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YOUR DEFINITIVE AM IGA GUIDE
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IDE CABLE €9.99
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MASTERING AMIGA DOS 2 VCL 1 £21.95
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f-ftSTERING WORKBENCH . . . . ____£19.95
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MASTERING AMIGA DOS 3 VCL 2 £21.95
MASTERING AMIGA C ..................... £19.95
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A600 INSIDER GUIDE ...............£14.95
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A1200 THE NEXT STEPS .............£14.95
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KICKSTART 1.3 ROM..................... £29.99
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8520A I/O C H IP ............................£15. 99
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GVP GENUINE PSU........................£69.95
A1200 INTERNAL CLOCK MODULE £15.99
Odsal Top
. £19.99
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■ BEETLE MOUSE................................£15.99
■ LEGEND B A L L ..................................£29.99
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PRO ANALOGUE JOYSTICK .......... £19.99
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f o r A500
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(C) TRILOGIC 1994
All right* reserved.
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SUM 10-3 pin
£3 49 *99 A 5 9 0 5 0VI> S C S I
£469^9 DRIVE UPGRADES
‘ EASY TO FIT.
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£469.99
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.638 Bradford
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MIDI INTERFACE £22.99
UNIQUE 5 POST DESIGN COMPATIBLE W3H
ALL AMIGA M ID I SOFTWARE
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SUPERFI 2 STEREO SYSTEM
HI FI QUALITY £54.99
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| GVP SERIES I I HC8
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CONTENTS
3
ISSUE 37 • MAY 1994
NEWS 4
Wordworth 3 upgrade announced; rumors of AAA
being shelved are quashed; PLUS the hottest info
from the States and an opinion piece from Jeremy
Rihll of Digita International.
COMPETITION 1 8
We’ve got two complete multimedia systems - CD-
ROM drive, SCSI interface, memory, hard drive and
Scala MM300 - to give away, each worth over
£1,000 - just add one Amiga.
WORDWORTH 3 2 2
The much-heralded Amiga word processor is here.
Is it everything we've been waiting for? Find out
when it goes up against Final Writer.
Top-quality printing with the Primera - page 30.
Does Wordworth 3 really deliver? Page 22.
mutlitasking world - to your own applications.
Discover how to speed up and simplify your startup-
sequence, how to prevent nasty deletion accidents
and how to install software to hard disk.
SUBSCRIPTIONS 8 2
Why not ensure your monthly dosage of serious
Amiga advice, and get a free binder, too?
ART DEPT PRO 2 .5 2 6
The image processing package thought by many to
be the best there is now has a new interface and
new loaders and savers - we check it out.
VIDEO VIRTUOSITY 6 6
Learn how to give your logos that professional,
animated feel. Gary Whiteley reveals the tricks of
the trade.
PUBLIC DOMAIN
8 5
Graeme Sandiford uncovers some amazing
programs as he sorts the wheat from the chaff in
his exploration of the very latest in low-cost and no­
cost software.
HUGE AND HARD 2 9
We take a look at two hard drives from DEC and
IBM that can provide you with enough storage to
last well into the next century.
AMOS PROGRAMMING 6 8
In the last part of his series, Jason Holborn shows
you how to add Load and Save functions to your AS
Paint fully-featured painting package.
PRODUCT LOCATOR 1 0 1
Find out where to buy the hardware you need. Our
up-to-the-minute reference section includes review
ratings and back issue references.
PRIMERA PRINTER 3 0
Looking for photographic output? Fargo’s Primera,
with its dye sublimation option, can do the
business, and it’s cheaper than you might think.
HAND SCANNING 7 3
Not satisfied with your mono hand scanning? We'll
give you the hints and tips you need to dramatically
improve your results.
BUYING ADVICE 1 0 4
You'd be a fool to buy anything before reading this
first - top tips that every smart shopper ought to
be following. Take our advice.
A 2A AND TRICODE 3 2
Gary Whiteley reviews A2A, a program that will
convert PostScript fonts to Amiga Colorfonts, and
Tricode, a device for converting RGB to video.
Don’t miss out! Amiga Shopper covers serious
Amiga topics to a depth no others can match.
Make sure there’s no gaps in your knowledge.
NEXT MONTH 1 0 6
It’s only a month away - you can wait surely. But if
you’re really desperate for your next fix of hard
Amiga facts, turn here to discover what you've got
to look forward to; PLUS results from March’s
Emplant and April’s free subscription competition.
