Amiga Shopper Magazine Issue 57

92 Pages·1995·96.7 MB·English

The essential magazine for Amiga enthusiasts
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Find out why
multimedia on the
Amiga is the key
Virus
to its success. We give
you all the
K Complete
package software and
advice you
Plus much
more - see
back cover
ShopperReviews
• FinalCalc: We review the powerful and versatile new
spreadsheet from Softwood.
• G2 GeneSys genlock: If you are serious about video
you need this new genlock.
• Disk Magic: We put this brand new file manager
through its paces. Can it match Opus 5?
• Dinoverse: A brand new collection of dinosaur
skeletal objects for Imagine.
• Blizzard 1230-IV: Check out the hot new accelerator
card from Gordon Harwoods.
• Demo Mania: Make your own demo extravaganzas
with this demo kit from Kompart.
• Two new CD-ROMs for your Christmas stocking.
Comms
E-mail has revolutionised person-to-person
communication. Find out how to talk to people over
the Internet with your Amiga.
AMOS
In the second of our AMOS programming tutorials, we
explain how to display AGA pictures using AMOS.
Plus! See our news pages for more info on AMOS.
DTP
Our step-by-step guide to successful desktop
publishing continues with a look at how to plan and
prepare your work.
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Issue 57 Christmas 1995
ShopperContents Christmas 1995 Issue 57
The essential magazine for Amiga enthusiasts Shoppe r Tutor ials
Comms 62
Person to person communication has become
even easier with the introduction of the Internet.
Darren Irvine explains how to send your
messages over the Web.
AMOS______ 64
The second installment of our new AMOS
tutorial explains how to display AGA pictures
using AMOS. Steve Bye of F1 Licenceware
ShopperReviews
also divulges a few programming tricks .
DTP __________67
Virus killer 22 DiskMAGIC_______38
Preparation is the key to successful desktop
The people who program viruses think that it’s Can this new program from HiSoft knock publishing. Larry Hickmott explains why it is
all a huge joke. But it's no fun if all your work is Directory Opus 5 off its throne as the king of the so important to get yourself organised before
erased before your very eyes! David Taylor file managers? Or does it rival InfoNEXUS? you start your project.
explains how to prevent a virus from entering Michael Thomas puts the brand new
your Amiga in the first place and how to cure DiskMAGIC to the test. ShopperRegulars
any that get through.
Dinoverse 40
Multi Amiga!. ____ 28
This collection of dinosaur objects for Imagine 3
Coverdisks_________ 6
Multimedia is the potential saviour of the Amiga is all animated using bones. Barry McCarthy
according to John Kennedy. He explains why explains how the skeletal technique works and There's another 5Mb and more of programs and
the Amiga's unique features mean that it’s then reviews the objects themselves. utilities on our two Coverdisks. Turn to page 6
simply the best platform around for multimedia. and you'll find out all about them.
Blizzard 1230-IV__44
Win Wordworth 5!__45 News 16
Blizzard boards have always been
Digita are giving away five copies of the one of the most popular bunch of RISC is just around the corner, as we
upgrade to their powerful word processing accelerators on the market. discovered when we visited the factory that
program. You could win a copy for yourself! Graeme Sandiford takes a look makes our Amigas!
at the newest addition to. the range,
Interview 74 Amiga Answers. 52
the Blizzard 1 230-IV.
Licenceware has helped keep the Amiga alive Don't panic! If you’re all in a tangle with your
Demo Mania 47
over recent months. Dave Taylor interviews Amiga, tell us about it. Just fill in the form and
Steve Bye of F1 Licenceware, a popular Producing your own demos couldn't be send it off to us. Expert help is at hand.
provider of this type of software. . simpler. All you need is this accessible and
Public Domain_____78
easy to use new program from Black Legend.
ShopperReviews Steve McGill gives it a thorough road test One of the most popular sections of Amiga
over on page 47. Shopper just gets better and better.
CD-ROMs 48 Letters_________ 88
FinalCalc 34
There are loads of new CD-ROMs If you don’t talk to us, then we can’t talk to you.
Softwood are well-known for Final Writer and around at the moment, but David Or something. You could win 25 quid for the
Final Data. Now they have produced a new and Taylor concentrates on two of the letter of the month.
powerful spreadsheet. Larry Hickmott takes a best: The Global Amiga Experience
Next month_______ 90
close look FinalCalc. from PD Soft and EMC
Computergraphics' Phase 1. January 1996 Amiga Shopper, on sale
G2 GeneSys 37
Tuesday, 12th December. Buy it!
It may be beyond some people's ShopperServices
means, but it sure is cool. Steve
McGill positively drools over this
new genlock from G2.
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FutureNet 59
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Subscriptions. 72
Back Issues 73
Market Place 86
The new genlock from G2 has the potential to Check out the speedy new Blizzard 1230-IV from
Ad Index___ 89
earn you money and prestige. Gordon Harwoods on page 44.
