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VOLUME 6, NUMBER 3 MARCH
FEATURES
Now HEAR THIS! BJ Mitch Wens ....
Eight easy sampling tips to help you ere-
ate beuer-qualhy, more polished Amiga
audio for your business presentations,
home-video productions, or any other
application requiring sound or music.
PATCHWORK BJ Tim TaU,
Harnessing the potential of MIDI synthe-
sizers depends on effective patch editors.
Which editor/librarian offers high-perfor-
mance support for the synthesizer you
need?
MAKING 'SPARKS' FLY
BJjanjacluon
Noted jazz/blues guitarist and composer
Melvin Sparks thinks using an Amiga
help him write music is definitely hip.
ARTICLES
THE AMIGA WORLD HARDWARE
BUYER'S GUIDE Compiled by
Jan Jackson and Tim Walsh
Nobody has an in with hardware devel-
opers like our gal Jan. So when she says,
"Is that a new add-on/peripheral in yOUT
pocket, big boy, or are you just trying to
bluff your way into the AW Buyer's
Guide?" she can tell the fluff from the
real stuff It's no Mae West pm-on: We've
got the vital stars on over 275 products.
COLUMNS
CHIEF CONCERNS B, Doag Barn" ....
From the keyboard cacophony we've
been hearing from his office this past
month, we think the editor is ready 10
mount a synthesizer assault on Carnegie
Hall ... but if he fails we're laking away
his music software and returning his
ukelele.
ACCENT ON GRAPHICS
BJ jo<l Hagen
Take the "pencil test" this month in the
first of a twa-pan series on freehand ani-
mation using popular paint programs.
INFO.PHILE By MorA L. Von Nom~ and
Bill Catchings •....................
New Amiga users get more helpful Work-
bench tips in the second installment of
info.phik's "Back to Basics" mini-series.
POINTERS B,john Foust
"Routine" advice on managing memory
resources in C.
COVER PHOTOGRAPH BY ED JUDICE
PIANO COURTf,SV Of HOUSE or GEUNAS
1990
REVIEWS
20 68030 ACCELERATOR BOARDS,
A2630 (Commodore), HURRICANE 2800
(IMtronics), and IMPACT A3000/A4000
(Great Volt., Prodacls) 12
Who will gain the pole position in the
68030 Derby? Our reviewer rates three
contenders on performance, value and
26 design.
MIDI SAMPLE WRENCH
(dissidents) 80
This MIDI sample-editing program has
dozens of wonderful features-but you
can't use it with every sampler.
32 PROFESSIONAL PAGE 1.3
(GoIdDisk) 86
lO New and improved features put Pro Page
ahead of the desktop-publishing pack.
"Piny it again, Sam ... if you 've gol enough
RAM." Music and sound are the high notes Ihis IMAGELINK (Active Circuits) .. _ ... _ . 90
month. As time goes by, the Amiga is becoming a A format-conversion program for profes-
sional graphics users who need to move
serious sound machine-s-umether for making
among Amiga, Mac, and PC environments.
music or adding audio oomph to multimedia
34 appluations. BACK TALK 96
Speak up and be heard! There is no final
word when it comes to AW reviews.
GAMES
DEPARTMENTS CRIB NarES 66
REPARTEE 8 Unlike Mr. Connery, "Crib Notes" colum-
Drop us a line with what's on your mind. nist Peter Olafson may not be the "Sexiest
Person Alive," but he's been getting ac-
NarEPAD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10 quainted with Sean, Harrison, and the rest
6 Some great-looking pictures from outer' ofthe crew in "Indiana Jones and the Last
space are becoming available on Amiga Crusade" (plus a few other game favorites)
nets. Plus news from Commodore. to give you tips on beating the odds. Game
reviews follow his column:
WHAT'S NEW? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. I()()
We don't know whether hemlines will be BATTLE SQUADRON (Inncrprise) ..... 66
up or down this spring, but we do know Blast away at Ban-ax baddies on the
what's in fashion in software, hardware, planet Terrainia.
and other newware.
SPACE QUEST III: THE PIRATES OF
56 HORS D'OEUVRES 104 PESTUWN (Sierra On-Line) . . . . . . . .. 74
Take a tip-take several-from your fel- Journey with Roger Wileo [0 rescue kid-
low AW readers. . napped programmers.
HELP KEy 106 INOIANA JONES AND THE LAsT
No mission is impossible for Agent Wal- CRUSADE (Luctufilm / Electronic Arts) .. 74
58 lace. so send your tale of technical trou- Take your choice of two versions-arcade
ble on a self-destructing tape any time. action or graphics adventure-of this su-
per game based on the rnegahit movie.
LAsT LiCKS 112
Always firing from the hip, AW takes ROMANCE OF THE THREE
62 some more paning shots-whether up in KINGDOMS (Koci Corp.) 76
the air, dead on center. below the belt, or Replay the historical unification of China
at its own foot. in this su-aregic-simulation game.
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USING COMPUTERS lD create and
play music is a double-edged sword.
Swords are plenty of fun to hack away
with, but not much fun when they slice
your finger off.
For some musicians and composers,
computers are the greatest thing since
groupies. They can create artificial or-
chestras, allowing an individual to com-
pose and playa symphony without
knowing how to play any of the instru-
ments. They can help fill in the gaps in
an undermanned jam session, and they
tremendously ease the highly detailed
and tedious work of creating complex
compositions.
Most importantly, they allow non-mu-
sicians such as myself to make noise, and
sometimes even pleasant sounds.
Also, computers in general are reli-
able. Unlike real musicians, computers
don't have cars that break down, hang-
overs, or appointments to keep else-
where. They are never distracted by
fans, and as long as the power supply is
good, they keep a good steady beat. And
in the long run they are world's cheaper
than a group of skilled musicians. In
short, computers are an almost infallible
tool that has helped ease the creation
and playing of music.
Amigas are particularly good for mu-
sic, and superbly adept at handling the
integration of music, video and
animation.
But computers-even Amigas-are not
musicians. They have trouble duplicating
the raw sound of an acoustic guitar or a
set of jazz drums. And it is very difficult
for them to be spontaneous.
Like all machines, computers have the
nasty habit of throwing people out of
6 March 1990
CHIEF CONCERNS
Tune in or turn of!?
work. Rock drummers, particularly stu-
dio-based one's, have really suffered from
the advent of computer-driven drum
machines. Instead of arms flailing, mi-
crochips keep careful synchopation.
There are fewer mistakes, but that
slightly off, unmistakably human sound
of a real drummer is missing from studio
tracks.
Sometimes computers are a bother in
the studio. For musicians who are not
computer-oriented, computers can be
more annoying than a rock critic. At
some jam sessions, the bassist and guitar-
ists simply plug in, and the drummer
sets up. Then some technology-driven
keyboard player gets the disk drives
whirring. After that, the pace is dictated
by the computer. "Oops! Wrong file.
Hold it." Meanwhile, the real musicians
sit idly by while the computer kills the
entire spirit of the session.
There is a more insidious side to com-
puters in music. While it is great that
computers allow people like me to create
sound, it is not great if I force you to
listen to it. Computers have created
more bad music than anything, except
maybe the ukelele. Computers them-
selves are not pioneers. They cannot do
what Beethoven or Miles Davis or Pete
Townshend have done, which is create
new ways of looking at music, and carry
their vision through to its ultimate, hu-
man manifestation.
Fortunately with computers, the good
usually outweighs the bad. And in music,
computers have done many. many great
things. No longer do composers sit with
pen in hand, carefully forming notes,
and then start all over again when they
make a mistake. Instead, they can put a
piece through its paces, over and over
again, until it is correct. Then a laser
printer can deliver the score with speed
and beauty. The end result is often
much better than that created by a tired
composer with writer's cramp.
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priate. Professionals and near-
professionals should use computers, not
abuse them. Sometimes an old-fashioned
jam session is the way to go. Budding
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they like, but keep the awful sounding
results to themselves.
As for me, I'll keep playing with the
great music software packages that come
through our offices. Because I happen to
like my staff, I'll try to keep the door
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CULPRITS? ...
J. VANDER Brook's letter
about the marketing and sales
of Amiga products ("Dealing
with Dealers," Repartee, Jan.
'90, p. 8) was so much on tar-
get it's uncanny! He's right.
Retail outlets that sell Amigas
are not much more than per-
sonalized video arcades, where
store staff engage in one-on-
one sessions on games and in
personal, time-consuming con-
sultations on the use of the
computer. On the other hand,
stores that deal in IBM and/or
Apple products seem to take
each customer more seriously.
I suspect this is because
(after all these years), the
Amiga line is still not being
taken very seriously by the
public. It's thought of as just
another great game machine.
And Commodore's answer to
all of this? Running TV com-
mercials with flying houses,
and calling the whole issue
"creativity."
G. Majewski
Chicago,IL
... OR
SCAPEGOATS?
HAVING BEEN AN Amiga
salesman (and support person)
for over two years, I was an-
8 March 1990
REPARTEE
Comments, complaints, and concerns
from Amiga World readers.
gered by Mr. Vander Brook's
condemnation of the Amiga
dealer as the source of poor
Amiga sales.
Apple and IBM retailer'
have the reputation and excel-
lent marketing of their respec-
tive companies to bolster the
salability (and prices) of their
products. Amiga dealers typi-
cally have to do their own ad-
vertising to stir up business.
They must explain why such a
wonderful machine is not the
leading computer, regardless
of its excellent capabilities and
low price.
The lower cost of Amiga
products result in smaller
profits for the Amiga dealer,
restricting their resources.
That laser printer that Mr.
Vander Brook wanted to see
in every Amiga store would
have cost the Amiga dealer
around $4000-money that
the dealer could more effec-
tively spend on software and
hardware that the typical com-
puter enthusiast would be
more likely to buy.
I also take offense to his at-
tacks on the capabilities of
dealership staffs. I was proud
of everyone who sold and sup-
ported the Amiga alongside
me, and I did my very best to
give my customers what they
needed. At the store I worked
for, we gave the customer free
support for life.
Also, the people who put
products on back order are
distributors, not dealers.
Those matters are completely
out of the dealer's control.
I pray that people with this
attitude about their Amiga
dealer someday go into busi-
ness for themselves, so that
they can see what it is like in
the dealer's shoes. Commo-
dore is causing poor Amiga
sales, and the dealer is being
made into the scapegoat.
Nikola Derpich
Watsonville, CA
IN THE NAME
OF SCIENCE
IN HIS NOVEMBER ·89 edi-
torial (""Chief Concerns," p. 6),
Doug Barney deplores the
lack of marketing of the Amiga
for applications such as multi-
media, desktop video and ani-
mation. However, he makes
no mention of the use of the
Amiga for scientific analysis
and presentation of data. In
the Repartee and Help Key
columns of the same issue, the
lack of suitable software for
such applications is pointed
out, and I think it is for this
reason that the Macintosh is
capturing much of the ex-
panding market of scientists
and science students.
Spreadsheet programs such
as MaxiPlan Plus (Intuitive
Technologies) and Analyze!
(Micro-Systems) will not fit
mathematical functions to data
and display the fitted curves.
Math-Amation (faurus-Impex)
has some of this capability, but
lack, the ability to handle hy-
perbolic and parabolic func-
tions, fit multiple regressions,
or carry out analysis of
variance.
I cannot recall a single arti-
cle in Amiga World that ade-
quately dealt with the subject
and critically reviewed avail-
able software. If good software
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manufacturers.
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A2630
HURRICANE 2800
IMPACT A3000/4000
Faster, faster, faster!
By Sheldon Leemon
THE FIRST AMIGA speedsters could
run programs two or three times as fast
as a stock machine by adding a 68020
accelerator board LO their systems. Now,
there is a group of 68030 accelerator
boards that run two to three times as fast
as the 020 boards. and up to ten times as
fast as an A2000. These screamers, Com-
modore's A2630, Imtronics' Hurricane
2800, and GVP's Impact A3000 and
A4000, provide performance on a par
with the fastest of desktop computers.
Each of these boards fits into the
Amiga 2000's Sti-pin coprocessor SIOl
and increases the computer's perfor-
mance in a number of ways. For one
thing, the 68030 processor can operate
at much higher clock speeds than the
68000 (your computer's stock processor)
or 68020. The Hurricane 2800 board
runs at 28 MHz, twice as fast as the
68020 boards, and four times the speed
of the standard A2000 processor, while
the I mpact board runs at speeds from 25
to 33 MHz. The A2630 normally runs at
25 MHz, but can also run faster.
Like the 68020 processor, the 68030
has a 256-byte instruction cache, which
allows short program loops to run en-
tirely within the processor's own mem-
ory, eliminating the time required to
fetch instructions. In addition, it has a
12 March 1990
256-byte data cache, so you can access
frequently-used data without taking the.
time to retrieve it from main computer
memory.
Use of the data cache speeds up pro-
gram execution significantly, but can
cause problems with DMA devices, in-
cluding DMA hard-drive controllers. The
problem is that the CPU does not know
when DMA devices change the contents
of the memory. Thus, if the 68030 has
the data at location 100,000 cached, and
a DMA device changes the contents of
that memory location, the CPU will
think that its cached data is valid, and
won't read from memory if it needs the
data at that location. Although such an
occurrence is not very likely, it intro-
r(1;,--
(c:;;::J: YO V R TV R N!
~ /) , boards, on the other hand, are asyn-
Y",
I have eight megs of 32-bit RAM on my
25 MHz Impact board and have found
it to be very reliable, although 1 would
like to exceed the nine-meg limit. I like
the fact that it has a host adapter for
running a hard disk. GVP has been
supportive.
-Craig HoUnt1HJc1c
Cos Cob, CT
duces the possibility of error. All of the
boards have hardware protection to
keep them from caching data contained
in chip RAM, which can be changed by
DMA devices like the blitter. But DMA
hard-drive owners may want to refrain
from turning the data cache on.
The 68030 has a built-in Memory
Management Unit (MMU), which you
can use to relocate the Kickstart ROMs
to fast 32-bit memory, reducing access
time to ROM routines. The 68882 float-
ing-point math chip, a coprocessor that
is optional on these boards, performs
complex math operations at dozens of
times the speed of comparable software
routines. The majority of programs-
word processors, terminals, and games,
for instance-never use floating-point
math and are not affected by the pres-
ence of a 68882. A math chip can speed
up applications like CAD packages,
spreadsheets, and 3-D graphics, how-
ever, from ten to 100 times.
DESIGN SAYS.
Despite their similarities, these boards
have important design differences. Like
the 68020 accelerator boards, the Hurri-
cane 2800 uses a synchronous design,
which means that it can run only at an
even multiple of the A2000's 7.1 MHz
clock speed (in this case, approximately
28.4 MHz). The A2630 and GVP Impact
chronous, and can run at anyone of a
whole range of frequencies (though
Commodore sells just one version of the
A2630, running at 25 MHz). Some early
versions of the GVP board used 16 MHz
68030 chips, but since faster processors
have become cheaper and more readily
available, GVP sells versions that run at
25, 28, and even 33 MHz. Changing the
operating speed of the board can be as
simple as putting in a faster processor
and the appropriate oscillator crystal.
In fact, it is possible to increase the
operating speed of the Impact board or
A2630 just by changing the clock crystal
(the I mpact board's crystal is socketed,
while the A2630's is soldered in). Run-
ning a 68030 processor faster than its
rated speed, however, is controversial at
•••••••••••••••••••••••
best. Proponents of this practice, called
over-oscillation or over-clocking, point
out that the speed ratings on chips are
only approximate, and that they allow
for a fairly wide margin of safety. More
conservative types argue that it's neces-
sary to leave yourself a little leeway, be-
cause running a chip too fast can cause it
to overheat and possibly fail. The possi-
bility of erratic performance is enough to
discourage them from pushing the chips.
Besides, while increasing clock speed
boosts performance, the speed increase is
not linear; running a board at 33 MHz
won't necessarily make it twice as fast as
running it at 16 MHz. The speed at
which the processor can access memory
is a limiting factor, so unless you have
very fast memory chips, you won't get
the full benefit of the higher dock rate.
Whether you are for or against over-
docking, you should be aware that the
Hurricane 2800 is shipped with a 25
MHz 68030 running at 28 MHz, while
GVP uses either a 25 MHz chip running
at 25 MHz (the A3000 model) or a 33
MHz chip running at 33 MHz (MOOO).
(GVP reports that it will be shipping 28
MHz boards in place of the 25 MHz
model when the appropriate parts be-
come available.) The A2630 is available
only with a 25 MHz processor running
at 25 MHz. The Hurricane math copro-
cessor is clocked at a fixed 28 MHz
speed, while the GVP Impact board and
the Commodore A2630 can either be
clocked at the same speed as the proces-
sor, or at a different speed, using a sepa-
rate clock crystal.
THE DRIVERS' SEAT
Both the GVP Impact and Hurricane
2800 boards have built-in hard-drive in-
terfaces, but each takes a different ap-
proach. The Hurricane 2800 board
features the familiar SCSI interface com-
monly used to attach up to seven hard
drives to the Amiga. I could not evaluate
this interface, however, because the
driver software was not completed in
time for this review. GVP's hard-drive
interface, on the other hand. has been
up and running for a while. The Impact
board includes an JU"·stylebus interface
that allows it to connect with two IDE
~,
Y'?c-;J= YOlJR TlJRN!
'
I have found the 25 MHz Impact
board to be quick and reliable. It is
easy to install, and the company has
made some nice improvements to it.
-Charles Bor1Jao1omew
Audubon,
(I megrated Drive Electronics) hard
drives, a style designed for use with [BM
AT-cornpatible computers. GVP offers
combination accelerator/hard drive pack-
ages that include a Quantum Al"" hard
drive, the same drive used by Comrno-
dare in its PC-40 III computers. Boot
At the atartIng line are
(top to bottom): GVPs 1m-
poet A3OOO, •••• A2630
from Commodore, and the
Imtronic:s 2800.
ROMs that plug into the Impact board
enable the computer to auto-boot from
the accelerator's hard drive, using the
FastFileSystem. The included drive-in-
stallation software makes it easy to parti-
tion the drive, and to install Workbench
onil.
Using 32-bit RAM speeds up an accel-
erator because it eliminates the bottle-
neck that results when the 68030 proces-
sor has to slow down to talk with 16-bit
memory (such as chip RAM) and the
custom chips. All three accelerators can
use 32-bit memory, but only the A2630
provides space for this RAM on the main
accelerator board. In order to add mem-
ory to either the Hurricane 2800 or the
Impact board, you must plug a separate
memory board into the main accelerator
board. This results in a somewhat bulky
two-board sandwich, but gives you a lot
more flexibility in configuring the sys-
tem. With the Hurricane and Impact
PA
boards, you can initially purchase the
main accelerator board by itself, and add
32·bit memory as your budget permits.
The Hurricane 2800 uses the same
memory board as previous Hurricane
accelerators-one socketed for either ••
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 REV E W S

one-megabit (256 x 4) or four megabit
(1024 x4) RAM chips. You can add
memory in increments of a single mega-
byte using the smaller chips. or four mega-
bytes using the larger ones, up to a
maximum of fOUT or 16 megs respec-
lively. The GVP memory board uses
nybble-mode addressing, which allows
faster memory access, but requires that
memory be added in four-meg incre-
ments. The GVP board uses eight-mega-
bit-by-one bit nybble-mode SIMMs (not
to be confused with the page-mode
SIMMs used in the Macintosh and PS/2
computers) to add either four or eight
megabytes of 32-bit RAM.
With the Commodore A2630, your
choices are a bit more limited. ILcomes ~