WINDOW SHOPPER 3 4
Reviews of the Aminet CD-ROM, Quarterback 6 (the
hard disk back-up utility), Personal Paint 4, and
Upper Disk Tools (file recovery and back-up).
Toby Simpson reveals how you can add ARexx
support - an important consideration in today’s
Read all about the hottest issues in the Amiga
community. And, hey, why not contribute yourself?
READER ADS
4 0
There’s bargains in them thar pages - used
hardware and software for sale at smashing prices.
AMIGA ANSWERS
4 1
Eleven pages packed to the very brim with
solutions to your real-life Amiga problems. Nothing
is too tough for our panel of experts.
Your opinion is vital. We need to know what you
think about the Amiga and Amiga Shopper. Turn
here to influence the future of both.
How to choose and fit your own
CD-ROM drive; reviews of new
multimedia authoring
contenders MediaPoint and
Helm ; how the Amiga is making
a big impact in the real world;
listings of every serious CD-
ROM available for your Amiga;
Commodore’s Centres of
Excellence; the Future...
Find out about the people behind the products.
This month we talk to Greg Gorby, head of ADSPEC
and author of the rendering package Aladdin 4D.
Get in contact with like-minded people in your area
- this month, the south and midlands.
AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 37 • MAY 1994
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
4 NEWS
Digita react quickly to
B COMMENT 9
WordworHi 3 criticisms
isappointment - that's the feeling of much of the
k Amiga community after Wordworth 3’s launch on
10 March. What had been anticipated as the next
Amiga “killer application” - a refutation to those who
claim the only good software is Mac or PC software -
has turned out to be far from perfect (see our review on
page 22). It is hampered by many bugs, and some people
have described it as little more than a beta version.
Digita have not been slow to respond. They’ve announced
an upgrade - Wordworth 3.0a - due for release on 12
April. It will be free to all registered Wordworth 3 users. In
view of this, we asked Digita managing director Jeremy
Rihll if he thought the program had been launched too
early. “The original release date was December," he told
us. “With the development that’s gone into Wordworth 3,
never is too early. We made the decision that the product
had to ship and development had to cease. Some of the
problems we’ve experienced you’d never know about until
the product gets to market. I would have preferred it to
have been more stable,’’ he added.
Cliff Ramshaw ponders over the
month’s Amiga events...
T he big news this month, of
course, is the launch of
Wordworth 3. You’ll find our
definitive review of it on page 22.
As you can see from the story on
the right, there have been some
problems with the program. Digita
are well aware of them, though,
and are committed to fixing them,
so hopefully we'll soon have a
program on our hands that truly
deserves the accolade, “killer
application.”
”1 think some of the disappointment comes because of
the advance trumpeting. ” - Jeremy Rihll, Digita.
We look forward to making the product better and better; it
will continue to grow.”
Version 3.0a of Wordworth is due for release on 12 April.
If you’ve bought a copy of 3.0, make sure you register it
now to ensure your free upgrade. Look out for a review of
it in our July issue, when it goes head-to-head with every
word processor available for the Amiga, including the
second release of Final Writer. Digita ® 0395 270273.
He commented that the original Wordworth 1 was far from
bug-free. “You’d be a brave man to use it,” he said, yet
pointed out that only half the people who’d bought it
upgraded to version 1.1, which came three months
afterwards. “People who are experiencing the problems
are expert users with big machines; or people who are
existing Wordworth users who know their way around and
want to get straight on with it. They say ‘as long as you
sort it out it's a cool piece of software’.’’
This issue sees the introduction of
a new writer - R Shamms Mortier,
an expert in Amiga graphics and
animation - who’ll be providing us
with news from the States,
interviews of key Amiga people
and hints and tips on graphics.
The Wordworth bug hunt
Tim Titchmarsh is the man at Digita coordinating the
effort to stamp out Wordworth 3’s bugs. Below is a list
of those known so far (many uncovered by Amiga
Shopper’s Jeff Walker), and the state of submission
Tim and his team have so far beat them into:
• Unable to load help files on A1200 - fixed
•Crash caused by loading some types of ASCII - fixed
• Large amounts of memory needed for graphics -
acknowledged as a restriction, but not due for change
in the short term.
