Amiga Shopper - Issue 45 (1995-01)(Future Publishing)(GB)

108 Pages·83.7 MB·English

The m agazine for hardcore Am iga enthusiasts!
ISSUE 45 JANUARY 1995 4 £2.95
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CONTENTS 3
FEATURES REGULARS
THIS ISSUE
IN MUSIC SOFTWARE 12 NEWS 4
Which sequencer could be your new Have CEI bought out Commodore? What will
AMIGA SHOPPE* JANUARY 1995 No 45 creative partner? Maff Evans (Reviews this mean for the Amiga?
Editor of Future Music) looks at all the
COVERDISK 8
alternatives for making star-studded music
Jft nd so this is... no, I can’t
iPV bring myself to say it. Anyway, with your Amiga. Find out how to use your Devpac and Day to
Day coverdisk!
Seasons Greetings and all that to
THE THREE DS OF 3D 28
everyone. This month we have
NEXT MONTH 32
Ron Thornton and Mojo Seffa of Foundation
the usual stonking selection of
wonderful reviews, amazing articles Imaging let you in on the secrets of creating Get ready for what’s coming up next month!
and titanic tutorials. professional 3D images. You won't believe your eyes!.
We have managed to secure the
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services of Ron Thornton, the
Emmy award-winning 3D artist for a Graeme Sandiford checks out the latest Industry figures speak about the Internet
new tutorial this month. Starting on low-cost and no-cost serious software. and PCs.
page 28, he will be showing you how
AMIGA SHOPPER
to create stunning 3D images with R E V IE W S AWARDS 36
programs like Lightwave and
Your chance to vote for the great and the
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The m usic o f
Why did Bath University Student TV choose
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Graeme Sandiford looks at a new CD add­
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Graeme Sandiford looks at two new CD-
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AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 45 • JANUARY 1995
4 NEWS
C o m m o d o re
WORLDWIDE
AMIGA SHOW.
If you want to find out the latest news on the
so ld to C E I? Commodore sale, don’t forget the World of
Commodore Show which will be running in the
Wembley Exhibition Centre from the 9th to the
11th of December. This show is being organised
by Commodore UK, and most of the Commodore
management will be present at the show, so you
Is the end finally in sight for the Commodore
should be able to find out what’s really going on.
There will also be a large number of stalls,
saga? Could American company CEI have
including one where you can meet the people who
produce both this magazine and the other Amiga
made the concluding bid?
magazines published by Future Publishing.
Various Amiga celebrities will also be appearing
The ongoing saga of the were owed money by Commodore outbid the others. at the show, including Jim Drew, the designer of
Commodore liquidation and International) have also placed a All of the companies who the Emplant emulation system, who will be
sale appears to be nearly at an number of obstacles in the way, have been involved in the bidding appearing on the Blittersoft stand. He is promising
end. The remains of Commodore as many of will be invited to participate in a first showing of the long awaited(!) PC emulation
International (which went into them were this process, including module, although it is not clear if this product will
voluntary liquidation in April) are companies such as Samsung, be on sale at the show. Tickets for the World of
currently being sold by the Philips and Escom who may have Amiga Show cost £6 for Adults and £4 for children.
liquidators, who are confident dropped out earlier. This rather The ticket hotline is on ® 01369 7711
of finalising the deal within unusual process has been
the next few weeks. At the settled on at the insistence of
:.....•__................., .
Future Entertainment Show the US creditors of
_
in late October, David Commodore International, ........ “ sa-___________ ...—
Pleasance said that he was who are concerned that
(OHTfin W£j«/BCT/m4 .
confident of completing the they may not get the
tssT
deal by the end of November, maximum possible price if
although there was no sign the bidding is not directly ENTER CRLC0LRT10N j
of a deal being completed as competitive. 1 FIELDS OPERATORS / FUNCTIONS J
we went to press. These complications now
i a i i
The deal was supposed to be means that there is absolutely ;a ■ \ |'a |
completed in early November, but no chance of any new Amigas ........ \xl ........Ij CLEAR 1 HELP i<
there were a few extra problems arriving on the scene for jCANCEL |
which caused the delay “We have Christmas, and it would
had some delay, and what we concerned that the deals being probably be at least February
hoped to happen today is not negotiated by the liquidator would before any new stock would
Info-Nexus is a new file and data manager.
likely to happen, “said Franklin not get them the highest arrive at the dealers.