LET'S Go!
For purposes of comparison, I per- graphic that requires calculation of 68881 either directly or through the
formed the same speed tests on the over two million floating-point opera- Amiga IEEE math libraries. The final
68030 accelerator boards that I used tions. The Worldmap test shows the test in this category shows the time to
for the 68020 boards (see p. 38 in the time required to draw a map of the render a 3-D image of the Utah teapot
July '89 issue). Although some of the world using a set of about 5000 coordi- in 320 x 400 HAM mode using the
programs used in the prior test have nates and an orthographic projection floating-point version of Impulse's
been upgraded since then, I used the scheme. (This program has a greater Turbo Silver. All accelerators tested
same program versions so as to main- ratio of drawing time to figuring time used the 68882 math chip running at
tain comparability. Three categories of than the MandeITest.) same speed as the main processor.
tests were performed. The first times The third set of tests show how much They aU used 32-bit RAM, though the
applications that do not use floating- faster the various floating-point pro- access times of those RAM chips varied
point math. The RAM speed tests (Fast grams executed when written to take (the A2630 was supplied with lOOns
RAM/Chip RAM/RAM Speed) on the advantage of the 68881 math co-pro- RAMs, the Impact board with 80ns
eSA disk clock instructions executed cessor. Mostly duplicates of the Fast chips, and the Hurricane 2800 with
from fast RAM and chip RAM with the Floating Point tests, these use the 70ns RAMs).
instruction cache turned off. Nsieve
comes from eSA, while the other Sieve
programs (Sievel100 and CPU/Mem- Non Floating. Point Tests A2630 GVP25 GVP28 H2800 GVP33
test) come from Ronin, developers of RAMtest Fast (sees) 2.04 2.08 1.90 1.52 1.58
the Hurricane board. These run varia- RAMtest Chip (secs) 9.52 11.06 10.46 7.91 7.98
tions on a famous program that finds RAMspeed (MHz) 20.39 20.39 20.67 26.72 25.00
prime numbers, a common test of non- CSA Nsieve (secs) .27 .27 .23 .23 .20
floating-point compute speed. The eSA Nsieve (gain) 8.61 8.76 10.01 10.79 11.81
Search/Replace test shows the time re- CSA Write Pixel (sees) 3.98 3.66 3.34 3.34 3.10
quired to perform 800 search-and-re- CSA Writepixel (gain) 3.60 3.90 4.20 4.30 4.60
place operations in a 96,OOO-character Ronin Sieve (sees) 5.70 5.66 5.06 4.76 4.25
text file, using the TxEd text editor by Ronin CPU/Memtest (gain) 10.62 10.62 11.50 12.55 14.53
Microsmiths. The Remap test shows Search/Replace (sees) 58.40 57.00 48.20 44.90 46.60
how long DeluxePaint II (Electronic Remap Colors (sees) 6.00 5.90 5.60 5.60 5.50
Arts) takes to reduce a 640 x 400 pic- Speed (ticks) 116.00 96.00 85.00 89.00 71.00
ture from 16 colors to two colors. Speed (gain) 2.01 2.43 2.75 2.62 3.29
Write Pixel docks the time it takes to fill
a rectangle on the screen with color us- Fast Floating-Point Tests
ing the ROM Kernel Write Pixel func- CSA Savage (secs) 6.30 5.90 5.32 4.94 4.34
tion. FinaUy, Speed is a benchmark CSA Savage (gain) 8.71 9.27 10.28 11.07 12.60
recently devised by Jez San to compare Ronin Savage/ffp (secs) 1.53 1.38 1.22 1.20 1.03
the speed of 68030 accelerators with Mandeltest 68000 (sees) 53.58 48.48 44.54 42.88 37.74
the A2620. World map ffp (sees) 7.90 6.60 6.10 6.10 5.21
The second class of tests show how
68030 boards can speed operations 68882 Floating. Point tests
that use software floating-point rou- CSA Savage/020 (sees) .22 .22 .19 .20 .15
tines. The two Savage tests give you the Ronin Savage/ieee (sees) .43 .42 .38 .38 .30
results of a famous floating-point Ronin Savagel881 (sees) .22 .22 .19 .18 .15
benchmark, as executed by the pro- Mandeltest (secs) 11.92 11.56 10.40 10.32 9.04
grams on the eSA and Ronin disks. Mandeltest (gain) 35.40 36.50 40.60 40.90 46.70
The MandelTest program comes from Worldmap/ieee (secs) 5.30 5.30 4.75 4.60 3.70
the CSA disk, and shows the time re- Worldmap/882 (sees) 2.75 2.45 2.23 2.23 2.05
quired to draw the Mandelbrot set, a Silver render (mins:secs) 61:04 36:38 33:52 39.46 31:26

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while you can upgrade an A2630 to four care to unsolder and replace the stan- cally at startup time, and places it first
megs, doing so is not a simple plug-in dard memory chips. As with the other on the list within its eight-megabyte ex-
operation as with the other boards. In- boards, the A2630 has a connector that pansion-memory space. The memory
stead, you must solder in 16 RAM chips provides access to the 32-bit bus, leaving that both of these boards provide can be
(256 X 4 Zips), a job best left to "qualified open the possibility of faster memory ex- accessed by DMA devices, which should
service personnel." Another drawback to pansion beyond the four-meg mark. speed access by such hard-drive control-
the Commodore board is that it comes lers. The Hurricane memory board, on
with relatively slow lOOns(nanosecond) WELCOME TO THE SYSTEM the other hand, does not auto-configure,
memory chips. Although the board will Both the A2630 and Impact memory so you must run the Hurricane Config-
run faster with 80ns parts, you cannot boards auto-configure-that is, the com- ure program to add the memory to the
system and to copy the Kickstart ROM
code to 32-bit memory. Normally, the
memory is added within the eight-meg
expansion-memory space, but it can also
be configured above this space, allowing
you to exceed a total of nine megabytes
of memory. Running the Configure pro-
gram is not much of a burden because
you can add it to your startup-sequence;
also, it does not need to be run again
when you warm boot. The lack of an
Using the Perfect Sound 1M Perfect Sound comes with ability to auto configure has other conse-
stereo sampler, you can record one of the most advanced quences, however. Unlike the GVP and
and edit any sound from a eight bit digitizers available for Commodore accelerators, the Hurricane
tape, radio, CD player, or any computer. 8eparate Left H2800 does not work with Dave Hay-
microphone with your Amiga. and Right line inputs allow you nie's SetCPU program, which the other
If you've ever used an to record in stereo or mono. A boards use to control the caches, remap
Amiga before, you'll qUickly mic input allows you to record Kickstart to fast memory, and to allow
master Perfect Sound's power- from a microphone. Digital gain the use of a Kickstart disk for booting al-
ful editor. Just use your mouse lets you adjUst input volume ternate operating system versions. The
to rearrange, mix, cut or paste levels with easy software con- Hurricane Configure program performs
sound. Create IFF instruments trols. Sampling rates up to the first two functions, but does not al-
for use in music programs. 40,000 samples per second. low you to start the machine from a
Kickstart disk.
The sound you are Although the 68030 processors in
Easily loop sec-
currently editing is these accelerator boards functionally re-
tions of a sound.
graphed here. You
You can even ad-
can easily mark sec- place the 68000 processor, it is possible
just the looping to temporarily disable the 68030 and use
tions to edit by drag-
section while the
ging your mouse the 68000 for running that rare piece of
sound plays.
over the graph.
software (copy-protected games, for the
most part) that will not work with the
030. In the case of both the Impact and
Hurricane units, this is accomplished by
means of a hardware switch you must
buy and attach to a pair of jumper pins
on the board. With the switch in one po-
sition. the computer boots using the
68000 processor; in the other position, it
uses the 68030. Commodore's A2630
Zoom in on your board uses a more sophisticated ap·
sound. Individual proach: If you hold down both mouse
samples are shown
for precise editing.
buttons at boot time, a menu appears
letting you choose AmigaDOS on 68000,
AmigaDOS on 68030, or Amix (the
Amiga version of Unix). Despite the fact •.

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that GVP does not support this selection
mechanism, the company claims that
with the right boot ROMs, its board will
allow software selection of Unix.
Turning off the 68030 board restores
full software compatibility, but also dis-
ables everything anached to the board.
This means that neither the 32-bit mem-
ory nor the 68882 coprocessor is accessi-
ble when in 68000 mode. Likewise,
GVP's hard-disk interface does not work
when the 68030 is turned off. Imtronics,
however, claims that its SCSI hard-drive
interface will continue to operate in
68000 mode.
How FAST Is FAST?
The speed increase realized with these
boards depends on the application,
though there will be a marked boost in
any application. Floating-point math
aside, these boards perform most opera-
TIGER
tions at five to nine times the speed of an
unaccelerated Amiga. Speed increase will
be most noticeable in applications that
are normally slow, such as desktop pub-
lishing and CAD, and in multitasking sit-
uations, where the machine tends to bog
down. An 030 with Kickstart in 32-bit
memory makes a big difference in the
time it takes to redraw windows in al-
most any application.
The performance tests I conducted
came down, as expected, in favor of the
boards with the fastest clock speeds and
the fastest memory. At the 25 MHz clock
speed, the GVP Impact board using
80ns RAMs was faster than the Commo-
dore A2630 which uses lOOns RAMs. At

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RAMs was marginally faster than the
GVP with 80ns RAMs. But at 33 MHz,
the GVP Impact board was clearly the
fastest of the systems tested.
The same factors that made the Com-
modore A2620 a favorite among 68020
"The music accelerators work to the disadvantage of
the A2630. Selling just one configuration
program of the board makes sense when it runs at
for the rest a fixed processor speed, but not when
the board uses an asynchronous design.
of us." And the fact that the board comes only
with relatively slow lOOns RAMs is not
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minded, either. Although the tests show
the A2630 to be a bit slower than the
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particularly badly in the ray-trace test, in
./ Fully Irtter-act.ive which the 68020 version of Turbo Silver
(Impulse) was used to render the Utah
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dered the picture in about half the time
./ Om' Stvp Editing- required by the A2620, the A2630 was
only about 15% faster than its pre-
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decessor. Unless you are willing to re-
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with faster versions, the A2630 is not
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 Good 'sound' advice in eight easy-to-master techniques
for making better sound samples to use in any Amiga production
you rrw,yhave in mind.
By Mitch Wells
nless you are a musician, you might
forget the many ways that sound fig-
ures into all the things you can do with
your Amiga. So consider for just a mo-
ment: voiceovers and narrations for
business or professional presentations; sound tracks
for home video productions: sound effects for ani-
marion sequences; musical accompaniment for slide
shows; or just some wild sound show of music, voices,
and off-the-wall effects of your own design. The list
of possibilities is endless.
Effectively using the sound-sampling capabilities of
your Amiga is the key to doing any or all of these
things. And the following hints and tips will make
you a better Amiga audio producer, musical director,
sound technician -or whatever other role you need
to play.
You can use the Amiga to produce sound in three
ways: through its built-in speech synthesizer, by mod-
ifying the registers in its sound chip, or in sampling
with the help of digitizing hardware and software.
The first, and most primitive method, is known to
those of you who plowed through the introductory
manuals. The second, and probably least useful, is
something for the technical aficionado who is at home
programming a professional synthesizer. Although
there are a few good programs that can help you out
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tedious. Sampling, however, with its entire range of
real-world sound and music at ready disposal, is
clearly the easiest route and has the most widespread
application.
Sampling, simply, is the process of converting ordi-
nary, analog sounds into digital information (through
the sampling hardware's analog-to-digital converter,
or ADC) to be stored in the Arniga's memory. This in-
formation is then reconverted into analog sound
waves, through one offour digital-to-analog converters
(DACs)within the system's Paula chip, a stereo pream-
plifier also found within the Amiga, and your sound
system (or the amplifier within your monitor). In order
to make samples yourself, what you need is some exter-
nal sampling hardware (sound digitizer), sampling
software, and something to sample.
As for the hardware and software, there are a
number of fairly inexpensive packages to choose
from. Hardware {digitizer)-and-software (sample ed-
iting program) combinations include Perfect Sound
(SunRize, $89.95); A.M.A.S. (Microdeal / MichTron,
$169.95); Stereo Sound Sampler+ Jammer (Darel,
$99.95); and SP8 (Creative Sound Systems, $100). If
you already have the digitizer, you can purchase
sample-editing software separately; AudioMaster I I
(Oxxi, 59.95) and Studio Magic (SunRize, S99.99)
are two that readily come to mind. For the purposes •.
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Perfect Sound hardware and Audio Master I I soft-
ware. Although Perfect Sound can be a bit noisy, I
like AudioMaster II. The two complement each
The sOlmd should have an "even" dyna.mic range. Sounds
that get loud and then soft (or vice versa), or have a
long decay (as you would get by holding down a
piano key), are not as desirable as sounds with a quick
other well. decay (like the beep of a car horn), or those with an
Don't worry. however, if this particular duo is not even volume level.
your own setup. because the techniques and tips 1
The sound should 110tbe distorted, but it should be a good,
will discuss will apply to just about any combination.
strong Level. This is especially important when working
(For comparative evaluations of the sampling hard-
with cassettes. When recording or choosing a sound
ware and software products mentioned above-and
on cassette to be sampled later, the sound should be
for a compatibility chart to guide you in mixing and
at or around 0 vu on the meter. Having a volume
matching cornponenu-csee "Sizzling Sounds," p. 48
control at the source of the sample (as with a keyboard
in Oct. '89 issue.)
or a cassette player with an output knob) will help
you match levels to overcome "sampler noise" (more
# 1 Is TlJls on the Level? about this later).

