Data v?y^ sin; Better Bat^JI Files .^ y -/ \ • > — - -V o _; [/. >v, o Top 40 All-Time * Amiga Games ^ <& / o Stop Amiga — Viruses NOW! ^ '0 ^€7 « ' Contest Results— p. 76 Professional Page The Ultimate Publishing Tool Gold Disk's Professional Page is, quite simply, the ultimate desktop publishing program for the Amiga. But don't take our word for it. Listen to what the experts have to say: AmigaWorld, May 1988 "Professional Page dec- imates its Amiga com- petition. ..[it will] take us to entirely new realms in desktop publishing." Electronic Composition & Imaging, April 1988 "Innovative... Professional Page can hold its head up in the company of such heavy hitters as Ventura Publisher and PageMaker.. .the program is fast, its features are well integrated." Personal Publishing, September 1988 "Professional Page is the flag- ship of the Amiga Desktop Publishing world." Vellum Print & Graphic "After years of preparing black and white camera-ready art for color printing, we can now design and compose in color and produce plate-ready film." J. K. Steele, Freelance Graphic Designer. "Professional Page is opening doors for graphic designers and artists... especially freelancers like me. It cuts down layout time, keeps me out of the typeshop, and allows me to show my clients a greater variety of design options without costing a fortune." Circle 150 on Reader Service card. / s DAWN AMIGA ^PUDFESSlON^^ GE ^GEQFF*0* ^ ... unV.f? We're ™ dfromaW f^ 1 ' ',H noi<=ta«r E S; J,*™ A««ue. Bui 5enlal ioucanre^ taf(your5upe - HoW lU.spaBe si „ £ ^ dd °:f.^v e *eAa t ^ nunl b,voM»«^: oUtall e aS dv cciiwr. K el ^__^_ — — tJfS*?J" So why not use the best? Call Gold Disk, today, at 1-8O0-387-8I92 and or- der your copy of Profes- sional Page for $395.00, or stop in to see your local Amisa dealer. ..^Roicx*^ , rtcJ ,ind ur^f prote ^re^ JtaW T munipu \ a te picwre atW ,U. steins »" d «?S» was t»' digits. * *£ ear only. Sec. .no dt po^paio " l,.erbo™, g h. NH, and a, additional u,a,,i„ K offices. Phone H^M47L Fol.rc contents copyright 1988 by IDG Conununicalionslr-eterborouKh, Inc. No part ofthB pub- lico,,,, may he printed or otherwise reproduced without written permission Ironi the Pt*«*« Pester. Send address change. i».h«.M Subscription Slices. PO Do, r.HHO! Boulder. ( .< . 803M-88W Nnliunallvdi.iribi.ied hv International Circulation Distributors. Amw Writ makes eve. v effort to assure the accuracy of .mis to listing and cirrous published in the m^mcAm^^U as- sumes no responsibility for damages due to errors or omissions. 4 November I9S8 Circle 216 on Header Service card. We Feel It Is Unfair Of The Major Publishing Partner Professional,™ designed to be better than the desktop publishing "standard." Publishing Partner Professional • We think desktop publishing should be enjoyable. Our user interface reflects this — have fun! And, if you need help, look in the manual, it even has an index! ^^ • Your text will flow automatically around any irregular-shaped graphics giving a very professional look quickly. • Create crisp-looking, readable paragraphs. You can, with our auto- ,, , hyphenation, auto kerning, user definable kerning pairs, and auto- / , leading control all in increments down to 1 /3600th of an inch! Pagemaker There are books written on how to use it. wx»$ A picture tells a thousand words — so who needs words? They knew these functions are essential but leading only down to 1/2 a point? Imporl those beautiful Amiga graphics from virtually any art program and print them in color or shades of gray. Or you can draw them as you go with our complete graphics toolbox. Amiga graphics? And , if you spell somettiing wrong , the spell checking feature will find it for you, saving you time and perhaps embarrassment. Hopefully you are a good speller. Import from most all word processors including those with ASCII or IFF text formatting or have them running in the background. It is vitally important to support word processors and they knew this. We include drivers for virtually every printer, dot matrix or laser at no extra charge. So, now, you can create beautiful documents using the printer you already own. They also realized that if the printer support is weak, why bottler? Need to change a word in one place or throughout the document? Our search and replace feature will make ft quick and easy for you. Do it right the first time. It will always look great quickly, using our premade style sheets. Or, do it yourself with the tag and master page system. It would sell better if they did. You are very precise and you need flexibility, so our font point size range is from 1 /50th of a point to 1.310 points in 1/50th of a point increments! And, we use scalable fonts so no jaggies! If you are average, the range of 4 to 127 points one point at a time should suffice. You can view your document in 50%, full width, full page, multiple page, actual size, or 200%, or set your own between 1 5 and 999%! You can view your document in only the five different ways they have picked for you. We don't copy protect. They too, know that professionals don't cheat. You can open multiple windows with different documents or different pages and go from one to the other editing as you go. Facing pages only please. Publishing Partner Professional" 1 — the new standard. Aggressively priced at only $199.95. ATTENTION PageSetter OWNERS! We think you will like ours better. We are so sure, that for only $50 we will send it to you. Call (314) 894-8608 or send your program disk and $50 plus $5 for shipping to Soft Logik. This is a limited-time offer. SOFTLOCIK CORPORA TION PO Box 290071 • Sl Louis, MO 63129 • (314) 894-8608 • Fax (314) 894-3280 Circle 21 1 on Reader Service card. ZEITGEIST Fun and games. FROM THE HIGHWAY, you spol our building, a new mod- ern-looking affair attached to an old motel. You pull into the nice paved parking lot and notice spaces reserved for visi- tors and everything. You go through the main entrance into a little waiting area where two receptionists greet you courteously and professionally. There is wall-to-wall carpeting, pictures on the walls, and it looks very clean, Upstairs and through a few doors you come upon the offices of RUN and AmigaW'orhl magazines. Lots of cubicles filled wilh office fur- niture and serious, hardwork- ing employees. First, you pass through the an/design department. These people are a little on the strange side. (Being artists they are supposed to be a little strange. I think that it must be a requirement. Or perhaps they look courses at school. . .if they went to school.) Next, you walk past the glass-walled offices of the ad sales team. They are usually talking on the phone, taking notes, straightening their lies, or reading the sports section of The Boston Globe. The ad sales people all dress in suits and ties, just in case a poten- tial advertiser walks into the office unannounced some day looking to buy ad space from someone in a turquoise tie. Across from them is a bank of ad coordinators (the poor peo- ple responsible for turning the ad sales people's phone con- versations into contracts and orders and eventually adver- tisements in lite magazine). They are all neat and clean ami working hard, shuffling papers, getting things signed, talking on the phone too. Then you pass the publish- er's office. It is the largest of- fice on the floor and is almost always filled with people at- tending some meeting. His secretaries and assistants bus- tle about constantly, Next is our marketing department, the people who figure out what trade shows we should go to, what surveys to take and that sort of thing. Beyond market- ing you begin to close in on the editorial department. As you get closer, you will notice the piles of boxes in the hall- ways, the strange clippings, musings, posters, and Fish Head antennae stuck to the walls, the offices piled high with papers, boxes, toys, base- ball caps, sunglasses, swords, software, hardware, books, and other paraphernalia. As you get closer and closer, you be- gin to hear the "PING-PING!", "ZZZZAPP!", "PPCHOING!", and "BLAMMM1" of laser can- nons Firing, tires screeching, bombs and missiles exploding, and baseball bats cracking. For the most part people are very professional around here. Meetings are held, strategy is planned, budgets are put to- gether, correspondence is mailed. And then there is editorial. We actually do quite a bit of work in the editorial depart mem. Articles come in, they are lech checked, edited, type- set, sent lo paste up. checked and re-checked, and finally sent to the printer. We come up wilh ideas for articles, illus- trations, covers, titles, topics. and everything in the maga- zine thai isn't an ad. We go lo dozens of trade shows each year. We wade through piles of mail. We answer hundreds of phone calls. And we look at hundreds of products. When .1 new game i omes into the office, it gets plaved. Whoever sees it first when the mail comes in gloms onto it, boots il up. and a crowd be- gins to gather. After ten or twenty minutes (if we can't fig- ure out how to get past level one), we read the instructions. We each have our favorite categories of games. Bob likes arcade, war. strategy and sports games. Linda likes sports and some arcade games (if thev aren't loo tough). Shawn likes sports and soli- taire games (but he is a big Nietzsche fan, too). Barbara likes kids' games because they confuse and amuse her. Lou likes lext adventures, arcade, role-playing, and just about anything you can put into an Amiga. Dan likes games that involve gambling with real money, like horse racing and poker, so he ends up watching or working most of the lime. I like strategy, war, role-playing and arcade games because I'm so good at them and can beat anyone on the staff (you don't suppose they let me win be- cause I'm the boss do your. . . Naaaa). When we started to put to- gether this issue with our fea- ture on games, we wondered about the amount of time it was going to lake. After all, there are hundreds of games for the Amiga. How were we going to assign thai many re- views? How long was it going to take? How many reviewers would we have to commission? We made a lisi of all the games, and before we started assigning any of them to free- lance reviewers, we each checked off the games that we had played enough to write about. When we finished, il turned out that there were only three or four games thai no one in the office had played. Over 30(1 games, and we had played just about all of them. "Do you guys ever do any work around here?'" many of our associates ask. I have only one answer for that kind of question. "Don't bother me now. Can't you see that I'm on level 21 with only two lives left?" 6 S'miemlmr 1 988 Charon 5 is an unparalleled design concept that combines strategy with Arcade action to produce a game of epic proportions. The action takes place on over 5,400 full color screens spread throughout 11 action packed levels. The game is further enhanced by the use of exceptional true stereo sound and music You must exhibit skill have concentration, possess good reflexes and not be faint of heart in order to be successful on your mission against Charon 5, Mindware International HO Dunlop Street. West, Box 22158 Barrie, Ontario, Canada L4M5R3 For more information or the dealer nearest you: 1-705-737-5998 Order fine: 1-8 O 0-461 -544 1 Amiga .sa trademark of Commodore Business Machines. Inc. Charon 5 U» lrademarkotMlnb»,are International. Circle 18 on Reader Service card. REPARTEE Comments, complaints, and concerns from AmigaWorld readers. More Happy Hunters REGARDING ADAM Kortepe- ter's letter about AmigaWorld" s .Summer "88 Treasure Hum ["Brain Drain in U.S.," Repar- tee, Sept. "88, p. 8], we would like to thank Adam for refer- ring to us as geniuses. We found I he Treasure Hunt to he challenging without being impossible, While some re- search at the local library was necessary, we also answered many of the clues through our general knowledge or intui- tion. We all agree thai the Treasure Hunt would have been much less fun if it had been easier. If Adam does get his three- month job to buy a fully- decked Amiga and come to Hawaii, he can visit us here where one of us will be enjoy- ing our free Amiga. He can also rent a Ferrari that looks just like Magnum's for a lot less than the cost of a new one. Douglas Griswold David R. Gsoell William Haden Daniel Mather Robert Strand Aiea, HI SOLVING THE TREASURE Hunt gave me and my family many hours of enjoyment. The more vague the clues were, I he more we were up to the chal- lenge. Some of the clues were not too difficult. We actually knew some of the answers from our travels. Then there were those clues thai sent my wife to the library for two or three hours at a lime, and the long evenings (sometimes as late as 3 a.m.) discussing possi- ble answers, and the long-dis- tance phone calls to weird places to gather more information. We cannot describe the feel- ing we had when we dialed the number for the final clue and heard the voice on the other end. Wow! Our answers were correct! We have never won any ma- jor contest in our lives and probably won't win this one ei- ther, but that isn't so impor- tant to us, because of the terrific feeling we have from knowing we solved a pretty difficult puzzle. Bravo to whoever concocted this Treasure Hunt! You guys know how to do it up right. Don &Jud\< Wcndt Elgin, n. IF THE TREASURE Hunt turns out to have been an idle pastime, it will still have been enjoyable. Anything thai com- bines remembering guys like Hill Terry with maps can't be all bad. And if a few more copies at AmigaWorld are sold because of it. remind Mr. Kor- tepeter that those people- would have just spent the money on liquor and ciga- rettes anyway. Walter A. Miles, Jr. Chevy Chase, MD Cut and Splice WHEN I OPENED the key board/mouse box of my Amiga 2000. I was disgusted to find that the connector ends of the keyboard and mouse cables had been cut and spliced! Granted, a very nice job of heal shrinking, but hardly characteristic of a computer that lists for over $1900. The dealer explained that all new A 2000s were being shipped with the connectors spliced, and suggested I contact Com- modore. The Commodore rep knew nothing of the situation and sent me off to contact a service center. Again, no help. How can the Amiga be taken seriously in the business world when Commodore prac- tices poor quality control? Any business user (such as myself) would (hid the butchered mouse/keyboard connectors unacceptable for a machine of this price and power. Richard Davis Pismo Reach. CA More Games 1 AM -10 years old, but I really like games, as do my family and friends. In the July '88 is- sue of AmigaWorld. only one game was reviewed, and then only one in Augus!. Why-' Do you want to stay away from games, so as not to give the Amiga a "bad image"? Don't games represent at least 20 to 30 percent of soft- ware sold? If so, shouldn't at least 20 percent of your cover- age be on entertainment? 1 propose a new department: entertainment George M. Knochel Lakewood, CO We like games, loo, as you can see from this month's feature on the best Amiga games. Also, we will be doing a games column, tentatively scheduled lo start in the February '89 issue. It won't he 20 percent of our coverage, bill at least tue'll be covering games on a regular basis. — Editors Erratum REGARDING THE REVIEW of Quarterback from Central Coasl Software [August '88, p. 72]. Quarterback will run un- der Workbench 1 .3 and the Fast File System: no upgrade is necessary for compatibility with Workbench 1.3. Send your letters to: Repartee, AmigaWorld Editorial, 80 Elm St., Peterborough, NH 03158. Letters may be edited for space and clarity. ■ 8 November 1988 TXTLO^E *-\ ri NOTEPAD Compiled by Linda Barrett Move Over, Fridge! Winston © M) flffflGR PPEJ ||jq RLD Hcrato The Amiga ta< .I..-.. |j, THE CHICAGO BEARS' William Perry may be the biggest appliance on the field, but off the field— [ust above the seats at Miami's Joe Robbie Sta- dium—the Sony Jumbotron that dis- plays the graphics on the Dolphins' super hi-tech scoreboard is clearly the biggest bruiser in the NFL. If you've ever taken a close look at Jumbo's pixelated pyrotechnics, they may look strangely familiar. After all, they were created on an Amiga. Joel Tessler of North Miami Beach is a video professional who spends his autumn Sundays controlling graphics displays at Joe Robbie Sta- dium. Using the Amiga, he creates both still pictures and animated se- quences and displays them on the Jumbotron. The dazzling color score- board is nothing more than a giant RGB monitor. Tessler has an Amiga 500, 1000, and 2000, and all three get playing time for the Dolphins. In their second year on the big board, the Amigas are backed by Livel (A-Squared), in- vision (Elan Design), and Forms In Flight II (Micro Magic). Says Tessler: "The Amiga Is perfect for this type of work. Besides making it easy to create great graphics and animations, the Amiga is also easy to interlace to the Jumbotron." Although Tessler will use the Amiga for all eight Dolphins' home games this year, he promises to save some- thing special for Super Bowl XXIII, which will be held on January 22, 1989, at Joe Robbie Stadium. "I fig- ure that with a worldwide audience in the hundreds of millions, I've got to produce something spectacular," says Tessler, "and, of course, I'll pro- duce it on the Amiga. It's a big ma- chine with a big heart." Whether you are an Amiga fan, a football fan, or both, don't miss this year's Super Bowl. If the game gets boring, you can always watch the scoreboard. — RR Ihree-dimensional Show THE HIGH END USERS at the Association of Computing Machinery's summer SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group Graphics) show were looking for alternatives to capital-intensive systems cast in silicon. The flexible, multitasking Amiga was in the right place at the right lime. The Commodore exhibit was packed lightly. Ameristar showed its Internet system using an A-500 as a platform for a full-featured network system running UNIX. To interface your machine with the high-end workstations, GFX MEM offered an Amiga version of the X-Windows protocol. ADCA exhibited a new generation of medical diagnostic tools using an Amiga and Live! (A-Squared) for infrared scanning and thermographics. Impulse demonstrated the VD1 buffer and frame-capture device and a new version of Turbo Silver, a ray-tracing program. Mimelics' 24-bit frame buffer displayed clean, broadcast-quality images. Microillusions showed the full line of Photon Video products. 3-D was a watch-word. Byte by Byte showed its professional version of Sculpt 3-D and a prerelease of Sculpt-Animatc 4-D. Not for the faint of heart or pocketbook, Octree's script-based 3-D modeling system, Caligary 3-D. has one of the easiest object-design modules, but requires a single-frame controller and VCR to lender an animation. The software itself costs $2000. Requiring only a megabyte of 10 November 1988 RAM, Forms In Flight II (Micro Magic) offers Phong shading and animation without scripting. You may have to wait to see the Video Toaster's flips, tumbles, zooms, and other special effects; NewTek is delaying the board's release until the cost of RAM drops, between October and December. Once you create your graphics, you could follow up on several tips offered at the show to club litem to videotape. ROB Video Creations interfaced VCRs and Amigas with the Amiga Link Editor, creating a video-editing system. Gossett Graphics offers the Gossett Rendering Service and a SMPTE LOCK, which lets you control MIDI and video sequencing for full multimedia production. For a more exotic media, Winner's Circle Productions connected a Panasonic OMDR (Optical Memory Disk Recorder) to an A2000 and recorded still-frame images to laser disk at 30 frames per second. The company is also developing software for WORM (Write Once Read Memory). If the warm welcome at SIGGRAPH was an indication, the Amiga is on its way to being accepted as a professional video tool. SIGGRAPH's Film and Video Jury gave the Amiga an endorsement by selecting three videos to air in the show's animation screening room. Winner's Circle Productions, Byte by Byte, and Alan Hastings received the honors for "Time and Time Again," "Desktop 3D," and "Rush Hour," respectively. — -Joel Tessler Exchange Rates DOES YOUR BANK account shrink disconcertingly quickly as your computer system slowly expands? At first accounting, compiling an Amiga system here in the U.S. may seem expensive, but a quick shopping trip around the globe will show you how cheap it is. !n Australia, basic machine prices compare favorably, but pe- ripherals will bleed you dry. According to Australian reader Gary Hughes, an Amiga 500 with one megabyte of RAM, a Commodore color monitor, andTextcrafl Plus sells for SI 399 (SI 133 American); an A2000 with three megabytes and a color monitor sells for S2995 (52-120). 20MB hard disks cost between S1000 (S8I0) and $1699 (SI 371)). A meg of memory expansion for the A 1000 will run you at least $800 ($048), and CSA's 6802O/G8881 combination for the A1000 is $5000 (S4050). While visiting Mexico, correspondent Marshal Rosenthal was enchanted by the traveling market, the Merrado Sobre Rut-das, but astounded by the prices next door at SIGMA, the country's only Amiga outlet. An A500 will cost you 7,930,000 pesos ($3447), but the store will throw in an AI084 monitor for an additional 1,987,000 pesos ($864). The really high-rollers arc in Saudi Arabia, Marshal added. Amiga 2000s sell for the equivalent of $15,000. Bring your credit cards. Forecast: 100% Chance of Amiga FOR THE FIRST time since 1973, New Zealand had a change in its weather. The country's national television network, TVNZ, is now using Amigas to create weather graphics, a dramatic change in its weather broadcasting. Before acquiring an Amiga 2000 and a PAL version of WeatherConnect Inc.'s weather-graphics software, the Auckland- based TVNZ used an Apple II for graphics. In previous broadcasts, the weather presenters did not even stand in front of a map. With the new system, TVNZ overlays hi-res Amiga graphics on colored maps of New Zealand created on an Ampex still-storage machine. In addition to a new computer, the Network News hired two new weather presenters, Jim Hlckey and Penelope Barr, formerly of the New Zealand soap opera Gloss. The entire package debuted successfully on July 25, 1988. — Beau Janens AmigaWorld 11 HORS D'OEUVRES Hints, tips, and techniques from your fellow Amiga users. BASIC Notes TO HKLP ME learn BASIC, I've been typing programs from books and maga- zines. From watching how others use var- ious Commands, I've been able to learn some programming, Anyway, 1 some- times forget where 1 got a program that I typed in a few weeks or months before. My solution is to always add a REM or PRIN 1 statement that indicates where I got the program. Now I can see at a glance which book or magazine a partic- ular program came from, no matter how long ago it was. Larry Zuhlsdorf San Francisco, CA Crash Reprieve AMJC.AWORLD HAS BEEN publishing C programs for a while, so I suspect thai many of you have seen the dreaded "Software Error" requester. It comes up when a programmer goofed somewhere along the line. I have seen my share of them. You may not have noticed, but there arc two types. One tells you to fin- ish all disk activity, then click the reques- ter, while the other is the fullblown black-and-red guru. (The first type will give you the guru when you click on it.) If you read the first requester carefully, you will note that it mentions the word "task," as in "this individual task has a problem." So, one day I dared to open a new CLI window while ignoring the re- quester, and guess what? The new task worked just fine. There are some things you must know before attempting this. One is that you are probably playing with Fire, so back up your programs frequently. Second, in order to do this trick, you must have ci- ther another CLI task running, or, do as I do and use the great PD utility PopCLI to start a new task. This is necessary be- cause, while I he requester is there, the keyboard is locked up for that task. I have done this up to three or four task crashes before finally rebooting, so I know it works. It might all depend upon the severity of the mess up, so, as I said, be cautious. One more note: The ig- nored requester will continuously pop up at you — it never gives up. James Nakakihara LaPalma, CA Disk Label Tape HERE'S HOW I attach the custom disk labels that I create on my Okimatc printer. I use toupee tape. That's right. You can find 1" x'iVi" toupee tape in barber shops and hair-replacement cen- ters. You need two tapes on the back of each label. It is a nice, clean way to at- tach custom labels to your disks safely and professionally. Merrill Miner Westminster, AID Cheating with Arkanoid BOOT UP ARKANOID and start a one- or two-player game. When the vaus ap- pears, press the space bar and type: dsimagic (no spaces, no carriage returns). Press the space bar again to resume play. A yellow capsule labeled "DS" will appear and fall down the screen. Catch the "DS" capsule. You will notice that you have lost the sound. Press "A" to get the sound back. Now, by pressing the key (or letter) that matches the letter on a cap- sule, you can make one of those capsules fall. B = break, C = catch, L = laser, P = player, S = slow, and F = final round. The final round is the very last level, where you must destroy DO! I. the weird looking character on the cover of the Ar- kanoid package. "DSIMagic" will last un- til you reboot. Sam Hulich Bioomington, IN Help for Barbarians HERE'S A TIP for fans of the game Bar- barian. Start the game as usual. Once you can see the barbarian standing in the swam]), type: 04-08-59 (include hyphens, no spaces, no carriage return). The black screen will now turn gray (this tells you that you are invulner- able). After a while, the screen will go back to black, but you are still invulnera- ble. Hint: Once you get to Nccron, here's what you must do. First, you must have a shield! When Nccron turns lo face you. face