Wilson, the Chief Liquidator of possible price. CEI boss Alex Amor has INTO THE NEXUS
Commodore in early November. What will now happen is that claimed that he is already
These problems appear to have one bidder (probably CEI) will starting the process of setting up Optonica have announced two new products:
been based around the incredibly submit a written bid and pay a new production lines for Amigas, Info-Nexus and Data-Nexus. These are the
complex corporate structure of non-refundable deposit on this which he claims would cut 30 to first two in a new range of cheap productivity
Commodore International and its bid. The Bahamian supreme 40 days off the time it takes to tools for the Amiga which Optonica will be
subsidiaries. court will then have to approve get new stocks out of the coming out with over the next few months.
This has made the process this deal, and details of this bid manufacturing plant. Info-Nexus is a file and data manager which
of working out exactly what can will be supplied to the other Whether he will actually be works in a broadly similar way to program such as
be sold from Commodore bidders. A process similar to an able to use these new production SID or Directory Opus. It can be used to move
International extremely difficult. auction will take place, with all lines to start building Amigas files, play animations, sounds or CDXL files.
The creditors (companies who the involved parties attempting to remains to be seen. Optonica are on 01455 558282.
Chelsea to wind up Commodore? NEW ROLL OF
THE DICE
Chelsea Football club is taking legal action against Commodore Fourth Level Developments (the distributors of
UK to get hold of a sum of money it is owed as part of a the MoMiga system reviewed in this issue)
sponsorship deal. Commodore UK signed a five year sponsorship have been appointed as the UK distributor for
deal with Chelsea FC in 1987, which lead to the Amiga logo being Matt Dillon’s acclaimed DICE C compiler system.
emblazoned on all of the shirts of Chelsea players. This system (a version of which was included
Chelsea FC now claim that Commodore UK have failed with Cliff Ramshaw’s "Complete Amiga C" book) is
to pay a sum which was due as part of this deal. They are widely regarded as one of the best C compilers
currently planning on taking legal advice to recover this money. available for the Amiga.
Commodore UK do not seem overly worried by this possibility. “If Matt has recently finished version 3, which will
Chelsea had been able to wind us up, it would have been done only be available as a commercial product. If you
by now. However, they must prove that there is a genuine dispute order the program before the 31st of December, it
and there is an argument as to whether there is a valid will only cost you £99.88. After this date, the price
complaint," said a Commodore spokesman to CRN, a computer will rise to £129.25. Various upgrades from previous
trade newspaper. versions of DICE are also available. Fourth Level will
be offering technical support by E-mail, fax or
Commodore sponsored Chelsea FC over a period of three years, phone. Fourth Level can be contacted at: dicesales
with the Amiga logo appearing on every Chelsea player’s shirt. @Flevel.demon.co.uk or on ® 0117 955 9157.
AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 45 • JANUARY 1995
NEWS 5
E L S P A S T R I K E S A T C A R B O O T P I R A T E S
g LSPA ( the European Leisure Software Publishers The raid took place in early October. It's not clear at down in price
Association) has carried out a major raid on 14 the moment how this has affected the piracy scene, but
stalls at a car boot sale in Killingbeck, Leeds. Over ELSPA hopes that if a sufficiently stiff sentence is The price of the CD32/CDTV
7,000 disks were seized, with an estimated “street delivered against the people caught in this raid, it may authoring system Interplay has
value” of over £100,000. deter others . been reduced. It’ll now cost you
"ELSPA was behind a similar raid in Killingback almost “In general, we’ve found that it’s not simply a few £750 (but that does include a
eighteen months ago. We recently received a tip-off that individuals trading in illegal computer software, “said John royalty-free stand alone player).
the situation there now was perhaps worse than before Loader,” the activity is widespread and can be very Optonica are also now working
that raid, and as a consequence we set about organised... Some of the disks we have received in the on Interplay II, which will have
investigating trading activities there”, said ELSPA’s chief past have.even contained illegal pornographic images.” support for AGA screenmodes, as
investigator John Loader. well as the ability to create ISO-
9660 images which can then be
used to cut CD-ROMs.
