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VIIKT (Component Tranwoder): All the VIU-S fealures, plus RGB to Y/fv-Y/B-YandY/R-Y/B-YtoRGB input and output conversions for Beiacam/MII; VGA-style monitor passtluough. H»troPiiiitT «i>d DufcUy D^kT^isi *rt rafemtrki &fGns- ViHcy Pssdvct*. I ^GVP For more information or your nearest GVP Dealer, phone 215-337-8770 today. For technical information call 2 1 5-354-9495 GREAT VALLEY- PRODUCTS. INC. PHONE 2 1 5 « 3 3 7 - B 7 7 0 600 CLARK AVENUE KING OF PRUSSIA. PA l?4C6 U 5.A FAX 2I5-337-9922 Circle 25 on Reader Servce cacd CONTENTS VOLUME 8, NUMBER 11, NOVEMBER 1992 FEATURES The Amiga 4000 By Um Wallace . . . $ 0 It's the fastest, must powerful, and amazing- ly "colorful" Amiga ever made. Find out why the Amiga is hack on top of the personal- computer heap in this special in-depth pie- view of the A4000, to he introduced this fall. ARTICLES Piece Negotiations By Steven Blaize i> D Creative image-compositing techniques can yield interesting digital collages to use in your video, animation, or print presentations. Know Your Rights By Eric Giguere 39 If you write your own programs and want to sell them or distribute them as I'D or shareware, here's what you need to know about copyright conventions. Publish With Panache By Victor Osaka 43 Try this hands-on, A-lo-Z course in print design if you plan to get involved in pro- ducing newsletters, bulletins, brochures, or any other "home-grown" publications. Digging into DOS — 1 By Sheldon Leemon 4 7 A brand-new series on AmigaDQS 2.0 debuts ibis month to show you how to get the most out of Release 2 of the Amiga operating system. ANIMATION LIVEl By Gene Hamm . .52 If you want to do animation but are not an accomplished artist, "rotoscoping" may be just the ticket to get you over the hump. (01 I M\ S Editor's Drawer By Dennis Bruson . 6 There's a new name on die corner ollice at ,111.' so bid 'bye 'bye to Barney and give a listen to Brisson, Accent on Graphics By Joel Hagen 58 A few simple painting and image-pro- cessing techniques can help you quickly create realistic, natural-looking back- grounds for any type < >f presentation. // wilt huff and puff and blow the cybersox nf] any PC/Mac in the house. Check out our special preview of the Amiga 4000, due out this fall. VIDEO SUITE By Paulo de Andrade ..60 For video buffs who are baffled bv the bur- geoning arrav of videotape and YTR for- mats, here's a clear, concise guide to elimi- nate the confusion. DEPARTMENTS Overscan 8 A monthly roundup of (he latest news. nni products and network inlormation from every corner of Mondo Amiga. Help Key ..92 WI.Ol' is hack on the air this month to provide answers to your tech-trouble questions. The Last Word 112 I lere's a sampling of a flood oi mail we've been getting hitch' about the magazine and the Amiga market. AW Product Information. 1 04 To contact the vendors of products mentioned in this issue ofAmigaWorld, consult our all-in-one "Manufacturers'/ Distributors' Addresses" list. REVIEWS Professional Draw 3.0 (Gold Disk) and PROVECTOR 2.1/PSlMPORT (Stylus) 20 Major updates of two heavyweights in the structured-drawing arena. A2386SX Bridgeboard (CBM) . . 22 Full PC compatibility with IBM's latest models. EXCELLENCE! 3.0(Micro-Systems) and Kind-words 3 (The Disk Co.), 26 There's one big winner in this duo of\VP updates. Virtual Reality Studio (Domark / Accolade) 72 Top-notch adventure-game building tool. Expert 4D Jr. (Genisoft) 76 Entry-level 5-D modeling and animation. BOOMBOX (Dr.T's) 80 Interactive music-making made easy. Personal VDA (DPS) and Bread- board (Cardinal Video) 81 Internal video-signal distribution amps. EXPERTDRAW (Genisoft) 84 Entry-level stmctured-drawing program. Animatrix Modeler (duBoh) 84 Low-budget 3-D modeler. (JAMES CRIB NOTES By Peter Olafson 98 This month, AWs top game tipster tackles Ultima VI: The False Prophet. SlMEARTH (Maxis) 98 Sim games fans will be wowed bv this one. MEGAFORTRESS (Three-Sixty / EA) .101 Highly detailed aircraft simulator. Conquests of the Longbow: ROBIN HOOD (Sierra On-Line) 102 Colorful adventure/strategy game. Short Takes ..106 Capsule reviews of new Amiga games. The Next Round 108 Announcements of upcoming game titles. NEXT MONTH: The annual Amiga Games Special! Plus: Amiga claymaiion, 3-D digitizing, AResiN Q&A, AmigaDOS 2.0 and more. COVER PHOTOGRAPH BY KDWARDJUDICE Amiga World 3 The most ingenious Genlock ever engineered for all Amiga users Create video and multi-media productions that totally unite your video, audio, and Amiga graphics on demand... at the click of a mouse! OTP's G-LOCK is without doubt the easiest, most flexible, most capable, high performance gen- lock you can buy for yuur Amiga. How can we make .such a hold statement? Take a look and com- pare for yourself. G-LOCK advantages abound The differences between G-LOCK and oil other gen- lock boards start with ihese time-saving, creativity- generating benefits only available an G-LOCK: * Push-button Control Panels with Intuitive, Mouse-Click Simplicity — with Full ARexx and CLI Interfaces. * Software Switchable between &_ 2 Composite Video f\ Inputs or 1 Y/C (S-Video) In. *■ Real-Time, Software-Controlled Video \ <A Processor (Proc Amp) with Complete Video J^^ Signal Processing Control. -*■ Complete 2-lnpui Audio Processing with Real-Time Volume, Bass, Treble, Mix and Mute Control - Samples to Your Videos. * Software Controlled RGB Color Splitter for Use with Newtek Digi-View' and Other Video Digitizers. r.T5FtOCh-ConlnilPM«l || Slgntb 1 N&vixfaTB 1 Audi: lU-F Iri Vcli. Argument* (W) • is- •l*-j~ tit But Treb Audio Source e ■ ITCH 13 M £ < Mute [-8MB) \~^] wLnsmi H 1 %y^k - Add DSS8" Audio AmigaWorld Dale Strang, Publisher Dennis Brisson, Editor-in-Chief Daniel Sullivan, Executive Editor Swain Pratt, Managing Editor Barbara Gefvert, Senior Editor LOUIS R. Wallace, Senior Editor, Technology Linda Barrett Laflamme, Review Editor Editorial OFFICES: 1-800-441-4403} 1-603-924-0100 Gene Brawn, Joel Hagen, David T. McClellan, PETER OlaFSON, Contributing Editors Howard G. Happ, Art Director Laura Johnson, Assistant Art Director Ann Dillon, Designer ALANA Korda, Manufacturing Manager Michael McGoldrick, Advertising Director BARBARA HOY, Sales Representative HEATHER GUINARD, Sales Representative MEREDITH BiCKEORD, Advertising Coordinator Advertising: i-800-44i-4403; I-603-924-0I00 GIORGIO SaLUTI, Associate Publisher. West Coast Sales 533 Airport Blvd.. Fourth Floor. 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He succeeds Doug Barney, who lias accepted a position with InfoWorld. We wish Doug well as he leaves he- hind the luster of the Amiga market — where music, art, animations, and greal games are the norm — and returns to a market dominated bv spreadsheets, databases and accounting software. Doug anticipates the upcoming chal- lenges of his new position and lakes with him many fond memories from his three-year stint vnihAW. Dennis is a capable successor, with nine years' experience in the Com- modore market — albeit the eight-bit side. Some of you may already be fa- miliar with Dennis's work as editor-in- chief of RUN, the C-64/128 magazine, since its inception in January 1984. He will continue to function as RUN'S editor-in-chief, along with his duties at AmigaWorld. — Dale Strang An Auspicious Beginning I take over the reins ol AmigaWorld at a propitious time. Commodore has just taken a giant step in the evolution of computing with the introduction of the A4000. The specifics of the newest member of the Amiga family are spelled out in this issue's feature article (see p. 30). Highlights of the system include a new 25-MHz 68040 processor, a new ver- sion (3.0) of AmigaDOS, expansion options galore, and the introduction of a new graphics chip set. Some of you may be thinking: "Oh no, another new machine, another A] 000 rehash!" In the past, Commo- dore has been criticized for introducing machines that feature the same old technology in a brand new package. Whether or not you agree with that assessment, you'll encounter plenty of new and exciting features in the A4000. In fact, there are several reasons we feel justified in referring to the A4000 as Commodore's first new computer since the A! 000. Three reasons are Alice, Paula and Lisa, the most dynamic trio since Char- lie's Angels. This Advanced Architecture (AA, pronounced Double A) chip set establishes new standards for desktop video and multimedia. The AA chips offer an expanded choice of colors (you can use up to 256 different colors on a screen at once from a palette of over 16- milliorj colors) and screen resolutions. The machine is also designed to accom- modate a variety of memon-storage and expansion options. Amiga I bird-party developers now have a great tool to show off their imagination and talent. We've chatted with several company reps who are genuinely excited about creating prod- ucts lor the A4000. We fully expect that vendors in this market will, once again, rise to the challenge and create many interesting new A4000 products in the near future. In bringing the A4000 lo market. Commodore did nothing to jeopar- dize its standing as the leader in graphics-intensive applications. We predict that the niche they've secured in the high-end multimedia and desk- top video market will continue to expand. Among multimedia zealots and DTV devotees, Commodore cer- tainly solidified its reputation by introducing a high-end multimedia and desktop-video machine for an attractive price (also, a trade-up pro- gram for this machine may be in the oiling, given Commodore's marketing history). The A4000 will have its detractors. Questions about the feasibility of upgrading existing Amiga machines to the A4000 standards remain unan- swered. Also, some may complain that access to SCSJ devices is an option, and not a standard feature, with the A4000. However, while critics will never be assuaged, fans will be pleased. This computer promises to excite those graphics groupies and video partisans who are involved in multimedia productions, videos and animations. In this issue, we hint at the prospect of more good things coming from Commodore. No doubt, the A4000 represents the first of what may devel- op into a new line of Amigas. In this case, the old show-biz saying, "You ain't seen nothing yet," applies. I look forward to my tenure as edi- tor-in-chief, which promises to be filled with many new developments from Commodore and the Amiga community. AmigaWorld wi\\ continue to bring its readers the highest-quality editorial with the latest new develop- ments in the market, the most objec- tive and timely reviews, informative and entertaining features and useful and easy-to-understand tutorials. Be sure to stav tuned. 6 November 1992 FOR WE AMIGA" 2000 SERIES ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ T CCELERAWN: THE TIME TESTED, USER-PROVEN, BEST SOLUTION NOW SHIPPING 33Mhz Only the GVP Family of Combo Accelerators are Packed, Stacked and Backed with more of what you want Most! Don't get stuck. Don't overpay. Don't buy half a solution. Don't take chances. When you're shopping for an accelerator, there is only one thing you should do... Choose from GVP's family of G-FORCE 040 and 030-based Combo Accelerator boards. WHY? 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Choose GVP's newest, fastest and feature filled accelerator... theJWOOG-FORCEtm It's the fastest accelerator — bar none: ► 68040 CPU running at up to a blazing 33MHZ clockspeed, outperforms even high end workstations costing thou- sands more. It's the most highly integrated — bar none: ► High performance onboard SCSI/SCSI II compatible hard drive controller. ► On-board serial port with speeds up to 625 Kbps and two 16 byte hardware buffers 1 1 read/ 1 write) to prevent data loss. Ideal for adding additional modems, printers etc. ► On-board user configurable parallel port for Amiga/PC compatibility. ► Future expansion via GVP's exclusive GVP compatible 32-Bit expansion bus. CALL YOUR GVP DEALER AND ORDER A GVP G-FORCE 030 or G-FORCE 040 TODAY! GREAT VAUEY PRODUCTS, INC, 600 OARK AVENUE KING OF PRUSSIA, PA 19406 USA PHONE 215-337-8770 FAX 215-337-9922 For more information or your nearest GVP Dealer, call215*337-8770. Dealer inquiries welcome. For technical support call 215*354*3495. Amiga ts a registered trademark or Commodore Amiga. Inc. All other trademarks are trie property ol their respective owners. © 1992 Great Valley Products, In. Circle 1 on Reader Service card OVERSCAN A/ews, A/ew Products and Networks Art in Action How do you parlay experience as a race-car mechanic and a driller on a Mediterranean oil rig into a career as a top graphics designer"- For British-born Ray Masters, the answer was: Get an Amiga! II you're not from South Florida, von may not be familiar with Masters' name, but you're sure to have seen his work, It can be found on beaches and ski slopes throughout the world. His bold, colorful designs adorn fashion items from inter- national sportswear giants such as Elho Brunner, Ellese, Swatch, and Wilson. (Elho Brunner sold S 1 5 million worth of clothing bearing Masters' designs in one year.) Masters has also designed striking posters and programs for major sport- ing events, including the Toyota Grand Prix, the World Water Ski Champi- onships, and the Chris Evert Pro- Celebrity Tennis Tournament (pictured at the right), to name just a few. Sketching on a Digital Canvas Some time after his apprenticeship on l99DCiiRf5£v^T/P^iR-MdR Rro-CfiLsBRiTd fcVBBfhm M SmilHtLnfticACtuim i«.,'Not»*i;;e>l CflnKe Uk# 41 THE PolP Ci.uB-B«/>. Hjim OCT B-l*- the oil rig off the coast of Sicilv, Masters washed up on the Florida coast at Delray Beach. His first American design venture was making T-shirts — by hand — for the local sun-and-surf set. He soon latched on to the just-released Amiga 2000, and with an early version of DeluxePaint and an HP PaintJet printer, he quickly ex- panded his operations far beyond the beaches north of Miami. Oddly enough, Masters— who now presides over a four-person company, Ray Masters Productions, [hat requires a high-priced firm of tax accountants — has retained the simple computer-design ap- proach he employed in the earlv davs. No 24-bit graphics, 1 6- million-color palettes, and fancy enhanced-display de- vices for Masters: "I'm basically a DPaint artist. I always use the same form of ma- nipulation. Fin a low-res, eight-color man. 1 don't rely on the technology as much; I depend on it as a canvas." Yet, despite this electronic sketch-pad ap- proach to computer graphics. Masters is one of the most successful Amiga artists in the world today. Jack of all Trades While acknowledging that the Amiga has made a crucial difference in his work Video Edits, JPEG Style Extra Explanations Digital Micronics' new Digital EditMas- ter ($2495) turns your A2000 or A3000 into a video-editing suite and promises to pro- vide capabilities that would normally cost you upwards of S100.000. The heart of the system is a video compressor based on full- motion JPEG technology and LSI Logic's JPEG chip set. In real time, the board digitizes, com- presses, and stores traditional video seg- ments onto your Amiga's hard disk, where you can edit and modify them. The board is capable of compressing and storing typical animation frames to a hard drive on a frame-by-frame basis, and you can play back the result in real time directly to tape, without needing a single-frame recorder. (RS# 130.) Bailled bv Workbench or ARexx? Help is as close as your bookshelf. Fast Guide to Workbench {Vidia. $8.95) covers Preferences, system programs, utilities, and tools, Commodities and their hot-key codes, fonts, gadgets, keyboard shortcuts, and other operating-svstem topics. To make your own crib notes, the booklet includes blank function key and numeric keypad overlays for reference templates. For a con- cise reference to ARexx commands and functions, consider Fast Guide to ARexx (Vidia, $8.95), which describes each command's syntax, keywords, options and re- sults, as well as providing general language conventions. (RS# 1 12.) Ifvou prefer a walk-through approach, Hip through the pages ofThe ARexx Cook- book by Merrill Callaway (Whitestone, S24.95). Supplemented by thorough discussions of commands and techniques, lessons increase in complexity from writing simple stand-alone programs to making complex connections among multiple applications. Whether you're a rank beginner or a seasoned programmer trying to control PostScript via ARexx, The ARexx Cookbook promises enlightenment. For easy and thorough reference, the book's index and margin notes include page numbers for William Hawes" and Commodore's .ARexx manuals, documentation for application software discussed, and the Cookbook itself. An optional (S5) companion disk rounds out the package. (RS# 1 13.) To locate the vendors of products mentioned, see the "Manufacturers'/Distributors' Addresses" list on p. 104. 8 November 1<>>>2 ProWritef33 The Best Just Keeps Getting Better ProWrite is the best selling word processor for the Amiga®, and for good reason. High perfor- mance. Ease-of-use. Constant upd and enhancements. And now a new low price! New Features ProWrite 3.3 gives you more power than ever before. .More powerful graphic handling, including automatic text-wrap. Print preview. Password protection for your documents, The ability to name and find pictures in long documents. Full clipboard sup- port, for seamless exchange of text and pictures with other programs. And HotUnhS »™ support, giving you total integration of ProWrite with other HotLinks-capable programs! Proven Performance Combine this with ProWrite's already formidable feature set, and you have the most powerful word processor for the Amiga. Features like multiple fonts and pictures. A spelling checker with over 100,000 dictionary words. A thesaurus with over 300,000 cross-ref- erences. Outline font support, jaggie- free printing, for high-quality printing on dot-matrix printers. PostScript printing. Macros and AREXX support for power users. Mail merge, for form letters. And multiple columns, includ- ing side-by-side columns for writing audio/video scripts — a ProWrite exclusive! And the list goes on! And of course, ProWrite 3.3 retains the speed and ease-of-use that has made it famous with thousands of Amiga users world-wide. New Low Price! Even with all this power, ProWrite is more affordable than ever before — because ProWrite is available now for only $99.95! So you no longer have a reason not to treat yourself to the best! See for yourself what makes ProWrite the most popular word ,-dSG*^o# processor for the Amiga. Visit your local Amiga dealer and put the power of ProWrite to work for you today! -A ■"-P'vdicfc!--- Features "What you see is what you get" display. Multiple fonts, sizes, styles, and colors. Outline font support, insert IFF and I -IAA1 pictures in your documents. • Automatical]}.' wrap text around pictures. * Multiple columns, with snaking or sidc-hy- side text flow. Spelling checker with 100,000 word dictionary. Thesaurus with 500,000 cross-references. Pull system clipboard support, I IotLinksT.Vt support Linda and Redo command. Ald.il merge. AREXX port. Macros, when used with AREXX- Name and search for pictures in a document, Speakint; capability, to read hack document contents. Separate odd and even page headers and footers. Paragraph sorting. Automatic page numbering with five different page number styles. Insert current date and time, with five different date formats and two time formats. Word count 2nd readability level calculation. Up to 10 documents open at the same time. Document password protection. User-set document comments. . Horizontal and/or vertical document rulers, for precise positioning. Custom page sizes. Print preview. PostScript printing, in black & white or color. High-quality graphics printing for [aggie-free output. Print NLQ text and graphics at the same time. Complete printer control, including sideways priming and 4,0% color printing. Automatic timed saves And backups. Import and export Professional Page text files. Comprehensive keyboard commands. Easy to use "3-D" user interface took. Fully customizable. Full support for Kicks tart 2.0. Requires KIcLstart 1.2 or later, one megabyte ol memory, and two disk drives. PniW rite is 9 registered trademark of New I lorizons Software, Inc. HotLinks is a trademark of Soft-Logik Publishing Corp. Amiga h a registered trademark of Commodore- Amiga, Inc. NEW HORIZONS New Horizons Software, Inc. • 206 Wild Basin Road, Suite 109 • Austin, Texas 78746 • (512) 328-6650 Circle 65 on Reader Service card 0 V E R S C A N and its success (he states he could never have been as prolific and efficient with- out it). Masters did come equipped with some natural talent of his own. After leaving Harrow, the prestigious English public school, at age 16, he worked as a photographer and graphics artist at a London advertising agency. Sandwiched between his auto-racing clays and his stint as an oil driller, he also worked in design and marketing For the high-pow- ered UK-based Norwood Group. All of this varied experience finds ex- pression in his work. Masters' love of sports, knowledge of race cars, and ad- ventures on the high seas inform both the style (broad, bold, energetic) and subject matter of his art. As the title of his media kit/portfolio attests, his is "The Art of Action." —Jan Jackson Multimedia Makeover Scala MultiMedia 2.0 (also called Scala MM200} packs even more features into Sca/a's popular multifunction multimedia program. MM200 adds 25 more special effects, an unlimited-length horizontal crawl line; out-wipes; area transitions; a link function for simultaneous movement of multiple text lines or logos; variables and conditional branching for interactive presentations; support for DCTV stills and animations; AnimLab (an animation-enhancement utility); and the long-await- ed sound support. You can now synchronize music and sound effects with your presentation graphics and animations, as well as record your own sounds with a sampler board. The program's interface was also revamped. As an alternative to Scala's fa- miliar (and now configurable) main menu, the Scala Shuffler lets you view and rearrange thumbnail versions of your presentation pages. Reaching out for more power, the Scala Ex system of control modules for external devices and pro- grams lets you incorporate into your presentations images from laser-disc and still-video players, audio from MIDI devices and CDTV CDs, and input from ARexx-compatible programs. For new owners, Scala MM200 retails at $495. Registered owners of Scala should contact the company for upgrade informa- tion. |RS# 115.) Last month, I addressed the benefits ol'Iiucrnet. the network layer service recently made available through Portal. With increased versatility and interac- tion between the nets, "tclecom- municationspeak" is trickling down from the high-end busi- ness and education fields to the hobbyist level. Maybe you've heard of things like Telenet, Usenet, and Tymnet, but is is clear just what they are"- For a frame of reference on how these various services relate to telecommunications in to- day's networks, a Reader's Di- gest look back into computer history is in order. Telecommunications History 101 In the 1970s, computer use was generally limited to a teletype- iike printing machine that read punched cards or inch-wide rolls of paper. These terminal machines were connected with others via phone lines to a large mainframe, or host com- puter, across town or across the state. These network-connected hosts and terminals constituted early-generation LANs, or local area networks. Teteconinnmica- ON-LINE SCAN By Tim Walsh tions pioneers worked to create voluntary protocol standards for the network of terminals and computers. Host computers were tied into local networks, and began to serve as "gate- ways" to such network services as CompuServe. In the course of the next decade, network layers such as Intci net came on the scene. To get the various smaller nets working in harmony. Internet Protocol established standards for sending e-mail and other data between servers and host computers, opening up the possibility of data sharing with all platforms having common access to a network. Portal is a great example of such data sharing taken to a new, low-cost level on the nets. Many education centers and large corporations use UNIX- based mainframes, worksta- tions, and even UNIX-based Amigas to send e-mail and other data to a variety of nets. Usenet is the network of choice for UNIX-based telecommunica- tions, and thus UNIX is widely represented on networks such as CompuServe. Consequently, a lot of messages on networks that support gateways and direct Usenet connections, such as Por- tal, will have the address of the author in a username, site, net- work format. A generic, simplified exam- ple might appear as timw@ cs.brown.edu. The first part of the sending party's name isjust that — a person's on-line name or screen name. That is then followed by the "at" sign and the server's site or location. Even the originating network is sometimes included: in the above example, it's Brown Uni- versity. Some of the smaller nets keep this information intact with the e-mail, so you can typ- ically figure out where the mes- sage originated. Making Connections Telenet and Tymnet are not net- works; rather, they serve as telecommunication packets for connecting between networks. For instance, with a call to one number listed in the White Pages. I access my accounts on every network that 1 mention in this column (except GEnie), plus a few others such as America Online. Packet services can be further divided into smaller specialties such as Sprininel and PC-Pur- suit. Familial' to many Amiga users, PC-Pursuit is the name of the outdialing service that can reduce the price of Calls for com- puterists without local numbers for Telenet and Tymnet. Fi- doNet is lesser known because it's outside of the normal net- work circle, being comprised of large-scale BBS systems. So, now there you have it — a glance at some of the words that end with "net" and how they came to be common in Amiga telecommunications. Of course, this overview hardly scratches the surface. There's a lot more of this information online: here are some good places to start looking: BIX 800/227-2983 617/354-4137 CompuServe 614/457-0802 800/848-8199 GEnie 800/638-9636 Portal Communications 408/973-9111 □ 10 November 1992 mm Makes your A2000/3000@ a Computer, Fax Machine, Voicemail System and Answering Machine... All at once! It's an amazing amount of office productivity power on a single board... and that's just PhonePak's starting point PhonePak handles all the calls on ever)7 phone line it's installed on. With PhonePak you can: ■fc Retrieve and store faxes on your hard drive for on-screen viewing and/or plain paper printing. ~k Record and playback voice messages. *k Get combined voice and fax messages. ~k Look at a fax on-screen and listen to a message about it at the Same time — a GVP mulli- MaMHHMMMHaHMMMIH^_MaaaH media bixsikthrough. * Send multiple faxes instantly, or via the built-in scheduler. ~k Create ciLstomized databases, j configure private mailboxes, and much more. * let's users keep working even when PhonePak is taking calls. ■■an-M-mt? ■ -■■.■!»'■■ ■b mQ - ~ I ' L ■ ' ■ ■■ I „u ■■■■:■ GVP'S DSS-8... Still the most powerful 8-bit Digital Sound System for your Amiga®! It's a premium stereo sound sampler, fast and easy editor, and self-contained 4-track sequencer — all in one! With DSS-8 and your imagination, there's no limits to your composing, recording and editing of musk and sound effects. * Software controllable filters and volume control. ~k Record sound samples from any audio source. * Edit sounds in real time. + Add o full range of effects, including reverb, echo, reverse-sound, loops, etc. * Use up to 31 instruments, 4 octaves and 8 effects at the same time. * Analyze voice patterns and stereo separation. * Remove "pops" from old recordings. PhonePak saves you time and money * Eliminates thermal paper. * Has scaled, non-scaled and inverted fax viewing. * Transfers incoming calls over Centrex * or other networks. * Provides complete privacy for each fax received — no other fax system can do that! Install PhonePak. You'll wonder how you ever got along without it. Ai '■■■.■: in.l C Copyn^hi 1993 Gft.ll Vjllc, I'd.liiH. In. For more information or your nearest GVP Dealer, phone 215-337-8770 today. For technical information call 2IS-3S4-949S GREAT VALLEY PRODUCTS, INC 600 CLARK AVENUE KING OF PRUSSIA. PA 19406 U.S.A. PHONE 215-337-8770 • FAX 2l5-337*»922 DSS-8 has built-in everything There's not enough room to list all the DSS-8 features, but here's a sample: * AmigaDOS 2.0. 