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W E L C O M E
W E L C O M E
T he word processor is mightier than the pen.
No matter what you write or how much you
write, there’s no denying the fact that a
word processor will make your task easier.
Quite apart from the advantages that all such
programs give - ease of making changes to text,
control over formatting and so forth - many provide
a whole range of extra features such as spelling
checking, the option to include graphics and word
counting facilities. To find out exactly which word
processor is the mightiest, turn to page 14. You’ll
find it’s not just an article about which word
processor is best, though, but one which will help
you in getting the right package for your needs -
you'll find similar word processors are closely
compared, and the relative advantages of their
various features carefully weighed.
Those of you not quite ready to take the
financial plunge should already be ripping the
polythene from your cover disk. On it is a fully-
featured text editor, as well as a spelling checker
with a huge dictionary - plenty good for the
occasional wordsmith. Of course, you’ll find plenty
of other useful goodies on there, including the
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source code to all of
this month’s
programming articles.
In this issue you’ll
also find the first in a
new series, Amiga
Advocate. It offers legal
advice and help to the
unfortunates amongst
you who have had
unpleasant dealings
with mail order
companies. With luck, you won’t need it, but if you
do, turn to page 45.
Enjoy the issue, and make sure you join us
next month when we’ll be bringing you some hot
news from Commodore.
To help you find what you want
quickly and easily, this is a cross­
referenced list of all the products
and subjects covered in this
month's Amiga Shopper. You'll find
a detailed index to the many
subjects dealt covered in the
problem-solving Amiga Answers
section given on page 23. The page
numbers given are for the first page
of the article in which the subject is
mentioned.
Advertisers' Index 120
Aladdin 4D 56
AMOS 62
Answers 29
ARexx 78
Assembly Language 44
Back Issues 95
Bulletin Boards 73
C Programming 84
Clarity 16 53
Code Clinic 44
Competitions 107, 122
Developers' Conference 8
Digitising 56
File Manipulation 78
Fractal Plants 48
Functions 84
Hardware 86,116
Interface 62
Legal Advice 45
Letters 12
Pest 70
Product Locator 116
Product Round-up 14, 116
Programming 44, 48, 62, 78, 84
Public Domain 105, 107
Structures 84
VideoMaster 56
Wang 7
Word processors 14
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take a look at? Well, just
drop a line to:
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There are thousands of Amiga programs which are
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There are also many, many more which you can try
out before you buy. n Public Domain World we
examine the best of these programs and explain how
to get hold of them.
As well as our usual round-up of the latest PD,
we’ve also got a special competition running this
month - check out page 107 for details of how you
can win a hoard of software. Public Domain World or
Free lunch freak-out
as we call it this month, starts on page 105
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ANSWERING YOUR QUESTIONS
Every month in Amiga Answers our panel,
comprising experts from each of the major fields of
Amiga computing, answers more genuine reader
questions than any other Amiga magazine. And in
the Code Clinic all your programming errors will be
explained and corrected as well!
We answer questions every month on
Workbench • The CLI • Comms • Programming •
DTP • Video • Business software • And more!
THE ANSWERS START ON PAGE 29
FOR A FULL LIST OF CONTENTS, TURN THE PAGE
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AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 25 • MAY 1993
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EASY AM OS..........................................£24.00 PRO-WRITE V3.2................................£69.00
HOT LINKS............................................£52.00 VID I12...................................................£79.00
KIND WORDS V3..................................£39.00 PHOTON PAINT 2 ...............................£25.00
LATTICE C V 6....................................£205.00 FINAL COPY 1....................................£39.00
PAGESETTER V 3.................................£52.00 DESIGN WORKS..................................£59.00
PAGESTREAM V2.2..........................£151.00 DOS 2 DOS............................................£28.00
PAGESTREAM FONTS.......................£49.00 Q/BACK TOOLS..................................£39.00
X CAD 3000........................................£239.00 WORDWORTH 2..................................£72.00
CROSS DOS V5.....................................£39.00 SUPERJAM...........................................£69.00
SCENERY ANIM ATOR.......................£53.00 XCAD 2000...........................................£89.00
ADORAGE Effects generator............................................................................................£59.00
PEN PAL V I.5 Excellent easy to use word processor.................................................£39.00
IMAGEMASTER 24 Bit Image Processing, includes effects....................................£129.00
ART DEPARTMENT PROFESSIONAL.......................................................................... £135.00
BROADCAST TITLER 2 ....................................................................................................£139.00
DIRECTORY OPUS V4.........................................................................................................£59.95
DIGI-VIEW MEDIA STATION............................................................................................£59.00
BARS + PIPES PROFESSIONAL..................................................................................... £129.00