W izard Modems
Due to a production error, the
S te re o credit for the Interplay software
was missed off the second edition
I f you fancy getting hold of a C A D s of Amiga CD32 magazine, which
modem which differs from was recently released.
the norm, you should check out Apologies to Optonica for not
these new X-Link modems from If the Amos Action column crediting the part that Interplay
Wizard developments. Two models in issue 43 sparked off took in creating this product.
are available: the X-Link 14.4K your curiosity for those Optonica are on ® 01455
gives a V32bis connection and weird 3D stereogram 558282.
costs £139.99. things, you may be
A V-Fast model is also available interested to know that
for £249.99. Both models can also JCA Europe have just
be used to send and receive faxes, launched "Stereo CAD", an ISf-l 1*4®
and Wizard will be more than happy object-orientated Bruce Smith books have launched
to sell you a copy of the excellent Stereogram creator. the latest in their Mastering
Amiga Fax program GP Fax for an This program (which AmigaDOS series. Mark Smiddy
extra £35. Both models are BABT approved. We’ll be reviewing both in a future issue. costs £29.95) will import has written “Mastering AmigaDOS
Spookily enough, U.S. Robotics have also just launched a new model in their any IFF file and convert it - Scripts Programming", a 320
extremely successful Sportster range. The snappily named Sportster 28,800 uses the to a stereogram, or you can page book which covers the
new V.34 protocol to send data at a whopping 28,800 bits per second, twice as fast as create your own “3D” incredibly powerful scripting power
a V.32bis modem. This modem is priced at £299, although the street price is likely to scene within the program. of AmigaDos.
be around £250. JCA Europe are on: The price of the book is
DIRECTORY OPUS 5 a 01734 452416, £19.95. Bruce Smith Books are
Fax: [phone] on ® 01923 894355
In an unrelated move, Wizard Developments will also be handling Directory Opus 5,
which will hopefully be released in December. The author of Directory Opus (Jonathan
Autoboot gets
Potter) has split from Inovatronics and. is working with Greg Perry, the author of GP Fax.
Directory Opus 5 will cost £59.95, with an upgrade offer of £24.99 from previous
booted down
versions. Wizard developments are on ® 01322 272908 and U.S.
Robotics are on ® 0753 811180. Following our review in issue 44,
the author of the program
“Autoboot” (Colin Yarnell) has
Meet our sisters
decided to drop the price to £4
(including p&p).
but, oh so sadly, they failed to secure Zeewolf, Cannon Fodder 2 and - Colin can be contacted at: 93
the exclusive review of this year’s exclusively - Sensible World of Manchester Road. Wilmslow,
biggest game - like what we did.) Soccer. And as you reach the end, Cheshire, SK9 2JQ.
Understandably, you might not be and find yourself back at the cover,
into beat-em-ups, so for the more you’ll spot two disks packed with
AMIGA serious Amiga users AF takes a demos of Aladdin, Zeewolf and
close look at RISC processing, Sensible Golf.” Chroma have launched the first in
reviews the latest CD hard and o corioQ nf HiqUq aimprl at thp
AMIGA software, examines a trio of 3D
effects packages and pits Wordworth
3.1 against Final Writer 3.”