68020 and 68030 compatibility. * Multi-tasking operation. * Intuitive graphic interface for easy self-teaching. * MIDI-in capability. * Direct sequencer to editor interfacing. * On-screen sample dipfay of up to 31 samples. ■fc HLTF1 recording for high quality- playback. * Multiple effects for each note. * Real time oscilloscope ;md spectrum analysis. ~k Grapliic editing and freehand drawing of waveforms. ~k Direct editing of individual sample numeric values. ■*■ Sampling maximums of 51,000/sec (mono) 38,908/sec. (stereo). * Saves in IFF, SONDE and RAW formats. •k SoundTracker, Noise Tracker and SoundFX compatibility. Amijia ii * trjjjreml cnl^irurk n*'Qimfi«»luft- Amipi. Inc. GVP. and ffiSSarctradrrruAi.i-r'Grrai VitJey tVoJum, Im OCopyrighr 1992Grt-ji Valley Pieducit. Inc For more information or your nearest GVP Dealer, phone 215-337-8770 today. For technical information call 215-354-9495 GREAT VALLEY PRODUCTS. INC. 600 CLARK AVENUE KING OF PRUSSIA. PA 19406 U.S.A. PHONE 215*337-8770 • FAX 2IS-337-9922 Circle 1 on Reader Service card. 0 V E R S C A N Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes... The more things change in the Amiga industry, the more you need to know. For instance, you should know that Octree has changed locations (see new address on p. 104) and has picked up Ditek's DynaCADD 2-D/3-D design program for distribu- tion. The program is weil suited to work with Octree's own Caligari 3-D modeling, animation, and rendering software. According to Octree, you can "design in Calrgari, follow up with precision design in DynaCADD, and then animate and render in Cali- gari." DynaCADD, which has a suggested retail price of $995, is available for S499 (plus $30 shipping and handling) from Octree. (RS# 122.) The developer of Video Music Box has also made two changes; in its name and its product. The Menasha, Wisconsin, developer has changed its name from Digital Expres- sions to Digital Expressions Research. The change was necessary because, unknown to the Wisconsin firm, an established games manufacturer in Cleveland, Ohio, had previ- ously reserved the name Digital Expressions. Product changes come in the form of Video Music Box 1.4 (SI 09), which adds Workbench 2 compatibility, new parameters for controlling pitch ranges and randomization, editing functions, and more. The upgrade is free for registered users. (RS# 123.) Lissa 1.2, the 3-D curve generator from Technical Tools (S35), produces more com- plex objects than before (you can create "wiggles within wiggles"), supports more mod- elling packages, and offers an enhanced interface, with icons for frequently-used con- trols and more comprehensive help features. The upgrade is free to registerd owners. (RS# 124.) ASDG's ADPro just keeps getting more capable. The latest module ($200), aimed at video professionals, allows you to exchange digital images stored on 8mm cartridge tapes between an Amiga (equipped with a Commodore SCSI controller and Exabyte 8mm tape drive) and an Abekas A60, A65, or A66 digital-disk recorder. You don't have an Abekas system, but need to send work to a post-production house that does? You can create digital video streams (essentially treating the tape drive as a single-frame recorder). (RS# 125.) Also expanding the Amiga's video capabilities \s Interactive MicroSystems. The firm's MediaPhile video-editing setup now provides support for Sony VISCA protocol decks as well as VBOX control for Sony CTL-L/LANCS-port decks and camcorders through the Amiga's serial port. (RS# 126.) MIDI Sample Wrench 2.0, the updated 16-bit sound editor from dissidents ($299), gives musicians, audio engineers, and videographers a toolbox-full of new options. The software works with a variety of MIDI keyboards as well as IFF samples, and it reads and writes several file formats. The new Wrench promises extensive waveform-viewing options, from overviews to a few points, and you can calibrate waveforms in terms of sample points, seconds, or SMPTE frames. It also includes more advanced digital signal-processing features, as well as resynthesis tools that let you expand or compress waveforms in time without chang- ing pitch. The program works with DOS versions 1.3 and higher, and is linkable via ARexx. Registered owners of earlier versions can upgrade for S20. |RS# 127.) Designed with the developer in mind, version 2.0 of ARexxDB (S125) is the "records manager for the serious Amiga user," according to JMH Software. In addition to ARexx support, the program offers new features that include record searching, automated indexing, a query language, and a utility for creating files. ARexxDB is a database engine that you can easily customize, and it imposes no upper limit on either file or record size. With ARexx DB, you can develop database applications using your own custom inter- face. (RS# 128.) EasyScript has upgraded some of its products, including LabelDex! ($74.95), which now promises an easy way to make professional-looking video and audio cassette labels for cassette splines and faces. This integrated VideoLibrarian module supports HP LaserJet, DeskJet, Epson, and PostScript-compatible printers. BibleReaderProl, which replaces BibleReader!, includes an 800,000-word concor- dance, supports Amiga speech, does not require a hard drive, and comes in four ver- sions (KJ, Nl, NKJ, and NASB), each selling for $89.95. The higher-end BibleScholar! supports speech, too, with version 2.0, It also comes in PAL and NTSC display versions, and offers a 640x400 interlace display. Further, you can fetch search results with the click of a button. (RS# 129.) OVERHEARD Workbench 2. 1 is already shipping with lhc Amiga 600, and it's destined to be- come available for other Amigas. (Com- modore has not yet settled on a release date for upgrade kits.) So what can you look Forward to in 2.1? There are several brand-new features, including CrossDOS, the favorite MS-DOS/AmigaTJOS-format transfer utility which now also allows access to MS-DOS formatted floppy and hard disks. The new Local Preferences editor lets you read screens of 2.04-supporting soft- ware in any of several languages. An in- staller utility, which automatically inte- grates the new Workbench on your system, also comes with this release, as do printer drivers for PostScript devices and Canon's Bubbiejet. Another printer driver, for the HP Deskjet, has been enhanced since the 2.0 release: it now supports the popular HI1 500 Color DeskJet. Other enhancements include simplified installation and activa- tion of printers, keymaps, monitors, and DOS drivers. The Format and DiskCopy functions now provide graphical interfaces that allow vou control. True Color Prints No longer is your printer limited to 4096 colors and 16 shades oT gray. TruePrint/24 (ASDG, $89) prints 16-mi'l- lion color (24-bit) and 256-shade grayscale (eight-bit) images on most Preferences-supported color or black- and-white printers. Capable of out- putting images at any size (even poster proportions), TruePrinl/24 offers 1 1 dithering and halftoning techniques, in- cluding a 32-shade gray-scale for such character-only devices as daisy-wheel printers. (RS# 111.) ~ w (*-' Without TruePrint/24, the Amiga OS Is limited to 16 shades of gray (left); with it, 256 shades are possible. 12 November 1992 IGA BASICS... External FDD Series • Compatible with all Amiga" computers ■ Slim-line design with solid metal case • Additional drive connector and on/off switch Opto-Mechanical Mouse Series Precise cursor control - 290 dpi resolution Stylish and ergonomic design Top quality construction with micro-switch buttons Cordless Infrared Mouse Series ■ High power infrared transmitter with a 4-foot range ■ LED indicators on receiver reflect every mouse action ■ Includes long-life maintenance free rechargeable battery • Precise cursor control - 280 dpi resolution ALFA -^^r DATA ErgononwDesign Trackball Series ■ Compalifale with all Amiga computers ■ Ergonomic design for comfortable operation ■ Top quality construction with micro-switch buttons 109 North Duncan ■ Champaign, IL 61821 Tel: (217) 366-1962 • Fox: (217) 356-4312 For more Information, contact your nearest Amiga dealer Dealer inquiries welcome. Amiga is a 'egrsterea trademark or Commodore Airrtga, Inc. Circfe 191 on Reacer Serv.ce card OVERSCAN Haitex Hails Harlequin Haitex Resources, maker of X-Specs 3-D stereo-vision glasses, now distributes the long-awaited Harlequin 32-bit framebuffer from Amiga Centre Scotland. The board, available in NTSC as well as PAL display formats, promises to coexist with Great Valley Products' IV24 and NewTek's Video Toaster, and it fits into either an A2000 or A3000. It comes in several memory configurations, from 1.5 to 4MB of RAM. It provides compos- ite RGB output and an optional alpha channel, both of which you can toggle via soft- ware. Harlequin comes with lots of software, including a program that lets you scale and convert images to other formats, and a real-time 24-bit slide-show program with over 30 transitions. Among outside products that support Harlequin directly are Imagemaster (Black Belt), ADPro (ASDG), Real 3D (Activa) and Caligari Broadcast (Octree). (RS# 131.) Get in Touch Why point and click when you can reach and touch? The CT-Amiga driver (Carroll Touch) lets you use infrared touch screens with your Amiga. The driver both emulates the Amiga's mouse and allows a mouse and touch screen to operate concurrently. Compatible with Amiga Vision, the driver is free with the purchase of the company's scanning infrared touch frames, which include systems for 14-inch Zenith ZCM-14.92 flat-tension and Mitsubishi AUM-1381A Diamontlscan moni- tors. (RS# 110.) Climbing the Family Tree No matter how prolific your ancestors were, The Puzzle Factory claims that its ge- nealogical database, Origins ($85), is up to keeping track of them. In addition to cata- loging over six million relatives. Origins can track multiple marriages, step-children, un- married parents, and other unorthodox situations. You can print reports on people, family group sheets, pedigree and descendants charts, and Tiny-Tafel listings, as well as import and export GEDCOM formatted data. To help you connect faces with names, Origin even stores IFF images. (RS# 114.) Accountant Not Included Bring your business's books on line with Business Front (Designing Minds, $129). Featuring General Ledger, Accounts Payable, and Accounts Receivable modules, ibis business accounting program can handle up to 32,500 records per iile, provides password protection, carries balances from year to year, and allows periodic and fiscal compaction. In the General Ledger you can define a chart of accounts, assign account and subaccount numbers for job costing, and print the customizable reports. Accounts Receivable oilers automatic interest calculations for overdue payments, aging reports, user-definable terms of sale, automatic discounts based on payment terms, and complete customer information. Accounts Payable features aging reports, bills due reports, a check register of transactions, and the ability to mark bills for partial or fiill payment and to search for payments by index or vendor number. (RS# 117.) Officlul Immigration Long a popular import, the AMOS programming language is now available in an NTSC ver- sion— American AMOS (S1 10). Featuring more than 500 commands, the language is optimized for graphics and sound manipulation, and, with the new version, no screen-size adjustments are needed. Europmss Software has also set up a US technical support line (219/874-6380) and BBS (219/874-0367) to give AMOS users easier access to customer support. (RS# 118.) Memory Magic Offering support of up to one gigabyte of virtual memory, GigaMem (Pre'Spect Technics) gives welcome relief to systems with lilled-to-bursting RAM by swapping data from memory to either a hard-disk file or partition. To optimize perform- ance, the program supports caching and monitors memory-access frequency for more intelligent memory swapping. GigaMem runs on all accelerated systems with MMUs and promises to work with all hard-drive controllers. For use with Pre'Spect Technics' ALF 3 Oktagon controller, GigaMem sells for S98; for all other controllers, the price jumps to £149. (RS# 1 19.) Faster than the Emergency Room Whether your (loppy disks are failing or your hard drive needs help, Moonlighter Software Development has the right medicine. Ami-Back Tools' (S79.95) medical bag includes GP, a disk optimizer; Disk Analyst, a program that checks disks for potential problems and then makes the appropriate repairs; 91 1 -Recovery, a specialist in recovering deleted files and data from crashed disks; Antiseptic, a disk wiper that clears everything horn your disks: and Lab Test, a utility thai checks and compares checksums for file corrup- tion and virus protection. Overseeing these programs is the Administrator in- terface, which lets you set up, schedule, and perform whatever tests you desire. (ES# 120.) Follow the Stars (and Satellites) If you're in search of space-science software, ihe chances are thai Kinetic De- signs has the righl program For you. The company's collection of public domain and shareware programs includes satel- lite trackers, planetary-orbit calculators, siderial-timc calculators, weather-related programs, deep-sky databases, gravity simulations, telescope designs, and space- art. A complete catalog of programs is available, at a cost of only a self-ad- dressed envelope with two stamps, while Amiga Space 12pak, a 12-disk compila- tion of programs, will run you $29.95. (RS# 116.) Make Your Point A 3-D object editor and converter. Ver- tex (The Art Machine, S40) oilers all the standard object-editing tools (including single-point editing), plus more exotic distortion options, such as multiply, scale map, twist, randomize, and gravity. In addition, you can bevel fonts, create 3-D fractal objects, separate and combine ob- jects, cut windows, and add face and edge divisions. For further customiza- tion, the program has an ARexx port. On the conversion side, vertex supports Imagine, Turbo Silver, Light Wave 3D, Sculpt 3D, Geo, and W'avefront formats. (RS# 121.) Overscan is compiled by Barbara Gefvert, Linda Laflamme, and Tim Walsh. Send your news, new products, and network informa- tion to Overscan, AmigaWortd Editorial, 80 Elm St., Peterborough, NH 03458. ■ 14 November 1992 Tis the Season to be Entertained... Formerly AmigaWorld Videos Sit back and be entertained by award-winning animations, from professional and novice animators alike. Or learn how you can be more creative and productive with the best selling software and hardware products available for the Amiga. Chranos DV15 History of the Amiga DV12 New Release! Brealhtaking 70mm cin- An intriguing and entertaining look at the ematography captures the timelessness origins ot the Amiga computer. Listen to of Stonehenge, the Pyramids, Athens' the initial trials and tribulations which Jay Animation Vol. I dvio The original AmigaWorld Animation Video that will fascinate, entertain and inspire viewers as it demonstrates the amazing capabilities of Amiga anima- tion. 48 minutes. $19.95 AnimationVol.il DV1 1 AmigaWorld's editors do it again. Excit- ing, innovative animations using pro- grams such as Lightwave 3D. Imagine, Sculpt-Animate 4-D, and DeluxePaint 111. You'll be thoroughly entertained by these animated stories. 90 minutes. S24.95 1 989 Best of the Fests DV17 A film festival in a box! Award winning an- imation, comedy, documentary and ex- perimental shorts. 90 minutes. $29.95 The Mind's Eye DV13 A compelling look at the universe, utilizing the talents of over 300 top computer an- imation artists with music composed by James Reynolds. 40 minutes. S1 9.95 Beyond the Mind's Eye DV14 This is a case where the sequel is even better than the original. Coming in October. Soundtrack by Jan Hammer. 40 minutes. $19.95 Best of the Fests 1991 DV18 More award-winning animation, comedy, drama, experimental and documentary short films from 1991's top international Film Festivals.90 minutes. $29.95 Acropolis, Mont St. Michel, the Arc de Triomphe, the Vatican and over 50 other locations. 40 minutes. $19.95 Green Toons DV16 Just released! Entertainment with a con- science! 14 humorous, pointed and beautiful short films by North American animators. 45 minutes. S19.95 Animation of the Apocotypse DV19 Eight astounding independent visions of doom, revelations, and the end of the world! 60 minutes. $24.95 Miner, R.J. Mical, Caryn Mical, Dale Luck, Carl Sassenrath, Dave Needle and the rest of the original "Los Gatos gang went through. 45 minutes. $1 9.95 Tony Vegas' Animated Acidburn Flashback Tabu DV20 Aural and visual absorblion. Transcen- dence. Revelation. Breathe. Dream. Re- lax. Animations for you to tune into from the early 1980's. 60 minutes, $24.95 New Releases, Updates and Prices. Amiga Animation Hollywood Style DV50 New Release! Learn classic, Hollywood, Dis- ney-style techniques using DeluxePaint IV and Disney Animation Studio, from renowned Ami- ga animator. Gene Hamm, Especially for artists who are computer novices and comput- er users who don't draw with a mouse. 30 min- utes S24.95 New Release! New Releases from Desktop Images! The NewTek Video Toaster 2.0 Tutorial Series Video Toaster Essentials DV51 The first of 4 videos, featuring Video Toaster expert Lee Stranahan, leads you through a step-by-step guide to the Video Toaster's switcher and spe- cial effects. 83 minutes S49.95 ToasterPaint Essentials DV52 Discover the full potential of ToasterPaint as you go through each of its powerful functions step by step, 62 minutes S49.95 ToasterCG Essentials DV53 A step-by- step guide to the Video Toaster's character generator wilh demonstrations of special tech- niques.59 minutes S49.95 Professional Techniques DV54 Get more from ToasterPaint and ToasterCG with demon- strations of special techniques to create pro- fessional network quality graphics.59 minutes $49.95 The Toaster 2,0 Essentials Bundle Pack DV69 SAVE 10% and get all 4 Desktop Images for only S1 79.95 Killer Graphics: Real Time Solutions With DCTV New Release! DV67 Volume I. This tutorial series will teach you how to create killer graphics quickly and easily wilh the most current version of DCTV. using real projects as examples. 54 minutes S29.95 The Amiga Primer DV64 The alltime, best seller for getting started wilh your Amiga. Including setup, Workbench, Shell, CLI, expansion, and AmigaVision. A must lor every Amiga owner. 90 minutes S24.95 Amiga Graphics, Second Edition DV61 Learn the ethics ol style and how to use the Amiga lor graphics. An ideal tape lor getting started. Includes interviews with experts. Fea- tures DPaint IV. NewTek's products. Kara Fonts and others. S1 9.95 Desktop Video, Volume I DV62 The best tape for getting started with Desktop Video. Excellent advice from experts, including Academy Award winning director Terry Saun- ders. Features camcorders, editors, peripher- als, techniques, titling, and more. S24.95 Desktop Video, Volume II DV63 More help en understanding Desktop Video with the Amiga. Includes direct comparisons ot tape lormats. NewTek's Toaster, Lightwave 3D, DPaintlV, DCTV, Virtual Reality, and 24-bil ren- dering. S24.95 How To Animate I New Price! DV58 Relevant to novices and intermediate users alike. Pick up helpful tips and techniques on using DeluxePaint! V from Joel Hagen, and us- ing Lightwave 3D from Am/pa tVorftfs Lou Wal- lace. 45 minutes $24.95 Hot Rod Your Amiga DV57 New low price! This update will assist you in your shopping for the most popular peripherals on the market today. Learn about accelerators, RAM, the Video Toaster. Genlocks and more. $19.95 DeluxePaint IV Video Guide DV59 In easy to follow, step by step fashion, you'll ex- plore many of DPaint IVs features which will meet most of your graphics and animations needs. Includes the new menu structure, Meta- morphosis, HAM color mode, the new Gradi- ents and Cycle requesters, the new advanced palette mixer and much more! 60 minutes $24.95 Advanced Techniques Wilh DeluxePaint IV DV60 Learn tips and tricks for combining DPaint IVs different tools to achieve spectacular effects with professional results. Create 3D text. Prop shadows, textures, cycle color animations, pro- fessional titling techniques, and much more! 60 minutes.S24.95 Videomaker, The Video Series DV65 The experts at Videamaker Maga2ine will teach you about bringing a documentary to life, professional lighting, camera moves, and most important, generating income with your video equipment, 40 minutes S19.95 Desktop Video. Master's Edition DV55 The ultimate guide to desktop video takes you through the entire desktop video experience. Create a complete video from pre-production to finished master with this interactive and in- formative program. Includes specific exercises and effects, background music, sound effects and graphic backdrops 60 minutes $24.95 Imagine, A Guided Tour DV66 This tape will give you extensive help on achieving Professional 3-D rendering results with Imagine. Learn about object loading and creation, surface attributes, lighting tech- niques, texture mapping, animation. 12/24-bit rendering, and much more! 90 minutes $24.95 The Magic of Music and Midi DV56 New Low Price! This new edition brings you the most up-to-date information on using the Amiga as a music generator or MIDI device. Features Super Jam!, Bars & Pipes Profes- sional, Dr. Ts Sonix. Deluxe Music, AudioMas- ter and others, $1 9.95 Call 1-800-879-0759 Orders Only, Please ORDER BY TELEPHONE OR MAIL IN THIS FORM. Enter Video Product #(s) below. 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Foreign orders, $6.00 shipping for each unit, Sl-f>0 for each additional unit. Payment in U.S. hinds only. TM10 Final Copy n v^w, Mr r\ ■f^w»j»ii*.u.«^-:-: I rINAL COPY nr>< ■*<<•■ t^nil turltrtii*.. '=>J pitta V "^ rw> T ui. u.^1 (*- !rri>;xato'«ir*n)kihBnl* >"'WJ™, I »«■■ F/ra/ Final Copy II produces high qua professional looking documents. It combines advanced word processing features, easy-to-use page layout capabilities, and state-of-the-art printing technology into one convenient program. While other programs claim to have quality printing, Final Copy II is the only word processor on the Amiga that will produce excellent quality printouts on any Workbench (1.3, 2.0 or higher) supported graphic printer. If you have a PostScript printer, Final Copy II is the only word processor on the Amiga that has true WYSIWYG PostScript print capabilities - other programs limit you to a few fonts and a limited number of sizes. With Final Copy II you get Ihe same great looking output produced in expensive desktop publishing programs. Final Copy II sword processing features include: 144,000 word speller; 1.4 million response thesaurus; automatic hyphenation; named paragraph sheets; master pages; mail-merge; multiple newspaper style columns; search and replace; header and footer support; left, right, center and decimal tabs; paragraph justification; and automatic date, time, and page number insertion. Final Copy II 's graphic features include: object-oriented, structured tools for drawing boxes, ovals, lines, arrow-tipped lines, and rounded cornered boxes; graphic object color fill, line weight and line color; ability to import IFF ILBM pictures and brushes including 24 bit ILBM and HAM; real-time text flow around any graphic; graphic sizing; cropping; object locking; and graphic depth arranging. RSfllKraRinini include: 35 outline t from 4 to 300 points; compressed and expanded cha widths; underline, strikethru, and small caps styles; superscript and subscripts; positive and negative text obliqing; and color text. Final Copy Il's user interface features include: command ribbon; real-time scrolling; ARexx port; magnified and reduced editable page views; user preferences; WB 2.0 look and feel; mouse zooming; mouse document panning; hori- zontal and vertical rulers, and page guides. Say good-bye to jagged-edged printouts. Your documents will look more polished and professional than ever before. Final Copy II is an excellent investment for your software library. SoftWood, Inc. .O. Box 50178 • Phoenix, Arizona 8501 1(800)247-8314 Circle 46 on Reader Service card I Legibility & Readability Typographic clarify comes in two fla- vor*: legibility ana readability. Even though much of the typographic community treats them as such, they are not Interchangeable terms. Differ- ent typefaces have varying degrees of legibility; while typography should be readable. Studios and Reports Most of us have heard about legi- bility and readability studies and their resulting reports. You know, the or>es that typopniles refer to when they dis* cuss legibility or readability, and sup- fiosedly answer all questions about hese Two topics. Wetl, referring to Ihese reports and actually trying to use k- L£? ^ft^ PT?^ c°ri5,de"7d4 '° Ibem con bo two very diffemnT things, be the ablhry lo distinguish one letter )f> foct Ju5, MnQ to f^ rhem b ^fa. from another In a particular lypefoce design. Readability, on fhe other hand, is the de gree at ease with which ty- pography can be read. As a result. It Is possible to use a highly legible typeface and create unreadable ty- pography. Whfle carefully constructed, readable ty- pography cannot restore missing legibility to a type- face design, if can enhance the message presented by a less than kJeaE typeface. For practical purposes, definitions are not oil thai impoi lant. What ts Important Is that you ore aware of the factors that can affect fypefoce legibility, and the ways reodabfflry con be enhanced - or reduced -- through typographic ar- rangement; cut!. They are not in neatty bound vol- umes readily purchased at the local bookstore. Chances ore, unless you Sve in a big city, your public library doesn't have them. Teachers of the communication arts do not often make them available to the* stu- dents, and manufacturers of fype- , settlna and printing equipment do not Include them in their corpo- rate libraries, So what and where are these mythical studies? For the most port, they were published as articles In trade journals and schol- arly magazines, and they were not normaffy Intended for ty- pographers or graphic communica- tors. Educators. Technical wrrters. jour- nalists ond Ihe like, were their usual tar- ■ :; : ■■ T._ -:.--. ~ r ■ ■ Finu Can 1 Y ■■■■■'— ■■■■ f- ' .-, . '■!..«■■- 1 . „.«1, 1. .,.,.■. . T. ". ■ nlDiMilhiMwii hni Ilk 1 Vou want n document thin reads well in addition in looking good. Final Copy™ comes with a 144,000 word speller. 1.4 million wo ret thesaurus with definitions, masterpages, stylesheets, paragraph sorting, math, mail-merge, automatic hyphenation, and user-denned tab stops to assist ymi In your writing. Final Copy's11' graphic support is the best there is in any Amiga® word processor. Place IFF ll.li.V! pictures and brushes anywhere In a document Draw boxes, ovaLs, lines, arrows, squares, and circles using Final Copy's™ structured drawing tools. Flow test aroutid or on top of any graphic in a document. Style sheets and master pages are features you can really use to ensure vour documents are ge views let you work Multiple snaking columns, left/right pages, and title page options are easy to use. Outline Fonts Style Included Sheets Final Copy II 35 Yes Master Line, Box, Oval PostScript" Thesaurus Speller Automatic Pages Drawing Tools Support Responses Words Hyphenation Yes ProWrite 3.3s No No parison Snaking 24 Bit Editable Outline Font Print 1 pg. Math Outline Fonts Print Columns ILBM Support Page Views Processing Document Support 1.3 and 2.0 Quar Final Copy II 1-6 Yes 25-400% Fast 3u WOi Yes Yes ProWrite 3,3!" 1-5 No No Slow 2 min. 5 sec. No No Excellent Fair System Requirements: Amiga® with aliens! I megabyte of RAM and either a hard drive or 2 floppy drives. Circle 4B on Reade Sew? cm r> B or years, the Amiga* name has been synonymous with multimedia. We've proven to the world that when you combine the brilliance of video, audio, and animation with a computer, incredible things can happen. Well, now that the world has finally caught on to the concept, Commodore takes the medium to an entirely new level: With the all-new Amiga 4000. The A 4000 frees you to do more multi- media computing for less than any other personal computer. It empowers you to create exciting professional tele- vision effects, stimulating interactive training programs, and more powerful presentations like never before. * That's because the Amiga is the only computer designed as a multimedia machine from the ground up. Which means the A4000 doesn't suffer the handicaps other so-called multimedia machines endure. There is no need for costly, cumbersome add-ons, no need to kludge together potentially incom- Thc Amiga 4000 gives you the ability to easily create real-time, colorful animations. parable components. So it gives you spectacular multimedia performance right out of the box, at a price that keeps the cost of imag ination very realistic. Sit in front of the A 4000 and instantly you filled with high-resolu- tion graphics simul- taneously displayed in up to 256,000 colors from a palette of over 16.8 million hues. You gain a heightened ability to create exciting graphics with full video overscan. And you attain the freedom to create complex animations at a full 30 Frames Per Second, not at 15 FPS. You even have the option of choosing from a The Amiga -tooo spectrum of high resolution SmoI^XS modes while still main- "Coprocessor. taining NTSC scan rate capability. Al! this multimedia muscle, of course, comes through true design elegance. At the heart of every A 4000 lies our new, unique, custom coprocessors, the Advanced 1 1 932 Commodore Business Machines. Inc Commodore and the Commodore logo are registered trademarks of Commodore Electrodes Ltd. Amiga and Amiga DOS are regis!. U S- through an authorized Commodore-Amiga dealer. Customer activation required Some optional programs require a charge. MS-DOS is a registered trademark ot Graphics Architecture™ chip set, and the latest multi- tasking operating system, Amiga DOS™ 3.0. Add to this Motorola's thundering expandability, compatibil ily, and the capability for hundreds of business applications. In fact, the A 4000 even fits seamlessly into whatever operating system you're currently using by coex isting and communicat- ing with your Macintosh or MS-DOS computers in a Novell® network With a dedicated chip for audio, (he A 4000 sounds tike nothing you've ever heard. Announcing The Amiga*4000. The EncoreToThe Most Powerful, Cost 68040 Chip (which other computer companies consider to be enough on its own), and not only is the A4000 blind ingly quick, it literally gives you true workstation power. Of course, there's much more to the A 4000 than just being the ultimate tool for creativity. It also comes with a large capacity hard drive, and a 1.76 MB dual speed high density floppy j? drive which, combined with Cross-DOS, allows you to read and write MS-DOS® files. And a design that allows for And we back all this technology up with a potent service package that is second to none: Including a 24 hour hotline and optional on-site service,** To find out more about Commodore Multimedia and the all-new Amiga 4000, call 1-800-66-AMIGA. (In Canada, call 1-800-661-AM1GA.) We'll show you an outstanding performance that will certainly bring you to your feet. C- Commodore® AMIGA idemarks ol Commodore-Amiga. Inc. Products available on GSA schedule GS-OOK-91-AGS-5069 "With optional hardware/software. "Available only on systems purchased in the 3ft. Inc. Novell is a registered trademark ol Novell. Inc. Macintosh is a registered trademark ol Apple Computer, Inc. Motorola is a registered trademark ol Molorola. Inc. Circle 9 on Reader Service card. High-level structured drawing. Professional Draw 3.0 Gold Disk, S 199.95. Hard-drive installable. Not copy protected. 