him. He will throw a fireball at you. Press the defense button when the fire- ball hits your shield. Sam Hulick tiiimmingttm, IX Speeding Up Bard's Tale II THE BARD'S TALK II is a fantastic ad- venture game, but the frequent disk accesses slow the game down. A repre- sentative from Electronic Arts told me that it couldn't be done, but here is how* 12 November 19SS Mindware International no Dunlop Street. West, Box 22158 Barrie, Ontario, Canada L4M5R3 For more information or the dealer nearest you: 1-705-737-5998 Order line: 1 -8 OO -46 1-5441 Amig H is a trademark of Commodore BuHnesi MacNnu, Inc. Pag«Rendar 3D | B a registered irademarfc ol Mirrfwa ro International Circle 236 on Reactor Service card. to use ASDG's FACC II to speed up the game. From the CLI, type: MAKEDIR BARDSDK:C Copy a NewCLl from the Workbench disk to BARDSDKlC. Bool the Bard's Tale II. then quit the game. Type: NewCI.I Plate a Workbench disk containing FACC II in chive dfl: and type: dflx/assign c: dfl:c runback dfl:FACCII cd dfO: bard On a three-megabyte Amiga, I have set the FACC II buffer to 4096 with no problems. Happy adventuring! Stuart Pierce San Diego, CA Emulator Speedup THFRF IS A noticeable loss of speed us- ing the (54 Emulator from Readysoft, but if you program in BASIC:, there is a way to speed up your programs. As long as they are pure BASIC programs (no ma- chine-language subroutines), jusl compile them with the BASIC-64 compiler from Abacus Software. Then, when you run them on the Amiga via the 64 Emula- tor — voila! The programs run as fast, if not faster than the standard version on a C-64, The combination of the Readysoft Em- ulator and the Abacus compiler makes for a winning combination. Perhaps Aba- cus will release their compiler on 3.5- inch disks for Amiga users who dabble in (he world of the C-64. David Bush KamloopS, BC, Camilla Capone Tip II-" YOU HAVE been wondering where the "special bonus" is in front of the post office, it is the ball at the top of the flag pole. Shoot this and your score will jump. Shoot it again and you will be sent to a screen showing pictures of the pro- grammers. Fire again and you will end up in the bank, and you will be invul- nerable. Be careful about hitting the tellers, though, as you will lose points. At the end of that round, you start at the beginning, only now you are in "warp speed." Mike Krsnak Sioux Fails, SD Three Stooges Tip IN II IE THREE Stooges game for the Amiga, the best and easiest trick for slowing down the speed of Moe's hand in the slapping game is to try to pull Curly's ear. Once you do thai, continu- ously pull it until your time runs out and you will have slowed il down completely. Ernie Millan Downey, CA If you have an idea you'd like lo share with our readers, semi it to Hois d'oeuvres, Amiga- World Editorial, SO Elm St.. Peterborough, NH 03458. If your idea gets published, you'll receive an AmigaWorld surprise gift. ■ THE ULTIMATE FONTS The next generation is here! Kara Fonts takes dimensional, color fonts a quantum leap forward into profes- sional quality, high resolution and refined design. Created exclusively for the Amiga by an award-winning designer, Kara Fonts offers 10 unique textural faces, in up to 8 colors. They're perfect for video, animation, slides, desktop publish- ing and an almost limitless range of business uses. That means you can now immortalize your words in anything from granite to bevel to chrome! BBSS The 3-disk set includes 10 upper- case faces in 2 sizes: chrome, mar- ble, brick, granite, wood, cast, column, chisel, chisel serif and bevel. As an additional feature, four faces are specially designed to be dragged in any direction to create extra 3-dimensional effects. The fonts can be used with a variety of software, including Deluxe Paint, Video Titler, Shakespeare, Express Paint, Deluxe Video, Director, and many others. Available now from dealers. List price, 3-disk set: $79.95 Dealer inquiries welcome HEADLINES Kara Fonts. The face of the future. © 1988 KARA COMPUTER GRAPHICS, 6365 Green Valley Circle, Suite 317, Culver City, CA 90230 (213) 670-0493 Amrga is a registered trademark ol Commodore Bus.ness Machines, Ino/Deluxe Paint & Deluxe Vrdco are registered trademarks ot I Electronics ^^^^^±'^^^^±^1, Development. /Shakespeare is a registered trademark of Intinrty Soltware Inc. /Express Paint is a registered trademark of Par Software Inc. O.reclor is a registered trademark ot The Rrght Answers Group N November 1988 Circle 14 on Reader Service card. Until now the world was flat. X- Specs 3D. Burst the two-dimensional straightjacket that imprisons your video graphics. Enter the full-depth, full-color world of X-Specs 30. The third dimensional stereoscopic world of human vision. How does it work? The X-Specs advanced high-speed liquid crystal shutters allow your computer to control what each eye sees independently (at 30 frames per second). The results are breathtaking. Objects step out of your computer's display and into the room with lifelike reality. You can add new life to presentations, CAD, molecular and solids modeling. You can play games with more realism than ever imaginable. Easy installation involves plugging interface into joystick port and running software included. Look for the variety of new programs supporting the X-Specs' Real Eyes vision. Ask your local dealer for a demonstration. If he doesn't HAITEX RESOURCES, INC. 208 Carrollton Park X-Specs 30 and Real Eyas are trademarks of Haita Ftesourcsa, fet Amiga is a register] have X-Specs yet, call or write us. We'll make sure you get a chance to see the new world of X-SF>eCS3D C-64 and VCR interface coming soon. Dealer & distrib- utor inquiries invited. Amiga version list price: $124.95 ha.tsx Circle 136 on Reader Service card. • Suite 1207 • Carrollton, Texas 75006 • (214) 241-8030 trademark ol Csmmooore-AmiBa, Inc. Picture above is MOT a comcutti^nwalad mags. REVIEWS Deluxe Productions Truly deluxe animation. By Gary Ludwick DE1JJXE PRODUCTIONS IS of the same parentage as DeluxeVideo; both are ani- mated-video production tools from Elec- tronic Arts. Deluxe Productions consists of two art disks, a program disk, and a utilities disk, none of which are copy protected. Working in a high-resolution 672 x 444 overscan format, the program provides easy access to smooth animation and a wide variety of screen effects. It does not, however, offer all of DeluxeVideo's capabilities. The only graphics input Deluxe Pro- ductions offers is a set of high-resolution fonts. To use them, however, you must load them into a paint program and then transfer them back. The program does not include tools for creating im- ages either; all other artwork must be im- ported. Although the manual says that other IFF paint programs may work with Deluxe Productions, the company recom- mends and supports only DeluxePaint II (also from Electronic Arts); all references and tutorials are geared toward Deluxe- Paint II. Dressing in Layers Deluxe Productions videos contain sev- eral layers of elements. Your production can consist of as many as 12 scenes, each of which includes a background picture and up to five clips, A clip accommo- dates an object and the object path — a set of up to ten points that describe the object's movement. Deluxe Productions gives you a choice of 40 wipes to control the way images appear and disappear in scenes and clips. While DeluxeVideo employs a graphic time-line interface, Deluxe Pro- ductions offers an easier-to-use story- board approach. The production screen shows 12 boxes, each representing one scene. You specif)' how the background comes into view simply by indicating a scene number, loading the background Make your entrance in any of 40 ways; specify speed in the clip-editing screen. picture, and choosing a wipe. Double clicking on the scene board lakes you to a screen containing five boxes — one for each clip available. You follow a similar process for each clip, this time specifying two wipes to indicate the manner in which objects emerge and vanish. Now it is time to plot the object's path. Using the mouse, you move the object across the background, clicking the left button wherever you want the object to stop, pause or change direction. Once you have plotted a course, the program automatically fills in the frames between points to produce seamlessly smooth motion. In the clip-editing screen you can re- line your animation by specifying the speed of animation between any two points, and the lengths of pauses. Based on your specifications. Deluxe Produc- tions will compute and display the total animation time required. The program shows you the screen coordinates of every point and movement, and al- though you can change these coordinates on the clip screen to modify the anima- tion, it is far easier to return to the plotting screen and redraw your object's path. Seeing is Believing Deluxe Productions offers two methods of playback: VCR (continuous) mode, and Slide-show mode, which lets you step through the clips by clicking the mouse. Slideshow mode is especially useful for synchronizing the production with a live speaker. You can introduce color cycling in both scenes and clips. The program also enables you to create a color pal- ette to accommodate objects and back- ground pictures from different source palettes, and lets you print production scripts as well as graphic screens. *- 16 November 1988 TELLIGENCE IS \ N| <»^ - V J excellence! Don't limit your potential! 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Deluxe Productions is a large program, and because the sum total loads into RAM, it is besi run with 1.5 megabytes of memory (if you have less than that, plan on doing some disk swapping). As large as it is, though, Deluxe Productions is miss- ing a few dtings. Sound capability is one. Also, while DeluxeVideo lets you create animation within static objects, no such option exists in Deluxe Productions. Copying your masterpiece involves more than just saving it to a formatted disk. De- luxe Productions doesn't automaticallv save all production elements; instead, it saves only the resulting script and a col- lection of the disk names, directories, and paths to those elements. Load a produc- tion for playback, and the program asks for disks. Although Deluxe Productions supplies a utility for creating copies, the process requires ten steps. Willi Deluxe Productions, complicated and sophisticated effects are easy to achieve. Point-and-click animation and infinite control of speed, timing, and po- sition make it a joy to work with. With 40 different wipes available, and with the capacity for moving, copying, and inter- changing scenes, altering object paths, and so on, your ability to tweak videos is nearly infinite. You do need DeluxePaint II to get the most out of it, though, and while its animation capabilities are supe- rior to DeluxeVideo's, it's not the tool for you if you want integrated sound. Deluxe Productions Electronic Arts 1820 Gateway Drive San Mateo, CA 9-1404 415/571-7171 $199 One megaliyte required. C-lJGHT Light the stage for easy ray tracing. By Wayland Strickland C-LK'.MT, A THREE-PART program, en- ables you to create a cast of objects and place them on a set. The first module is C-Light I, an object-creation workshop. The Video module lets you set up resolu- tion, picture size, and video standards. C- Light II performs the ray tracing, that is, it plots light rays through space as they bounce off your creations. What sets this package apart from its competitors is its all-around simple approach. C-Light I offers balls (spheres), cans (cylinders), and cubes as building blocks. While this may sound limiting, it is not. You can quickly and easily maniplulate the shapes to produce virtually anything. To create a door, for example, you would stretch a cube into a door-size rec- tangle, and then flatten it. To make the lock plate, follow the same procedure, but shrink the shape and center it on the left edge of the door. For the stem of the handle, take a cylinder, reduce it in size, and place it on the lock plate. Now com- You can build anything using three basic shapes! press a sphere and place it over the cyl- inder to complete the door knob. Raise the Curtain To select a shape, simply click on its icon at the right of the screen. C-Lighl I dis- plays your selection in wire-frame mode; you can place it anywhere in the three- dimensional universe with the mouse or by setting coordinates in a pop-up re- quester. Then you can specify size {in each dimension), color, surface texture (smooth-shaded or mirrored), and angle of rotation (0 to 360 degrees) for each object. Most operations are carried out in real time, although I did experience a lag when using the mouse for compli- cated maneuvers. If you wish to revise an object you have already generated, you can select and modify (or delete) it in the same manner. Although you can choose from any of 4096 hues, C-Light 1 displays only four colors at a lime (one background shade and three object colors). From these colors shading is performed. When you are ready to select colors for the palette, C-Light 1 displays a rainbow made up of default selections that you can change. This method is useful for determining how each of your choices will look next to the others. The feature has a small cosmetic problem, though: A flashing purple scan line remains under the menu bar after you exit the mode. Now that you have set your pieces on stage (each scene accommodates up to 170 objects), you can call in the lighting crew. C-Light I allows as few as one light source and as many as 170. You position light sources the same way as you place objects; the only difference is that you cannot rotate lights or alter their size or color. Lighting instruments radiate in all directions, but arc themselves invisible within a scene. The View gadget in C-Lighl I lets you manipulate whole scenes in much the same manner as objects. A large cube represents the scene; you can expand or contract it, and rotate it in any direction and by any degree. Resulting changes are displayed in a second cube (in a differ- ent color), so that you can compare the altered version to the original. This ca- pacity is useful for simple panning; you can generate several pictures with in- creasing or decreasing X-coordinate val- ues. You can also zoom into or out of scenes by changing the value of the 7. co- ordinates in the same way. C-Light I's Eye gadget adjusts the view- er's distance from the scene. Perspective increases and distortion decreases the closer you place the "eye" to the stage; the opposite is true for moving away. While you can now move the viewpoint in only two directions, the manual stales that others will be added if users request them. Act Two The Video module works in much the same way as Preferences in Workbench. The program starts by asking you whether you are using an NTSC (Na- tional Television Standards Committee) or PAL Amiga. You must also choose whether your picture will be over- scanned (352 x 480) or not, and inter- laced or non-interlaced. The settings are stored and used by C-Light II to generate the picture. *■ 18 November 19SS . on your helmet and get ready for a pro football ion that looks exactly like a Sunday network broadcast. TV SPORTS: Football features amazing graphics and animation; real arcade action on offense and defense: individual and team sfatislics; and a 28 team, 16 game schedule with post season playoffs! Included at no extra charge are these TV SPORTS exclusives: Broadcasters, cheerleaders, fans in the stands and a halftime show! "SO REAL IT... SWEATS!" • Create a league with up to 28 human controlled franchises ■ All teams have different offensive and defensive tendencies • Play it as an arcade game or coach from the sidelines • Play alone, against a friend, or with a friend against the computer • Includes "pushbutton statistics" to view the top performers in the league Screen ptiotos represent UK Amiga version only. Others may vary. Cinemaware: TV Sports and TV Sports: Football are trademarts ot Cinemaware Corporal™. To order direct call 800-527-4391 (in Ca. 805-495-6515) or send your Visa/MC number and expiration date, check or money order for S49.95 (C64 is $34.35) plus S3, handling to Cinemaware Corp.. RO. Box 5083, Westlake. CA.. 91359. Ca. residents add 6% sales tax. Allow 3-5 weeks lor delivery. Hi - . . ■ ■■ 1 i\. - Hbbp I C-Light II begins its start-up sequence by requesting you to set (with sliders) the light level for all light sources and an ambient-light level lor the entire scene. (Default settings for the sliders are loaded with the program.) Another slider controls the level to which colors blend into one another. Triggering the Alias control turns on a anti-aliasing routine to reduce jaggies, and selecting Shadow causes objects to cast shadows (otherwise light will pass through undisturbed). Both features add to the time required to generate a picture. Rendering time also depends a great deal on the number of objects and light sources you have used. In my tests, fairly simple scenes required generation times of about one hour, but complex pictures took up to two days (I do not have a 680S0 or 08881 board). All scenes are saved in the standard HAM format. View, a stagehand utility, lets you see completed pictures. The C-Light package is easy to learn and use. On-line help is included, and the well-written manual provides com- plete explanations and a comprehensive tutorial. 51 2K is required to generate ray-traced pictures, but to use the on-line help feature, one meg is recommended. The program is fully multitasking and not copy-protected. A new version has come onto the market as we go to press. It includes utilities for creating and re- playing animation, and promises to ban- ish menu-bar flicker. I highly recommend C-Light to anyone interested in ray tracing, and especially to beginners. C-Light Ronald Peterson PO Box 614 Milford, NH 03055 $49 512K required. FinePrint Gray is beautiful. By Morton A. Kevelson GRAY-SCALE DOT-MATRIX printouts of Amiga graphics displays have tradition- ally lacked contrast and resolution. With FinePrint. though, your dot-matrix printer can produce highly-detailed, quality images. FinePrint uses multiple overstrikes nn a well-worn ribbon to build up layers of ink. As a result, FinePrint can employ the maximum resolution of your dot-ma- trix printer to create a 16-lcvcl gray-scale graphic dump. By comparison, the Ami- ga's Preferences printer drivers simulate a 16-level gray scale with a four-by-four dot pattern, thus effectively cutting your printer's resolution by a factor of 16. For copy protection, FinePrint asks you to enter a specified word from the manual when you boot. You need a cloth-ribbon dot-matrix printer (ink-jet, thermal-transfer, and laser printers need not apply) to use the program. It works best with a well-worn ribbon — the more worn the better. FinePrint will strike a dot up to 15 times to create various in- tensities. With a fresh ribbon, you will achieve black at the third or fourth strike. A moderately-worn ribbon can take seven or eight hits before the ink fully saturates the paper. Only with a Continued on p. 78 For the beginner ... to the advanced! Be sts c \\et Amiga For Beginners - the first volume in our Amiga series, niroduces you !o Intuition (Amiga's graphic interface), the mouse, windows, the CLI, and Amiga BASIC and explains every practical aspect of the Amiga in plain English. $16.95 Amiga Tricks and Tips - A treasure chest of helpful programs, hints and lips tor accessing libraries from BASIC cuslom character sets. AmigaDOS, sound, important 68000 memory locations. 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BASIC by the Numbers With "The World Turned Upside Down" this month, readers share their BASIC programming problems and solutions. By Bob Ryan Solicitations EVERY MONTH, I solicit questions and comments from readers. This month's column is built around the letters I have received. The contents are made possible by the willingness of Amiga owners to shore problems and solutions with one another. I would like to thank everyone who has contributed to this column by sharing their ijueslions and solutions with the rest of us. Amiga Basic Window Sizes JIM MARRONE OF Berkeley, CA sent in this handy chart for determining the maximum size of an Amiga Basic window. Jim's chart tells you the maximum dimensions of" a window (with and without a sizing gadget) on a screen of any resolution. Maximum Window Screen Resolution Sizing Gadget (0,0) — (631,186) 640x200 No (0,0) — (617,186) 640 x 200 Yes (0,0) — (631,386) 640 x 400 No (0,0) — (617,386) 640 x 400 Yes (0,0) — (311 : 186) 320 x 200 No (0,0) — (297,186) 320x200 Yes (0,0) — (311,386) 320x400 No (0,0) — (297,386) 320x400 Yes Active and Current Windows IN THE JUNE '88 installment of the column, t stated that you could not specify the current window from inside a program. Donald Grown of Long Beach, CA has come up with a partial solution for this problem. Donald notes that you can use the following syntax to make a current window ac- tive. You first define a window and later redefine it with the same name, as in: WINDOW 2,"TEST",(10,10)-(100,100),27,1: 'initialize window WINDOW 2, "TEST": 'window becomes current and active As Donald points out, the disadvantage to this method is that it erases the previous contents of the window. However, this method is useful If your program does not require that the previous contents be preserved or If you can reconstruct its contents. Donald also cleared up the difference between the statements WINDOW 2 and WINDOW OUTPUT 2. WINDOW 2 brings the window to the front and makes it current. WINDOW OUTPUT 2 makes the window current without bringing it to the front. Insomnia Solution JOHN EVERETT OF Mem- phis, TN has a solution that cures the "extra input event" problem mentioned in #42 in the July '88 installment. John notes that you can use the SLEEP statement and shut down the program without re- quiring an extra input from the user, if you exit the pro- gram from the subroutine in- stead of returning to the main loop. This eliminates the need for another input event to exit the SLEEP loop. 22 November 1988 CALIFORNIA GAMES. ITY. Circle 191 on Reader Service card Using Your Memory Wisely MEMORY MANAGEMENT is a com- mon problem with Amiga Basic pro- grammers. I get more letters asking how to free up memory for BASIC programs and data than I do on any other subject. Most people want to clear more memory for large pro- grams and array storage. They know they must use the CLEAR command for memory management, but they have trouble understanding the explanations In the Amiga Basic manual. The CLEAR statement performs three functions; it resets all vari- ables in a program to zero or null, sets the size of the BASIC data seg- ment, and sets the size of the stack. Understanding these func- tions will enable you to put memory problems behind you. To set all numeric variables to zero and all string variables to null, you simply use the CLEAR state- ment without parameters. Try this short program: REM Clear Example varl = 5 var2 = 10 PRINT varl +var2 CLEAR PRINT varl +var2 END Every time you use the CLEAR statement, it resets the values In your variables. This is nice, but not as important as its other memory management functions. The complete template for the CLEAR statement is: CLEAR <,data segmentX,stack> Both the data segment and stack size parameters are optional. They can be either constants or vari- ables. The data segment of your pro- gram is the memory used to store your program and all its butlers and data variables. Most programs that come up th the Amiga Basic "Out of Memory Error" need a larger data segment. To increase the size of the data segment, you'd enter something like: CLEAR.30000 The most common mistake in trying to clear large areas of mem- ory is to forget to insert the com- mas in the CLEAR tatement. This omission usually results in an "Ov- erflow Error," When you try to clear more than 32,767 bytes of memory with the CLEAR statement, the Amiga Basic editor will automati- cally convert the number you enter into a double-precision integer. For example, if you want to clear 100,000 bytes of memory, you would enter: CLEAR, 100000 When you hit Return, Amiga Ba- sic automatically converts your statement into: CLEAR, 100000& Since a single-precision integer cannot be larger than 32,767, Amiga Basic performs the conversion to al- low you to clear larger areas of memory. The stack Is a temporary storage area used by a program. For exam- ple, when Amiga Basic calls a ROM kernal routine, it first saves the contents of the registers In the 68000 to the stack before executing the routine. You don't have to worry about manipulating the stack, but you do need to insure that it is big enough. The following state- ment increases the stack to 10,000 bytes. CLEAR,, 10000 Amiga Basic does not tell you when you are out of stack space. A stack error returns the same "Out of Memory Error" you get when you run out of data space. You have to use trial and error to deter- mine the cause; first increase the data segment and, if that doesn't eliminate the error, then increase the stack size. Unless your pro- grams use lots of subroutines, you will find most of your "Out of Mem- ory Errors" are caused by a too- small data segment. A Heap of Trouble YOU CAN ALSO gel an "Out of Heap Space" error when you run an Amiga Basic program. The heap is the free memory in your system that has not been reserved by your BASIC program or by any other task. Some Amiga Basic functions, especially the sound functions, utilize memory from the system heap. If you encounter this error, you should close other tasks you are run- ning on the system. If this is impossible, you should decrease the size of your data segement or stack. Decreasing the size of your data segment or stack can be tricky. To help you determine where vou can use less memory. Amiga Basic provides the FRE< ) function. The value you use with the FRE statement determines the in- formation the function returns. For example: X = FRE( 1) returns the number of bytes free in the system heap, while: x = FRE(-2) returns the total number of bytes that have never been used by the stack. This can be very helpful in determining just how small you can make the stack without running out of stack space. If you use any value other than - l or - 1 with KRE( ), it re- turns the number of unused bytes in the Amiga Basic data seg- ment. This function can tell you when you have devoted too much space to the data segment- By judicious use of FRE( ) and CLEAR, you can maximize the memory efficiency of your BASK] programs. Beyond Extend LAST MONTH, 1 mentioned Extend, an Amiga Basic extension package from SunSmite Software (533 Fargo Ave., Buffalo, NY 14213, 716/885-5670). As the issue went to press, I learned of an upgrade to Extend The upgrade adds about 20 functions to the Extend library. Among the new functions are an IFF-picture loader, an IFF-picture saver, and a Scroll function that lets you scroll a lo-res 640x400 picture on a 320x200 screen. The best nexus is that SunSmile has dropped the price of Extend. Check it out. ■ 24 November 1 988 Get ready for four of the most challeng- ing, rugged, rump-bumping cross Plenty of thrills guaranteed an the (oHowmg grounds: gumbo mud, packed snow, skid-sand, and the scrubbiest terrain south of the horde t country road racing courses this earth has to offer. Fight the torturous terrain of Baja. Rocks, boulders, skid-sand, even a few spikey cactuses. And of course, heat that's hot enough to fillet any forehead. Ever had your hands stuck to the wheel? Permanently. You will when you endure the longest winter of your life in the ice, sleet and slosh of The Michigan Course. The Georgia Red Clay Course has enough mud to keep you a human fossil for 2,000 years. And then there's Death Valley. Get it. D-E-A-T-H Valley. Start with pre-race strategy. Select and customize your personal vehicle. Your supplies. Your repair equip- There are boulders, rivers, potholes, and mudbogs to contend with. What are mudbogs? You'll find out. (Just after you find out there's a Demon 4x4 chas- ing you all through the race. A Demon hellbent on your destruction.) If you win enough races, collect enough points, only then will the Victor's Cup be yours. It's the least we can do. After all, you did go through hell to get there. ment. Believe us. You'll need everything. 