M O R T A L O
Jonathan Davies, Editor of Amiga
Power - “The sleek, black December
Steve Jarrat, Editor of Amiga Format - issue of Amiga Power is ideally
“AF67 can be summed up in three suited to Amiga owners with an
words: Mortal Kombat two. It’s on interest in playing games. It opens
the cover, on the back page, in the to reveal a six-page feature on
contents and, nestling between Mortal Kombat 2, followed by the
pages 45 and 49, we have the exclusive revelation of an Amiga
world’s first full review of the Amiga version of Super Street Fighter 2. fa*
version. But to find out if it’s any Further page-turning will uncover a
good, you’ll have to buy Amiga huge feature on why helicopter
Format. (You could buy Amiga Power games are so good, reviews of
AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 45 • JANUARY 1995
6 NEWS
COMPUTER '94 - SHOW REPORT
CD Boom
From November 4th to 6th the Cologne Messe a real-time perspective. Pretty much all of the programs One the areas of computing which
(Germany) was the venue for the Computer ’94 features are available from the two button banks on the had plenty of support at the show
show. Filing two whole floors of this massive screen. was CD-ROMs. There are loads of
complex, the show attracted over 25,000 visitors on the The quickest way of describing the program is a fantastic CD-ROMs coming out of
Saturday morning alone - all eager to get their mitts on package with most of the features of Imagine with the Germany very soon I'll just
the latest computer hardware and software. ease of use of Lightwave. It’s not that the program mention one or two them.
Like most computer shows, Computer '94 caters for a possesses any revolutionary The first I noticed was the
number of popular computer formats. However, about 40% features, it has the usual Imagine Enhancer CD, this has
of the stands were for Amiga products, 50% for PCs and features with a greater loads of objects, fonts, textures,
the remainder for other machines. The best thing degree of control and bump maps and backdrops. Amiga
about the show, compared with other numerous smaller Raytracing 1 and 2 (£19.99 each)
European events was the ratio of features. are two volumes that provide
serious Amiga software compared You can apply similar files, but for other
with games - about 7:1. bump, transparency and programs as well as Imagine, such
Indeed, the show proved luminance maps. as Lightwave, Sculpt. Caligari.
to be a veritable However, you can control Real 3D 2.0 and Maxon Cinema
treasure trove of, as the amount of effect a bump Other disks at the show
yet, undiscovered has by adjusting a slider so the included several new utilities
software. effect can subtle or extreme. collections, image CDs, and
Before I go on to In the modelling department, the program animation collections. Although
relate how I was can load a variety of formats such as Imagine, Sculpt not from Germany, there were also
overwhelmed by the sheer and DXF. It has extensive modelling tools including several other interesting CD's on
volume of products let me make an observation of splines, morphing, Boolean operators and even a fractal show there was a UghtWave disc
something that was present at the show, although a little landscape generator. It also has a large number of (£39.99) and a couple of
less tangible. What am I talking about? The atmosphere of primitives, which you can add to by using it’s object library. photographic collections. We will
the show - it was fantastic. It seemed that everyone was The program’s animation Editor is also impressive, like be reviewing some of these CD-
having fun. Although, I am not entirely sure what the exact Lightwave it can be used as a key-frame system. However, ROMs next issue, if you just can't
cause was, it may have been the fact stalls were throwing one of its best features is that you can assign the motions wait to get hold of one the CDs
free products into the crowd willy-nilly. Or perhaps that you of one object ,or group of objects, to another. The program mentioned call PD Soft on s 0702
couldn’t go anywhere without having promotional goodies is actually supplied with a mannequin-like object that can 466933. .
strung around your neck or that every activity was free. I be used to animate your own humanoid models.
Cyberstorm
There are loads more features - more than there is
room to cover here. However, despite being such a Phase 5 had their new CyberStorm
powerful and easy to use package, we may never see a 060 accelerator fro the A4000 on
copy over here. The reason is that Maxon are reluctant to show and what an impressive
commit large sums of money in order to translate the piece of kit it proved to be.
manuals unless there is sufficient demand. So if you Although not in full production at
would like to get hold of a 3D animation package that the moment, due to difficulties in
combines the best of Imagine and Lightwave call Maxon’s getting hold of 060 chips, a pre­
UK distributors, HiSoft on « 0525 718181. production model was being put
through its paces
The board was apparently
running at 82,190 mips compared
with the standard A4000 040’s
15,447. In more practical tests
the board produce some incredible
results. The texture examples
scene supplied with Lightwave
Maxon Cinema 4D is a brand new ray-tracer from
took 54 seconds compared with
Germany, with an incredibly configurable interface.