2.0 compatible. Accelerator compatible. Minimum system: 2MB RAM, hard drive. Recommended system: 2MB RAM, hard drive, ARexx. Structured drawing and Post* Script file manipulation. ProVector 2.1, PSImport 1.0 Stylus Inc., S299.95/S89.95. Hard-drive installable. Not copy protected. 2.0 compatible. Accelerator compatible; FFP version included. Minimum system: 1MB RAM. Recommended system: 1MB RAM, ARexx. Both Professional Draw 3.0 and ProVector 2.1 implement structured drawing and Post- Script, but with different emphasis. WhilePro- lessional Draw 3.0 excels at structured draw- ing, ProVector 2.1 proves to be the most help with PostScript output and exchanges. Professional to the Core Pro Draw has, arguably, the best user interface of any personal computer for creating Be/ier curves. In Pro Draw, unlike other programs, all the deselect- ed anchor points and oars (the control points pro- truding on cither side of a line) leave while after- images on the gray background thai you can refer to while you are dragging an oar or anchor point. Similarly, when you drag an oar to alter the curve of a line, yon can ctearlv see both the initial curve and the new curve. Ifyou decide that you prefer the original curve, simply press the Esc key to abort the change Even the Mac's venerable Adobe Illustrator doesn't offer this convenience. So, what has version 3.0 brought to this superb drawing tool? First, Pro Draw 8.0 finally has Undo and Redo commands. In addition, it lets you import 24-bit bitmaps and rotate and scale them with the same tools you use to manipulate drawings. You can now double-click on the Rectangle tool to set a ra- dius for rounded corners, 'lb speed screen redraws, 3.0 lets you keep some objects in wireframe format while viewing others in WYSIWYG. To locate the vendors of the products reviewed, see the "Manufacturers'/Distributors' Addresses" list on p. 104. One of the biggest additions is the Function Genie tool, which allows vou to access mam' ARexx scripts. When you execute one, a message explain- ing what you should do next is displayed at the top of the screen. One of these Genics moves only selected points on a line, another allows you to position an object at an exact layer, and so on. They are very useful, but the Function Genie tool has usurped the place of the Hand Move tool. The latter was always a bit unpredictable, but it came iit handy in case you needed to nudge a page a bit in some direction. Gold Disk has also improved text handling somewhat. You can now edit text direcdy on the page, although it goes a bit slowly. Creating a small text file and importing it is usually the better method — especially because Pro Draw still does not have the ability to change a font once the text is on the page. Ifyou want to change the font or the tracking, you must delete the text and import it again. One disappointment: Because the manual stated that you can access characters from the ex- tended character set by pressing the Alt key and entering the ASCII value on the keypad, I thought I would finally be able to use true left and right double quotation marks, but, sadly, they are still not available. The FonlManager program supplied with Pro Draw 3.0 is an extremely valuable addition to the package. It allows you to convert Type l PostScript louts into Compugraphic format, which vou can use for high-quality screen displays and dot-matrix printouts with both Pro Draw and Professional Page. Ifyou want to use PostScript clip an. however, 2i> November 1992 Pro Draw will not help yon; on the oilier hand, ProVector will. Rhythm of a Different Drummer ProVector 2.1 is a breed of its own. Most structured drawing programs won't let yon work in WYSIWYG mode, but in ProVector, you do everything in that mode, with all the colors and line weights displayed. Contrary to the norm, ProVector has no wireframe mode. Most structured-drawing programs require an extra step to make a corner when you draw curved lines. ProVector's primary drawing tool op- erates in the reverse fashion: Yon have to go back and adjust your curved line (a simple enough pro- cedure) if you want your line joins to be contiguous or tangential. Alternatively, its Smooth Polygon tool automatically creates averaged smooth curves for your whole line (you do not have to drag anything while you are drawing the line). You can later edit the oars a bit. ProVector's drawing tools are unusual, but they have a surprisingly pleasant feel to them, especially the primary drawing tool. When you drag the mouse, you drag out an oar from the previous an- chor point; when you let go, the oar from the cur- rent point is attached to your cursor. Click again to put it in position. The Rectangle tool can actually create polygons with any number of sides, and, like- wise, the Circle tool can generate arcs and pie- shaped wedges. The program comes with some ready-made pattern (Ills and allows you to create vour own (displaving dtem slows down the program). You can also control ProVector via ARexx to auto- matically build graphs and charts from databases. While its tools for creating graphs, charts, dia- grams, and simple illustrations are excellent, I found several of ProVector's line-editing procedures difficult. When I "uncurve" a point on a line, I ex- pect the oars to retract into the point, and not trans- form into additional points. Similarly, the Make Curve command does not cause oars to spring out of the point; instead, it turns the two adjacent points into oars. Luckily, the supplied ARexx macros offer an alternative to these methods. ProVector has some other convenient features: You can scale or rotate an object simply by typing a Dumber and ending with the appropriate keystroke. You can set any number of undo levels and cut and paste from multiple windows. You can put elements of your drawing on separate layers and temporarily rrotFiilon.il Br.«M VJ.a ,j 1TO Cold Diik Inc. Folio: PDrju-piclurH.f nl d1 ' H~il. " ■■H'l..■^■F■J.,.l■,J.■l,MaJ■■-■l.u.J.,KU,.,■'l■,,.H.,■l:J■.t.^.■.■,^^J■,A■K,.l.,.o■l..■^tl.,.^■^,■■^,■■^■■l^l■l Two approaches for an interface to structured drawing: Professional Draw (top) and ProVector 2.1 (bottom). hide them, as in a CAD program. The Change tool lets you be very specific about painting a particular object with the current default settings or vice versa, In the case of merged objects (objects with holes in them), however, the default settings I made seemed to affect the object immediately, rather than waiting for the signal from the Change tool. PostScript Pro Pro\ ector 2.1 "s exemplary PostScript skills come from an add-on module called PSImport, which lets you import PostScript or Encapsulated PostScript files. For my many test drawings, the module has per- formed very well. If it encounters an unfamiliar com- mand, it displays an error message. When you click Okay, it continues importing the file. ProVector 2.1 cannot recognize filled open objects, so it closes them by drawing a border all the way around. Similarly, it cannot recognize lines with caps other than joins, so it simplifies those lines when il encounters them. The module also imports 1'ostScript Iype 1 fonts, but without kerning information and at somewhat the wrong aspect ratio. The Stylus representatives — who were very helpful in answering technical-sup- port questions — said that the developers were work- ing on solving these problems. The differences between ProVector's and Pro*- AmignWorld 21 GWs ImageFFcan make it come to life. 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When il comes to transforming an image, or images, from one into another, GVP'S GneMotph is easy enough to be used by novices, yet offers professional qualify "morph results. motion morphs, merge scenes, and per- * Warp single or motion images, create I form digital dissolves ■*■ Set different speeds for different ports of the morph. • Work guiddy and easily with Amiga style controls, then output directly to any Amiga, OCTT, or HAM-E' systems — indudrrig 24-bit display boards like GVP's IV24". If you're looking only for morphing effects, join the revolution... buy CtncMoroh. An«iiu iTK.wcmi ir*kf:uik ttCttTurciktr-Aiiug*. Irar Ims^rFr. CincMafrh. ml \\'21 ur iniemuU ti litm Vdlry PpjJi»u, Ik. All Mh«r(r»i«nxrla ire ri* property irfrtwir mp«ii« ownera. 0 Gopynubi 1992 Great Villey Prntlucis. Inc. For more information or your nearest GVP Dealer, phone 215-337-8770 today. For technical information call 2 1 5-354-949S GREAT VALLEY PRODUCTS, INC. 600 CLARK AVENUE KING OF PRUSSIA, PA 19406 U.S.A. PHONE 2I5'137'877» ■ FAX 2I5-337-9921 Circle 1 on Reader Service card HGVP R E V 1 E W S Draw's PostScript support becomes apparent when you try to import a Pro Draw PostScript print ("tie into ProVector. Pro Draw's PostScript file can address only 100 steps of gradation, while ProVector can address PostScript's full 25(i steps. For ex- ample, if you want a light-blue sky gradation as a background, Pro Draw will show visible steps in it, while ProVector will not. Before saving the PostScript (or Encapsulated PostScript) file from Pro Draw, you should convert all lines to Fiiled/No-Line- Weight objects; you can reset the line weights and colors after you import the tile into ProVector. So using ProVector with PSImport, you can access the art cre- ated by Professional Draw and all of the PostScript dip art avail- able in the Mac and MS-DOS markets. Just be sure, when you are using small text and detailed illustrations, to use the fast floating-point-math version of ProVector for greater accuracy. Also, note that ProVector 2.1 lacks the ability to describe the screen density and angle lor Linotronic black-and-white prints. Overall, Professional Draw 3.0 rates an A+ for its drawing abil- ity, but gets poor marks for communication because it cannot read PostScript files. In the same vein, (iolcl Disk is not helping to open channels of communication bv releasing an MS-DOS l*ro- fessional Draw that cannot read the files from its Amiga cousin. If you want to import PostScript clip art into a desktop-pub- lishing program, ProVector 2.1 and PSImport is certainly the combination for you. While I have criticized some of its draw- ing procedures, ProVector applies good, innovative ideas to structured drawing. —Jim Silks A2386SX Bridgeboard Commodore Business Machines, S9S9. A2000, A3000/A3000T. Internal IBM slot. Installation: moderate. Hard-drive installable software. Not copy protected. 2.0 compatible. Minimum system: 1MB of RAM. Recommended system: 1+MBofRAM. Emulates an IBM 2386SX; runs MS-DOS and Windows software T A 7hen the Amiga 2000 was released in 1987, Commodore VV supplied PC compatibility via an internal board that "bridged" the machine's Amiga-only and PC-only slots. The (irst Bridgeboard provided a 4. 77-MHz XT-compatible PC. The A2286 Bridgeboard upped the ante with an 8-MHz AT- compatible connection to the PC world. Commodore's latest offering, the A2386SX, propels the Bridgeboard squarely into the 90s. Rev It Up The A2386SX, which is available in either a 16- or 20-MHz configuration, provides you with the power to use the plethora of IBM-compatible software currently available. Included on the board is a socket for an optional 80'i87SX math coproces- sor; one megabyte of RAM (with room to expand to eight megs); a batteiy-backed-up real-time clock and calendar; the ability to use your existing Amiga drives simultaneously with both AmigaDOS and MS-DOS; an external connection for at- taching a standard Amiga external disk drive for the Bridge- board's exclusive use; a speaker; and a four-pin DIN connector that the manual states can be used for future external control options. Software is the fuel that makes the A2386SX flv. The board ■ 22 November 1992 —• THIS OPPONENT IS PROGRAMMED TO BE CHALLENGING. (vjhcK O^t* If you think you're good at games, then let's have some real fun. When you're online with GEnie Multi-Player Games, you're playing real people, in real time. Some of the best players around the world. □ Splash a bandit in Air Warrior®, and you've just taken out eight other guys, who'll be back gunning for you. 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The Bridgeboard installation should not be difficult if you fee! comfortable putting internal expansion boards in your Amiga. While the manual contains excellent instructions for installing the board in the Amiga 2000, 3000. or 3000T, it cautions that your warrant)' is voided unless an authorized Com- modore dealer/service center performs the installation. The magic carpet ride begins . . . Rub the lamp I come to life. Aladdin 4D is the most advanced, flexible and intuitive 3D render- ing and animation software for the Amiga. Ride the magic carpet on a jour- ney through your dreams as you create spectacular images and animations never before possible. If you have been searching for 1001 nights and don't want to spend the treasure of the Forty Thieves, pick up the phone, call one of our genies and use t he first of your three wishes on our free illustrated brochure. Want your second wish? Replace your tarnished lamp! Upgrade to Aladdin 4D from any Amiga graphics package for only $2 19.00. Call for more details. Own the genie! Aladdin 4D Adspec Programming P.O. Box 13 • Salem, OH 44460 (216) 337-3325 Circle 38 on Reader Service card I had no difficulty installing the A2386SX. The first step was to decide the types of disk drives I wanted to use. I opted to share the Amiga's dfl : drive and set the A2386SX's jumpers accord- ingly. I next installed the supplied cable between dfl : and the A2386SX and in- serted the board in my A'2000's first three-slot bridge connector. An impor- tant design difference between the A2386SX and the A2286 AT bridge is that the former has no daughterboard. Where the A2286's daughterboard cov- ered the adjacent slot, the A2386SX leaves it free for use. Installing the [anus software and cre- ating a virtual PC hard disk on my Ami- ga hard drive was even easier. Janus 2.0 uses the new Commodore installer to copy all of the required files to their proper spots on the Amiga boot disk. If you want a virtual hard drive, the in- staller asks you for the desired si/.e and then automatically creates it. This is a significant improvement over the previ- ous version of Janus, which required you to perform the installation manually. Janus 2.0 also uses an improved PCPrefs to configure the PC video display, turn the PC speaker on or off, and configure the PC disk drives. Getting the PC side of the house up and running was also a snap. The first time you use the A2386SX, you need to establish the PC configuration using the built-in set-up utility, which configures the A2386SX's clock/calendar, disk drives, video, speed, and memory. After you've established the board's configura- tion, you reboot the PC and insert the MS-DOS install disk. MS-DOS 5.0 auto- matically looks at your configuration, formats the hard drive and installs itself on the newly formatted drive. Operation Normal The A2386SX is one speedy little PCI Commodore supplied a 20-MHz version of the board for testing. According to Norton Utilities' SI program, a leading benchmark for testing PC speed, the A2386SX ran at 21.4 times the speed of an IBM XT Ebr comparison, I ran SI on an IBM 386SX clone running at 16 MHz. SI rated the clone at a 17.6. I noticed a speed lag on the A2386SX only when using the Amiga's video to emulate a CGA color PC screen. This is understandable, because the video is passed from the PC to the Amiga. The problem was completely solved by adding an inexpensive VGA card to one of my Amiga's PC slots and connecting a multisync monitor. With the advent of Windows-based software, a VGA adapter is nearly a necessity with the Bridge- « 2'! November 1992 Win an A deprl ssion Introducing Art Expression, the Amiga Illustrator Art Expression is the most powerful drawing program ever designed for the Amiga. It allows you to warp and distort text like never before. You can ran text around a curve, warp it inside shapes and edit it in any way. Art Expression even has color blends and shape metamorphosis! Rotate, Skew. Blend. Stretch, Fill and Edit. Text and objects are completely under your control so you can create whatever you imagine. Change colors, edit character shapes, create transparent holes, and transform objects. Art Expression has the most sophisti- cated drawing and editing tools of any Amiga drawing program. Compatibility Art Expression can use any of the thousands of available Post- Script Type 1 fonts. You can load and edit IFF DR2D. Aegis and Adobe Illustrator files for compatibility with Amiga. Mac and PC standards. Save your illustrations in DR2D or PostScript for use with PageStream, Sign Engine, Pro Vector and other programs. More Value Out of the Box You gel a lot of value when you buy Art Expression. Not only do you get the leading Amiga illustrator, you also get BME trace at no extra charge. BME allows you to touchup and crop pictures, and to convert your bitmap pictures to jaggy-free structured drawings automatically. You also get 35 PostScript fonts and two illustrated manuals with a "cookbook" of examples. And when you send in your registration card, we'll mail you a disk of more free PostScript fonts and clip art! Win an Amiga 4000! Enter the Art Expression Design Contest to be eligible to win an incredible Amiga 4000! There are lots of other great prizes, inclu- ding our entire 3000 piece Graphic Library, fifty Graphic and Type- face Library volumes, plus Art Expression T-shirts! Get your copy of Art Expression and enter today! Contest details are included in the Art Expression package and are available on request. M, Soft-Logik Publishing • 1-800-829-8608 Circle 46 on Reader Service card mo r/iT W^ B Only $249.95 PowerUp from any version of Professional Draw, ProVector, Expert Draw or PageStream for only $125 until Dec. 31, 1992. Call for details. Art Expression and Pagt'Slrcam arc registered trademarks or trademarks of Soft-Logik Publishing Corp. Amiga i s a registered trademark of Commodore Business Machines. All other Irademarks are the property of their respective osvners. Art Expression Design Contest ends April 30. 1 993. r i; V I E w s board. The addition of" a VGA card also solved a bug in Janus 2.0's color display thai causes the window to resize to a half screen every time a program changes graphics modes. (Commodore reports it is working on a less expensive solution to this problem.) I tested a variety of PC software, includ- ing WordPerfect 5.1, Microsoft's Flight Simulator, Microsoft Excel, and the PC version of Electronic Arts' Deluxe Paint, as well as Windows 3.0. I was unable to test Windows 3.1 without a PC-compatible high-density drive, because Microsoft was unable to furnish a version on 720K disks in time to complete this review. However, another A23S6SX user with a high-den- sity drive reports he is running Windows 3.1 without difficulty, If you're looking to add PC compati- bility to your Amiga's many talents, the A2386SX is a stellar performer. At a list price of $959, however, the Bridgeboard competes with a complete IBM PC 386SX-compatible system bundled with a VGA monitor and hard drive. Unless desk space is truly critical, a complete 386SX-compatible system might be a wiser investment. — Bob Eller 68030 ACCELERATION VXL30&RAM-32 AND 32-BIT WIDE RAM Cost-effective, high-performance system acceleration for the Amiga 500 and Amiga 2000. VXL-30 uses the low cost 68EC030 or the standard, MMU-bearing 68030. True asynchronous design supports versions at 25MHz and 40MHz. Installs into the Amiga's 68000 socket (and the 68000 is re-installed in VXL-30). Accepts the 68882 math chip. User upgradeable. Compatible with AmigaDOS 1.3 and 2.04 systems. Cold-boot jumper selection as 68030 or as 68000. Warm boot software selection as 68030 or 68000. Supports separate VXL RAM-32 Memory board with 2 or 8 megabytes of Fast Page Mode RAM with Burst capability. RAM autoconfigs in the Amiga FASTRAM space and is DMA-able; can be mapped high; supports mapping Kickstart to 32-bit RAM even without MMU. RAM-32 has alternate Ktckstart ROM socket for optional 2.04 ROM. RAM-32 is also accessible (16-bits wide) in 68000 mode. Performance of VXL30/RAM-32 as a system is equal to an Amiga 3000 at 25MHz and about fifty percent faster than an A3000 when a 40MHz processor and math chip are installed (speed comparisons based on averaging of sixteen standard benchmarks in AIBB 4.5). Typical raytrace times at 25MHz (using Impulse's Imagine) are sixteen limes faster than with the basic 68000. VXL-30 is the price leader in affordable. 68030 acceleration. Available new from your Amiga dealer. liMicroBotics. Inc. i ■«#. 1251 American Parkway, Richardson, TX 75081 ■Amiga 500"Anga 20M- ar* •Kckslan* are regstered trademarks * CommrMore.Arnga •VXL-M" and -VXL RAM 3? are Merotolcs, Inc. trademarks. excellence! 3.0 Micro-Systems Software, $99.95. Hard-drive installable. Not copy protected. 2.0 compatible. Accelerator compatible. Minimum system: 1MB RAM. Recommended system: 1MB RAM, hard drive. Heavy-duty word processing; simple page layout. KlNDWOROS 3 The Disc Company.SI 24.95 Hard-drive installable. Not copy protected, 2.0 compatible. Accelerator compatible. Minimum system: 1MB RAM. Recommended system: 1MB RAM, hard drive. Entry-level word processing. One of the Amiga's oldest word pro- cessors, excellence! has never really lived up to its name — until now. Version 3.0 may have finally reached world-class status, at least among Amiga software. Another recent update, Kindwords 3.0, has not aged as well. excellence! 3.0: A New Standard? Sporting a new 2.0 look (even under Workhench 1.3), excellence! is an attrac- tive program. It opens a full-featured but conservative ruler atop the screen and lets vou toggle many display options, such as margins, paragraph markers, and the ruler. You configure its resolution from the Preferences requester, excellence! even has built-in support for virtual mem- ory, so if you have a hard drive, you can work on files greater than your available memory would normally permit Timed saves, one of the more signifi- cant features added to version 3.0, are handled elegantly. Besides specifying a time interval for excellence! to save your work, you can also tell it to warn you of an impending save by beeping. If you want to abort the save and avoid inadver- tently overwriting important data, press the Escape key. As a further precaution, excellence! will back up the current file before a timed save, and you can specify as many back-up levels as you like. Now you can even have an audit trail of large documents that effortlessly retains every incremental version in case you need to go back to something written and "dis- carded" a week ago! » 26 November 1992 Circle 6 on Reader Service card. Professional Digital Sound for Your Video, Music, and Radio Productions Finally, true CD quality 16 bit audio is available for your Amiga! SunRize's new ADS 16 gives you eight tracks, plus a time code reader and a DSP chip. Included with the ADS 16 is Studio 16- version 2.0. This new release of our popular 16 bit editing software puts a complete sound studio on your desk! AD516 The ADS 16 hardware pro- vides stereo in/out connectors, plus a SMPTE in. Just plug your VTR, CD player, radio, tape deck, or other audio source di- rectly in, Then record in stereo, direct to hard disk, with 16 bits at sampling rates up to 48,000 samples per second. Plus, the AD516's efficient design allows 8 track playback direct from hard disk. The AD5 16 can synchronize and chase SMPTE time code at 24, 25, 29.97, and 30 fps (drop or non-drop frame). Designed to exceptional audio standards, the ADS 16 of- fers 15Hz to 22KHz fre- quency response and 85dB dynamic range. Video Production The Video Toaster goes a long way towards solving your video problems. But what about sound? Do you want to do ADR or voice-overs? Do you need to synchronize background music with your productions? How do you add foot- steps, door knocks, and other sound effects to your video or animation? Do you need to fade, cross fade, or eliminate sections of audio? Can you edit your audio, or are you stuck with the first take? Studio 16 solves all these problems by turning your Amiga into a complete sound studio. With Studio 16's cue list and SMPTE support you can lock sounds frame accurately with your video. Audio triggers re- liably, at the same spot, every time. Or you can slip your audio effects, trying at different spots. And since Studio 16 plays directly off hard disk, the number of sounds you can trigger is unlimited. Mixer and Meters Each of Studio 16's eight tracks can be metered and mixed. Unlike two track sys- tems, Studio 16 can combine multiple tracks with no generation loss. And it can record two tracks while playing up to eight! Waveform Editor The Studio 16 sound editor graphs the audio waveform and allows you to cut, copy, and paste audio. Up to eight samples can be edited per window. And edits can be non-destructive or permanent. Zoom, scale, fade, reverse, echo, normalize, loop FFT, resample, and many other functions are available. Named regions can be de- lined and used in the cue list or transport modules. DSP Supercharger The AD516 includes a special sound coprocessor - the advanced 2105 DSP. The DSP allows Studio 16 to handle those eight tracks while performing real time mixing. The DSP can also do high quality 16 bit ef- fects such as echo, flange, delay and chorus. Low Prices, High Performance Studio 16 2.0 comes with either the AD516 (16 bit, 8 track, stereo, S14951ist)ortheAD1012 (12 bit, 4 track, mono, S595 list). Also available is the DD524 digital I/O card for direct interface to DAT. Call today a free Studio 16 information packet Tel: (408)374-4962. Fax: (408)374-4963. INDUSTRIES 2959 S. Winchester Blvd., Suite 204 Campbell, CA 95008 USA European RcprrcroaLvci fISLAND Fu»sr Compiler .358 ( 18)78 ! 8992. FRANCE Sural +33 < 1 ) 43 57 46 57, GERMANY ASiS +4S 1069) 5 48 8 1 30- ITALY AP*S .39 (0433) 759364. SPAIN PiXeLSOFT +34 (088) 71 27 00. SWEDEN DtsplayDKa +46 (M57) 503 80. SWITZERLAND Microti™ +4 1 (032) 872429. UNITED KINGDOM HB Mirktling +44 (0753) 686000. Studio Ibis R trademark afSunRire Industries. Video Toaster is a trademark of HewTek. Inc. Amiga is a trademark ofCBM. Circle 57 on Reader Service card. R E V 1 E \\ S The program is chock full of other new features, as well. Bookmarks, a handy addition, are the electronic equiv- alent of paper scraps to tuck between im- portant pages in a large document for easy location. As for page-layout options, what modern word processor would be complete without multiple columns? excellence! allows up to eight. It also in- cludes a generously large dictionary and thesaurus — not to mention a grammar checker. (This review clocks in at an 1 1 th- grade reading level, and 1 seem to use fewer sentences in the passive voice than tvpical life-insurance policies.) When vou're readv to print, you can even see what you are about to get with a page- preview function. One particularly nice feature is the ability to work on a file with requesters open. Usually, the spell checker or find/replace requester locks yon out of the word processor itself: in excellence!, you can continue to edit the current doc- ument while it is on screen. One of the best reasons to buy excel- lence!, however, is its ability to quickly and easily generate an automatic table of contents and index. This invaluable function was previously available only Ami-Back takes care of your data. 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Colonial Dr., Suite 204, Orlando, Florida 32803 Phone: (407) 384-94S4 FAX: (407) 384-9391 excellence! 