4x4 OFF-ROAD RACING BY Commodore frt/!28, WM& compatibles. Amiga Csrcle 193 on Header Service card. Sit down and grab on! You're driving the fastest and most beautiful machine on 4 wheels! So kick up the engine revs, down- shift the gears, hear the tires squeal and grab the pavement— on your computer! &- Hot car. Hot music. Hot scenery — beaches, cities, snowy mountains, deserts and the blonde next to you will tempt you to take your eyes off the road. 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DISTRIBUTED BY MiNDUtfi INC MINDSCAPE Visit your retailer or call l-QO0-2?l-?884 far VISA end MasterCard orders. To purchase by mail, send your card number and expiration date, check or moneyOrder for 534.95 (Out Runl, $29.95 [Space Harrier and Alien Syndrome], IC6J & CI28), and $49.95[Out Run and Space Harrien, S39.95 [Afien Syn- drome), [Amiga end Alari ST}, (plus $3.00 handling to Mindscape, Inc. P.O. Bo* 11*7, Norlhbrook IL 60065. Allow 3-5 weeks lor delivery. Lawyers like this pod: £■ 19S8fflindscape, Inc. Mmdscape is a Irademark of Mindscape, Inc. Copyright. 1986, 198/ Sega Enterprises, Lid. These games have been manufac- tured under license from Sega Enterprises, Lid., Jopan. Oul Run is a trademark of Seqa Enterprises, Ltd- Commodore 64 and Commodore 128 ore registered trademarks, of Commodore Electronics, Ltd. Ator i is registered trademark and ST, 520ST, 104QST, and Mega ore trademarks af Atari Corporation. Amiga is a registered trademork and Kickslarr is a trademark of Commodore-Amiga, Int. IBM is a Irademark of IETM Corporation. Mode in US. A. Screen shols represent Alar i ST version; otherj may vary Ih AMIGAWORLD GAMES First it was the Lucky Strike Hit Parade, and then Dick Clark's American Bandstand and "submarine watching" with Murray The K, and so on all the way to Judy Brown of Club MTV and Casey Kasem's American Top 40. Well move over and make room for Bob Ryan and the AW All Stars because we're spinning the hottest disks in town with the first " Amiga World Top 40 Games" smash special. So grab your joystick and twist the night away! THE "ALL STARS" making these selections are, in truth, a motley crew of AmigaWorld contributors and editors who between them have played just about every game released for the Amiga. The testers rated the games in three areas: entertainment value (Is the game fun?), quality of presentation (Does it have good graphics and sound?), and durability (Does it keep its appeal for a long time?). In true AM-pop-radio style, our selections start at No. 40 and count down to No. 1. A game category line follows the title of each game (see the sidebar "Typecasting" for explanations of each category). The manufacturer's name and price also appear in the heading for each game. For further company information— address, telephone number, and so forth— consult the Product Information box at the end of the article. We list only games that were available from dealers at the time this issue was put together. This automatically eliminates games such as Slapshot! (Bethesda Softworks), Universal Military Simulator (Rainbird), and Dungeon Master (FTL) that at press time were still in the late stages of development. We will review these and other eagerly anticipated titles as soon as they are completed (and without doubt we will put together another Top 40 listing next year). Once we settled on the Top 40, the editors gathered to pick the best game in each category and the Number One Amiga Game of All Time (up to now, that is). The winner may surprise you; it surprised us. Now, let's check the charts. *- By Bob Ryan and the AW All Stars: Linda Barrett, Michael Brown, Bill Catchings, Roger Goode, Morton Kevelson, Shawn Laflamme, Sheldon Leemon, C. W. Mann, Neil Randall, Wayland Strickland, Mark Van Name, Lou Wallace, Guy Wright DIGITIZED ART BY ROGER GOODE SCREEN DUMPS COURTESY OK PHILADELPHIA VIDEO L-UJ AmigaWnrld 29 Ports of Call A ction/Stra tegy Aegis Development $49.95 Only the inclusion of inane arcade se- quences kept this superb simulation from getting a better position in the Top 40. Ports of Call lets you control a ship- ping line. You decide which ships to buy, which cargoes to haul, and which ports you want to visit. Make more money than your competitors and you win — a slice of Americana. 1^ RoadWar 2000 Action/Strategy Strategic Simulations Inc. $39.95 In the aftermath of bacteriological warfare, you've got to round up the eight U.S. scientists who can save the world. The problem is that the U.S. has sunk into anarchy. You must organize a road gang and reestablish order in the coun- try while searching for the scientists. Just watch out for the other road gangs. %jj Defender Of The Crown Action/Strategy Cinemaware $49.95 With Defender, Cinemaware began a new genre in computer games, graphi- cally intensive games with cinematic style and techniques. The game concept is based loosely on the board game Risk, with you being the leader of one of the several small kingdoms that make up Un- divided medieval Britain. Your must con- quer your neighbors by building an army and sending it into battle. Along the way there are several arcade-like se- quences — such as sword fights, jousts. and catapult attacks on the castles — and like any good movie it has love scenes! "The game isn't much, but Defender is the best graphics demo I own." — Lou Wallace ^^J Phantasie Role-Playing Adventure Strategic Simulations Inc. $39.95 Things are bad on the island 1 of Gel- nor. Ever since The Invasion, the evil Xikademus has been sending out mons- ters and Dark Knights to terrorize the land. Your job is to form a party of ad- venturers to find the nine magic rings and the wand of power, destroy the Dark Knights, and defeat Nikademus. No problem. There are ten dungeons to ex- plore, 11 cities, 80 different types of monsters, 60 types of weapons, 40 types of shields and armor, over 00 different magic spells, 20 different potions, 15 types of characters, six different profes- sions, and on and on. The box states "playing time: 30 to 60 hours"; that's once you know the rules. "You don't just play Phantasie, you de- vote a good portion of your life lo it." — Guv Wright 30 November 19S8 fioaJ^ fctc JiaW ^361 ^fc^ Balance of Power Strategy Mindscape $49.95 You assume the role of the President of the United States or the General Sec- retary of the Communist Parly of the USSR in ihi;. nightmare simulation of su- perpower geopolitics. Playing a decent game requires a lot of work; to actually win requires more effort than most peo- ple arc willing to put into a computer game. Still, if you're looking for a game thai has real depth, look no further. "A great simulation. Unfortunately, it's about as slow-paced as real life geopoli- tics. How many times do you feel like in- vading Angola? 1 "— Bill Catchings VP King's Quest III Graphics Adventure Sierra On-line $49.95 King's Quest III is the third and best in the trilogy of colorful 3-D graphics ad- ventures from Sierra. You control the cartoon like characters' movements as they walk about the screens. As Gwydion, a young man enslaved by the evil wizard Manannan, you must escape using Man- annan's magic against him. If you can get awa\. \<>u iinw then *ai! across the seas to rescue a fair princess from a fire- breathing dragon. © Arcade Actionware Corporation $39.95 You are a cop and the Capone gang is across the street gunning for you. Kill as many as you can before they get you. This game has everything an arcade junk- Cap One FOUR WAYS TO MAKE YOUR AMIGA Now you can take the world's number one arcade game home! All the action-packed arcade thrills of this awesome hostage rescue are ready for home video pfay. j The If J game in Europe for over 3 months. Scramble through 100 screens of laughs as your branfonaurus buddies. Bub and Bob, drive you crazy with non-stop act/on. This is the original arcade hit Thrtll to the arcade quality graphics of this fast-paced, street- style karate brawl. Find out what real action is alt about! If you want to make your Amiga explode with action you've got to give it dynamite games. These are the world famous original arcade screamers. Operation Wolf," Bubble Bobble™ Renegade'" and Rastan'" will make your Amiga Computer scream with arcade quality graphics and stereo sound. Everyone knows that arcade games are the Now you can thrill to one of the biggest-ever coin-op hits on your home computer. Rastan's mind-blowing graphics take you to a magicat land of adventure and excitement. benchmark for all other video games and Taito has been an arcade leader since 1953. Since then we've made over 7,000 classics for arcade and home play. Count on Taito to bring the heat of the arcade to your home computer. Buy Taito products at leading stores every- where. Visa/Mastercard holders can order direct anywherein the U.S. by calling 1-800-663-8067. Taito' Operation Woff/ M Bubble Bobble,™ Renegade™ and Rastan™ are trade- marks of Taito America Inc. Copyright 3 1988. THEONLYGAMEIN TOWN.'" All rights reserved^ Amiga is a trademark of Commodore-Amiga, Inc. Advertise- ment by: Dually & Company, Inc. (Chicago}. Circfe 56 on Reader Service card. COMING SOON, THE CLASSIC MIND GAME. Q/X. ie could ask for — digitized gunshots, ex- cellent graphics, and fast action. While it can be played with the mouse, Capone comes alive when you use the Action- ware light gun (optional $49.95), Capone is a must for anyone who thinks that speed and action are all an arcade game needs. "No strategy here, just fast-paced may- hem.' - — Roger Goode Leader Board Sports Access Software Inc. $34.95 An early Amiga game, Leader Board makes golf easy to learn and master. With adjustable levels of difficulty, com- petition between players of unequal skills evens out. One to four players can play at the same time. Four courses are included on the main disk, while the companion tournament disk offers more variety. For casual fun, Leader Board is the best of the golf simulations. \f Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels Text Adventure Infocom $39.95 The Crown Jewels have been stolen from the Tower of London and you, as Doctor Watson, have a single weekend to Test Your Game IQ 1 . After you pause a game of Arkanoid, which sequence of keys do you press to activate the "cheat" mode? A. rickross RETURN B. ESC taito ESC C. dsimagic RETURN D. icheat RETURN 2. What does the dragon do when you win a game of Shanghai? A. Blink B. Breathe fire C. Fly away D. Shrug 3. In Gettysburg, where do you find the one square that is a victory objective for both the Union and Confederate players? A. In the town B. On Cemetery Hill C. On Little Round Top D. Beside Spangler's Spring 4. In Bard's Tale, on which street do you find the Review Board? A. Blue Highway B. Main C. Trumpet D. Serpent 5. In The Three Stooges, which song turns Curly into an imitation of Mike Tyson? A. "Three Blind Mice" B. "Thriller" C. "Pop Goes The Weasel" D. "Camptown Races" 6. In Roadwar 2000, where do you have the best chance of fighting another gang? A. Detroit B. Any oil field C. The secret laboratory D. The Gulf Coast 7. You are on your opponent's 15-yard line, one second left, down by two. In Gridiron!, which play do you call? A. 1 B. 10 C. 19 D. 25 8. In Silent Service, from which port does the Bowfin leave on its 1944 patrol? A. Fremantle B. Brisbane C. Pearl Harbor D. Midway 9. In the World War I mode of Flight Simu- lator II, in which direction do you ily to find the enemy? A. North B. South C. East D. West 10. In the Towers scenario of Breach, w do you use to gain access to your objective? A. Crack Unit B. Grav Belt C. Stimulant D. Shield Answers to quiz on p. 42 vhat flaa/faM" recover them with the help of your friend Sherlock Holmes. Your only clue is a note full of riddles from the thief (or thieves). You realize, of course, that this one clue is most probably a trap. Sher- lock is a wonderful game that even pro- vides hints if you get stuck. "An Infocom tour de force with great digitized sounds." — Shawn Laflamme ^^^ One-on-One Sports Electronic Arts $19.95 One of the first Amiga games, Onc-on- One is still among the best. You compete against the computer or another player in a one-on-one basketball game. One player assumes the identity of Dr. J, and the other takes the part of Larry Bird. Then it's nothing but in-your-face basket- ball unlil the final buzzer. "This one qualifies as a classic." — Mark Van Name y^f Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards Graphics Adventure Sierra On-line $39.95 To show you that all adventure games are not centered on fairy tales, Leisure Suit Larry puts you smack dab in the middle of the "real world" complete with cars, bars, bums, and fast women. Larry is a lonely man, and your job is to help him find the right girl while look- ing in all the wrong places. This is not a children's game, nor is ii for the easily offended. If you arc an adult with an off- 1 32 November 1988 From Origin comes the long-awaited sequel to the award-winning Ultima™ III Available on Amiga. Quest pf the A/atar A state-of-the-art fantasy role- playing game of unprecedented magnitude by Lord British™. repare yourself for a grand adventure: Ultima™ IV, sixteen times larger than ; Ultima III, is a milestone in computer gaming— one that challenges your physical and mental skills while testing the true fabric of your character. Enter Britannia, kingdom of Lord British. Journey through terrain of infinite proportions, conversing with characters on hundreds of topics. Unravel the mysteries of a superior magic system. At each turn beware of daemons, dragons and long-dead wizards haunting the most tranquil of places. Encounters with parties of mixed enemy types test your strategic abilities. Shrewd use of terrain can lead to victory against seemingly impossible odds. Survive this multi-quest fantasy, then begin the final conflict, your quest of the Avatar. The ultimate challenge— the self— awaits OR/G/M /systems //vc. /136 HARVEY ROAD, LONDONDERRY, NH 03053 (603) 644-3360 ■ EBft gS$|j@ ULTIMA™ III sends you on an incredible fantasy role- playing journey through monster-plagued Sosarta in search of the elusive Exodus. MOEBIUS ,M takes you through the elemental planes of a colorful Orien- tal world of fantasy and adventure in search of the Orb of Celestial Harmony. AUTODUEL™ is a futuristic, OGRE™ is a strategy game fast-paced strategy role- playing game where the right of way goes to the biggest guns. fought on the nuclear bat- tlefield of tomorrow as an inhuman juggernaut Cyber- tank battles conventional forces. 90ZAT Hup Ultima and Lord British are trademarks of Richard Garriott/Moeblus is a trademark of Greg Malone/AutoDuel and Ogre are trademarks of Sieve Jackson/Appie is a trademark of Apple Computer Inc/Previous Ultimas are not needed to enjoy Ultima IV Authors wanted. Call us today. !*■■■ H I **■ Circle 21 on Reader Service card. ■ ^: { J^ t fa, " them togei w*#. i color souse of humor, you will enjoy steering Larry through the lounges. "Where did I put my breath mints"-" — Morton Kevelson © Sports Hardball! Accolade $44.95 Hardball! is a baseball game for peo- ple who like to get into the action. You make the pitches, swing the bat. and run down the long fly balls. Although Hard- ball! contains simplified statistical data on fictitious players, the real action is on the field, not in the dugout. Pit yourself against the computer or a friend in a great new version of the grand old game. "The best pitcher-batter game avail- able."— Neil Randall f28l y^JF Gettysburg: The Turning Point Strategy Strategic Simulations Inc. $59.95 Gettysburg is one of SSI's finest war games. You control the brigades of the Army of Northern Virginia or the Army of the Potomac in this simulation of die biggest battle of the American Civil War covering the three clays from July 1 to July 3, 1863. There are dozens of options during each phase of play, and, like most SSI games, one game can take up to 40 hours. If you like to sit and deliberate over every move for every unit, i( you are more interested in military tactics than blasting aliens, or if you are a civil war buff, Gettysburg is Nirvana. © Guild of Thieves Graphics Adventure Rainbird $44.95 So you think that a life of crime is a breeze? Well it's going to take more than nimble fingers and luck to prove your- self to the Kervonian thieves Guildraas- ter. You are going to need a sharp mind and wit to solve this sequel to The Pawn. Your mission is lo ransack a well guarded mansion, go grave robbing, and . . . you get the idea. The game has verv good graphics and puzzles, one of the best parsers in die business, remarka- ble depth, and numerous extras like pro- grammable macro keys for often-used commands. \j The Three Stooges A ction/Stra tegy Cinemaware $49.95 Moe, Larry, and Curly get into pie fights, prize fights, and sundry other ad- ventures in order to earn cash and save the orphanage. From the opening joke- to the final credits, this game brings the Three Stooges alive in the '80s. The ar- cade sequences arc good (and sometimes hilarious), and the slor\ line thai holds gether is classic Stooges. "Finally! A Cinemaware game that doesn't leave out the game." — Sheldon Leemon © Stellar Conflict Strategy PAR Software $39.95 Play the game of Risk on an interstel- lar scale. You must expand your control over a galaxy of star s\ stems, while up lo three computer- or human-controlled op- ponents try to do the same. Stellar Con- llict is neither flashy nor complicated, l)ii t il is a lot of fun. By keeping the game mechanics simple, the game lets von concentrate on developing the strat- egy and ladies that will lead to victory. A refreshing change of pace from strategy games that come with 64-page manuals and take weeks of study. © The Zork Trilogy Text Adventure Infocom $49.95 Zork was the first complex interactive fiction to attract a cult of followers who would stay up all night exploring and pillaging the Great LnderGround Em- pire. With its detailed descriptions and hundreds of rooms. Zork is a classic thai spawned two sequels. Infocom combined all three installments into the Zork Tril- ogy. Zork is great fun. and still attracts new adventurers who love to travel its well-worn caves and. sample its treasures. "Zork should he bundled willi every computer sold." — Lou Wallace ►- TlW^ 1aJU*l 3-1 November 1988 WE TOP EM HANDS DOWN! Top value for your dollar and true integration from a company who prides itself on excellence! You can't top that. The Works! Platinum Edition has 5 programs using a common interface, 1 box, 1 easy-to-use manual, and 3 non-copy protected disks. Take The Works! Platinum Edition home when you buy any Amiga"' computer and have instant operation. Within minutes, youll be able to write a letter, balance your checkbook, call a local bulletin board system, create a mailing list, and print any spreadsheet sideways. You owe yourself the Platinum experience! Wordprocessing Module is the most popular Amiga* wordprocessor available • It has a 104,000+ word spelling checker with scientific and technical dictionary supplements • 470,000+ word thesaurus • prints IFF graphics • supports mail merge • allows Bold, Underline , and Italics • clip board compatible and much, much more! Spreadsheet Module is the fastest Amiga* spreadsheet available • It contains 68881 math coprocessor support • imports and exports Lotus™ .wks files • 8 graph types in 8 vibrant colors hot linked to spreadsheet • complete macro language • allows Bold, Underline , and Italics • clipboard compatible and much, much more! Database Module is a flat file database. It contains extensive mathematical functions • offers 4.2 billion possible records with 128 fields • compatible with dBase HI™ file structures • clipboard compatible and much, much more! Telecommunications Module is the most popular program of its kind available • It has WX, X, Y, and Z modem, Kermit, 2 way file and chat protocol and CompuServe* B protocols • 300 - 19,200 baud operation • 20 user programmable macro-keys • complete auto and redial capabilities * supports 8 colors (IBM/ANSI compatible) and much, much more! Sideways Print Utility is the only Amiga 9 program of its kind available • rotates IFF graphics or ASCII files 90 degrees • performs automatic cut and paste for unlimited columns and much, much more! The Works! Platinum Edition is integration . . .Refined! ~jZi Committed to excellence since 1978 12798 Forest Hill Boulevard, Suite 202 West Palm Beach, Florida 33414 r.Huuy jqj. .uy |S> l J ^SeiiI MtefoSYstemsSeNwafe 407-790-0770 See your local dealer or call for an excellence! brochure. Dealers/Distributors contact Brown- Wagh Publishing 800/451-0900 (408/395-3838 in CA) Amiga Is 3 registered trademark of Commodore Business Machines, Tne Works! Platinum Edition is a registered trademark of Micro-Systems Software, Inc. Circle 164 on Reader Service card. ^t*^^-^^ W Flight Simulator II Flight Simulators subLOGIC Corp. $49.95 One of the golden oldies, Flight Simu- lator II is greatly improved by the Ami- ga's graphics and sound. You control a Cessna 182 single engine or a Gates Learjet 25G aircraft with Full instrumen- tation and a 3-D graphic view of your surroundings. Connect two or more Amigas via modem or cables, and you can fly with friends. The additional high- density scenery disks (S24.°-:i each) let you fly in and out of most of the coun- try's major airports, as well as hundreds of smaller ones. ^^jf Marble Madness Arcade Electronic Arts $49.95 Marble Madness, one of the early ar- cade hits on the Amiga, is based on the coin-op game of the same name. Using a mouse, joystick, or trackball, you direct a rolling ball through a series of three-di- mensional, elevated mazes in a certain amount of lime. If you miss a turn or ramp or get zapped by the baddies, you fall to your death. The 3-D graphics and realistic motions of the marble make this one of the top arcade games. "My favorite two-player game for the Amiga." — Bill Catchings ^^ Faery Tale Adventure Role-Playing Adventure Microlliusions $49.95 Faery Tale Adventure is a giant-scale adventure game where you wander through the countryside gathering keys, treasures, weapons, and informal ion. You are presented with a marvelous scrolling aerial viexv by which you ex- Of Dubious Distinction Just as every silver lining has a cloud, every Top 40 release has a flip side, those less fortunate game titles that are collecting dust on your dealer's shelves. Without further ado, here are the AmigaWortd Dubious Distinction in Gaming Awards. The Vaporware That Should Have Stayed That Way Award goes to Return to Atlantis from Electronic Arts. Ad- mittedly, after two years of hype, our expectations were a bit high, but this game is more than a bit of a dud. The Dive, Dive, Dive Award goes to The Hunt For Red October from DataSoft. We keep hoping thai it never resurfaces. The What If They Had a War and Nobody Came Award goes to Age of 36 November 198 ft Sail from Conflict Recreations and Blitzkrieg in the Ardennes from Com- mand Simulations. Is this what General Sherman meant vvhen he said "War is hell"? Taking home the Old Jeans Award is Aaargh! from Arcadia. The game starts out strong, but fades very quickly when you realize that it is ridiculously easy to win. The Worst Idea Award goes to Portal from Mediagcnic (formerly Activision). This "revolutionary game" turned out to be nothing more than a mediocre science-fiction novel on three disks. Do you know how many good science-fic- tion novels you can buy for §50? The Best Idea Award goes to Media- genie (formerly Activision) for killing Portal. □ plore caves, castles, deserts, forests, and mazes, all filled with numerous villains trying to kill you. As you progress through the land, you gain experience and your skills improve. Faery Tale Ad- venture boasts over 17,000 screens; even if you never "win" the game, you should enjoy the wandering. ^jr Sub Battle Simulator A ction/Strategy Epyx $39.95 Not satisfied with simulating individ- ual war patrols. Sub Battle Simulator lets you take command of a World War II American sub or a German U-boat for the duration. Sub Battle Simulator is not as focused as Silent Service (Micro- Prose) — it has you performing some du- ties that would be handled by underlings in a real sub — but the variety of patrols and situations il offers is unsurpassed. \jj G rid start Arcade Anco Software $24.95 One of the better racing games, Grid Start lets you pick from six famous For- mula I tracks using three levels of diffi- culty. You drive the six-gear car with a joystick, competing against 23 computer- controlled opponents. When you know what you are doing, you can join the grand circuit and compete on all six tracks. The graphics and sound effects arc good, and the price is right. "The best thing is that vou don't accu- mulate insurance surcharges when you crash." — Shawn I.aflamme ►■ d^OZrzr— Cosmic Bounce; A freak computer mishap momentarily fired a genetic space-beam giving you, a lonely tennis hall, new Hie. Bounce your way over the em changing path, but beware: the death squares, mystery tiles, disappearing floors and super- bouncers will require everything you've got! Complete over 20 scrolling levels to earn the title of Cosmic Bouncer! An addictive game for only $29. 