To get the best results, preparing for sampling can The sou lid should be the best fidelity possible. Again, CDs
Preparlngfor be as important, if not more important, than actually have obvious advantages here. For creating your own
taking the sample. Although some sampling hard- sounds from scratch, however, a good microphone
sampling ean ware will give you a choice between input types, most and mixer beats a cassette recorder any day. If you
sampling hardware requires that the sound come do not already own a microphone and mixer, don't
be as from a "line-level" source. Line-level devices include waste your money on the cheap ones made for home
CD players, cassette or reel-to-reel tape recorders, video recording. If you are interested in acquiring a
important, If audio outputs from videotape, an AMJFM receiver, good mic and mixer for a one-time sampling session,
a keyboard, or a "live" source recorded with a mi- contact the music and NV rental stores in your area.
not more
crophone and a mixer. Trying to sample from a The occasional rental will probably not break your
important, headphone or speaker output, when the hardware bank account, and you will enjoy all the benefits of
requires line level, will usually cause distortion. Sam- using superior quality equipment.
than aetnally pling from a microphone without a preamplifier (or
mixer) will create large amounts of noise. In short,
taldngthe use the right hardware.
# 3 Thanks for the Memory ...
Before you actually make your sample, there is still
sample. another consideration: memory. How much, and
what kind of memory you have relates directly to
Deciding what to sample is obviously the next step. how high a level of fidelity you can achieve, so decide
Perhaps you know a section of a pop song or classical how you are going to use the sample first If you
piece that would work great at the beginning of your plan to use your sounds in Sonix (Oxxi), Deluxe
animation, or maybe you recorded voice onto cassette Music Construction Set-DMCS (Electronic Arts,
for a narrative. I f you have a CD player, there are a 599.95), or with a sequencing program such as KCS
number of professional sound and sound effects li- (Dr. T's Music Software, S249) or Dynamic Studio
braries available. A favorite with many professional (New Wave, 199.95), you will probably want the
musicians is the ProSonus Sample Library. You can highest fidelity possible. Most sample players use chip
find similar offerings among the numerous cassette memory; if you have more available, your sample
libraries advertised in the c1assifieds of most keyboard can be longer and of higher fidelity. Installing a one-
magazines. Also, many record stores and public li- meg Agnus chip on machines with one megabyte or
braries carry sound-effects records. more will be a great help when working with longer
Whatever your source material, choosing the best samples. (You may already have the new one-meg
sounds for sampling should meet the following Agnus chip in your A2000 if it was purchased after
criteria: September 1989-type AVAIL in a ell window to
see how much chip memory your machine has avail-
The sound should be easily isolated. If you choose a section able.)
of music or narration from a tape or CD, silence How much memory )'ou have also may determine
before or after the sound is preferable. Background the sampling rate at which you will take your sample.
noise, especially noticeable from cassettes, is not. CD (The sampling rate denotes how many times per
players offer the advantage of allowing you to accu- second the computer takes the "picture" of )'our
rately pause and play small sections of a CD without sound.) The more samples an ADC takes per second,
having to get "up to speed" and leaving you with the more accurately it will record the sound (hence
that annoying click or glitch usually accompanying the higher resolution-and greater fidelity-e-when
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playback rate, however, is 28,867 samples per second
(sps), so it does not really matter if your digitizer can
sample at higher rates. Also, when sampling in stereo,
the sampling rate is automatically cut in half, from
28k to 14k. Fortunately, most people do not hear
sounds beyond 15k.
Thus, if you are going to use your sample with
something memory-intensive like an animation, con-
sider sampling at a lower sampling rate to conserve
memory. A sound sampled at 28.000 sps will take
less memory than the same sound sampled at 44,000
sps; sam piing the sound at 16,000 sps will take
even less memory. The fidelity ceiling (calculated
at half the sampling rate) of the sound sampled at
small amount to increase sibilance, and cutting down
on the very low end to decrease pops from P's and
B's. With instruments, many have specific mid-range
frequencies that make them sound somewhat nasal,
so here you might want to use EQing to reduce these.
In the back of some music theory or audio engi-
neering textbooks, and in the manuals of all graphic
equalizers, you will usually find a chart showing the
frequency ranges of various instruments and voices.
These are very good sources to have around for
reference.
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28k will be 14k, while that of the sound sampled at Another way to increase the perceived fidelity ceiling
16k will be 8k-which
applications.
might be okay for some is to speed up the sample. Speeding up the sample
also reduces the likelihood that you will notice "0 to
"
You will have to decide your own level of acceptable A noise" (a fuzziness usually heard in the high fre-
trade-off for fidelity vs. memory constraints, but, quency range of a sample). This noise is distortion
in general, sampling at lower rates is usually a created by Digital-to-Analog converter errors when
good, practical idea for capturing long passages of the DAC reads in-between steps of a sample; it is
sound and music if you have a system with limited present in all samplers. When a sampler takes "pic-
memory. tures" of a sound (digitizing), it takes a number of
pictures (or samples) to make up the complete wave-
form. In 12- and l6-bit samples, there are more
# 4 The GreatE'luaUzer discrete steps to the sample, so fewer errors occur
No matter what sampling rate you decide on, there than with an 8-bit sample.
are a few tricks that can provide you with better Recognizing that this distortion is a problem, Com-
results. One of the most effective is equalization. modore put low-pass filters in all Amigas. While the
Equalizing (or EQing) a sound involves running a filter reduces the distortion, it does so at the price of
line-level sound through a series of filters, usually eliminating frequencies above 7.5k. Thus, in many
called high-pass/low-pass, band-pass, or parametric situations you need to bypass the output filter. While
filters. These filters emphasize or de-emphasize cer- you cannot do this on the A 1000 without a hardware
tain frequency bands-hence the names. Hi-pass/low- modification, the filter is software switchable on the
pass is most commonly found at the bass and treble A500 and A2000. With the public-domain program
controls in stereo systems. Using your stereo system LED (found on the Sonix 2.0 disk and on many •.
for EQing would be fine if you could sample from
the speaker outputs, but, as mentioned earlier, most
sampling hardware will not allow this. Unfortunately,
using the bass and treble controls on most stereos
does not affect the line outputs (the tape monitor
output, for instance). Thus, you need an in-line EQ
that can be put after your source device but before
the sampling hardware.
The most common type of in-line EQ is the 10-
band Graphic Equalizer available almost anywhere
stereo equipment is sold. Radio Shack makes a 10-
band Graphic EQ for under $80, while Teac offers a
IO-band with an LED frequency analyzer (to show
which frequencies are the loudest) for not much
more. Many others sell for around $100; if you plan
to do much sampling, owning one of these is a must.
Don't go overboard when using a graphic EQ. The
proper use of any EQ is to correct aural deficiencies.
EQing for a cassette source often involves just slightly
de-emphasizing frequencies above 12k to reduce tape
noise, while emphasizing 8-12k to make up for the
reduced highs associated with cassettes. EQing a live A standard setup tor nne-level sampling: from tape deck to equalizer to
voice might mean emphasizing high frequencies a sampler to Amlga.

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latter two models.
you can [Urn the filter off the
Once the filter is disabled, of course, you have your
distortion problem again. If you speed up the sample,
however, not only do you raise the frequency (pitch)
of the sample. but you also elevate the frequency of
the noise as well. With a sample that was made at
28k and moved up an octave. most of the Duo-A
noise will probably occur out of human hearing
range! Your sample, however, will play back twice as
fast-which probably is not exactly what you wanted.
One way LO get around this is to get a fairly high-
quality dual-speed tape deck. Most consumer reel-
to-reel decks, such as those made by Sony, Panasonic,
or Teac, offer two speeds; if expense is a problem,
you might be surprised how often you can find these
at many second-hand stores. In addition, there are
several four-track casseue recorders, such as the Ya-
maha MT3X or the Tascam 644, that offer dual-speed
operation. Also, in the back of some music magazines
you will see dual-speed casseue decks advertised for
guitaris,s wanting to learn licks from their favorite
tapes. Many old turntables offer dual (or more)
speeds, too.
In whatever way you get your equipment,the trick
here is to record your desired sound onto tape at
high speed, then sample the sound while playing
back the tape at low speed (which is almost always
an octave jump). Finally, kick the sample up an octave
with your sample-editing software. When using Au-
diomaster Il, choose Tune Waveform from the Spe-
cial Effects menu. Click once on the Octave slider to
the right of the indicating bar. Now click on the
Waveform gadget in the bottom half of the screen to
hear your changes. Finally, click on OK within the
Tune Waveform window to accept the octave jump.
Be prepared, however, because this eats up a lot
of memory and is usually best done with short sam-
ples. Sampling in stereo eats up even more memory.
so if you sample is stereo, be sure you really need
stereo. Many programs, such as Dr. Ts KCS, for
example, do not support stereo samples.
# 6 Got the Signal'!
After you have decided the rate at which you will
sample, and you have set up your EQ. making the
sample is pretty straightforward. Have your software
"listen" to your sampler before actually starting your
sound. This way, you can see how much noise (if any)
is being introduced by the sampling hardware. Perfect
I
, Sound, for instance, is quite noisy. In order to get a
good sample with it, I first adjust the input control
to find the point at which there is the least noise, but
the most input signal. J need to make sure my input
signal to the sampling hardware is pretty "hot"-
almost but not quite dipping. Clipping is distortion
caused by the input signal level being too great for
either the sampler to handle, or the source device
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(or tape itself) to put out (or record) properly. On
Audiornaster I J, it is easy to tell when the signal clips;
the waveform displayed will break up. Once the signal
seems right, try making a few samples. Save your
work often, and sample and save different versions
ofthe same sounds for comparison. Experiment and
have fun!
# 7 SampHng Savers
Most programs use the I FF format, so saving your
samples to I FF files is the safest bet. If you want to
make an entire soundtrack from I FF samples, Sonix
can take these and use them as segments of a song
rather than instruments. Compose a complete song
by sampling entire bars of music that can repeat, and
assign these samples to any of the four instruments.
The instruments can then be thought of as verse.
chorus, and so on. Simply compose with whole notes
and rests. When using Dr. T's KCS, you can assign
up to 16 samples to specific MIDJ channels and
keyboard ranges. Allocating four sounds to four note
ranges and one MIDI channel will create some for-
midable keyboard splits.
# 8 Let's Get Looped!
If your samples are going to repeat after they are
played out once, you will need to tell your editing
software where to begin to repeat a loop. Something
to remember about making loops is that an instru-
ment gets it perceived characteristics from the first
few milliseconds of attack. Even for complex instru-
ments and sounds, the loop does not have to be long,
although the initial auack might have to be. Audio-
Master II offers two features to help you make the
best loops possible: Seek Zero and Seek Loop. These
look for the quietest points in a sample (zero meaning
no volume) (0 set repeat points in a loop. Seeking
zero points helps to avoid clicks in loop repeats. Such
clicks are simply jumps in both volume and waveform
composition. When making a loop, I frequently move
the beginning and ending loop pointers manually to
make my loop as short as possible, while still retaining
the characteristics of the sound. I then use the Seek
Zero function to find the best repeating point in the
vicinity of the loop pointers. Looping the sample
merely requires a little experimenting. Thus, saving
different versions of your sample with different loop
points is a crucial element in making the best
sample .•
Mitch Wells runs an audio-recording, video-production,
and desktop-publishing service in Michigan. He has worked
in a number of recording studios, both as an engineer and
a session musician. He has also taught classes in MIDI and
other aspects of computer-assisted music production. Write
to him c/o Amiga World, Editorial Dept .• 80 Elm St.,
Peterborough, NH 03458.
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 Patchwork
Compared to squinting
at your synth's LCD readout, these
editor/librarians make editing MIDI patches easter,
but still not perfect .
••••
SYNTHESIZERS USED 10 look like some-
thing out of an old Buck Rogers movie. Rows
of knobs, dials, sliders, and buttons covered
a panel attached to a piano-like keyboard.
Programming the syrnh required you to set
every control at the right level to create a
"patch" that produced a sound. These early
analog synths had no memory. so getting
another sound required resetting each con-
trol, a time-consuming and inexact process.
Today's electronic instruments give you
more control-but at a price. Their internal
software lets you program multiple sounds
(patches), store them in the synthesizer's
memory. then recall them at a touch. Gone.
however, is the array of controls that served
as a map of every parameter's setting and
how they interrelated. Modern synthesizers
offer sometimes as few as four programming
buttons with which you can change func-
tions. You base your decisions on the readout
from one (typically tiny) LCD screen. which
shows a single setting at a time. Often you
must scroll through dozens of cryptic nu-
meric parameters to find the one you want.
By Tim Tully
••••
ILLUSTRATED BY lARRY McEl\'TIRE
Programming with the LCD-screen interface
is tedious, unintuitive, and frustrating.
The alternative is software that lets you
use the Amiga's power to edit the synth's
settings. The field of Amiga synth editors is
dominated by two companies: Sound Quest
and Dr. T's Music Software, each of whom
make editor/librarians for over 25 instru-
ments. In addition, a number of small com-
panies offer programs for individual synths.
(See the accompanying chart for a complete
list of supported synthesizers.) Prices range
from $35 to $195. averaging around $150.
The ideal editor should speed and ease
editing by using a screen that gives an at-a-
glance map. as did the old-fashioned hard-
ware controls, displaying an overview of all
parameters while letting you focus on a par-
ticular control or group of controls. It would
use the precision inherent in alphanumerics
to augment, not replace, these graphic icons.
With it you should be able to move easily
from parameter to parameter as you set up
a patch and see how the various settings
interact, much as the Sound Quest editor •.
Amiga World 27
 for the Roland D-50 does (Figure I). Unlike the D-
50 editor, however, the perfect program should let
you play your synth, just as you would in a real
situation, then continue editing the patch until you
have a sound you like. The program would also let
you edit a symh's characteristic features, such as
layering of sounds and MIDI SysEx settings. A good
editor would include a librarian for storing sounds
in banks matching the configuration of the synth's
memory. and let you load these banks without undue
fuss, so you can get back to the music.
DISCORD IN PARADISE
Be warned: Amiga editor/librarians are not ideal.
Their user interfaces have serious limitations. and
figure 1. Sound Quest". D-5OIdltor clspIIrys an •••• InRrumenra IrIterT.-
l8ted pa,..meters on one 1CI"Mn. Tllree subscreens cowt1ng more global
functions can be displayed In the I.". square In •••• lower rtght, leaving
•••• other ~lleter. visible.
figure 2. The C-ZAR Idttor for the CUIo CZ •••.••• makes ucen.nt UN
of editable graphic icons to clspIay the sc.tus of ~ and .now
""'-"-no.
28 March 1990
the documentation is atrocious across the board. Most
librarian functions are handled straightforwardly and
simply, but the editors enhance personal productivity
only because the alternative-LCD-screen program-
ming-is such a struggle.
Consider, for example, the ubiquitous Yamaha
TX81Z FM synthesizer. At its basic level, this instru-
ment contains 32 editable patches to which a TX81 Z
editor must devote a screen. On a higher level, the
TX8lZ has configurations called "performances," in
which you can assign up to eight patches to play
together on anyone key. In addition to a patch-
editing screen, a TX81 Z editor needs a separate
screen that facilitates editing a performance and
shows the relationships between a performance and
the individual patches you can load into it. These
needs are only partially addressed by Dr. Ts and
Sound Quest's programs.
Although both programs extensively use alpha-
numerics to communicate parameter values, their
patch-editing screens make only fair use of graphic
tools. The programs do use graphics effectively in
the display and editing of the instrument's complex
envelopes. With Dr.T's there is a further nice graphic
touch in the "virtual slider," found at the left of the
screen, with which you can adjust any parameter:
Highlight the parameter's value, then dick and drag
on any blank point of the screen.
Editing a TX81 Z performance is another matter.
You must juggle a performance's structure, selecting
and placing up to eight patches and occasionally
tweaking a patch. Quick recognition of individual
values and the ability to see an overview are para-
mount, but both programs' performance editors
drop the ball. Aside from the Doctor's virtual slider
and Sound Quest's turning altered values orange, no
graphic communication occurs. Relative volumes-
prime candidates for graphic representation-are all
numeric.
Knowing which patches comprise a performance
is also difficult. Dr. Ts lists a performance's patches
here by name, there by number, and Sound Quest's
program can read only patch numbers, not names,
from one of the synthesizer's banks. To see a list of
available patches, both programs make you go to
another screen.
In contrast with such unfriendly screens is the
editing interface in C-ZAR, Diemer Development's
ed/lib for the Casio CZ series of synthesizers (Figure
2). Though the CZ synths have six eight-stage en-
velopes, up to four waveforms per patch, and a num-
ber of other parameters, C-ZAR is able to display
them all at once. During a complex editing session
you will appreciate this help in keeping oriented. C-
ZARalso uses easy-to-read, on-screen knobs to show
values both numerically and graphically; to change a
value, click on the knob. The interface is not only
highly intuitive, but also communicates very well with
the user. The CZ synths are less complex than the
TX81Z, true, but Sound Quest's 0-50 screen, and ~
Synthesizers Supported
by Amiga Editor/Librarians

eRB Diemer Sound Synthetic Triangle

Prod. Develop. Digitools Dr. T's MIDITALK New Wave Quest· Reality Audio

Casio
eZ-101/lOoo • • • • •
cz-i • • •
eZ-3000/5OO0 • • •
VZ-I •
E-M
Proteus • •
Ensoniq
SQ·80 • •
ESQ-I/M • •
VFX •
Kawai
K-l • •
K·4 •
K-5 •
Korg
MI • •
MIR •
M3R •
OW-8000
EX-8oo0
••
Lexicon
PCM-70 •
Oberheim
Matrix 6/1000 • •
Roland
0-11011 0/20 • •
MT-32 •• •
0·50 •
0-70 •
Yamaha
OX-711
OX7IID/7IIFD
• •
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OX7
OX7S
• • •
•
OX9 • •
TFI •
TX7 •• •
TX802
OXII
••
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OX 100/27/21 •
F8-01 • • • •
valse available: Synergy-Universal Editor/Librarian, which can control most MIDI synthesizers.