3,0's grammar checker provides interactive output. Kindwords 3 offers a large toolbox for common commands. in Amiga WordPerfect, an undesirable choice for manv word-processing tasks. excellence! is about as full-featured and intuitive as you are likely to see on this side of AmigaDOS. It even includes ex- tensive macro support with ARexx and an easy-to-use "Glossary" (a user stock- pile of macro commands). In a nutshell, excellence! does just about everything you might want or ex- pect in a word processor. It doesn't do ev- erything perfectly, however. It cannot change die case of words with a keystroke. Its Insert Literal function is marginal. It doesn't show you what the actual charac- ters are in a given font, but only what they would be in the standard character set — not terribly useful for finding the penguin shape in your Symbols loin. Lastly, I felt betrayed by the box, which proudly proclaimed "ASL Compatible Font/File Requesters." It turns ottt that ex- cellence! doesn't actually use the ASL li- brary at all. Instead, MSS has inexplicably provided ASL look-alikes, preventing you from using a single, standard requester in all your Workbench 2.0 software. Kindwords 3: Starter Kit It would take very little tweaking to make excellence! the finest electronic typewrit- Contmued on p. 72. 28 November 1 992 Cucle 69 on Reader Service card- Finally! True Cinematic Quality Morphing For The Amiga®! ASDC is not the first to advertise "cinematic quality morphing" for the Commodore Amiga ' . Having seen the other products, there's obviously more than one way to define that term. To us, "cinematic quality morphing" means these things: • Morphing must be fast. In a production environment, time is money. ASDG's MorphPlus " is the fastest morphing product available for the Commodore Amiga". MorphPlus' powers through complicated full overscan morphs 3 to 1 1 times faster than the other products. What's The Plus? Fastest ....MorphPlus™ Easiest-To-Use ....MorphPlus" Highest Quality... ....MorphPlus'" • Morphing must be easy. Experts in the field praise the intuitive design of the MorphPlus'' user interface which lets them create sophisticated full motion morphs in minutes instead of weeks. •Morphing must be high quality (so that it truly can be used for cinematic or professional video applications). MorphPlus" is already in use in Hollywood productions, replacing high end systems. This is what we mean by "cinematic quality morphing." If these are the criteria you would use, then MorphPlus ' is the choice you should make. See it at your local dealer! 925 Stewart Street Madison, W! 5371 3 608/273-6585 1QH1 And More! The following names are trademarked by the indicated companies: MorphPlus: ASDC Incorporated, Amiga: Commodore Amiga Inc. Circfe A on Reader Service card ■/ ■■■M " c? A MIGA Tl Gt I )i r Meet the future of computing: Commodore's new 68040-based computer that features a new processor, a new DOS, and a dynamic new chip set. Prepare to expand your horizons with the exciting graphics potential of this colorful machine. I VI November 1W2 BY LOU WALLACE OR SEVERAL YEARS, Amiga users and developers have been clamoring for a major upgrade to the Ami- ga custom chips. During this lime, the Mac and MS- DOS systems equaled, and (hen surpassed, the Ami- ga's graphic-display system in terms ofboth resolution and number of colors. Because of the increased emphasis on multimedia and desktop video, the Amiga's screen size, number of colors and total palette became limiting factors. Al- though ihird-parlv developers have lilted I he void with Sophisticated 24-bit display cards, this hardware is aimed mostly at static displays, is basically unsupported by the Amiga's operating system, and has had little im- pact on most of us in our day-to-day applications. It has become evident that change is needed. And I'm pleased to say dial dtis fall a real change is coming to the Amiga. The lirsl sign of this renaissance is an en- tirely new machine, die Amiga 4000! 'The first public demonstration of the A4000 was scheduled last month for the World of Commodore show in Pasadena. The A4000 is the most significant upgrade to come out of Commodore. It boasts main additions and changes, the most significant of which concerns its graphic display. The A4000 is the first of a new line of Amigas to incorporate the AA (Advanced Architec- ture) graphic chip set, which immensely expands the Amiga's graphic potential. The AA (called "Double A") chips are Alice, Lisa, and Paula. While Paula is essen- lially unchanged, the other two are full replacements for the Agnus and Deni.se chips. A4000 Specifics The A4000 is the first in a new line of Amiga comput- ers to take advantage of these new chips. It is also the first Amiga to be based on the 08040 processor. Inter- estingly, there is no CPU on the motherboard. Instead, the A4000 CPU resides on a plug-in card that installs in the 200-pin processor slot. This approach means that the 32-bit A4000 is completely configurable — at the dealer level. While the initial version is a 25-MHz 68040, as other processor cards become available, von will be able to buy (or upgrade to) faster 68040s, custom CPUs, or even fu- ture high-performance processors like the 68060. Internally, the A4000 has four Amiga Zorro II/III slots as well as three PC/AT slots. As with earlier mod- els, though, using some PC slots precludes using other slots for Amiga cards. As in the A3000, the video slot is in line with one of the Amiga slots. This arrange- ment will encourage development of specialty video cards (much like Great Valley Products' IV24 multime- dia/ video package). The CPU case is a bit larger than that of the A3000, but not as big as the A2000's. There is room inside for two floppy drives and two hard disks; an external flop- py connector is available for more drives. In addition, the front drive bay can accommodate a 5.25-inch disk device, allowing you to mount large internal hard drives, CD-ROMs, or other removable media. A 120MB IDE hard disk is standard. Lor those who want access to SCSI devices, an optional 32-bit SCSI-11 controller card will be available. Interestingly, the includ- ed floppy drive is a high-density 3.5-inch unit that can read and write in either 880Kor 1 ,7MB modes, and can read and write to standard MS-DOS formatted disks. Like the A3000, memory expansion in the A4000 al- lows a total of 18MB on the motherboard — two megs of chip and 16 megs of 32-bil RAM. You can add more via plug-in cards. The base configuration of the A4000 includes 2MB of chip RAM and 4MB of 32-bit RAM, although this is subject to change. AmigaDOS 3.0 These hardware improvements and additions require new software to take advantage of them. Not surprising- ly, the operating system shipped with the A4000 is a new release called Amiga DC )S 3.0. h is an enhanced version of the 2. 1 OS, introduced on the .Amiga 600, and it in- cludes all the 2. 1 features, plus support for the A\ chips and their new color and screen-resolution features. New to OS 2.1/3.0 is the addition of CrossDOS, a program by Consul tron that lets you easily read and write data between Amiga and MS-DOS disks. Printer Preferences now supports PostScript directly, and new printer drivers have been added. A Sound Preferences editor lets you customize your system with the sound effects of your choice. Also, a Local Preference editor lets you tell the system what language to use in its mes- sages and text displays (use the language library of your choice). This feature should bolster the interna- tional appeal of the Amiga. (AmigaWorld will address new operating-system features further in future issues.) Commodore says that AmigaDOS 3.0 will, for the lime being, be limited to the A4000 and other AA ma- chines. That's reasonable, as the unique features of 3.0 are designed to take advantage of the new chip set. AmigaDOS 2.1, however, is another story. Any Amiga that can use the 2.04 version can take advantage of 2. 1. Look for an upgrade path at some future date, as yet unspecified by Commodore. Over the Rainbow With the A\ chips, you can forget about yesterday's 4096 color palette. These chips feature a full 24-bit palette, which gives you access to any of 16,777,216 colors for use in your screens. The total number of col- ors on screen will depend on how many bitplanes you use and on the display mode. You can create screens using one to eight bitplanes, which translates into two to 256 colors at once. Most importantly, there is no limit on the number of colors you can use in the var- ious screen resolutions. While current Amigas allow up [o 32 colors in low resolution, 16 colors in high resolution, and four colors in Productivity and SuperHires modes, the AA chips have no such limitations. With eight bitplanes, every screen can use up to 256 different colors, a fact that you will appreciate even more when we discuss how many new displays and resolutions are available. For those who think 256 colors are not enough for ■ c» ;■*■;«, photc)i;rai*hki) nv kdwaro judick AmigaWorld 3 1 I II E A 4 0 0 0 some applications, the AA chips have yet another color surprise in store. Remember how the Amiga's HAM (Hold And Modify) niode was able to create Stunning low-resolution images using all 4096 colors with the older chips? Well, the new chips have their own eight- bit HAM display mode, which lets you create images that use over 256,000 colors simultaneously. The AA HAM mode has 6-1 base colors instead of the 16 available in the earlier HAM displays. This means that software can minimize the fringing thai often accompanies HAM displays. And, as with the stan- dard color modes, you can use AA HAM mode with any screen, regardless of resolution. imagine a 640x480 display with 256,000 colors! Sounds impressive, doesn't it? Now try imagining 640x960, or 800x600 or 1 280x400 with dial many col- ors! Then add overscan. Are you excited yet? Exotic Resolutions The A4000's AA chips oiler all the standard Amiga NTSC and PAE screen sizes that ihe original and later ECS chips support. These include the original displays of 320x200, 320x400, (540x200, and 640x400 with or without overscan. Also included are the l-X'.S 640x480 and 640x960 Productivity mode and 1280x200 and 1 280x400 SuperHires modes. AA chips go even further with their Super72 modes, including a verv nice 800x600 display. And, these resolutions do not include the extra display area you gel when you use overscan modes. In fact. Commodore engineers are now defining even more screen resolutions. These new chips are pro- grammable: You can vary the horizontal and vertical screen sizes in a great variety of ways, so man}' more exotic displays are not only possible but vety likely. And keep in mind that all screens can support up to 256 col- ors (out of 16.7 million), as well as the phenomenal AA The AA chips are used here to display multiple 32-color IFF images, HAM displays of 256.000 colors. Ihe possibilities lor artists, animators, multimedia producers, and desktop vicleographers are monumental, especially when you consider that all these feature's will now be standard on the A4000 and all future Amigas. Behind the Scenes One feature that enables these new chips to create such graphics is the bandwidth of the chips. Bandwidth measures how fast inlbrmation can be processed, and the new AA chips have a Ibm lold increase in bandwidth over their predecessors. This increase does much more than give you improved color resolution; it improves the performance of the graphics as well. Regardless of what processor yon have, when you open a 16-color. overscan, hi-res interlaced screen in your existing Amiga, your overall system performance will degrade because so many of the Amiga's CPU cy- cles are required to support [his display. Thanks to the AA chips' increased bandwidth, however, such a display performs as well on the A4000 as a two-color display: It is fast and effective rather than sluggish and futile. Oi course, even wilh [he new chips, using the maxi- mum resolution along with the maximum number of colors will cause a performance hit — but one not nearly as pronounced as with the older chip set. Sprites benefit from the extra bandwidth. Hie new system allows sprites that are 16, 32, or 64 bits wide. (The previous chips only allowed 16-bit-wide sprites.) Game developers will be able to use these verv large, yen' fast sprites instead of slower bitmap objects, also, sprites (such as your pointer) can be set to various res- olutions, independent of the screen resolution. One chip missing from Commodore's newest ma- chine is the A3000 display enhancer, which creates a non-interlaced, llicker-free display. Because of the in- creased bandwidth and programmability of" the chips, software can define a deinterlaced, flicker-free screen, provided vou use a multisync monitor. Examples of these modes are the Productivity 640x480 and Super72 800x600 displays. Bandwidth is not the only factor that contributes to the chips' speed. Another important A4000 compo- nent is 32-bit access to chip memory, instead of ihe 16- bit access of earlier chips. This means that the proces- sor can read and write data to chip RAM twice as fast. Another feature of the system architecture, 32-bit page- mode access, also means faster access to RAM. Where Do We Go From Here? Will you be able to upgrade your existing Amiga to the AA chips? "The quick answer is no. AA chips are 32-bit wide and not pin compatible with the earlier Amiga chip sets. One possibility — which Commodore neither confirms nor denies — is a motherboard upgrade. This would require you to purchase and install a completely new motherboard, designed for AA. While this is pos- sible for the A3000 (which is a 32-bit system), it is a much more difficult proposition for A2000s, A600s, and A500s. Even if it does become available, though, a drawback to the motherboard option is cost. Moth- erboard replacement is often expensive enough to jus- tify a new system. This will be an even bigger consid- eration if other, less expensive AA machines appear. There is, however, another force in the market that can make such an upgrade feasible. "That is the ever- creative third-party companies that often provide so- lutions to "impossible" situations. 1 have no inside in- formation about such upgrade scenarios, but experi- ence leads me to expect them. Impressions One difficulty Amiga industry professionals have had » 32 November 1992 DESKTOP SPACE EXPLORATION HAS LANDED! 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OR CHOOSE DISTANT SUNS AND MAKE YOUR EXPLORATION REALLY FAR OUT. This Virtual Reality Observatory Is a beautiful and well thought out balance between solar system and deep sky display. FEATURES • Realistically displays rhe nighr sky from 4713 B.C. ro 10,000 A.D. ■ Displays up ro 9100 srars (expandable ro 250,000!), 450 galaxies, nebulas and srar clusters. • Add up ra 3,000 custom objects. • Move your viewpoint from earrh our inro rhe solar sysrem. • Reproduce eclipses, show lunar phases. • Unique feature provides poinr-and-click linkage between planetari- um objects and full screen soiar sysrem and deep sky photos. Distant Suns retails for S99.95. For more information, or the name of your nearest distributor contact: Virtual Reality Laboratories 2341 Gonador Court San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 (805)545-8515 The grand master of science fiction, Arthur C. Clarke warns Stanley Kubrick, "If you get Vistapro into your computer, you'll never do any more work! It produces images of olmost photographic quali- ty... So I can explore oil the interesting places on Man!" . I "I'm really boggled - It's beautiful, espe- cially when the lights are off. I'm awed by what > have done!" Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey UNLEASH THE POWER OF YOUR YOUR IMAGINATION! Circle 58 on Reader Service card. T H E A 4 (► 0 () to endure is knowing about Commodore's plans, but being restrained from talking about them. This has been especially problematic lately, in the lace of much speculation and commentary concerning a lack of de- velopment for the Amiga line. I'm happy to report thai there is much new technology coming from Com- modore, and AmigaWorld will continue to bring that news to you as soon as we can. I am impressed with the AA chip set and am eager to start using an A4000. The new displays will be a boon to artists, multimedia producers, and desktop videographers, and game developers should have a field dav with the color, speed and resolution Double A provides. So will the rest of us! ■ Applications for AA torn: I ■ I ii as ! Some new Preferences tools displayed in 256-color SuperHires. A4000 Specifications 25-MHz 68040 CPU Base machine includes 2MB chip RAM and 4MB 32-bil flAM Up to 18MB RAM on motherboard; additional RAM via RAM cards (to 1.7GB) Upgradable CPU via 200-pin slot 120MB IDE hard disk 880KB/1 .7MB internal floppy Supports four internal disk drives (two floppies and two hard drives) Four ZORRO ll/lll expansion slots Three PC/AT expansion slots Video-expansion slot Full 32-bit system architecture 16.8-million color palette Up to 256 simultaneous colors, plus 256,000 colors using HAM display mode Advanced Architecture (AA) Graphic Chip Set (Aiice, Lisa and Paula) Programmable display resolutions include 640x480, 640x960, 1280x400 and 800x600 Video overscan modes supported All color modes available in all display resolutions Flicker-free interlaced modes AA chip set backward compatible with earlier ESC chip set Price: S3699 As you might expect, Com- modore has been keeping de- velopers informed of these hardware changes, and quite a few have been developing products to take advantage of the new features. While many were not willing to "pre-an- nounce" their work, others were far enough along thai they felt comfortable dis- cussing their new AA products. (To locate vendors of the prod- ucts mentioned, see the "Man- ufacturers'/Distributors' Ad- dresses" list on p. 104.) INOVAtronics is upgrading its CanDo multimedia applica- tion language and Directory Opus file manager to support AA machines. The firm also promises a new, high-powered text editor, as yet unnamed. Scala tells us it will fully support the AA chips in Scala Multimedia 2.0 (scheduled to ship this fall), a greatly en- hanced version of the existing Scala presentation software. Included with the package is a utility to create animations us- ing the new eight-bit HAM modes, which Scala can play. New Horizons was sched- uled to release ProWrite 3.3 at last month's World of Amiga show. This update will fully sup- port all screen resolutions as well as graphics with up to 256 colors. A new version of De- signWorks, scheduled for a Christmas release, will also support the AA chips. New Horizons also states that its other packages, such as Quar- terback, QuickWrite and Flow, will work with AA, al- though by the nature of their tasks 1hey do not require the extra color. Impulse plans a free up- grade for any registered Imag- ine 2.0 owner with an AA-chip machine. This new version will support the extra modes and resolutions. If you plan to get an A4000 and have not al- ready registered your copy of Imagine, it is time to do so. Octree, publisher of Cali- gari 3-D products, is also jumping on the AA bandwag- on with Caligari 24. an up- grade to Caligari 2. Octree is excited by the new hi-res, eight-bit HAM mode, which it thinks will satisfy users who really do not want or need a full 24-bit framebuffer. ASDGs ADPro image pro- cessor and FRED (FRame EDitor) animation utility al- ready support AA. I used AD- Pro to process 24- bit images into both 256 color and eight- bit HAM displays, and was surprised to find that it would already open the new screens and display the images it cre- ated. ASDG's Morph Plus will aiso offer features based on AmigaDOS 3.0. Digital Creations' 24-bit paint-and-animation package. Brilliance (scheduled to ship in fate October), uses every display mode your system can generate, including AA modes. Soft-Logiks PageStream is already designed to work in the 256-color mode as long as you open it on the Workbench. The company plans further enhancements to take advan- tage of other AmigaDOS 3.0 features. Gold Disk is upgrading Professional Page and Pro- fessional Draw to take advan- tage of the new color modes. The next release of Profes- sional Page is scheduled tor later this year; a Professional Draw update will follow. Electronic Arts' Deluxe- Paint IV 4.5. which is expect- ed this fall, will have full AA chip support. A Deluxe Music Construction Set update, scheduled for release in early winter, will also be compati- ble with the new system. □ 34 November 1992 PIECE NEGOTIATIONS CREATING A COMPOSITE IMAGE By Steven BEaize Where disparate images meet, an interesting collage can result. Not, however, without some finessing. Here are some techniques you can use to negotiate a successful work — piece by piece. A COLLAGE IS an artistic medium used by professional artists and grade- school kids alike. The hard-copy ap- proach involves cutting and pasting vari- ous pieces — pictures and other mater- ials— to create an entirely new composition. I lie digital approach involves combining images rom various sources on screen. Whether you create your collages by hand or by comput- er, yon must carefully select each element so the final com- position is a new work of art. The concept behind any good design is to convey your message to the intended audience. This is true whether your design is for business, television, art, or feature film. Although the selection of pieces is specific to each project, I can offer pointers and assembly tips that can help you time and time again. The examples I use to illustrate this article are intended for video, but the techniques work equalh well lor animation and print. Also, while my primary tools lor ere- » AmigaWorld 55 I M V G E C 0 M P 0 S i T I \ G ating collages air AS DCs Art Department Professional (ADPro), Digital Creations' DCTV, and Impulse's I.iglu24, you can apply these same ideas to whatever programs you use. Picking Up the Pieces Before beginning to assemble a collage on screen, you need a source for your digital art. You can use any paint, draw, or ,'i-D rendering program to create original an. You can also employ dip-art disks, the purchase of which generally gives you license to use the included images. If you have a framegrabber or still digitizer, vou can capture images from video, live sources, or static pictures. In digitizing, keep copyright in mind; there has been no clear definition of the impact of digital ■ as ■ J ■ ■4^ L ^i* ^Hk_ "^fl - Figure 1. This composition is derived, in part, from the images in Figure 2. Figure 2. The DCTV-digitized dolphins, before stenciling (top) and after. composition and changes to copyrighted imagery. So be 1 anlul: II vou are digitizing a published piece of art or video, you should gel permission to use it. Once you have collected all the pieces you waul to in- clude, you are ready to start cutting and pasting. Paint programs such as Light24, Toaster Paint (NewTek), MacroPaint (Lake Forest Logic/GVP) and DCTV Paint allow you to work with images in 16.7 million colors (24- bil), but require display hardware to provide ihis color accuracy on the Amiga. (Each of these programs comes packaged with the appropriate hardware.) You really do not need special display hardware, however, in order to create 24-bit collages. The Art De- partment Professional and Image Master (Black Belt Systems) are specifically designed for processing im- ages in 2 1-bit color, but the\ do n< 11 require anything beyond the Amiga's normal display. Ihis is a major benefit, even if your final output will be lb-color or HAM. (While Image Master comes packaged with Black Belt's HAM-E display hardware — which it is es- pecially suited to take advantage of — it is sold sepa- rately, as is AD Pro.) By combining your elements in full (24-bit) color, you can mix multiple pictures, even HAM images, without palette problems. Then you can render your collage in 24-bit or in any of the standard Amiga modes with an optimized color palette. (Native display modes limit you in terms of palette: lb combine ele- ments of two images in paint software, both must share the same palette. If the images' palettes are different, you must either convert one image to the other's palette or change both to a third.) You can also use programs such as Digi-Paint 3 (NewTek), DeluxePaint IN' (Electronic Arts), or Spectra- Color (Oxxi) to combine Amiga-mode images — that is, images that do not require a special device for uncom- promised screen display. I suggest these programs be- cause ihev provide transparency controls that are very helpful for such things as see-through drop shadows. figure 1, which illustrates basic image compositing, served as the opening title to an environmental news segment. I digitized the two dolphin photos using DCTV (see figure 2) and loaded the clip-art image of the Earth onto die jump screen. Then, with the paint program's stencil features, I cut the dolphins as clips (bottom images), resized them appropriately, and stamped them into position on the jump screen. I saved the result as a 24-bit IFF file. Although 1 could have added the text directly in DCTV. I instead created it — along with its near-black drop shadow — on a solid-black background in another program. Keeping the background and lexl pieces sep- arate allows vou 10 change the text quickly i( you later find (hat necessary. I then loaded this new picture with the Earth and dolphins into AD Pro. Making sure the Comp button was on, 1 then composited the IFF and title files, sel- ling RGB values to 0 and Mix to 100. This permitted the black background of the title screen to become to- tally transparent, while the rest of the image was mixed at 100 percent. (By setting the RGB and Mix levels, you can make any specific color in an image transparent while mixing the rest of the image to any level of transparency.) Finally, 1 scaled the entire image down one percent before scaling it back up to the final 736x4X0. This al- 36 November 1992 I M \ G C (I M POSITING lowed me to create anti-aliasing around the text with- out sacrificing image quality. Masks and Shadows Paint programs such as DcluxcPainl, I.ighl24, and DCTV provide the ability to create stencils to protect areas of your image from changes. You can then com- posite other images into your collage over the unpro- tected areas. You can achieve this same effect through AD Pro by creating a two-color mask. The top-left im- age in figure 3 demonstrates this: It shows the entire deco-style design in black and white. After deciding which pans will be the same color, you can use your paint software's 1111 tool to create the sep- arate mask liles. (The first of the mask llles for our ex- ample appears in the lop-right corner of Figure 3.) You then simply load the background (in ibis case the mar- ble shown at the lower left) and then composite the mask, making the black transparent. The result is shown in she lower-right corner of the figure. For this particular image, I used three types of mar- ble lor different parts ol the design. Then 1 composited these intermediate files together, with white being transparent. The final image (see p. 35) was placed on a black background for added contrast. Some i>l your projects mav invoke 3-D graphics and animations. The third example includes 3-D text ren- dered in Imagine (Impulse). Looking at Figure 4, you can sec most of the elements that were used to create the final image. The lop half shows I he image before processing, while the bottom half depicts the pmcessed image. I created the blue background using I he ARexx script for embossing that's included with AD I'ro on the picture of wicker. I then composited ibis at a mix of 30 percent over a plain blue backdrop. You achieve the embossed look by first loading a negative of your image, and then loading the original image one pixel to the right and one pixel down from the negative, with only a 50-percent mix. (It works best if your image is made of various gray levels and has good contrast.) In this manner, you can use your paint programs to create the same tvpe of look. I created the red rectangles in a paint program and added them next, lirsl with a 30-pcrccnl mix and each of the RGB values at 2").") (lo produce white). Then I shifted the image to the right and down, using the helpful visual indicators in AD Pro's Composition Con- trol screen, 'litis created die transparent drop shadow, which adds depth to the image. I then added the same file at a mix of 100 percent, finally, I rendered the 3-D text on a black background and added il in die same manner, with a full 100-percent mix and black designated as transparent (see Figure 5). Those of you who work with 3-D software may won- der why I would composite a rendered 3-D scene over a background rather than use the latter image as a backdrop in the 3-D program. There arc two reasons: time and memory. The 3-D software must read die im- age from disk and load it into RAM before rendering takes place. This consumes significant amounts of both commodities, as an overscan 24-bit background is aboul 1MB in size. While some of the lime saved is lost again during compositing, my experience shows that there is an overall saving. Furthermore, because the 3-D program may com- promise the backdrop during rendering, composit- ing ensures that the background will be of the very highest quality. The easiest way to composite fixed backgrounds into an animation sequence is with an ARexx script. ADPro comes with several ARexx scripts that give even novices a good start, and you can use this approach with any ARexx -controllable paint program or image processor that lets you composite images together. While I do not have space here for an ARexx lesson, I can offer a lew pointers. First, create a list of the names of your rendered frames. You can do this easily from the CLI by changing the directory to the loca- tion of your images and typing List>filename sort quick. (You can use an editor to remove the extra en- tries from the list and also to easily rearrange the or- der of the images.) ►- Figure 3. These parts went into the creation of the Image on this article's opening page. !!!l!l!i!liil!!Sl!i!