•Incomplete floppy disk installation - Digita unable to
replicate problem
• No PostScript support-will be included in update
• Crash caused by one or two printer drivers - fixed
•Debugging message left in - removed
• Crash caused by certain combination of text effects -
Pigita still trying to reproduce
• Disappearing text with Format Paragraph - fixed
•Colour settings lost after being customised - fixed
• Hotlinks with bitmaps not working - Digita were
unaware of this bug
•Bug with text runarounds next to graphics - same as
in Wordworth 2, it is being investigated
• Program screen sometimes remaining open after a
quit - Digita were unaware of this bug
Tim’s team certainly have their work cut out already,
but he stresses: “If people have got problems, let us
know what they are. We’ll do our best to fix them as
quickly as we can."
The public’s (and journalists’) reporting of bugs is, he
says, “a bit like fishing by dropping a hand grenade into a
pond - the problems then surface and can easily be
fixed.” Mr Rihll is keen to point out that these problems
are already being fixed (see panel).
Shamms isn’t the only new thing
in Amiga Shopper. We’ve changed
the magazine quite a bit - I hope
you find it more informative and
fact-packed than ever. Enjoy.
We asked him if he regretted announcing a launch date in
advance, rather than waiting until the program was
finished. “With the benefit of hindsight, it would have been
better to have had a bit more time. But these things are
planned months in advance. In the commercial
environment, sometimes you can’t afford to hold off
launch dates.
Program to improve
your musical ear
Cochlear Consciousness is a suite
of programs from Pierceptron
designed to train your ear. With it
you will learn how to recognise
intervals, chords and chord
progressions. Further stages deal
with the recognition of harmonics,
tuning and the development of
perfect pitch. Cochlear
Consciousness runs on any Amiga
with Workbench 1.3 or later, and
costs $150 from Pierceptron ®
0101 801 521 7215.
“So long as the publisher is prepared to take
responsibility, it’s acceptable but not desirable. I’m happy
that although we’ll take the flak for this, we’ll get the
changes done quickly. It’s an on-going process.
“Before, we’ve always had the product manufactured and
ready to go before we've shouted. The problem with doing
that is the time lag - there are months between getting a
finished product and making any sales.
“The important thing is that people realise the update is a
free issue. We’re committed to the software - of course
we want to get it right. I'd like people to be reasonable.
NEWS IN BRIEF • NEWS IN BRIEF • NEWS IN BRIEF • NEWS IN BRIEF • NEWS IN BRIEF
•Commodore are to badge high-
quality Amiga products with their
Seal of Approval. “This should, from
an end-user point of view, make it
easier to identify product tried and
tested by Commodore,” said
Marketing Manager Dawn Levack.
• Multi Media Machine Limited are
setting up a service to encode Full
Motion Video on to CD-ROM. Call ®
0204 363688 for details of their
prices.
•Golden Image UK (® 081 365
1102) have reduced the price of their
popular 256-greyscale hand scanner,
the Alfascan Plus, to £135.00. The
deal includes Junior OCR (optical
character recognition software),
Touch Up V3.1 and Merge It software
packages.
AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 37 • MAY 1994
NEWS 5
MULTI SYNC
MADNESS
SOM ETHING TO RAVE ABOUT
Yes, UK users can now use top rendering program,
Lightwave. Ramiga International are distributing it along
with LightRave for £799. LightRave is a dongle that
emulates the parts of Newtek’s Video Toaster that are
necessary to run Lightwave, the Amiga's premiere 3D
graphics program. The Video Toaster has really brought
the Amiga’s graphical power to the attention of millions of
TV viewers across the globe. With the production of the
popular sci-fi series Seaquest DSV and Babylon 5, the
Amiga has established itself as a viable replacement for
high-end graphics stations, such as those made by Silicon
Graphics and Sparc.
Microvitec will be releasing a new
multi sync monitor shortly, the Pro­
Graphic, at an amazingly low price of
£329.99. You may, at first, think this
is not so surprising, but wait till you
hear the specifications. Although the
new monitor is about £20 cheaper
than Commodore's own 1942
monitor, it has 0.28 dot pitch which
will produce a sharper image than the
1942's dot pitch of 0.38.
Lightwave has a number of excellent features, is easy to
use and, unlike the Toaster unit itself, can produce images
in a wide range of resolutions including PAL. This is great
news, as this a brilliant opportunity for Lightwave to make
its mark in Europe.
Lightwave really does have some powerful features. For
example it is the only Amiga 3D program to support
Displacement maps. This feature is similar to bump
mapping, a technique that uses changes in colour to act
as a map, or template, for a surface’s elevations. While
bump mapping only effects the rendered image,
Displacement mapping actually reshapes the 3D model.