MORPH PLUS.....................................................................................................................£149.00
MIRACLE Piano tutor (Hardware/Software)............................................................... £259.00
IBM EMULATOR Emulates a PC on the Am iga............................................................£39.00
VISIONARY Adventure creation language....................................................................£53.00
MINI OFFICE Integrated package...................................................................................£39.00
PROFESSIONAL PAGE V2.1 with tutorial video..........................................................£60.00
PROFESSIONAL PAGE V4.0 New Version...................................................................£145.00
DELUXE PAINT AG A..........................................................................................................£72.00
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GFA BASIC 3.5 INTERPRETER...........................................................................................£9.95
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GOLDEN GATE 386/25 Bridgeboard for 1500/2000/3000.....................................................£385.00
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CONTENTS
I N S I D E T H IS
News
7
Comms 73
Exactly how to log on to a bulletin board for the first time
PLUS a look at what the Red Rose board has to offer
Problems with A1200s and repairs; CD-ROM royalty
shock; Amiga Format Live show preview, developers’
conference report and Amiga used in science fiction show
Issue 25 - May 1993
Editor: Cliff Ramshaw
Art Editor: Diana Taylor
Production Editor: Alex Soboslay
Staff Writer: Gus Chandler
Consultant Editors: Jeff Walker,
Mark Smiddy, Ian Wrigley
Contributors: Jason Holborn, Paul
Overaa, Gary Whlteley, Dave
Winder, Ian Wrigley, Toby Simpson,
Wilf Rees, Jolyon Ralph, Dave
Green, Sophie Lankenau
Cover illustration: Mike Roberts
Illustration: Ellie Grandison
Ad Manager: Margaret Clarke
Ad Production Manager:
Richard Gingell
Ad Design: Lisa Withey
Production Technicians:
Mark Gover, Heath Parsons, Simon
Windsor, Chris Stocker, Jon Moore
Publisher: Stuart Anderton
Group Publishing Director:
Greg Ingham
ABC Member of the Audit
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July - December 1992: 43,290
Printed by Southernprint Ltd,
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Printed in the UK
Circulation Director: Sue Hartley
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UK: Future Publishing 0225 442244
Worldwide: MMC Ltd 0483 211678
Copyright © 1993 Future Publishing Ltd.
No part of this magazine may be
reproduced without written permission.
We welcome contributions for publi­
cation but regret that we cannot return
any submissions. Any correspondence
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tell us who was the first author ever to subm it
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Send your answers to: ‘QWERTYUIOP is my
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St, Bath BA1 2BW. First correct answer out of
the bag wins 12 free issues. Last m onth’s
answer: the play TS Eliot thought flawed by its
lack of an ‘objective correlative’ was Hamlet.
The winner: ND Sisson, Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.
ARexx 78
In which the file is opened on how to make disk accesses
with the Amiga’s latest language
Talking Shop 12
Discussion of Wang’s sen/ice and A1200 documentation
Reader Ads
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Looking for used Amiga kit? Look no further...
C Programming
84
Learn how to loop the loop with C PLUS advice on
installing your ‘include’ files
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Word processors 14
Don’t miss this if you're looking for a word processor.
We devote 10 whole pages to seeing just how nine of
the best compare. Buying advice par excellence
Mail order offers 91
Selected Amiga kit at special prices PLUS your chance to
get hold of Amiga Shopper back issues and catch up with
everything you've missed in the Amiga world
Cover disk
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Subscriptions 98
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User Groups
Meet your fellow Amiga enthusiasts
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Amiga Answers 29
More of your hardware and software problems disappear
in a puff of logic, courtesy of our expert panel
Code Clink 44
Toby Simpson takes his binary scalpel to a program that
makes extensive use of the blitter
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Amiga Advocate
We help you straighten out any legal
problems you may have encountered with wily dealers
You [A500-NFR!A2080-FRiA3880-25;A4880-2!
Shhh! This month we’re listening carefully to Microdeal’s
amazing 16-bit sampler, Clarity 16
Public Domain World
Ian Wrigley casts his eye over the latest releases in the
world of low-cost and no-cost software - everything from
cookery to testing your Amiga’s performance
Video 56
Testing out Microdeal’s VideoMaster combined digitser
and audio sampler proved to be a moving experience
PD Competition 107
This is your chance to win a boat-load of public domain
software. Turn to page 107 for the details
AMOS Action 62
Jason Holborn shows you how to talk politely to AMOS
Pro’s Interface language PLUS answers to your AMOS
code queries and how to write a timed input handler
Product Locator
116
An at-a-glance guide to the best in hardware
Competition 122
Win a magnificent GVP A530 combined accelerator and
hard disk unit, worth £800, and kindly donated by Silica
Systems. Just answer the questions...
AmigaDOS 70
Mark Smiddy returns to his Pest clock-based reminder
program and demonstrates how it can be vastly improved
for users of Workbench 2 and 3.
AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 25 • MAY 1993
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