the A4000 040's 3 mins 42
asked Horst Brundl, Editor in chief of Amiga Plus and one seconds. An Imagine 2 animation
of the show’s organisers, why there was so many free which took a A4000 lOmins
activities as you expect to pay for them at an English 34secs only took 2mins 45secs.
show. He simply said, ‘because people enjoy it’. UK prices and distributors
have not been announced yet, but
MOVE OVER LIGHTWAVE?
if you want to find out more call
Anyway back to a more materialistic point of view. While Phase 5 on ® 01049 69
Here’s an example of Cinema 4D 2.0’s fractal landscape
copies of Lightwave have been selling like proverbial hot- 548.1844.
generator - the water is a bumpmapped plane.
cakes in the UK, at the show I didn't see one person with
a copy. Instead, one or two copies of Lightwave were
sitting untouched on shelves. This was not because the BUYING FROM ABROAD
German Amiga-users had no interest in 3D graphics, rather
they were buying another product by the bucket load - If you are planning to buy any overseas transferred directly from your account to the
Maxon Cinema 4D pro 2.0. products, please consult the buying advice companies, although some banks will charge
I tracked down the Maxon stall to find out why every section on page 97. for this service.
was buying this package. I met up with the programmer of Buying programs or equipment from If you are buying from a European
the package, Philip Losch, and one of the Beta-testers. abroad is easy, but there are a few simple country, most banks will be able to supply
They kindly took me through features of this incredible guidelines you should follow. The best way to you with a Eurocheque, which can be paid
package. The most readily apparent feature of Cinema 4D pay is by credit card, as any currency into any European bank.
is it’s interface. It seems to be a combination of some of exchange will be handled by the credit card You should also make sure that you
the best features of most 3D packages, which only costs company. check that delivery charges are included in
448 DM (about £200). you are given a choice of several Alternatively, you can have money the price.
views, ranging from a traditional quad-view right through to
AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 45 • JANUARY 1995
US NEWS 7
S t a t e s i d e S n i p
Find out what's going on across
pond. R Shamms Mortier repori
the latest Amiga news from the
TEXTURE MAPPING OBSESSION
CD-ROM News-
Looking for more Amiga CD-ROMs
to add to your collection? Here
I f you are an obsessive texture mapper and have a CD-ROM,
are some possibilities. Legendary
don’t miss getting the “moving textures” CD from Precision
Technologies has one called
Computer Graphics. I absolutely love it! On board are actual
"Sound Ideas” that has 300
stop motion animation frames of clouds, water, flames and more
soundfiles (in both stereo and
as well as a collection of awesome effects maps.
mono modes).
I used these beauties in both Aladdin-4D and Lightwave
Complete descriptions are
animations, and the results were startling. In one Aladdin
included, as are Windows
animation, I wrapped animated clouds on a sphere, and then had
versions. Standard CD modes
the camera fly into it to observe other 3D objects in motion. From
allow you to hear the soundfiles
the outside, the sphere became a planet with clouds whipping
on normal CD playback. Price is
around it like a mega storm, while from the inside I had a moving
$39.95. The same company puts
cloud backdrop for the action. Don’t miss getting this one! MSLP
out a four volume set of CD-ROM
$249.00. Precision Computer Graphics -a 0101 [phone].
graphics for texture mapping and
backgrounds at $39.95 per
One Stop Music NEW LANDSCAPES volume or $129.95 for the set.
Legendary Technologies ® 0101
Panorama 4.0, a great landscape generator for the
[phone]
I own a great MIDI music program called “Sequel” from Amiga, is shipping.
It offers a host of new features including AGA
Diemer Development. The software does everything but S t r a n g e L e tte r ,
support, new dithering routines that add realistic
cook breakfast, but one thing it didn’t do was to address
detail, super close zooming, extensive frame buffer
the One-Stop-Music-Shop card from Blue Ribbon Soundworks. c o n s id e r in g ...
support, forest/trees, ARexx, and a great new DEM
The One-Stop is literally a music synth on a card, so The Service Management Group
Converter program that allows you to get DEMs
addressing it internally from various MIDI packages is almost a (SMG) was supposed to take over
(Digital Elevation Models) directly from the nets for
must for me. Blue Ribbon provides a separate program called Commodore's service program.