95. Scary Mutant Space Aliens From Mars Pack your hags and catch the next shuttle to Venus before the Scary Mutant Space Aliens From Mars invade Farth! S.M.SAs From Mars is a new multi- tasking, illustrated text-adventure with a comic twist. Features include: digitized graphics and sound, superbly animated fighting sequences, instant maps, programmable function keys, quick-click controls, and humorous yet challenging puzzles. $39.95. 4 NEW AMIGA GAMES FROM Ready Soft Inc Don Bluth 's Dragon 'stair Dragon's Lair, the laser disk game that revolutionized the arcade industry comes to the Amiga! Ftaturing high quality real-time cartoon animation packed onto six disks, Dragon's Lair pushes the Aniga 's graphics capabilities to the limit. You control Dirk the Daring, a knight on e quest to rescue th; fair Princess Daphne from the clutches of Singe the Dragon. Your quest awaits for $59.95. [Requires one MB BAM J 0.-i^'slsirart8fe!Gmi>.lrf-WmtsW<&p9&®rtsawtfty3^cs$dw(&lwatw$te&G,'a&. LM £■ I9SS. ISS6 S 1987 Stuff Gjvap. Ltd. Ctefadsr foz&rs & 1983 Ow Bk$: Ml 'WIS !?S£!i$d. Rock Challenge So you think you know a lot about Bock music? Then let Rock Challenge put you to the test! The thousands of interesting trivia questions cover mi/sic from the 5D's to present day. Match wits against family and friends in any of 5 categories, or increase your own knowledge of rock. $39. 95. mm m please rush me: luct Name: Price Paymeni by: □ Check D Money order D Visa Card # Expiry Signature lownDA500 GA1000 DA2000 DM/T| } r Shipping & Handling Total o ff sidenls please add 8% PS T S4.D Address:. Cily: Ganymed Keep your finger on the fire button as you maneuver your ship through the enemy hordes on Ganymed in an attempt to win back your planet. $29.95. Bomb Busters As the leader of the crack bomb squad, Bomb Busters, you must defuse bombs through 100 levels of play on two disks and saire the world from an evil group of terrorists. 129.95. H.iiySDt! In . P0 Bsi 3272 L.imtnn. I1 1 14092 Fir; ' "'""""" Phone Orders: (416) 731-4175 FAX: (4161 764-8867 Plsass hue aiiit card mmber rsady. Circle 87 on Reader Swvice card. {WmWJsarisislHWIridHiuttdCamTOtaeBeoravcsLlii^ d Comraoaw-Amiga. Inc The 64 Emulator 2 Upgrading to an Amiga has never been easier with The 64 Emulator 2. Run most productivity software, transfer data to Amiga disks, use Commodore 64 printers directly from Amiga software. Without Serial Interface S39.95 With Serial Interface J59.95 Typecasting As game design has become more sophisticated, fitting a game into a nice, neat niche — arcade, strategy, or adventure — has become quite difficult. We pushed all the fence straddlers to one side or the other in our Top 40 and came up with the following eight categories. Arcade These are the games your parents never wanted you to play. Using a joystick or mouse, you shoot, catch, avoid, or deflect objects that appear on the computer screen. Although many arcade games require a good deal of strategy, the emphasis is on skill with a mouse or a joystick. Action/Strategy This category contains strategy games that have arcade or arcade-like elements. At best, the arcade aspects are flawlessly integrated into the play of the game, as in the combat sequences in Silent Service. In less well-designed games, the arcade se- quences seem to have been thrown in as an afterthought. Some excellent pure strategy games have been rendered unplayable by the inclusion of bad arcade sequences. Sports These games simulate the play of a particular sport, such as golf, basketball, or baseball. Although some sports games (Leader Board, for example) stress arcade skills while others (such as Earl Weaver Baseball) stress strategy, we lump them together because their basic appeal is in the fact that they let you live out your sports fantasies. Text Adventures Best exemplified by the Zork Trilogy, text adventures lead you into imaginary worlds where you progress and prosper based upon your wits. The worlds are created by the descriptions supplied by the game. You specify your actions by typing in- structions at vour keyboard. The best adventure games have powerful translation routines (parsers) that translate your words and phrases into commands that the game can understand. Graphics Adventures Also called illustrated adventures, these games use computer- generated pictures to enhance or replace a text description of an imaginary world. Graphics adventures usually have less so- phisticated parsers than text adventures (Firebird games are an exception) and usually have shorter or less detailed plots. Graph- ics adventures are to text adventures as movies are to books. Flight Simulators These are programs that put you into the cockpit of a flying machine. They feature ever-changing 3-D graphics that simulate the movement of an airplane through the skies. The compu- tations required to change your display screen to reflect changes you've made in speed, altitude, and direction are incredibly complex. The best flight simulators sustain the illusion of flight by updating the display screen many times per second. Role-Playing Adventures You band some adventurers together, equip them with what- ever you can afford from the local store, and send them out to an uncertain future, with the ultimate objective of wiping out some monsterousiv evil being. The challenge of these games is to develop characters that can overcome the final obstacle. These games normally take longer to complete than any other type of game. Strategy Hand-eye coordination and a quick trigger-finger take a back seat to excersizing your gray matter. These games require a lot of thought. Thev include abstract games such as Chessmaster 2000 and Shanghai, as well as games based upon real-life situ- ations, such as Balance of Power and Gettvsburg, The best strategy games are the most challenging computer games. C ^^F Uninvited Graphics Adventure Mindscape $49.95 A good gothic ghost story. Uninvited has spooky graphics, detailed scenes, ee- rie digital sounds, and an excellent plot. L'nlike other adventure games (text or graphics). Uninvited requires almost no typing. Instead you control the action with the mouse, icons, and windows. Where other adventure games fail to re- spond to the majority of the objects thev show or mention. Uninvited will describe nearly everything on the screen. 38 November 1988 \0 Mean 18: Ultimate Golf Spo ?*ts Accolade $44.95 As you might expect from a golf simu- lation. Mean 18 does not rely on fast and furious action, but on skill. Timing is everything when you make vour shots, and strategy goes out the window if you can't hit the ball well. While Mean 18 does not have the best graphics of all the golf games, it plays the best. It adds an element of realism by offering a selec- tion of famous courses (and an optional course disk for SI 9.95), or you can design your own with the course editor. Mean \S is just as frustrating and fun as real golf. *• ^m HHHbb sgaEgsslHI HSMx«k^MbV^ :? ...J. L if. f L.-.-.I J j Aztec C's NEW Source Debu gger Takes The Work Out Of Debugging! Stop entering print statements and re-compiling over and over. Stop ■ Separate Color Windows for Source, Data and Commands spending your time looking at assembly language and hex dumps. ■ Supports 1.2 and 1.3 Amiga resident libraries Stop agonizing over features you need but can't find . . . Start using ■ Supports 68010, 68020 and 68881 processors Aztec C's NEW Source Debugger (SDB) . 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The longer they can slay alive, the more pow- erful thev become as they explore the many dungeons and mazes filled with all tvpes of evil creatures. Bard's Tale has beautiful 3D scrolling graphics, digitized sounds, and animated monsters that will thrill even the most jaded adventurer. %^J Breach A ction/Strategy Omnitrend Software $39.95 A tactical-level role-playing combat game, Breach puts you in charge of up to 20 marines in any of 16 scenarios. The game includes additional scenario disks, or you can create your own with the scenario editor. You battle up to 40 sci-fi creatures, use up to 20 different ob- jects (bombs, weapons, tracking devices. and so forth), and if you are successful, your main character gets better at shoot- ing, running, and surviving. The game is easy to learn, and Breach fanatics are de- veloping dozens of scenarios and posting them on line. Sports Gridiron! Bethesda Softworks $49.95 This football game conies up a bide short in the graphics department, but it can't be beat as a simulation of NFL football. Gridiron! lets you create a rep- ertoire of plays to use against a com- puter or human opponent; it then lets you execute your plays as the quarter- back on offense or the player of your choice on defense. You'll need the shrewd judgement of Don Simla com- bined with the improvisational skills of John F.lway to win big in Gridiron] "The most underrated Amiga sports game." — Neil Randall %P Plutos Arcade Mindscape $29.95 Plutos is pure arcade action. You pilot your ship over a high-tech, outerspace landscape and blast everything in your path. Smooth-scrolling screens, detailed and colorful graphics, and good sound effects ensure that this game never loses its appeal. A two-player option lets you compete or cooperate with another player. "The best two-player shoot-'em-up available for the Amiga" — Bob Ryan "Buy a rapid-fire joystick." — Linda To The Galaxy Best Text Adventure Infocom $14.95 The software adaptation of the hilar ions book and TV show by Douglas Adams, this is the best and funniest of Infocom's text adventures. You assume the role of poor Arthur Dent, who has his house and his home planet destroyed in the same morning. Forced to escape with your friend Ford Prefect (recently discovered to be an alien), you roam space and time in search of the ultimate question (the answer is 42). "Ha! I filially got the damn babel- fish!" — Lou Wallace \& Deja Vu Best Graphics Adventure Mindscape $49.95 Deja Vu places you, a 1940s detective, in the bathroom of a bar with a terrible headache and no memory. You job is to discover who you are and who did it (and for that matter, what it is). If you're too groggy to type, don't worry; the game is controlled by pointing and click- ing. Deja Vn makes great use of the Ami- ga's graphics, sound, windows, and icons. The excellent story line lets you live out your Mickey Spillane fantasies. *■ ?%>Z0kLS 40 November 1988 ^^^ r--\ Suddenly I heard the plaintive cry ol a you , terrestrian girl. She was burning in fe ■• Mother? Yes, child. Mother, let us live, s t shouted as she faded away. Pertgi * ? spaceships blew off with soft explosii . We felt the horror deep inside our bra \ guts. And thai was that. Andtome \ Mission. Your most dangerous missii \ Maybe your last. . . 5 l Plunder your local dealt But carefully: Demonwo will drive you ma Andromeda Missk * by DEMONWAR A AMERICAN SOFTWARE DISTRIBUTORS. H.fi. 1 BOX 290. UHBANA. ILLINOIS 61801. TOLL FREE BO0-225-7941. FAX: 217.S4J.2049 ■ TRIANGLE ELECTRONICS. 6580 FRANKS- TOWN AVENUE. PITTSBURGH. PA 15206, TOLL FREE: 800.2416711. IN PA S00-672-S566. FAX 412-441-4287 ■ COMPREHEND. 23151 VERDUGO. SUITE US LAGUNA HILLS. CA 92653. 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I— C. 2— A. 3— A, 4— C, 5— C. 6— B. 7— C, 8— A, 9— A. 10— B How You Rate Perfect 10: You qualify as an Amiga Game Master. Take a bow, and perform a rigorous reality check. If you still think the mailman looks like Zaphod Beeblebrox, either check yourself into a mental health hospital or get a job as a game playtesler. 7 to 9 points: You are an Expert. You've also been neglecting your job, your family, even Monday Night Football. Shame on you! 4 to 6 points: You are a Journeyman. You got a nice, safe score. You don't consume games, but games don't consume you. You consider yourself a sane, balanced individ- ual. How nice. You are secretly concerned, however, because both Michael Dukakis and George Bush got the same score you did. 1 to 3 points: You are a Novice. Perhaps you've been working a little too hard lately. Why not relax for a while with your favorite Amiga game? After all. you don't want to be laughed out of your next users' group meeting. points: You are a Rank Amateur. Your idea of a good time is using a spreadsheet to correlate your company's monthly sales fig- ures with the current "in" color for power ties. Loosen up, okay? D lies of games. You control a tank and want to capture the flag of your opponent (which can be the computer, another hu- man sitting nearby, or even someone play- ing by modem). The game sports very smooth-scrolling, detailed graphics, in- credible digitized battle sounds, and some of the best arcade action ever seen on a monitor. It's a winner. "The best part is running over people. They go splat and leave a red stain." —Bill Catchings ^} Chessmaster 2000 Strategy Electronic Arts $44.95 If chess is the best strategy game, then Chessmaster 2000 is the best computer version of chess, If a chess-playing op- tion exists, then it is probably included in Chessmaster 2000. Apart from its ex- cellent graphics and dozens of options, the program plays everything from a fair game (including an option that throws in random mistakes) all the way up to mas- ter-level play (it won a chess program tournament a few years back). If you like chess, then Chessmaster 2000 is die best of the lot. "Best chess-playing algorithm on any micro ever." — C.W. Mann %^ F/A-18 Interceptor Best Flight Simulator Electronic Arts $49.95 F/A-18 Interceptor is without doubt the fastest Slight simulator on the Amiga mar- ket. It is also the most fun. You have your choice of living the Navy F/A-18 Hornet or the Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon, tak- ing off from land or the deck of a carrier. There are multiple modes of plav. includ- ing Free Flight mode (where you are free to roam the skies), Practice mode (in which you are taught to execute incredi- ble aerodynamic maneuvers), and Combat mode (if you can qualify for the mission}. F/A-18 is not as complex a simulation as Flight Simulator II, but it is a far belter game. Like most of the Amiga's best games, it uses digitized sounds and excel- lent, high-speed graphics. "How do you slow this thing down?" — Lou Wallace »» ■12 November 1988 ■ ENCOUNTER HIGH SPEED ACTION IN AN INTELLIGENT GAME OF TACTICAL WARFARE. THE TIME: The 22nd Century. THE PLACE: 64 islands in the Southern Ocean. THE PROBLEM: A worldwide en- ergy crisis. THE MISSION: Gain control of the islands, set up centers to mine, recycle and produce materials to form a large network of power plants. JUST ONE MORE PROBLEM: Enemy terrorists are destroying the islands. . .one by one. FAST-PACED ARCADE AC- TION: You are in control of up to 4 aircraft and 4 amphibious vehi- cles simultaneously. Capture enemy islands and destroy its forces. STRATEGIC TACTICAL WAR- FARE: Conduct war maneuvers in a huge territory that includes over 60 islands. Protect your ship with defense drones and 360-degree turret mounted laser cannon with telephoto tracking. SENSATIONAL GRAPHICS: Three-dimensional solid filled graphics, smooth scrolling, fabu- lous sound and special effects. ADDICTIVE, HOURS OF PLAY: Your choice of action game or strategy game, plus save-game op- tion provides hours and hours of ex- traordinary adventure! REALTIME ^ -^-SOFTWARE \ j / ARRIER R A 1 N B I R D P.O. Box 2227, Menlo Park, CA 94026, 415/322-0900 Circle 179 on Reader Service card. HOW TO ORDEP; Visit your software dealer today, or call | BOO] 237690O*n)mU.S or Canada lor Vos MasterCard AmexorCO.D To ortier to nmil. sand check/nitxiey order Rainbird, PC Box 8123. San Francisco CA941PE CA add G% sales Utt and TX. add 71*% Shjpping/hanolnu is Sd 50 2-3 weeks lor dehery AVAILABLE: IBM CGA/EGA/VGA S39.95 Amigeand Atari 512K S44.D5 Macintosh 51SKS43 95 Corrmodore 64/1 2Q comng soot Rantsrd and RaintunJ logo an? trademarks ot British Telecommunications pi- Macintosh is a trademark licensed id Apple Computer, Inc. IBM. Commodore and Atari are registered trademarks ot tnternabonaS Business Macrires Corp Comm& done FJectroncs Ltd.. and Aran Corp.. respectively %£} Silent Service Best Action/Strategy MicroProse $39.95 You recreate several of ilie most suc- cessful American submarine patrols of World War II in this action-packed simu- lation of the war under the Pacific. Make the right strategic and tactical decisions and you come home a hero; slip up once, and its Davey Jones' Locker. If you like the challenge of lining up a shot on a juicy tanker while eight-inch shells hurst all around you and an enemy de- stroyer closes at 30 knots, you'll enjoy Si- lent Service. "Puts you squarely in the hot seat, just as a great simulation should." — Bob Ryan Vrif Bard's Tale II: Destiny Knight Best Role-Playing Adventure Electronic Arts $49.95 Bard's Tale II gives its adventurers much more of what they liked in the first Bard's Tale game. Besides impres- sive 3-D graphics and digitized sounds, you have more evil monsters, new magic spells and magic items, more dungeons and mazes, plus six cities and a wilder- ness to explore while you attempt lo find and reforge the Destiny Wand. You can import characters you created in Bard's Tale 1 with all their attibutes. The game is not protected, so you can install it on a hard drive, or play it from a RAM disk. This is an all around winner. "It's 3 AM. Do you know where your characters are?" — Lou Wallace fad**,***' 1 &JuJ^<^ 11 Asr &' (2dOLf^ \y Shanghai Best Strategy Mediagenic $39.95 Shanghai is one of those easy-to-learn solitaire games that become phenome- nally addictive. It is loosely based on the oriental game of rnah jongg (it uses mah- jongg tiles, but that is where the connec- tion ends). The tiles are laid in a com- plex pattern and you remove them in pairs. If you can remove them all, then you win — nothing fancy, good graphics. Shanghai does have that curious "just one more game" element that will leave you staring bleary-eyed at the screen well into the wee hours of the morning. "Its perfect for people who don't like computer games." — Shawn Laflamme ^^/ Earl Weaver Baseball Best Sports Game Electronic Arts $49.95 Although it includes an arcade option. this heavyweight simulation is not for joy- stick jockeys. Earl Weaver Baseball is the closest you'll ever get to managing a ma- jor-league baseball team. You can make all the moves available to the likes of Sparky Anderson and Tommy Lasorda, and you don't have to worry about being fired if you make too many wrong ones. The best feature of Earl Weaver Baseball is its abil- ity to let you and your friends create your own league with players chosen from the rosters of major-league teams. This game is a must for everyone who loves the sum- mer game. "The only game I'd pay 3(1 bucks for. All that's missing is the hot dogs." — Linda Barrett "My only complaint is how much of my life this one has claimed." — Bill Catchings ©.. Arkanoid Arcade Discovery Software International $29.95 If Arkanoid isn't the best arcade game for the Amiga, then it comes in a very close second. If you have played the ar- cade version of the game, then you have already played the computer version; they are almost identical. As in the old game of Breakout, you move a paddle across the bottom of the screen to de- fend against the ball getting by you and to bounce it back around the screen to destroy bricks. When you destroy all (he bricks on the screen, you move up to the next level. Of course, there is much more than that going on. Things drift around getting in the way, capsules de- scend that give your paddle special pow- ers, and each screen is configured in a different pattern. Quick reflexes and a touch of strategy' make this a game yoo must own. "The most fun I've had with a mouse." — Roger Goode »■ ■hi November 1988 Nimbus presents the first accounting program made exclusively for small businesses using the Amiga computer usiness, ot accountin The easy new accounting program for man- agers of small businesses who bate to do accounting. With all the other record keeping programs, you have to learn accounting. With Nimbus, you just start. It's available now — If your dealer can't deliver it immediately, give us a call. Simple Accounting has Arrived If you don't care how computer software works, only that it does work, this program is for you. Nimbus 1 does the accounting, you run your business. The pain of accounting is gone. What You now know about Accounting is enough. No enormous manuals here — our instruction booklet is only 1 2 pages long. 'Hie difference is dramatically easier, more enjoyable — even fun. R ECOR D FOR £ E EPING SMALL^USINESS AT last: Accounting Anyone Can do This is the first complete small business accounting software designed to take full advantage of the genius of the high speed Amiga computer. This is instructionless Accounting NIMBUS 1 requires no computer knowledge, no bookkeeping expertise. All of its functions are simple, self-explanatory, automatic — and fast. It's as easy as doing your checkbook. But don't confuse it with simple home budget programs. NIMBUS 1: first, fastest And The most fun With NIMBUS I, all the accounting functions are running concurrently. You just click on the mouse and move into a new function. Printing does not delay or interfere with other functions. The screens are uncluttered, using colors from the Amiga pallet. Amiga dealers find that demonstrating accounting with NIMBUS 1 on the Amiga computer is actually fun. RUN YOUR OWN NUMBERS ON NIMBUS 1 TODAY This is software you can use right now. Visit your Amiga dealer and try it. If NIMBUS I is not in stock, call us collect. We will rush a copy to you and your dealer. Cost: only $149.50 complete with its executive zippered notebook You can order by phone FEATURES OF THE NEW PROGRAM INCLUDE: General, receivable and payable accounts are all interactive. Built-in ready to run chart of accounts and reports. Accounts kept on a cash basis. You know when customers pay you, not when they are supposed to. Equity and retained earnings accounts maintained automatically. Automatic computing of month-end and year- end closings. Prints invoices one at a time immediately, or later in a batch. Do three things at once. Each function has its own screen and you have instant access to each. All printing done in background, so you continue without interruption as your printer turns out reports. Daily, weekly, monthly and annual on-screen status reports. Programs and data require only one disk. Four color WYSIWYG input screens ran be edited at any time. Make changes easily without a separate journal. No customer or vendor numbers to key in. One keystroke and one mouse-click gets any name from hundreds in less than half a second. Automatic pop-up mini-menus guide users through each function. Balance sheet, income statement, accounts receivable and accounts payable aging/status reports printed any time and automatically at end of montii. Sold without copy protection for user convenience. OXXI inc. P.O. Box 4000 Fullerton, CA 92634 (714) 999-6710 ewe s on Reader Sen™ card Amiga is a registered trademark of Commodore/Amiga, Inc. ftt^ntur- !