|l!l!l!li!!S!S!ii!!!!i!l!Ili|i !tl|{{llllll|!lll(ll(lll!llllt|illl!l(!!|lli! IH!«lll!l!ll,,i!!il!|il!is:!!i, >liniiriu.iiihiil.jjj jitliiiii. Figure 4. Different dimensions: The 2-D and 3-D elements that combine to make the image in Figure 5. A-migaWorld 37 I M A G li C 0 M P 0 S I T I N G When writing the ARexx script, use the command for your program that can load your background im- age (wii li ADPro, use GetKle). Now create a loop to first load the background file; then load the foreground pic- ture, specifying mix levels and transparent color (AD- Pro uses parameters after the load command); finally, output the image. With ADPro, you could even save the result to a Framebuffer (such as Impulse's FIRE- CRACKER or GVP's IV24), and then trigger Microll- lusions' Transport Controller to record your images au- tomatically to videotape. We Do Windows The last example (sec Figure 6) involves a few more steps, but should give you further ideas of what you can easily achieve. All of the original scenic pictures were Figure 5- 3-D graphics are exceedingly good news in the realm of compositing. Figure 6. A 30-percent white overlay gives this composite image its gauzy feel. high-resolution, severe-overscan, 24-bit clip-art images. I created the red, white, and blue borders in Deluxe- Paint at 772x5 1 6 and saved them as a single file. I then loaded this border into AD Pro and, using the Center button with a 100-percent mix, composited each scene into the middle between the borders. I then scaled each scenic image down to one-third of its size and temporar- ily saved it to disk as an individual file. To form the transparent drop shadows, 1 also created a plain-black rectangle the same size as the reduced images. To create the final image, I loaded the marble back- ground and then added the first black rectangle, with a 30-percent mix. Although I positioned the rectangle by eye, I noted the exact starting positions because I knew that the next step involved adding the first small bordered image ten pixels up and to the left of the shadow. I handled the three other images in the same man- ner, placing the shadow first and then the scenic. In this way, I was able to have see-through shadows on the marble as well as on the underlying scenics. This ap- proach added depth to the finished picture. The final touch in this example was to add cut-out titles — instead of standard text — over the images. I cre- ated a mask for the title in a draw program where I could easily manipulate the characters. I saved the mask — black characters on a white backgound — as a simple two-color picture. Then I composited it at a :!()- percent mix, with the black totally transparent: that created the gauze effect. Later, I added the outline around the letters using a similar mask. This time, I used RGB values of 1 in- stead of 0 for the black element — the outline — so that the composited result is not transparent. As in the last example, I used the same scaling technique for better antialiasing. Regardless of what type of project you are working on, remember to think about your final design before you begin. Collect and arrange your elements carefully, keeping the goal of effective communication in mind. When considering source images, look for unusual ideas — such as the use ofwicker for texture in the third example — that can enhance your design. These cre- ative touches can make a great difference. finally, be sure to save intermediate files temporarily as you progress. If you change your mind about one of the elements you are including in a multilevel im- age— such as that in the third example — the interme- diate files will save a lot of re-creation time. Besides, saving along the way lets von experiment with various results. And with a little experimentation, the possibil- ities are endless. ■ The Earth Matters image is a derivative composition, with elements from original 1990 copyrighted works of Laurel Canty and Pieter Folkens/Earthvie.ws, Except for the dol- phins, all 24-bit images are from Texture City's professional image libraries. Steven Blaize is owner of Creative Fire, a multimedia pre- sentations company, and co-owner of Texture City, dei'eloper of 24-bit backgrounds and textures. He is an author, lecturer, and consultant on Amiga and MS-DOS platforms, as well as the Assistant Director of the Amiga Video-Craphics Guild. Please contact him do AmigaWorld Editorial, 80 Elm St., Peterborough, NH 03458. 38 November 1992 law — whether you intend to sell your work, make it freely distributable, or place it in the public domain. Y ou've just downloaded a new program from your favorite bulletin-board system and are scanning through its documentation when you tome across this paragraph: This program is (c)1991 by Joe Cool. This program is public domain and may be distributed only for noncom- mercial purposes. If you don't know why the above statement is flawed, this article is for you. For now, let's just sav that Joe Cool would be in for a surprise if he tried to sue for copyright infringement. Intellectual Property Rights Most software developers feel a sense of attachment to the software they create, especially if they depend on that software for their livelihood. The computer industry as it is today would not exist were it not for intellectual property rights — a term that includes copy- rights and patents. A patent grants an exclusive monopoly for a limited period of time (the length of protection depends on the country) to the inventor of a new, nonobvious product. In exchange for litis monopoly — which allows the inventor to license the product to manufacturers ►■ BY ERIC GIGUERE n 1 1 strati n l IV I Kl II l,Y\( n AmigaWorld 39 K \ I) (I ^ 0 l R R i G II T S and collect royalty payments — the in\emor discloses the complete plans for the invention to the govern- ment, which puts the plans on file. Once the patent period expires, anyone can use or sell the invention as lie sees fit. Can software be patented? This question is being hotly debated even as you read this. The US Patent Office has already granted several patents on soft- ware and program algorithms. Whether the patents are enforceable will not be known until a few lawsuits have wound their wav through the legal system. In any case, obtaining a patent is a time-consuming and expensive operation, so the vast majority of developers depend on copyrights to protect their software. A copyright grants the creator of an original work of expression — a book, a painting, a sculpture — the exclusive right to make (or to license the making of) copies of that work and to prevent others from using the work without permission. Unlike patents, copy- rights do not protect ideas, only the expression of ideas. Copyright protection also lasts longer, usually the lifetime of the creator (author) plus a fixed number of years. Software can definitely be copyrighted, as can pro- gram documentation. Most Western commies consider software to be akin to literary work and deserving of the same protection. For most developers, copyright is the only viable wav to protect software. Your Rights Countries that are signatories to the Berne copyright treaty — including Canada and, recently, the US — do not even require that a copyright notice be present for the work to be protected. Copyright exists the moment a work is created. Not all countries, however, are mem- bers of the Berne convention. For many years, the United States was a signatory to the Universal Copy- right Convention (UCC), but not to the Berne conven- tion. For protection in non-Berne countries a copyright notice like this is required: ©1991 Joe Cool The word copyright can be used in conjunction with or instead of the copyright symbol, and for maximum protection in certain countries the phrase "all rights reserved" should appear immediately after the notice: Copyright ©1991 Joe Cool. All rights reserved. The copyright notice should be displayed promi- nently within your source code and on the screen as well, il possible. Note that the letter c in parentheses — like this: (c) — is not a valid substitute for the copyright symbol, so to be safe, be sure to use the word "copyright" in your pro- gram source code. Although registering your copyright with the gov- ernment is not necessary, doing so affords you maxi- mum protection. In this way, you can sue lor statutory damages as well as actual damages in a copyright infringement case. Typically, this involves filling out a form describing the title and nature of the software and including two copies of the source code (or parts thereof) with a registration lee (less than S2(l in most cases). Of course, copyright restrictions are useful only il they are enforceable. While they certainly are. litiea- tion for copyright infringement is expensive, and if the violator has little or no money, about the best you can hope for is to stop the infringement. Unless your software is worth something substantial, there is little you can do in a practical sense to prevent infringe- ment.You must just have faith that your copyright will be respected. A copyright can be bought and sold much like ma- terial property. The owner of a software copyright is usually the person or persons who wrote the software, unless it was done in the normal course of employ- ment, in which case the employer owns the software. The owner of the copyright is granted certain exclusive rights: 1) the right to make copies of the software in any form (this is the origin of the term copyright): 2) the right to sell, lend, give away, or otherwise license the use of those copies: and 3) the right to prepare derivative works. As you can see, copyright protection enables software developers to peddle their wares to the public in the hope of making a profit and with reasonable expec- tation that their work will not be pirated. Kxcept for backup copies, anyone who makes and distributes copies Of copyrighted software without the permission of the copyright owner is liable to be sued for copyright infringement. 'Hie third right, that of preparing derivative works, is an important right. "Derivative" in this sense means works thai are based on one or more other works, as in new versions of programs. Even if you make substan- tial changes to a copyrighted program, the copyright to the new program as a whole belongs to the original copyright owner. Public Domain Copyright provides protection for a limited but lengthy period of time, especially where software is concerned. When a copyright expires, the work that was protected is said to enter the public domain, after which it is available for use by anyone for any purpose. In other words, it belongs to the public. Copyright protection can also be lost if the work is improperly or fraudulently registered. Software can also be placed in the public domain by the copyright owner at any time before the copyright's expiration date. This should not be a decision lightly taken, however, because once copyrigbl proteclion is withdrawn, it is lost forever. While derivative works of public-domain materials can by copyrighted if the changes are sufficiently substantial (such as an English translation of Dante's Inferno drawn from the original texts), no one can copyright original works that have lapsed into the public domain. It should be evident at this point that the phrase "this software is public domain" must be used with the utmost care in your software. Think it over carefully; clo you really want to relinquish your rights to the software? Remember that once your software is in the public domain, anyone can do anything with it. This includes selling il toothers without giving vou a single penny, or including it in commercial software without » 40 November 1992 Real-time 24-bit graphics for your Amiga or Video Toaster! Introducing Visiona, a fully programmable real-time 24/32-bit 16.7 million coior graphics card for the Amiga 2000 and 3000 series computers (unlike the Harlequin and ImpactVision 24 cards, which are merely framebuffers.) Visiona is based on the powerful Inmos G300 GaAS graphics processor which runs at speeds up to 135 MHz and utilizes up to 4MB high-speed (20ns!) on-board memory. Visiona supports programmable screen resolutions of 1024 x 1024 pixels in 16.7 million colors up to an impressive 5792 x 5792 pixel monochrome resolution. Workbench-Emulator (included) allows you to open the Workbench (or any screen that uses the Intuition library) in resolutions up to 1280 x 1024! Visiona comes standard with many powerful utilities and several 24-bit color games! Optional Visiona TV-Paint software turns your Amiga into a professional quality 24-bit 16.7 million color paint box system. TV-Paint also works together with the Video Toaster! In fact, the Visiona together with TV-Paint is the ideal combination to replace ToasterPaint, allowing you to edit your Video Toaster images on-screen in full 24-bit 16.7 million colors. 1024x768 -%¥ 1280X1024 ST Visiona requires an accelerated Amiga (68020 upwards) with one available Zoro II slot, hard drive. 3MB memory, and AmigaDOS 2.04 or later. Supports NTSC PAL, HDTV and D2MAC video standards. '""J 1 V*H • iTi Mil IPU ^*1 ^^^B^|_^V ' i For more information contact your nearest Amiga dealer. flhcf o-PflCE inc. 109 South Duncan Rood Champaign. IL6182I Dealer Inquires Welcome. A4 SPECTRONICS IMAGINATION IN MOTION Spectronics USA is distnbuted in North America by Micro-FACE. Qrde 1ST on Reader Service card ^^W . impactViston 24 is a regtsleted trademark of Greal Vai'ey Piodutts. tnt. Video Toaster arm ToasterPaint &e registered trademarks of NewTek. Inc.. Amiga. Workbench, tntuution and ArrvgaDQS are registered trademarks of Go mrnwJore- Amiga, fnc. K \ 0 \\ VOIR R [ (i li T S 5 giving you credit. (The ethics of such activities are debatable but beyond die scope of copyright law and this article.) 1 here is nothing wrong with placing vour software in the public domain, of course, bin you should consider the option thoroughly. Freeware and Beyond Another option is to give your software away without placing it in the public domain, ['here are a Dumber of reasons for wanting to do this, such as making sure no one makes radical changes lo your program without your approval. Copyright enters the picture here, since one of the rights attached to a copyright is the ability to distribute the program as the copyright owner sees lit. li is not unusual to see a statement immediately fol- lowing a program's copyright notice that says some- thing like this: "Permission is granted to freely dis- tribute and modify this program for non-commercial purposes only." Copyrighted software with such a notice is usually re- ferred to as freeware or freely-distributable software, be- cause it can be freely shared with other users. (Techni- cally, all public-domain software is also freeware, as there are no copyright restrictions to prevent its being shared. However, the term freeware is not synonymous with the phrase public-domain software.) A program that can be shared, and for which a payment is requested if you use it after a trial period, is referred to as shareware. If you are interested in making your software truly freely distributable (thus allowing it to be of greatest possible use to humanity), you may wish to examine what is known as the GNU Public License. Some- times called a "copyleft," the copyright statement is used on all software developed by the free Software foundation. A copy of the statement is included with ever)' FSF software product and is available separate- ly from the FSF (675 Massachusetts Ave., Cam- bridge, MA 02 139). Be aware that the Public License is somewhat controversial and thai you should exam- ine its ramifications carefully before using it in your software. "lb implement the Public License, attach the follow- ing notices to the start of each source file to most effectively convey the exclusion of warranty. (At the very leasl, each file should have the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.) <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.> Copyright ©19xx <name of author> This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 1, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU- LAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Massachusetts Ave., Cam- bridge, MA 02139, USA. In addition to these notices, you should include information on how to contact you by both electronic and pa pei' mail. If she program is interactive, make it output a short notice like the following when it starts in an interac- tive mode: Gnomovision version 69, Copyright © 19xx name of author. Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details, type "show w". This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; type "show c" for details. The example commands "show w" and "show c" should display the appropriate parts of the General Public License. Of course, you may want to use Other com- mands, or even mouse clicks or menu items. To make the process complete, you should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or vour school (if you are a computer-science student) to sign a copyright disclaimer for the program, if necessary. Here is a sample; Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program "Gnomovision" (a program to direct compilers to make passes at assemblers) written by James Hacker. <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989 Ty Coon, President of Vice For More Information There are many books available dealing with copy- rights and other intellectual property issues. If you can- not End any at your local library (don't forget to check the section on book writing) a good bet is the nearest college or university library. Be sure to check the pub- lication dates on the books, as copyright law is always evolving. Software Protection by G. Gervaise Davis III (Van Nostrand Reinhold) is a good introductory book, if somewhat dated. For those with a keen interest in the subject area, The Law and Business of Computer Software edited by D.C. Toedt (Clark Boardman) is also a good choice. United States residents can obtain copyright- registration information by writing to the Register of Copyrights, Copyright Office, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.' 20559. But remember: no book or article can substitute for professional legal advice. When in doubt, consult an intellectual property lawyer — your family lawyer is unlikely to have the expertise you need. Bv the way, the example "copyright statement" at the beginning of this article illustrates what not to do if you wish to keep the copyright on your software. That statement might be titled nonsensical (because of the use of the words "public domain"), and copyright protection could be lost if an infringement case ever came to court. ■ Eric Giguere is the author oj Amiga Programmer's Guide to ARexx (Commodore/Amiga, 1991), and a member of the Computer Systems Group at the University of Waterloo. Write to him r/o the Computer Systems Group, ( University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Out., Canada N2L3G1, 42 November 1992 UBLISH Producing a fresh, captivating publication involves more than pumping out prodigious amounts of prose. We'll show you how to make the right choices in terms of fonts, layout, image manipulation, and more — so you can get your point across with style. By Victor Osaka Pan a che ITS THE CONTENT that really matters, right? Who needs to design a newsletter? In truth, both content and design are important, People are more apt to read your material if to the eve. If ihev imisl strain to read the text, however, thev will neither enjov it nor be in a state content. Imposing blocks of tiny or unreadable type may cause readers to skip over your text alto Having seen scores of newsletters and produced one myself, I know that the quality and appearance of your newsletter depends less on your equipment or desktop- publishing program than on your sense ol design aes- thetics. Careful use of type and graphics make the real difference between a good design and a great one. This article oilers some design ideas and concepts to make your newsletter more effective, and shows how your Amiga software can help. In describing some parts of the process, I'll refer to the black-and-white monthly I publish, the 3D Art Forum International (3DAFI) newsletter, which is pro- duced entirely on the Amiga. It is 12 to II pages (11x17 sheets folded in hall) and contains lots of high- resolution IFF images in addition to text. (To locate ven- dors of ike products mentioned, sec the "Mannfiictnrcrs'/Dc- veh/wrs' Addresses" list on p. 10-i.) Good Design To begin thinking about design, 1 suggest that you start a "good designs" (lie lor tear sheets and dippings from the most effective, attention-grabbing newsletters you see. You can refer to these for inspiration and education in the liner points of good design. Think you don'l know what good design is? Really, at least on a subconscious level, you do — and you re- spond to it. What you must do is educate your conscious mind to implement what you already know. Ask your- 1 it is pleasing to absorb its gether. tLLUSTKAl ED ISY MARY [OMAZZELLA Amiga] I 'arid 4 3 !' I It I. I S II \\ 1 1 P A \ A C II i: self "What is it about these designs thai makes me like them?" You will find that you can indeed recognize good newsletter design. Wln-n looking at the designs in your clip file, notice where your eye gravitates to. Your eyes should move log- ically over the page, first to the title of the newsletter, then toward the headline of the main article, and finally to other auxiliary information blocks. Also, pay attention to die Mow of in format ion I'nini page to page. Does your eye easily lind where the article continues? Go ahead and model your newsletter after a success- ful publication, but do not copy il directly, and do not duplicate articles or images; they are copyrighted. Your design sets I lie "personality" of your newsletter, which depends in large part upon your audience. To determine your graphic-design goals, first analyze your audience. Is il technically or artistically oriented, young or old, academic or otherwise? Review examples of newsletters, promotional, and trade magazines in its field of interest. Knowing what your readers encounter in oilier publications will help guide you to what they might expect from yours. In the end, though, it is you who must be pleased with the results. Before implementing a design on the computer, cre- ate a "mockup" of it will) pencil and paper. The grid sys- tem helps you to determine your margins, column width and space between columns. Do a lew different grids and let l hem sit for a day. Then look at them again with a fresh eye tomorrow. The resulting template is important, as it forms the basis of all your future issues. Programs such as Professional Page 3.0 (Gold Disk) and PageStream 2.2 {Soft-Logik) allow you to set your final grid system and apply it to all pages of your newsletter (except, probably, for the first page or cov- er). When you are readv to import the text of your ar- ticles, it will flow right into your pages automatically. The Elements of Style The ultimate goal of design is to facilitate effective com- munication. To achieve that goal, you must grab the reader's attention and hold it. The article titles should immediately catch the eye, pull quotes emphasize im- portant points, and graphic elements and images rein- force the content, not overrun il. The proper choice of type should earn' the reader through without fatigue. And don't forge) air: A good design "breathes" visu- ally. It will have a balance of white space, type columns, headlines, and graphics. With careful use of white space, you can emphasize your titles and pull quotes and focus the reader's attention. You can manipulate balance by justifying the body text or by ragging on either side. Your choice will depend on the type of reader you arc catering to. Print out a sample ol vour design using two or three columns with a variety of column gaps between them. You may be surprised at how different gaps can affect the readability of your page. As mentioned before, overly small type can drain your reader, but the issue of type goes beyond just choosing the right size. Different faces, line leading, and kerning variations can make a tremendous differ- ence in readability. When choosing a tvpe treatment, consider the final output method: I.inotronic output at 1 1' 10 dots per inch (dpi) mav give some type faces over- ly fine detail, and 300-dpi dot-matrix output can make sonic type look too dark. Depending on the appearance you want to create for your newsletter, you might choose a serif font (Palatine, for example) for the body text and a sans-serif Tout (such as Univers) for the headlines. In any case, a good design will minimize the variety of fonts used on a sin- gle page. Different type styles help to organize and em- phasize elements, but should not distract the reader. Using style tags will speed up the process of designing your newsletter by allowing quick and effortless global changes lor experimentation. lb help determine a readable lout treatment, you will need an ASCII-format text file for "greeking." (Some say that it is best to use nonsensical type, but I just use the documentation from one of my programs.) The file should be large enough to lill your entire newsletter, and you should use 1 he same file for all your design iterations, flow ibis type into a page and run out samples using a variety of fonts ai the size of your newsletter. Vary die leading, kerning, and type faces for these tests and save them as a reference for future tvpe- design decisions. On the Amiga, both Professional Page and PageStream use outline-font technology. This gives you the best qual- ity L\ pe loi an\ pi inter. I iv imend pun basing a vari- ety of fonts for your library. There are several hunched Adobe Type 1 fonts, which you can find on many Mac and PC BBSs. Both PageStream and Pro Page can easily convert these to Amiga-compatible outline fonts. PageStream allows you to scale, stretch, twist and ro- tate outline fonts, abilities indispensable for creating dynamic headline type. You can use its drawing tools to create stylized filigree and then save it as an IFF im- age for use in anv layout program. You can get a similar effect with Gold Disk's Professional Draw and move the results into either Professional Page or PageStream, the latter ol which also allows von to manipulate your Professional Draw clips. Outline-font technology makes it easy to include drop caps in your design. A drop cap is a very classy treatment that involves enlarging the lirsl letter ol' an article, making it anywhere from II to 20 points larger. For variety, try a reverse letter within a black box, or filigree surrounding the character. More Than Words Can Say Any images you include in your design should inii- malelv relate to the article, and you should carefully consider their placement and size. In general, images should accent the article — not the other way around. Both PageStream and Pro Page can import super- bitmapped 24-bit images, but keep in mind that there is a point beyond which a higher resolution won't buy you any improvement in quality. Consider processing your very hi-res superbitmaps down tea more reasonable size using ASDG\ Art Department Professional (ADPro). I find that images are an important aspect of 3DAFI. 'I'lte cover, for example, incorporates a large, 3-D gen- erated IFF image. Working with images in an Amiga desktop-publish- ing program can be difficult (the problem is related to hardware, not software.) Neither Professional fegc nor PageStream gives you a great representation on the screen, which makes it difficult to compose directly on lhe monitor. I fine! it best to print out images oversized beforehand, and then scale them down with a photo- copier to determine a good size. I then scale the on- screen image to match the photocopied piece, *■ 4-1 November I<>1>2 Control. Out of Control. Make your own 35mm slides, prints and pocket-sized overhead transparencies right from your PC instantly with Polaroid's Desktop Color Film Recorders. You've got a big presentation. You've got pressures and deadlines. The last thing you need lo worry about are your slides. Will they look good? Will they come back right? And on time? Will they cost a fortune? With a Desktop Color Film Recorder from Polaroid you can relax. It's right at your desk so you can make last minute changes. And, it's easy to use. Both the CI-3000™ and the CI-5000™ are compatible with all leading DOS/Windows software packages. Plus, the CI-5000 works wilh Ihe Mac to bring you an even broader imaging range and slides at 4000 lines of resolution. Best of all, it's from Polaroid so you get award winning professional qualify, sharp text and brilliant colors. For more information or a free demon- stration, call us at 1-800-225-1618. And take control of your next presentation, Nothing Works Like Polaroid Instant Presentation Solutions war 14. tin raiAF Din coup aon . pii{tti ,V^""i l.ffc) © A "j4"s "Ha m Now supported on the Commodore Amiga'" byASDG. 