AmigaWQrld 29

figure 3. The graphJc sliders In DweI tor the Korg DW-8000let you see
all your settings at once.
Synthetic Reality's Dwel for the Korg DW-8000 (Fig-
ure 3),both prove that a simple interface to a complex
instrument can be created.
SLAVE LABOR
One of the benefits of MIDI is the ability to play one
synthesizer from the keyboard of another or from an
alternate controller you play like a guitar or wind
instrument. In response, manufacturers have built
smaller and less expensive "slave" synths that come
without keyboards and can be played only via MIDI.
The units typically offer very few on-board controls,
but Amiga software developers have answered the
call for controlling help, offering editor/librarians for
Oberheim's M-IOOO, Roland's D-llO, Yamaha's
TXSIZ, and several others.
That an editor for such a synth would not allow
you to play it from an external controller would seem
counterproductive. Yet this is just the situation pre-
sented by both Dr. T's and Sound Quest's programs.
Both product lines let you play the instrument you
are editing only by clicking the right mouse button:
high notes on the right of the screen, lows notes on
the left. This is not an effective, real-world way to
test the usefulness of a patch. For wind and guitar
controllers, for which aftertouch and pitchbend are
essential, it is useless. Even with a keyboard, unless
you patch and repatch your MIDI connections each
time you make an edit, these programs give you no
way to test a sound's response to aftertouch, mod
wheel or pitch bend movements, or any tonal subtlety
but velocity,which you control by the mouse's vertical
position.
Aside from their superior interfaces, C-ZAR and
Dwel offer about the same levels of performance as
Sound Quest and Dr. T's programs. Others, such as
MIDITALK's TXS, are primitive. Triangle Audio's
Data Filer for the Yamaha FB-O1 offers adequate
librarian functions, but no editing controls.
The arrival of such pro-level Amiga sequencers as
Dr. T's KCSand Passport's Master Tracks Pro creates
the potential for the Amiga to become a serious music
computer. If the machine is to aid productivity in a
MIDI environment, fast and friendly synth editors
are a must. Both Sound Quest and Dr. T's are talent-
laden organizations, and have done impressive work
on the machine side. Now it's time they address the
user interface .•
Timothy Tully is a former editor for Electronic Musician
and umus about and reviews music products extensively.
Write to him c/o Amiga World Editorial Dept., 80 Elm
St., Peterborough, NH 03458,

Manufacturers' Addresses
CRB Productions DigiTools New Wave Software Synthetic Reality
15 Norton St. PO Box 7417 PO Box 438 PO Box 6066
Nashua, NH 03060 Buffalo Grove, II. 60089 SI. Clair Shores, MI 48080 SI. Cloud, MN 56302
3121459-8781 3131771-4465 6121259-9499
Diemer Development
12814 Landale SI. Dr. T's Music Software Sound Quest Inc. Triangle Audio
Studio City, CA 91604 220 Boylston SI. 1573 Eglington Ave. West PO Box 1108
8181762-0804 Suite 206 Suite 200 Sterling, VA 22170
Chestnut Hill, MA 02167 Toronto, Ontario 3011526-6224
6171244-5243 Canada M6E 2G9
4161256-0466
MIDITALK 8001387-8720
PO Box 211
Averill Park, NY 12018
5181674-8466

30 March J 990
 AMIGA PROFILE

Making 'Sparks' Fly

had had a computer," muses into time devoted purely to the Blue Ribbon Bakery in Atlanta.
Sparks, a noted blues/jazz guitarist, job at hand-making music. Sparks discovered Fay's latest pro-
composer, and Amiga proponent. And Melvin Sparks knows more ject-Bars & Pipes-was just what
"Just think of all the music they than a little about making music. he wanted. Now he's back in his
produced-and all handwritten!" Sparks left Houston, Texas, at age Mt. Vernon, NY-based studio
Sparks started out with a C64 16 to play with legendary per- working on his next recording.
and then traded up for an Amiga former Little Richard and his "Bars & Pipes is so much bet-
late in 1985 after he heard about band, The Upsetters. He's played ter," claims Sparks. who especially
an Arniga composition program with the likes of Sam Cooke.jackie favors the program's graphic in-
called SoundScape (Mimetics). "It Wilson, Dr. John, and George terface. "Other programs want
was exactly what I wanted and I Benson. Moving from rock to jazz you to grab a calculator. With Bars
Jazz/bI •••• 8ubrlst MelvIn SpMtc; •• went right out and bought it." Tra- and blues, he went to New York & Pipes, I just play and get back
ditionally, musicians would gather in the late '60s. Under the influ- to the music and don't worry
in a loft somewhere and just play, ence first of Jack McDuff and later about the computer. It's like a tape
A COMPUfER WITH some mu- he explained. While Sparks would Lou Donaldson, Sparks went on recorder ... no typing."
sical notation on screen doesn't ex- be the first to say there's no sub- to record six albums, while ap- Sparks is equally enthusiastic
actly conjure up visions of Dexter stitute for jamming, the truth is, pearing on more than two dozen about the Arniga's role in his work
Gordon wailing on his sax, or B.B. he admus, that musicians just others. His latest venture. a 1989 and believes he has personally sold
King wringing the blues from his don't play together as often any- release, teamed him with saxist 10 to 12 machines to other musi-
guitar. Yet, many jazz. and blues more. Solitary musicians are com- Hank Crawford and organist cians. "I really love this computer
musicians-including Melvin pelled to look for alternative Jimmy McGriff. and I've seen them all," he laughs.
Sparks-have found that com- methods to develop and perfect Sparks remained loyal to "I really mean it; I think it's the
puters help considerably with their music. Many, like Sparks, dis- SoundScape as long as possible, best. People who come by and see
many time-consuming details covered that computers convert but found support for it lacking. mine wind up getting an Amiga."
when composing. "Imagine if time previously spent document- He began searching for the pro- Are you listening, Commodore?
Duke Ellington or Quincy Jones ing scores and testing for mistakes gram's author, Todor Fay, now at -Jan Jackson

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friend's powerhouse Amiga tears through applica-
tions in mere seconds, while your stock system, sans
accelerator and hard disk, plods along like an old
farm tractor.
Then you begin imagining how much more pro-
ductive you could be if you only had a hard disk and
other fancy stuff. We've seen this kind of thing before;
SLOp fantasizing and buy yourself some hardware.
To help satisfy your wishes, our list includes every-
thing from mini replacement mice to mega 32-bit
68030 boards.
Information listed here is subject to change as the
market fluctuates. The companies we contacted sup-
plied us only with products they expect to ship by
March 1990. Where prices had not been set, "Call"
was placed in the price column-meaning, contact
the manufacturer, not us. For items with price ranges,
the starting price is listed. The Port column describes
how items are installed: Peripherals installed exter-
nally connect to pons; boards are installed internally
in slots. The Machine column codes are as follows:
A=A500, B =AlOOO, C=A2000 only, and D=A2000
series.

Clocks ..............•......... 36 Interfacing/Networking .40

Coprocessors 36 Memory .40
Drives/Controllers .....•.•....... 36 Miscellaneous .42
Expansion 38 Music/Sound .44
Graphics/Video .......•......... 39 Manufacturers' Addresses .46

Compiled by Tim Walsb and Jan Jackson

34 March 1990 ILLUSTRATED BY JACK TOM

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tOMB SCSI Drive &: Cootro Comp-U-Save $ '89.00 A,B B", 20MB SCSI hard drive and controller.
~~ ••utemal Floppy Commodore $ 299.9' All Drive 880K micro floppy disk dr-ive.
3Y," Disk Drive Comp-u-Save $ 145.00 All Drive Single Dappy drive with power supply.
0\1000 SCSI 1_ Supra 199.00 B IIUi PUS Ibru. au • iiiCJUdei ••••••••
_I. Commodore $ 199.9' D Dri¥e SIal 880K miao floppy _ dm..
A2090A HD CoIIIIrOIIer Commodore $ 599.00 D SIal ST506. SCSI DMA control~.
ASOOHD Controller PacifM: Peripberals Call A 8", SCSI controller, can hold up to 2MB RAM.

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A500 SCSI Interface Supra $ 199.00 A Bus Optional 2MB RAM.
MOO
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ALF-AG-MW
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Cal
c..a
A

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A
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SIal
lui
20MB HO, allows 2MB RAM expansion and SCSI porL

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•••.• ·""·SCSI Pre sped Call A Bu, Controller w/ALF2 S/W in PROMS.

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ALF·DCMFM or RLL Pre'spect Call 0 Siol V,-card controller, autoboot.
ALF·OE·MFM or RLL Pre'spect Call A.B Bus Controller, adaptor wlo case .
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ALF·Jt&.MnI
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ALF·RG-MFM or RLL Pre'spect Call A,S Bus Controller, adaptor, bus driver.
ALF-RG-Sail Pre'spect Call A Bu, SCSI controller, plthru.
ALF2 Card Pre'specr Call 0 510, SCSI controller (6), ST506 (2 drives).
AUlAG Pre'tpe<t Cal A,B Box ST506 controllrr kit.
AlIa • " DIllE Pre'tpe<t '1200.00 0 SIo< 44MB HD, •• lemaI ('1400). SCSI.

Auto Card
•••• MAS.T .
Expansion Tech
199.00 AD
S 179.95 A,S
Exlemal
Bus
MacinloslHDm tibIe 3V.·
Converts non-autoboot
. use w/emulators.
COil troller to autoboot.
AUlobootable Overdrive Pacific Peripherals S 249.00 C Sial DMNSCSI overdrive controller.
CA·8S0 California Access $ 229.95 All Drive External floppy disk drive.
c:II.llt_ Ccnlaur 'IH.OO AD Drive 3y'-inch extemal8oppy.
CII__
Centaur '195.00 AD Drive Extemal80ppy w/BAD. accekrator 5Oftware.
CII_ _ Ceacwr 149.00 C IBM Enhanca
XT8~rd, upto I.OM81l~.
CSI 6100 Autoboot Centaur $ 119.00 D Slot Allows full autoboot of 2090 and 2090A.
DRAM IMlronics $ 35.00 A Internal DRAM controller.
Dual ,Vt" Disk Drive Comp- lj-Save s 395.00 All Drive Dual Iloppy drive, power supply and 6' cord.
1IiiI~ __ V , 199.00 on.. W/out pown' supply.
SCZ·.. _1_ EC£ '173.00 B Ii. Atigns diu. _ perlOnno ceadIwrit< •••••.
Ial lUI EC£ , m.oo A,C Ii. ~ diu. dri>a. modIwrile _.
ECONO SCSI CSA S 199.00 G Slot Interface for hard disks and devices.
Enhanced TwinDrive MAST. Call All Drive Two 3Yt-inch external floppy drives in one case.
Enhanced TwinDrive MAST. Call All Ext. Drive Dual drive with built-in virus protection.
MA '17. All onve 5Yr oopp,. w,1:Kiih-1n VIrus protectKln.
GYP 'IMl.OO C Controller Adw.nced autobool Eprom w/l'ftDOwb&e media ItOnF.

~I Ex~Tech '179.93 AD Drive t10pp drive.

Escort Hard Drive Card Expansion Tech $ 199.95 A,B Bu, SCSI interface card.
ESCORT Hard Drive Systems Expansion Tech $ 335.00 A,B Bus SCSI DMA controllers, autoboot.
FutCanl Xetec $ 199.95 C Slot SCSI controller, supports 3Vt-inch drives on card.

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Suranung tape up Iystenu, to
-Jr. '699.95 A.B X Box Complete system wl20MB drive. Fast RAM option.
1099.95 Box Quantum drift 40MB SCSIcontroller.
FaslTrak SA·S Host Adapt. Xerec $ 249.95 A External Up to 8MB RAM option, SCSI, software included.

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FasITrd.
FaslTrak

Filerunner
SA-5 Hosl AdapL
SAIO

So. (Hvy.)
Xetec
Xerec

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Pre'tpe<t
Pre'specr
D..a
$ 249.95
$ 249.95
1149.
'199.95
'698.00
$ 698.00
A
B

All
A,B
A,B
Bus
Bo,

ExremaI
Box
Bus
SCSI controller, RAM expansion 8MB and up.
SCSI cntroller, with optional RAM up to 8MB.

Dual &opp, diu. dm<.

31-114MB capodty, Jo.h; ••••• ronnatt<d.
32 124MB ($1677) w/fan.
Filerunner Card Pre'spect S 525.00 D Sial 20--180MB ($1899) available.

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Fireball MAST. $ 229.00 D Ca,d SCSI DMA controller, Burst, Share, Throttle modes.
_1-': M.A.s.r;
M.AS.T.
'17!l9.00 0 InimW
In •••••••
SCSI DMA ronti"oUeT. Burst. Shared;Throu)e
Autoboot. SCSI controDer: 90. 136. 182MB available.
moon.
'759.00 D
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MAS.T. '1109.00 D Internal SCSI DMA controller. Bunt. Share. Throttle. modes.
Flash Card Expansion Tech $ 749.95 C SIOl 32MB hard card, 48MB: $939.95.

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Flash Card Controller Expansion Tech S 229.95 G Slot SCSI interface. autoboot, DMA.
Floppy Drives Expansion Tech $ 179.95 All Drive 3Vt-inch external drive.
S "19.95 Ii. on.. Kit lOr SCSI hard diIll)'lteJD.
CSA 'll9!.00 C SIo< 20MB drive'. SCSI conuoIIC'r. 40MB available.
'749.95 Ii. Dri•• 20MB. 30MB: .95. availabar wl2:MB RAM $269.95.
HardFrmnd2000 MicroBotics $ 329.00 C 510, DMA SCSI hard disk interface, auto-booting.
H0500 IMtronks $ 698.00 A Bus 32MB hard drive.

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UO Subsystems Casbe Systems Call All B•• 20MB to 6660MB capacities.
1M•••••••• 649. n 8 Drive.
1M••••••• '849.00 Ii. Box 32M8 hard dri~ and fMBIO KB.
Spirit '165.00 A.C on.. HD ~1CI'facr; ST·SC)6 MFM or RLL
Impact A2000/810 GVP S 399.00 G SIal SCSVRAM DMA autobooting controller, up to 8MB RAM.
Impact A500 UD Series GVP Call A Bus 20.30, 45MB, 4OQ, 8OQ. IOOQ HD, RAM subsystems .•
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Impact HC Plus GYP Call C Slot 20, 30, 45MB SCSI HO on autoboot HOD controller.
Impact HC Q Stties GYP Call C Slot 40, 80, )00 Quantum SCSI HD on autoboot, DMA.
Impact HC Series
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~1QtII
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GYP
GYP
GYP
GYP
Call
Cd
'149.00 C
9!l!I.00 C
C
C
Slot
Slot
NA
Sv.
_ 5_
20, 30, 45MB SCSI HO. autoboot, DMA controller.
40. 80, 100

44Y
Diok •••••••.

HD
I HD •••

Infinit40 Interactive VKl. Call A,C Ext/Int. Controller, SyQuest drive. removable media.
Muter'·A Konya $ 159.00 All External floppy disk drive.

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Muter 5·A Konya $ 2j!g.00 All Ext. Drive Sy'·inch floppy drive.
_HD IJIICIUIitJ Int. '499.00 C I•••••••• -... diPal40YB _ w/QJd ••••• _.
•.•..,.usi.e
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'119.115 AI orne 8801t miao lloppy dill drift •

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SAIOOO Comspee $ ~.OO B X Box AutobootingISCSl. supporu removable media.
SA2000 Hosl Adaptor Cemspec $ 246.00 0 Slot HD SCSI controller, supports removable media.
SMOO HOlt Adaptor Comspec $ 336,00 A Bu' SCSI controller. supports removable media devices.

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__ Slot Auto<onlip•••••a• ...-s from,... bard disk.
'179.115 C
SCSI_ CM '~.OO C Slot 1_ ••• bard diob ad __

StarDrive SCSI Module MicroBoIK5 $ 129.95 All StarBoard2 High-speed SCSI interface. clock.
SupraDrive 2o-5S0MB Supra $ 499.00 A.B Bu, Byte sync, SCSI, pass rhru, and auto-conflg.
SupnDrive 44R Supra $ 995.00 All Slot, Bus Unlimited capacity with removable 44MB cartridges.
Supra , 799.00 2000 Slot 20MB SCSI oyystem; SOYB ••••• 60MB available.
"pi •••••• Supra Colt> , 179.00 D Slot InlAmlal modem. adda a oerial pon.
YKI. , 199.M C Sloe SCSI hard dilk conrnUor. ••••••••• AMAX.
Twindrive MAST. Call All Drive Two 3Y,,-inchfloppy drives in one case, pass rhru.
Unidrive MAST. $ 139.00 All External Upgradable to twin drive. 3y"·inch external floppy.
Vaull Progressive Call A,B Drive 20, 30, 40, 65 MB hard drive.
W...,.. "IOIQ Supra , 899.00 D Slot Hard card. prefi>mwted. Wordoync DNA. 105Q0 _.
W...,.. SCSI
_ Supra , 179.00 D Slot Allows HD IICCeII dunn, modem or MIDI oprration.
X·1lAIiI Spirit , 519.00 AJl 80< ,xpuu'abIe &om OK 10 •••• in 2MB iDm:menu.

EXPANSION
PIIODUCI' CDIII'lUIY PUCE IIAaL fOllT DUCitiPiJON
AX., Spirit $1195.00 A.B Bus Allows PC/XT.i\T.$lyle board expansion.
But; Expandtt Bill's Boards $ 495.00 A.B Bu, Sub Assemblies turn BabyAT Box into expan. chassis.
Dual Serial Board ASDG $ 249.00 C Slot Provides IWOadditional serial ports.
110oo1__
ASDG , 199.00 C Twia X •••••••••• 2 oeria1 puna ••• Twia-X board.
_1IDe.. GVP , 259.00 A.C Slot Eo.temaI HD ••• -... .- V•.•••••• arda.
GPD_ ASDG 199.00 C Twin X Givn Twin X GPIB
Infinity Machine MAST. Call A.B Bus Up to 64MB of 32-bit memory, SCSI controller. 08882.

SIlAMIM+--
Mini·nck C
SD Chusis

Subsystem 500
TB·2122
ASDG
Ccmspec
Chodpoinl
1IiD'._

PacifIC Peripherals
Micro R&D
$ 195.00
$ "9.00
, 199.00
CaB

$ 249.00
Call
B
All
C
D

A
B
Bus
Drive

Slot

Bus
Bus
2-sIot lorro

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I SU~I,

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card..-,.
+5

puna.
\'011

Chasis holds 2 5Y.- or 3y'.inch d~vtces.

pow~r supply,

•••• up.

2·A2000 slots: $399 wirh floppy disk drive.

Toolbus; allows use of A2000-51yl~ cards.
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TB·2522 Micro R&D Call A Bus Toolbus; allows use of A2000-slyl~ cards.
TU-UOI Yim>RIoD Cd A IIua •• espoado<'" 111-2522.
TooI_ bpanoioa Tech , 189.M A.B IIua 2-A2OOO-. 1_ •••••••••auppIy: 5 amp; SlSS.M.
TJ
TwIa X • dllO IntmlCti've' Vd.
ASDG
, MIl ••
, 519.00
A
C
IIua
Slot
Indudea "P"mjon _.
Dual IEEE lI59 _
SCSI c0ntr0lier. cable.
board.

J8M=h /990
 HARDWA R E B lJ fER s G lJ D E

GRAPHICSNIDEO
PIIODUcr COYPANY PRICE MACH. PORT DESCRIPTION

4004 Geolockable Encoder Magni Systems $ 1695.00 0 18M, Video Genlock. w/fuding, keying; wzconrrol box: $1995.
40045 GenJockable Encoder Magni Systems S 1695.00 C IBM Adds SIMS output capability to 4004 features.
A2!OO Genlock Commodore $ '99.00 C Video slot (h'erlay Amiga graphics on PAL or l\'TSC video.

