCSI, pass rhru, and auto-conflg.Unlimited capacity with removable 44MB cartridges.20MB SCSI oyystem; SOYB ••••• 60MB available.InlAmlal modem. adda a oerial pon.SCSI hard dilk conrnUor. ••••••••• AMAX.
Two 3Y,,-inchfloppy drives in one case, pass rhru.Upgradable to twin drive. 3y"·inch external floppy.20, 30, 40, 65 MB hard drive.Hard card. prefi>mwted. Wordoync DNA. 105Q0 _.Allows HD IICCeII dunn, modem or MIDI oprration.,xpuu'abIe &om OK10•••• in 2MB iDm:menu.
EXPANSIONPIIODUCI' CDIII'lUIY PUCE IIAaL fOllT DUCitiPiJON
AX., Spirit $1195.00 A.B Bus Allows PC/XT.i\T.$lyle board expansion.But; Expandtt Bill's Boards $ 495.00 A.B Bu, Sub Assemblies turn BabyAT Box into expan. chassis.Dual Serial Board ASDG $ 249.00 C Slot Provides IWOadditional serial ports.110oo1__ ASDG , 199.00 C Twia X •••••••••• 2 oeria1 puna ••• Twia-X board._1IDe.. GVP , 259.00 A.C Slot Eo.temaI HD ••• -... .- V•.•••••• arda.GPD_ ASDG 199.00 C Twin X Givn Twin X GPIBInfinity Machine MAST. Call A.B Bus Up to 64MB of 32-bit memory, SCSI controller. 08882.Mini·nck C ASDG $ 195.00 B Bus 2-sIot lorro I SU~I, + 5 \'011 pow~r supply,SD Chusis Ccmspec $ "9.00 All Drive Chasis holds 2 5Y.- or 3y'.inch d~vtces.-- Chodpoinl , 199.00 C •••••••• puna.
SIlAMIM+ 1IiD'._ CaB D Slot _1lAIiI card..-,. •••• up. .--.q.Subsystem 500 PacifIC Peripherals $ 249.00 A Bus 2·A2000 slots: $399 wirh floppy disk drive.TB·2122 Micro R&D Call B Bus Toolbus; allows use of A2000-51yl~cards.TB·2522 Micro R&D Call A Bus Toolbus; allows use of A2000-slyl~ cards.TU-UOI Yim>RIoD Cd A IIua •• espoado<'" 111-2522.TooI_ bpanoioa Tech , 189.M A.B IIua 2-A2OOO-. 1 _ •••••••••auppIy: 5 amp; SlSS.M.TJ • dllO IntmlCti've' Vd. , MIl •• A IIua Indudea "P"mjon _. SCSI c0ntr0lier. cable.
TwIa X ASDG , 519.00 C Slot Dual IEEE lI59 _ board.
J8M=h /990
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GRAPHICSNIDEOPIIODUcr DESCRIPTIONCOYPANY PRICE MACH. PORT
4004 Geolockable Encoder40045 GenJockable EncoderA2!OO Genlock
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AProDraw
AProDraw
AProDraw
CalarSpli_O;P-Droid~.VIew GaIdEasyl 1000
Easy12000Euyl500fF GeaIock C-f"DpedNJJty
FIlck-Oll'-...Frame BufferFrame CaptureFrameGrabber
Fa Cr tb .256
FUhlre Touch 15 Kit
Fa•••• TouchS~Gcnisc:an
Image Worksyscem
Imprint 3.0
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IS/ONE
JXIOO
J"-'OOJX450Lip._.-UVEILIVE!
LIVE!
MIP ED Beta Video
MIPHI 8101MVIdeoMIP_s,-MIP VIIS Video PloductiooMediaphile 1.3 Sy.ternMicl"OSeaTch Digi-View
miniGENNeriJd~ _ Pni
o-l-GEN 7GlnnOaud-GEN 711Omni·GEN 721/722Presentation WorkstationProCEN
_ VIdeo DiIl-SoV •••• SrerieII5-View: n.e eM ~doa
Magni Systems
Magni Systems
CommodoreInkwell
Mimetics
RGB Video
R & DLR & DLR & DLMicroSrarch
New Tek
New Tek
Anakin Research
AnakinAnakin Research
MkroWayMAS.T.
MacroWa>:Mimetics
MirnericsProgressive
ProgreSSiveAmigoAmigoDatelAmicore
Liquid LightSpiritEdu-Vid Research
KunaKurta
ASDG/Sharp
ASDGlSharp
ASOOShMpInk weD Systems
A·~ ua redA-SquarwA-Squared
Interactive Micro
Interactive MICro
Interactive Micro
Interactive Micro
Interactive Micro
SunRize
Progressive
Nen"klOmicron Vtdeo
Omicron vtdec
Omicron
Amicore 101.
Progressive
0.",1AnUro",Software Sensations
$ 1695.00 0S 1695.00 C
$ '99.00 C$ 129.95 All$ 199.95 All
• 6950.00 ""0S 499.00 All$ 599.00 All$ 999.00 All
$ 150.00 All$ 79.95 All
• 199.95 A.C$ 449.00 8$ 499.00 C$ 399.00 A
$ 50.00 0S '99.00 A.BS 595.00 0$ 549.95 C
$ 199.95 All$ 699.95 All
$ 724.95 AllS 1195.00 AllS 3495.00 C$ 299.95 All
S 18000.00 NlA
S 2495.00 All
S 695.00 All
S 180.00 AllS 295.00 AllS 5251.00 ABC
$ 995.00 All
S 3995.00 C
S 6995.00 C$ 129.95 AllS 295.00 BS 450.00 C
S 399.00 A
S 13998.00 All
S 6199.00 AllS 982.00 AllS 2499.00 All
s '''.00 AllS 99.95 All$ 229.95 All
S ~195.oo All$ 1595.00 All
• 2495.00 All$ 3500.00 All
$18000.00 N/A
$ 449.95 All$ 139.95 All$30000.00 N1AS 79.95 All
18M, Video
IBMVideo slot
Moo ••
RGBSerial
Serial
Serial
Serial
o;,;ti=JOYotid"'<aile!Serial
Slot
Expansion
Oid.erFixer
Denise soc
Slot
Slot
Frame Buff
Parallel
"'iiillelSerial
NIAParallel
NIASerial
RGB",...u.1Serial
Joystick
NIANIANIAJoystick
BooSlot
Bus
NIANIAJoyotick
'kMouse
Digitizer
RGBRGBRGBRGBRGBN/A
RGB",...u.1N1A",...u.1
Genlock. w/fuding, keying; wzconrrol box: $1995.
Adds SIMS output capability to 4004 features.
(h'erlay Amiga graphics on PAL or l\'TSC video.
light pen and driver.
NTSC genlock; overlay.
Inleractive video editiPK.cOntroller.
9 x 6 Summagraphies draw tablet w/stylus, cursor.
12)( 12 Summagraphics draw tablet w/slylus, cursor.
12 x 18 Summagraphics draw tablet w/stylus, cursor.
EJectronic color wparator; UJe with digitizers.
Automated 6kcr wheel for Digi.Vaew.
Video digitizer will! PQ!'e~ gender chanRr.
Pressure sensuive graphics tablet; auro-config.
Pressure sensitive graphics tablet: auro-config.
Pressure sensiti\'e drawing tablet; aUIO-config.
Enhanumelll; leu IF work. with NTSC genkd..
Reduces hi-res jitttt on Multi-sync monitors.
RedllttS intttlatt fticker scan Ii"no","__ "":"~ ,,
Stores and displays color frame overscanned image.
Optional chip set for use with Frame Buffer.
Real-time color digitizer.
Real-liD\(' color digitizer.
Converts video monitors into touch screens.
Kiosk w/A2000, drive, 1MB RAM, and TIS monitor.
Hand scanner; 4V•. inch scanning width, 4000 dpi.
Image processing and analysis sySlem, up 10 30K.
Polaroid Palette image r«ordrr and software.
cmkiC1: with lOOPing YKIco input; NTSC. PAL
Control infrarrd devices via software .
Tabid w/cordlns drvices. cable, softwaT\~,
Graphic tablet with driver software and cables.
200 dpi, 4)( 6.4 inches, 18-bit color scanner.
300 dpi, 8.5 x II inches, 24-bil color scanner.
~ dpi, II x 17 inches. 24.bit color scanner.
Hi-reslightpen and ~re.RraJ...time video dillritizrr w/HAM IUDDOn.
Real-rime video digitizer w/video effects.
Real-time video digitizer w/power supply
Sony ED Beta deck, camera, and A2500.
Sony HI 8MM deck, camcorder, and A500.
Sony MDP-510 Laarr disk. player.
Son VHS video deck., AmiK'l: Iflltm.
Audio{Video editing, hardware/software package.
Replaces color wheel for digitizers.
Broadcast-quality genlock, switches modes.
Encodes an syna RCB output to compositt signal.
Produces composite or VIC !58 video signals, PAL.
S·VHSINTSC ~nlock. system oroducel Sl:Darate VIC PAL
Muhi-forrnat genlock system.
Produces mulu- media presentations.
Genock..s from VHS, S-VHS, MIl. or Betacam formaLS.
Takes compoute VidCO from video, recorder.
Commercial post production system.CabIt compatible with Amiga 50 Video encoders, ~
A.,;g. World 39
B A I D A I I • y I 8UIDI
Scanlock VSI...t
Scanner Interface Package
Scanncry
so;mew I__ 0
~SuperGen 20005SuperGe.n-SC
TCRG-I02,-..sa-._~-IVideo Pro SeriesVideo Toaster
X·Spec.3D
VidT«hGold Disk
Inset Systems
kSIt~
Creolioa
Digital Creation
Digital Creation
Mkroillusions
Amicore
New Tek
Haitex
$ 99'.00$1195.00
$ 250.00
II 29.11!1I 749.11!1$199'.00$ 599.95
$ 799.9>
11595.00I 49.11!1
.000.00Call
$1299.00
$ 124.95
A,D,CAllA,C
AllAIAIC
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CAIAIAll
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RCB out
ParallelParallel-IIGIlVideo
Video
Serial
V"'"•••••••••••N/A
Video SIOlMouse
External broadcast-quafiry genlock; pit. auto-config.
Canon IX12 300 DP) scanner with interface.
Interface cable and software for HP Laser Jet.
a to N"IW: i II color c:rJIt'm1er.""""" 1GBID dlr_ _____ ._Ia__
True S-VHS compatible genlock and overlay device.
Internal version. encodes RCB to composite.
Time code reader/generator syncs graphics, sound.
., iadt IIGII;••• _ .t_1GB SoDy_..1u •••• \cAwe ••••
Post production system w/Amiga character generator.
Digual video effects, frame capture, genlock.
Three dimensional viewing glasses.
INTERFACE/NETWORKING ..,•..AS'OAdaptor In-A-CableAmiga GPIB
~~•••• p.IlS -l:!I'!!!!Fasl FAXMCS 1000
Micl'OlIhare MCS 8000
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Proto "OK
Proto5K
Commodore
MAST.ACDA
•••••••ACD\ACD\MichTron
Cornspec
Conup«Inccnctifto V.ee-...ASDGACDAACDA
$ 49.00
$ 129.00
$ 495.00
I 29 ••• 15
I .''''1517 ••• 15
$ 699.95
$ 199.00
$ 599.00
I 79.11!1Cd
I ll!I5.OOCall
$ 279.00
A,D
AllC
CAIAIC
AllAllA,B,CAICC
All
Video
Parallel
Slot
•••••••••••-RS·2S2CParallel
Parallcl
•••••••••Slot
Parallel
CompositelRF adapter.
SCSI cable adaptor connects to printer.
IEEE-488 interface to 14 devices w/software.
"ClI'~1SOI ' Mh'MiaIerfIc:e.•••....•. . •..-.la- _.
Group III fax machine capabilities.
IEEE primer interface.
Allows 8 computers to share a parallel printer.C _
Net ••• _-- ••..•..--.I&<hannel 12-bit ND; 2-channcl 8-bit NO.
l-channcl ND converter; amplifier, VU meter.
MEMORY .'..••..5MB ClockfCaJendaT
08M!000
1.5MB Internal Memory
v. •••••11lIW-,_110I_8 MEG Memory Board
8-UPI (DIP)
8-UPI (SIMM)
BIolIl •••••••• -, -..._.-"..-A2501 ..••MB/OA250 •..••MB/"OO""OI .• MllI8OQ.u.1'-.u.I-tIIMIQ
4OMtmIII990
SkylesIMtronics
Sk.ylesSupnASDGSItASDC
MicroBotics
MicroBotics
Sk,...e"",....te.ec.•••••••.••.••.•GVPGVPGVP
GVP
$ 79.95 A
$ 498.00 C
$ 249.95 B
I "9.00 AI 1_ B12811.1115$ 275.00 B
$ 199.00 C
$ 199.00 C
I •••. llI5 CI •••.llI5 A
79ll.00 D$2499.00 C$2959.00 C
$~249.00 C
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Internal
Slot
Motherboard-••ISlot
Slot
Slot
Slot1-SIal
CPU Slot
CPU Slot
CPU Slot
Unpopulated A501 replacement; w/512K RAM: $179.95
Memory board for H2000 and H2800.