£*#-/ Qj Emerald Mine Best Arcade Game Best Game Constellation Software $19.95 Emerald Mine is the firs I Amiga game thai will go clown in history as an arcade classic'. Il is noi a simple shooi'em-up, re- flex-style arcade game; instead, it is a series of complex but clever tasks that involve both speed and strategy from the play- ers. The basic idea is to mine each level of its emeralds and diamonds, avoiding nicks, bombs, bugs, slime, sand, robots and traps. With over 100 levels, il is fun for people of all ages. Highly addicting! "After 562 plays and 23 levels, I still can't get enough." — Bob Rvan "Can someone tell me how to get past level 17?" — A voice in the crowd at the Amiga Developers Conference. "Out of lime! Stupid game. I'll jusr play a few more hours." — Guy Wright "Put a noisy bar around this game and a beer in my hand. and I'll be in heaven." — Roger Goode ■ Product Information Access Software Cinemaware Infocom Omnitrend Software 2561 S. 1560 W. 4165 Thousand Oaks Blvd. 125 CambridgePark Dr. P.O. Box 733 Wood Cross, UT 84087 Westlake Village, CA 91362 Cambridge, MA 02140 West Simsbury, CT 1)6092 801/298-9077 805/495-6515 617/492-6000 203/658-6917' 800/824-2549 Constellation Software Mediagenic PAR Software Inc. Accolade 17 St. Mary's Ct. 388 Bohannon Dr. P.O. Box 1089 550 S. Winchester Blvd. Brookline, MA 02146 Menlo Park, CA 91025 Vancouver, WA 98666 Suite 200 617/731-8187 415/329-0800 206/695-1368 San Jose, CA 95128 408/985-8400 Discovery Software International Microlllusions Rainbird 163 Conduit St. 17408 Chatswoi lb St distributed by Mediagenic Actionware Inc. Annapolis, MD 21401 Granada Hills, CA 91344 see address above 38 W. 255 Deerpath Rd. 301/268-9877 818/360-3715 Batavia, IL 60510 80 0/34- AMIGA 800/522-2041 Sierra On-Line 312/879-8998 distributed by Electronic Arts Electronic Arts MicroProse see address above Anco 1820 Gateway Dr. 180 Lakefront Dr. P.O. Box 292 San Mateo, CA 94404 Hunt Valley, MD 21030 Strategic Simulations Inc. Burgettstown, PA 15021 415/571-7171 301/771-1151 1046 N. Rendstorff Ave. 412/947-3739 Mountain View, CA 94043 800/992-9198 Epyx Mindscape 415/964-1353 P.O. Box 8020 3444 Dundee Rd. Bethesda Softworks Redwood City, CA 94063 Northbrook, IL 60062 subLOGIC Corp. 9208 Burning Tree Rd. 415/366-0606 312/480-7667 713 Edgebrook Dr. Bethesda, MD 20817 Champaign, IL 61820 301/469-7061 217/359-8482 46 November 1988 new release rrom Lattice who brought you the better C: A ■ l v BorTs "Wr.,! • Tf - W **- » j ' tm " I. ~~ J " i_ ' Lattice isa registered trademark of Lattice. Incorporated Am iga is a trademark of Commodore-Amiga. Inc. STARRING OBJECT ORIENTED. A FIRST FOR YOUR OBJECT ORIENTED AMIGA! LIFE SPRINGS FROM YOUR SCREEN WITH THIS HIGHER LEVEL OF PROGRAMMING! PRODUCE MORE RELIABLE PROGRAMS WITH FEWER KEYSTROKES & LESS EFFORT! HIDE YOUR DATA TO PROTECT IT! BUILD ONE TYPE ON ANOTHER TYPE! DEFINE A GENERIC THEN REDESIGN SPECIFICS WITHOU T MA KING THE PROGRAM FAIL! TRUE DATA ABSTRACTION TO AID IN PORTABILITY AND PROGRAM SIMPLICITY! OVERLOAD OPERATORS AND FUNCTIONS! COMPLEX ARITHMETIC LOOKS LIKE PART OF THE LANGUAGE! Now at a software supplier near you! Lattice Subsidiary of SAS Institute Inc. Lattice, Incorporated 2500 S. Highland Awmie Lombard, II. 60 IIK Phone: 800/533-3577 In Illinois: 312/916-1600 VANQUISHING THE VIRUSES While we may not have all the resources of Atlanta's Center for Disease Control, AmigaWorld has collected some proven cures and sound preventive techniques to help you stop the dread Amiga viruses in their tracks. Y By Louis R. Wallace OUR SON COMES home from school with the flu. "It's going around my class," he says. At breakfast, his little sister snitches a drink of his orange juice. Soon she is sneezing and wheezing. You tuck her in bed with Iter tissues and get a big thank-you kiss. You kiss your spouse and climb in bed, A few days later, the only one in the house who does not have a fever and a stuffed-tip head is your Amiga, Far from immune, your Amiga isjust as vulnerable to computer viruses, hidden programs that replicate themselves on to disks and damage or destroy data. Just as your son's playmates innocently shared their lunches and colds, members of your users' group could be unwittingly infecting your system by sharing public-domain disks. While there are only partial cures for the various virus strains, by learning their symptoms you can protect yourself and stop the spread. Medical History Not only the Amiga has fallen ill with viruses. Every major computer has been subject to programs that remain hidden until some event triggers them. Pro- grammers almost always leave some sort of calling card in their programs. Even the developers of the Amiga operating system added messages that appear in the Workbench menu bar only when you press a certain set of keys. The difference between these message programs and viruses, however, is like the difference between a cup of coffee and a cup of coffee with arsenic. In addition to leaving messages, viruses can destroy data, reformat drives, and replicate them- selves to multiple disks. The IBM PC has fallen prey to more software evils than you can count. Besides viruses, IB.VIs are beset with worms (which slowly destroy data on a disk or in memory), tapeworms (which get bigger and bigger, clogging RAM and disk space), and trojan horses (which appear to be helpful programs but actually are destructive). Since late 1987, the Amiga has been plagued by five major viruses — SCA, Byte Bandit, Revenge, Byte Warrior, and North Star — and multiple mutants. The most common methods of passing the infection are by swapping disks at users' group meetings and buy- ing public-domain disks. Flu on a Floppy: SCA Created by software pirates, the Swiss Cracking As- sociation (SCA), the SCA virus resides on the boot blocks (sectors and 1) of Workbench disks. These sectors house code used to initialize various Amiga- DOS routines and have enough room left over for small routines, such as copy-protection schemes and viruses. When you boot a disk, the operating system copies the contents of the boot block into memory. Once loaded into memory, the SCA virus protects itself from being overwritten by normal Amiga ac- tions, not too difficult on a multitasking system. It lurks in the background, not as an active task but as a dormant malignancy waiting until you insert a new disk and reboot (press CTRL-LEFT-AMIGA-RIGHT- AMIGA). During the warm boot, it protects itself from being removed from memory by the startup activity and rewrites the Workbench disk's boot block, re- placing the contents with a version that includes the virus boot code. If the disk is write-protccted, the virus cannot install itself, and the disk is unharmed. Rewriting the boot block is the most dangerous i AmigaWorld 49 T he Byte Bandit virus will even write to non- bootable disks. aspect of the SCA virus. Because the copyprotection routines of commercial disks often occupy the boot block, any alteration of sectors and 1 can corrupt a disk so you cannot load its software. Each time the SCA virus successfully procreates, it increments its internal counter. When it spawns a predetermined number of replicas (the exact number varies from one mutant strain to another), the virus displays a message .such as "Your Amiga is alive, and it has spread the news to a tot of your other disks!" You do not have to wait until the virus announces its presence to find out if a disk is infected. Several public-domain programs detect viruses. Descriptions of the various programs follow. To quickly check for the SCA virus, hold down the left mouse button while you reboot. If the screen turns green, the boot disk is infected. Curing the SCA virus is simple once vou know which disks carry it. Rewrite the infected disks' boot blocks with the AmigaDOS INSTALL command. Start vsilh die power off and boot your Amiga (a cold boot) with a wrile-protectcd Workbench disk that you know is clean (uninfected). Open a CLI window, insert the infected disk into dfl: and type: INSTALL dfl: To install disks on a single-drive system, type INSTALL ? while the Workbench disk is in the drive. Replace it with the infected disk, type DFO:, then press RETURN. Repeat the process for all your infected disks, ex- cept commercial disks. Running INSTALL on com- mercial disks with custom boot blocks is as dangerous as picking up a virus. By installing (rewriting) the boot block, you not only write over the virus, but over the necessary custom information as well. Extremely Contagious: Byte Bandit Nastier than its SCA predecessor, the Byte Bandit virus most likely comes from Canada. Like the SCA virus, the Byte Bandit virus infects a disk's boot block and loads into memory when you boot with an in- fected disk. The Byte Bandit does not passively wait for you to warm boot before spreading. Instead, when a drive's trackdisk device detects that you have in- serted a disk, the Byte Bandit writes its corrupted boot block to the new disk. The virus will even write to non-bootable disks and destroy all data stored in sectors and 1. Infected data disks also can spread the virus if you try to boot from them. The INS TALL vaccine is useless while your computer is infected; the virus will reinfect a disk as soon as AmigaDOS finishes installing it. To immunize your disks, write protect them. After infecting a set number of disks, the virus crashes your Amiga. No guru message appears, and the machine freezes with a blank screen until you reboot or turn the computer off and on. The crashes happen on schedule, about every six minutes, al- though mutants could have a different interval. You do not have to lose your work when the machine crashes. You can escape from a lockup without re- booting your system. (See "The Creator Is the Killer," p. 10 of the September '88 issue of AmigaWorld.) If you press in order: LEFT-ALT, LEFT-AMIGA, SPACEBAR. RIGHT- AMIGA, RIGHT-ALT the computer will unlock long enough for you to save your work before rebooting. Be warned: Because no disks at AmigaWorld have been infected by the Byte Bandit virus, I have not tested this procedure. The five-key sequence might not work, or it might do more damage, but if it is your only hope of saving a day's w-ork, it is worth a try. Unlike the SCA virus with its screen color trick, the Byte Bandit's only obvious sign is the computer's rhythmic crashes. If you are experiencing frequent or suspicious failures, get a virus-checking program to confirm the diagnosis. To erradicate infection, cold boot with a disk you know is clean. Run INSTALL no all infected disks dial do not have a custom boot block. More Headaches Although not the most dangerous, the Revenge virus is the crudest of the group. Similar to the Bvle Bandit virus, this infection's most obvious symptom is that it turns your mouse pointer into a phallus. You can destroy the virus in memory by plugging a joystick in port two, and pressing the fire button while re- booting. As confirmation, the screen will turn red. Cure the infected disks with INSTALL. fhe Byte Warrior virus is similar to the Byte Bandit strain, but has an additional interesting feature. If the virus is in memory and vou attempt to boot with an SCA-infected disk, the Byte Warrior will flash the power light and beep. Like the SCA virus, the North Star virus infects only boot disks, Like the Byte Warrior virus, it can detect the presence of other viruses in boot blocks. A polite virus, North Star will even display an Alert message telling you that the disk is infected. The North Star and Byte Warrior viruses are at- tempts to light lire with fire. They will warn you of the presence of a virus, but they themselves are in- fectious and can be damaging. None of these viruses are capable of self mutation or random alterations. Mutant strains are the result of programmers altering the original virus code, usu- ally the text message the virus displays. Variations on the SCA virus include the LSD and AEK viruses: there are undoubtedly others. Harbingers of Doom Like fanatics toting signs proclaiming "The end of the world is upon us!", members of the Amiga com- munity are spreading unfounded rumors about new, deadlier viruses. One such tale of terror is about a Clock virus that supposedly resides in some free RAM in the Amiga 2000's built-in clock. The clock has no » 50 November 1988 One Bushman against every hood, mugger and punk in the city park. Unfair odds? "struth" which are spoken in a broad Oztraiian accent. Boomcraid is set to take the I world by storm. The strength of the program is enough to 1 sell the machine it is displayed on. has been snapped up by the Americans and is about to start selling in Australia. If one word is needed to^ describe this product, it is — I excellent. — Mark Lindane SUNDAY TIMES, MAY 1 5, 1 988 Too right! But then again HAPPINESS IS A WARM BOOMERANG. Introducing a new and deadly weapon, with the most sophisticated flight path control system ever implemented. BOOMERAID - FRESH SOFTWARE FOR FRESH MINDS. Box 291, Claremont 6010 Dealers and Distributors write to: \ TSA MEDIA PTY. LTD. Western Australia r or Fax (619| 383 1612 Circle 223 on Reader Service card. N ew virus mutations and infections are almost inevitable. free RAM. At best, an offending program could set a few unused bits (not bytes). The right combination of bits could cause the clock to stop. With the 1.2 operating system, you cannot correctly reset the bits without removing the clock's battery. Under the proper circumstances, some software that depends on the clock could experience problems. To prevent this fictional virus from becoming a reality. Com- modore has set those bits in version 1.3 of the op- erating system. Rumormongers have also mentioned a virus that infects Amiga hard-disk drives. I could not find any- one who had encountered such a virus. The most exotic rumor describes a virus that attacks disks on both the Amiga and IBM sides of the Bridge- board system. While an imaginative story, there is no truth to it. A Shot in the Disk Drive: Virus Vaccination If you have been spared from exposure so far, you can take some precautions to stay immune. Always boot from a clean Workbench disk. To be sine your boot disk is clean, write protect your original Workbench disk. Cold boot from your clean, write-protected Work- bench original. Copy the clean disk and write protect the new Workbench disk. From now on, only boot from the clean, write-protected disk. Never warm boot, if you can avoid it. Turn off vour computer, wait, and turn it on before changing applications. You can easily find virus-protection programs on bulletin boards, on-line networks (GENIE, BIX, COMPUSERVE, and so on), public-domain disks, and in disk-based magazines. JumpDisk (1493 Ml. View Ave., Chtco, CA 95926, 916/343-7658) has been a leader in supplying quality virus-detection programs. The programs listed below are from reputable au- thors and are freely distributable. Be careful, the Amiga is not free from trojan horses. One of the first virus-detection programs (from Europe) places a mu- tant on the disk it is checking. Only use software you have gotten from reputable sources. •VCHECK1.9 (Bill Koester, Commodore Amiga Technical Support): detects both SCA and Byte Ban- dit strains •VIRUSX 1.6 (Steve Tibbett, Gloucester, Ontario): runs in the background and checks for viruses as each disk in inserted; very likely the single best weapon in your anti-viral arsenal •VIEWBOOT (Brian Meadows, Huntsville, Ala- bama): allows you to examine a disk's boot sector for messages; can be used to examine the Amiga's RAM •INSTALL (Commodore Amiga Technical Sup- port): 1.3 version of the INSTALL command, with the syntax INSTALL CHECK, reports if it finds a non-standard boot block Discovery Software International (163 Conduit St., Annapolis, MD 21401 , 800/342-6442) offers VIP-Virus Infection Protection (S49.95). Anticipating the de- velopment of unknown virus strains, VIP lets you store the boot blocks of your programs in a special database. You insert a new program disk into a drive, VIP reads the boot block, stores away a copy, and gives you a report. If your disk is later infected and will not run, VIP will restore the boot block to its original state. VIP does not promise to solve every problem, but it could rescue your custom boot blocks from premature demise. Where viruses are concerned, always assume a disk is infected until proven clean. Check all new disks with a virus-detection program. Never boot with an unknown clisk. If you must boot with a disk before checking it. do not put any write-enablcd disks in the drives. Most importantly, make backups of your software. If you are struck down, you can recover the damaged data. RECUPERATING: LEGALLY ENTITLED While the virus creators are not doing anything strictly illegal, many victims feel they should be held responsible for damages. The Software Development Council of North America (SDC, with over 1000 soft- ware companies as members) has declared war on virus makers. It is developing programming techniques to ward off the dangers of virus pro- grams, as well as drafting anti-virus legislation. SDC lawyers in Pala Alto, Minneapolis, and Chicago are working to legally define a computer virus and to convince slates lo adopt penalties for virus creation and distribution. While software companies are beginning the legal battles, several companies have inadvertently sent out Amiga programs that were infected. Obviously, the manufacturers did not intend to do so, and fell victim to the common enemy. All software companies must take strong measures to ensure the quality and in- tegrity of their products. Quality-assurance programs are standard in other industries; the software market should be no exception. Long Term Care As with the ever changing flu strains, new virus mu- tations and infections are almost inevitable. Take the appropriate precautions and your computer should stay healthy. The task we face as users is to protect ourselves as much as possible. If you contract a new virus, let us know at AmigaWorld. We will spread the word on the symptoms and how to protect your computer. ■ Louis R. Wallace is a contributing editor to Amiga World Write to him do Amiga World Editorial, 80 Elm St., ft- terborough, NH 03458. The author would like to thank Chris Halsall (Late Nile Development Corporation), Carolyn Scheppner (CATS), Joanne Dow (BIX), Jack Eakins (Discov- ery Software), Brian Meadows (atithor of ViewBoot), and Steve Tibbit (author of VirusX) for their invaluable assis- tance in preparing this article. 52 November 1988 WHAT MAKES A MEGA-HIT? Intensity. You've seen arcade games evolve, and you demand state-of-the-art gaming. HYBRIS is so bold, so new, so incredibly filled with arcade action, it qualifies as the vertical shoot-em up game that will power you into the 21st century. HYBRIS marks the beginning of a completely new era of mega-hits. You do more than Just play HYBRIS. You immerse yourself in action! , -v~ 1, Face arracks from 24 different alien ships as blast your way through three long playing levels, unparalleled in graphics and animation- ^Hv mxj&ixxitkixMw W in* ■•--■•- Strike special targets to _' give your cruiser added ^ v dimensions— unbelievable firepower, extra missies, an invincible. mode and -*""'■'- T ,.^i Expe... from the command center of tl different ships- mechanized for meg blasting! .BRSS. . . e're assuming you're >w you must prove it. DISCOVERY O I ) 2 6 8-9877 FAX: (301) 268-2367 Ocie 89 on Readef Service card. Amiga Makes It Possible . . . Desktop Video. Studio quality video production on a desktop. The Amiga makes it possible. The SuperGen Genlock makes it happen! Video Professionals understand the power the Amiga Computer brings to the industry and the potential it has for enhancing their work. With its revolutionary hi-resolution graphics and processing power, the Amiga represents a sophisticated video production solution. The SuperGen Genlock and overlay device is the link between the Amiga's video potential and your own video productions. SuperGen allows you to create and produce professional broadcast quality video with special effect graphics and titles created on your Amiga. Some SuperGen™ features: True Broadcast quality video output. Real RS-170A. No ifs, ands or buts! Accurately locks to non-time base corrected signals such as VCR output. Very accurate RGB encoder for true Amiga graphic colors. Two independent fade controls. For external video through background and external video through graphics. Slider or software controllable. Selectable Auto-Fade mode. Amiga graphics black level fade. The black level of the Amiga graphics determine the fade level. Switchable 3.58Mhz Notch filter. helps eliminate chroma artifacts. Selectable blanking. Internal or external. BNC Connectors. A500, 1000, and 2000 compatible. SuperGen™ $749.95 Professional Genlock by Progressive Image Technology SuperGen Mokes it Happen! Actual un-retouched photographs of composite video screens. The flower is live video, the Butterfly is created on the Amiga. SuperGen is overlaying the Butterfly onto the flower. The top sequence shows Amiga graphics fading in. The bottom sequence shows the Amiga background fading in. To order or for more information Call: (916) 344-4825 2865 Sunrese Blvd JJJJ_J_J_L JILLLLL Digital ssr« «-iH±y creations Rancho Cordova, CA 95742 JlLLLLL Circle 28 on Reader Service DaTtf. ARexx: New Kingpin of Multitasking? Just as mighty T.rex came to rule his Cretaceous habitat, ARexx, a new high-level macro language, is rapidly evolving as a dominant force in the Amiga's multitasking environment. By W. Jeffrey Blume RUNNING SEVERAL INDEPENDENT programs at the same time means multitasking, right? But what about running those programs simultaneously and combining selected components from each to form one completely new and distinct application? That's multitasking with ARex\. With ARexx, a high-level, interpreted language for macro programs, you can customize applica- tions to form integrated systems incorporating the most useful features of several different programs, faking compatible modular software and using ARexx as the "glue," you could assemble your ideal desktop-publishing system, for example, by combin- ing the page formatter from one program, (he graphics editor from another and the text editor from a third. What sets ARexx apart from other macro interpreters, such as the AmigaDOS EXE- CUTE command, is its ability to interface with appropriately written ARexx host programs, ex- panding their capabilities and making diverse ap- plications appear as one integrated system. Many software packages include built-in macro capabilities that let you expand and configure the programs to your needs. A common macro language {such as ARexx) could save programmers time and between 50K and 60K of code. Several pro- grams currently support ARexx. including AmigaTEX (public domain), C.A.P.E. - 68K (In- ovatronics), TxEd Plus (Microsmiths). VLT (public domain), and WShell (William S. Hawes) MicroFiche Eiler Plus (Software Visions), Amic Term (Amic Development Corp.), and A-Talk 01 (Oxxi) will support ARexx in upgrades. Build a Better Language Authored and distributed by William S. liawes ARexx is based on the REXX language de- signed by IBM's Michael Cowlishaw for multi- tasking mainframe systems. The Amiga version closely follows Cowlishaw's original defini- tion of the REXX language. It lias a small set of straight- i AmigaWorld 55 •^:': ; :v: : : : :': : :- : *-: : : : : : :WxjS SSx':'' :*!te »»:s»x«4K» ■ H "-^-;^.v.v.-^ - * > > - forward instructions, IK , .THEN, . .ELSE, DO. . . FOR. . .WHILE. . .UNTIL, and so on. Data is type- less in ARexx. You do not need to declare variables prior :rds(readht(CountMe)) end call close CountMe /* CLOSE needed for DELETE command, otherwise ARexx would clean up */ address command 'delete ramxountme.txed' 56 November 1988 When it's all been done — You define the The first game with / 'HAM Mode" Graphics for the Amiga L BROUGHT TO YOU BY u i for Pioneer Plague, only $39.95, at yoiir uarite computer store, or All 800-234-^01 Pioneer Probe Mark IV: the answer to planetary over- population. A self -replicating, terra-forming robotic space- ship. At first, it worked like a dream. But then, something went wrong. And now, it's out of control, mindlessly spewing its destructive offspring throughout the galaxy. 