Panorama manipulation and rendering.
"Loop Back” that usually does the trick, but Loop Back just hung When Big C went under, my phone
New program price is $99.95, but registered
Sequel up, requiring a reboot. call to SMG for support gathered
owners of previous versions may upgrade for only
I called Rich Diemer of Diemer Development and told him of no help - in fact they were quite
$25.00 (plus $4.00 shipping).
the problem, and he had a back-and-forth with the techie at Blue rude. It was surprising, then, that
Ribbon. The result? Well, all of you Sequel/One-Stop users I received a letter from them
MAC TRUTH
should see a revision of Sequel coming out later this year that some weeks later telling me about
earorw niniriBrwwrwaiigB^r fixes the problem. It I have an EMPLANT MAC emulator from Utilities their wonderful services.
seems the problem was Does the left hand know what
Unlimited. I purchased it mainly so I could run
the priority settings of the right one is doing?
Elastic Reality, the best morphing software
Sequel compared to
available (from the former Amiga software
those required by the
company ASDG... which is newly named Elastic S o f t C lip s
One Stop. Blue Ribbon
Reality). There is some nice MAC software in Two companies that have the
Sound Works ® 0101
addition to this package, but you know what... word "Soft" in their names have
[phone].
most Amiga videographic and 3D animation some clipart you might really
Diemer Development ®
software is a thousand times better, more enjoy. The first is Soft-Logik. the
0101 [phone].
intuitive, and far less expensive. This is a cold developers of PageStream. They
The One-Stop-Music-
hard fact that will become more apparent as the have two disk collections that, will
Shop from Blue Ribbon
Amiga comes back on line. sell for $30.00 each.
Soundworks.
One is a compendium of
Amiga computers and peripherals
in beautiful gray scale, and the
£ k D I F F E R E N T W A R T other is “Flags of the World". The
t the time of writing, I am rendering at 300% of its normal Right now, the system is INMOS other volume is from Softwood
BETA testing the fabled Amiga 4000 speed. Chip based, but the future will see (developers of Final Writer). They
Warp System boards from Soon, I’ll have a later issue of another Warp configuration that will have a 3-disk set of 75 full colour
U.S. Cybernetica. They are no fable. the boards with more modules. When blow your socks off (guaranteed!). images for the holidays. The
Aladdin-4D has been rewritten to I feel that I am satisfied that By the way, don’t confuse the whole set is priced at only
address them from the ground up, marketing is immanent, I will write an “Warp System” from U.S. Cybernetics $25.00. Soft-Logik Publishing
and Aladdin-4D.Warp runs at about exhaustive piece on these new with the “Warp” boards from Corp. ® 0101 [phone].
twice the speed with each module. parallel processors that look to MacroSystems - they’re two different Softwood, Inc. ® (800) 247­
I am testing out two modules in give the NewTek Raptor some animals. U.S. Cybernetics » 0101 8330.
parallel which means Aladdin is competition. [phone].
AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 45 • JANUARY 1995
8 COVERDISK
On this month's cover disk: Hisoft's
DevPac Lite Assembler and the full
Kickstart 2.04 Include files.
Use Your
C o verd isk
O n this month’s coverdisk we have a about using your Amiga for programming, you really above. When you start the Installation process you
special treat, courtesy of HiSoft and ought to consider a hard drive, they are quite will be asked which version of the program you
Commodore, especially for those of cheap now for all of the Amiga range. would like to install, choose the “2.04 +” option.
you who are following our Assembler course, or Using the installer is a breeze. Put the cover This works with all OSs above 2.04, right up to
are interested in learning how to program your disk into dfO:, double click on the drive icon, and and including Kickstart and Workbench 3.1.