Unpopulated; .5MB-$3~9.95; IMB-$399.95; 1.5MB-$530.
.15U , : 7 , 1MB -,. ••••••••••• I
Unpopulated 8MB memory board. lorro I.
Unpopulated 8MB board. uses standard 1M-hit DRAMS.
Unpopulated 8MB RAM board, uses PopSimms or SIMM.
••••• _ 11/I, •• 8101_,••••••• wIdl I " I_..... ID DIll BAM.16MHz 680~O, 68882, 4MB RM,i.
16MHz 680~O, 68882, 400 drive.
16MHz 680~O, 68882, 4MB RAM, 80Q drive.---- 4OQ-.
---SCSI 3.5" HInI DIsk ome.miJabIe from 20MB llIlO2M11,caJl8b1e of SlIlring up to 116 fkwydiSItetla.
IWIIIIIIM ClIIIIII1EIIDMA direct to ooboard 16KB buffer,provides A2lXXlDedonnance withno DMA side efkcts .
• I'll CNlII EDGEl3IECTOIIThis compact snap-on unit connectsdirectly to the Amiga bus, ensuringthe highest possible performance andreliability.
AIJ11IIIOOTfEATIJIlEAllows the ASOOto be booteddirectly off the hard disk, no floppiesrequired! All hard disk partitions canbe Fast File System partitions.
RAM EXPANSOIUp to 4MB 01ZERO-WAITSTATE,FAST RAM can be added internally.
EXT9IIIAL SCSI COllECTORAllows up to six additiJnal SCSIdevices to be attached.
IlEIJICATBJ POWBl SUPPlYRobust power supply is included sothat your ASOOis not over-loaded.
GREAT VALLEY PRODUCTS INC.225 Plank Ave., Paoli, PA 19301
For more inlonnation, or lor your nearest GVP dealer, call today. Dealer inquiries wel00me.Tel. (215) 889-9411 • FAX (215) 889-9416 • BBS (215) 889-4994
Amiga Is a registered trademark 01Commodofe-Amiga Inc.IMPACT and GVP are trademarks of Greal Valley Products, Inc:.
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DI8CIIIPTION
A!OOI-4MB/8OQAmmeg 1
AX 2000CSI -I
JInFlcriplOGO
Exp-8000
FastPac
••• tRam
IN lOGOIN_•_IIM501 Memory It Clock Exp.
Maxi Megs
Megaboan:l 2000
M<iioI.ll-,.-••••••Micromegs
MIDI TnmlportMiniMegsIoIbdmep
IoIbdmep ••••
GVP
Kline- Tronies
Comspec
C"",,,GSA
Progressive
CSAXerec
MicroBotks
MAS.T.
Progressive
101_SlIpraInreractive Vid
MAST.
Passport DesignsMAS.T.MAS.T.MAS.T.
iritMAST.M.AS.T.
MicroBotics
Octo-PlusPico Meg.PopSIMMs
ProIlAMI08O\lAM I!lrpuoiaa ConI
\lC4.-RC4 RaJlu::ard
RE 2000-0
SIN·SOO-Supn\lAM_
Su~SupraRam 2000
SupraRam 2000The Phantom
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Comspec
SpiritMicroBotiaiSupraSu raSupra
SupraDr. Ts
$3599.00 C
$ 163.95 8$ 870.00 BS .10.00 AS 795.00 CS 299.95 AS 429.95 A$1295.00 C, 99.95 A,B
f 289.00 BS 289.00 AS !O9.00 B'129.00 A
Call A
'229.95 CS 149.00 AS 549.00 A,B
S 529.95 CS 109.00 AS 459.00 All
Call A,B
S 169.00 A,BCaD A,B
289.00 CCall C
Call A,B
, B9.95 C
f 299.95 Cf 99.95 Af 225.00 C$ 225.00 A$ 280.00 C
'289.00 A'559.00 A:B'119.00 Af 549.00 A'499.00 D'399.00 D$ 300.00 All
69. A
CPU Slot
Box
Parallel
As<llSlotMOIherboard
Motherboard
SlotFast'Trak
Cud1.1emaIA501
A50l slotSlot1.1emaISupraDriveEx •. SlotInternal
RS232Bu,
BusExlemal
CudInternalInfinityB-UP!Slot
ASOISlot
Expansion
Slot
Card8us(mASOI1._Slot
Slot
Serial
25MHz 68030, 68882, 4MB RAM, 80Q drive.
1MB 0 wait state design, auto-config.
2MB expansion.
Memory expalUlOn. dock., unpopulated. up to 2MB.
Con"cru l6-bit RAM to 32 bits.1MB internal ex~n board. auto-<onfig.
Autoconfiguring 8MB expansion board.
32-bit static RAM board includes KickStart.
Memory option for FastTrak systems, socketed SIMMs.
• yer PC bOard. socketed, expandable from OK.I_~MB inlerna1 memory expansion from OK.Un . RAM boards; I fd8: 369, I VaMa: $129; clock .
Standard 512K expansion with dock, unpop.: $54.95.
2MB internal, can be switched in, out of video RAM.
2MB expansion board, upgrades to 8MB.
npopulated memory expansion boar .
2MB memory board. fiu insKie SCSI interface.
14MB RAM ~pansKm in 1MB incremenll .
5l2K RAM board, w/dock, calendar, uses 1MB DRAMS.
Professional MIDI-SMPTE interface.
2MB external RAM board, amo-configs, tachometer.
2MB RAM board. auto-confip. compact Size.
8MB RAM board. converts to 16- or 52-bit,Exp!ndabIe from OK to 8MB in 2MB increments.
8MB RAM, autoconfigures.32-bit 2MB memory module for Infinity Machine.
Unpopulated SIMM boards, 1MB capacity.
Expansion IiCiiro. u es to 8MB,512K RAM expansion card; clockIcaIendar option,
A 100- in~sion card. ~u RAMchip!.OK; $325 for expansion box.
Unpopulated card expandable to 2MB.
OK, expandable to 2MB, uses 256K x 4 DRAMS.
2 RAId. upgrade. to M8.512& RAId and dock.2MB RAM for Su Fa SCSI interface.
2MB memory expansion, 4, 6, and 8MB available.
Supports 2, 4, 6, and 8MB: four-layer PCB.
Allows MIDI sequencers to sync with SMPTE.
1 memory expansion,
MISCELLANEOUSPRODVcr DllSClUPTlON
At680 Commodore ,149.95 All Serial 1200 baud external modem.
AM-200A Prototyping Board NES Inc. , 49.95 C N/A Provides architecture for custom boards.
A-Max ReadySoft ,199.95 All Ext. Drive Macintosh emulator.
BrldpDmoC ! MJ5yslomi S 97.'" c- 1m. Drive leU Bridgeboard use "Amiga drive&.
"- DroldMit_ell f 59.95 AU NJA
Color 5 - Sunltile Indus. f 99.95 AU NJACordless Mouse Practical Solutions ,129.95 All Mouse
Cordlels Mouse Meridian ,199.00 All Mouse
CSt 5500 Boingl Mouse Centaur ,149.00 All Mouse
DtP·Drold New • 9.911 All ••••~Gua~ A<aonware f 59.95 A,C JOfIIlck
42 MtJTCh/990
Motorius nisi- Vte'W color wheel.Replaces coklr wbeel for digitizen.
Mouse with no srnngs attached.Infrared controlled device accurate to 4 feet.
Optical 3 button mouse.
AUtomatICmoconied <ei wheel for D d.Allows UK of two PIwer GUDlRmultaneou.ly .•
• A • • A I • I • GUIDI
mar•••
Genius MouseImpact TapestoreImpact WT150----PC Elevator 586
PbuerCunPrototypinC Board
_ .•••••••e-t--Serial upander %000Supramodem !<IOOtiSync.bro Es:prnsTI_ne_
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GVP
1lidIipa--~Applied ReasoningActionwareCelestial Systems
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CIAGolden Hawk
SupraDale!
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---$ 49.95 All$ 125.00 C$ 899.00 C.-.• ••• AI$1795.00 CS 49.95 AllS 49.95 C
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$ 19.95 C$ 179.00 2000$ 69.95 All
Mouse
Controller5Y, Bay-IBMJoystickSiol
•••IlAS<ri2ISiol
Drive-
Mouse replacement. 6-foot cord.EPROM kit w/one 150MB tape cartridge.Wangtelr. 150MB streaming tape backup system.
••••• U _ •• 110M. ocWol58It JW(.IIIouIe •••• • •• ' :Increases power of Commodore A2088 Bridgeboard.Light gun for compatible games.Unpopulated Zarro 2 board.
•••••AdopIa _ 1000 _10 AlOOO•
_ _ CIA ••••••••• cImo.Allows use of AIOOO serial devices.Internal modern, asynchronous 2400/1200/300 baud.Ha •..dware/sof"tware combination disk copying system.
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MUSIC/SOUNDIR%iPiiON_ IIICIL _
A.M.A.S.
AmiSoundAudio 2000
" ClIeUifU.',?;;---Harmony
MIDI For AmigaMIDI Gold Insider------MIDl-Gold .500MlDl-Star
MidjMuler
7----_ •.•Practice CenterPr.MIDl InterlaceSound Sampler
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Microdeal
AmiTechDay's-•••••TnolicImpulseSkylesGolden Hawk--.-Golden HawkSpiritDale!
Vi---'The Piano ProfessorPro-TronicMirneucs
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$ 169.95 All$ 99.95 All$ 79.95 C
7'1_ AI• •••• AI$ 200.00 All$ 49.95 All$ 89.95 C
• _ AI• ••• AI$ 79.00 A$ 26S.00 All$ 59.95 All
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$ 64.95 All$ 99.95 All
SerialSerial
IBM SIOI
••••-CallSerialSerial
••••••••••Serial
SerialSerial
,I_AI._ AI
.-. AI
••••-NjASerial
2nd Joystick
8-bit stereo digitizer w/MlD1 interface.Sound amplifier. power control box.Internal stereo amplifier.
-... ••• dIIpIay _ boun 10 ••••••••••••••.IN, 11lllU. 11lllUIOUT ._.Recognition of tonal frequencies.MIDI w/one IN, two OUTs, one THRU.MIDI·INfI1-fRU. 20lffs.
•••.•.....•-AflDI-IN, two OlITs. and swuchable OlIT.Multiple port MIDI interface; 2 INs, 6 OlJT, THRU.Standard MIDI interface; IN, OlJT, THRU.
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Interactive workstation. MIDI keyboard, computer.
IN. THRU. 20lITs.Audio digitizer.
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Acontinuing series
of tips, techniques,
and tricks for
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imaginative Amiga
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•By .Ioel Dagen
56 March 1990
FreehandAnimation
Part I: The Pencil TestREAL-TIME ANIMMION is one of thedistinguishing strengths of the Amiga,and any number of excellent Amiga pro-grams complement the system's capabili-ties in this area. While "Accent" has notfeatured specific animation proceduresvery often in the past, a previous column(june '89. p. 50) did examine eel tech-niques with The Director (Right AnswersGroup) using its partial-screen page-flip-ping, or "BLIT," feature. Here, and inthe next issue, we will take one of thiscolumn's special favorites-c-Deluxel'airuIII (Electronic Arts)-and explore somefundamentals of freehand animation.
By "freehand animation," I am refer-ring to the process of drawing eachframe by hand, making gradual changesto create the illusion of smooth motion.The subject could be anything from acartoon character to a tree waving in thewind. The technique I will outline in-volves creating the finished animation intwo to four stages. Stage one-the "pen-cil test" phase of drawing and testing-isthe subject of the present column. I willcover the three other stages-coloring,compositing elements, and postproduc-tion enhancement-next month.
PUT ON A HAPpy FACE
A face is a good subject to experimentwith in developing animation techniques.You can achieve a great deal of characterwith fairly elementary drawing skills. Re-call how easily we acknowledge a fewlines and a circle as a "happy face." Ourperception is so acutely tuned to nu-ances of facial expressions in other hu-mans, that by simply shifting a few linesin a very symbolic abstraction, we canconvey a great range of expression. Theprimary elements conveying expressionare the eyebrows and the mouth. Simplelines-an upturned mouth and browsarching up in the middle of the fore-
head-make a cartoon face happy. Makethe face sad by turning the mouth cor-ners down, register surprise by makingthe mouth a small circle and raising thebrows higher, or suggest anger bychanging the brows to angle down in thecenter of the forehead while turning themouth corners down. Keep your first ex-periments relatively simple for clarity,and to reduce the work road over a longsequence. Learn how much detail isenough to convey character.