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'Amigj i\i r**ti»*r*rJtT4di'iii.irk of Amiuj-Cnntiuodnrr tn,- /* Open ConMan console and report result */ call open io,"coj);175/iH()/275/70/WordCount/C'',A /* C for Close gadget */ call writeln io,"" /* blank line */ call writeln io,"WORDCOUNT = " || wc call writeln io,"" /* blank line, *l call writeln io,"(Press return to close window!)" call readln io I* wait for return *l /* ARexx will close (lie console and otherwise clean up */ By adding die commands: 'MAC W WordCoum' I* A MACro ctrl-key *l 'MENU 5 "WordCoum Cirl-W" "WordCount"' (* A custom menu item */ to a special configuration file, Startup.lxed {itself an ARexx program), you can call WordCoum from a custom menu item or control key. Because the ARexx language is implemented as a shared library, rexxsyslib. library, you can run sev- eral ARexx programs simultaneously, using a mini- mum of RAM. You will need less than 40K to install the resident processes; additional ARexx programs need only about f>K apiece. Type REX XM AST to load the interpreter; to run a pro- gram from the CLE type RX plus the name of a macro program ami its arguments. Engraved Invitations Implementing ARexx support in an application can require as few as 10 lines of code. The essen- tials of the command interface are a public mes- sage port and a routine to handle messages from ARexx. The Amiga's operating system supplies the basic tools — 23mEXEC message ports and EXEC messages. For most applications, you will need only two special structures, RexxMsg and RexxArg. Rexx.Msg is an extension of the standard EXEC message; RexxArg is a structure for passing string arguments to external programs and is passed as a pointer to the string buffer (argstring). (See Table I.) The rexxsvslib. library offers various functions for handling these structures. The ARexx distribution disk contains Include, Header, and Definition files to access RexxMsg and RexxArg from assembly, C, and Benchmark Modula-2. If you need help, the disk includes short examples of how to create ARexx hosts in these languages. Io pass command messages between ARexx .Hid a host application, the host needs a public message port. Because most programs have several ports for input and output, system messages, and so on. you will have to write little additional code. You must, however, initialize all RexxMsg structures, but us- ►- Table 1. ARexx Structures struct RexxMsg { struct Message rm_Node; APTR rm_TaskBlock; APTR rm_LibBase; LONG rm Action; LONG nn Result 1; LONG rm_Resuli2; STRPTR rm Args[16]; struct MsgPort *nn_PassPort; STRPTR rm_CommAddr STRPTR rm_FileExt; LONG rm_Stdin; LONG rm_Stdout; LONG rm_avail; struct RexxArg { LONG ra_Size; UWORD ra_ Length; UBYTE ra—Flags; UBYTE ra_Hash; BYTE ra_JBuffI8]; /* EXEC message structure */ /* pointer to global structure */ I'' ARexx library base */ /* command (action) code */ /* primary result (return code) */ I* secondary result */ /* argument block (ARG0-ARG15) *l I* forwarding port */ /* host address (port name) */ /* file extension */ /* input stream (filehandle) *l I* output stream (filehandle) */ /* future expansion */ /* size: 128 bytes */ /* total allocated length */ /* length of string */ /* attribute flags */ /* hash code */ I* buffer area */ /* size: 16 bytes (minimum) */ 58 November 1988 WE'VE CAST A NEW LIGHT ON THE GAME OF CHESS. j 1 ■ 'Mfm he challenge and intensity of chess is now heightened by three dimensional combat. The chessmen are alive, reacting to your every move— Battle Chess, the exciting alternative to a board game with emotionless magnetic pieces. With Interplay's new creation, Battle Chess, every strategic, calculated move you make is a dramatic one- "knight sallies forth and slays the foul foot soldier." Battle Chess combines chess' logic system with color, action, excitement, and character. Complete with sound effects, this game brings life and action to the game. D o assure constant playing challenge, Battle Chess includes: • Ten levels of difficulty • Play against the computer or your friends, or let the computer play against itself • Modem capability to link players in remote locations • Over 4 megabytes of animation • Opening library of 30,000 moves • Over 200K of digitized sound effects With Battle Chess, technology keeps pace with adventure. Now available for the Amiga. Coming soon for the Apple GS and IBM/Tandv. Tandy hi a trademark of Tandy Cnrpertdlnn. ItJ.M UJ a tcademark of Internalional Busings Machines Arnica jy a trademark nf Commodnny Huyines* Machine*. Apple |« a trademark ol Apple Computer Inc. Interplay Productions, 1575 Corporate Drive, Cosla Mesa, CA 92626, (714)549-2411 If you can't find BATTLE CHESS at a local dealer you can order direct at 1-800-227-6900. Circle 185 on Reader Service card. ing the CreateRexxMsg( ) function in the rexxsys- lib. library accomplishes tills easily. For example: rexxmsgptr = CreateRexxMsg(replyport, extension, host) Host points to a message port from which tire mes- sage is sent. A required argument, replyport, points to the port to which lite message packet is returned to the sender. Hxiension is a default file name suffix ARexx adds automatically to a file name passed in the command string, allowing you to identify which ap- plication a macro belongs to. When run from the CL1, ARexx macros, for example, will find pro- grams with the extension .rexx, without requiring you to enter .rexx on the command line. Similarly, YLT looks automatically for macros with the exten- sion .VLT. For straight communications, you should set the rni_Action Held to RXCOMM, but several other command codes are available. The additional codes let you specify the message as a function invoca- tion, an entry to the internal Library List, or a re- quest to open the global tracing console. A command code can even include modifier flags for parsing the command siring, requesting results from function invocations, and so on. When a host application receives a command from ARexx, it uses the rm_Resultl field to report the success of the operation requested, or. if it failed, the severity of the error (the return code). ARexx then assigns the value of rm_Rcsulll to a special variable, RO. ARexx macro programs test RC and react appropriately. Use the nn_Resull2 field to return the result of function invocations. The ARC III field contains the actual command in the form of a RexxArg structure. You can initialize this structure with the CrealeArgstring( ) function from the rexxsyslib.librarv. The allocation and as- signment take the following form: rexxmsgptr - >rm_Args(0] = CreatcArgstring (string.lenglh) Depending on the direction of communication, string can be a macro (and its arguments) you wisli to execute or a command for a host application. lx-ngth is the length of the string [strlenfstring)]. The function returns a pointer to the buffer in which the string is stored. Once you initialize the RexxMsg you can send it to any ARexx host, including the ARexx resident process, through the public message port, RKXX. Other typical names for host ports include CAPE for C.A.P.E.- 68K, TxF.d Plus 1/c for TxF.d Plus, and WSH_1 for WShell. You can find a pointer to a port with the EXEC function FindPort( ). To get a pointer to RF.XX type: rexxport = FindPort(RXSDIR) t* RXSD1R is defined in the file rxslib.h as REXX *i To send the message, use the EXEC function PutMsg( ): PutMsg(rexxport, rexxmsgptr) *- Product Information ARexx TxEd Plus William S. Howes Microsmitks Inc. P.O. Box 308 P.O. Box 561 Maynard, MA 01754 Cambridge, MA 02140 617/568-8(595 617/354-1224 $49.95 $79.95 VLT ARexx Compatible Programs: available on most networks AmigaTEX For a listing of networks, see "The Right Radical Eye Software Connections," p. 31, in the April '88 issue of P.O. Box 2081 AmigaWorld. Stanford, CA 94305 415/326-5312 WShell William S. 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LAS VEGAS, DV 89121 Be sure to enclose the calls to FindPort( ) and PutMsgl ) with calls to the EXEC functions Forbid( ) and Penni(( ), so that the destination port does not close between the time FindPort( ) returns the pointer and l'utMsg( ) sends the message. Unwelcome Guests If you have problems programming in ARexx, you will appreciate its single-stepped, source-level de- bugger and I he command utilities that let you con- trol the debugger's output and regain control of programs that have run amok. You can place the TRACE instruction in the source code to activate various debugging levels. To force active ARexx programs into the interactive trace mode, use the TS command. The HI command halts all active ARexx programs. The ICC) command will open a standard console window and redirect the debug- ger's output to that window. In interactive mode. ARexx programs pause after executing each statement, letting you enter ARexx clauses on the fly. ARexx also provides interrupt facilities to trap program errors, and external breaks, such as CTRI.-C. You can use the SIGNAL command and its arguments to specify which errors to trap, as well as (he labels of error handlers to which con- trol may be passed. The best way to understand ARexx is to see it in action. Fancvdemo.c (see Listing I ) is a simple rexx host that can send and receive messages from ARexx; tcstdciuo.rexx, an ARexx program, accom- panies it (sec Listing 2). For additional illustrations, see RexxTools. a set of examples for interfacing to ARexx, in the public domain. While it needs to gain wider acceptance, ARexx and modular software offer numerous benefits for users. For developers, ARexx provides a method of adding a maximum amount of expansibility, with a minimum of development effort. ■ W. Jeffery lilume is a freelance photographer, writer, graphics designer, and fire fighter. Write to him at l'() Box 167!, Fort Collins, CO 80522. Listing 1. fancydemo.c / IT*************************************************** fancydemo.c - A fancy rexx host that can send and receive messages . Author - Gary Samad & Bill Hawes Revisions : 7-Mar-88 Original version. 16-Mar-88 Added result string return (tinclude < libraries/dos .h> ((include < libraries/dosextens . h> ((define YES ((define NO jfdef ine OK #define NOTOK ((define EOS 1 '\0' ((define NO_REXX_MSG "Rexx is not active. Please run 'rexxmast' from another CLI.\n" ((define STARTOP_MSG "Type commands to rexx. Type EOF (~\\) to end.\n" ((define CLOSING_MSG "Ok, we're closing (after all rexx messages have returned) . \n" #define WINDOW^SPEC "CON: 0/10/600/60/Fancy Demo Input Window/c" ((define HOST_PORT_NAME "FancyDemo" ((define REXX_EXTENSION "rexx" ((define BUFFLEN 100 /* THIS NAME MUST BE RexxSysBase FOR THE GLUE ROUTINES */ struct RxsLib *RexxSysBase = NULL; /* this is the rexx library base */ int outstanding_rexx_commands = 0; BPTR window_f ile_handle = NULL; struct MsgPort »dos_reply_port = NULL; struct StandardPacket *dos_message = NULL; struct MsgPort *rexx_port = NULL; main ( ) { struct Message *GetMsg(); BPTR open_window( ) ; struct MsgPort *setup_dos^reply_port ( ) ; struct MsgPort *setup_rexx_port( ) ; struct StandardPacket *setup_dos_message( ) ; void send_read_packet( ) ; int send_rexx_command( ) ; void execute_command( ) ; void reply_rexx_command( ) ; void free_rexx_command( ) ; int packet_out = NO; /* whether a READ is outstanding */ char buff [BUFFLEN+1]; /* used for reading user input */ struct RexxMsg "rexxmessage; /* incoming rexx messages */ int close_down = NO; /* set when the user hits EOF */ /* open a window to talk to the user through */ if ( (window_f ile_handle = open_window( ) ) == NULL) { printf( "sorry, couldn't open a CON: window\n"); close_up_shop( 10) ; ) /* set up a port for dos replys */ if ( (dos_reply_port = setup_dos_reply_port ( ) ) =- NULL) { printf( "sorry , can't set up dos_reply_port\n" ) ; close_up_shop( 10 ) ; 1 /* set up a public port for rexx to talk to us */ if ((rexx_port = setup_rexx_port( ) ) == NULL) { printf ( "can' t set up a public rexx port\n"); close_up_shop( 10) ; } /* set up a dos packet for the asynchronous read from the window */ if ( (dos_message = setup_dos_message( ) ) == NULL) ( printf ( "sorry , no memory for dos packet\n"); close_up_shop ( 10 ) ; } Write(window_file_handle,STARTUP_MSG, (long)sizeof (STARTUPJ4SG) ); /* loop until quit and no messages outstanding */ Listing continued on p. 1 12 62 November 1 988 PUBLICATION DATE-OCTOBER 17, 1988 Harness the power of your Amiga — Learn to use AmigaDOS and the CD- Become an Amiga power user — With THE AMIGA COMPANION by Rob Peck THE AMIGA COMPANION, a new book from AmigaWorld magazine, is your comprehensive guide to AmigaDOS and the CLI. 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Hardware will be replaced or repaired at our discretion within the terms and limits of the manufacturer's warranty. We cannot guarantee compatibility. All sales are final and returned shipments are subject to a restocking fee. 3S10 Circle 41 on Reader Service card iiifophile Exploring AmigaDOS 1.3* Part IV By Mark L. Van Name and Bill Catchings Our columnists show their expertise in a very new version of a very old game — the "Shell Game" to bep-ecise — as they continue Oieir foray into AmigaDOS 1.3's new commands. No, there aren't any peas under thhnbles here, but you will still learn a few tricks once you master 1.3's new Shell. *Editor's Note: To get the information on ver- sion 1.3 to you as quickly as possible, the au- thors have had to use a "gamma" version of AmigaDOS 1.3. A gamma version is one that Commodore circulates to developers and a few other groups so that those groups can see what's roming and help shake out any hugs. It is the last unofficial release before the software hits your dealer's shelves. Most likely, the final version will have the same new CL I commands as this gamma version, but Commodore still could make some changes before it releases the final version. To be safe, when you buy a copy of version 1.3, plan to spend a few minutes verifying that everything works as it is de- scribed here. IN OUR LAST column we mentioned an AmigaDOS 1.3 addition, the Shell, that frequent CLI users will love. This time we examine the Shell in detail. Shell Basics Think of the Shell as a souped-up CLI. It lets you enter and execute commands the same way the CLI does, but it offers several new features that make it a lot nicer to use than the CLI. The CLI is still there, of course — in the SYSTEM drawer on the Workbench disk — but after you use the Shell for a while, we"re confident that you won't want to go back. To run the Shell, open your Work- bench 1.3 disk and doubleclick on the Shell icon. It resembles the CLI icon, but the word "Shell" is underneath it. A CLI- type window will appear, but it will have a new title, "AmigaShell." The Shell also starts differently than the CLI. In Amiga- DOS 1.3, every time you start a CLI it runs the file S:CLIStartup, while each new Shell first executes S:Shell-Startup. The major difference between the commands in those two startup files is visible in the different prompts that the CLI and the Shell use. CLI-Startup has only one command, the traditional PROMPT command PROMPT "%N>" The %N characters are a PROMPT di- rective that makes the prompt include the CLI's number, as in the CLI's stan- dard prompt l> Shell-Startup uses a new prompt direc- tive, %S, in its first command: PROMPT "%N.%S> " The %S directive causes the prompt to include the name of the current direc- tory. 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Also, the other characters in the prompt string are op- tional, and you can replace them with any string you want. For example, you could change the PROMPT command in Shell-Startup lo PROMPT "Current directory is %S; Shell number is 9c N; enter command: which would give vou the disgustingly long prompt Current directory is SYS:; Shell number is 1; enter command: Pick Your Own Names Shell-Startup file also contains two other commands: ALIAS XCOPY COPY [ ] CLONE ALIAS ENDSHELL ENDCLI The ALIAS command is another new Shell feature, allowing you to create syn- onvms for commands. You could, of course, simply go into the G directory on your Workbench disk and rename the command files themselves, but then any- one unfamiliar with those names might have trouble using your Amiga, ALIAS, on the other hand, does not change a command's name; it merely adds an ad- ditional one. As these examples show, ALIAS takes two arguments. The first is the new com- mand name, or alias. The second is a command siring that you want to invoke with that name. The second command above uses this format lo make END- SHELL a synonym for ENDCLI. Once you have given a command an alias, you can use that alias anywhere you can use the command. The first ALIAS command above illus- trates one powerful ALIAS option: By in- cluding [ ] in the command string, you can pass arguments from the alias com- mand line to the original command. For example, entering XCOPY FILE1 TO FILE2 is the same as entering COPY FILE! TO FILE2 CLONE The shell replaces [ ] with everything you type after the command alias. Notice that the command string is not in quotes in either of these examples. Unlike AmigaDOS names, which you must surround by quotes if they contain spaces, you should not put quotes around this command string. For example, ALIAS CAT TYPE lets you see the contents of a file w r ith the Unix-style command CAT FILE! If you enter instead ALIAS CAT "TYPE" the Shell will accept the ALIAS, but when you enter CAT FILE1 you will get the error message Unknown command "TYPE" There are two other ALIAS options. You can see all of your current com- mand aliases by entering ALIAS You can also remove any alias by enter- ing it with no command string, as in ALIAS CAT You can also redefine any alias simply by giving it a new command string in an- other ALIAS command. In our discussion of the RESIDENT command in the last column, we men- tioned that all Shells share one set of RESIDENT commands. That is not true for aliases. Each Shell has its own set of aliases. You could have several Shells running simultaneously, each with a dif- ferent set of aliases. Painless Execution Aliases are nice for CLI commands, but many of us have batch files that we exe- cute as often as commands. To run a batch file from the CLI, you have to use the EXECUTE command. The Shell lets you execute directly any batch file whose script (S) bit is set. The S bit is one of 1.3's new protection bits that we men- tioned in a previous column. You set a file's S bit with a PROTECT command such as PROTECT FILE 1 +S If a file has its S bit set, the Shell lets you execute it by simply typing its name. You now can EXECUTE the batch file FILE1 by entering F1LF.1 The Shell still uses the EXECUTE com- mand to run the file — there is no special magic there — but it saves you the trouble of remembering which of your common commands are programs and which are batch files. Further, a RESIDENT com- mand in S:Startup-Seqiience makes the EXECUTE command resident, so vou can quickly and painlessly execute batch files. It is a good idea, by the way, lo put in the S: directory any hatch files that you use frequently. A PATH command in Startup-Sequence puts that directory on your command search path, so you can execute those batch files from any directory. Starting New Shells just as you run several CLIs simulta- neously, you can also execute several Shells at once. You can even have a mix- ture of both running at the same time. fust as NEWCLI starts a CLI process, NEWSHELL starts a new Shell. These commands give you a CLI and Shell, re- spectively, that use the AmigaDOS 1.3 standard CLI and Shell windows. Both NEWCLI and NFAVSHELL, however, have an option that lets you control the position, size, and title of that new win- dow, allowing you lo pass instructions to the AmigaDOS window-handler. In Amiga- DOS 1.2, there was only one window- handler. CON:. You could use it as a NEWCLI option in the following way: NEWCLI CON:x/y/width/height/title where x and y arc the new window's starting column and row, width and height determine its size, and title is the name that will appear in its title bar. Thus, the command NEWCLI CON:20/10M00/200/MyCLI creates a new CLI whose window starts at pixel column 20 and row 10, whose size is 400 pixels wide by 200 pixels tall, and whose title is "MyCLI." You do almost the same thing to con- trol a new Shell's window, but you have to use a new command-handler, NEW- CON:. Otherwise, the options are the same. Entering NEWSHELL NEWCON:20/10M00/2(MW MyCLI ►- 68 November 1 988 The Best &fG£& No Matter HowYou Stack Em. $m *0* Amiga GOMB g*&$8 *OR Amiga 120MB m V0* Amiga 2SOMB mp^ Ne No matter how you stack 'em, SupraDrives are the best. The best performers. The best de- signs. The best fit for your system. And frankly, the best choice you could make, no matter how you stack your options. Only Supra offers you complete SupraDrive Hard Disk Systems for the Amiga 500, the Amiga 1000, and the Amiga 2000 in various capacities and forms. You can get external drives, internal drives, interface kits, and RAM expansion kits. 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Fortunately, the stan- dard Startup-Sequence contains the following two commands that make sure those conditions are true: RESIDENT CI-I L:SHF.I.I.-SEC SYSTEM PURE MOUNT NEWCON: There is one difference between the NEWCON: and CON: window-handlers that you might notice if you TYPE any files, such as word-processing documents, that contain unusual characters. Unlike CON:, NEWCON: does not display con- trol characters. It does not remove con- trol characters from files you display — they're still there — but it displays a space for every control character ii hits. Retrieving the Past We know what you're thinking: Who cares about a new window handler? It's just another programmer's goody. No way. It is actually one of the best things about the Shell, because it gives you a whole new set of command entry options. Haven't you ever wanted to reenter a command that you know you typed only a little while back? Now you can flip quickly through your previous com- mands thanks to what Commodore calls a "history buffer." It is a circular buffer that holds the last 2K worth of com- mands that you typed. Let's say that you started your shell and then entered the following four commands: CD S: DIR TYPE CLI-STARTUP TYPE SHELL-STARTUP LIST To TYPE CLI-Startup again, you could reenter that command. With the history buffer, however, you get the previous command by hitting . Hit it again and you go back another com- mand, and so on until you loop through the entire 2K buffer and back to the blank command line with which you al- ways begin. Thus, in our example, if you flit twice, your command line would read TYPE CLI-STARTUP and you would have typed only two keys. Mil Return and the command executes jus! as if you lypcd it. You can also go to the nexl command in the history buffer by hitting . 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If you do not remember the exact name of the CLI-Slartup file, but you want to see it and know it starts with a C, you could type TYPE C and then hit SHIFT-, which causes the Shell to search backwards through the command buffer to find the first command that begins with the string vou typed. If nothing matches, it leaves the command line as you typed it. In this case, however, it would bring back the entire command line TYPE CLI STARTUP You can also search backward with CTRL-R instead of SHIFT-. If you get deep into the history buffer and want to jump back to its bottom, the original blank command line, you can enter either SHIF T- or CTRL-B. Correcting the Past Being able lo retrieve previous com- mands can save you a lot of time, but often you want something that is close to what you typed before, but not exactly the same. The Shell helps you out here, too. First, use any of the above methods to retrieve the almost-right command from the history buffer. Then, edit it. Edit a command, vou say? Sure. In the Shell you can edit commands, both ones from the history buffer and ones that you type in directly. You can, of course, do a little editing even in the CLI. BACKSPACE deletes the character to the left of the cursor, and CTRL-X clears the entire line. The Shell adds several other editing keys. First, vou can move the cursor within a command line. and move the cursor one char- acter at a time in their respective direc- tions. CTRL-VV jumps the cursor to the next tab slop. You can also jump the cur- sor to the beginning of the command line with either SHlFT- or CTRL -A. and zip it to the end of the command line with either SHIFT or CTRL-/.. Once the cursor is where you want it, start typing and all of the characters to the right of the cursor will shift right to make room for the new characters. Obviously, you also need some way to remove the characters you do not want. BACKSPACE still deletes the character to the left of the cursor, but now DEL deletes the character at the current cur- sor position. You can also delete groups of characters in several ways. CTRL-X still clears the entire line. CTRI.-U erases all of the characters from the cursor to the beginning of the line, and makes the character at the cursor position the new first character in the line. CTRL-K goes the other way and clears all of the char- ariers from the cursor to the end of [he line. Unlike CTRL-U, however, CTRL-X also deletes the character at the cursor location. With its abilities to recall previous commands and let you edit them, as well as its other new features, the Shell makes the CLI much easier and quicker to use. Have fun as you master these AmigaDOS 1.3 improvements! ■ Mark L. Van Name and Hill ditchings are contributing editors to AmigaVVorld. Write to then at 10024 Sycamore Rd., Durham, NC 27705. WHISTLE UP A HAPPY 'TOON... 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It adds support for the 4096-color Hold- and-Modify (HAM) mode and the 64- Color Extra_HaIfbrite mode (Extra Half- brite, a low-resolution mode in which 32 darker duplicates are added to the origi- nal 32 colors, is accessible by all Amiga 500 and 2000 models and some AlOOOs). The latter allows Videoscape to achieve only slightly better shading, and the pro- gram supports it mainly to allow the im- portation of Halfbrite background and foreground pictures. The use of HAM (which is available on all Amigas), on the other hand, improves object shading sub- stantially, enabling the addition of new surface textures. Although HAM images look far better than 16- or 32-color pic- tures, they also require more time and memory to render. The update expands the fixed 12-color palette to 16 colors through dithering to simulate cyan, light cyan, purple, and light purple. You can now alter the de- fault palette with a paint program, though the shading relationships be- tween colors must be maintained. You can also give objects attributes that cause them not to appear as distinct shapes; in- stead, objects thus treated will merely modify the rest of the scene. These attri- butes include invisibility and a darken- ing (shaded) and brightening (spotlight) effect. While Videoscape 2.0 does not render drop shadows automatically, you can create them using shadow polygons. New surfaces include transparency, which makes an object look like glass, and reflective chrome, which imparts a mirrored appearance. The smooth-shad- ing option uses a technique known as Phong shading to make a group of flat polygons seem rounded. While you can achieve some of the transparent effect in 16- and 32-color modes through dither- ing, HAM is required to attain a real glass-like effect. Chrome and smooth shading are available only in HAM mode. To take in all the new effects, Video- scape 2.0 allows you to expand the dis- play area. Use the Severe Overscan mode to create hi-res animations 768x480 pix- els in size, and low-res screens of 384x440. PAL support automatically scales the display to the proportions of the F.uropean television standard, The previous version of Videoscape could not draw intersecting objects accu- rately, which made it extremely difficult to portray one image passing through another. With the new Zbuffer option turned on, such effects are rendered cor- Videoscape 3D 1.0 rendered this famous teapot. The 2.0 HAM image uses Phong shading, shadow polygons, and a multi-palette background. rectly. As currently implemented, how- ever, Z buffering is memory intensive: In the default hi-res overscan mode, this feature alone uses more than a megabyte of RAM. To illuminate your stage, this version lets you place up to four light sources (instead of one) of various intensities. Shaken Movers The first of the important new anima- tion features is object tracking. The orig- inal version requires you to make some trick)' calculations to create a file that controls the heading and tilt of the cam- era. In the new version, you designate a target object, and the camera tracks it automatically, A feature called hierarchical motion enables one object to move relative to another. When a man is walking, for ex- ample, his legs must not only move up and down hut also follow the torso, With hierarchical motion, you need only de- scribe the up-and-down movement, leav- ing the program to figure and supply the forward motion from that of the torso. Minor animation add-ons include Meta- morph and /.oom with non-linear op- tions; these speed transformations at the beginning and slow them down toward the end for a more natural look. A new motion-file format allows the use of scale factors for squashing and stretching ef- fects. You can also specify a series of foreground and background IFF images, so that images change automatically with each frame. Although the OCT program now al- lows you to store objects in binary for- mat (which loads faster), and EGG can abort without taking you through all of the entry parameters, object editing has otherwise remained much the same. After rendering an animation, you no longer lose your scene; new menu items let you selectively clear objects only or entire scenes. You can also begin render- ing at any frame (rather than just at the beginning), and save full frames auto- matically to disk. Key frames and moving objects capacities have both been ex- tended to a maximum of 50. While Videoscape 2.0 is powerful enough to render short films, most desk- top-video enthusiasts will use it to create animated logo and titling sequences. 