Amiga in Assembly Language. DevPac Lite is a then double click on the Install DevPac Lite icon. Don't install the 1.3 version, as it is not as
fully working Assembler for the Amiga, complete Then follow on-screen instructions. Don’t be powerful for you.
with Debugger. alarmed that the Novice user gadget on the
If you’re interested in buying the full product, Installer is ghosted out. This is to prevent Installer NOTES ON INSTALLATION
then contact HiSoft on ® 01525 718181. DevPac from making some important decisions for you, FOR KICKSTART 1 .2 USERS
3 currently retails for £69.95 and comes complete which you should make yourself, such as where AND ABOVE
with the all important Include files (see below), the Includes are to go, for example. The first suggestion I would give is to upgrade to
and does not have any of the restrictions of The Installation process creates a drawer 2.04 (at /east!) and then look at the notes for
DevPac Lite. That’s not to say that we have called “DevPac Lite”. Inside this drawer is the Kickstart 2.04 users instead! Seriously, 2.04 is
missed out on these Include files ourselves - DevPac program itself, which can be started by dramatically better than 1.2 or 1.3, and it is worth
Commodore have allowed us to distribute the older double clicking on it. You are then ready to type in the upgrade if you use your Amiga for anything
2.04 Includes with this coverdisk too! your first Assembly Language program and get it other than games at all.
The 2.04 Includes work with all Kickstarts working! Alternatively, you can cheat just to check Some major applications require at least 2.04
available currently, from 1.2 upwards. They include it all works, and use one of ours. now, so you are missing out. Upgrading to 2.04
information for ROMs up to 2.04, so you can’t use As part of the Installation, a drawer called should be quite cheap now, but it’s worth
any 3.0 new features without buying the latest 3.1 “Examples" is created. This contains the file, stretching to 3.1 which costs around £80
Includes from Commodore, but you will be able to “hello.asm”. This is the program we’ll write in this currently. 3.1 will work in all Amigas including the
follow the Assembly Language course. months Assembly Language Tutorial. The program A500 (and indeed the A1000 if you have a
To make it really easy to install, we’ve knocked simply shows “Hello world!” on the screen. Also in Kickstart ROM board of some sort) and gives you
up a small Installer script which uses Commodore's the Examples drawer is a pre-assembled version of a whole host of new stuff to play with, and it’s a
excellent installer program. Users without a hard the program ready to run from a CLI or Shell bunch more reliable than 1.3 also.
drive don't miss out, DevPac lite can also be window. It is called “hello.x”. You can’t create disk- So, upgrade! Please!
installed to a floppy disk. To do this you’ll need a based executables with DevPac Lite, you’ll have to However, should you not wish to move your
blank formatted disk at the ready (call it something buy the full version for that (see above). Amiga kicking and screaming into the 90s then
sensible like "DevPac Lite”) - and when the you can still use DevPac Lite. When you start the
installation program asks you where you wish to NOTES ON INSTALLATION Installation process, you will be asked which
install DevPac Lite to, simply put in your blank disk FOR KICKSTART 2 .0 4 version of the program you would like to Install.
and chose it as the drive to install it to. USERS AND ABOVE Choose the “1.2/1.3” option.
I will just say, though that if you are serious DevPac Lite works on Amigas with 2.04 and Do not choose the “2.04+” option which
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The Installation process in Action. My first program!
AMIGA SHOPPER • ISSUE 45 • JANUARY 1995
COVERDISK 9
We’ve also managed to how to use these, see Toby drag the drawer containing the
squeeze the complete Simpson’s Assembler tutorial, include files whever you want.