608/273-6585 Circle 24 on Reader Service card P I' U I. I S II W I T II P A N A C II 1 [fyou are going to print 3-D reticle red images, you will probaly lintl them too dark. ADPro or Soft-Logik's BME (Bit Map Editor) can help you make them per- fect In addition, PageStream can import several Mac, PC, and Amiga formats. I use both Professional Page and PageStream for newsletter production. The latest versions offer many powerful tools. Professional Page S.O's Genie function is ideal for newsletter layout design and its links to AD- PRO and Professional Draw 3.0 are fantastic. Pro Page is a joy to use when dealing with large image files, he- cause the images remain on the hard disk and not in the resulting file. PageStream, on the other hand, writes your image(s) directly into the file, so your The Newsletter Design Process o • Determine who your readers are and what they would like from your publi- cation. If you don't know, conduct a survey. • Create a design that communicates with clarity, interest, and directness. You might style your publication after another successful one (without copy- ing it, of course). • Create a grid system that sets mar- gin and column widths in which to flow your text. • After flowing the text files into Design Checklist • Do your eyes follow a logical pat- tern: first to the masthead, headlines, pull quotes and then subheads? • Are the headlines and subheads in- triguing and to the point? • Do the type face, type size and lead- Working Conditions WITH THE RIGHT hardware. Work- bench 2.0 allows for a larger working screen, which both Professional Page and PageStream can take advantage of automatically. Digital Micronics' DMI H = solver board upgrades your screen to a high-resolution graphic display. And personally, I am a firm believer in anti- radiation screens. I find that I can work much longer at the computer without fatigue using NoRad Corporation's anti- radiation screen, which I feel is the best. Accelerators and extra memory do wonders for desktop publishing. Don't be mistaken; your life will change dra- matically if you install an accelerator, preferably a 68040. This is especially your pages, create your headlines and subheads, then create or input graph- ic elements and IFF images. Can you fit it all in without compromising the design? • Proof print the newsletter on a dot- matrix or laser printer. Check for major errors and omissions and evaluate your layout. Does it work visually? • Send your files to a service bureau for Linotronic output or print them at the highest resolution of your printer. The results are your masters for me- chanicals), ready for the print shop. ing make the text easy to read? • Is there a good balance of white space, type columns, and graphics? • Are the pull quotes and subheads effective and clear? true if you use PageStream or Profes- sional Draw: Screen refreshes and file imports speed up to more reasonable rates. Organization is paramount when you are dealing with many files. A good disk utility such as OPUS [INO- VATronics) or DiskMaster {Progres- sive Peripherals & Software] makes managing them much easier. Be sure to keep your original work files in archive. Programs like Quarterback [Central Coast Software) and Ami- Back [Moonlighter Software] are es- sential for irreplaceable files. I com- press my files with the public-domain program LZ before archiving them. ! graphics capabilities arc limited by the amount of RAM you have. And because the resulting PageStream file can be extremely large, storage can be a problem. PagcStrcam's forte, however, is its superior irealment of fonts and the ability to print superior halftone im- ages on the ink-jet printer. The latest version offers its own links to useful text- and image-editing programs. One caveat in using Pro Page and PageSueam togedi- er: The programs do nol talk to each other. You must create mechanicals (pasteup or composite) using final output from both — which I find easy to do. Paper and Print Paper selection is a very important decision if von want your newsletter to be of the highest quality. The right choice in paper can give you brighter type, crisper feel, and belter-folded edges. Don't take these things lightly; they can leave an indelible (although perhaps uncon- scious), impression on the reader. Look for a paper that is very smooth, light and crisp, and dense enough so thai the printing on one side does not show through to the other. Make sure that the edges do not crack when folded in half. There are lit- erally hundreds of paper choices. Ask your local paper distributor or manufacturer for samples and availabil- ity in your area. The printing method you use will depend upon the number of pieces you must distribute and the quality you wish to achieve. If you need to print more than a thousand pieces, consider paper or metal plates. Paper plate is a relatively inexpensive process, although the images it produces are generally not very crisp and contrasiy. The more expensive metal-plate method gives you beautiful image quality and clean, sharp type (only as good as your originals, of course). Because of the quality metal plates afford, in using them you should go to Linotronic output of your masters. Simple photocopying is not recommended unless you require only a very small number of copies and im- ages are nol an important element in your design. Al- though laser copying is a bit more expensive, it is worth it. I have found the quality to be superior — as good as metal plates in most cases. I create all the masters (mechanicals) for the 3DAFI newsletter with ffewfcttAic'Aanfs DeskJet printer. Because die newsletter's cover is so important, I send it to a service bureau for Linotronic output at 1250 resolution and 120 line screen. All the originals then go to a print shop, where die)' are output on a high-quality laser copier. The issues involved in publication design and pro- duction arc vast and cannot be adequately addressed in one article. For more guidance, I recommend you look into a number of sources. The Designer's Guide to Text Type, bv Jean Callan King and Tony Esposito (Van Nostrand/Reinhoid, 1990), is a time-saving compila- tion of several dozen type Taces, styles, and leading combinations. tVeio.sle Iters — From The Desktop by Roger C. Parker (Venlana Press, 1990) is filled with excellent information and examples, ■ Victor Osaka is editor and publisher of the 3D Art Forum In- ternational newsletter, which serves the Amiga 3-D educational Inundation that he founded, lie is also president of the oi-ga- nizalion. overseeing support, information, and discount ojjers to members. Write to him at 13-11 Orean Ave., Suite 349, San- ta Monica, CA 90401-1066, or call 310/398-7649. 46 November 1992 Digging in to DOS A SERIES THAT EXPLORES THE AMIGA'S RELEASE 2 DISK OPERATING SYSTEM This, our first installment, investigates things you should Release 2 incorpo- rates by fur the most significant set of changes to Amiga- DOS since the operating system was released as ver- sion 1 .0 in 1 98.5. While some modifications may not be readily apparent, they alter some of the "rules" we have come to take for granted. One area that includes many such changes is the boot procedure. In all 1.x Workbench versions. Kickstan reads the user preferences from the DEV'S; sys- tem-configuration file before it opens the initial CLI win- dow. By the time it begins to execute the s: startup- sequence script, Kickstan has ahead;' opened a Work- bench screen thai conforms to such user-defined pref- erences as screen type (interlaced or noninterlaced) and font (Topaz 8 or 9). Editing the startup-sequence file is a time-honored tradition in Workbench 1.x versions, and there are not many ways to generate problems bv adding commands to it. In Release 2, however, the whole system of prefer- ences has changed drastically. Settings are stored in in- dividual files on the Workbench disk in the svs:Prefs/env- know before you modify your AmigaDOS startup-sequence. archive/sys drawer, which bears the logical- device name ENVARC:. The startup-sequence script creates the env and env/sys directories in the RAM disk and assigns ENV: to RAM:env. It then copies all files and directories from EN- VARC: to ENV:, including the pref- erence files, which go to ENV:sys. Later in the startup-sequence, the IPrefs program executes. IPrefs not only reads die prefer- ences files in ENV:sys and establishes the initial set- tings, but also watches those files and alters the set- tings when it detects changes. When you select the Use option from one of the Preferences editors, a new ver- sion of the preference file is written to ENV:sys. IPrefs reads the new" file from there and changes the setting. Because ENV: is assigned to the RAM disk, this change lasts only until you reset or turn oil' your computer. When you select die Save option, however, the file also copies to the ENVARC: directory, making the change permanent. This new procedure works very well and has a num- ber of benefits. It allows Commodore to easilvadcl new i BY SHELDON LEEMON ILLUSTRATED BY BARTI IN 5 IAHIF.lt AmigaWorld 47 DOS 0 preference items, such as sound or Postscript Prefer- ences, without a ROM upgrade. This scheme also serves ;ts :i model for third-party hardware and software developers. By following ( lommodore's example, com- panies can create their own preference editors with the same look and feel as Commodore's, and use their own programs to monitor the preferences files that these programs create. Because Kickstarl automatically copies the contents of the env-archive directory to ENV:, you can even save archival copies of environment variables to this direc- tor)'. By thus creating permanent versions of these vari- ables, you need not re-create them at each session with the SETENV command, Screening Room As with the old Kickstart, IPrel's must set screen pref- erences (such as mode, font, and overscan) before any screens or windows open. If a Workbench screen opens before the new preferences are established, Kickstart must close that screen before IPrefs can open one thai matches the preference settings. The problem is that Workbench cannot close a screen containing windows (such as tile Shell window) that it does not directly con- trol. To avoid this situation, the new Kickstart does not open any display until it is absolutely necessary to out- Programs in the WBStartup drawer run automatically when you boot — usually in the order in which you added them. Adding the ToolType DO NOT WAIT tO a programtcon instructs WBStartup not to wait for the program to finish before starting the next o»;e in the drawer. i ion Blanker (To&l) 21 Scri flrchiv. Readabl Hritais! 23-Ja[-92 11:16:56 NHSTHBIT \\ (X P0PDP=NB (X.POPKEY=ctp[ att b OCPRIOtirN Aj SECONDS^! V New Del [DONOTURIT Save Cancel | put text from a program or to display an error message or requester. That is why the initial screen stays blank so much longer under 2.0 than under 1.,'i. If you examine the 2.0 startup-sequence file, you will sec that output from commands coming before IPrefs is either suppressed with a Quiet switch or redi- rected to NIL:. If you put one of your own commands at the beginning of the 2.0 startup-sequence and if that command generates some lexl before ll'rcfs es- tablishes the screen and font preferences, the Shell will be forced to open a window on a default .screen. Then, when IPrefs runs, it will be unable to close the old Workbench screen containing the Shell window, and will complain by issuing the Following mysterious mes- sage in a requester: Intuition is attempting to reset the Workbench screen. Please close all windows except drawers. If you get this message every time you boot your sys- tem, you have probably added a command line some- where in the startup-sequence before IPrel's. The simple solution is to redirect the output of anv new command line to NIL:, if the program is called MYCOMMAND, for example, and it takes the command arguments "ar- guments," change the command line from MYCOMMAND arguments to MYCOMMAND >NIL: arguments The only other time you may see this message is when you change screen or font preferences after Opening a program thai puis a window up on the Workbench screen, such as VirttsX or the Shell. Intu- ition cannot reconfigure the Workbench screen until all "visitor" windows are closed. Here, Not There '["fie new preferences scheme is not die only thing to keep in mind when modifying your startup-sequence lile. Lots of crucial system functions (such as monitor descriptions) are included in this script in 2.0, and Commodore will add more in the future. The more important it is to run the commands in the startup file in the proper order, the greater becomes l he risk of bringing the whole system to a halt by careless editing of this file. To minimize this risk, Release 2 introduces the con- cept of a "user-startup" file. If yon put such a script fife in the S: directory, Kickstart executes it automat- ically as part of the startup procedure. Commodore advises all users to add new commands and assign- ments to this file, rather than editing the startup-se- quence file. It is also a good idea to make sure that programs designed to modify the startup script (such as hard-drive installation scripts) perform their oper- ations on the user-startup file instead of tfie startup- sequence file. Of course, modifying either the user-startup or the startup-sequence file requires some familiarity with text editors and the AmigaDOS command interface. Because one goal of the new operating svslem was to free the user from having lo deal widi nonvisual, user- hostile interfaces, Release 2 introduces a completely icon-driven alternate method of automatically run- ning certain programs ever)' time the computer boots. *■ 48 November 1992 a«^ -*.b *>*' *^w s^ ^e A* p^:^ rffif ^ ««** ^ ? H© *1 vV o-b Ode 40 on Bead* Service card D 0 S The new Workbench disk contains a new drawer called WBStartup. To autonmtiailly rim a program each time you start, just drag its icon into the WB- Startup drawer. It's as simple as that. You should know, though, that programs in the WBStartup drawer execute in the order in which they appear in the directory. This generally corresponds to the order in which you dropped them into the di- rectory. You can see this order by calling the names with the LIST command (LIST Sys:WBstartup) from the CLI. (11IR is not of use here, because it alphabet- izes the list.) If the order of execution is an issue — if one program will not run unless ARexx has been started, for exam- ple— you can usually modify it by dragging all the liles in the WBStartup drawer to the RAM disk, deleting them from the WBStartup drawer, and then dragging them back to WBStartup in the correct order. If this does not work, you may have to add the command that runs first to the s: user-startup script, which executes before the WBStartup icons. Another point to keep in mind is that the system waits for each program to finish before it launches the next one. If any program does not finish within a cou- ple of seconds, Workbench pops up the requester: Program 'NameofprogranV has not yet returned. Should I wait some more? You can instruct the system not to wait for a program to finish by adding a ToolType line reading IJONOT- WA1T to the program's icon. Just click once on the pro- gram icon, select Information from the Tools menu, click the New button under TooHypes, type DONOT- WAIT hit the Return key, and click on Save. Commodities programs such as Blanker and Click- ToFronl (found in the 'Ibols drawer) make excellent candidates for the WBStartup drawer, bin many of these programs pop up a settings window when von run them, even if the settings are saved just as you like them. If you add the ToolType CXPOl'l ]>=\b to the icon of a Commodities program, it will not open a set- tings window when it runs. When you think about it, you']] probably come up with lots ol rypcs of programs that you want to run au- tomaticallv; ARexx. virus checkers, keyboard enhancers, appointment calendars, a clock, and so on. Bv using the WBStartup drawer, you can modify your boo) procedure with the greatest of ease, and with no fear of generating some obscure error in an arcane script lile. ■ Sheldon Leemon, a respected authority on the Amiga, isfinish- in<rn book about Workbench 2.0. When lie's not meriting, wit inn find him at Slipped Disk, a Detroit-area Amiga dealership. THE BLACK KNIGHT NEEDS YOUI The Fast Lane. The Fasl Law Chip RAW accelerator & 2Mb chip ram expartsem temovHS the b^gesl bottleneck in the Amiga slow access to cfm RAM TFL gives super- fast access to display memory by allow- ing the CPU & custom chips to access chip ram trarsparentfy & srnuitaneausfy- Works wtfi 1 A 2Mb Agnus chps. With TFL unacceleraied machines can ac- cess dsptay ram at the same speed as fast RAM. 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PsteuM pppSad I m Circle 16 on Reader Service card S«I£»Br§5 Animation 52 November 1992 BY GENE HAMM For animators who aren't professional artists, rotoscoping is a neat trick for creating smooth, high-quality animations. toscoping — the process of tracing over live action, frame by frame, and turning it into a moving drawing — is probably one of the more controversial and least understood techniques in animation. But while profes- sional animators are divided over its mer- its, computer animation buffs who are not accomplished artists can get a lot of mileage out of dm c\i ellenl le< hniquc. The reason that rotoscoping is a dirty word to many of the pros is that they view the technique as a crutch for people who cannot draw the human body. Yet other shrewd practitioners view it as a handy trick when they need to quickly capture the essence of an action or gesture. Let's leave the debate to the academy and move on. Whatever its pros and cons, rotoscoping is used by animators more than they care to admit — and often to great effect. Rotoscoping can result in very beautiful animation, as in ilte old Betty Boop cartoons and 101 Dalmatians, or in awkward, jerky movements, as in the movie Lord uf Ike Rings. The trick to rotoscoping is lo know when lo be interpretive with live action and when to be Ulna!. 'Hie fundamental rule to keep in mind is this: If live action is not altered in some significant way, it is not animation. So, if the animation appears so real that it seems live, save yourself a lot of work and just use live action. Generally, literal rotoscoping is good for (pardon the pun) "inanimate" objects, where the mechanical look is a plus, while interpretive rotoscoping is best for humans and animals, where smooth, fluid movement is required. Often, the best rotoscoping Jesuits are obtained when the animator — working inierpulivelv — looks at the live action to estimate not where the out- line of a figure is, but where the skeleton is. The skele- ton is what is traced, with the animator then dressing AmigaWorld 53 ROTOSCOPIN (J the skeleton in whatever flesh he or she chooses. Let's lake a look at a few examples of how each method has been used 10 produce some very effective — and not-so- effective— results. Lessons of Rotoscoping Past Cab Calloway's exaggerated, mbbery dancing was well suited to animation. In several of the Betty Boop car- toons, animators used Calloway's timing, altitude, and gestures as reference points to create lluid dancing char- acters. One of the cartoons, "Minnie the Moodier," is a good illustration of interpretive animation because the rotoscoping employed in ii transformed Calloway — a tall, thin man — into a roly-poly walrus. It was easier for a man to act as if he were a walms — leaving the rest to an ani- mator's imagination — than it was to find a real walrus dancing on its hind legs and rotoscope him literally. On the other hand, literal rotoscoping was put to excellent use in Walt Disney's 101 Dalmatians. Cruella De Yifs car was a white cardboard model, outlined in black so that the animators could see it clearly. Shot in Erame-by-frame stop motion and copied directly onto eels, the car looked just like a drawing — without any help from the animator, Cruella was then animated by hand, sitting behind the wheel of the car, and the eels were painted and photographed with the background. This is as literal as rotoscoping gets. (In recent years. Disney has replaced cardboard models with computer- generated ones. Amiga users can choose to digitize models or build them with 3-D programs, depending on the kind of software and hardware they use and the complexity of the model.) Finally, the film Lord of the Rings seives as a caution- ary example of what not to do when rotoscoping. The entire film was live action, and the individual frames were blown up to 8x10 photographs. Some scenes were copied directly onto eels, while others were traced by hand. The film contains a lot of swordplay and fast action — so fast that, at times, a sword arm becomes an indistinct blur or disappears altogether. Faced with tracing blurs and invisible arms, first-time animators did the logical thing: They drew anatomi- cally correct, perfectly foreshortened arms in the math- ematically correct position of the arc of a sword swing. Each individual drawing was an exquisite work of art. The trouble, however, was thai when projected at film speed, the animation lurched along as if it were some- thing out of the movie Night of the Living Dead. What went wrong? The animators neglected to re- member the basics of "squash and stretch." You must keep in mind thai the faster something moves, the more it stretches out. .As an arm picks up speed, it looks deformed. But don't perform cosmetic surgery on it — draw it deformed! \Vhcn it goes even faster, an arm turns into a streak, so draw a streak. Although the in- dividual drawings may look strange, the animation will be a lot smoother because it is the cumulative effect that is important, not the individual frames. Rotoscoping Basics To rotoscope on the Amiga, you need a VCR (a cam- corder is best), a digitizer, and an animation/paint pro- gram. Personally, I find the best digitizer for my jobs is A-Squared Distributions Live! because it captures multiple frames from a VCR in real lime. Once the images are grabbed, I use Electronic Arts' DeluxePaint FV to process and phi}- them back. (See the list on p. 104 for vendors' addresses.) Shoot your subject against a blank wall. The wall should contrast with the subject: A light subject calls for a dark wall, and a dark subject requires a light wall. Forget about subtlety in acting for rotoscoping. Ham it up and exaggerate movements. Tell your subject to pretend to be a stage actor and to make broad sweep- ing gestures. What appears ridiculously overdone in live action will look completely natural and restrained when turned into animation. With the Amiga's ability to manipulate and reprocess digitized shapes, you can turn a live actor into a "toon." Professional animators who look down on rotoscoping usually brag that they can always spot whether some- thing was rotoscoped or drawn bv hand. One of ihe giveaways is that ihe finished character is always shaped in the proportions of a normal, realistic human bod)-, just as in a monster movie you can tell that it's onlv a etuv in a lizard suit. Figure 1. Some sample frames from the finished animation sequence that was created through rotoscoping techniques. 54 November IW2 R (» T OSCOPING Toons, by contrast, are half the height of regular humans, as was graphically illustrated in the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit?. Roger came up only to Eddie Valiant's waist. Real humans are eight heads high; toons are four heads high. Rotoscoping can turn nor- mal human proportions into toon proportions, thereby eliminating a vital clue to the source of your animation. Rotoscoping in Action For my sample rotoscoping demonstration (some of which appears on the opening spread of this article), I videotaped my subject acting as if he were a cute, shy, Disney-like baby bunny. His hands clasped in front of him, feet pigeon-toed, knees together, upper body twisting left and right, and head tucked into his shoul- ders made a nice repetitive cycle. After viewing the tape, I found the section I liked best and opened Live!. In the Capture menu, I set the number of frames I wanted to grab, choosing a number that was a bit higher than I actually needed just to play it safe. I played the tape and pressed F9 to capture the frames. After pressing F10 to replay that sequence to make sure it was the section I wanted, I saved it and returned to the Workbench. At the Live! window, I double-clicked on the Playriff icon. From the only menu present there, I selected 1st Frame and then Save Frame, and then continued with Next Frame and Save Frame until I had saved all the frames. When I had finished saving them, 1 closed Live! and opened DeluxePaint IV. I loaded all the Live! frames at once via the Pirture menu. In the # of Frames box, I set the total number of my captured Live! frames and double-clicked on the first frame, which saved me from having to load them individually. I then pressed 4 to run the frames continuously so that I could see if there were any that I needed to trim in order to ensure a smoother cycle. (If I had wanted to lose a frame here, I would have gone to the Anim menu and looked under Frames for Delete.) To be on the safe side, I saved the cycle as an ANIM. After turning on the grid, I grabbed a brush from the top of the head down to the waist and enlarged the brush to the correct size by pressing the Plus key ( + ) four times. Next, I stamped the brush so that the waist registered to the knees and then repeated that proce- dure on ever)' frame. After playing this cycle to see iT it animated smoothly, I saved it as an ANIM. With the grid still on and starting back at the first frame, I grabbed a brush of the head, enlarged it by pressing the + key three times, and stamped it clown so it appeared to sit correctly between the shoulders. I repeated that procedure on every frame, and when the sequence appeared to animate smoothly, I saved it as an ANIM. The proportions were then correct for a cute, baby-bunny-type character. For the final phase, I started at the beginning frame once again. After each frame, I added another and then cleared the added frame so that I wound up with every even frame clear. From the Anim menu, 1 turned on the Control panel (Alt-A) and then the Light Table (1). I moved to frame 2, the Clear frame. With the Light Table on, I could see frame 1 and the figure it contained as I was drawing on frame 2. I looked at that body as if it were an x-ray and drew only the stick figure inside it for frame 2. 1 drew a stick figure for each body, until the succession of frames became body, stick figure, body, slick figure, and so on. I then deleted all the bodies, leaving only the stick figures. When this evele passed my viewing test, 1 saved it. Next, 1 drew the finished baby bunny in another color over the stick figure, and stenciled out the stick figure. After a little minor tweaking here and there, the animation — several frames of which you can see in Figure 1 — was done. Through rotoscoping techniques, the digitized live actor can be invaluable in determining timing in your animation. You can do this as precisely and as religious- ly as I did in my demo, or you can simply rotoscope the extremes and then draw the in-betweens freehand. Much can be learned from digitizing humans and ani- mals and analyzing their movements. ■ Gene Hamm is a veteran animator mho works for Colossal Pictures. His credits include work on The Gumby Show. Write to him do AmigaWorld Editorial, 80 Elm St., Peterborough, NH 03458. AmigaWorld 55 .-.^.-fCii" What's the mast dramatic improvement you can make ta uaur Amiga s* Add an • An internal card which operates In any Amiga computer with a video slot It is the core of the OpalVislon system. ■ A true 2-t-Bit frame butler and display device with 1 6.8 million colors available for every pixel. • I ^compromised, 2-t-Bit highcr-ihanliroadcasi-c|uality. crystal-clear images which far surpass any composite video or HAM s\ slim. ■ Standard Arnica graphics and animations can appear in front of or behind OpalVision images on a pixci-hy-pixel basis ■ Capable of double-buffered 24-Bit and 15-Bic animation in medium and low resolution modes and 8-Bit double-buffered animation in all resolutions. ■ VLSI graphics coprocessor enables resolution changes, stencil modes, a host of transition effects and smooth scrolling between screens. • "Palette-Mapped" design updates colors inrcal-tlnie. Fade pictures in and out and change [heir palettes on the Hy. Technical Info • Operates in all Amiga resolutions up to a maximum of ~68 by 180 pixels (580 in PAD. • Double buffered full 24-Bit 15-Bit and 8-Bit true color modes, 2-t-Bil and 8-Bit palette- mapped display modes. Dual Playiield and Overlay Priority stencil modes. • Priority mask definition specifies foreground/background areas. • 20ns video switch to freely mix Amiga and OpalVision graphics. • Equipped with f. 5 MB of display RAM. • Expansion connectors lor available Framegrabber/Genlock and Scan-Rate Converter hardware modules and expansion socket for the "Roaster Chip." ■ Automatically self-configures for NTSC or PAL operation. • 2 [-Bit K< rB output with video bandwidth >~ MHZ. • Microcode graphics processor for system control, priority switching, hardware scrolling and panning. Hardware Requirements OPALPAINVS speed and power lets you composite multiple images quickly and easily with seamless, 24- t color accuracy. • Any Amiga computer with a video slot, • Any Amiga compatible monitor capable of 15."5kllz scan rate. (Models 1080. 