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up. - - Inkwell $ 129.95 All Moo •• light pen and driver.
AmiGeD Mimetics $ 199.95 All RGB NTSC genlock; overlay.
AmlUn!< RGB Video • 6950.00 ""0 Serial Inleractive video editiPK.cOntroller.
AProDraw R & DL S 499.00 All Serial 9 x 6 Summagraphies draw tablet w/stylus, cursor.
AProDraw R & DL $ 599.00 All Serial 12)( 12 Summagraphics draw tablet w/slylus, cursor.
AProDraw R & DL $ 999.00 All Serial 12 x 18 Summagraphics draw tablet w/stylus, cursor.
CalarSpli_ MicroSrarch $ 150.00 All o;,;ti= EJectronic color wparator; UJe with digitizers.
O;P-Droid New Tek $ 79.95 All JOYotid Automated 6kcr wheel for Digi.Vaew.
~.VIew GaId New Tek • 199.95 A.C "'<aile! Video digitizer will! PQ!'e~ gender chanRr.
Easyl 1000 Anakin Research $ 449.00 8 Serial Pressure sensuive graphics tablet; auro-config.
Easy12000 Anakin $ 499.00 C Slot Pressure sensitive graphics tablet: auro-config.
Euyl500 Anakin Research $ 399.00 A Expansion Pressure sensiti\'e drawing tablet; aUIO-config.
fF GeaIock C-f"DpedNJJty MkroWay $ 50.00 0 Oid.erFixer Enhanumelll; leu IF work. with NTSC genkd..

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Frame Buffer
MAS.T.
MacroWa>:
Mimetics
S '99.00 A.B
S 595.00 0
$ 549.95 C
Denise
Slot
Slot
soc Reduces
RedllttS
Stores
hi-res jitttt
intttlatt
and displays
on Multi-sync
fticker
color
scan
monitors.
Ii"no","__
frame overscanned
"":"~
image.
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Frame Capture Mirnerics $ 199.95 All Frame Buff Optional chip set for use with Frame Buffer.
FrameGrabber Progressive $ 699.95 All Parallel Real-time color digitizer.
Fa Cr tb .256 ProgreSSive $ 724.95 All "'iiillel Real-liD\(' color digitizer.
FUhlre Touch 15 Kit Amigo S 1195.00 All Serial Converts video monitors into touch screens.
Fa•••• TouchS~ Amigo S 3495.00 C NIA Kiosk w/A2000, drive, 1MB RAM, and TIS monitor.
Gcnisc:an Datel $ 299.95 All Parallel Hand scanner; 4V•. inch scanning width, 4000 dpi.
Image Worksyscem Amicore S 18000.00 NlA NIA Image processing and analysis sySlem, up 10 30K.
Imprint 3.0 Liquid Light S 2495.00 All Serial Polaroid Palette image r«ordrr and software.

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Spirit
Edu-Vid Research
S 695.00 All
S 180.00 All
RGB
",...u.1
cmkiC1: with lOOPing YKIco input;
Control infrarrd devices via software .
NTSC. PAL

IS
Kuna S 295.00 All Serial Tabid w/cordlns drvices. cable, softwaT\~,
IS/ONE Kurta S 5251.00 ABC Joystick Graphic tablet with driver software and cables.
JXIOO ASDG/Sharp $ 995.00 All NIA 200 dpi, 4)( 6.4 inches, 18-bit color scanner.

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J"-'OO ASDGlSharp S 3995.00 C NIA 300 dpi, 8.5 x II inches, 24-bil color scanner.
JX450 ASOOShMp S 6995.00 C NIA ~ dpi, II x 17 inches. 24.bit color scanner.
Ink weD Systems $ 129.95 All Joystick Hi-reslight pen and ~re.
UVEI A·~ ua red S 295.00 B Boo RraJ...time video dillritizrr w/HAM IUDDOn.

LIVE! A-Squarw S 450.00 C Slot Real-rime video digitizer w/video effects.

LIVE! A-Squared S 399.00 A Bus Real-time video digitizer w/power supply
MIP ED Beta Video Interactive Micro S 13998.00 All NIA Sony ED Beta deck, camera, and A2500.
MIPHI 8101M
VIdeo Interactive MICro S 6199.00 All NIA Sony HI 8MM deck, camcorder, and A500.
MIP_s,- Interactive Micro S 982.00 All Joyotick Sony MDP-510 Laarr disk. player.
MIP VIIS Video Ploductioo Interactive Micro S 2499.00 All 'k Son VHS video deck., AmiK'l: Iflltm.
Mediaphile 1.3 Sy.tern Interactive Micro s '''.00 All Mouse Audio{Video editing, hardware/software package.
Micl"OSeaTch Digi-View SunRize S 99.95 All Digitizer Replaces color wheel for digitizers.
miniGEN Progressive $ 229.95 All RGB Broadcast-quality genlock, switches modes.
NeriJd~ _ Pni Nen"kl S ~195.oo All RGB Encodes an syna RCB output to compositt signal.
o-l-GEN 7Glnn Omicron Vtdeo $ 1595.00 All RGB Produces composite or VIC !58 video signals, PAL.
Oaud-GEN 711 Omicron vtdec • 2495.00 All RGB S·VHSINTSC ~nlock. system oroducel Sl:Darate VIC PAL
Omni·GEN 721/722 Omicron $ 3500.00 All RGB Muhi-forrnat genlock system.
Presentation Workstation Amicore 101. $18000.00 N/A N/A Produces mulu- media presentations.
ProCEN Progressive $ 449.95 All RGB Genock..s from VHS, S-VHS, MIl. or Betacam formaLS.
_ VIdeo DiIl- 0.",1 $ 139.95 All ",...u.1 Takes compoute VidCO from video, recorder.
SoV •••• SrerieII AnUro", $30000.00 N1A N1A Commercial post production system.
5-View: n.e eM ~doa Software Sensations S 79.95 All ",...u.1 CabIt compatible with Amiga 50 Video encoders, ~

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Scanlock VSI...t VidT«h $ 99'.00 A,D,C RCB out External broadcast-quafiry genlock; pit. auto-config.
Scanner Interface Package Gold Disk $1195.00 All Parallel Canon IX12 300 DP) scanner with interface.

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Scanncry Inset Systems $ 250.00 A,C Parallel Interface cable and software for HP Laser Jet.
so;mew
__ I
0 k I All a to N"IW: i II color c:rJIt'm1er.
SIt~ I 29.11!1 AI """"" 1GB
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Creolioa I 749.11!1 AI IIGIl
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SuperGen 20005 Digital Creation $199'.00 C Video True S-VHS compatible genlock and overlay device.
SuperGe.n-SC Digital Creation $ 599.95 n Video Internal version. encodes RCB to composite.

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Video Pro Series
Video Toaster
Mkroillusions

Amicore
New Tek
$ 799.9> All
11595.00 C
I 49.11!1 AI
.000.00 AI
Call
$1299.00
All
C
Serial

V"'"
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N/A
Video SIOl
Time code reader/generator
., iadt IIGII; •••
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Post production
Digual
system
video effects, frame
_

w/Amiga
syncs graphics,
.t _1GB

capture,
SoDy_.

character
genlock.
sound.

generator.

X·Spec.3D Haitex $ 124.95 All Mouse Three dimensional viewing glasses.

INTERFACE/NETWORKING
AS'O Commodore $ 49.00 A,D Video
..,•..
CompositelRF adapter.

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Adaptor In-A-Cable MAST. $ 129.00 All Parallel SCSI cable adaptor connects to printer.
Amiga GPIB ACDA $ 495.00 C Slot IEEE-488 interface to 14 devices w/software.

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17 ••• 15
AI ••••••• la- _.
IlS -l:!I'!!!! ACD\ AI
Fasl FAX MichTron $ 699.95 C RS·2S2C Group III fax machine capabilities.
MCS 1000 Cornspec $ 199.00 All Parallel IEEE primer interface.

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Micl'OlIhare MCS 8000 Conup« $ 599.00 All Parallcl C
Allows 8 computers to share a parallel _
printer.

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ASDG
V. I 79.11!1 A,B,C
Cd
I ll!I5.OO
AI
C
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Proto "OK ACDA Call C Slot I&<hannel 12-bit ND; 2-channcl 8-bit NO.
Proto5K ACDA $ 279.00 All Parallel l-channcl ND converter; amplifier, VU meter.

MEMORY
.5MB ClockfCaJendaT Skyles $ 79.95 A Internal Unpopulated
.'..••. A501 replacement; w/512K RAM: $179.95

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08M!000 IMtronics $ 498.00 C Slot Memory board for H2000 and H2800.
1.5MB Internal Memory Sk.yles $ 249.95 B Motherboard Unpopulated; .5MB-$3~9.95; IMB-$399.95; 1.5MB-$530.
v. ••••• Supn I "9.00 A .15
11lIW-,_
110I_
ASDG
SIt
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12811.1115
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8 MEG Memory Board ASDC $ 275.00 B Slot Unpopulated 8MB memory board. lorro I.

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8-UPI (DIP) MicroBotics $ 199.00 C Slot Unpopulated 8MB board. uses standard 1M-hit DRAMS.

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8-UPI (SIMM) MicroBotics $ 199.00 C Slot Unpopulated 8MB RAM board, uses PopSimms or SIMM.

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BIolIl •••••••• -, -... Sk,... I •••. llI5 C Slot ••••• _ 11/I, •• 8101_,
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llI5 A ••••••• wIdl I " I
c.•••••••.••.••.• 79ll.00 D SIal _..... ID DIll BAM.
A2501 ..••MB/O GVP $2499.00 C CPU Slot 16MHz 680~O, 68882, 4MB RM,i.

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A250 •..••MB/"OO GVP $2959.00 C CPU Slot 16MHz 680~O, 68882, 400 drive.

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.• MllI8OQ GVP

GVP
$~249.00

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C CPU Slot 16MHz 680~O, 68882, 4MB RAM, 80Q drive.

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---SCSI 3.5" HInI DIsk ome.
miJabIe from 20MB llIlO2M11,
caJl8b1e of SlIlring up to 116 fkwy
diSItetla.
IWIIIIIIM ClIIIIII1EII
DMA direct to ooboard 16KB buffer,
provides A2lXXlDedonnance with
no DMA side efkcts .
• I'll CNlII EDGEl3IECTOII
This compact snap-on unit connects
directly to the Amiga bus, ensuring
the highest possible performance and
reliability.
AIJ11IIIOOTfEATIJIlE
Allows the ASOOto be booted
directly off the hard disk, no floppies
required! All hard disk partitions can
be Fast File System partitions.
RAM EXPANSOI
Up to 4MB 01ZERO-WAITSTATE,
FAST RAM can be added internally.
EXT9IIIAL SCSI COllECTOR
Allows up to six additiJnal SCSI
devices to be attached.
IlEIJICATBJ POWBl SUPPlY
Robust power supply is included so
that your ASOOis not over-loaded.

Amiga Is a registered trademark 01 Commodofe-Amiga Inc.

IMPACT and GVP are trademarks of Greal Valley Products, Inc:.

GREAT VALLEY PRODUCTS INC. See ua •• the AmlEXPO In W•• hlngton. DC MIIrch 16-18
225 Plank Ave., Paoli, PA 19301
For more inlonnation, or lor your nearest GVP dealer, call today. Dealer inquiries wel00me.
Tel. (215) 889-9411 • FAX (215) 889-9416 • BBS (215) 889-4994 Consumers Circle 26S on Reader 5ervice C.d
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DI8CIIIPTION

A!OOI-4MB/8OQ GVP $3599.00 C CPU Slot 25MHz 68030, 68882, 4MB RAM, 80Q drive.
Ammeg 1 Kline- Tronies $ 163.95 8 Box 1MB 0 wait state design, auto-config.
AX 2000 Comspec $ 870.00 B Parallel 2MB expansion.
CSI -I
C"",,, S .10.00 A As<ll Memory expalUlOn. dock., unpopulated. up to 2MB.
JInFlcrip GSA S 795.00 C Slot Con"cru l6-bit RAM to 32 bits.
lOGO S 299.95 A MOIherboard 1MB internal ex~n board. auto-<onfig.
Exp-8000 Progressive S 429.95 A Motherboard Autoconfiguring 8MB expansion board.
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 Freehand
Animation
Part I: The Pencil Test
REAL-TIME ANIMMION is one of the
distinguishing strengths of the Amiga,
and any number of excellent Amiga pro-
grams complement the system's capabili-
ties in this area. While "Accent" has not
featured specific animation procedures
very often in the past, a previous column
(june '89. p. 50) did examine eel tech-
niques with The Director (Right Answers
Group) using its partial-screen page-flip-
ping, or "BLIT," feature. Here, and in
# 13
the next issue, we will take one of this
column's special favorites-c-Deluxel'airu
III (Electronic Arts)-and explore some
fundamentals of freehand animation.
•
A continuing series
By "freehand animation," I am refer-
ring to the process of drawing each
frame by hand, making gradual changes
to create the illusion of smooth motion.
The subject could be anything from a
cartoon character to a tree waving in the
of tips, techniques, wind. The technique I will outline in-
volves creating the finished animation in
two to four stages. Stage one-the "pen-
and tricks for cil test" phase of drawing and testing-is
the subject of the present column. I will
creating more cover the three other stages-coloring,
compositing elements, and postproduc-
tion enhancement-next month.
imaginative Amiga
PUT ON A HAPpy FACE
A face is a good subject to experiment
graphics. with in developing animation techniques.
You can achieve a great deal of character
• with fairly elementary drawing skills. Re-
call how easily we acknowledge a few
lines and a circle as a "happy face." Our
perception is so acutely tuned to nu-
ances of facial expressions in other hu-
By .Ioel Dagen mans, that by simply shifting a few lines
in a very symbolic abstraction, we can
convey a great range of expression. The
primary elements conveying expression
are the eyebrows and the mouth. Simple
lines-an upturned mouth and brows
arching up in the middle of the fore-
56 March 1990
head-make a cartoon face happy. Make
the face sad by turning the mouth cor-
ners down, register surprise by making
the mouth a small circle and raising the
brows higher, or suggest anger by
changing the brows to angle down in the
center of the forehead while turning the
mouth corners down. Keep your first ex-
periments relatively simple for clarity,
and to reduce the work road over a long
sequence. Learn how much detail is
enough to convey character.
From the Anim menu select Frames,
then Set II. To begin you might try work-
ing with only five or six frames just to
see how things operate. Create a palette
with an easy-to-view "paper" color, and
two different drawing colors. (I am pur-
posely using the term "paper" color in-
stead of background color to avoid
confusion later. Remember that this pal-
ette is for the drawing stage of the ani-
marion; you can adjust all colors later at
the coloring stage to suit the nature and
requirements of the finished piece.)
Clear All Frames to the paper color
you have created. You will be drawing
only the animated character. Any back-
ground scene you may want behind the
character will be painted separately and
composited with the character at stage
three. The two drawing colors should be
adjacent to each other in the palette, al-
lowing you to toggle between them with
the bracket keys ([ and ]). Select one of
these colors and draw the first frame.
For this project, choose a style that lends
itself to later coloring with the Fill tool.
Use solid, unbroken lines to delineate
any area to be colored. 1 suggest using
the single-pixel brush in the solid-line
mode-"d" from the keyboard.
When the frame is finished and you
have made any necessary corrections, go
to the Effect menu and select Back-
ground> Fix. Fixing the background
 Mastering these few simple techniques

can put you on the move towards creating crisp,

smoothly Rowing animations.

means that you may now draw over the

image. and then erase or clear to that
image rather than to a blank screen. In
this case it is also the key to simulating
an animator's light table (see the accom-
panying illustration). An animator, work-
ing on a glass drawing table lighted from
underneath, can register a new sheet of
paper over a previous frame and see the
lines of that frame through the new
sheet. He or she then uses this as a
drawing reference. We can do much the
same thing in DPaint.