From the Anim menu select Frames,then Set II. To begin you might try work-ing with only five or six frames just tosee how things operate. Create a palettewith an easy-to-view "paper" color, andtwo different drawing colors. (I am pur-posely using the term "paper" color in-stead of background color to avoidconfusion later. Remember that this pal-ette is for the drawing stage of the ani-marion; you can adjust all colors later atthe coloring stage to suit the nature andrequirements of the finished piece.)
Clear All Frames to the paper coloryou have created. You will be drawingonly the animated character. Any back-ground scene you may want behind thecharacter will be painted separately andcomposited with the character at stagethree. The two drawing colors should beadjacent to each other in the palette, al-lowing you to toggle between them withthe bracket keys ([ and ]). Select one ofthese colors and draw the first frame.For this project, choose a style that lendsitself to later coloring with the Fill tool.Use solid, unbroken lines to delineateany area to be colored. 1 suggest usingthe single-pixel brush in the solid-linemode-"d" from the keyboard.
When the frame is finished and youhave made any necessary corrections, goto the Effect menu and select Back-ground> Fix. Fixing the background
Mastering these few simple techniques
can put you on the move towards creating crisp,
means that you may now draw over theimage. and then erase or clear to thatimage rather than to a blank screen. Inthis case it is also the key to simulatingan animator's light table (see the accom-panying illustration). An animator, work-ing on a glass drawing table lighted fromunderneath, can register a new sheet ofpaper over a previous frame and see thelines of that frame through the newsheet. He or she then uses this as adrawing reference. We can do much thesame thing in DPaint.
ANDroTopMvPREVIOUS EFFORT.In our illustration, the upper left cornerof the men u bar still shows us on frameone of our animation. Select the seconddrawing color or use the [ ] keys to tog-gle between the two colors. Using thelines of the first image as a reference,draw the second frame right on top of itas shown. Feel free to make any neces-sary corrections because the underlyingimage is protected. When you are fin-ished, hit the 2 key to advance to thenext frame of the animation. The newimage will disappear from frame one,and transfer to frame two. Select Back-ground> Free in the Effect menu tostamp that image down in frame two,and immediately fix the background (Fix> Background) again in preparation fordrawing the third frame.
Being able to see the previous frameas you draw the current frame allowsyou to accurately judge the amount ofmovement to create and to keep all ele-ments well registered, so that, for exam-ple, the nose is not jittering around onthe face while the character smiles. Tog-gling between two drawing colors keepsthe lines of the new image distinct fromthose of the previous one. Continue thissequence of Fix, Toggle Color, Draw, Ad-
smoothly Rowing animations.
In the "Pencil Test" phase of the animation, using Fix Background from the Effect menu allowsyou to simulate the light-table approach of tradtuonal animators.
vance Frame, and Free until you havecompleted all frames. You can always rollthe pages of your animation backwardand forward with the 1 and 2 keys tocheck the flow of motion. When youhave finsihed, play the animation withthe 4, 5, or 6 key.
The animated image will flicker an-noyingly because alternate frames aredrawn in different colors. To make thelines in all frames the same color, go tothe Stencil tool in the Effect menu andselect the "paper" color of your anima-tion frames. Click on Make Stencil andreturn to the main menu and tools. Usethe Clear tool to make the line color inall frames the same. Knowing that Clearwill change any unlocked colors on thescreen to the currently selected back-
ground color, choose a good line coloras the background color, hit Clear, andclick the All Frames option. Stencil pro-tects the "paper" color of your anima-tion, while Clear changes all other colorsframe by frame to the background coloryou have just selected. Free the Stencilwhen finished. The result is a clean lineanimation ready for coloring.
In my next column we will continue theexploration of freehand animation tech-nique-addressing coloring, compositing,and postproduction enhancement .•
Joel Hagen's credits include work in art, as-tronomy, science fiction, and software develop-ment. Write to him at 10512 Sawyer,Oakdale, C4 95361. Please include astamped, self-addressed envelope.
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Back to BasicsPart 2Our AmigaDOS experts continue their introductory series to
help acquaint new users with the Amigo's operating system.
By Mark L. Van Name and Bill Catchings
oIN OUR LAST column we concentratedon Workbench tools that let you workwith disks. Disks, however. are only oneof several ways that the Workbench al-lows you to organize information. To ex-plore these methods, let's put a new spinon an old metaphor.
THE ELECTRONIC FILING CABINET
The Workbench treats each disk as a sortof electronic filing cabinet. A disk can
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contain three kinds of objects: projects,tools, and drawers.
A project is basically the electronicequivalent of a paper file. It is typically afile created with a spreadsheet, database,word processor, or graphics program-in shan, anything that you store andmanipulate with your Amiga.
To manipulate a project you need atool-generally a piece of software. Likeyour Workbench Notepad and Calcula-tor, it may have come with your Amiga,or it may be a program you purchasedseparately from a third-party vendor.
A drawer is simply a named holdingplace. It can contain tools, projects, oreven other drawers-allowing you to or-ganize your information hierarchically.For example, you might have a Taxesdrawer that contains one drawer foreach year, and in each year's drawerstore the tax spreadsheets for that year.
All four of these basic Amiga informa-tion objects-disks, drawers, tools, andprojects-have icons that you can seeand manipulate, at least in the Work-bench environment. As you might al-ready know, the Amiga is a two-headedbeast: In addition to the icon-orientedWorkbench, there is a command-lineuser interface, the CLI (also referred toas the Shell in AmigaDOS 1.3). The Ct.Iuses the same basic information objectsas the Workbench, but it gives some ofthem different names. Disks are stilldisks, but drawers are listed as directo- ~
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ries. The CLI also treats projects andtools as files, but with a difference: Youcan execute some files as programs(tools), but not others (projects).
Inside the CLI, files and directoriesalso have icons, but those icons are justspecial files with a particular type ofname. (The icon name of a file is the fileor directory name plus the extension".info." Thus, the Notepad's icon file is
otepad.info.) The eLI also lets youhave files and directories without icons.There are many such files on the Work-bench disk, and none of them are visiblefrom the Workbench. To see a file dis-played on the Workbench screen, it musthave an icon.
KNow YOUR DISK OBJECTSBack to the Workbench-for now. TheWorkbench gives you several ways tolearn about disk objects. The easiest wayto examine an object is to open it. Youcan open an object either by selecting it(positioning the pointer over its icon andclicking once with the left mouse button)and then choosing Open from the Work-bench menu, or by double-clicking the
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cerning every object. You can see suchinformation by "selecting" (see above)that object and choosing Info from theWorkbench menu. A full window of in-formation will appear.
That window will show a few commonfacts about every object: its NAME,TYPE (disk, drawer, project, tool), a linecalled lDOL TYPES, and some type ofSTAT S. The mOL TYPES line ismerely a place that shows some specialadditional tools you can use to work withthat object. The contents of the STATUSarea vary with the type of object, as dothe contents of the rest of the window.
LET'S GET DoWN TO CAsES
For disks, the STMUS area showswhether the disk is "Read/Write" or"Read Only" -that is, whether you haveset the disk's write-protect tab so thatyou can change that disk. An additionalarea displays some size informationabout the disk, including "Bytes perBlock" (488 for floppies), "Number ofBlocks" (the total number on the disk),"Number Used," and "Number Free."These last two measures tell you how
left mouse buuon (again with the pointerpositioned over its icon).
When you open a disk or drawer, youget to see the drawers and files inside itthat have icons assigned to them. If youopen the Workbench disk, you will seeseveral drawers. including one labeledUtilities. Open the Utilities drawer tofind such tools as the Notepad and theCalculator.
Opening a tool or project, however,produces a different result. When youopen a tool, the Workbench starts thattool, but not on any particular project.The tool will then let you load any proj-ect on which you want to work. Whenyou open a project, the Workbenchknows that you need a tool to see what isinside that project. (That tool is knownas the project's default tool; it's typicallythe tool you used to create the project.)The Workbench therefore starts that toolon the project, so that you can both seewhat's inside the project and, if youwant, continue working on it.
The Workbench's knowledge of eachproject's default tool is just one of themany kinds of information it stores con-
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much disk space you are currently usingand how much is available. Finally, aDEFAULT mOL line shows you that thedefault tool for disks is the dlskcopy pro-gram. (This line actually reads, "SYS:System/Diskcopy," which is the full CLIname of that program.)
Drawers do not have a default tool,but they do have a COMMENT linewhere you can enter a few words aboutwhy you created a drawer or what kindsof things you want to store in it. Drawershave the same STATUS options as toolsand projects, but different ones thandisks. The STATUS area for drawers,tools, and projects will show four op-tions: ARCHIVED, READABLE,WRITEABLE, and DELETEABLE. Theylimit what you can do to any object(READABLE, WRITEABLE, DELETE-ABLE) and tell whether you have manu-ally marked that object as recentlybacked up (ARCHIVED). Any optionthat is not true will be highlighted andwill have NOT preceding it. The initialstatus for most objects will be NOT AR-CHIVED, READABLE, WRITEABLE,DELETEABLE.
Not only can you merely read the in-formation in this window, you can alsochange it. To protect an object fromdeletion, for example, click on DELETE-ABLE and it will change to Nor DE-LETEABLE. When you then click onSAVE in the lower-left corner, thatchange in status will be reflected thenext time the object's Info is checked. Toexit this screen without making anychanges, click either on QUIT in thelower-right corner or on the close box inthe window's upper-left corner.
Like drawers, tools and projects alsohave a COMMENT area in their infor-mation windows. In addition, they havea SIZE area that shows their size on diskin both bytes and disk blocks. Projects,like disks, also have a DEFAULT mOLand a mOL TYPES area. (There is alsoone other line, STACK, that lets you setthe amount of stack memory that youwant to use when you work on this proj-ect. Advanced users regularly alter thestack size for specific reasons.)
change an object's name. You cannot dothis from the information window-itwill not let you type in the NAME area-but you can easily take care of it fromthe Workbench itself. To change thename of any drawer, project, or tool, usethe same procedure we discussed lastmonth for changing the name of a disk.First, select the object and choose Re-name from the Workbench menu. Astring gadget containing the object'sname will appear in the middle of yourscreen. Now edit the name into the formyou want and hit the Return key. That'sall there is to it.
Next month we'll take a look at someof the other basic operations that theWorkbench lets you perform on disks,drawers, tools, and projects. If you havethe time between now and then, there'sno better way to learn how the Work-bench works than to experiment with it.Good luck! •
Mark L. Van Name and Bill Catchings arecontributing editors to Amiga World. Wnte tothem at 10024 Sycamore Dr., Durham, NC27703.
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ALL PROGRAMMERS SHOULD learnproper memory etiquette. When a pro-gram needs memory. it should ask theoperating system for it. When a programfinishes with a piece of memory. it mustreturn it for other programs to use. Dy-namic memory allocation is easy and themost polite form of using memory. Chandles this process via the Exec libraryfunctions A1locMem( ) and FreeMem( ),and its own functions malloe( ) andfree( ).
With AllocMem( ) you can make an ar-ray called values, for example. adjustableaccording to an integer variable callednum. The AllocMem( ) function has twoarguments: the number of bytes of mem-ory and the type of memory to get.(These flags, such as MEMF_PUBLIC,are listed in the exedmemory.h includefile.) You could write a calculation pro-gram that uses AllocMem( ) as shownbelow:
Int Calculate( num )Int numj{Int success;Int ~alues;ULONG vaLu;
1* And the size of the array, In bytes */vaLaz = (ULONG) num '" slzeof(lnt);1* Then ask for the memory "tvalues =AllocMem(vaLaz,MEMF _PUBUC);If (values I=NULL) {
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Calculate( ) is careful about memory allo-cation. If the AllocMem( ) returns NULL,the program does not perform the calcu-lations. If the memory is found, you canuse the values variable as if it were a staticarray, in expressions such as:
v8Iues(5)=34 '" values[4];
Instead of an int array, your array couldbe declared to contain anything, includ-ing structures. Just be sure to correctlycalculate the size of the memory block,using the sizeof operator. For accuracy,perform the calculation as an unsignedlong.
You will notice the program reflects agreat concern for failure of AllocMem( ),no matter how tiny the amount of mem-ory. Calculate( ) returns a value ofTRUE or FALSE, depending on whetherthe memory could be allocated. Anyfunction that calls Calculate( ) mustcheck the return value to be sure thatthe calculation went smoothly. If itdidn't, the program should warn theuser that lack of memory caused an er-ror. In more complex programs, an er-ror in the lowest-level subroutine shouldpercolate upwards until a higher-levelfunction can recover from the error, and
all functions along the way should cleanup any memory they allocate.