108-t. 1950. I960 most Mulcl-Sync/Multl-Scan monitors.) • One MegaBytc of CHIP RAM (Two Megabytes Recommended) • Two Megabytes of FAST RAM • Hard Drive strongly recommended • 68000/20/30/40 compatible Circle 162 on Reader Service card. Included Software: Every OpalVision Main Hoard includes a full range of software to lei you start enjoying all the benefits of your new 2 (-Bit Amiga immediately: OpalPaint An unequalled painting and image manipulation program specifically written to take full advantage of the power of OpalVision. It's Fast. Keal-limc. Rill 24-Bit. ( Ipall'ains gives you complete control over OpalVision' s 16.8 million color palette. 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It also triggers CLI and AREXX commands. -**r .-* isJP^^j ^ Just for fun we've included KING OF KARATE - An exciting, two-player, 24-Bit karate competition with music and sound effects, Created by: opol lech Sydnay, Australia Manufactured and Distributed by: Centaur Development P.O. Box 4400 Redondo Beach, CA 90278 Phone:(310)542-2226 FAX: (310) 542-9998 For information: 1-800-621-2202 rde IK on Reader Service card- ON MrWiJ.'IW #45 ♦ A continuing series of tips, techniques. and tricks for creating more imaginative Amiga graphics. By Joel Hagen Hand-Made Natural Textures FOR THE COMPUTER artist, texture screens have many uses. In 3-D render- ing software, they can he used as "tex- ture maps" to give realistic surfaces to objects. They can also serve as back- grounds in video and slide production or as brush litis in painting. Texture screens are standard IFF images of surfaces such as marble, brick, wood, and so on. Many 3-D renclerers come with some textures included, and li- braries of texture images are available commercially. A scanner or video digi- tizer can capture textures photographi- cally. This column, however, will ex- plore methods the computer artist can use to create natural-looking texture images from scratch with painting and image-processing software. (To locale vendors of the products mentioned, see the "Manufacturers'/Distributors' Addresses" list on p. 104.) Random Harvests There are many approaches an artist might take in creating such textures. I will focus on one fundamental tech- nique with many variations. A lew of the results of these experiments can be seen in the accompanying illustration. The foundation of each of these textures is a screen of random gray pixels. In fact, with the exception of the wood texture, I developed each image from the same random screen. That initial pattern of dots was ptit through a variety of simple image-processing sequences to produce the different textures shown in the swatches. Colorization of each texture was the final stage. I used a variety of software in these experiments — DeluxePaint IV (Elec- tronic Arts). Director 2 (Right Answers Group). PlXmate {Progressive Periph- erals). Art Department Professional (ASDG), and Imagemaster (Black Belt Systems) — but to follow the examples, you do not need all these programs. Any paint package and any image- processing program should suffice. There are at least two fundamental ways to create die base screen of random pixels. You can paint the pattern manu- ally with something like DPaint's air- brush tool, or you can create it through a script-based graphics program such as Director 2, using its Point command while randomizing the Pen color. In DPaim, work on a 640x400 screen with a spread of 16 grays from black to white. Make Range 1 the full spread of these 16 grays. Use the airbrush with the single-pixel or the three- or live- pixel brush. Turn on Cycle mode (F7) and cover the entire screen with spray. All 16 grays will be randomly sprinkled over the image. Save this image for further processing. A similar screen can be created by using Director 2 in an unconventional way. Use random numbers to change the Pen color each time the Point command places a dot on the screen. Either use random x and y coordinates For the Point, or set up a loop to draw each pixel sequentially from left to right on each line in succession until the screen is filled. You can employ a similar approach in Amiga Basic or with ARexx linked to a paint program. Once you have created the base image, load it into your image-pro- cessing software. PlXmate is a good, basic image processor for non-24-bit work. AD Pro offers a number of operators and convolve matrices that perform sophisticated image process- ing, while Imagemaster provides screens full of buttons to experiment with in its Process panel. The latter two programs work in a 24-bit color environment and can render in any Amiga resolution. A Textures Six-Pack Now for some results. The "sand" texture in the illustration is the easiest to create because it is simply a blurring of the random-pixel screen. In PlX- mate, use the AVE averaging button in the Image Process panel. In AD Pro, choose the Blur operator or try the Gaussian matrix in the Convolve oper- ator. I did all my experiments in gray -.rale for clarity and then colored them later by altering the palette. The sim- ple blurring of the random dots gives a photographic quality to the pattern 58 November 1992 By combining a few simple painting and image-processing techniques, you can create realistic, natural-looking textures in minutes. that is quite convincing. For the "basalt" texture, start with the same screen, averaging as de- scribed above. Next, perform a Laplace operation with (he LAP button in PIX- mate or the LaplacianEdge convolve matrix in AD Pro. This breaks the image into higher-contrast clusters of pixels. Finally, average or blur this image again and run it through the Deep Press convolve matrix in .AD Pro. If you are new to image processing, don't be put off by the terminology mentioned above; just press the but- tons and evaluate the results. For the "malachite" texture, use the Gaussian convolve matrix in AD Pro on the original hi-res base screen. If you arc using PIXmate, the AVE but- ton works well for this blurring. In Imagcmastcr, try the Smear effect found under Kilters in the Process panel. Next, adjust the palette to two sequences of green. The gray image contains a straight sequence of values from dark to light. Change the palette manually so that colors 0 through ti form a dark-to-light sequence and colors 7 through 15 form another. This creates the concretion texture you see in the illustration. The "pile" effect, which looks to me like synthetic carpet, starts as a ran- dom 320x200 base screen. In PIX- mate, reformat this to 640x400 and average the image. This creates larger clumps than those resulting from using a hi-res base screen. Next, select Pixmate's EDG button to perform an edge detection. Finally, average the image again. For the "burlap" texture, use a 320x200 random base screen. Load that into fmagemaster and select Make Shine from the Special Effects screen of the Process panel. Perform Make Shine on the entire image. Reformat the image to 640x400 and blur or average it as described above to produce the finished effect. finally, the "wood" texture is a result 01 that unconventional use of Director 2 outlined earlier for creating a ran- dom screen. In this case, though, put constraints on the randomness. For example, the statement ?2-l randomly yields 0, -1, or + 1, which can then be added to the previous Pen color before drawing a new point. Each new pixel drawn on a line will thus be the same value as the last pixel drawn — one shade darker or lighter. This produces lines in which pixels randomly but smoothly rise and fall in value. Each line, however, is unrelated in value to the lines above and below it, which creates an illusion of real wood grain. You should then blur or average the screen at the final stage, just before adjusting the palette. You can produce any of these custom textures in just a few minutes. Endless variations are possible, thanks to the insight of software designers who allow Amiga artists to combine the tools of art and science. ■ Joel Hagen's awl its include work in art, astrononi\, science fiction, and software development Write to him at 10512 Sawyer, Oahdaie, CA 95361. Please include a stamped, self-addressed envelope for a reply. All of the textures above were created by hand, using simple combinations of painting and image- processing techniques with OeluxePaint IV, Director 2, PIXmate, Art Department Pro, and Imagemaster. AmgaWorld 59 Formats Figured Befuddled by the airay of videotape mid machine formats? You're not alone. Here's a look at each type, with some tips to help determine which is best for your purposes. By Paulo de Andrade VIDEO TAPE RECORDERS have be- come steadilv better and more accessi- ble even1 year. A whole family of pro- fessional VTRs is now available for a fraction of thecosi ol their broadcast - quality predecessors. Even some con- sumer decks allow basic editing at reasonable prices. While equipment is readily available, however, video is not the same for everyone. Manufacturers, seeing huge potential in the glowing videographv market, have come out with many video formats. This Competition ex- tended from the famous consumer Betamax versus VMS to the broadcast world with Betacarn versus M-lf. Al- though prices have dropped as a direct result of this struggle for dominance, we now have a confusing array of for- mats from which to choose. Is digital better than analog? Is Super-VHS broadcast quality? Can you single-frame record an animation on a home VCR? These are questions I hear all the time. To understand the differ- ences between video formats, let's break them down into categories. Broadcast Quality The term "broadcast quality" is often misused. To be considered broadcast quality, a VTR must meet specific sig- nal standards. Such machines have the high-frequency responses, excellent signal-to-noise ratios, and high resolu- tions necessary to produce super sharp. stable video and accurate, pure colors. Rut broadcast-quality machines also differ from others in the way they are built. They must withstand abuse of all sons: from frenzied editors shuttling hack and forth 10 finish their pieces minutes before airing, to continuous 24-hours-a-day, seven-day s-a-wcck operation, and so on. Therefore, broadcast -quality VI Rs have lough mechanisms and cases made from metals that make them strong and provide sufficient rigidity so that mov- ing parts meet precise tolerances. To meet the repair speeds necessary for broadcast situations, the circuits of broadcast-quality VTRs are on easily- removable boards, and the cases are easily disassembled. Broadcast-quality \TRs incorporate the latest production technologies: ihcv are Ira me- a ecu rate, have many audio c hannels, and are easily connected to other pieces of equipment. Their com- ponents are of the highest grade avail- able, and each unit is individually adjusted at the factory to meet strict broadcast standards. For all these rea- sons, broadcast-quality VTRs are the most expensive, ranging from $ 15,000 10 over SI 00,000. This group of ma- chines is divisible into two categories: digital and analog. Digital I he main advantage of digital video lies in the fact that every generation (that is. every copy made) loses very little qualify. It is, therefore, the perfect formal for image compositing and multigeneration post production. There are currently three digital video formats: Dl: Introduced in 1986, this "king" of all formats is component digital, designed for use in a completely digital environment. Being component, it separates the most important video signals to keep the image quality at its best. It does not use the composite video signal, which, by mixing all video signals into one, has some imperfec- tions. A 1)1 machine has four digital- audio tracks and separate longitudinal tracks for SMITE lime code, control track, and cue audio, and it contains 12 video heads. It uses metal-particle videotape encased in small, medium, and large cassettes. D2: Although diis format uses composite video, as with all broadcast formats, the quality is so high that composite does not make a big differ- ence. Introduced in 1988, D2 is not totally digital. The inputs and out- puts ol a 1)2 machine are analog, and it digitizes video and audio signals in real time. This makes it easy to inte- grate D2 machines into existing ana- log video systems. A D2 machine contains six video heads and uses videocassellcs similar to those of 1)1, but with a different metal-tape for- mulation. +■ 60 November 1992 We Put Your Pieces Together Puzzled about music and the Amiga? Look to us for the answers! At The Blue Ribbon SoundWorks, we've developed a strong lineup of talent. Each of our products receives the special care it takes to produce a winner. That's why you'll find a Blue Ribbon on every box! Take SuperJAM! 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The best analog machines pro- duce first-generation pictures equal in quality to digital \TRs, and they are much more widely used than digital machines. There are several different analog formats: One-inch Type C: Introduced in 1978, 1-inch Type C format was for years the high-quality video standard. just like an audio reel-to-reel recorder, it uses 1-inch oxide tape in reels, replacing the older '2-inch VTRs. It was the first format to allow viewable still-frames, slow and fast motion, and picture-in-sluittle. This composite- video system uses three video heads and still delivers pictures of very good quality. Betacam; Introduced in 1982 as the first component-video system, Betacam was designed around the consumer Betamax format. It records the lumi- nance and chrominance signals on separate tracks optimized for those functions, using '/s-inch oxide tape and six video heads. Betacam SP: Introduced in 1987 as all improvement over Betacam, this component-video format uses thin metal tape to achieve longer playing time and increase the bandwidth. Beta- cam SP videotape comes in small and large cassettes; the small size is com- patible witli standard Betacam. The SI' decks have six video heads. M: Introduced in 1982, this format is an upgrade to consumer VHS. It uses '/j-inch oxide tape on VHS-size cas- settes. It is a component system, like Betacam, but processes the signals differently. M also uses six video heads. M-II: This format was introduced as a major upgrade to the M format. Making its debut in 1980, it uses thin- ner metal tape to allow fine picture quality and record/play limes up to 90 minutes. M-II records chroma signals using time-compression multiplexing. It uses small and large cassettes and has ten video heads. Professional Quality While professional formats produce very good pictures, they do not meet current broadcast standards. That does not, however, rule out their use in small TV stations or for cable. The main advantage of professional-format ma- chines is price, which starts at S3500. One of the main disadvantages, com- pared to broadcast-quality VTRs, is the widespread use of plastic parts in the mechanisms, which leads to less image stability and reliability. Also, profession- al VTRs usually do not have easily removable circuit boards, thus requiring more work lo fix electrical problems titan do broadcast VTRs. Some low-end professional VTRs do not support frame-accurate editing and simply cannot be used for animation. All five professional formats are analog: Three-quarter-inch U-Matic: Intro- duced in 1972. this became the first practical format for news gathering; Considered broadcast quality until the early 80s, U-Matic became the stan- dard formal for industrial production and still has a broad user base. Its dual- head format is considered highly reli- able; it uses '/i-inch oxide tape housed in small and large cassettes. Three-quarter-inch SP: This format is basically the same as regular 'A-inch, but it uses metal tape for better image. Introduced in 1985, it uses tapes that are compatible with regular 7-i-inch U- Matic formal. VHS: Introduced in 1975, VMS is the most prevalent consumer format. Al- though there are professional VHS Vrl'Rs, the quality is the poorest of all professional machines, and they should be used only for duplication purposes or low-quality work. Machines equipped with hi-fi audio deliver excel- lent sound. Cassettes can lie large or small (VI IS-C). S-VHS: S(uper)-VHS was introduced in 1987 as an evolution of the VHS system. It uses a modified oxide tape formulation and separates luminance/ chrominance signals to achieve better image quality. VHS tapes can be played on S-VHS decks, but the reverse is not true. Newer S-VHS machines have much-improved picture quality due to better tapes and noise-reduction cir- cuitry. It is becoming the new standard for industrial video production and offers very good quality for the money. Hi-8: The smallest video formal, Hi- 8 was introduced in 1988 and became very popular in compact camcorders. Because of their small size, Hi-8 re- corders ate often usee! for shooting footage when large machines would get in the way. Gulf-war news people used Hi-8 machines because they passed as tourist home cameras. Although the strength of this format lies in acquisi- tion, there are now Hi-8 editing systems and frame-accurate VTRs. The 8mm metal tape is housed inside very small cassettes tfiat lit inside a shin pocket. The Format Formula Willi so many formats to choose from, how do you know which is right for you? Mainly, your budget will lell von, although there are oilier things to consider. If you want to record 24-bit animations to tape, a frame-accurate VTR is a must. If most of your work will be weddings and low-budget indus- trial/corporate productions, you should definitely stick with professional VTRs. The lower cost will keep you profitable, and you can also use them for local television commercials if von do not go down too many generaiions. On the other band, if you want lo produce for network television, do high-end 24-bit animations, or generate MTV-quality music videos and commercials for big companies, yon must go with full broadcast quality. Mosl important, make sure you know what you are doing. If you do not have professional video experience, take- some courses before you try to make a business of it. Having even the best equipment is fruitless if you cannot make good use of it. ■ Paulo de Andrade is president of a broad- cast-quality production company that uses Amiga.s. 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SupraRam RX 1MB SupraRam RX 2MB SupraRam 500 ...135.00 ,199.00 riucJuation, RAM prices are subject 1o change without notice IHe Kitchen Sync * 1 5990B Two Complete TBC's on one card Works with any video source S-VHS and Hi-8 compatible notional v/c output Great for use witli Hie Vitiso Toaster DIGITAL CREATIONS Tile ICD Advantages ^MH^ HUtst '179" Ur^ m m to accaamap » ri p n ■ ■ ■»! i w dml 11^ M ^jjkflldur Free VIltD" 2 '238" *&* Elinmini Intirl jci flick*' Up aaj IH||| caapmp. Until" 601 "478" CtnBlltl ? I ; ■ dOrjai hlapaa! lira drill iiitaai lop Ihi Amln b3Q lid S0Q Hill. Ita/la" 851 MIL Cinplili Z 1 T Baoiss lalipaal kird Brill uiliu rap flu Isilsi saa lad M0 Ymt. AdrlKMHO" ■88" Maawpt mntHM lap tti lapja SK, Eiuaaiaa di ti 4 naaa&riaj, .iilllll 48 Kil '149" 111 lowly III dplva, AOIDL40 IIIDIlii W* pill lap ai Iilirnil papa firm II iraur BDD IP SCO Plaa. ^^^KIcKluck '42" V Multllaalund ROM mllcBir lap Hall! fidnaillpl. 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CA 902G0 TAPES/TUTOR AL ANIMATION 10I 24.95 OCTV...A GUIDED TOUR 26.95 DCTV...A GUIDED TOUR PAL 26.95 HELPFUL LIGHTWAVE HINTS VOL I 33.95 HELPFUL LIGHTWAVE HINTS VOL II 39.95 IMAGINE: A GUIDED TOUR 26.95 IMAGINE: A GUIDED TOUR PAL 26.95 AMIGAWORLD VIDEO TOASTER TUTORIAL TAPE 19.95 TAPES/GENERAL AMIGA PRIMER VIDEO 24,95 AMIGA WORLD VIDEO ANIMATION VOLUME I 1 9,95 AMIGA WORLD VIDEO ANIMATION VOL II 19.95 AMIGA WORLD VIDEO DESKTOP VIDEO VOL I 24.95 MUSICAL AMIGA VIDEO 23 95 AMIGA ROM KERNEL: LIBRARIES 30 95 MASTERING AMIGADOS 2.0 23,95 MASTERING AMIGA C 22,95 UNDERSTAMDING IMAGINE 2,0 26,95 ARCADE GAMES ARMOUR GEDDON 29,95 ASHES OF EMPIREIW/ VIDEO) 52.95 AWESOME 34.95 CONAN THE CIMMERIAN 29.95 DGENERATION 34.95 DRAGONS LAIR SINGE CSTL 43.95 DRAGONS LAIR TIME WARP 34.95 EPIC 39,95 FANTASTIC VOYAGE GODS GUY SPY 2695 IMMORTAL JAGUAR XJ-220 „„. 30.95 35.95 KILLING GAME SHOW 26.95 LEMMINGS 32.95 LEMMINGS DATA DISK 22.95 MAGIC POCKETS NOVA 9 17.95 24.95 OBITUS 34.95 PINBALL DREAMS 27.95 PIT FIGHTER 24.95 PRINCE OF PERSIA PROJECT X 3B.95 SHADOW OF THE BEAST SHADOW OF THE BEAST II SPACE ACE II 34.95 38,95 SPEEDBALL 2 29.95 SWORD OF SUDAN 15.95 TENSENS ARCADE HITS UTOPIA 2S..95 32.95 ACTION/STRATEGY BATTLE CHESS 31.95 CASTLES 39.95 CHECKMATE 35.95 ORDER STATUS Mon-Sat 8-6 PSI FAX: 310-214-0932 CIVILIZATION 47.95 GLOBAL EFFECT 34.95 HOOK Ml TANK PLATOON 35 95 PREMIERE 39.95 RAILROAD TYCOON .... 39 95 ROBO SPORT 36 95 SIM ANT 39,95 SIMCITY 32 95 SIMCITY GRAPHICS #1 ANCIENT CITIES SIMCITY GRAPHICS #2 FUTURE CITIES SIM EARTH 23,95 STAR CONTROL TETRIS ADULT GAMES CENTERFOLD SQUARES 19.95 LEISURE SUIT LARRY 25,95 LEISUHE SUIT LARRY II ... 35 95 LEISURE SUIT LARRY III . 35 95 LEISURE SUIT LARRY V 39.95 SEX OLYMPICS 24.95 STRIP POKER III STRIP III DATA 1 , „ 16.95 STRIP III DATA 2 „„_, STRIP III DATA 3 16.95 STRIP III DATA 4 16.95 STRIP III DATA 5 ,.., 16.95 WAR/STRATEGY CARDINAL OF THE KREMLIN 32.95 CENTURION DEFENDER OF ROME CONFLICT: KOREA ,. 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It sports a unique left-hand toolbox that handles most of the tasks (such as font control and paragraph formatting) usually rele- gated to a ruler atop the screen. A help icon also produces an on-line guide to the program's features. Two major format requesters, Para- graph and Page Layout, control the ap- pearance or the final document. The Paragraph requester lets you select line spacing. You may specify line height as six or eight lines per inch, automatic (ad- justs to the selected font), single, double, or custom spacing specified in points. You can also tell Kindwords to skip an ex- tra line before or after each paragraph, and you can mix styles throughout the document. The Page Layout requester lets you specify1 page size and margins. Headers and footers are shown on screen, and they may be different on op- posing pages. If you like, paragraph symbols may also be visible. Have you ever wanted a vertical ruler to comple- ment the standard top-of-page model? Kindwords accommodates, letting you measure how much paper you have con- sumed. Unfortunately, the ruler is not precise enough for accurate positioning work, as there is no zoom control. As you might expect, Kindwords oilers the ability to insert numerous things in a file, stub as page breaks, the date, and the lime. Depending on your preference, Kindwords inserts the current date and never changes it (useful for reference documents) or updates the date even' time you load the document (useful for form letters). Kindwords also includes the requisite spelling checker and thesaurus, and you can easily add your own words to the user dictionary via a convenient module right in the program. Strong Suits Two areas in which Kindwords has a dis- tinct advantage over excellence! are graphics and printing. Kindwords allows you to place graphics anywhere in a file and contour text around them via a sim- ple requester. This is in stark contrast to excellence!, which treats pictures as al- phanumeric characters, severely limiting their placement in a document. In addition, Kindwords was designed to optimize output for dot-matrix and other low-resolution printers. Kindwords can produce high-quality output using standard Amiga fonts if you have clouble- or quad-sized fonts available. For exam- ple, suppose you are printing a file with 15-point fonts. If there is a 30- or 60- point version of the same typeface in the louts drawer, Kindwords scales down the larger font and prints with it instead, get- ting a better result than is possible with the size actually selected. Kindwords has its share of idiosyncra- sies, as well. With over three megabytes of memory available, I was unable to open more than two documents simul- taneously, even though I couldn't find anything in the manual about the max- imum number of files I could open at once. Also, as far as aesthetics go, I found the Kindwords ruler and toolbox to be a tad ugly and a bit large, even in high resolution. Despite the fact that Kindwords is a simpler word processor than excellence!, I couldn't shake the impression that it was, in fact, somewhat more difficult to use. Kindwords has all the basics, but lacks many of the amenities a seasoned typist looks for in a word processor, ex- cellence!, on the other hand, is in a close race with New Horizon's ProVWite 3.2 for the best of the best. — Dave Johnson Virtual Reality Studio Domark/Accolade, S89.95. Hard-drive installable. Not copy protected. 2.0 compatible. Accelerator compatible. Minimum system: 512K RAM. Recommended system: 1MB RAM, hard drive, accelerator. 3-D game creation. Easy to learn, easy to use, and fun to just play around with, Virtual Reality Studio (VRS) is a wonderful tool for building scrolling, filled-polygon adven- ture games. With a little ingenuity on your part, the results will look great. The expression "virtual reality" gets tossed around as much for games these days as "multimedia" does for applica- tions. VRS actually pre-dates the con- cept. This is an improved edition of the Freescape system used by England's Incentive Software to create such com- mercial first-person adventures as Total Eclipse, Space Station Oblivion, and Cas- tle Master. (Aside note: All these games are now out of print in the US, but Do- mark's European division has released Virtual Worlds — a compilation of the three plus Castle Master II: The Crypt. It's ail excellent collection, and bound to give you some bright ideas.) Better than Legos Difficult to imagine creating one of these on your lonesome, eh? Well, it is now within reach. Starling with just a green field and blue sky, you use plain-English icon- and menu-driven commands to create eight basic shapes — from a cube to a pyramid to a straight line — in the play- field at the top half of your screen. You can color them, stretch them, shrink them, move them, turn them, connect them up in complex objects, and roam among them to ensure the fit is just tight A cube flattened and lengthened becomes a wall. The copy command cre- ates another. (Just push the copy over to the right with the move buttons.) A second clone, pivoted with the turn command and shrunk to fit the gap, be- comes the back, and a pyramid, with a lit- tlejiggling, forms a little peaked roof. Nice garage, eh? Time to get started on the car. And so, area by linked area, your en- vironment grows. You can add animation and up to 32 sampled sounds — the pro- gram comes with six pre-defined ones (but, alas, no music support). The BASIC-like Freescape Command Language (ECI.) permits you to set up conditions and variables for interacting with this world within your Amiga. You can use your paint program to create a custom IFF border that frames and pro- vides the controls with which vou will run your program (or use the two that come with the program). And, finally, you can create a stand-alone game that runs in- dependently of the creating program, (In England, the public-domain and "li- censeware" market is already sporting some very stylish VRS games.) VRS doesn't make you work that hard. The program has multiple perspectives that make it easv to center one object on another. There's a coloring utility that doesn't require each side of a given object to be visible for clicking. (You merely click on the appropriate patch beside the palette.) If you get tangled up in your architecture, you can quickly bounce back to your starting perspective. .And while there's some programming to do — the more the better, actually — it's very much of the "if X and Y, then /." variety. 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(Another, Interplay's Bard's Tale Construction Kit, mav be available by the time you read this.) Stray Parts Most of my complaints, such as they are, are little picky ones. The file requester is awkward; on mv Amiga 500 (but not on the A3000), the program always accesses dfO: the first time it loads data from disk, rather than detecting (or asking me For) the device in which it resides. FCL could use a set of macros. The hard-disk instal- lation program looks for a missing .info file to create the program drawer, and you'll have to make it yourself. (Then again, just when you think the age of cre- ative Amiga icons has passed. VRS throws up a cute one.) The program does not seem to multitask, but also doesn't take over the Amiga, and on a three-megabyte machine, I was able to keep other pro- grams comfortably in memory with no evident effect on YRS's performance. While very speedy and smooth on a 25-MHz A3000, movement within VRS games is a bit slow and jerky on 68000- based machines compared to more re- cent games in this genre, such as U.S. Gold's Cybercon III. The program's repertoire of shapes is understandably limited to those consisting of straight lines. (For instance, it can create a hex, but not a globe, cone, or cylinder.) The docs are a bit two-dimensional. The 78-page manual is very solid when it comes to explaining the commands, and has a nice tutorial on creation of the ex- cellent sample game, but it is rather lean on tricks and shortcuts. The introductory video included with the package may help you get started, but it's more like an in- Store info-inercial than a real user aid. (Note to Dotnark: Vou could really use a Virtual Reality Studio Handbook here.) Also, I do think that a program so clearly designed as a construction kit could behave a bit more like one. The manual cover and the video are lull of stuff that appears nowhere in the pro- gram. How about a data disk of pre-fab objects and generic scenes to edit or cut and paste with your own? VRS comes equipped with only the 15 or so scenes from the sample game, and the object li- brary consists of a helicopter, space shut- tle, and a palm tree. That might be OK if you were building an adventure about a pilot on vacation, but it's rather thin for the novice feeling his way around. Oth- erwise, this 3-D game maker is 1 A by me. — Peter Olafson Expert 4D Jr. Genlsoft, S75. Hard-drive installable. Not copy protected. 