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I worried that this simplicity might be lost in the enhanced version, TxEd Plus. My worries were for naught, though. MicroStniths has added new fea- tures, but left the rest as it was. Something Old Carried over from the original package arc its ease of use and speed of execu- tion. A full-screen text editor allows you to move around your document quickly using the cursor keys and mouse. Cut, paste, and insert features, as well as search-and-replace options, are at your disposal. The menus arc so simple that just about anyone, regardless of experi- ence, can use (he program without look- ing at the manual. Dislike the mouse? There are keyboard equivalents for most functions. Like TxEd, TxEd Plus makes good use of the Amiga's multitasking nature. It is a well-behaved program, one that you can leave running while working with your compiler or telecommunications package, for instance, without worry of a crash. You can open multiple windows to work Oil several documents at the same time, and you can open a new CLI win- dow whenever you like. Because it sup- ports the Amiga's clipboard device, you can quickly transfer blocks of text be- tween documents. Something New A number of new commands help you move through the text more easily; you can jump from word to word, page for- ward and backward, and skip to the be- ginning or end of a file. TxEd Plus has taken the original Word Wrap a step fur- ther with the Paragraph option, which forces all lines to the maximum width of the screen and leaves the right edge ragged. The Formatted Entry option lets you use the Enter key to move to a new line. Instead of sending you hack to the far left of the line as the Return key does, Enter indents your cursor the same amount as the previous line. This is a helpful feature for programmers, one lacking in many other text editors and even some of the most advanced word processors. You can change TxEd's menus and keys using the TxEd Plus Command Language, a collection of 51 commands. Many of these commands are menu selections from the program, but the Command Language lets you string them together into macros. You can even reconfigure the menus themselves, adding and replacing menu options until you get the set you need. TxEd Plus also supports the ARexx macro script language, which seems to be emerging as the "standard" [for more in- formation, see "ARexx: New Kingpin of Multitasking," p. 55]. Something Extra, Too TxEd Plus includes some useful utilities. First is BlitzDisk, a disk-caching program. A disk cache is a RAM buffer reserved for storing information from your disk drives. Once the cache receives informa- tion, be it directories or programs, subse- quent access to it is much faster than reading from disks. Activating the FunKeys option lets you use your ten function keys to pop open a CLI window, or control operations for which you would normally need the mouse (rearranging and activating win- dows, for instance). You can even config- ure two of the function keys yourself. The FastFonts utility greatly speeds the printing of text on the Amiga display. FastFonts was built into the original TxEd, but now it is a separate program that you can include in your startup-se- quence. [Both the FastFonts and FunKeys modules were reviewed as pari of the now-extinct FastFonts program package on p. 77 in the April '88 issue of AmigaWorld.] The AmigaDOS Replacement Project (ARP) is also included. ARP [see "The AmigaDOS Workout Disk," p. 40, in the August '88 issue of AmigaWorld] is a set of CLI commands designed by a number of independent programmers whose goal was to produce faster, smaller, and more ADVERTISEMENT reliable CLI commands. I like TxEd. I like TxF.d Plus even more. If the text editor you currently use is holding vou buck, give this package a try. 1 think you will be happy with it. TxEd Plus 2.0 Microsmiths Inc. PO Box 561 Cambridge. MA 02140 617/354-1224 S79.95 No special requirements. Space Math Elementary math on the fly. By Neil Randall THE CONCEPT OF Space Math is sim- ple: You must guide a spaceship toward a choice of* landing platforms by answer- ing math questions. On the screen, one question appears under each of the Left, Right. Thrust, and Fuel categories (you can specify all addition, all subtraction, all multiplication, all division, or any Think and act fast to avoid a crash. combination of problems). A correct an- swer under Left moves the module to the left, while answering the question below Right shifts it to the right. Correct re- sponses to Thrust counteract gravity and move the craft upwards; accurate an- swers to Fuel give the module energy to accomplish its thrusts. The name of the game is scoring points. Landing safely earns the most points; landing quickly gets you a bonus score. Correct answers yield points indi- vidually, and crashing the module sub- tracts from your total. You can exchange points for fuel (in addition to answering the Fuel questions), but the more fuel points you retain the higher vour score will be at the end of the game. Space Math is designed for children aged seven to thirteen. Before you start the game, you can adjust the difficulty level to Easy. Medium, or Hard in the Lander, Problems, and Hazards cate- gories. Raising the Lander difficulty in- creases the gravitational pull on the ship, while opting for a high Hazards level makes obstacles move faster and height- ens their destructiveness. Higher Prob- lem difficulty yields harder questions. No matter which combination of levels you choose, increasing the difficulty in- creases the number of points awarded to you. There arc eight screens in Space Math, each with hazards. On the first two screens, UFOs zip about, and vou must avoid them as you maneuver for a land- ing. The third screen introduces mete- ors, while the fifth contains a black hole just waiting for you to get too close. On screen six, laser beams threaten the land- ing module, and partially-visible energy spheres cause the trouble on screen seven. The lasers return on the last screen, but more dangerous are the mov- ing hooks. Obviously, there's a considerable amount to do — deciding whether to move left or right, to thrust, or to try for additional fuel, then answering the ques- tions correctly, while avoiding obstacles and making sure you land the module gently. Space Math keeps even the most adept students busy. In fact, the program demands too much. You should be able to toggle game elements on and off. The beginner, then, could choose to use just the left and right commands, adding thrust later and fuel considerations later still. After that, hazards could come into play. As it stands, the game is very diffi- cult to play, especially for the first sev- eral tries. In a Flash The philosophy of Space Math is that forcing a student to answer questions quickly, and making their answers ac- tually do something, will help them learn * Flight notes This column opens a new promotional avenue for SubLOQIC, a small engineering-oriented company dedicated to producing the finest in flight simulation software. Please tune in to "Flight Motes" each month for the latest on SubLOGIC software, new product announcements, and product add-on information. The 1.5 millionth copy of FLIGHT SIMULATOR will ship this fall. Flight Simulator has been our best-selling program by far over the years. So much innovative technology was originally invested in the program, it's no wonder that Flight Simulator is still the premier "showcase" software piece for the Amiga computer. Our long-running support of SCENERY DISK options continues to grow; the current "Western European Tour" Scenery Disk, so beautiful to fly, is an example of the continued evolution of scenery in both theme and execution. Watch for new Scenery Disk announcements at the start of the new year. NEW JET PROMOTIONAL PACKAGING - Whether you purchase Jet for yourself or as a gift for someone else, we're sure you'll be happy to find that the package now carries a new label announcing "FREE INSIDE - BEAUTIFUL JAPAN SCENERY DISK, A $24.95 EXTRA VALUE!". 1 believe Japan Scenery Disk is the perfect choice for this promotion. While "Western European Tour" and Scenery Disk # 7 continue to compete for top-seller status, Japan S.D. is also a consistent good seller and is a gorgeous example of scenery design. This smallest of Scenery Disks requires little documentation, allowing us to include it in the Jet package at a reasonable production cost. Jet and Japan S.D. together provide a perfect combination of software pleasure. Enjoy it. NOTE - Please don't confuse this promotion with another "$10.00 OFF" promo we're running for C64 Jet (without Japan Scenery Disk) through selected discount channels only. SubLOGIC Corporation 501 Kenyon Road Champaign, IL 61820 TELEPHONE; (217) 359-8482 ORDER LINE: (800) 637-4983 Circle 2J8 on Reader Service card. Please address any feedback'correspondence regarding SubLOGIC products, operations, or this "Flight Notes" column to ATTM: Chairman's Office. Amiga World S3 math. In other words, Spate Math is a high-tech drill program. When I was in school, drill contests were common; we would answer flash cards as quickly as we could. The problem was that students who learned to answer quickly were those who already excelled in problem solving. Space Math has an identical frame- work. The package makes no attempt (nor does it advertise one) to leach math concepts; its only purpose is lo exercise those concepts. The result is predictable. My older child, who has trouble with arithmetic, found the answering difficult, while my younger child simply couldn't keep up. As a drill, Space Math has a fair bit to recommend it. It's graphically pleasing, its pace is quick, and to the extent that it tan be played ; I contact yourfocal dealer or cafl^ft MaSfi us at 4G$^35^44S, ■■■■'.' : Dealers inquire -^ithiri, : ; CALIFORNIA! 84 November I9SS Circle 73 on Reader Service card Users Unite! This year Amiga users like you came together on GEnie™ to get their Amiga questions answered by experts, their Amiga games won, their Amiga systems updated and their online Amiga opinions confirmed, researched, and applauded 503,401 times. Join the Revolution. GEnie. For the people, by the people. You've never been a follower. You want your voice heard. 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The Chrome and Column faces are especially useful, fol- lowed in descending order (of my prefer- ence) by Chisel Serif, Bevel, Cast, Chisel, Granite, Marble, Wood, and Brick. A fullv-assignable eight-color palette loads with each font. All three Kara Fonts disks include a Brush drawer containing alter- native palette variations. For instance, the Chrome face has polished gold and brass variations, as well as a two-tone stainless-steel look. The Kara Fonts Headlines package is a useful and much-needed accessory for any Amiga user involved in type, particu- larly video-graphics fans. With some pal- ette manipulation, these fonts will also work well in desktop publishing. Kara Computer Graphics has made an excel- lent start; I hope that other, similar col- lections will follow. Kara Fonts Headlines Kara Computer Graphics 6365 Green Valley Circle, #317 Culver City, CA 1)0230 213/670-0493 S79.95 One megabyte and htm disk drives required. UNH Prolog for The Amiga The image and likeness of Clocksin and Mellish. By Scott D. Palmer PROLOG IS AN increasing!) popular language for artificial-intelligence (AI) applications, including expert systems and natural-language processing. I'Xll (University of New Hampshire) Prolog for the Amiga is a solid, if unexciting, implementation of standard Clocksin & Mellish Prolog, a subset of Edinburgh or DEC- 1 (I Prolog (although the three terms are often used interchangeably). With the package, you get a Prolog interpreter with standard debugging facilities (in- cluding program tracing and spypoints), and all the language's standard predi- cates and functions. L'NH Prolog is sold by the University ol New Hampshire's Computer Science Department, and, with its photocopied manual and reference booklet, seems in- tended for a college programming course. The documentation provides a 32-page tutorial and describes the syntax of (his particular Prolog version. There ,n ( no lain \ windows or pull dim n menus; you simply enter commands at the prompt. You must supply your own program editor, but a basic one will do. Because UNH Prolog for the Amiga is a fairly straightforward port of the Unix version, and does not take advantage of the Ami- ga's graphics or sound capabilities, you can use only text. Unlike the Unix ver- sion, however, Amiga U.NH Prolog does not allow you to call C language func- tions from within a progTam. Thank Goodness For Standardization Most mil rocoinputer implementations ol Prolog, however good they are, tend to *- E.C.I. 1-800-356-5178 Amiga is a registered Irademark ol Commodore Elecironics LTO 86 November 1988 Circle 117 on Reader Serwce card Prepare to to UghtSpeed ll HARDWARE/ACCESSORIES I ENTERTAINMENT j DESKTOP PUBLISHING /UTILITIES SOFTWARE ORDERS OVER $100 MAmigen (Mimetics) . . , $159 Actionware Gun $45 City Desk V2.0 $149 CygnusEd .... 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He said that the lock up I experienced with the Canon printer was caused by the 1.2 driver, and suggested using the 1.3 ver- sion. (I later ran the test with a 1.3 driver and goi the same result.) The lack of speed, he thought, was again the fault of the driver; without an Amiga driver spe- cifically for the Star Micronics LV-1615 (there is none available), TURBOPrint, he stated, is unable to work to capacity. The dealer suggested 1 bring my copy of TURBOPrint into the store and offered to test il with other printers. Although this dealer's willingness to help was im- pressive, I was dismayed at not being able to get telephone assistance. I also question the consistency of support com- ing from so many sources. Tile TURBOPrint manual contains some unintelligible statements; it was ap- parently translated from German. Fortu- nately, the functions of most features are easy to determine. TURBOPrint has good and bad points. I was unable to coax any speed improve- ments out of it, but this may be due to a limitation of my printer. I like the results TURBOPrint provides at high printer resolutions with the alternate dot pat- terns. All things considered, however, I hesitate to recommend it to anyone but the die-hard experimenter. TURBOPrint IrseeSofi SPCS distributed by American Software Distributors RR 1 Box 290, Bldg. 30 Urbana, 11.61801 217/643-2050 $49.95 \'o special requirements. ■ 92 November 1 9SS "May I Take Your Order?" Seated at the Amiga banquet, you see dozens of appetizing main courses. There are business briskets, video victuals, music munchies, and game goodies. A feast for every palate. But you can't just start stuffing your face right away. That would be gauche. First you must sample a little of this, a touch of that. As all gourmets have a bit of the chef within them, you must have noticed as you worked your way down the table that some things, properly prepared, in bite- sized pieces, would make excellent appetizers. I'm sure that you also have a few useful tips for Amiga dining. Which spoon to use, how to twirl your fork, which is the soup and which is the finger bowl. Those sorts of things. No matter how long you have been enjoying the Amiga buffet, there are bound to be a few things you've learned (either the hard way, by chance, or from a friend) that others might not know. Is there a way to cheat at Bongo Blaster? Have you discovered a cheap source of diskette boxes? A way to fix screen flicker? A short BASIC program that calculates dates? A unique use for a digitizer? A way to insure good video signals? A snappy startup-sequence? A clever batch file? A way to make money with your Amiga? Or anything that might be useful to another Amiga owner and would fit in a few paragraphs? 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Go Amigo is in no way associated with Commodore-Amiga. Delivery subject to product availability • Prices subject to change • Circle 26 on Reader Service Card WHAT'S NEW? Cast a vote or two for your favorite new product. Compiled by Barbara Gefvert Fun with Fonts IF YOU WANT to design cus- tom fonts to use with 3-D animation and modeling soft- ware, InterFont is your tool. The InterFont Designer, with its full intuition interface, lets you trace an Amiga bitmap font or draw shapes and logos freehand. For conversion to a particular format, transfer your creations into the Inter- Change system via the Inter- Font Conversion Module. InterFont, with Interchange (Syndesis), Sculpt 3D, Video- scape 3D, and Aegis Draw con- version modules sells for Si 19.95. If you already own Interchange, all von will need is the InterFont add-on mod- ule ($79.95). Contact Syndesis (20 West St., Wilmington, MA 01887, 508/657-5585) for fur- ther information. All-Around Editor FEATURES SUCH AS delete and undelete of characters, words, lines, and blocks, plus vertical (as well as horizontal) block cut and paste make CygnusEd Professional useful for both word-crafting and programming tasks. Do you want fast results? This editor promises text search (with wild cards and selectable case sensi- tivity) at over 100,000 charac- ters per second. CygnusEd can recover an edit in progress if another program crashes your machine. The program offers full macro capability, and makes available over 200 func- tions and variables via an ARexx-compatible interface. CygnusEd Professional sup- ports both NTSC and PAL in interlace and noninterlace. Get a complete list of features from CygnusSofl's publisher, ASDG at 925 Stewart St., Madi- son, WI 53713, 608/273-6585. Brave New AI IF YOU'VE WANTED to, but never felt brave enough to cross into the world of artifi- cial intelligence (AI), you should explore Magellan. Yes, expert-system building sounds complicated, but Magellan uses I In- Amiga's power to sim plify its complexities. With Magellan, you can create diag- nostic and evaluations tests and weigh options using "if. , . then" logic, and drive animations with rules of be- havior. You can even use it to write programs — without lan- guages, compilers and linkers. Some features are enhanced with expanded memory, but the program requires only 512K. Start exploring for $195. Call Emerald Intelligence, 334 S. State St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104,313/663-8757. In Reverse STEP ON THE clutch, shift, and back up ... to a set of floppies. The hard-disk backup program HardnFast uses a proprietary format for speedy transfers, while it provides ex- tensive error-checking, and re- store routines designed to recover data from damaged disks. The multitasking utility manages up to three genera- tions of backups, and you can restore individual files from any active backup. A tune-up is S49.95 at The Computer- Works, 6641 Scott St., Molly- wood, FL 33024, 305/966-8179. Microfiche Pro MICROFICHE FILER Plus promises the speed, power, and ease of use of MicroFiche Filer plus automatic field calcu- lations. HAM and overscan graphics support, sophisticated printing features, optional ARexx macro programming capability, and full access to other applications using ARexx. Find out all about the new database manager by call- ing Software Visions, PO Box 3319, Framingham, MA 01701, 617/875-1238, 800/527-7014. MicroFiche Filer Plus sells for $179; if you registered your copy of MicroFiche Filer be- fore October, 1988 you can upgrade for S39 (S69 if later). * Magellan lets you explore and evaluate using a series of questions. 96 November 1988 . OR& ANlZfc . 1~ni • CLASSIFY . •MODIFY • RECALL, ij '**CI AND SOW^ t£XT AND && |»t*APHlC5 And Have A Ball ! 'KWiWK'iwKWK So, you have your word processing and painting programs... BUT... You're tired of searching through stacks ot disks. You've had it with sorting those lists by hand. You've typed that mailing label for the umpteenth time. What a mess! Now, take it easy... The designers of Microfiche Filer, the most highly regarded database in Amiga history, bring you Microfiche Filer Plus w — the easiest, the fastest, the most powerful, and the most enjoyable [yes, enjoyable) productivity software you'll ever use! Microfiche Filer Plus™ is ideal for organizing: Files Hobbies Billing Pictures Collections Mailing Lists Inventories Video Storyboards and More. Store Text & Pictures Simultaneously Print in Any Format Store 4000 Color HAM Pictures Sort & Search - Instantly! Perform Calculations Write Database Programs Using ARexx' Visit your Amiga dealer today for an eye-opening, revealing, and exciting demonstration! For your nearest dealer call 1-800-527-7014. In MA call (508) 875-1238 miGROf IGHi fcle/v Y^— Dl ■ARe** sold separately Suggested Retail M79. PLU/ iW Switch Today Send us your old database program and get '75 off Microfiche Filer PlusTM Call for details S" f /Of TUJflRE Vl/IOn/ inc. T P.O. Box 3319, Framingham, MA 01701 Grcfe 10 on Reader Service card AC/BASIC™ V1.3 - NEW Easy (o use compiler is very fast with great graphics. Plus, AC/BASIC is the only BASIC compiler for Amiga that is compatible with the AmigaBASIC interpreter so your existing programs can he compiled with no changes and run up to 50x faster. Easy to use documentation is indexed and includes over 200 examples on disk: plus a full spreadsheet written in AC/BASIC and HAM graphics examples Extensions include: SELECT CASE, BLOCK IF, STATIC arrays. Recursive subprograms. Create stand-alone applications (no redistribution fee) NCP $195. AC/FORTRAN 1 Mainframe quality, full feature ANSI FORTRAN 77 compiler includes: Debugger, Linker. Library Manager, Runtime Library. IEEE math, and C interface. Supports Complex numbers. Virtual arrays, Overlays and Linking. Not copy protected. $295. 