You return allocated memory to thesystem via the FreeMem( ) call. The pre-vious example calls FreeMem( ) with thepointer to the memory and the memo-ry's size. With FreeMem( ), the programmust remember the size of the allocatedblock.
ExECUTIVE OR REsIDENT
Every standard C library includes theresident functions malloc( ) and free( ),which are similar to the Exec library'sA1locMem( ) and FreeMem( ). Both mal-loc( ) and free( ) are very portable, let-ting you compile the same program onmany different machines, (Youcan easilytranslate the Calculate( ) example to usemalloc( ).)
The malloc( ) and free( ) routines arewritten in terms of AllocMem( ) andFreeMem( ), In the Manx C compiler, amalloc( ) call for 32 bytes translates to acall to A1locMem( ) for 40 bytes. The sys-tem uses the extra memory to maintain alinked list that keeps track of allocatedmemory to free later. The file mise/mal-loc.c in the Manx C library source codeshows this simple memory scheme. ~
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Instead of simply calling NlocMem( )for each call to malloc, most C compilersmanage their own lists of memory. Theseroutines usually mimic low-level Unixmemory management functions. such assbrk( ). In Manx you must link the heap-rnern.o file for this type of management;Lattice offers it by default. On the firstcall to maIloc( ), the function sbrk( ) iscalled to get memory from the operat-ing system. It uses AllocMem( ) (0 askfor a large block of memory, a defaultof 40K for Manx C. Each subsequentmalloc( ) consumes a portion of thislarger block.
For the Manx libraries. look at sysio/heaprnern.c to see this imeracuon be-tween maIloc( ), NlocMem( ), andsbrk( ). The block size is adustablethrough a _Heapsize variable, which youcan declare as "extern unsigned long_Heapsize;" if yOli want to reset its valuein your code. Note that you need to setit before making calls to malloc( ) or tostandard 110 functions. Lattice uses_MNEED and _MSTEP for the samepurpose.
In Manx, only one heap block is allo-
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cated. In Lattice, the routines manage alist of heap blocks. As a heap block of40K is consumed, malloc( ) calls sbrk( )to allocate another. minimizing the callsto NlocMem( ). Calls to free( ) mark por-tions of these blocks for re-use; Free-Mem( ) is never called. Unlike Free-Mem( ). free( ) needs only a pointer tothe memory. not the size of the alloca-tion. The size is stored within a structurethat precedes the actual allocated mem-ory. within the larger block.
CLEANING SERVICEThe standard C memory functions pro-vide automatic cleanup. No matter whatyour source code says. C programs donot start at the top of the maine ) routineor end at the last line of maine ). C li-brary code is executed both before andafter the call to maine ). Your maine ) isactually called by a library functionnamed .cmainf ). When your maine )function returns (the program ends).control returns to c.rnainf ). \Vithin_maine ). all memory that was allocatedwith malloc( ) is automatically returnedby a standard library function called
exit( ). as a safegaurd against sloppy pro-gramming. During exit( ) cleanup, the Cmemory management routines run Free-Mem( ) on all the large blocks of mem-ory. essentially ignoring any informationin the blocks.
This automatic cleanup does not elimi-nate your responsibility of freeing allo-cated memory. As soon as the programis finished with a piece of memory. youshould return it via free( ) or Free-Mem( ), so other programs can use it.You can use exit( ), however, to clean upafter catastrophic errors. If somethinggoes wrong. just call exit( ). and all mal-loc( ) memory is returned.
While malIoc( ) and Freet ) make someprogramming easier. you cannot usethem for every AmigaDOS job. For ex-ample, graphics imagery must be placedin chip memory. Malloc( ) does not offera way to specify chip or fast memory;you need AJlocMem( ). Be careful: Mix-ing calls to maIloc( ) and NlocMem( ) inthe same program has a downside. Thefirst call to malloc( ) allocates a largeblock of memory that is not returneduntil the program exits, even though
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Without another layer of memorymanagement like C's routines, AlI()(>Mem( ) has its faults, too. When manysmall AllocMem( )s are made by severalprograms at the same time, memory be-comes fragmented. This means the sys-tem's free memory is broken into manyrelatively tiny pieces. Memory allocations(from different programs) become inter-leaved, and when one program exits, ahoneycomb of free memory is left.
Even though a large total sum of freememory may he present, requests forlarge pieces of memory will fail, becausethe available pieces are so small. Toavoid fragmentation, Exec provides rou-tines called A1locate( ) and Deallocatef ),which make writing an intermediatelayer of memory management easy.
Along the same line is the standard Cfunction called realloc( ), which changesthe size of a block of memory and copiesdata stored in the old block to the newblock. You must supply realloc( ) withtwo arguments: a pointer to a piece ofmemory previously allocated via mal-
P 0 N T E R SCopyMem(ptr, n8W-F, copyslze );1* Free the old block .,FreeMem( ptr, oldalze );
}retum new---Ptr;
}
If the reallocation can't be made, thenthe old block remains as it was, andReAllocMem() returns NULL. If thereallocation succeeds, the old block is au-tomatically freed. Note that the effect ofthe MEMF_CLEAR nag is ignored inReAllocMem( ), because any old data iscopied to the new block. If the new blockis larger, at least MEMF_CLEAR willguarantee that the extended part of theblock will be set to zero. With Re-AllocMem( ), it's easy to change the sizeof dynamic arrays during the executionof a program, leaving you no excuse forpoor memory management. •
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loc( ) and a new size for the block ofmemory. The function returns a pointerto the new block. Be sure to use the re-turn value to reassign any variables thatpoint to this memory.
You can write your own version ofrealloc( ) in terms of A1locMem( ) andFreeMem( ). Because A1locMem( ) needsa memory type nag, and FreeMem( )needs the size of the memory to deallo-cate, however, the function is more com-plicated than realloc( ). For example:
1* reallocmem.c .,'Include "execltypea.h"'Include "exec/memory.h"'define MIN(e,b) (e)<(b)? (e) ; (b) )void ·ReAlIocMem( pU, newslze, oldsize, type )void .ptr:ULONG newsize, oldsae, type;(void ·new.-p1:r:ULONG copy.ae;
,. Allocate a block of the new size .,new-Ptr=AllocMem( newslze, type ):If (new_ptr I=NULL) (1* Copy old data to new block .,copy.lze=MIN( new81ze, oldslze );
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SPACE QUEST III: THE PIRATES OF PESTUWN
By Patrick Quaid
SOFTWARE PIRACY TAKES anasty turn in Space Quest II I.Instead of stealing programs,the pirates kidnap the pro-grammers. As Roger Wileo, youmust rescue the Two GuysFrom Andromeda. so they cancontinue writing a series ofcomputer adventures aboutyou.
With the keyboard ormouse, you control Roger ashe rummages around full-screen, cleverly designedscenes. He can be hidden byforeground objects and canmove in and out of shadows,creating a convincing three-dimensional effect. When theaction geLS too complex, youcan type in commands. Theinterface works well because itfocuses your attention on thepuzzle rather than on the sub-tleties of the interface itself.
The puzzles, to be honest,are more fun than difficult. Infact, Space Quest II I has moreof the personality and peculiarlogic of The Hitchhiker's Guide tothe Galaxy than the Hitchhik-er's game did. You get toknow the strange charactersand outrageous situations, andbefore you realize it you'vefinished the adventure (if you
can avoid the quick deathlurking around every corner).As the game progresses the sit-uations become increasinglyinteresting, and the biggestsurprises come in a hectic andexciting final sequence.
The graphics are obviouslydesigned to be portableamong computers, so al-though they look fine, they arenot up to Amiga standards.The character animation, how-ever, shows an uncommonpersonality and style. The
background music changeswith the scenes to enhancethem. You'll miss it during si-lent sequences.
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..................... .INDIANA JONES AND THE LAsT CRUSADE
By Peter Olafson
LUCASFlLM HAS PULLEDoff a pair of cracking goodgames: an addictive actiongame and an ambitious ani-mated adventure built aroundthe movie Indiana Jones and theLast Crusade, Face it. You'regoing to be up late.
74 March J 990
They're two very differentsacks of snakes, so let's takethem separately. The actiongame (produced by U.S. Goldfor Lucasfilm, $39.95) is anabove-average rendering ofthe classic platform game:climbing, jumping, ducking,punching. You guide the Styl-ishly Unshaven One through
four difficult levels-a mine, acastle. a blimp, and the finalticklish run for the HolyGrail-while collecting torchesand whips and punching outminions of evil. (See "Crib •.
""'" p. 66You'll need to do , bit of rope switch-ing your"tf on the way up.
Now, how to get at the crou? tf.too high to Jumpto Ind the rope's nouse. The obvious routa up entail.much frultl.s. banging of the headagelnst the ceiling. Aim a IltUehigher.tf. e,.y 10 mi•• tt the flr.t time. Butwatch that other climber. There I.room above him on the rope.
Now you're In the clear lor the runacross the train-top. Don't stop run-ning once you've triggered the train.Walt until .ny enemies nave turnedtheir backs before jumping. Nextthingyou know, you're In the castle. Con-gratulations. Now you help me.
• You've e~ored the catacombs be-neath the library In Indy's companiongraphic .dventure (Lucasfllm, 549.95)and come up almoat dry. Juat thathook. You can't Iitt the slab (It's nottmpcrtant anyway), and the torchwouldn't move for the mud. Youfoundeverything available for the taking, butperhaps you could do somethingabout the mud. There's plenty 01water. You just need something 10carry tlln. You'll needto be more thandiplomatic to get tl Usa psychology.
• Oneof the loughest puzz~s In GoldRushl (Slerre On-Una, $39.95) Is •••.sembling points In NewYork.Where'.that bank account number? Yourfriend at the bank will get it for you,but there'. a better way. Soon, you'llbe on a roll.
Another lough nut Is finding yourbrother. The path to the aectIonof themlna he'. In doesn't look like a path.Do you recall a ladder that doesn'tlook like It's going anywhere?
• Wlnler leaguer. In Earl We.verBaseball (ElectronicArts, 549.95):Thecomputer m.nager'. recommendedlineups can be weird. Earl doesn't .p-peer to con.lder secondary positions.The way around it: You ~ck the play-er•• and let the computer managersetthe lineup with them.
• Shadowgale (Mlndscape, $49.95)can seem as .mall as I loolshad atthe beginning, even atter you find thatodd looking rock In the pessagewall.•.
Notes" for a walk-through oflevel One.)
Every level has somethingdistinctive, whether it's the air-sickness-inducing bobbing ofthe blimp, the bank-cameraangle of the final level, or thecute animation of the ropeclimbers on the first. Indy andthe backgrounds are very welldrawn. The routes throughthe levels are devious. Play isjust hard enough to infuriateand just easy enough to dragyou back.
Some of the logistics, how-ever, didn't quite work for me.For instance, a whip should bea near-inexhaustible resource,but here they are treated asexpendable ammo. Beyondthat, a less useful weaponwould be difficult to find. Theanimation for cracking thewhip is slow, meaning you canuse them safely only whenyour opponent's back isturned. It's much easier towaste the whips on rocks anduse your fists for people.
The action game couldprobably have existed withoutthe movie. The real Indygame is the graphic adventure(from Lucasfilm itself $49.95).Moving from the intro at In-dy's college, to his father's ran-sacked apartment, Italiancatacombs, a German-occupiedcastle, a zeppelin, and the trapand tricks of the Grail trials,the game has lots of puzzles.Be prepared, they gel pro-gressively nastier. The goodnews is that you don't have todo everything the way Indydid in the movie; I found asmany as four potential solu-
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tions to one puzzle.The standard Lucasfilm in-
terface takes on a new andbetter look in Indiana Jones.You still click on verbs listed atthe bottom of the screen andobjects either appearing in thescene or listed below, and,voila, Indy or his father Henrytry to do your bidding. Talk-ing and fighting, however, arenow part of strategy. (You'llhave to learn to do one or theother in the castle.) In addi-tion, the Look option providesmore description, and thegame uses overhead viewswhen Indy explores corridors,which eliminates mapping.
All the usual quiet Lucasfilmhumor, bright graphics, goodsounds (slushy shoes), and at-tention to detail are here.(fake a look around your of-fice, or at the bulletin boardon the way out.) The anima-tion, on the other hand, seems
curiously slower than usualand the pace is less compel-ling. While you can movefreely within each discretearea, you can't travel at willbetween them, making it feellike you are following thedead hand of the movie.
It's also somewhat less inti-mate in "feel." I didn't playthis as obsessively as I playedZak MacCracken and the AlienMindbenders or identify withIndy quite as readily as I didwith Zak. That may owe to thegame's popular origins, therather removed perspective ofthe overhead views, or thesmall size of the Indy charac-ter compared to characters inthe earlier games. He's really alittle fellow, and actually kindof cute. (Luccsfilm, distributed bytilecmmic Arts, 1820 GatewayDr., San Mateo, CA 94404, 4 J 5/57/ -7 J 71. joystick required forthe action gamL.)