2.0 compatible. Accelerator compatible. Minimum system: 1MB RAM. Recommend system: 3MB RAM, hard drive. Beginner 3-D modeling and animation. \ streamlined version of Expert 4D (currently available in Europe), Ex- pert ID Jr. (E4DJr) is designed for be- ginning users of 3-D modeling and ani- mation software. E4DJr is made up of three modules. The Modeler is the main section of the program, wherein you create all the 3-D objects, assign them attributes, and build animations. The Renderer draws the im- ages and animations, and the Playback lets you view your completed animation. To begin work, vou enter the Modeler, which provides a view of 3-D space from the camera, or observation, point. If you prefer, you can change the view to look at the front, top, or side of your scene. The Rotation and Zoom commands fur- ther alter the view. With these, you resize or rotate a bounding box in the scene to establish a new viewpoint. The orienta- tion of the scene can also be specifically defined by entering coordinates in a di- alog box. All the methods are very inni- itive and simple to use, making it easy to create and edit scenes. You have a choice of object-creation methods in E4DJr, as well. Vou can gen- erate primitive shapes (spheres, cubes, cylinders, and so on) by specifying the number ofpoints in the object and then While simple to use, Expert 4D Jr. lets you create complex objects. editing them. Alternatively, vou can use the Extrusion and Spinning functions on a separate screen consisting of a grid of dots. .After placing and adjusting points on the grid in the shape of your object, you extrude or spin the shape. If you ex- trude, the program adds a user-specified depth or thickness to the Hal outline. If you choose the Spin option, E4DJr spins the outline around a vertical point you define. Spin is helpful in designing sym- metrical shapes, such as vases. You can even create cutaway objects by spinning your shape less ihan 360 degrees. Back to the Modeling Board Objects appeal' on the modeler screen in wireframe mode. When you click on an object, it becomes surrounded by a box with eight handles, three of which alter the object's size and five of which control the object's rotation along the three axis dimensions. Clicking and dragging these handles allows for visual scaling and rotation of the object on the modeler screen. For more exact adjustment, you can also control the size and rotation through separate panels. The one prob- lem with using the handles is that they look exactly alike, so it is difficult to re- member which handle does what when you are learning the program. You can edit objects in other ways, as well. For low-level changes, you can alter them on a line-by-line or point-by-poini basis. The Magnet tool attracts points in the object to the spot where you place the magnet, while the Mirror function lets you create an exact opposite of your se- lected object, lb build a complex struc- ture, vou can join objects together, and then assign a color and texture (the latter controls how much light the object re- flects). If you change your mind, the Undo function cancels the last edit. When Continued on p. 80. 76 November 1992 j*> Since 1 982 — . . AMW 11-9Z 800-554-9980 ^L^&Z£* 800-554-9980 J-leafrconlcb GOLDENIMAlGE ^ L°w Cost Accessories for Your AMIGA Replacement Mouse Opto Mechanical jHflfc. 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Opportunity knocks. And the price is infinitely affordable. $1,995 DIGITAL PROCESSING SYSTEMS INC In the U.S. Call 606-371-5533 In Canada I Call 416-754-8090 REVIEWS From p. 76. the objects are finished, you can save them in either E4Djr or Sculpt format. Each scene may have up to ten lights, all with user-definable color, intensity, and aperture size. The light object on the modeler screen looks like a stage light, and the direction and size ofthc il- luminated area is defined by a series of lines emanating from the light. This is a great feature, making it very easy to po- sition your lighting. To put your scenes in motion, E4DJr uses the key-frame method of animation. You place the objects in their initial po- sitions for the animation, and then select Animate Scene to indicate the first key frame. To make other key frames, simply change the scene and save it. The pro- gram interprets the movement between the frames, giving a smooth animation when rendered. You can save as many key frames as you need, and E4DJr makes it easy to add, delete, and modify' them. Once satisfied, choose the Renderer module to generate the Finished product. The software supports all standard Ami- ga resolutions, with image size ranging from postage stamp to full overscan. You can render in wireframe, polygon, or, for best quality, pixel mode, and even add background and foreground pictures. E4DJr does not ray trace, so it generates images at a reasonable speed even on un- accelerated machines. Because E4DJr does not render 24-bit graphics, DCTV support would be a wel- come addition (as would the ability to pre- view animations in the modeler). When your animation is complete, you can view it with the provided player program or any program that plays animations. Explain It Again The only weak spot in E4D]r is the man- ual. It does a barely adequate job of cov- ering the program, is not well organized, and is written in a confusing and some- times irritating style. Moreover, the doc- umentation contains very little infor- mation on the basic concepts of 3-D modeling and animation that are vital for the beginners whom E4DJr targets. Otherwise, E4DJr is a great introduc- tion to the world of 3-D animation. The program is reasonably fast on unacceler- ated systems and is veiy stable. E4D|r is also easy to use and does not confuse the novice with a multitude of advanced fea- tures. In addition, it has features — such as the abilities to see the scope ofyour light- ing and to save the object in a common format — that are not available in many higher-end 3-D programs. Even better, the price of the program is much lower than that of its nearest counterpart. If you are interested in learning about 3-D ani- mation, take a look at Expert 4D Jr. — Dave Thomas BoomBox Dr. T's Music Software, $59. Hard-drive installable. Not copy protected. 2.0 compatible. Accelerator compatible. Minimum system: 51 2K RAM, Recommended system: 1MB RAM, audio amplifier and speakers, hard drive. Simple interactive music-making and entertainment. It's one of those long, hot summer nights, and you've got the urge to kick out the jams a bit. Reach for BoomBox; it will put some strut in your stride. Billed as providing "interactive fun with music," it fulfills the promise exactly and ad- mirably. BoomBox's metaphor is the tape deck and mixer. With one of three control screens, you can plav back four virtual tracks of music using only the Amiga's in- ternal sounds, controlling volume and adding sound effects. You can then record the result as a virtual mixdown. The opening screen is an animated portable cassette player, complete with moving cassette tape, LED meters, and speakers. T) make them pulsate, load one BoomBox's Remix screen lets you be the DJ at the mixing console. of the supplied mixdown files, a set of four pattern tracks for drums, bass, synch, and solo, with six IEF samples for effects. A volume slider controls the playback lev- el of each track, and transport controls start, stop, pause, fast-forward, and rewind the mix. If you like the results, you can record and save the playback mix. The Remix screen has all the features of the first and adds a few additional control possibilities to the mix. Its metaphor is a DJ's mixing console, giv- Circle 171 on Reader Service card- R E V I E W S ing you control over playback tempo and effects samples. Solo pads let you load, control, and trigger individual effects and, of course, record ihe resulting mix. From the Remix screen, you can also monitor which of the four patterns per track are playing, trigger the current measure again, or set it to loop. The final screen, fain, has all the pos- sibilities of Remix and adds the ability to interactive!)' change the patterns that play in each track. This is the deepest control the program offers. You cannot record new patterns or alter the supplied ones, although there are a lot of permutations available. The on-line help clearly ex- plains every button, fade)', and option (it should be a model to oilier developers). There are a surprising number of mu- sical variations you can make with Boom- Box; it's a natural tool for making quick soundtracks and spotting in custom sound effects. For musical entertainment, it's. ..well, entertaining. I wonder, though, how long the limited range of Boom Box's musical palette will hold a user's interest. The fact that you cannot create new pat- terns or vary the style is a severe limita- tion, as is the lack of connection to MIDI devices. If BoomBox added these capabil- ities, it would be a useful creative tool, in- stead of merely an enjoyable toy. — Michael Hanish Personal VDA Digital Processing Systems, S150. A2000, A3 000. Internal; IBM or Amiga slot connection. Installation: Easy. Distributes a single video signal to multiple devices. Breadboard Cardinal Video, S398. A2000, A3000. Internal; PC-slot and Video-Toaster connection. Installation; Difficult. Compatibility notes; Requires NewTek's Video Toaster. Delays video for downstream switcher/keyer and limited video distribution requirements. Even if you're not a video professional, you've seen the problem. You split your incoming cable so it reaches several TV sets in your home, but the resulting picture quality is not very good. A video signal is more like water than electricity: Split it several times, and, as with water in a pipe, you'll get that much less through each pipe. In video terms, that means the signal strength diminishes enough to se- riously affect the overall picture quality. A distribution amp (DA) solves this problem. It splits the video signal several times, but boosts the signal strength so that each is as good as the original. This is uselul when you want to simultaneously record an image to video tape and view it on another monitor; make multiple copies of a tape using several recorders; send a genlock reference signal to several devices; or simply add more program out- puts to the Video Toaster. As you'll see, the two internal DAs available for the Amiga have quite different uses. Personal VDA: Video Booster The Personal VDA (video distribution amplifier) comes in two models. The VDA- 1 000 fits into an IBM slot so you can use it in a PC or an Amiga, while the VDA-1050 plugs into an Amiga slot. Both versions provide four 75-ohm terminated outputs from a single PAL or NTSC source. The input is ac-cotipled and fed to two separate video amplifiers, both of which provide two video-out BNC con- nectors for a total of four outputs. With the rear control, you can adjust each bank of two for again range of + 2dB. The ter- mination switch is also on the rear of the board, so you don't have to open your computer for simple adjustments. If you already have a heavy power-sup- plv load from other internal cards and can't get enough -12 volts dc, the board adds a positive dc offset that cuts the -f 2 load by half, although it increases the + 12 load by 40 mA. You would turn this off only if other equipment is affected by it, and it should help reduce power-supply problems. You can also switch to -5 volts dc. What this all comes down to is that the Personal VDA has a much better chance of operating in your machine when you have a lot of other cards installed. The downsides to having a VDA inside your computer are that it occupies a valuable slot and that you have to reach behind the computer to plug and un- plug cables. The big pluses are low cost and compactness for small studios. Breadboard: Toaster Delay If you have a Video Toaster, you may want to take a look at the Breadboard. While it is not designed to be a general-purpose DA, it does have some DA capabilities. Its primary function is as a delay line, and it takes strong advantage of the fact that it is plugged inside the Amiga and cabled to the Video Toaster's JP2 connector. It gets its video signals direcdy from the Video Toaster, passing Toaster input signals through to its own output. BNC D is always Program output, and BNC E can be either Program output or Preview. The maximum number of outputs from a single signal is three (Toaster Preview, and BNCs D and E set to Preview), so you could distribute a signal to three devices. The oUicr three channels have a some- what different use. The Toaster takes time to do what it does, introducing a 440- nanosecond delay- If you have a switcher or other device connected to the Toaster output (ill video terminology, it is "down- stream" of the Toaster) and you want to mix it with other incoming video, the sig- nals will be out of sync with each other. The traditional solution is to add de- lay lines that delay the other video sig- nals so they arrive at the same time as those from the Toaster. This is the pur- pose of the other three outputs, which take the video from the Toaster inputs, amplify them, and allow you to add a de- lay, adjustable from 25 to 525 nanosec- onds. You can then connect them to your downstream switcher and everything will work together (assuming that all of your cables are the same length, as even the trip down a cable can add some delay). The unit comes preset for input 4, key insert, and alpha channel as the three outputs. The alpha channel provides matting capability for high-quality key- ing with an external switcher/keyer; sim- ply connect the second provided cable to the Toaster's JP1 connector. Besides pre- serving the quality of die background video in keys, this opens up the options of interesting mix effects with three pic- tures on the screen at once, multiple keys, and multiple dissolves and wipes. Preset is an appropriate term in several ways: You must configure the board the way you want it before installation, and it is not adjustable once installed. All of the settings, including unity gain, are directly controlled on the board via small poten- tiometers that require a tiny screwdriver or tweeker. You must power down and open up your computer to change anything. Wanted: More Explanations My only complaint is one that 1 have with most Amiga video peripherals: very poor documentation, While the Personal VDA manual is sparse, at least it provides the minimum of information you need to gel started. The Breadboard, how ever, is a more complicated device, and its few photocopied pages of documentation are worse. They It'll you thai you can se- lect which Toaster inputs you want to de- la)', but not how to do it. If you want to Continued on p. 84. AmigaWorld 8 1 "1 JJJJJJJ TO ORDER CALL 800-544-6599 MON.-FRI. 9-6, SAT. 9-3CST Information/Tech Support/Returns 414-548-805 Software Air Support 31.99 Black Crypt 33.99 California Games II 24.99 Carl Lev/is Challenge 29.99 Conflict Korea 36.99 Conquest of Longbow 36.99 Fighting for Rome 31 .99 Global Effect 35.99 Gods 33.99 Guy Spy 31.99 HeimdallU.S... 21.00 Intern. 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Documentation aside, both the Per- sonal VDA and the Breadboard do the job well and represent good value. — Geoffrey Williams ExpertDraw Genisoft, S99 Hard-drive installable. Not copy-protected. 2.0 compatible. Minimum system: 1MB RAM. Recommended system: 1MB RAM. Entry-level structured drawing. ExpertDraw should be a good pro- gram for a newcomer to structured drawing. It has an extremely concise, easy-to-follow manual to help you along, and the program itself has the clean, contemporary look of AmigaDOS 2.0. Most of Expert Draw's drawing proce- dures are fairly typical of structured drawing programs. For example, when drawing curved lines, you can hold down the Shift key to freeze the curve of your upcoming line segment in place, while you continue to adjust the curve of your current line segment. In this way, yon can create corners in your curved lines while you are drawing them. This is the same procedure used in Professional Draw, but ExpertDraw actually explains in its man- ual that you can do this. ExpertDraw departs from the norm, however, in its procedure for importing bitmap references to trace. It converts bitmaps to Aegis Draw format, offering various options to retain as much infor- mation as possible from the original bitmapped image. It does a good job, but the procedure takes some time, and some of the details of the bitmap will be lost. The program does have the feel of be- ing "rushed out the door" a little too soon. When you zoom in past the borders of a polygon, the polygon's fill color com- pletely disappears. The Polygon Connect- ing and Polygon Closing tools neither connect nor close polygons: They simply For an Introduction to structured draw- ing, consider ExpertDraw. superimpose the end points (although they do that very well, and that can be suf- ficient for most purposes). Scaling objects by dragging with lite Size tool worked well enough, but I had trouble scaling with the Size Coordinates requester, In addition, you cannot specifv line joins (inhered, beveled, rounded, and so on) at present. Genisoft savs that this omission will be ad- dressed in the next release. ExpertDraw also promises flexibility now and for the future. Currently, it can import and export Professional Draw- clips. It does this very well, and, in fact, saves them much more quickly than does Pro Draw. The manual also promis- es an ancillary product that lets you use PageStream fonts with ExpertDraw. Overall, ExpertDraw has a veiy solid feel and performs operations very quick- ly and efficiently. I hope its little prob- lems are indeed fixed in the next release. With I hat boost, it could be an excellent introductory structured drawing pro- gram, and it's succinct, well-ordered manual is exemplary. —Jim Silks Aimimatrix Modeler duBois Animation, S99.95. Hard-drive installable. Disk-based copy protection (nonpro- tected version: $10 more). 2.0 compatible. Accelerator compatible. Minimum system: 1.5MB RAM. Recommended system: 3MB RAM. Basic 3-D modeling In user perspective. T A Thile it lacks a rendering module, An- VVimatrix Modeler (Version 1.021) may be a low-cost solution if you want to design in perspective mode rather than plot points in die traditional three-win- dow format. In addition to creating objects, the program loads and saves objects in Tur- bo-Silver, SculpMD, VideoScape 3-D, and its own format, so you can use it as a format converter in a limited manner. Unfortunately, however, Animatrix does not provide a method for applying sur- face attributes. When you convert an ob- ject, it loses all its surface characteristics. Thus, if you use this program to convert any public-domain objects or those cre- ated elsewhere, you must load and reap- ply surface colors and textures in your rendering program. You control the program through lay- ered menus on the bottom of the screen, which you can toggle on and off with the Escape key. This may seem convenient; however, almost all functions must be ac- cessed via (he menus, including exiting specific selections. Keyboard equivalents are implement- ed in a very unconventional way. Each kev from the z through the comma rep- resents a menu selection from IcTt to right. This means that you must still work your way down and back through the menu layers, and if a new version changes or adds menu items or layers, the keys you are accustomed to using will change function. You can change your viewpoint (camera view) at any time us- ing the cursor keys and the numeric pad cursors without changing functions. Animatrix ftas a curious mix of fea- tures. For example, while the modeler does not have common functions such as lathe or specified-length extrusions, it does have point and edge extrusions, a function available only in better pro- grams such as CaligariS (Octree) and An- imation Journeyman (Hash Enterprises). Unfortunately, Animatrix currently does not support numeric input or an undo feature. The response and screen redraws are very acceptable; I experi- enced slight trouble with redraws only af- ter pressing die cursor several times. The menu buttons are designed to provide a 2.0 look and fee!, but the program locked up my machine repeatedly while limning under AmigaDOS 2.04. The de- veloper has promised to add major fea- tures, including on-line help and X- Specs glasses (Haitcx Enterprises) sup- port, in the next version. 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MONITOR SUPER WORKSTATION $5895 W/ I2IIMB HD. 50MHZ.I2MB RAM VIDEO TOASTER, MONITOR WORKSTATIONS fULLY ASSEMBLED AND TESTED BY FACTORY TRAINED TECHNICIANS 100% On-Sile lYarraiity availabtefor as low as S99 New RACK MOUNT version Available ■ CALL DataFlyer2000 Budget hard drive solution for your A2000 SCSI Controller Anp W/52 MB Quantum HDS319 VW120MB Quantum HDS479 DataFlyer RAM for DalaFherlOOO OK S99. 2MB S1B9, 4MB S2T9 $399 #1 Name in .4,1/764 Accelerators G-Forcc 30 68080Mnoneboaid « nh sesi Interifcc 25MHz/25/lMB $639 4<>MHz/4<)/4MIJ $1059 S0MHz/50/4MB S1579 Lxpuraliltk-tylOMB |4 32*it RAM 4MB 32lilt extra KAM SL9!t G-Force 40 68Q4QMinmehoard foryourA2000 33MHZ/33/4MB $2149 includes SCSI controller foryourA300Q 28MHz/28/2MB $1499 GENTTIZER Electronic Drawing Tablets for AMIGA Complete Dig. -View System Mediastation ZM& *J Includes: Digl-Vlew Gold 4.0 Digi-Pam Elan Porlormef Copy Stand Panasonc I410carn*ra video sw rich ondaJ caUu Only cotnpietc system offered Digi-ViewModiastntion S«S5 MTOCamerawlens 5179 Copy Stand £62 I y My AMIGA Bumper stirktKt Itrith every order Handscanner 400DPI w/Scan and Save software propinB. 9 x6 $189 12"x12"S310. 16"x12"S489 $144 External SCSI Hard Drive Storage Beetle Mice T-shirts Med. Lrg, X-Lra Cap $8 AMIGA A2286 IBM Bridseboard w/l .44MB drive Only $249 .Complete IBM emulation lor Amiga 2000 S 3000 ^1 All units Include] Pawn supply. SCSI external eat>k. Power cable, .SCSI pass thru, and Mounting hardware Upright single bay Prices for case/cable/PS KWI20MB W/S2MB HD Expand up lo 8MB RAW W/120MBHD $339 W/24UMKIII) C;il] COLO MOUSE - BUTTONS Red - Black Yellow - Black BJack ■ alack Slug - Black Black - Yellow NEW LADY BUG Red ■ White - Blue Siting Bav closed from fur .TV UD Single Buy open front tot Syquesl or Floptical Drive Upright. Mnall foot prim for single 3„5HD Dual Bay open/closed fronifor*2 half height HD'sorSyqufisttetc Four Buy nncn/elosecl from for 4 tauT height HD's or S> quest, ete. (not shown) $99 $99 $109 $139 $259 S495 S495 S505 S535 $655 S825 S825 $835 S865 $985 Syquesl $499.. 'S669 $529^ $699 $649^-- ^^S819 // Floptical*" $549 S579 $699 Productivity Software 'S^qnest (frne iivluJe- I cartridge "* r;rp;:;jl dnit* in;]uilc\ I Ji^k In-iijJIdtion - 515 per drive Books Hardware Art & Animation Art Department Pro 2.1 |l&4 ImaQOmasler $135 Deluxe Pa-nt IV V4.1 $122 Disney Anim. Studio £79 Draw <*D Pro $199 Imagine 2.0 5259 Pixel 3-D 2.2 Call Pro Textures S47 Prof, Draw 3.0 St25 CnKmonh Vi5iaPro2.0 £59 Databases Microfiche Filer $62 SuperBase Personal 2 $34 SuberBa&e IV 1-2 $1BS Music Sars and Pipes $99 Bars and Pipes Pro $219 Delx Music Const. Set $69 Super Jam 589 F/uiiimedia Kit $3S Music Box A $33 Muse Box B $38 Tele-Communications A-Talk III $37 Baud Bandit 2 530 SupraFa* Sc-hwate S79 Spreadsheets Advantage $125 Miiai Plan 4.0 $99 Professional Cat $189 Utilities Amiback 2.0 $5Q Arexx $31 Cross DOS 5.0 $33 Directory Opus $37 Di5KWastei II $44 Labelctex $47 Ouart.e-t;ackS.O $45 QLiane-bfiCk Tools $53 SAS/Latlice C 6.0 $274 Visionary $52 Video & Presentation AmigaVisien Broadcast Tiler II Broadcast Tiller HiHes Can Do 1.6 Pro Vxfeo CG II Pro Video Post ScalaZO Multimedia Showmaker TVTejftProlessionai Video Director Word Processors & Desk Top Publishing Final Copy II Call Page Siroam 2.2 S169 Pelican Press S62 ProWnle 3.3 S56 Professional Page 3.0 $179 Proper Gramma.' $59 FINAL COPY EUROPEAN MAGAZINES AMIGA Forrrni w Disks SlO AMIGA Action w/Disks S30 C.U.AMIGA KDishs $10 AMIGA Power w.Disks $10 1 tor AMIGA w/Disks £10 Prof. Page 3.0 Prof. Dq Combat con Amiga tor Beginners Amiga Dos Ouk Ref. Gutdo Amiga Dos Inside & Out Amiga Basic Inside & On Amiga C tor Beginners Amiga C tor AoVanced Amiga fnlem Machine Language Graphics fnside & Out Desktop Video Power B&St Ot AmrgaTrveksSTips. Using Are xx Imagine Companion ROM KornelAulodccs 3*3 Fd ROM Kernel Devices 3rd Ed ROM Kernel: Hardware 3rd Ed $26 ROM Kernel libraries 3k). Ed. $27 JJrrdetstanding Imagine 2.0 $27 i 1 :.'■ Sfi $19 $19 $15 ;:■: 526 IIS -::■: Bza S23 t26 i2A fe? $20 Video Tapes w MORPH PLU Amiga Primer I Animation 101 UaCTV: A Guntod Tojr sPelu^e IV Video Tape -iitsktop Video Volume m Desktop Video Volume 42 History of |he Amiga Haw lo Animate Irragine: A Guided Tour Minds Eye Pro. Techniques mf OPaint Toaster Mcrcrrtrave Tre Newtek Video Toastef 525 S29 $29 $24 S25 S25 516 S25n $29' 515 525 £34. S22 Midi's ECE Midi S49 Midi Gold 500 S56 £65 Midi. Goia Insider Midi Connector w/ cables $59 Pnantom SMPTE MIDI S5J9 Midi caSle Eft 58 Miracle Keyboard S349 Audio Audtomaster 4 552 D'gilal Sound Studwj SS9 Portocl Sound 3.T m '.in Souno Master Studio 16'AD 51 6 Call Studio t&'ADlOl? SSS3 Video Glock Call Chroma Key plus Alter ImaceGenlock S329 5199 DCTV " S399 MiniGen 5199 RocCen Plus 5359 Suporoen Genlock 5649 Misc. Big Ftxi! 20OW powarsup. 589 Flicker Fwer SJ49 A200Q Internal Drive S75 AMAX 2 PLUS S329 AT ONCE Plus 5279 Po™ PC Board S?A9 Joysticks, Mouses & Trackballs Slik Stik Joystick $7 Boss Joystick SI5 Tac 50 Joystick S17 Bat Handle Joystick 525 Jin Mouse 525 Oplr>?.!ec hancal Mega rVfewse S35 G:.: c^: Mouse Being Optical Mouse Gl Cordless Mouse Gl Cordless Trackball Amtrac Trackball Krall Trackball Mouse Switch (automatic) Supra Modems 2403 Externa" 24DTjPks External 240CPKS 7J Internal FAX htoemtiWO FAX Hjjom 9800 FAX .Modem Srjffrt fito-^Afy^i 579 Zoom Modems 2400 Ext. S75 2400ivMJP54v42bB S145 9600 V-32 bis 5399 Cable SIO [$5 wmodomj PHONEPAX i,.,g>p S129 555 S94 S75 585 569 559 529 5125 5169 5309 S249 / yMy AMIG Circle 12 on Reader Servtce card. 2.04 ROM ,or AMIGA 500/2000 includes books and work- bench disk our- Atftffra douree The Ultimate Speakers T for Amiga! Satellite Spc.tkriis Romot© Compact Subwoofer Computer speakers have always been a compromise- Ettner you had tiny, self-amplified slandalones that didn't have the volume or bass response that you really wanted, or you had to connect your Amiga to a stereo amplifier system with big rjookshell or floor speakers. Using the amplifier and big speaker approach gave you pretty good sound, but had its own problems: no! only did the speakers lake up a lot of space, but the farther away Irom your computer you put them, the more separated the sound source was Irom the picture. It was sort ol like watching TV and having voices come Irom the other side of the room. Now. TENEX brings you the first computer speaker system without compromises: The Altec Lansing ACS300 Multimedia Computer Speaker System. The ACS300 actually includes three speakers with built-in amplification. The two satellite speakers are compact, and can be placed on ynur computer desk, attached to your monitor, or even wall mounted. They're shielded, too. to avoid any interference with your monitor's display. What really makes Ihe ACS3000 different, though, is the compact subwoofer that can be hidden anywhere. The subwoofer adds the booming bass that makes Ihe speaker system sound like one five times its size, and. because your ears can't localize where Ihe bass is coming Ircm, you can hide Ihe subwoofer out of sight! When you connect your Amiga to the ACS300, you'll find out why we think it really is the ultimate speaker system for computers! ACS300 Computer Speaker System C11743 299.00 Amiga Adapter Ct2055 7.99 CE Commodore AMIGA 0fa*yUpSfdL Bundle1. Unheard of Low Price!! AMIGA 500 COMPUTER, Includes A500 computer with built-in keyboard and floppy disk drive, power supply, mouse. documentation, and Workbench software. Amiga 500 C10527 299.95 Special Upgrade Bundles!! (include* Lemmings faun W1K.A SOI) BONUS PACK. Includes A500 computer PLUS TV adapter, Tetris. Carmen Sandiego. and Textcraft software. Amiga 500 Bonus Pack w/ Lemmings C 1 0204 339.95 AMIGA SOU POWER PACK. Includes all A500 Bonus Pack items PLUS 512K memory expansion w/clock and calendar, WICO joystick and lyping tutor, games, and productivity software. Amiga 500 Bonus Pack w/ Lemmings K10575 399.95 AMIGA 500 SUPER GRAPHICS I'ACK. Includes all A500 Power Pack items PLUS 1 0B4S Stereo monitor. 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