ANDroTopMv
PREVIOUS EFFORT.
In our illustration, the upper left corner
of the men u bar still shows us on frame
one of our animation. Select the second
drawing color or use the [ ] keys to tog-
gle between the two colors. Using the
lines of the first image as a reference,
draw the second frame right on top of it
as shown. Feel free to make any neces-
sary corrections because the underlying
image is protected. When you are fin-
ished, hit the 2 key to advance to the
next frame of the animation. The new
image will disappear from frame one,
and transfer to frame two. Select Back-
ground> Free in the Effect menu to
stamp that image down in frame two,
and immediately fix the background (Fix
> Background) again in preparation for
drawing the third frame.
Being able to see the previous frame
as you draw the current frame allows
you to accurately judge the amount of
movement to create and to keep all ele-
ments well registered, so that, for exam-
ple, the nose is not jittering around on
the face while the character smiles. Tog-
gling between two drawing colors keeps
the lines of the new image distinct from
those of the previous one. Continue this
sequence of Fix, Toggle Color, Draw, Ad-
In the "Pencil Test" phase of the animation, using Fix Background from the Effect menu allows
you to simulate the light-table approach of tradtuonal animators.
vance Frame, and Free until you have
completed all frames. You can always roll
the pages of your animation backward
and forward with the 1 and 2 keys to
check the flow of motion. When you
have finsihed, play the animation with
the 4, 5, or 6 key.
The animated image will flicker an-
noyingly because alternate frames are
drawn in different colors. To make the
lines in all frames the same color, go to
the Stencil tool in the Effect menu and
select the "paper" color of your anima-
tion frames. Click on Make Stencil and
return to the main menu and tools. Use
the Clear tool to make the line color in
all frames the same. Knowing that Clear
will change any unlocked colors on the
screen to the currently selected back-
ground color, choose a good line color
as the background color, hit Clear, and
click the All Frames option. Stencil pro-
tects the "paper" color of your anima-
tion, while Clear changes all other colors
frame by frame to the background color
you have just selected. Free the Stencil
when finished. The result is a clean line
animation ready for coloring.
In my next column we will continue the
exploration of freehand animation tech-
nique-addressing coloring, compositing,
and postproduction enhancement .•
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AmigaWorld 57
info.phile
Back to Basics
Part 2
Our AmigaDOS experts continue their introductory series to
help acquaint new users with the Amigo's operating system.
By Mark L. Van Name and Bill Catchings
IN OUR LAST column we concentrated
on Workbench tools that let you work
o
with disks. Disks, however. are only one
of several ways that the Workbench al-
lows you to organize information. To ex-
plore these methods, let's put a new spin
on an old metaphor.
THE ELECTRONIC FILING CABINET
The Workbench treats each disk as a sort
of electronic filing cabinet. A disk can
58 March J 990
contain three kinds of objects: projects,
tools, and drawers.
A project is basically the electronic
equivalent of a paper file. It is typically a
file created with a spreadsheet, database,
word processor, or graphics program-
in shan, anything that you store and
manipulate with your Amiga.
To manipulate a project you need a
tool-generally a piece of software. Like
your Workbench Notepad and Calcula-
tor, it may have come with your Amiga,
or it may be a program you purchased
separately from a third-party vendor.
A drawer is simply a named holding
place. It can contain tools, projects, or
even other drawers-allowing you to or-
ganize your information hierarchically.
For example, you might have a Taxes
drawer that contains one drawer for
each year, and in each year's drawer
store the tax spreadsheets for that year.
All four of these basic Amiga informa-
tion objects-disks, drawers, tools, and
projects-have icons that you can see
and manipulate, at least in the Work-
bench environment. As you might al-
ready know, the Amiga is a two-headed
beast: In addition to the icon-oriented
Workbench, there is a command-line
user interface, the CLI (also referred to
as the Shell in AmigaDOS 1.3). The Ct.I
uses the same basic information objects
as the Workbench, but it gives some of
them different names. Disks are still
disks, but drawers are listed as directo- ~
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ries. The CLI also treats projects and
tools as files, but with a difference: You
can execute some files as programs
(tools), but not others (projects).
Inside the CLI, files and directories
also have icons, but those icons are just
special files with a particular type of
name. (The icon name of a file is the file
or directory name plus the extension
".info." Thus, the Notepad's icon file is
otepad.info.) The eLI also lets you
have files and directories without icons.
There are many such files on the Work-
bench disk, and none of them are visible
from the Workbench. To see a file dis-
played on the Workbench screen, it must
have an icon.
KNow YOUR DISK OBJECTS
Back to the Workbench-for now. The
Workbench gives you several ways to
learn about disk objects. The easiest way
to examine an object is to open it. You
can open an object either by selecting it
(positioning the pointer over its icon and
clicking once with the left mouse button)
and then choosing Open from the Work-
bench menu, or by double-clicking the
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left mouse buuon (again with the pointer
positioned over its icon).
When you open a disk or drawer, you
get to see the drawers and files inside it
that have icons assigned to them. If you
open the Workbench disk, you will see
several drawers. including one labeled
Utilities. Open the Utilities drawer to
find such tools as the Notepad and the
Calculator.
Opening a tool or project, however,
produces a different result. When you
open a tool, the Workbench starts that
tool, but not on any particular project.
The tool will then let you load any proj-
ect on which you want to work. When
you open a project, the Workbench
knows that you need a tool to see what is
inside that project. (That tool is known
as the project's default tool; it's typically
the tool you used to create the project.)
The Workbench therefore starts that tool
on the project, so that you can both see
what's inside the project and, if you
want, continue working on it.
The Workbench's knowledge of each
project's default tool is just one of the
many kinds of information it stores con-
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cerning every object. You can see such
information by "selecting" (see above)
that object and choosing Info from the
Workbench menu. A full window of in-
formation will appear.
That window will show a few common
facts about every object: its NAME,
TYPE (disk, drawer, project, tool), a line
called lDOL TYPES, and some type of
STAT S. The mOL TYPES line is
merely a place that shows some special
additional tools you can use to work with
that object. The contents of the STATUS
area vary with the type of object, as do
the contents of the rest of the window.
LET'S GET DoWN TO CAsES
For disks, the STMUS area shows
whether the disk is "Read/Write" or
"Read Only" -that is, whether you have
set the disk's write-protect tab so that
you can change that disk. An additional
area displays some size information
about the disk, including "Bytes per
Block" (488 for floppies), "Number of
Blocks" (the total number on the disk),
"Number Used," and "Number Free."
These last two measures tell you how
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much disk space you are currently using
and how much is available. Finally, a
DEFAULT mOL line shows you that the
default tool for disks is the dlskcopy pro-
gram. (This line actually reads, "SYS:
System/Diskcopy," which is the full CLI
name of that program.)
Drawers do not have a default tool,
but they do have a COMMENT line
where you can enter a few words about
why you created a drawer or what kinds
of things you want to store in it. Drawers
have the same STATUS options as tools
and projects, but different ones than
disks. The STATUS area for drawers,
tools, and projects will show four op-
tions: ARCHIVED, READABLE,
WRITEABLE, and DELETEABLE. They
limit what you can do to any object
(READABLE, WRITEABLE, DELETE-
ABLE) and tell whether you have manu-
ally marked that object as recently
backed up (ARCHIVED). Any option
that is not true will be highlighted and
will have NOT preceding it. The initial
status for most objects will be NOT AR-
CHIVED, READABLE, WRITEABLE,
DELETEABLE.
Not only can you merely read the in-
formation in this window, you can also
change it. To protect an object from
deletion, for example, click on DELETE-
ABLE and it will change to Nor DE-
LETEABLE. When you then click on
SAVE in the lower-left corner, that
change in status will be reflected the
next time the object's Info is checked. To
exit this screen without making any
changes, click either on QUIT in the
lower-right corner or on the close box in
the window's upper-left corner.
Like drawers, tools and projects also
have a COMMENT area in their infor-
mation windows. I n addition, they have
a SIZE area that shows their size on disk
in both bytes and disk blocks. Projects,
like disks, also have a DEFAULT mOL
and a mOL TYPES area. (There is also
one other line, STACK, that lets you set
the amount of stack memory that you
want to use when you work on this proj-
ect. Advanced users regularly alter the
stack size for specific reasons.)
WHAT'S IN A NAME?
From time to time you will want to
change an object's name. You cannot do
this from the information window-it
will not let you type in the NAME area-
but you can easily take care of it from
the Workbench itself. To change the
name of any drawer, project, or tool, use
the same procedure we discussed last
month for changing the name of a disk.
First, select the object and choose Re-
name from the Workbench menu. A
string gadget containing the object's
name will appear in the middle of your
screen. Now edit the name into the form
you want and hit the Return key. That's
all there is to it.
Next month we'll take a look at some
of the other basic operations that the
Workbench lets you perform on disks,
drawers, tools, and projects. If you have
the time between now and then, there's
no better way to learn how the Work-
bench works than to experiment with it.
Good luck! •
Mark L. Van Name and Bill Catchings are
contributing editors to Amiga World. Wnte to
them at 10024 Sycamore Dr., Durham, NC
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pointers Information and Ideas on Amiga Programming

Managing Memory
•
In c
By John Foust

ALL PROGRAMMERS SHOULD learn
proper memory etiquette. When a pro-
gram needs memory. it should ask the
operating system for it. When a program
finishes with a piece of memory. it must
return it for other programs to use. Dy-
namic memory allocation is easy and the
most polite form of using memory. C
handles this process via the Exec library
functions A1locMem( ) and FreeMem( ),
and its own functions malloe( ) and
free( ).
With AllocMem( ) you can make an ar-
ray called values, for example. adjustable
according to an integer variable called
num. The AllocMem( ) function has two
arguments: the number of bytes of mem-
ory and the type of memory to get.
(These flags, such as MEMF_PUBLIC,
are listed in the exedmemory.h include
file.) You could write a calculation pro-
gram that uses AllocMem( ) as shown
below:
Int Calculate( num )
Int numj
{
Int success;
Int ~alues;
ULONG vaLu;
1* And the size of the array, In bytes */
vaLaz = (ULONG) num '" slzeof(lnt);
1* Then ask for the memory "t
.ucces. = TRUE;
1* Calculations go here "'/
FreeMem( value., vaLu )j
} system via the FreeMem( ) call. The pre-
el•• {
succ •• s=FALSEj
} ry's size. With FreeMem( ), the program
return success;
} block.
Calculate( ) is careful about memory allo-
cation. If the AllocMem( ) returns NULL,
the program does not perform the calcu-
lations. If the memory is found, you can
use the values variable as if it were a static
array, in expressions such as:
v8Iues(5)=34 '" values[4];
Instead of an int array, your array could
be declared to contain anything, includ-
ing structures. Just be sure to correctly
calculate the size of the memory block,
using the sizeof operator. For accuracy,
perform the calculation as an unsigned
long.
You will notice the program reflects a
great concern for failure of AllocMem( ),
no matter how tiny the amount of mem-
ory. Calculate( ) returns a value of
TRUE or FALSE, depending on whether
the memory could be allocated. Any
function that calls Calculate( ) must
check the return value to be sure that
all functions along the way should clean
up any memory they allocate.
You return allocated memory to the
vious example calls FreeMem( ) with the
pointer to the memory and the memo-
must remember the size of the allocated
ExECUTIVE OR REsIDENT
Every standard C library includes the
resident functions malloc( ) and free( ),
which are similar to the Exec library's
A1locMem( ) and FreeMem( ). Both mal-
loc( ) and free( ) are very portable, let-
ting you compile the same program on
many different machines, (You can easily
translate the Calculate( ) example to use
malloc( ).)
The malloc( ) and free( ) routines are
written in terms of AllocMem( ) and
FreeMem( ), In the Manx C compiler, a
malloc( ) call for 32 bytes translates to a
call to A1locMem( ) for 40 bytes. The sys-
tem uses the extra memory to maintain a
linked list that keeps track of allocated
memory to free later. The file mise/mal-
loc.c in the Manx C library source code
shows this simple memory scheme. ~

values =AllocMem(vaLaz,MEMF _PUBUC);
If (values I = NULL) {
r
the calculation went smoothly. If it
didn't, the program should warn the
user that lack of memory caused an er-
ror. In more complex programs, an er-
ror in the lowest-level subroutine should
percolate upwards until a higher-level
function can recover from the error, and

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Instead of simply calling NlocMem( )
for each call to malloc, most C compilers
manage their own lists of memory. These
routines usually mimic low-level Unix
memory management functions. such as
sbrk( ). In Manx you must link the heap-
rnern.o file for this type of management;
Lattice offers it by default. On the first
call to maIloc( ), the function sbrk( ) is
called to get memory from the operat-
ing system. It uses AllocMem( ) (0 ask
for a large block of memory, a default
of 40K for Manx C. Each subsequent
malloc( ) consumes a portion of this
larger block.
For the Manx libraries. look at sysio/
heaprnern.c to see this imeracuon be-
tween maIloc( ), NlocMem( ), and
sbrk( ). The block size is adustable
through a _Heapsize variable, which you
can declare as "extern unsigned long
_Heapsize;" if yOli want to reset its value
in your code. Note that you need to set
it before making calls to malloc( ) or to
standard 110 functions. Lattice uses
_MNEED and _MSTEP for the same
purpose.
In Manx, only one heap block is allo-
cated. In Lattice, the routines manage a
list of heap blocks. As a heap block of
40K is consumed, malloc( ) calls sbrk( )
to allocate another. minimizing the calls
to NlocMem( ). Calls to free( ) mark por-
tions of these blocks for re-use; Free-
Mem( ) is never called. Unlike Free-
Mem( ). free( ) needs only a pointer to
the memory. not the size of the alloca-
tion. The size is stored within a structure
that precedes the actual allocated mem-
ory. within the larger block.
CLEANING SERVICE
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vide automatic cleanup. No matter what
your source code says. C programs do
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or end at the last line of maine ). C li-
brary code is executed both before and
after the call to maine ). Your maine ) is
actually called by a library function
named .cmainf ). When your maine )
function returns (the program ends).
control returns to c.rnainf ). \Vithin
_maine ). all memory that was allocated
with malloc( ) is automatically returned
by a standard library function called
exit( ). as a safegaurd against sloppy pro-
gramming. During exit( ) cleanup, the C
memory management routines run Free-
Mem( ) on all the large blocks of mem-
ory. essentially ignoring any information
in the blocks.
This automatic cleanup does not elimi-
nate your responsibility of freeing allo-
cated memory. As soon as the program
is finished with a piece of memory. you
should return it via free( ) or Free-
Mem( ), so other programs can use it.
You can use exit( ), however, to clean up
after catastrophic errors. If something
goes wrong. just call exit( ). and all mal-
loc( ) memory is returned.
While malIoc( ) and Freet ) make some
programming easier. you cannot use
them for every AmigaDOS job. For ex-
ample, graphics imagery must be placed
in chip memory. Malloc( ) does not offer
a way to specify chip or fast memory;
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ing calls to maIloc( ) and NlocMem( ) in
the same program has a downside. The
first call to malloc( ) allocates a large
block of memory that is not returned
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which make writing an intermediate
layer of memory management easy.
Along the same line is the standard C
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point to this memory.
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FreeMem( ). Because A1locMem( ) needs
a memory type nag, and FreeMem( )
needs the size of the memory to deallo-
cate, however, the function is more com-
plicated than realloc( ). For example:
1* reallocmem.c .,
'Include "execltypea.h"
'Include "exec/memory.h"
'define MIN(e,b) (e)<(b)? (e) ; (b) )
void ·ReAlIocMem( pU, newslze, oldsize, type )
void .ptr:
ULONG newsize, oldsae, type;
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void ·new.-p1:r:
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FreeMem( ptr, oldalze );
}
retum new---Ptr;
}
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the old block remains as it was, and
ReAllocMem() returns NULL. If the
reallocation succeeds, the old block is au-
tomatically freed. Note that the effect of
the MEMF_CLEAR nag is ignored in
ReAllocMem( ), because any old data is
copied to the new block. If the new block
is larger, at least MEMF_CLEAR will
guarantee that the extended part of the
block will be set to zero. With Re-
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of dynamic arrays during the execution
poor memory management. •
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BATTLE SQUADRON
By Linda Barrett
"ELIMINArE BARRAX life-
forms from the planet Terrain-
ia's surface and subterranean
emplacements" is your mis-
sion. It translates to "Keep
shooting!" as you (and a
friend if you wish) pilot your
spaceship through this verti-
cally-scrolling arcade gem.
While the Barrax appear to
have a sizeable defense
budget. you have only your
flying skills (use the mouse,
not the joystick, for the best
control), three Nova Smart
Bombs (which destroy every-
thing within a half-screen
dius of the ship), and your
"ready" weapon. As in most
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of fighters or a specific ship
and they wi1ljettison weapons
capsules. Catch the M capsule
and you gain a much-appreci-
ated Nova bomb. Catch a col-
ored capsule and you either
upgrade your current weapon
or convert to a new one: red
Magnetic Torps, blue Anti-
Matter Particle Beams, orange
Magma Waves, or green Em-
erald Lasers. Tailor the
weapon to the target: fighters,
invisible ships, mother ships,
and ground installations. Easy
to say but harder to do with
25 weapons configurations
and five levels.
66 March 1990
You can easily tailor the
game to your skills in the Op-
tions screen. Choose one,
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initial ready weapon, the max-
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delay between enemy bullet
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ra-
Rampant destruction to a , •.•• t but.
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Yel'llon 0' Indiana Jonel and the Lalt
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Ing rope, a torch, and a narrow rock
passage. You can reach this appar·
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even wtth a parent or adun guardian.
Ifs a big red herrlng. The lone torch
It holds II Inadequate recompense 'or
the time spent to obtain It, and two
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process. You'll want to go up the rope.
But not right awey. wan until the sta-
lacttte falll before getting the toreh.
(Keep an ear open 'or those CNnch-
Ing sounds.) Don' be In a hurry to
Jump on the platform at rope top.
WItCh a bit to Judge the re&atlYe
Speedl and positions 0' the cllmbefa.
ContInued on p. 14
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SPACE QUEST III: THE PIRATES OF PESTUWN
By Patrick Quaid
SOFTWARE PIRACY TAKES a
nasty turn in Space Quest II I.
Instead of stealing programs,
the pirates kidnap the pro-
grammers. As Roger Wileo, you
must rescue the Two Guys
From Andromeda. so they can
continue writing a series of
computer adventures about
you.
With the keyboard or
mouse, you control Roger as
he rummages around full-
screen, cleverly designed
scenes. He can be hidden by
foreground objects and can
move in and out of shadows,
creating a convincing three-
dimensional effect. When the
action geLS too complex, you
can type in commands. The
interface works well because it
focuses your attention on the
puzzle rather than on the sub-
tleties of the interface itself.
The puzzles, to be honest,
are more fun than difficult. In
fact, Space Quest II I has more
of the personality and peculiar
logic of The Hitchhiker's Guide to
the Galaxy than the Hitchhik-
er's game did. You get to
know the strange characters
and outrageous situations, and
before you realize it you've
finished the adventure (if you
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INDIANA JONES AND THE LAsT CRUSADE
By Peter Olafson
LUCASFlLM HAS PULLED
off a pair of cracking good
games: an addictive action
game and an ambitious ani-
mated adventure built around
the movie Indiana Jones and the
Last Crusade, Face it. You're
going to be up late.
74 March J 990
GAM E PRE
II
can avoid the quick death
lurking around every corner).
As the game progresses the sit-
uations become increasingly
interesting, and the biggest
surprises come in a hectic and
exciting final sequence.
The graphics are obviously
designed to be portable
among computers, so al-
though they look fine, they are
not up to Amiga standards.
The character animation, how-
ever, shows an uncommon
personality and style. The
Park your .~.hlp and h8Ve a k)ok around.
They're two very different
sacks of snakes, so let's take
them separately. The action
game (produced by U.S. Gold
for Lucasfilm, $39.95) is an
above-average rendering of
the classic platform game:
climbing, jumping, ducking,
punching. You guide the Styl-
ishly Unshaven One through
S E R V E
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background music changes
with the scenes to enhance
them. You'll miss it during si-
lent sequences.
Space Quest II I requires
only 512K and one disk drive,
but because almost every
scene has to be read from
disk, a hard disk helps load
times keep pace with the
game's tempo and humor.
($59.95, Sierra On-Line lnc.,
PO Box 485, Coarsegold, Qt
93614,209/683-4468. No
cial requirements.}
four difficult levels-a mine, a
castle. a blimp, and the final
ticklish run for the Holy
Grail-while collecting torches
and whips and punching out
minions of evil. (See "Crib •.
""'" p. 66
You'll need to do , bit of rope switch-
ing your"tf on the way up.
Now, how to get at the crou? tf.
too high to Jumpto Ind the rope's no
use. The obvious routa up entail.
much frultl.s. banging of the head
agelnst the ceiling. Aim a IltUe higher.
tf. e,.y 10 mi•• tt the flr.t time. But
watch that other climber. There I.
room above him on the rope.
Now you're In the clear lor the run
across the train-top. Don't stop run-
ning once you've triggered the train.
Walt until .ny enemies nave turned
their backs before jumping. Nextthing
you know, you're In the castle. Con-
gratulations. Now you help me.
'/J<- • You've e~ored the catacombs be-
neath the library In Indy's companion
graphic .dventure (Lucasfllm, 549.95)
and come up almoat dry. Juat that
hook. You can't Iitt the slab (It's not
tmpcrtant anyway), and the torch
wouldn't move for the mud. You found
everything available for the taking, but
perhaps you could do something
about the mud. There's plenty 01
water. You just need something 10
carry tlln. You'll needto be more than
diplomatic to get tl Usa psychology.
• One of the loughest puzz~s In Gold
Rushl (Slerre On-Una, $39.95) Is •••.
sembling points In New York. Where'.
that bank account number? Your
friend at the bank will get it for you,
but there'. a better way. Soon, you'll
be on a roll.
Another lough nut Is finding your
brother. The path to the aectIon of the
. mlna he'. In doesn't look like a path.
Do you recall a ladder that doesn't
look like It's going anywhere?
• Wlnler leaguer. In Earl We.ver
Baseball (Electronic Arts, 549.95):The
computer m.nager'. recommended
lineups can be weird. Earl doesn't .p-
peer to con.lder secondary positions.
The way around it: You ~ck the play-
er•• and let the computer managerset
the lineup with them.
• Shadowgale (Mlndscape, $49.95)
can seem as .mall as I loolshad at
the beginning, even atter you find that
odd looking rock In the pessage wall.•.