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BASEDON HISmRICAL ac-counts of China as it grewfrom chaos to three kingdomsto one nation, Romance of theThree Kingdoms is one of the
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diplomatic relations, and con-vincing other generals to joinyour forces. Keep the peasantshappy by increasing landvalue through cultivation,building up flood prevention,and offering rice and gold.The last thing you need is tohave your general killed bythe masses. Plundering willdrop loyalties but will increasethe amount of gold, rice. andwomen that you have. You can
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Now you control the f8te of China.
give women as gifts to yourgenerals, which is great for in-creasing their loyalties.
Should all else fail, attackthe other states. The battlescreen is a very colorful hexlayout of the countryside, cas-tles, rivers, and mountains. Anice table is also displayed,showing the statistics of theenemy. Battles allow one ac-
tion. Watch the supply of ricefor your hungry troops; itdoesn't matter how muchstronger you are than the en-emy if your rice gets taken.
Overall, the game is a verywell-done simulation with afantastic manual. While I wishit relied on the mouse insteadof the keyboard, I highly rec-ommend Romance of theThree Kingdoms. ($69.95,Koei Corp., Suite 540, 1350 Bay-shore Hury., Burlingame, G494010. One megabyte required.) •
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from p. 18board's synchronous design makes itmore sensitive to system timing than theothers, and the non-auto-configuringmemory makes it a bit non-standard.Though there are jumper settings thathelp adapt the board to your particularsystem, I found one A2000 in which Icould not make it work at all. The Hur-ricane 2800 should appeal primarily tothose most concerned with getting themaximum performance for the mini-mum price.
GVP's is the original 68030 acceleratorboard for the Amiga, and a proven per-former. Since its initial release, GVP hasfixed a number of minor design flaws, sothat the board is now functioning quitesolidly. Also, while early versions of theIrnpacl drive interface were reported tobe fairly slow, the interface now ranksamong the fastest available for theAmiga, with drive reads of up to 650kilobytes per second. Finally, in its 33MHz incarnation, the GVP board isclearly the fastest of all acceleratorstested so far. Its biggest drawback is thedesign of its memory board, to which
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you can add 32-bit memory only in fairlyexpensive four-meg increments. Al-though the company insists that nybble-mode RAMsincrease performance, mytests show the Impact board to be nofaster than the Hurricane 2800 whenrun at the same clock speed, even withburst-mode memory access enabled. Iwould also prefer a SCSI interface.While the AT-bus interface is a cheapway to add a hard drive, it does not sup-port devices such as rernoveable-mediadrives, tape backup units, and CDROMs. Despite these reservations, GVP'sboard is an excellent choice. It can beconfigured to suit a variety of speed re-quirements and budgets, and even with-out its expensive memory, it providesperformance rivaling 68020 acceleratorswith 32-bit memory.
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MIDI SAMPLE WRENCH
Tighten up your sound samples.
By Steve Quinzi
THE LIBRARY OF Amiga music soft-ware has been growing nicely forthe past few years, except for onedisappointing void-the area of sampleediting. Sure, there are several goodsample-capture and -edit programs formanipulating IFF sound files in theAmiga's internal audio domain, but out-side of Sound Lab from Blank Software(which works only with the EnsoniqMirage), there has been no Amiga soft-ware to support the multitude of profes-sional-level sound samplers on themarket.
All of this is changing now with the re-lease of the MIDI Sample Wrench bydissidents software. With this programyou can transfer waveforms to the Amigafrom any sampler that supports theMMA Sample Dump Standard, a formatset forth by the MIDI Manufacturers As-sociation for the transfer of sound sam-ples through MIDI. Once loaded intothe 'Wrench, samples can be modifiedextensively through a number of very so-phisticated editing features with high-fi-delity 16-bit format, and stored indissidents' own MSWl formal.
The package includes a program disk
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and a disk of sampled sounds. There aresome very useful utilities thrown in, suchas the 85VX-lO-M5W I and M5W I-to-8SVX utilities, which convert 8SVX (IFF)samples to MSW1 format and vice versa;the Talk 12 and Talk 16 functions, whichexchange sounds directly between theAmiga disk and a sampler without open-ing Wrench; Play MSWI, a tool thattakes sounds directly from disk and playsthem from the Amiga's keyboard; andPlay Remote, which triggers a remotesampler from the Amiga's keyboard. An-other utility allows for communicationwith the Akai 5700, 5900, and 5950 sam-plers, which interpret the Sample DumpStandard a bit differently.
The program's copy-protection schemeasks you to type in a randomly selectedword from the manual. If you type the
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Not your ulual Envelope Generator.
ing the window to get a bigger picture.The CTRL-M and CTRL-L key combina-tions put you into Play mode, allowingyou to hear the waveform either througha MIDI keyboard or the Amiga key-board, using the Amiga's internal soundchip. Although the fidelity of the eight-bit Amiga audio will be noticeably lowerthan when playing from your 12- or 16-bit sampler, you will probably end upusing the Amiga sounds to check youredits-waiting till the end to send thesound back to the sampler-as a transfercan take minutes. (The slow transmissionrate is inherent in MIDI.)
Dumps (transfers) are initiated by se-lecting either Send or Receive from theMIDI menu. Data transfer is made possi-ble by the Wrench's library file, whichcontains the information necessary for •.
wrong word or misspell it, you arequickly returned to the Workbenchscreen (a non-copy-protected disk isavailable for an additional $30). Theprogram requires 512K of RAM to run,but one meg is recommended. I triedrunning Wrench without expansionRAM and found it so limiting that it waspractically useless.
MIDI Sample wrench opens onto anempty screen with a menu bar. From theProject menu you can open edit win-dows one through three; the Setupmenu offers options to vary screen color,define backups (internal, external disk,or none), and to choose between a 200-or 400-line display; the MIDI menu letsyou specify the sampler you are usingand to initiate sample dumps betweenthe Amiga and the sampler.
IN THE WINDOWSEach of the three edit windows sports adifferent color and a different set of con-trols. All can be open at the same time.Each is topped off by a color-matchedmenu bar containing options pertinentonly to that window. The Wrench is nota sample-capture program, but you canget a waveform into an edit windoweither by loading it from disk or bydumping it from a sampler.
Once a waveform is in a window youcan scrutinize it pretty thoroughly bymagnifying, zooming in and out, scroll-ing left, right, up, and down, or by resiz-
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the program to communicate with sam-plers. There are two libraries to choosefrom: one for 12- and another for 16-bitsamplers. I tested MIDI Sample Wrenchwith a Yamaha TX 16W and an AkaiS1000, and found that dumps to andfrom the Yamaha came off without ahitch using the 12-bit library. The S1000,however, required that dumps gothrough the Talk 16 utility, thanks toAkai's improvisation on the SampleDump Standard. Though the sound wastransferred flawlessly,having to use theutility rather than the Wrench libraryproved a bit cumbersome.
PROCESSED SIGNALSThe program offers an array of verypowerful DSP (digital signal processing)features in its Functions menu: The Gainand Scale to Full options let you vary thegain (level) of a sampled sound. Gain in-creases or decreases the level in .1 dB in-crements up to 30 dB, while Scale toFull automatically increases gain to thehighest level available without clipping.The Reverse function plays sound back-ward, while Invert performs phase re-
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from .1 to 3 octaves and a center fre-quency adjustable from 5 Hz to 95% ofthe Nyquist frequency (half the samplingrate). It also has bass and treble shelvingwith a definable break point. Both EQscan be applied for either a boost or cutof 20 decibels (dB). In addition, thereare high- and low-pass filters with a de-finable cut-off frequency. You can selectfrom three filter orders (slopes): first (asix-db-per-octave roil-oil), second (12 dBper octave), or fifth (40 dB). While a 40-dB roll-off may seem severe, it is handyfor preventing aliasing when transposingor resampling. I am surprised that thisotherwise-complete section does not in-clude a 24-dB-per-octave or 4-pole filter,as 24 dB is such a common slope.
ENVEWPE, PLEASEThe Envelope Generator turned out [0
be different than I had expected. Not atraditional envelope generator that ap-plies an overall envelope to an existinggain shape, the MIDI Sample Wrenchversion is like a graphic gain shaper withwhich you can draw (via mouse) a spe-cific gain characteristic for a wave or •.
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MIDI Sample Wrench is very flexibleand does everything that an Amigasample editor should do. The tech sup-port person called me right back andwas very informative.
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versal, flipping the wave upside down.Combine Samples mixes waves from anyof the three edit windows: You can de-fine an offset so that one of the wavesstarts before or after another, and youcan set their relative levels. A wave canbe combined with itself in this way for aflanging effect. DC Offset attempts tocompensate for direct current (a squarewave), which may have been impartedduring the sampling process, by addingan equal but opposite amount of DC tocancel out whatever is there.
The Digital EQ section is great. It hasa parametric EQ with a range adjustable
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part of a wave. The Envelope Generatorwindow opens over the edit window, lin-ing up precisely with the left edge. Theenvelope affects only that pan of thewave in view.The Envelope Generatorwindow has a center line representingzero dB and offers three ranges of sever-ity: +/- 10, +/- 20, and +/- 40 dBof gain. Once you draw the envelope inthe window freehand, the program goesto work calculating and then displays thenew shape in the wave edit window.
The Fs Transposition option can re-sample to different sampling rates,change the sample-playback rate, andtranspose waves to different pitches. Ithink pitch transposition could havebeen better implemented; as it is, youmust calculate the frequency at which toresample, then bring the wave back to itsoriginal playback rate. Maybe I'm lazy,but I would like to see the program per-form the calculations.
A Compression facility is available forleveling the dynamic range of a sound.The Wrench's compressor is much like ahardware unit. The Treshhold, or levelat which compression starts, is adjustable
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a window opens with a graph, the x axisrepresenting input (the wave shape be-fore transfer) and the y axis representingoutput (after transfer). A straight lineplotted at a 45-degree angle through theintersection of the axes (unity) results inno change to the sound, as input in thiscase is on a one-to-one correspondencewith output. Changing the line with oneof the preset shapes or by drawing withthe mouse, however, alters output. Whateffect does this have? You can never tell.Think of it as a quick and easy way toadd weirdness to a wave.
FIT, or Fast Fourier Transform, calcu-lates the harmonic content of a wave asit changes in time, and presents it as apsuedo 3-D graph on screen. Frequencyis plotted along the horizontal, ampli-tude on the vertical, and time on the di-agonal of the graph. Six resolutions areavailable from 1024 point to 32 point,with 1024 having the highest frequencyresolution (and taking the longest to cal-culate) and 32 point having the greatertime resolution. According to the manualthis function is not accurate enough tobe used as a serious analysis tool and is •.
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MIDI Sample Wrench is excellent, andonce you learn it, it is easy to use. Ittakes advantage of the Amiga's style,which some ported programs do not.The more you work with the program,the more you find you can do with it.
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Note that the fractional ratio will resultin expansion and must be used with cau-tion as this function has no safeguardagainst clipping. You can adjust Attack,or length of lime before compressionstarts, from .01 to 20 milliseconds, andRelease, the length of time compressionlasts, from .01 to two seconds.
When you select the Transfer function,
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Looping is the meat and potatoes of anysample editor, and the Wrench is no ex-ception. You make a loop by placingmarkers-either using the mouse or bytyping in sample numbers-at the endsof the section that you want to affect. Tofacilitate the looping process there is azero crossing finder and a Cross FadeLooping option that mixes material fromthe end of the loop with that at the be-ginning, or some of the waveform fromthe start of the loop with the end, orboth. View Markers lets you see the looppoints, and View Loops draws a horizon-tal line below the two markers to indi-cate a sustain loop and above to indicatea release loop.
Markers can serve not only to set offloops, but also to help keep your placewhen zooming and so on. The ViewMarkers menu presents the six markeroptions and takes you directly to the oneselected without scrolling.
The Clips menu is home to the Cut,
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Compugraphic versions of the venera-ble Times Roman and Helvetica are in-cluded with Professional Page 1.3, andmore type styles are available from GoldDisk ($99.95 for 35 fonts). You can stilluse standard Amiga bitmap fonts andeven mix them with Compugraphic fontsin a publication. but the result, as always,is jagged-edged characters.