68020/68881 version also available $495. abS:::ft Telephone orders welcome Scientific. Engineering Software 2781 Bond Street, Auburn Hills, Ml 48057/(313) 853-0050 Amiga trademark of Commodore Amiga. Microsoft trademark nf .Microsoft Corp. Circle 175 on Reader Service card June, 1987 (Byte Magazine): "Although the (CSA) Turbo-Amiga upgrade is somewhat high priced for a microcom- puter, its performance is in the range of a much more expensive mini-computer". February, 1988 (Amiga World) "In combination with 32 bit memory, the CSA 68020 board will let your Amiga burn rubber". September, 1988: CSA PRESENTS THE DragStrip AMIGA 2000 RAM ACCELERATOR Faster than you can imagine, at a price you won't believe. The leader in hi-tech performance, and the least expensive way to accel. Computer System Associates Inc 7S64 TRADE STREET SAN DIEGO CALIFORNIA 9? \2 I TELEPHONE (618(566 39 11 TELE* 333683 Amiga is the trademark of Commodore Business Machines, Inc. Creative Endeavors A NEW PROPRIETARY inter face, says Creative Microsys- tems, makes the Processor Accelerator perform speedier than a Motorola 68010 proces- sor. At $199.95, it's one-fifth the cost of an MC68020 board. Plug an MC6888] into the co- processor socket, and vou'll fly even faster. Now yon can link your Amiga lo previously inaccessi- ble video peripherals with the VI-Series of video interlaces. The two S79.95 adaptors, VI- 500 (external for all Amigas) and VI-2000 (internal for the A2000), convert your Amiga's RGB output into three signals: color composite, chroma, and luma. These give you access lo Commodore 1700-, 1800-. and 1900-series and virtually all composite monitors, as well as VHS, SuperVHS, and Beta VCRs. The VI-500RF and VI- 2000RF (both $99.95) provide RF modulation, enabling von to use your television as a monitor. Look at all the features Cre- ative Microsystems has packed into the MIDI I interface: three jumper-selectable out/ thru ports, MIDI in, sync out (drums machine), LEDs for displaying bus activity, a utili- ties disk, pass through, and complete software compatibil- ity. MIDI 1 is available for all Amiga models; you can get an internal version for your A2000. Determined to make the unit affordable, CMI has priced MIDI 1 at S79.95. Find out more about these goodies from CMI at 101 10 S.W. Nim- bus, #1-1, Portland, OR 97223. Directory Detective SEARCH THROUGH the Ami- ga's file structure with Holmes!. You can control the recovery of lost data or a dam- aged disk, change messages in programs, create, delete, and manipulate directories, plus print your findings on the ba- sis of sectors, tracks, files, or directories. You can convert among octal, decimal, and hexadecimal formats, as well as byte, work, and long for- mats. The ASCII mode dis- plays data in character or control-code format. The mo use driven program retails for $49.95 and is available from Mindware International, 110 Dunlop St. W., Box 22158, Barrie, Ont., Canada L4M 5R3, 705/737-5998. Ael Aboard for Bill's BILL'S BOARDS BUS Expan- der installs into an IBM AT- compatible case and attaches to your Amiga 500 or 1000. The unit accepts most expan- sion cards designed for the Amiga 2000, and gives you six Zorro-2 slots, three (optionally five, depending upon where you place Commodore's A2088 Bridgeboard) of which you can bridge to AT slots. It also provides six (optionally eight) IBM-compatible slots. four (or seven) of which are AT slots. To run the expander, hook up any low-cost IBM-style power supply to your AT-style chassis, The Bus Expander will cost you 495 hills; get it from Comp-U-Save, 414 Maple Ave., Westbury, NY 11590, 516/997- 6707. *■ Circle 169 on Reader Service card. 98 Novembn 1988 THE BEST SOLUTION (is also the least expensive) Call now to order! (415) 651-1905 Dealer inquiries welcome. OverDrive is the first "hardcard" design DMA SCSI hard drive controller for the A2000. Mount a 3.5" SCSI drive to the OverDrive and save your drive bays for other uses ... like the Konica 1 megabyte floppy drive. (See below.) ■ The OverDrive uses a two-channel Motorola 68440 direct memory access chip to guarantee exceptional speed and compatibility with the Amiga's Motorola 68000 microprocessor. ■ The OverDrive is autoconfig and compatible with Workbench 1.3 and 1.4, Fast File System and autobooting. ■ A total of 7 devices can be added in various internal or external configurations. With all of the above, you get the easiest to use software on the market. It is completely mouse driven, making the formatting process almost automatic. Pacific Peripherals offers Seagate 30, 50 and 62 megabyte drives as well as the Konica 10 megabyte floppy. The Konica drive oper- ates as a 75ms hard drive using high density (480 TPI) floppy disks giving you the speed of a hard drive and the unlimited capacity of a floppy drive. Exceptional error correction capabilities make your data safer than it would be on a standard 5V disk. OverDrive only OverDrive with : 30 MB DRIVE 50 MB DRIVE 62 MB DRIVE KONICA $249.00 $699.00 $849.00 $799.00* $999.00" Sub System 500 is a two-slot expansion chassis for the A500 that uses cards designed for the A2000. An optional 3.5" floppy drive may be added as an "external" drive but is, in fact, more convenient than any drive available for the A500 (including the A500 internal drive). The 100-pin "Zorro II" A2000 expansion cards are less expensive, more uniform in design and more available than pure A500 peripherals. (For example, try to find a DMA controller designed specifically for the A500. How about an A500 Bridgecard?) Rather than take power from the A500 power supply, the Subsystem comes standard with a 54-watt power supply. Subsystem 500 $249.00 Sub System 500/drive $399.00 "uses 5'A" drive bay OverDrive and Subsystem 500 are trademarks of Pacific Peripherals. Workbench, Fast File System, and Bridgecard are trademarks of Commodore-Amiga, Inc. Pacific _ Peripherals P.O. Box 14575 Fremont, CA 94539 Circle 107 on Reader Service card Wars of the World HERE'S YOUR CHANCE to re-enact five historical battles: Gettysburg, Arbella, Hastings, Marston Moor, and Waterloo. You can recreate the combat as it occurred (locale, geo- graphical features, troops, and weaponry are based on fact). or alter the parameters to ex- plore "what if. . . " scenarios. Each scene is portrayed on 3-D grid, so you can zoom in at any angle. War with your computer or fight a friend; an editor lets you design maps and order your objectives. Capture a copy of The Univer- sal Military Simulator from Rainbird Software's distribu- tor. Mediagenic, 388:) Bohan- non Dr., Menlo Park, CA 94025, 415/329-0800. Alien Adventures CHOOSE ONE of five famous adventurers — English, German, Japanese, Ercnch. or Ameri- can — and be on vour way to find Professor Renegade, the only man who can stop the as- teroid headed toward earth. You'll confront obstacles and gather treasures in Cosmic Re- lief, the animated multilevel action adventure. When vou boot Alternate Reality: The City, prepare to be abducted by an alien space- ship and abruptly deposited alone in a room with a single door. You have few instruc- tions and even less informa- tion about your surroundings once you walk through the door into The City of Xebec's Demise. You'll learn and build your character attributes quickly if you wish to survive. The First of a series of Alter- nate Reality adventures. The City sells for S39.95. Cosmic Relief is $34.95. Get both from DataSoft's Distributor. Elec- tronic Arts. 1820 Gateway Dr., San Mateo. CA 94404, 415/571- 7171, 800/245-4525. Figure This IS THERE SOMETHING wrong with your system? Hav- ing trouble pinpointing the problem? Maybe vou need STU 2,0. the System Test Util- ity. STU works with any Amiga model. The memory test will read, write, check, and verify disk input and output on up lo four 3 S A -inch drives. Per- form your tests in an asyn- chronous manner, either randomly or sequentially. If you buy this release, you will get one free upgrade. Planned enhancements include modem self-tests, integrated memory and CPU exams, and tests for hard drives. Diagnose your disks for S29.95; contact Cus- tom Services, PO Box 254, Moorestown, NJ 08057. A Second Introduction WITH INTROCAD 2.0, you can store CAD flies in Aegis Draw (Aegis Development) for- mat for use in desktop pub- lishing. Version 2.0 offers a fhickline feature and supports single level gray scale for black-and-white printers. You can view angle degrees in the Show XY readout as well as with tire Rotate/Variable op- tion. IntroCAD 2.0 is S79.95; 1.0 owners can trade up for $10. Get all the details from Progressive Peripherals t^- Soft ware, 464 Kalamath St., Den- ver, CO 80204. 303/825-4144. *■ TAKE A LOOK INSIDE VI 3HT M toHziMwnoz Jfl AOIMA Wd ss u c i scs 48MG SCSI 20mg SCS! 4Smg SCSI 45mg SCSI 4Smg SCSI 48m g SCSI 4Bmg SCSI 65fng SCSI 65mg SCSI 32mg on HARDDRIVES for your A2000 ____, We will format the drive using ______ FREE! the New FASTFILE System FREE! 28ms 3 5 Harddrive w/Cltd Control S769 00 w/Cltd Control 3.5 Harddrive 569.00 5.25 H arddnve w/Cltd Control 649,00 5 25 Harddrive w/GVP 1 mg Ok Control 749.00 5 25 Harddrive w/GVP 2mg Ok Control , .,,.,.,.,.. 769-00 28ms 3.5 Harddrive w/GVP Ok Control .,.,,..,,..,..,...,. 889.00 40ms 3.5 Harddrive w/GVP Ok Control 740.00 40ms 5.25 Harddrive w/Clld Conlrol 699.00 40ms 5.25 Harddrive w/GVP Oh Conlrol 799.00 2Bms 3 5 Harddrive w/GVP 2mg Ok Conlrol 710 00 Arexx S34.00 Celebrity Cook Book M00 Custom Screens 45.00 Dos 2 Dos 39 00 Doug's Math Aquarium 55.00 Disk 2 Disk 3500 Encore 45.00 Face II 27.00 Fleet Check 35.00 Gold Spell 32.00 Gomf 30.00 Laser up: Fonts 30.00 Laser up: Plot 35.00 laser up: Print , , 52.00 Laser Scipts 30.00 Laser up. Utilities 3000 Le* check Word Checker 3500 LV Backup Harddisk 3500 Marauderll 29.00 Metacomco Shell 49.00 Micro Lawyer 42.00 Multi Preferences 22.00 Power Window II 65.00 Print Master plus 35.00 Project D 35 00 promis Spelling 35 00 Quatcrback 47.00 SysFonl 24.00 TDI-Editor Source 36.00 TDI-Examples 18.00 TDI-Gnd Access 35.00 TDI-Kermil 22.00 TemEdPlus 5200 w Shell 34.00 HARDWARE 256k Mem Expansion A1000 ■ S149.00 3&6S1 Math Chip .... 1B90C Accelerator Board A20O0 . . 1650C 179 OC Artiigeri T . . . 159.00 19500 Dig<-Oroid . 75.0C 3590C Easy! 2000 489 00 Go64 . 59.00 Internal NECdhve A2000 . . . . 155.00 -iyc Frame Grabber 279.00 Micron 2mg A2000 595 00 UuHflunction Soard . B9.O0 Overdrive A2DC0 Ctlr 199 00 Practical Penph 2400bd ... 199.00 Perfect Sound Aiooa . 59.00 3 erfecl Sound A500/2000 . . . 89.00 Starboard Aiooo 512k 489.00 Subsystem AS00 210.00 Supra Modem 24O0bd ..... 169.00 VW141Q Panasonic Cam ... 220.00 ACCESSORIES A-Ttrne Plus S-9C0 Copy Stand . 60.00 C-V iew Composite . 45. DO ECE Midi Interlace 1000 ... . 52.00 ECE Midi Interlace 500 . 5500 : py« 600X J Joystick . 18.DC =rgo Joystick . 20.00 -iicker Master . 14.00 Sender Changer NT . 24 00 Gender Changer ( Amicore} . . . . 24.00 . 17.00 Mdl20 3 5 Disk Cabinet . 35.00 uidfjo 3 5 Disk HoiUer . 28.00 Vld64 3.5 Disk Holder . 31.00 . 55.00 . 7900 NX 1000 Color Ribbon . 12,00 .. 5.00 .. 7.60 Printer Cable A1000 . 17.00 Rf Moudulator A500 . 49.00 . 39.00 WORD PROCESSORS Becker Text $9500 Excellence 199 00 Flow idea Processor ..... 65.00 Kindwords 69 00 LPD Writer 79.00 IPD Writer Unprotected 69,00 Pi ownle 2.0 62,00 Reason 259 00 Tenlcrafi Plus ..♦., ...... 6600 Textpfo 55 00 V.23 Write 65.00 WordPerfect 250 00 WP Library 85 00 MONITORS Seiko CM1430 Monitor $799.00 Prmceton Ultrasync 59900 Thompson Monitor ,,,.,,.,, 255.00 Panasonic Digviow Monitor . . . 210.00 Zenith Flat Screen 725. 00 Magnavox 6CM515 ......... 325.00 SPECIAL! DIGI-VIEW "VERSION 3.0" SPECIAL! Digi-View W/WV1410 Camera* Lens 16mm i Copy Stand S399.0O Perfect Vision "SPECIAL" 179.00 PRO-GE N "SPECIAL' 356 00 GEN- KEY NTSC Genlock 689.00 SU PER GEN-KEY VHS Model Genlock 67900 The Software Shop will customize your business needs. Using Superbase Pro Call for info- 100 November 1988 The Software Shop is an international Mail Order Com par and Direct Outlet. Come to our 1500 sq. ft. Showroom ar examine our huge selection of software and hardware. THE SOFTWARE SHOP International Showcase for Products in the AMIGA Marketplace BUSINESS ACCOUNTING The Accountanl S199.00 BE S T. Bus, AcctS 310.0C B.E.S.T. General Ledger 79.00 Financial Plus 199.00 Investor's Advantage 69.00 Mi Amiga Ledger 65.00 Micro Lawyer 42.00 Nimous Reed Keeper 110.00 Analytic Art S42.00 Asha's Fonts 57.00 The Big Picture . .. ...22.00 Business Card Maker 39.00 Callig rapher 65.00 The Director 49 00 Fancy 3-D fonts 57.00 Flip Side 39.00 Font Set I 25 00 Gizmoz Enhanced 45.00 Gtabbit 24.00 Inlellitype 35.00 Kara Color Fonts 53.00 Lion Fonts 57.00 Master Type 30.00 Mavis Beacon Typing 35.00 News Letter Fonts 32.00 Studio Fonts 33.00 Analyze 2.0 $95.00 Haicalc 39.00 Logislix 9900 Masi Plan 500 99 00 Mam Plan Plus 135 00 VIP Professional 69.00 A Talk Plus .. S55.O0 BBSPc 104.00 Diga 55.00 Online! 45.00 NEC CP6 Color Printer .... S625.DO NEC LC890 Laser 3500.00 Okimate 20 Clr. Prt 145.00 Okimate Plugn Print 85.00 Panasonic lOSli 19900 Star NX Rainbow 279.00 Star NX 1000 199.00 Xerox 4020 Printer 1295.00 Xerox 4020 Starter Kit 165.00 HOME ACCOUNTING Home Inventory Mgr. S27.0O Money Mentor 57.00 Phaser 67.00 EDUCATIONAL Adventure of Sinbad $35.00 Aesop's Fables . . 3500 All About America 38.00 Animal Kingdom .,„ ..... 35.00 Decimal Dungeon 35 00 Discovery Math/Spell 26.00 Expansion Disk Main 26.00 First Letters 4 Words 35.00 First Shapes . ...... , 35.00 Fraction Action 3300 Grade Manager 59.00 Great States 28 00 Kidtalk 35.00 Kinderama ,..,,*. 33 00 Kwik Speak 25.00 Link Word French 22.00 Link Word German 2200 Link Word Italian 22.00 Link Word Russian ..... + ,,. + 2200 Link Word Spanish 22.00 Math Talk 35.00 Math Talk Fractions ......... 35.00 Math Wizard 35.00 Perfect Score ., 55.00 Quiz Master ...._„ 55.00 Read-A-Rama 33.00 Read & Rhyme 33.00 SpellBound .... 29.00 Speller Bee 35.00 Tafes from Arabia ........... 33 00 Wordmaster 33.00 Critics Choice $169.00 The Works 139 00 Library lor the Amiga : «t LANGUAGES A/C Basic AJC Fortran Macro Assembler $139.00 195.00 69.00 . 69 00 Aztec C Professional . 133 00 Benchmark C Library 65.00 Benchmark Iff Library 69 00 Benchmark ModUra 2 ....... 139 00 Benchmark Simplified ....... 6700 Cape 68k 63 00 Lattice C 139.00 Lattice C Professional 249.00 Library s Sources 199 00 Metacomco Lisp 139.00 Metacomco Pascal 69 00 Metascope Debugger 65.00 The Power System Pecan .... 99.00 The Professional Pecan ...... 99 00 Source Level Debugger ...... 57 00 TO! Modula 2 Comm 199.00 TDJ Modula 2 Dev, 99 00 TD1Modula2Reg 42.00 Developer Tool Ksl 35.00 True Basic 65 00 HARD DISK DRIVES SCSI 3. 5 48mg Drive 26ms S599O0 SCSI 3 5 48mg A20O0 565.00 SCSI 20mg Drive A2000 ... 399.00 SCS I 65mg Drive 5 25 - 525.00 33mg Hrjrive A500/1000 845.00 A1000 Harddisk Cllr, 25000 Cltd SCSI Controller ...... 175.00 GVPSCSICtiMmgOk 275. GVPSCSI Ct!r2mgOk 299.00 SCSI 40mg Quantm Drive . . 869.00 SCSI 45mg Hard Card B19.00 Phoenix Ha rddr*ve 725 00 Phoenix 20mg A1000 795.00 Rodime 150mg 5180s 1269.00 SCSI Conlrol A500 220 00 SCSI Adaptec 4000 169.00 SCSI 3,5 32mg A20O0 435.00 SCSI 40mg 5.25 Drive 479,00 CAD SYSTEMS Draw Plus $167.00 Dynamic Cad 325.00 Home Builders Cad 137.00 Intro Cad 55.00 Logic Works 69.00 X-Cad System 395.00 Acquisition 1 3f $210 00 C.B. Tree 69 OO Data Retrieve 55.00 Dbman 139 00 Microtiche Filer 69.00 Organize 65 00 Rolobase Plus 62 00 Softwood File II GS - 85,00 Superbase 99 00 Superhase Professional 199 00 MAILORDERS: Ordering Information: Product subject to availability. Price subject to change. Shipping info: C.O.D. only. $3.50 per shipping. We ship UPS Ground. Air and Overnight shipping available. For faster delivery send Cashier Check, Money Order, of use MasterCard or Visa. Personal checks al low 20 days to ctear. Company purchase orders accepted Call lor prior authorization. Mass. residents add 5% safes tax Amiga is a trademark ol Commodore-Amiga. Inc. 3.5 DS/DD Centech Cir. $21.00 3.5 DS/DD Centech Reg 21.00 3.5 DS/DD Color Disks 22.00 3 5 DS/DD Disks 21.00 3.5 DS/DD Oiskeltes 21,00 3,5 DS/DD Disks 21.00 City Desk $105 00 City Desk Companion 20.00 City Desk Companion 2 20,00 Page Setter 99.00 Professional Page 249 00 Publisher 1000 99,00 Publisher Plus 69.00 Shakespeare 145,00 ASOO/A1000/A2000 PERIPHERALS 1084 Monitor $325 00 A1010 External Diskdnve 220,00 A1020 5,25 External Drive . . . 215 00 A16B0 1200 Baud Modem ■■ 125.00 A2052 2mb Ram Expansion . . 595.00 Bridge Card w/5,25 Drive . . 569,00 A2090 Harddisk Cllr 325,00 A501 512k Mem A500 CPU . . 169.00 GRAPHICS & VIDEO 3-Demon ... $74,00 Animator vWI mages US. 00 Animator Apprentices 18900 Animation Effects - 35.00 Animate 3-D 103.00 Animation Multiplane . 65.00 Animation Stand 35.00 An Gallery i 22.00 Art Gallery II - 22.00 ArtPakl -- 22.00 Art Parts II ................ 2200 Art Parts I ■ - ■ 22.00 Butcher 29.00 Calligrapher Help 30.00 Color Splitters 74.00 Deluxe Paint II 95.00 Deluxe Photo Lab 109.00 Deluxe Production 139.00 Deluxe Video II 95-00 Digi-Pamt 45.00 Digi-Paint Help 24-00 Digi-View , 140.00 Deluxe Paint Help 24.00 E/FJC Station Mgr 195 00 Express Paint - 67.00 Faniavision 41 .00 Forms in Flight ............ 54,00 Graphic Studio --■■■ 39,00 Impact 57.00 Invisian . 115.00 Lights, Camera. Action 53 00 Page Flipper 37.00 Page Flipper FX 110.00 Perfect Vision 175.00 Pholon Paint 67.00 Photon Exp Dish, 22.00 Pholon Painl HeJp -■ 24.00 Pix-Mate 45.00 Prism ■ 45.00 Pro Video Plus 199.00 Pro Video Plus Set I 89.00 Pro Video Plus Set I! . 89 00 Sculpt 3-D 65.00 Season & Holidays 22.00 Silver Turbo 16900 TV-Show 67.00 TV-Txt 67.00 Video Scape 3-D 129.00 Video Tiller 105.00 Aaargh $26,00 Al fen Fires 30,00 Alternate Reality 30 00 Amegas 25.00 Arazok's Tomb 30.00 Archon 24.00 Archonll 35.00 Artie Fox 28.00 Arkanoid 23.00 Awesome Arcade .......... 34.00 Barbarian 29,00 Bard s Tale 3500 Circle :34 on Reader Service card. Bards Tale II ........ .. 42,00 Championship Baseball 29.00 Championship Basketball ■ ■ 2900 Black Jack Academy 29.00 Black Lamp 17.00 Breach 29.00 Bridge 5.0 2200 Bubble Ghost 30.00 Capone 29.00 Carrier Command 33.00 Casi no Fever .............. 29.00 Center Fold 25.00 Challanger ... . . ... 1500 Crtessmaster2Q00 , 35.00 City Defense 15.00 CJever & Smart 25.00 Computer Baseball .......... 10.00 Cosmic Relief 27.00 Crazy Cars 29.00 Cube Master 25.00 DHrk Castle 39.00 Death Sword 18,00 Deep Space 24,00 Defcon 5 29,00 Defender of the Crown . 34 ,00 DejaVu 3400 Destroyer 29.00 Detonator 29.00 Diablo .- 18 00 Dr. Xes 33.00 Earl Weaver Baseball 35.00 Ebonstar 28.00 Emerald Mines 15.00 Empire 35.00 Faery Tale Adventure 33.00 Famous Courses 15.00 Ferrari Form jla One ....... 3500 Fire Power ia.oo Fire N Forget 30 00 Flight Path 737 17,00 Flight Simufaior 35 00 Championship Football ..... 29.00 Footman 20.00 Formula J 23,00 Frost Byte - 20.00 Galactic Invasion 1 7.00 Galaxy Fight 20.00 Galileo II 45.00 Garrison 33.00 Garrison II 33,00 Gee Bee Air Rally 29 00 Gettysburg 42.00 Globle Commander .... 30.00 Golden Path ■ 30 00 Golden Oldie 15.00 Gold Runner 25.00 Grand Prix ■ - 13.00 Grand Slam Tennis - 33.00 Grid Start 18.00 Guild of Thieves 30.00 Gunshoot 25.00 Hard Ball 30.00 Harrier Combat Simulator ... 33,00 Head Coach 33 00 Hex 29 00 Super Star Hockey 35 00 Hollywood Poker 24,00 Hunt lor Red October 30,00 Impossible Mission II ....... 35 00 Indoor Sports 33 00 Insanity Fight 29,00 Intercepter 35,00 Into the Eagles Nest 29,00 Jet 36.00 Jewels of Darkness ........ 2200 Jmxter 29.00 Kamptgr-uppe 39.00 Karate King ... 15.00 King of Chicago 33.00 Knight Ore - ■ ■ ■ 30.00 King's Ouest 35.00 King's Quest N 35.00 King's Ouest III 35.00 Karate Kid II 29.00 Land of Legends - - ■ ■ 35.00 Larry .,,,,.....,. 15.00 Leader Board 27.00 Leather Neck 29 00 Leisure Suit Larry .......... 29.00 Magician Dungeon 19 00 Major motion 30.00 Marble Madness .... ... 35 00 Mean 16 29.00 Mind Walker ■•- —•■ 35.00 Moebius 42.00 Monkey Business - - ■ - ■ 16 DO Oblilerator 29.00 OM Shore Warrior 30.00 Paladin 29.00 The Pawn 1800 Phantasie 29. 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We do not offer relunds for defective products or for products that do no! perform satisfactorily. We make no guarantees for products performance INTRODUCING. An Evolution in Disk Utilities for Amiga™ Personal Computers! F E A T U R 1 N G • An easy to use, friendly and intuitive user interface. • A powerful and fast disk backup tool that lets you make backups of your copy-protected Amiga software. • A disk editing tool that lets you edit raw MFM tracks, AmigaDOS sectors and AmigaDOS files (automatically calculating new checksums). • A disk cataloging tool that lets you maintain lists of your personal, public domain and commercial software. • A unique backcp tool for duplicating other disk formats including MS-DOS PC-DOS and Atari ST. • An easy to read, informative user manual is included. • This product is not cony-protected in any way. NOW SHIPPING! $49.95 „ Includes shipping and handling! Arizona residents add 6,59c sales tax. TO ORDER Send check or money order to: Fuller Computer Systems, Inc. P.O. Box 9222 Mesa, Arizona 85204-0430 Or CALL (602) 835-501 S Amiga is a trademark uf Cammadore-Amiga, Inc. Dealer Inquiries Invited Circle 183 on Reader Service card InterFont 3D Object Font Designer TM Now you can turn your 3D Modeling program into a Video Titling System! Create 3D Object Fonts from the bitmap fonts on your Workbench disk, or any other Amiga fonts. Create the Font just once. Then use the easy Interchange system to create 3D Objects from whole blocks of text. Create fonts for Sculpt 3D, VidcoScape 3D, Turbo Silver *or Forms in Flight * A full Intuition interface makes InterFont easy and fun to use. The complete system including the InterFont Designer, Interchange and the InterFont Conversion Module is just SI 19.95 InterFont Designer and Conversion Module available separately for just $79.95 Available now at your favorite dealer. If not, call us. % 'SYNDESIS' 20 West Street Wilmington, MA 01887 USA 508-657-5585 I* TuitoSflvwardRintf hHghtCbnvaaonMo^^ AE product nanes arc Tiadcmaiks or Registered Tradoma&s d lharrispcaive companies. Esprjt Amiga SPIRIT TECHNOLOGY'S S 500-2 Internal Memory Expan- sion Board is expandable to one-half, one, and two mega- bytes of RAM. The package in- cludes an optional external power configuration, and with new circuitry, the board prom- ises to install comfortably above the motherboard. It is $299 unpopulated. Have you been searching for a low-cost hard-drive sys- tem? The HDA Hard Drive Adaptor lets you connect inex- pensive IBM-compatible drives and ST-506 controllers to your A500 or A 1000. The $249 adaptor, enclosed in a metal case, offers bus pass-through and draws power from the hard-drive supply. If you don't want to build your own, you can get Spirit's "ready-to-wear" 20- or 40-meg assemblage ($759.50 and $979.50, respectively). Spirit is also singing praises for their new MIDI Star MIDI interface. The unit offers switch control for its in and out/thru ports and RS-232 in- terface. It also provides patch- panel distribution and star configuration to banish instru- ment daisy chains, signal de- lays, and cable changes. MIDI Star has an internal power supply, and its universal cable interfaces to all Amigas. The MS 1 x4 model, with one in and four out/thru ports, is $169.50; MS 2x6, with two ins and six out/thru connections, is $229.50. Catch Spirit at 220 West 2950 South, Salt Lake- City, UT 84114, 801/485-4233, 800/433-7572. Something Old, Something New A NEW RENDITION of that old arcade favorite Q1X. Torch 2081 challenges you to con- struct a defense shield while avoiding blazing fireballs. On the Amiga, the game has new twists. Take control of the Sur- face Defense Glider for S24.95; contact Digital Concepts, 28800 Gratiot Ave., Suite 162, Roseville, MI 48066, 313/772- 1416. Pictures and Words PROFESSIONAL DRAW, a new illustration and design program, offers a variety of drawing tools: circles, ellipses, rectangles, polygons, and be- zier curves. You can import IFF files, including HAM im- ages, and transform them into fully-editable structured draw- ings. Pro Draw empowers you with mouse-controlled rota- tion, scaling, shearing, and dis- tortion. Macro features let you recall previously-designed im- ages at a single keystroke. Out- put detailed graphics — without jaggies — to the highest resolu- tion of dot-matrix and Post- Script devices. Professional Draw's built-in color separator will prepare color graphics for mechanical or process color offset printing. Professional Draw ($199.95) is compatible with the planned upgrade to Professional Page, also due out this fall. With the GoldSpell II spell- ing checker, you can load per- sonal dictionaries and create substitute files to automatically replace slang, technical jargon. and so on. A batch-correction feature checks documents and prepares a list of misspelled words. List price is $44.95; GoldSpell owners can get the program for $20. Contact Gold Disk, PO Box 789, Streetsville, Mississauga, Out., Canada L5M 2C2, 416/828- 0913. *■ Circle 219 on Reader Service card. 102 November 1988 Dr.T's MUSIC SOFTWARE 220 Boylston Slreet Choslnul Hill. MA- 02167 USA 16171 244-6954 FAX (517) 244-5243 For over four years we have designed the most powerful and flexible tools possible so that you can create your own musical state- ment. They may change the way you think about your music. The Keyboard Controlled Sequencer, Level II, Tunesmith, Algorithmic Composer, and Fingers have all shaped the music of numerous creative artists from Elliott Sharp to Jan Hammer. Our Caged Artist and Lilley Freelance editor/librarians give you an intui- tive and fast method of shaping and archiving sounds for almost any instrument you own. And if you want to delve into sound shaping at its deepest, Samplemaker will help you create and edit sounds never before heard, as well as transfer samples between the most popu- lar samplers. For those of you who need music transcribing and scoring for lead sheets or even professional music publishing, the Copyist Levels I, II, or III for Atari, IBM, and Amiga can fill all of your desires. With the Phantom SMPTE Inter- face for KCS or Level II Atari, you can synchronize your sequenced performances to audio or video tape in the most efficient possi- ble manner. Our innovative Multi Program Environment for the Atari ST com- puters gives you the power of a digital workstation at a very low price. Products such as Intelligent Music's M will be supporting MPE in the near future. Multi- finder support on the Macintosh and full multitasking ability on the Amiga give a simi- lar power on these computers. Dr. T's products are available for Atari ST/Mega, Macintosh, Amiga, IBM PC, Commodore 64 and 128, and Apple II computers. Our sequencers are fully file com- patible between computers and support industry standard MIDI files. The Amiga MRS, KCS, and Level II support the Internal Amiga samples. Dr. T's products are available world- wide, wherever,, fine music products are sold. Droves of Drives INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL, and in 20 (S699), 30 (S799), .ind (iO (S995) mogabyif rapac- ities, the SupraDrive Hard Disk System promises to rev up your Amiga 2000. With complete DMA access and an cMciual S( :SI poil, the SupraDrive is compatible with RAM boards, digitizers, and the A2088 Bridgeboard— it supports MS-DOS partitions, too. Both versions come with formatting and utilities soft- ware to aid organization, and the internal unit is packaged with assembly materials. Do you already have a hard disk that you plan to mount inter- nally? The Supra Interface Kits include everything that comes with SupraDrive except The internal SupraDrive Hard Disk comes with an assembly kit. die hard disk, and are avail- able with ($399.95) or without ($249.95) controllers. Speed your order to Supra Corp., 1133 Commercial Way, Albany, OR 9732 1 . 503/967-9075. Word Games HOW DO YOU spell elec- tronic crossword fun, and maximize your score, too? Computer Scrabble is a good bet. As in lite popular board game Scrabble, you must build words using letters that have numerical value. You can choose from four playing lev- els — novice to expert. Depend- ing on your hardware configuration. Computer Scrabble has a vocabulary of 12,000 to 20,000 words; every move must pass the inspection of the built-in spelling checker. Whether you play against the computer, one friend, or three opponents. you can clock your turns. For $39.95, you can throw away your tiles. Virgin Games' Com- puter Scrabble is distributed by Electronic Arts, 1820 Gate- way Dr., San Mateo, CA 94404, 415/571-7171. Reference Section THE AMIGADOS CLI Refer- ence, a pocket guide to ihe syntax and usage of Amiga CLI commands, is the first in a planned series of similar publications. Get the pamphlet for $3.95 (quantity discounts arc available) from The Com- puter Club Co., 4131 Meadow Hill Lane, Fairfax, VA 22033- 3113, 703/968-7588. Better Your Best ADDING PAYROLL manage- ment. B.E.S.T. 3.0 updates the popular accounting program. You can control the payroll for up to 50(1 employees, and allow for up to ten deductions and income sources per em- ployee. You can print pavroll checks. W-2 forms, and other standard forms. Version 3.0 will retail for S395, and U.E.S.T. Payroll Management sells as a stand-alone program for S79.95. Upgrades for regis- tered owners are free if you bought the program alter Jan- uary 1. 1988; S25 otherwise. 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