Commodore Includes (version which begins on page 96 for In order to use the
2.04) on to this month’s more details. Includes, you will also need to
THE LIMITATIONS OF coverdisk. The Includes are Due to space restrictions, carry out one further step:
short bits of code which tell we have had to archive them, setting up an assign to the
DEVPAC LITE your program how to access so they won’t be installed by right directory.
varioius parts of the machine. the DevPac Lite installation So, if you have put the
• Programs are limited to around For instance, if you wanted procedure. Includes on to a disk called
2000 lines of code to carry out an operation on To get at the Includes, “Stuff', add the following line
the parallel port, you would simply double click on the to your user-startup or startup-
• Programs can only be compiled to have to bring the device “Extractjncludes" icon and sequence:
memory. Stand alone executables cannot include “parallel.i” into your they will be decompressed to
be saved to disk. program. For more details on your RAM disk. You can then ASSIGN INC: STUFF:Includes
will not work on your Amiga. The most modern Chip in the series, the consists of numbers, and lots of them. There is a
68060, is over 50 times faster than the simple number code for each instruction, and then more
FIRING IT UP AND 68000 Chip found in unexpanded A500s, A600s. numbers depending on the operation which is
CHECKING IT OUT and A2000s. Although no Amigas are available to be performed (if you want to add 1 to the
Once you have installed DevPac Lite, you should with 68060s yet. contents of one memory location inside your
be ready to fire it up and give it a spin. Double Lots of numbers - very confusing. This just computer, you have to specify the 1 and to where
click on the “DevPac’’ icon. When DevPac Lite has about sums up programming computers, it is to be added).
loaded, select “Open..” from the "Project” menu. particularly in Assembly Language. So, what is this The net result of all this is that no-one
Choose the “hello.asm” program from the Assembly Language then? Let’s take a brief step programs in machine code any more, machine
Examples drawer. away and come back to it in a while. You'll recall code is for the days where programming
When the program has loaded, select that in the previous paragraph we said that the computers involved flicking switches, rotating
“Assemble” from the “Program” menu. Assuming Microprocessor performs maybe millions of simple dials, and pressing small buttons and then viewing
all goes well, DevPac will perform its magic and operations per second. Just how many of these the results on a panel of little red lights.
turn the Assembly Language in the Machine Code operations depends on which version of the Thankfully, these times have passed.
which the 68000 processor inside your Amiga can 68000 Chip you have in your Amiga. Assembly Language gives you the advantages
run. Now select “Run” from the “Program” menu, A standard unexpanded A500 will manage of programming in machine code, without a lot of
and all being well you should get the results about 0.8 millions of operations per second. An the hassles. Instead of having to specify the
shown in Picture 3. Now you’re ready to rock and A4000/040 will peak at 21 million operations number for each operation, you can call it by a
roll, so turn to this month’s Assembler Tutorial to per second. A1200 owners move along at about name. The Assembler then does the hard work of
find out what the program does. 2.5 million operations per second. converting your Assembly Language program
OK, so enough of all these numbers. What (called the Source Code) to a machine code
SO, WHAT'S ALL THIS exactly are these operations? They are very simple program which can be ran by the Microprocessor
ABOUT THIN? indeed, they consist of things like basic arithmetic (the Object Code).
From the moment you switch your Amiga on, to the operations (add, subtract and so forth), and The thing about Assembly Language, is that
moment you switch it off, it performs potentially moving information around inside your computers you have total control. You know exactly which
millions of very simple operations every second. memory. Each of these operations is a single operations are going to be performed by the
The heart of all of this work is the Microprocessor, machine code instruction. Microprocessor, because you specified them. For
a computer on a Chip. In the Amiga, the Machine code is the lowest level of every Assembly Language instruction specified,
Microprocessor is made by a company called programming you can perform, it involves one machine code instruction is generated.
Motorola, and belongs to the 68000 series of specifying exactly which operations are performed This differs from higher level languages such
chips. The 68000 series has been around now by the Microprocessor, and when. You have as ‘C’. In ‘C’, you are separated from the
for 15 odd years, and significant advancements complete control. complexities of machine code and Assembly
have been made in that time, particularly in speed Machine code has another property - it’s Language. You program in a language which is
and price. totally impractical to program in. Machine code far easier to understand, read, and fix when things
o| CeHula automata
4s an extra added bonus, we’ve put a couple of good PD programs on the With the source code for producing Lorenz attractors, such as the one above,
coverdisk, including this program which calaculates cellular automata. on the coverdisk, you can learn the black and dubious art of programming...
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