Notes" for a walk-through of
level One.)
Every level has something
distinctive, whether it's the air-
sickness-inducing bobbing of
the blimp, the bank-camera
angle of the final level, or the
cute animation of the rope
climbers on the first. Indy and
the backgrounds are very well
drawn. The routes through
the levels are devious. Play is
just hard enough to infuriate
and just easy enough to drag
you back.
Some of the logistics, how-
ever, didn't quite work for me.
For instance, a whip should be
a near-inexhaustible resource,
but here they are treated as
expendable ammo. Beyond
that, a less useful weapon
would be difficult to find. The
animation for cracking the
whip is slow, meaning you can
use them safely only when
your opponent's back is
turned. It's much easier to
waste the whips on rocks and
use your fists for people.
The action game could
probably have existed without
the movie. The real Indy
game is the graphic adventure
(from Lucasfilm itself $49.95).
Moving from the intro at In-
dy's college, to his father's ran-
sacked apartment, Italian
catacombs, a German-occupied
castle, a zeppelin, and the trap
and tricks of the Grail trials,
the game has lots of puzzles.
Be prepared, they gel pro-
gressively nastier. The good
news is that you don't have to
do everything the way Indy
did in the movie; I found as
many as four potential solu-
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ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS
By Timothy Trimble
BASEDON HISmRICAL ac-
counts of China as it grew
from chaos to three kingdoms
to one nation, Romance of the
Three Kingdoms is one of the
76 March J 990
GAM E PRE
Tour the catKombs wtth Incllaiu .Jones.
tions to one puzzle.
The standard Lucasfilm in-
terface takes on a new and
better look in Indiana Jones.
You still click on verbs listed at
the bottom of the screen and
objects either appearing in the
scene or listed below, and,
voila, Indy or his father Henry
try to do your bidding. Talk-
ing and fighting, however, are
now part of strategy. (You'll
have to learn to do one or the
other in the castle.) In addi-
tion, the Look option provides
more description, and the
game uses overhead views
when Indy explores corridors,
which eliminates mapping.
All the usual quiet Lucasfilm
humor, bright graphics, good
sounds (slushy shoes), and at-
tention to detail are here.
(fake a look around your of-
fice, or at the bulletin board
on the way out.) The anima-
tion, on the other hand, seems
best strategic simulations I
have ever played.
Your main goal is to unite
China under one ruler. With
historically accurate personali-
S E R V E
curiously slower than usual
and the pace is less compel-
ling. While you can move
freely within each discrete
area, you can't travel at will
between them, making it feel
like you are following the
dead hand of the movie.
It's also somewhat less inti-
mate in "feel." I didn't play
this as obsessively as I played
Zak MacCracken and the Alien
Mindbenders or identify with
Indy quite as readily as I did
with Zak. That may owe to the
game's popular origins, the
rather removed perspective of
the overhead views, or the
small size of the Indy charac-
ter compared to characters in
the earlier games. He's really a
little fellow, and actually kind
of cute. (Luccsfilm, distributed by
tilecmmic Arts, 1820 Gateway
Dr., San Mateo, CA 94404, 4 J 5/
57/ -7 J 71. joystick required for
the action gamL.)
ties of 65 generals, you face a
major challenge as you fight
and negotiate your way to rul-
ership. You can win states
within China through battles, ~
(You did find the rodl, rtght?) The woy
to the larger world It: In the Mirror
Room, and I don't maen the hole In
the noor. You'll need something from
the Drogon Room 10 lHu. through.
." you're WIIndering allover the
mountain at the beginning of Journey
(Infocom, 549.95), stop, restart, r.
ItOr e. tt won't bike youany place. You
need the map 'rom the shop In the
vlllag., and even that's not enough.
Do I have to spell tt out for you?
• The B power pilla are the most dey·
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(Elite, $39.95). Grab them Ind ovoid
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out of fuel and smoking. Allow tt to
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next door to • bunker).
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the bottom of acteen. He who ad-
vanc•• too awtftly up the screen I,
aent home In a beg. Take tt one step
at. time.
L.OIId~ move out, and we'll do It Bg8Jn
next month. 0
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neer Building, 51. PaUl, MN 55101,
612/292-1490.
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Lucutllm, dlatr1buted by EJectronk:
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 GA~IE PRE
diplomatic relations, and con-
vincing other generals to join
your forces. Keep the peasants
happy by increasing land
value through cultivation,
building up flood prevention,
and offering rice and gold.
The last thing you need is to
have your general killed by
the masses. Plundering will
drop loyalties but will increase
the amount of gold, rice. and
women that you have. You can
Now you control the f8te of China.
give women as gifts to your
generals, which is great for in-
creasing their loyalties.
Should all else fail, attack
the other states. The battle
screen is a very colorful hex
layout of the countryside, cas-
tles, rivers, and mountains. A
nice table is also displayed,
showing the statistics of the
enemy. Battles allow one ac-
S E R V E
tion per turn, either move-
ment or combat. The mobility
of the troops is dependent on
the amount of training they
have received, the amount of
weaponry they are carrying,
and the weather. Various types
of attack are available, includ-
ing an option that allows you
to trick and tfap the enemy.
The intelligence of your com-
manding general has a lot to
do with the success of this op·
tion. Watch the supply of rice
for your hungry troops; it
doesn't matter how much
stronger you are than the en-
emy if your rice gets taken.
Overall, the game is a very
well-done simulation with a
fantastic manual. While I wish
it relied on the mouse instead
of the keyboard, I highly rec-
ommend Romance of the
Three Kingdoms. ($69.95,
Koei Corp., Suite 540, 1350 Bay-
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board's synchronous design makes it
more sensitive to system timing than the
others, and the non-auto-configuring
memory makes it a bit non-standard.
Though there are jumper settings that
help adapt the board to your particular
system, I found one A2000 in which I
could not make it work at all. The Hur-
ricane 2800 should appeal primarily to
those most concerned with getting the
maximum performance for the mini-
mum price.
GVP's is the original 68030 accelerator
board for the Amiga, and a proven per-
former. Since its initial release, GVP has
fixed a number of minor design flaws, so
that the board is now functioning quite
solidly. Also, while early versions of the
Irnpacl drive interface were reported to
be fairly slow, the interface now ranks
among the fastest available for the
Amiga, with drive reads of up to 650
kilobytes per second. Finally, in its 33
MHz incarnation, the GVP board is
clearly the fastest of all accelerators
tested so far. Its biggest drawback is the
design of its memory board, to which
see ua at the AmIEXPO In Waahlngton, DC March 16-18
80 Marcil 1990
REV E W S
you can add 32-bit memory only in fairly
expensive four-meg increments. Al-
though the company insists that nybble-
mode RAMs increase performance, my
tests show the Impact board to be no
faster than the Hurricane 2800 when
run at the same clock speed, even with
burst-mode memory access enabled. I
would also prefer a SCSI interface.
While the AT-bus interface is a cheap
way to add a hard drive, it does not sup-
port devices such as rernoveable-media
drives, tape backup units, and CD
ROMs. Despite these reservations, GVP's
board is an excellent choice. It can be
configured to suit a variety of speed re-
quirements and budgets, and even with-
out its expensive memory, it provides
performance rivaling 68020 accelerators
with 32-bit memory.
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MIDI SAMPLE WRENCH
Tighten up your sound samples.
By Steve Quinzi
THE LIBRARY OF Amiga music soft-
ware has been growing nicely for
the past few years, except for one
disappointing void-the area of sample
editing. Sure, there are several good
sample-capture and -edit programs for
manipulating IFF sound files in the
Amiga's internal audio domain, but out-
side of Sound Lab from Blank Software
(which works only with the Ensoniq
Mirage), there has been no Amiga soft-
ware to support the multitude of profes-
sional-level sound samplers on the
market.
All of this is changing now with the re-
lease of the MIDI Sample Wrench by
dissidents software. With this program
you can transfer waveforms to the Amiga
from any sampler that supports the
MMA Sample Dump Standard, a format
set forth by the MIDI Manufacturers As-
sociation for the transfer of sound sam-
ples through MIDI. Once loaded into
the 'Wrench, samples can be modified
extensively through a number of very so-
phisticated editing features with high-fi-
delity 16-bit format, and stored in
dissidents' own MSWl formal.
The package includes a program disk
 R E v E IV S

wrong word or misspell it, you are

Catch a wa". In a window.
and a disk of sampled sounds. There are
some very useful utilities thrown in, such
as the 85VX-lO-M5W I and M5W I-to-
8SVX utilities, which convert 8SVX (IFF)
samples to MSW 1 format and vice versa;
the Talk 12 and Talk 16 functions, which
exchange sounds directly between the
Amiga disk and a sampler without open-
ing Wrench; Play MSWI, a tool that
takes sounds directly from disk and plays
them from the Amiga's keyboard; and
Play Remote, which triggers a remote
sampler from the Amiga's keyboard. An-
other utility allows for communication
with the Akai 5700, 5900, and 5950 sam-
plers, which interpret the Sample Dump
Standard a bit differently.
The program's copy-protection scheme
asks you to type in a randomly selected
word from the manual. If you type the
quickly returned to the Workbench
screen (a non-copy-protected disk is
available for an additional $30). The
program requires 512K of RAM to run,
but one meg is recommended. I tried
running Wrench without expansion
RAM and found it so limiting that it was
practically useless.
MIDI Sample wrench opens onto an
empty screen with a menu bar. From the
Project menu you can open edit win-
dows one through three; the Setup
menu offers options to vary screen color,
define backups (internal, external disk,
or none), and to choose between a 200-
or 400-line display; the MIDI menu lets
you specify the sampler you are using
and to initiate sample dumps between
the Amiga and the sampler.
IN THE WINDOWS
Each of the three edit windows sports a
different color and a different set of con-
trols. All can be open at the same time.
Each is topped off by a color-matched
menu bar containing options pertinent
only to that window. The Wrench is not
a sample-capture program, but you can
get a waveform into an edit window
either by loading it from disk or by
dumping it from a sampler.
Once a waveform is in a window you
can scrutinize it pretty thoroughly by
magnifying, zooming in and out, scroll-
ing left, right, up, and down, or by resiz-
Not your ulual Envelope Generator.
ing the window to get a bigger picture.
The CTRL-M and CTRL-L key combina-
tions put you into Play mode, allowing
you to hear the waveform either through
a MIDI keyboard or the Amiga key-
board, using the Amiga's internal sound
chip. Although the fidelity of the eight-
bit Amiga audio will be noticeably lower
than when playing from your 12- or 16-
bit sampler, you will probably end up
using the Amiga sounds to check your
edits-waiting till the end to send the
sound back to the sampler-as a transfer
can take minutes. (The slow transmission
rate is inherent in MIDI.)
Dumps (transfers) are initiated by se-
lecting either Send or Receive from the
MIDI menu. Data transfer is made possi-
ble by the Wrench's library file, which
contains the information necessary for •.

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the program to communicate with sam-
plers. There are two libraries to choose
from: one for 12- and another for 16-bit
samplers. I tested MIDI Sample Wrench
with a Yamaha TX 16W and an Akai
S1000, and found that dumps to and
from the Yamaha came off without a
hitch using the 12-bit library. The S1000,
however, required that dumps go
through the Talk 16 utility, thanks to
Akai's improvisation on the Sample
Dump Standard. Though the sound was
transferred flawlessly,having to use the
utility rather than the Wrench library
proved a bit cumbersome.
PROCESSED SIGNALS
The program offers an array of very
powerful DSP (digital signal processing)
features in its Functions menu: The Gain
and Scale to Full options let you vary the
gain (level) of a sampled sound. Gain in-
creases or decreases the level in .1 dB in-
crements up to 30 dB, while Scale to
Full automatically increases gain to the
highest level available without clipping.
The Reverse function plays sound back-
ward, while Invert performs phase re-
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MIDI Sample Wrench is very flexible
and does everything that an Amiga
sample editor should do. The tech sup-
port person called me right back and
was very informative.
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versal, flipping the wave upside down.
Combine Samples mixes waves from any
of the three edit windows: You can de-
fine an offset so that one of the waves
starts before or after another, and you
can set their relative levels. A wave can
be combined with itself in this way for a
flanging effect. DC Offset attempts to
compensate for direct current (a square
wave), which may have been imparted
during the sampling process, by adding
an equal but opposite amount of DC to
cancel out whatever is there.
The Digital EQ section is great. It has
a parametric EQ with a range adjustable
from .1 to 3 octaves and a center fre-
quency adjustable from 5 Hz to 95% of
the Nyquist frequency (half the sampling
rate). It also has bass and treble shelving
with a definable break point. Both EQs
can be applied for either a boost or cut
of 20 decibels (dB). In addition, there
are high- and low-pass filters with a de-
finable cut-off frequency. You can select
from three filter orders (slopes): first (a
six-db-per-octave roil-oil), second (12 dB
per octave), or fifth (40 dB). While a 40-
dB roll-off may seem severe, it is handy
for preventing aliasing when transposing
or resampling. I am surprised that this
otherwise-complete section does not in-
clude a 24-dB-per-octave or 4-pole filter,
as 24 dB is such a common slope.
ENVEWPE, PLEASE
The Envelope Generator turned out [0
be different than I had expected. Not a
traditional envelope generator that ap-
plies an overall envelope to an existing
gain shape, the MIDI Sample Wrench
version is like a graphic gain shaper with
which you can draw (via mouse) a spe-
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part of a wave. The Envelope Generator
window opens over the edit window, lin-
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envelope affects only that pan of the
wave in view.The Envelope Generator
window has a center line representing
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new shape in the wave edit window.
The Fs Transposition option can re-
sample to different sampling rates,
change the sample-playback rate, and
transpose waves to different pitches. I
think pitch transposition could have
been better implemented; as it is, you
must calculate the frequency at which to
resample, then bring the wave back to its
original playback rate. Maybe I'm lazy,
but I would like to see the program per-
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no change to the sound, as input in this
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Think of it as a quick and easy way to
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ASDG's 24-bit IFF spec), Sculpt-Animate
RGB, NewTek's Digi-View 21 bit, Macin-
tosh PIc[, TargaFile, and Impulse's
Turbo Silver RGBN format. Active Cir-
cuits promises future modules to inter-
change GIF, Sun Rasterfile, and TIFF
files. and as we go to press, the company
has released a module to read Caligari
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bitplane IFF files.
MAKING CHANGES
Users of Interchange (Syndesis) will be
right at home with ImageLink's inter-
face. Double clicking on the ImageLink
icon brings up a requester that lets you
choose between the To and From for-
mats installed. As a VD-l user, I was im-
mediately disappointed to find that while
ImageLink reads Impulse's RGBN for-
mal, it cannot write it. (Fortunately. the
VD-l also displays Sculpt RGB files).
Once you select formats, bitplanes, and
file names, ImageLink displays what it
thinks is the pixel width and height, and
pixel ratio, of your file, and offers you the
choice of scaling the image. I was not able
to get the scaling mechanism-a vital fea-
ture-to work. Sculpt-Animate defaults
an RGB image size of 640 x 480 pixels,
while many Targa boards expect image
sizes of 512 x 482. After rendering a file
ImageLink. is a wonderful and amaz-
ingly powerful product. You can render
from Sculpt and Turbo Silver right
from it. It doesn't seem to take any
longer than normal to render, and you
get great quality. It is the only 24-bit
solution I would go with.
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with Sculpt using the defaults, I called Ac-
tive Circuits when my Targa conversions
would not load. They told me I had to re-
render my Sculpt image at 512 x 482. I
did, but had to call again to find out why
my images came out squashed. They told
me to try re-rendering with a pixel ratio
of 12 by 10, This time the image rendered
properly, and the ImageLink conversion
to looked fabulous on the Targa board. I am
disappointed. though. that the manual
does not offer this information and that
ImageLink's scaling features did not fix
the conversions after rendering the first
time.
Next, I tried converting from Targa to
Sculpt RGB format. The resulting pic-
ture was squashed as well, and I had no
way of fixing it, as the software I used to
generate the Targa file did not offer
pixel-ratio adjustments. J then converted
a Sculpt RGB file and a Targa file to IFF
HAM format. Both these conversions
looked good; I was pleasantly surprised
by the results. A Digi-View 21-bit file
converted to Sculpt and HAM with no
problems. and a Turbo Silver file also
converted flawlessly. In doing conver-
sions to Macintosh PIeT format, I dis-
covered that the PIer file was
improperly created. This one is irnpor-
tam, because there are a number of pro-
grams that will convert PIer files to
PostScript for high resolution output for
print. After a few more calls to Active
Circuits, they admitted that there was a
bug in the eariler version of the PIer •.