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AmigaWorld ::naP.O. Box 58804Boulder, CO 80322-8804
~~~~:'7PMMond,y-F"d'y The So~tware Shop, Inc.8 AM to 4 PM Saturdayc.nonSundoy Your AMIGA So tware and Hardware Marketplace
NEW YEARS' SPECTACULARrives w/Hardframe 2000uantorn 40mg $65900uantum BOmg 939,00uantum 105mg 98900
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ACCESSORIES.-8 SwlIltl cfIble • . •.. 135.00J8tCIO SWIId'oboIl • . •• 63.00kWngq;Jlll;'M~. .101100;opySWld... . .... 15.00:ce 1040 1(0) . . !.2.00:ce Midi 5OJoI'.laXl . 52.00:pp.5lXlJX . .. 15.00:rgo.Jovstidl .. 11.00r-xm IIICk . 85.00"\fared rnouM . • . . • • . . 17tl.OO401203.5 Oislllooer . ..28.004OliO<ilk holder .. 26.00«:l64diskholder.... . .. 2600Ibjem able A1CXXl. . 15.00oiIoOa'nable A2QXlI5OO 15.00o.seholdef 15.00lIousemas* 29.00.4ou5ePlld 9.00olultisync cable 1-102M1F 24.00)Io.imate black ribbon . . 500)km.te color ribbon . . 8.00'owef strip 6 out~ .... .. 17.00'rinter cable 2OXIrI5OO. 15.00'rinter ClIble It lOCO . . .. 15.00)..oicIl1tlol Joyslic .... 1500libbon panalOl"lic an . . ..... 10.00;lick.Iiclc......... 6.00>tit NX blllCk ribbon 8.00'tar NX color ribbon . . lUll-ilt.,l(l~.tarld.. .2100terox 4020 5OOI1heei . 25.00
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Fastrack Sys. A500/A1000Quantum 40mg. $779.00Quantum 80mg 1.05900Quantum 105mg .... 1.099,00
Drives w/Supra ControllerQuantum 40mg $612,00Ouantum 80mg 897 00Quantum 105mg 94500
$579008650091200
PROGRAMMINGLANGUAGES
AIC t.ic...... . $129.00AIC btrw'I . 195.00Algetn i ..33.00AtfUJ. ..33.00"-"po 65.00Azlec C cleYeIoper 195.00Azlec C profeIIional 129.00NIic complete deYel.fY$. .... 315.00Benct'lnWk C IibnIrY . «1.00Bend'lm8rk iff ~tnry 62.008IoctvrIark moduIa 2 128.008Int:IvNork simplified . . .. 62.00Gape68k 58.00Cril:ic'. ChoioI.. 158.00OIYpllcEdlAt.tenVlflWcIebg. •.. 66.00DilII3ImbIet.. . 45.00GF ..••bUiC 3.0 . .. 95.00lnovalooll " 54.00utfioeC 132.00uttioeC.· ..... ...379.00uttioe C prol~ 2-49,00Ullioe~~5.0 199.00UbraIY' IlOl.Kce .. . .. 197.00Macro I ••• mbler .. . 65.00MeI*:OmcO lilp. . 131.00MeI*:OmcO pescal . 95.00MeIlOOmCO.hell , -4D.00MeIacope ~ . .. 65.00Power wil'lOOwl ¥2.5 58.00Pro Buic ..... .. 12-4.00PubliIhefI choice 130.00Soufce IeYeIdebugger 50.00The poMf system pecan 93.00The proleasiooll pecan . . . 89.00The Worfu PllItinum 164.00Trull t.ic 65.00W, IhIlI .. 33.00
FONTSAahI·.IorIlI. . 57.00c.lIlgnpher- .• .• . S63..OOFInCY3dlonts 52-00FOfllMfI 22.00lnl8l'lonf . 76.00~IonbCOkY 50.00Uonlonll 56.00MMlerpoece Jonts.. 159.00NewlIetter tonts 29.00Proklnts I Prof. . . . . . 23.00Ptob'IlI II dl!II::cnIlY8 23.00&udIIoklnl: 29.00
HARDWARES8Up Memory E.lp A2UtJ ... $165.00Ac:oeIerIkJr .. . 152.00Amogen. . 153.00&Iy1 A100ll 30'9.00&syt A20lXl . 379.00&sylA500 345.00&pen. 5121( A500 159.00~lmgA500 <109.00FlicketliJlet <t95.ooF~ 579.00FUllnIOUlld 129.00Light pen .. . .. 99.00LNeA2COO 30'9.00Li¥8 Irameg(lbbet "1000 .. 245.00LIw lramegrabbet -'500 .. . 3(6.00MC&lllllIMaltl~ .. 179.00MuitiluncliOn Clrd 75.00My-T·Mou$e 39.00PerlectIOUlld A1(XX) 69.00Perlec1 IOUnd A5OOIA2000 .. 69.00Phoenix power supply A500 .. 95.00Progen 379.00Super Geo 695.00Supra modem 2-4OObd .. 1-49.00Wll'1-410 Plf'IIsonic Camera
wlleos , 210.00
SPREADSHEETSAnllyz1l2,0 $95.00HlIIcl1Ic. .. 32.00MIlllplln 500. . 95,00MIllipiln plus . . 12600Super- plln . . .. 97.00YIP Prolesaiof'lll . . .. 65.00
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Chmon Internal 3;:,Ctunon External 3'(.Chinen Internal 51.Chinen External 5'/4
DESKTOP PUBLISHING
Citydesll $97.00Citydesk~ 15.00Citydesll~1I 15.00"-lle lIttllllT1 . . 129.00"-lleset1et 97,00f'rofessoonIl Drew . 129.00ProfesslOI'laI pIg8 249.00PubIIstlet plu$ . . . . . . 89.00Shakespeare: 129.00
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PRINTERS10911PanuooiC printer .... ~.ooAlp •..•• lIegro 24 PIN .. 399.00EpIon~eo. .. .... 205.00NEC LCl!SO laser PS. . . . .. . 3395.00Oklmlte 20 color prt ... 145.00f'lug'n pmt . . 85.00$ll'nxl'1linboW 259.00Xerox -4020 ....•• jet. .1295,00Xerox -4020 IlIrter kil .. . 158.00HPPlin1j11t.... CALL
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• Corporate and volume purchasesinvited. Call Moe.
• Stock orders placed by 12:00 NOON ESTshipped the same day.
• Allow 10 days for personal checksto clear.
• Wire transfer accepted,• Minimum $5.00 Shipping/handling charge• Add $3.50 lor COD.• Returns subject to restocking charge• Software defects-call the Manufacturer• For faster delivery send cashiers check
SOUND & MUSICS4-op~ $87.00AudioIT1llSler' 37.00Audio fT1ISI8(lI &7.00a.ck 1Of1llbOOll•••••.••••••.. V.OOCopyiItII ....••••.•.•.•.•.• '''.00~ .....•...... . 919.00DeIwle muIic .. ell.OOOrdnnll 20.00Orklys 2O.00Or r.1<eybc»rd lSl00Or. rs Midi rec:on:W1g Itudio .. 45.00[)l(~ .. 97.00Dynamic drurrw 52.00t::!yMmk: Iludio 12lil.00Future mund I'S.J:YIo2{(tJ .•.• 92.00HoI cool jazz .. . 18.00HolIiCkI 32.ooInstanllTUic .. . .. 32.00Matrix 6 . 97.00Midi Mlgic: 919.00Mt-32 .. .. 97.00Music l1udent . . . . . . . . 38.00Pm IOUf1d cleIigner 125.00Promidl Sludio 129.00AotlI & roIl. 21.00Sonix . 51,00Sound 1IlIfflp\e( 78.00Studio magic .. , 65.00Synthlf. 58.00Texture,......... . 97.00Utili1ie12(mimaticl) 43.00
UTILITIESB...••.D.diIlI optimiZer.. . $32.00C.B. Tree..... .65.00Celebrity cook book ... 20.00Custom 1CI'elll'\I' .. . .. 45.00CygnuIed ProII!IIIIooal 65.00Disk2~.. . .. 33.00Disk muI8r . . . . . .. . . 33.00Disk rnec:t.nlc . 58.000011..3.............. ..22.00Dol 2 dol .35.00Deug'. math IQOlrium .. 52.00Encore .. . . • . . 45.00Ez bedwp .• . 33.00F.x:U ....•.. . 22.00F"_prinl... . 33.00Fleet thedt •.. . 33.00Flip IiOe . .. • .. .. 37.00Goklapel .•............... 32.00GomI........ .. .... V.ooGt1Ibbt .. .. • .. .. .. . 19.00L.-1I(:riptI 28.00LaIllfup;lonts 26.00~up;ptol 33.00L.asetup; prW 58.00l.aIllf up;utilibM .......•..... 26.00L•• d1edt 33.00Lv tckup 32.00MuIti~ 20.00Nag flU ~ AsIiIt 52.00Pro 1Itript J2.lXlPrqect 0 ..•............•... 32.00PromiI apeIing 32.00~ •.••. 4S.00RIw copy 1..3... .. .. ... 39.00~........ • .•.• 52.00Syatont·......... . 22.00T•• pIwI.... . 22.00Tdi lIdikw sources 30.00Tdi examplea 15.00Tdi grid eoteSI 30.00Tdikenni1 . . 19.00Text lId~.... .. 52.00V.I.P. . .. 32.00
HOME ACCOUNTINGDeIk\Op buOgel .. . $46.00Money merllOl" $65.00Phaser . .1lei.00TuBreak 53.00
GRAPHICS & VIDEOJ..Oemon.. . $8liIOO~J.O..... . .. 99.00
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="':'~~::.:::::~::Nt:hiIettrtural design . 23.00.Art gIlIery t . • • 20.00.Artglll8lyll 20.00.Art_I. .. 20.00.Artplrtsl... ...20.00M pI(\S II 20.00Award maker plus . . 32.00BroedcI3I TIller 1811.00Butc:het .. . 25.00C light 3d eclilor .. . 39.00Calligrapher help . . 28.000Ir0ma Plinl .. . .. 48.lXlColor splitl~ 79,00Comicletler . . .. 1lei.00OeIUlCepa)ntII 89.00OeIUlCePlinlill . 102.00OIIuxe print II . . 55.00OeIuxe photo lib 102.00OIIuxe proOuc;tion .137.000eIUJl8 't'ideo II . 69.00OeIlgf\lSllUl"\JS ..... 32.00DigI peinl . . 39.00Oigi pIIlnt help 2<4.00Oigl..... 131.00Director'. Toolkit 26.00OpWItheip 2<4.00ExprsI paint. . . 65.00Expre. pPlllll .. . 88.00FormIInIlighlI, n.oofutln deIign 3-d . .. .. 23.00Graphic stWio • . . 35.00tbnIn deIign 3-d 23.00kon~ ..58.00In.-:t 55.00Inter'chIl"08 32.001n'IiIion............ ..108.00LightI c:.r.. Action 49.00Micr'obot d8Ilgn 3-d 23.00Modeter 3d 64.00McMIIl!fter lIi5.OOPIgI flippIr Ix . .• •.•.••. 11600Pwtet:t 'Iieion ..•............ 175.00Photon~c:isk 19.00Pt1oIon ~ 85JXlAlOkln •.•• 2.0 ......•...... 97.00Photon pIinI: help .. . . . • .. . .. 2'3.00Pt1oIon 'Iideoc:elllll'lim. IJ1.ooPbmIIe C3.lXlPml:n...-plu$ 33.00PriIm C3.lXlPro ¥ideo plunetl.. .. 8lOOPro ¥ideoplu$set n 8lOOPro. ~ lolling dpeint 35JXlProvideo plus, . un.ooSculpt 3-d •••• 64.00Silver turbo .. . ... 129.00The Diredor . -46.00Turtlo....... .129.00T'HIt'Iow... . .. 64.00T .••.tex\ .. . .. 64.00VideOeffects3d 121.00VIdeo.::epe 3-d .. 120.00Videotitlet 95.00Zoetrope . {ll'OO
DISKETTESFuji3.5·d:sIdclcolorcliskS $I{1.ooSony3.5·dsldd 19.00TOt< 35' dsldd disk$ . .. 19.00Cenf8Ch 35' dsldd cliskS.. , .. 19.00Centeth 5,25' clshld disks. . .. 29.00
ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWAREWe have them alii Over 300 game, In stock. Cellfor your fevor"e geme, and check our loW'prices.
Clrt:le 134 on Reader Service card.SHOWROOM: 22 Front Slree', Woree.ter, MA 0161"
claim that "even a dot-matrix printer willproduce professional-looking typesetdocuments, making a PostScript laserprinter unnecessary." No program canproduce professional-looking typesetdocuments on a dot-matrix printer. Pe-riod. If you need professional quality,get a laser or use a service bureau.
And what of the PostScript environ-ment? PostScript versions are includedwith the Compugraphic fonts, so you willnot only get better screen representa-tion, but be able to use the downloadablefont at prim time. Gold Disk has said itwill be supplying a library of Compu-graphic fOOlSin the near future-goodnews for those of us starved for Post-Script fonts in Amiga format.