As well as producing a sharper image
because of the monitor’s dot pitch, as
it is a multi sync will also produce
steady images in all AGA-modes.
There are a lot more features to the program such as lens
flare effects, but if you want to know if the
UghtRave/Lightwave product is really worth £800, wait for
our in depth review in next month's issue. For those of you
already familiar with Lightwave's amazing features,
you might consider selling close-friends and family
members into enslavement and then contacting Ramiga
on = 0690 770304.
The monitor also has exterior stereo
speakers and a superior scan rate.
ZCL have put in a large order for the
monitor so contact them, on ® 0543
414817, for more information or to
place an order.
At last - the Amiga’s very best 3D rendering package is
available to video workers in the UK.
Mammoth storage from optics
Budget Books
AmaKEY Design have just released
three budget-priced new books, each
costing just £9.95, for Amiga-owners
who are keen to get the most out of
their machines. They are: Buying An
Amiga, Word Processors and Fonts &
Clip Art.
to do your letter writing.
Word Processors tells you all you
need to know to make an informed
choice about which word processor
you choose, and how to get it to do
what you want it to do.
Fourth level Developments have just finished work on a new 1.2Gb storage
device. The MO-MIGA 1.2 is Magneto Optical Drive system for any SCSI-
equipped Amiga that will retail for about £2700. There are external and internal
versions; both accepting double-sided cartridges that can hold up to 600Mb of
data on each side. If you run out of space you can simply replace the cartridge
with a new one.
Fonts & Clip Art explains the
differences between the types of
fonts and clip art available both
commercially and in the Public
Domain. It also gives you a few tips
on how to get your hands on some of
the better examples of clip art.
The product comes with an installer program that can also be used to set
security levels. You are also supplied with a toolkit that can handle partioning
and batch formatting. There is also wide selection of utilities for the installation
of the drive and managing data.
Buying An Amiga provides helpful
advice for anyone looking to
purchase their first Amiga or a
peripheral device. It also contains a
glossary of Amiga-related words and
phrases, to ensure know which
features you really want - so you
don’t end up buying an A4000/040
As well as a huge storage capacity the drive also has transfer rates between
2.0Mb per second and 5.0 Mb per second in burst mode, if your machine can
handle it! If you need this sort of storage space, contact Ramiga International
on ® 0690 770304 for more information.
You can order any of the books from
AmaKEY, who are on ® 0908
370230.
NEW FUTURE SHOW
The Future Computing Show, Earls
Court 2 London 26-30 October 1994,
will be the computer event of the year
- your chance to get your hands on
all of the latest computer equipment
and software. The show has the full
support of Future Publishing, so
expect us and our sister magazines
to be there in force.
Beeb's trio of computing shows
previously only been able to read
about." You can expect to see some
examples of major technological
developments, particularly in the field
of multimedia, and find some real
bargains at the show. We'll let you
know more about who will be there
and what they will have to show you,
nearer the time.
It must be a sign of these technological times - the BBC, after a long absence,
is set to air not one but three programmes introducing the advantages of
computers and Information Technology.
The Net, from April 13th on BBC-2 at 8.00pm, will attempt to combine user-
friendly advice and distinctive state-of-the-art computer graphics to tap into the
expanding world of the computer. Rough Guides presenter, Rajan Datar, and
Radio 4’s Susan Rae will be hosting the show. The first kicks off in a
controversial fashion, as Rajan reports on German anti-fascists hackers who
clash regularly with Aryan groups and fascists on bulletin boards.
"Future Computing 94 has
been designed to give the
leisure computing industry
what they want,” explains
Chris Down, Show
Manager. “It is a direct
response to their needs for
a show that offers the
consumer an opportunity to
get their hands on
technology they have
The Big Byte starts April 3rd at 12.15pm, on Radio 5, and will be a fast-moving
computer magazine with wide appeal. This show will presented by Gareth Jones,
from I TV’s How 2, and games writers from Sega and Nintendo, Nick Stroud and
Steve Collett.
Unicrtinams-Ht
.
Computing For The Less Terrified is a user-friendly guide to computers. The
series starts on BBC-1 on May 22nd at 11.00am, with a look at word
processors. They will also interview scriptwriter Debbie Cook, who explains how
she has found computers helpful in her work.
■ more than just a
The Future Computing Show
show, it’s a way of life.
AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 37 • MAY 1994

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