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converter and offered to upload me a interface, and the fact that it supports many ways incomplete, however. Lack of
corrected version, which worked fine. Targa, PICf, and soon, TIFF formats, image- and pixel-ratio scaling and inade-
I was unable to give the Targa Direct helps bring legitimacy to the Amiga as a quate documentation are critical draw-
and Sculpt Direct modules a complete low cost, high-end graphics prod ucer. backs of an otherwise superb program.
workout, as I do not own a Targa board. Further, support for ASDG's 24-bit IFF
I have an XT Bridgeboard, and al- format not only gives it a promising fu- ImageLink
though tbe 16-bit Targa board will work ture, but makes it a must-buy for Profes- Active Circuits Inc.
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RGB outputs, but putting this signal City Desk 2.0 (MicroSearch) toolbox. The article faults City Desk's
onto videotape requires an RGB-to-
Regarding the City Desk 2.0 review dot-matrix font support, yet this is one
NTSC composite video converter (read: by Nancy Devitt in your December '89 of the program's strongest features and
more dollars), and incidentally, TIPPS issue (p. 121l, Font selection and for- sets it apart from its competitors. While
goes for I 500. s matting is not accomplished solely via the reviewer says there are no instruc-
ImageLink fills a hole in the profes- embedded commands; we also provide tions for manual installation of the pro-
sional graphics community. It has a a text attributes tool in an on-screen gram on a hard drive when running •.
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from a shell, the HDInstall.readme sec-
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HDlnswl from a "virgin CLI with no
commands aliased, no commands in
the Resident list, and the path reset,"
- Tony Johnson
MicroSeaTlh
Embedded commands are a reflec-
tion of City Desk 2.0's power. I think
the intention was to make an easy
transition from old-style printers to
computerized typesetting. As far as
color capability goes, not everyone
has need of it-just look at IBM and
Apple. I agree with the page-size
problem, but lack of a WYSIWYG
display is a problem only because
everyone thinks it has to be there.
City Desk 2.0 turns out high-quality
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I Beta tested City Desk 2.0 with a
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tinue to gel excellent results. This
program prints regular Amiga fonts
without jaggies at the printer's best
resolution, not just at 72 dpi like
some other programs. Embedded
commands give you great typographi-
cal control, and the Preview display
shows dearly how the printed bit-
mapped fonts will appear. Finely de-
tailed bitrnapped fonts are large,
therefore additional memory will help
prevent system crashing. I have had
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either WordPerfect (WordPerfect) or
DeluxePaim III (Electronic Arts) on a
2.5-meg A1000.
-Michael B. Safer
Albany, CA
It is true that City Dtsk 2.0 provides a
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butes and attributes of selected new text
(incoming from either a word processor or
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ever, must be done in the editor. J believe
embedded. commands should b« a [easure of
every page lnyoul program, but not the
only or dominant option. If ttu Amiga is
to compete in the real world. iu software
must perform as intuitively as the MlU'S
PagemaJrn (Aldus), for example. Also,
other Amiga programs offer outline fonts
that can be resiud and manipulated with
ease, and that take advantage of the capa-
bilities of both dot matrix and HP compos-
ible printers. Concerning hard-drive
installation instructions, I do not thiuk the
read.me file phrase quoted is intelligiblt to
the average user. Plus, it is simpler to as-
sign SYS: to the appropriate drive. City
Desk is the second most expensive Amiga
desktop publishing program, and as such
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EAsIER FILE ACCESS
ITS EASIER THAN you may think to
make your Amiga's hard-disk drive a lit-
tle more efficient and user friendly. If
you use, say. Electronic Arts' DeluxePaint
III regularly, why not make it easy to in-
voke from the eLI with a minimal num-
ber of keystrokes.
Just save a copy of the DeluxePaint III
program to the C directory in yOUT hard
disk's work partition. Next, rename the
program "OP" to minimize keystrokes.
Then set the S protect bit to the On
mode by entering the following com-
mand from the CLI or Shell:
Protect 0 P +s
Activating DeluxePaint III is now as
easy as typing DP from the CLI or Shell,
regardless of the current directory. Natu-
rally, this process can be applied to your
word processor and other frequently
used utilities and applications.
Alan Stank;;
Prince Edward Island, Canada
PERSONALIZED RAM
DISK ICON
CREATING A MORE attractive RAM
disk icon to replace the default icon is a
relatively easy process. Using your favor-
ite icon editor, load a Disk icon from a
Workbench disk or other suitable source.
Once you've edited the icon to your lik-
ing, save it to a copy of your Workbench
disk, using a "RAM.info" filename. It's
important not to save it with a filename
of Disk.info, or else it will replace the ex-
isting Workbench disk icon.
104 March 1990
oaRS D'OEUVRES
Hints, tips and techniques from
your fellow Amiga users,
Compiled by Tim Walsh
Next, add the following commands to
the startup-sequence on a copy of your
Workbench disk:
c:Copy RAM.info ram:Disk.info
c:LoadWB> nil:
For a system with an autobooting
hard-disk drive. follow the above proce-
dure using a copy of your autobooting
Workbench on floppy disk. Once you
have it working properly, copy the
RAM.info and revamped startup-se-
quence to your hard-disk drive's auto-
boot partition.
Mark Klapheke
Fort Wayne, IN
How IT STACKSUP
KNOWING HOW 10 adjust your Ami-
ga's stack area can be a sure cure for
many of your multitasking woes. Fre-
quently, attempting to load a large appli-
cation program, such as Precision
Software's Superbase Professional, using
the CLI or Shell instead of the Work-
bench will result in an Insufficient Stack
Space message to appear. That's because
it requires a stack size of 8000 bytes to
run. (You can find this program infor-
mation by selecting Info from the Work-
bench menu.) Trying to launch some
lesser applications from the CLI using
too small a stack causes the computer to
crash and a Guru message to appear.
Rather than continually resorting to
the Workbench to run such programs,
try adjusting the CLI's stack size. To find
out the current stack size, enter the fol-
lowing from the CLI or Shell:
Stack
The size of the current stack will be re-
ported. To increase the stack size to 16K,
enter the following from the CLI or
Shell:
Stack 16000
Occasionally, a program may crash the
computer even after you have adjusted
the stack size. If that's the case, you
probably have some other problem be-
sides the size of the stack.
Steve Matsumoto
Houston, TX
AUTOBOarING WITH RAD
IF YOU HAVE an autobooting hard
disk, you may have problems using the
AmigaDOS 1.3 RAD (recoverable RAM
disk). When a RAD is active, resetting
the computer may result in the RAD re-
booting, while the autobooting hard-disk
drive usually doesn't reboot.
Fortunately, there is a solution short of
powering down the computer. Just add
the following line to the RAD: descrip-
tion in your mountlist:
BOafPRI = - 129
Afterwards, whenever you perform a
warm reboot, the hard disk will reboot
along with the RAD.
Thomas J. Christopher
New Haven, CT
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Nor MY TYPE
Q: Why can', I copy an entire
disk to the RA D: disk droice? I
changed HighCyc to equal 79 ill
my mouniiisi, alld I have plellty of
RAM. If I drag a disk icon over
to the RAD: icon I get the message
"Disks art of incompatible type
and cannot be copied." If J use
DISKCOPY from the Shell, the
RAD: icon disappears from the
Workbench. When I then try to
access HAD: J get the message
"It's not a DOS disk."
D. Bush
Knoxville, TN
A: I get the same results if I
attempt to use Workbench to
copy a disk onto the RAD: (re-
coverable RAM disk) drive.
But I can use the Shell or eLI
to invoke the DISKCOPY
command and copy from a
floppy to the RAD: drive, with
the following syntax:
OISKCOPY OFO: to RAn:
As long as the RAD: drive is
the proper size (matching the
size of the standard floppy
disk) it works fine. When it is
done, the old RAD: disk is re-
placed with a copy of whatever
disk was in OFO:, icon and all.
If your mountlist entry for
RAD: is properly defined, it
should work. Check your
mountlist and make sure the
RAD: entry is correct.
If ),ou have the memory to
spare, the recoverable RAM
disk is a great addition to your
working environment. Unlike
the normal RAM: disk, once
106 March 1990
HELP KEY
When you're without a clue and feeling blue,
just call Lou.
By Louis R, Wallace
the RAn: drive has been for-
matted it's contents will sur-
vive a warm reboot (pressing
GrRL-RI GHT-AMIGA-LEFT-
AMIGA). To use the RAD:
drive. insert the command
MOUNT RAD: in your
startup-sequence, and, using a
text editor, add the following
lines to your rnountlist (on a
copy of your boot disk):
RAe: Device = ramdrtve.devlce
Unlt=O
Flagl=O
Surface. =2
BlocklPerTrack = 11
Reserved=2
Imerle.ve = 0
LowCyt=O : HtghCyt=79
Butf••.• =5
,
BufMemType =1
(Notice that I defined RAD:
to have exactly the same num-
ber of cylinders as a floppy,
resulting in an 880K capacity.)
The next time you reboot,
the system will define a RAn:
device. Like any disk, it must
be formatted before it can be
used (you must format RAn:
once each time you turn on
the Amiga). In the Shell, type
(on one line):
SYS:SYSTEM/FORMAT DRIVE RAO:
NAME D1$KHAME
The RAD: disk will be formatted
quickly. After that you can copy
files or directories (or copy
whole disks using DISKCOPY)
to the RAD: device.
If for some reason your sys-
tem is reset before you can copy
the contents of the RAn: disk to
more permanent storage. the
contents should reappear when
the MOUNT RAD: command is
issued. Unless the RAM has
been corrupted, everything will
be intact. Remember there is no
need to reformat the RAn: disk
when you reboot; just remount-
ing it should be sufficient.
TWISTER
Q: I am teaching myself program-
ming by wn"ting a game in Amiga
Basic. but I can't seem to make ani-
mated objects rotate and change
size. For example, I want the object
to always be pointing forward, even
when it turns. When it moves to-
ward or away from you it should
get larger or smaller. I am using
sprites created with the standard ob-
ject editor and then converting
them to data statements. I have
read many books on animation in
Amiga Basic but none have ad-
dressed this subject. Is it possible!
S. Buccella
Pt. Washingtoll, NY
A: Yes, you can give your ani-
mated objects the illusion of
getting larger in the fore-
ground or smaller as you re-
cede into the background, as
well as making them appear
pointing in any direction. I
am sure you have seen Amiga
animations (created with pow-
erful and expensive commer-
cial software) that have objects
that appear solid and three di-
mensional. Amiga Basic, how-
ever, does not have those
kinds of features, and would
be far too slow for a real-time
activity like a game even if you
wrote 3-D object functions for
it. To get that kind of action in
an Amiga Basic game will re-
quire you to do a lot of the
work yourself, because the
computer considers the ani-
mated sprites as flat, one-di-
mensional data.
The trick is to create several
different versions of each ob-
ject, some smaller and some
larger than the default size.
The only limits to this ap-
proach is that it takes a lot of
memory to store multiple
sprite or object definitions.
When you want them to ap-
pear to be moving away,
change the shape to smaller
and smaller versions; to make
it appear to grow, change to
larger and larger sprites. The
same technique applies for
making the sprite appear to
turn. Draw a different sprite
for every position, then
change the images to make it
appear the sprite is turning.
To make the change, use the
command (on one line):
OBJECT.SHAPE OBJECT 1d1,
OBJECT Id2
This will change the shape of
object id I into whatever object
id2 was. By making successive
shape changes, you can create
the illusion of continuous
change. Here's an example
that would change shape I
into 24 other shapes.
FOR 1=2 TO 25
OBJECT.SHAPE 1,1
NEXT I •
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AmigaWorld 111
Readers Speak
(ltuslion of lhi Month: "If you were
elected president of Commodore, wlull
would be the first thing you would do?"
"Commodore is already starting to
do what I would do. I would try for
heavy penetration of the Amiga into
the commercial world."
Dave Spitler
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"I would get rid of that terrible
hyped-up advertising campaign
and replace it with a beuer one."
Anonymous
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"I would increase the advertising of
the Amiga and point out character-
istics that are different from other
pes like IBM and Apple ... 1 would
push the Amiga. They (Commo-
dore) have been doing that this
Christmas so I've bought stock in
Commodore."
Harold E. Ratcliffe
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Ear to the Wall
YiAt": According to the popular television show The
Computer Chronicles, the new Macintosh operating sys-
tem (System 7.0) will take up 3MB of RAM and still
will not muhnask. That is because individual bit
mapped. graphics-intensive applications already tax its
single 68000 family processor. Sounds like Apple needs
a few custom coprocessors if they want to do more
than one thing at once.
ToasteT, Toaster, Where's My Toaster?: NewTek is still
working out bugs in the Toaster software, and now
plans a Spring kickoff. Look for underground celebs
Penn & Teller to be involved in a special Toaster video
project. We may even get a cameo appearance by Dana
Carvey (Saturday Night Live's Church Lady), since
Dana's more technically astute brother Brad is a key
member of the Toaster team.
Hots Off!: A quick thanks to two of our competitors.
Amazing and Info, for helping us to publicize the Amiga
Developers Association. We may have started it, but
this association is open to all in the Amiga market. and
it will hopefully help all in the Amiga market. Thanks
for good words.
Enough Already: Last month's issue mentioned the
name Mike Halverson, and spelled it the same way it
112 March 1990
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was spelled in the previous month's editorial. We have
been talking about Mike because he is a colorful guy,
thought up the idea of the Amiga Developers Associ-
ation, and is doing some wild stuff in the area of voice
recognition. But we have also been consistently mis-
spelling his name. According to our sources, it is spelled
HALVORSONl
OUCH!: Amiga.Welt is not what you get when your
computer falls on your leg. It is the German edition
of AmigaWorld. Now that East Germany (which is be-
ginning to earn irs formal name, German Democratic
Republic) has opened up the Berlin Wall, Amiga-Welt
is stepping over. Amiga-Welt willbe distributed through
Die Wirtschaft, an East German publishing company.
New Kid in Town: Preferred Technologies Inc. re-
cently scooped two employees from Southern, a major
Amiga Software distributor now under new ownership.
Unlike Southern, which focused on software disrri-
bution, Preferred is more of a developer/publisher. It
recently acquired the rights to M2Sprint, a Modula-2
Compiler/Debugger, and has developed Spectrum, a
product aimed at Digi-View that has yet to ship. The
firm is also planning launches of hard drives, mice,
MIDI, and sound sampling products. -Doug Barney
So What?!?
It Is funny to sit behind an Amlga and
watch the rest of the PC and work4
station Industry get all excited about
Unix. For those In the dark, Unix Is a
2O-yearold operating system that con-
sumes every ounce of computing
power tossed at It. In fact, It seems
that there have been more articles
about Unix lately than there are users.
Unix Is hot because OS/2 from IBM
and Microsoft Is not Unix. according
to Its backers, has It all: munltaskJng.
large amounts of addressable RAM,
graphical user Inter1aces, and appli-
cations. OS/2, meanwhile, has the first
three Items nailed down, but falls mi·
serably on the last
Unix and OS/2 backers make these
teatures sound awfully new. But to
Arnlganl, they are awful familiar. The
Arnlga operating system has all ot the
above attributes, and runs In a very
tight memory space. " Is just that n0-
body seems to care. Why muttltask on
a $2000 system when you can buy a
$25,000 workstation to do the same
thing with Unix?
Soon enough, users will be able to
compare the Amlga native operating
system with Unix. That II because
they will both be running on the same
machine!
For many applications, the Arnlga's
native mode will be clearly superior.
But tor others, Unix will shine. That
Is because some super high-end ap-
plications have been written exelu-
slvety tor Unix. and some devices such
as super-hl-res graphics boards have
been designed to work with It And
with a Brktgeboard, you should also
be able to run OS/2, If you've a mind
to. The Arnlga doesn't sound 80 pro-
prietary or 80 bad after all.
-Doug Barney
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"Why is Digi-Paint 3 better
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Digi-Paint 3 works in the Amiga's
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"What makes Digi-Paint 3 better than
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Digi-Paint 3 is the only Amiga paint program written in 100%
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''What is the Transfer 24 program.
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Transfer 24 is a separate program
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AXMAGAZINEnotes that "Transfer 24
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''What technical support does NeWfek offer?"
Digi-Paint 3 has one other thing you won't find in any ordinary paint program:
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