WHAT'S MOREBeyond the addition of Compugraphicfonts, Professional Page 1.3 has enoughimprovements that most publishers wouldhave called it 2.0. Support has beenadded for the QMS ColorScript colorPostScript primer and color-separationabilities are enhanced with the addition ofundercolor removal and gray-component
REV E W SProfessional Page from its position as thepreeminent professional-level page-makeup program. This version justlengthens the gap.
Professional Page 1.3GDld DiskPO Box 789Streets villeMississauga, OntarioCanada L5M 2C2$395One megabyte required.
IMAGELINK
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By Mitch Wells
ONE HALLMARK OF a truly "profes-sional" computer is its ability to inter- •.
replacement. A "wireframe" mode for dis-playing vector graphics speeds up screenredisplay, as does the new ability to dis-play text in "greeked" (scribbled) fashion.If you use Gold Disk's Transcript wordprocessor, you can now display that pro-gram in a window and quickly move textback and forth between it and Profes-sional Page documents. This makes majorediting much easier.
Graphics import has been improved ina number of ways, notably with the abil-ity to import bitmaps limited in size onlyby memory. Professional Page 1.3 auto-matically scales birrnapped images to fitthe box created for them. Also, you cannow import and print EPS (Encapsu-lated PostScript) files created withProfessional Draw (Gold Disk) or withMacintosh and IBM PC structured-draw-ing programs such as Adobe Illustrator,complete with color information.
This is not to say that Professional Page1.3 is without limitations. It cannot rotatetext, for example, or display facing pages,automatically wrap text around objects, oruse style tags to format text. Still, no otherAmiga program comes close to dislodging
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DEALERS SELLIf you wish to place your order by phone
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Selling Amiga World will makemoney for you. Consider the facts:
SUPER CARD AMI Fact #1: Selling AmigaWorld in-creases store traffic-s-our dealers tellus that AmigaWorld is the hottest-selling computer magazine on thenewsstands.
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NIB V2.0The most popular shareware copier jOinS tile commercial marketNIB Will badlup most conmecet software made today. Ease of useand reliability are the strong points of NIB, NIB will actually by-pass'oocumen1allon' style copy protOCllon making jour backup "prctec-lion ltee"!NIB supports Single or mukHjrlves and has a FULL VERIFY lune·ton NIB Will also be SUpporting SUPER-CARD AMI mjhe future toprov~e se ULTIMATE backup systemSo If you are tired of lhumblng through pages of documentation andIoslngyouronglnaldlsks. , --,
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SUPER-TRACKER AMIHave you ever wanted to know where prob'emtracks are located? Now. w~h Super· Trad<.erAMi. you can telll This beautiful dig~a1 trackdisplay Simply plugs into the last drive in yourAmlQa System (aliAmigac:omputers willwor1l..)The head location (track), side (top or bottomtleadl. and wrne poiect position are all dis·
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Fact #3: Fact II + Fact # 2 =INCREASED $ALE$, which meansmoney for you. And that's a fact.
For infonnation on selling Amiga-World, call 1-800-343-0728 and speakwith our Direct Sales Manager. Orwrite to AmigaWorld, Direct SalesDept., 80 Elm se, Peterborough, NH03458.
AMIGA 500REPAIRABLE POWER SUPPLY
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face, or exchange and interchangeinformation, with other "professional"computers. Certainly the Amiga is one ofthe front-runners in the computergraphics arena, but computer artistswant to know how well the Amiga inter-faces with PCs and Macintoshes.
ImageLink by Active Circuits can offerthe Amiga that interfacing ability.ImageLink is a format-conversion pro-gram that transforms most Amiga 21-and 24-bit pictures into the 8-, 16-, 24-,and 32-bit formats currently in use on
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Macs and pes. ImageLink also convertsfiles between different Amiga 24-bit for-mats, and can create standard IFF pic-tures from 24-bit files. Finally.ImageLink allows Bridgeboard users torender Sculpt (Byte by Byte) 24-bit RGBfiles directly to an AT&T Targa graphicsboard installed on the PC side of anAmiga 2000.
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MAKING CHANGESUsers of Interchange (Syndesis) will beright at home with ImageLink's inter-face. Double clicking on the ImageLinkicon brings up a requester that lets youchoose between the To and From for-mats installed. As a VD-l user, I was im-mediately disappointed to find that whileImageLink reads Impulse's RGBN for-mal, it cannot write it. (Fortunately. theVD-l also displays Sculpt RGB files).Once you select formats, bitplanes, andfile names, ImageLink displays what itthinks is the pixel width and height, andpixel ratio, of your file, and offers you thechoice of scaling the image. I was not ableto get the scaling mechanism-a vital fea-
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ture-to work. Sculpt-Animate defaults toan RGB image size of 640 x 480 pixels,while many Targa boards expect imagesizes of 512 x 482. After rendering a file
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with Sculpt using the defaults, I called Ac-tive Circuits when my Targa conversionswould not load. They told me I had to re-render my Sculpt image at 512 x 482. Idid, but had to call again to find out whymy images came out squashed. They toldme to try re-rendering with a pixel ratioof 12 by 10, This time the image renderedproperly, and the ImageLink conversion
looked fabulous on the Targa board. I amdisappointed. though. that the manualdoes not offer this information and thatImageLink's scaling features did not fixthe conversions after rendering the firsttime.
Next, I tried converting from Targa toSculpt RGB format. The resulting pic-ture was squashed as well, and I had noway of fixing it, as the software I used togenerate the Targa file did not offerpixel-ratio adjustments. J then converteda Sculpt RGB file and a Targa file to IFFHAM format. Both these conversionslooked good; I was pleasantly surprisedby the results. A Digi-View 21-bit fileconverted to Sculpt and HAM with noproblems. and a Turbo Silver file alsoconverted flawlessly. In doing conver-sions to Macintosh PIeT format, I dis-covered that the PIer file wasimproperly created. This one is irnpor-tam, because there are a number of pro-grams that will convert PIer files toPostScript for high resolution output forprint. After a few more calls to ActiveCircuits, they admitted that there was abug in the eariler version of the PIer •.
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converter and offered to upload me acorrected version, which worked fine.
I was unable to give the Targa Directand Sculpt Direct modules a completeworkout, as I do not own a Targa board.I have an XT Bridgeboard, and al-though tbe 16-bit Targa board will workwith it, real-time paint programs, likeTIPPS and Lumena run too slow to useon an XT. On an AT Bridgeboard, theseprograms would work fine. But with thenumber of Amiga-specific 24-bit boardsnow and soon to be available, and con-sidering a 24-bit Targa board is morethan twice the price of most of them (mylocal AT&TTrueVision dealer quotedme a price of $3000), I cannot recom-mend buying a Targa board withoutbuying the AT Bridgeboard. One advan-tage of Targa boards is that they offerRGB outputs, but putting this signalonto videotape requires an RGB-to-NTSC composite video converter (read:more dollars), and incidentally, TIPPSgoes for s I500.
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- Tony JohnsonMicroSeaTlh
Embedded commands are a reflec-tion of City Desk 2.0's power. I thinkthe intention was to make an easytransition from old-style printers tocomputerized typesetting. As far ascolor capability goes, not everyonehas need of it-just look at IBM andApple. I agree with the page-sizeproblem, but lack of a WYSIWYGdisplay is a problem only becauseeveryone thinks it has to be there.City Desk 2.0 turns out high-qualitywork on common, inexpensive printequipment.
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tM text editor). Detailed manipulmion oftext olmuly loaded into City Dtsk, how-ever, must be done in the editor. J believeembedded. commands should b« a [easure ofevery page lnyoul program, but not theonly or dominant option. If ttu Amiga isto compete in the real world. iu softwaremust perform as intuitively as the MlU'SPagemaJrn (Aldus), for example. Also,other Amiga programs offer outline fontsthat can be resiud and manipulated withease, and that take advantage of the capa-bilities of both dot matrix and HP compos-ible printers. Concerning hard-driveinstallation instructions, I do not thiuk theread.me file phrase quoted is intelligiblt tothe average user. Plus, it is simpler to as-sign SYS: to the appropriate drive. CityDesk is the second most expensive Amigadesktop publishing program, and as suchshould offer peiformance second only toGold Disk's Professional Page. I don't be-lieve it does.
-Nancy Devitt.
I Beta tested City Desk 2.0 with a24-pin dot-matrix printer and con-tinue to gel excellent results. Thisprogram prints regular Amiga fontswithout jaggies at the printer's bestresolution, not just at 72 dpi likesome other programs. Embeddedcommands give you great typographi-cal control, and the Preview displayshows dearly how the printed bit-mapped fonts will appear. Finely de-tailed bitrnapped fonts are large,therefore additional memory will helpprevent system crashing. I have hadsuccess multitasking City Desk witheither WordPerfect (WordPerfect) orDeluxePaim III (Electronic Arts) on a2.5-meg A1000.
-Michael B. SaferAlbany, CA
It is true that City Dtsk 2.0 provides aText Options tool for setting default attri-butes and attributes of selected new text(incoming from either a word processor or
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NEW!"INTERLOK"''' Video GENLOCK For Ali AMIGASINTERLOKTM includes advanced video circuitry that locks Amiqa's scan rate toNTSC or PAL broadcast synchronizing standards ... and, is also able to lock tosync pulses that output directly from typical low-cost VCR's. It is virtually comput-er-crash proof (caused by fast forward/rewind).o Input, looping video, switchable, 75 ohm/Hi z.• Oulputs, NTSC or PAL plus filtered R.G.& B.o Pgm. out: 1.0vpp, <1,0% ditto gain, <0.2% diH phase /75 ohm.• Key out (Amiga color 0).• Front panel includes program on/off, genlock on/off and 0 to 100% fade control
slider.o Front panel & controls remoteable to 25 ft.
Internal 1.5MB RAM EXPANSION for A1000o Battery backed clock/calendar.• Autoconfig, expandable, 0.5, 1.0 and 1.5MB.o Dynamic Ram Controller for 0 wait state.o Fully socketed, uses 256x1 DRAMS.o Software support disk includes RAM test.
Internal z MB RAM EXPANSIONfor A500• Autoconfig, expandable, 0.5, 1.0 and 2.0MB.o Simple plug-in installation, no jumpers.o Dynamic Ram Controller for 0 wait state.o Fully socketed, uses 156x4 DRAMS.o Software support disk includes RAM test.
NEW!"TRAPPER"''' 5uK Memory Expansiono Easy plug-in installation into the "trapdoor" expansion slot.o Includes battery backed clock/calendar.o Available OK with 256x4 or 256x 1 board versions.
Hard Drive Adaptors, ST·50b•••o The low cost solution to mass storage.o In chassis with passthru for A500 and A 1000.o As Hard Card or drive bay installation, A2000.o Autoboot and Driver Software.• Easy to use, mouse driven low level format utility with bad track remapping and
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ITS EASIER THAN you may think tomake your Amiga's hard-disk drive a lit-tle more efficient and user friendly. Ifyou use, say. Electronic Arts' DeluxePaintIII regularly, why not make it easy to in-voke from the eLI with a minimal num-ber of keystrokes.
Just save a copy of the DeluxePaint IIIprogram to the C directory in yOUT harddisk's work partition. Next, rename theprogram "OP" to minimize keystrokes.Then set the S protect bit to the Onmode by entering the following com-mand from the CLI or Shell:
Protect 0 P + s
Activating DeluxePaint III is now aseasy as typing DP from the CLI or Shell,regardless of the current directory. Natu-rally, this process can be applied to yourword processor and other frequentlyused utilities and applications.
Alan Stank;;Prince Edward Island, Canada
PERSONALIZED RAMDISK ICONCREATING A MORE attractive RAMdisk icon to replace the default icon is arelatively easy process. Using your favor-ite icon editor, load a Disk icon from aWorkbench disk or other suitable source.Once you've edited the icon to your lik-ing, save it to a copy of your Workbenchdisk, using a "RAM.info" filename. It'simportant not to save it with a filenameof Disk.info, or else it will replace the ex-isting Workbench disk icon.
104 March 1990
oaRS D'OEUVRESHints, tips and techniques from
your fellow Amiga users,
Compiled by Tim Walsh
Next, add the following commands tothe startup-sequence on a copy of yourWorkbench disk:
c:Copy RAM.info ram:Disk.infoc:LoadWB> nil:
For a system with an autobootinghard-disk drive. follow the above proce-dure using a copy of your autobootingWorkbench on floppy disk. Once youhave it working properly, copy theRAM.info and revamped startup-se-quence to your hard-disk drive's auto-boot partition.
Mark KlaphekeFort Wayne, IN
How IT STACKSUPKNOWING HOW 10 adjust your Ami-ga's stack area can be a sure cure formany of your multitasking woes. Fre-quently, attempting to load a large appli-cation program, such as PrecisionSoftware's Superbase Professional, usingthe CLI or Shell instead of the Work-bench will result in an Insufficient StackSpace message to appear. That's becauseit requires a stack size of 8000 bytes torun. (You can find this program infor-mation by selecting Info from the Work-bench menu.) Trying to launch somelesser applications from the CLI usingtoo small a stack causes the computer tocrash and a Guru message to appear.
Rather than continually resorting tothe Workbench to run such programs,try adjusting the CLI's stack size. To findout the current stack size, enter the fol-lowing from the CLI or Shell:
Stack
The size of the current stack will be re-ported. To increase the stack size to 16K,
enter the following from the CLI orShell:
Stack 16000
Occasionally, a program may crash thecomputer even after you have adjustedthe stack size. If that's the case, youprobably have some other problem be-sides the size of the stack.
Steve MatsumotoHouston, TX
AUTOBOarING WITH RADIF YOU HAVE an autobooting harddisk, you may have problems using theAmigaDOS 1.3 RAD (recoverable RAMdisk). When a RAD is active, resettingthe computer may result in the RAD re-booting, while the autobooting hard-diskdrive usually doesn't reboot.
Fortunately, there is a solution short ofpowering down the computer. Just addthe following line to the RAD: descrip-tion in your mountlist:
BOafPRI = - 129
Afterwards, whenever you perform awarm reboot, the hard disk will rebootalong with the RAD.
Thomas J. ChristopherNew Haven, CT
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Nor MY TYPEQ: Why can', I copy an entiredisk to the RA D: disk droice? Ichanged HighCyc to equal 79 ill
my mouniiisi, alld I have plellty ofRAM. If I drag a disk icon overto the RAD: icon I get the message"Disks art of incompatible typeand cannot be copied." If J useDISKCOPY from the Shell, theRAD: icon disappears from theWorkbench. When I then try toaccess HAD: J get the message"It's not a DOS disk."
D. BushKnoxville, TN
A: I get the same results if Iattempt to use Workbench tocopy a disk onto the RAD: (re-coverable RAM disk) drive.But I can use the Shell or eLIto invoke the DISKCOPYcommand and copy from afloppy to the RAD: drive, withthe following syntax:OISKCOPY OFO: to RAn:
As long as the RAD: drive isthe proper size (matching thesize of the standard floppydisk) it works fine. When it isdone, the old RAD: disk is re-placed with a copy of whateverdisk was in OFO:, icon and all.If your mountlist entry forRAD: is properly defined, itshould work. Check yourmountlist and make sure theRAD: entry is correct.
If ),ou have the memory tospare, the recoverable RAMdisk is a great addition to yourworking environment. Unlikethe normal RAM: disk, once
106 March 1990
HELP KEYWhen you're without a clue and feeling blue,
just call Lou.
By Louis R, Wallace
the RAn: drive has been for-matted it's contents will sur-vive a warm reboot (pressingGrRL-RI GHT-AMIGA-LEFT-AMIGA). To use the RAD:drive. insert the commandMOUNT RAD: in yourstartup-sequence, and, using atext editor, add the followinglines to your rnountlist (on acopy of your boot disk):
RAe: Device =ramdrtve.devlceUnlt=OFlagl=OSurface. =2BlocklPerTrack =11Reserved=2Imerle.ve =0LowCyt=O : HtghCyt=79Butf••.• =5BufMemType =1,
(Notice that I defined RAD:to have exactly the same num-ber of cylinders as a floppy,resulting in an 880K capacity.)
The next time you reboot,the system will define a RAn:device. Like any disk, it mustbe formatted before it can beused (you must format RAn:once each time you turn onthe Amiga). In the Shell, type(on one line):SYS:SYSTEM/FORMAT DRIVE RAO:
NAME D1$KHAME
The RAD: disk will be formattedquickly. After that you can copyfiles or directories (or copywhole disks using DISKCOPY)to the RAD: device.
If for some reason your sys-tem is reset before you can copythe contents of the RAn: disk to
more permanent storage. thecontents should reappear whenthe MOUNT RAD: command isissued. Unless the RAM hasbeen corrupted, everything willbe intact. Remember there is noneed to reformat the RAn: diskwhen you reboot; just remount-ing it should be sufficient.
TWISTERQ: Iam teaching myself program-ming by wn"ting a game in AmigaBasic. but I can't seem to make ani-mated objects rotate and changesize. For example, I want the objectto always bepointing forward, evenwhen it turns. When it moves to-ward or away from you it shouldget larger or smaller. I am usingsprites created with the standard ob-ject editor and then convertingthem to data statements. Ihaveread many books on animation inAmiga Basic but none have ad-dressed this subject. Is it possible!
S. BuccellaPt. Washingtoll, NY
A: Yes, you can give your ani-mated objects the illusion ofgetting larger in the fore-ground or smaller as you re-cede into the background, aswell as making them appearpointing in any direction. Iam sure you have seen Amigaanimations (created with pow-erful and expensive commer-cial software) that have objectsthat appear solid and three di-mensional. Amiga Basic, how-ever, does not have thosekinds of features, and wouldbe far too slow for a real-time
activity like a game even if youwrote 3-D object functions forit. To get that kind of action inan Amiga Basic game will re-quire you to do a lot of thework yourself, because thecomputer considers the ani-mated sprites as flat, one-di-mensional data.
The trick is to create severaldifferent versions of each ob-ject, some smaller and somelarger than the default size.The only limits to this ap-proach is that it takes a lot ofmemory to store multiplesprite or object definitions.When you want them to ap-pear to be moving away,change the shape to smallerand smaller versions; to makeit appear to grow, change tolarger and larger sprites. Thesame technique applies formaking the sprite appear toturn. Draw a different spritefor every position, thenchange the images to make itappear the sprite is turning.To make the change, use thecommand (on one line):OBJECT.SHAPE OBJECT 1d1,
OBJECT Id2
This will change the shape ofobject id I into whatever objectid2 was. By making successiveshape changes, you can createthe illusion of continuouschange. Here's an examplethat would change shape Iinto 24 other shapes.
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AmigaWorld 111
Readers Speak(ltuslion of lhi Month: "If you wereelected president of Commodore, wlullwould be the first thing you would do?"
"Commodore is already starting todo what I would do. I would try forheavy penetration of the Amiga intothe commercial world."
Dave SpitlerLouisville, KY
"I would get rid of that terriblehyped-up advertising campaignand replace it with a beuer one."
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"I would increase the advertising ofthe Amiga and point out character-istics that are different from otherpes like IBM and Apple ... 1 wouldpush the Amiga. They (Commo-dore) have been doing that thisChristmas so I've bought stock inCommodore."
Harold E. RatcliffeBethesda. M D
Ear to the WallYiAt": According to the popular television show TheComputer Chronicles, the new Macintosh operating sys-tem (System 7.0) will take up 3MB of RAM and stillwill not muhnask. That is because individual bitmapped. graphics-intensive applications already tax itssingle 68000 familyprocessor. Sounds likeApple needsa few custom coprocessors if they want to do morethan one thing at once.
ToasteT, Toaster, Where's My Toaster?: NewTek is stillworking out bugs in the Toaster software, and nowplans a Spring kickoff. Look for underground celebsPenn & Teller to be involved in a special Toaster videoproject. We may even get a cameo appearance by DanaCarvey (Saturday Night Live's Church Lady), sinceDana's more technically astute brother Brad is a keymember of the Toaster team.
Hots Off!: A quick thanks to two of our competitors.Amazing and Info, for helping us to publicize the AmigaDevelopers Association. We may have started it, butthis association is open to all in the Amiga market. andit will hopefully help all in the Amiga market. Thanksfor good words.
Enough Already: Last month's issue mentioned thename Mike Halverson, and spelled it the same way it
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OUCH!: Amiga.Welt is not what you get when yourcomputer falls on your leg. It is the German editionof AmigaWorld. Now that East Germany (which is be-ginning to earn irs formal name, German DemocraticRepublic) has opened up the Berlin Wall, Amiga-Weltisstepping over. Amiga-Welt willbe distributed throughDie Wirtschaft, an East German publishing company.
New Kid in Town: Preferred Technologies Inc. re-cently scooped two employees from Southern, a majorAmiga Software distributor now under new ownership.
Unlike Southern, which focused on software disrri-bution, Preferred is more of a developer/publisher. Itrecently acquired the rights to M2Sprint, a Modula-2Compiler/Debugger, and has developed Spectrum, aproduct aimed at Digi-View that has yet to ship. Thefirm is also planning launches of hard drives, mice,MIDI, and sound sampling products. -Doug Barney
So What?!?It Is funny to sit behind an Amlga andwatch the rest of the PC and work4station Industry get all excited aboutUnix. For those In the dark, Unix Is a2O-yearold operating system that con-sumes every ounce of computingpower tossed at It. In fact, It seemsthat there have been more articlesabout Unix lately than there are users.
Unix Is hot because OS/2 from IBMand Microsoft Is not Unix. accordingto Its backers, has It all: munltaskJng.large amounts of addressable RAM,graphical user Inter1aces, and appli-cations. OS/2, meanwhile, has the firstthree Items nailed down, but falls mi·serably on the last
Unix and OS/2 backers make theseteatures sound awfully new. But toArnlganl, they are awful familiar. TheArnlga operating system has all ot theabove attributes, and runs In a verytight memory space. " Is just that n0-body seems to care. Why muttltask ona $2000 system when you can buy a$25,000 workstation to do the samething with Unix?
Soon enough, users will be able tocompare the Amlga native operatingsystem with Unix. That II becausethey will both be running on the samemachine!
For many applications, the Arnlga'snative mode will be clearly superior.
But tor others, Unix will shine. ThatIs because some super high-end ap-plications have been written exelu-slvety tor Unix.and some devices suchas super-hl-res graphics boards havebeen designed to work with It Andwith a Brktgeboard, you should alsobe able to run OS/2, If you've a mindto. The Arnlga doesn't sound 80 pro-prietary or 80 bad after all.
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"Why is Digi-Paint 3 betterthan DeluxePaint liP"?"
Digi-Paint 3 works in the Amiga'spowerful Hold And Modify (HAM)mode, which allows you to paintusing all 4096 colors simulta-neously. By comparison, DeluxePaint III (by Electronic Arts) oper-ates in less sophisticated modes,restricting you to a maximum ofonly 64 colors. Advanced featuresavailable in Digi-Paint 3 - includingColorizing, Variable Transparency, Shad-ing, Lighten, Darken and Range Painting-are simply not possible in Deluxe Paint III due toits 64 color Umitation. AMIGAWORLDwarns, "Competitors maywant to head back to the drawing board, because Digi-Paint 3 ishard to beat!"
"What makes Digi-Paint 3 better thanother HAMpaint programs?"
Digi-Paint 3 is the only Amiga paint program written in 100%assembly language. Although challenging to program (taking up to10 times longer than other computer languages), it's the only wayto achieve the incredible speed found in Digi-Paint 3. AMIGAWORLDcalls it "the fastest HAMpaint program yet" and AMlGASENTRYestimates it's, "6-IP times faster" than the nearest contender.
Other advanced features found only in Digi-Paint 3 include: anti-aUased texture mapping, anti-aUased fonts, ARexxsupport, 1024 x1024 super bitmaps with auto-scrolling and dithering to 30 bits perpixel (over a billion colors internally, givingyou tens of thousands ofapparent colors). COMPlJl'ERSHOPPERmagazine reports "Digi-Paint3 is without a doubt the most advanced HAMpaint program to date!"
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"But is Digi-Paint 3 easy to use?"I've learned that no matter how powerful a program is, if it's
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Digi-Paint 3's intuitive user interface was created by Digi-Viewdesigner (and NewTekFounder) Tim Jenison and renowned Amigaartist Jim Sachs. It features innovative "Dashboard" controls whichAMIGAWORLDregards as "a joy to use" and "very easy to learn andunderstand': INFOMAGAZINEsays the new interface "looks greatand works logically':
''What is the Transfer 24 program.included with Digi-Paint 3?"
Transfer 24 is a separate programdisk included in the Digi-Paint 3 package,allowing you to alter any picture's bright-ness, color saturation, contrast, hue andsharpness, almost as easily as adjustingthe controls on your televisionset Transfer24.also lets you modify the size, palette,and resolution of any picture. Thesepowerful features, known as "Image Pro-cessing'; giveyou incredible control overyour final artwork. Youcan also save yourimage in any of the Amiga's 24 resolutionmodes (up to 768x480) making it com-patible with all Amiga graphics sofrware.AXMAGAZINEnotes that "Transfer 24givesyou even more options as to the finalappearance of your work': AMIGAWORLDdeclares, "Transfer 24 is great for makingoverall changes."
''What technical support does NeWfek offer?"Digi-Paint 3 has one other thing you won't find in any ordinary paint program:
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