4 Amiga shopper Christmas 1995 Issue 57
Issue 57 Christmas 1995 ShopperContents
Virus killer
ShopperDisks
Amiga Shopper's Coverdisks are not just
Viruses can be a complete disaster if
any old two disks. There are seven
you let them get into your Amiga. Certain
specially-selected disks packed on to
types of virus have the potential to destroy these two beauties. Here're the contents:
everything on your Amiga. Others are just an
IntOS for AMOS___6
annoyance. But how can we prevent these nasty little
programs getting anywhere near our machines? And This is the complete IntOS extension for
how do we cure them if we're unlucky enough to be AMOS users from OTM. Adding many
infected? David Taylor has all the answers in commands, it does require AMOS.
our feature over on page 22. You'll also find
Virus ProtectionZonelO
some virus checker programs in
the Virus Protection Zone This special zone gives you the programs
on our Coverdisks. you need to protect your computer from
viruses. Read our exclusive feature,
starting on page 22 for more information.
LicenceWare_____10
This month, to compliment IntOS, we have
a specially-compiled edition of AMOSzine.
ApplicationZone__11
MusicLine Editor impressed us so much
last month that we gave it a stonking 96
per cent in the PD section. We chased
down the programmers and got you an
exclusive version. Plus PDBase.
TechnicalZone____11
A full, uncompressed disk of excellent
programs. As promised, there's XDM 2,
the disk packer, and Audcomp, an
incredible sample cruncher, as well as
loads more essential commands.
UtilityZone______ 12
Three utilities to help you out. Extractor for
de-archiving with ease. Menukeys for a
better Workbench and NewEdit for some
useful additions to your system.
I nf ormationZone__12
The PD Directory and User Group listing.
3DZone________12
A demo object from the brand new
collection of skeletal Imagine objects
reviewed this issue on page 40.
THE VIRUS-PROTECTOR VI.8
<C> 1987 BY THE MEGA-MIGHTY
SWISS CRACKING ASSOCIATION
CAoMmOpSle I'
AMOSi
; AMOS).
Instructions
Destroy viruses
before they destroy
Press E, K, P, I or Q ! your work. We give
you the power!
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Issue 57 I Christmas 1995 I Amiga shopper 5
Instructions Steve Bye
Once again, we have managed to cram over 5Mb on to our
Coverdisks. David Taylor tells you all about them...
is an Intuition extehsion for
■ the BASIC programming language
AMOS. It adds over 120 new
commands to the already bulging
AMOS command set. Once you
have installed IntOS these new commands
enable you to easily open real Intuition
screens and windows and give you full
control over gadgets and menus. IntOS
opens a whole new world to budding utility
and application programmers keen to
conform to the Amiga’s Intuition standards.
Obviously, we can’t show you how to use all
of the 120 commands available in these three
pages, but we can get you started, and probably
hooked, on this great extension. Read the
boxout on how to install IntOS before starting.
Now we're ready to type in our first IntOS
program. We will keep things simple and just
open a window on the Workbench, print a
message in the window and wait for a mouse
button to be pressed. 'Print a message
IN_RPRINT_["Press Left Mouse Button"]
Load lntOS_All_Procs into AMOS and go to
the line that says: 'Wait for mouse click
IN_WAIT_RAT
"REM»****- Your Code Here! ! -****«"
Save the program, just in case, and then run it.
Delete the entire line if you want, and type in the Pretty impressive for four lines of code, eh?
following lines. Comments are preceded by a Here is a quick explanation of what is
- you don't have to type them in: happening in the above example:
IntOS’s Turbo commands example. This
'Get the Workbench screen as screen 0 IN_WB_TO_SCREEN_ [ 0 ] window, some graphics and a button were
IN_WB_TO_SCREEN_ [ 0 ] drawn in a flash!
Before a window can be opened you must tell
'Open a simple window IntOS what screen the window must use. The of the window bar. The -1 tells IntOS that there
IN_WINDOW_[0,160,12,320, 188, $100E, "Hello”,-!] above line uses the Workbench screen. are no gadgets (buttons) available in this
window. The $100E is a window flag and the
IN_WINDOW_[0,160,12,320,188,$100E,"Am number you use determines what features the
Installing IntOS iga Shopper",-1] window will support.
This opens an Intuition window on the current IN_RPRINT_["Press Left Mouse Button"]
Once you have de-archived the programs
on our Coverdisks (see the box for screen. The 0 is just an ID number. You can
beginners opposite), whether to floppy or have up to 64 windows open at the same time. This line prints a message inside the window.
hard disk, you may still need to install Each one needs an ID number so you can keep
certain parts of the software to specific
track of it. The next two numbers 160 and 12 IN_WAIT_RAT
parts of your system disks or partition, if
you have a hard drive. With IntOS, for are the top right-hand screen coordinates of
instance, you must copy the IntOS.custlib where we want the window placed. If you’re not And this line just sits there waiting for a mouse
to your Libs: directory. You can do this sure what coordinates to use, just experiment button to be clicked.
using Workbench or CLI, e.g. “copy and you will soon catch on. The 320 and 188 It’s pretty simple code compared to the
df 1 :libs/lntOS.custlib to libs: <return”.
There are more instructions on the are the width and height of the window in pixels. complexities of calling libraries manually
IntOS Coverdisk. The Amiga Shopper bit is the title of the from within AMOS. IntOS does all the
window, you will see this text appear at the top complicated work for you.
6 Ahugashopper Christmas 1995 Issue 57
Steve Bye Instructions J jphojD per Coverdisks
finiga Workbench 1,736,184 graphics neiT 14,376 other nen~
Beginners, look!
□ 1 Select FI Fite.ft? lE3lQ|
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flninetFind 37,148 21/87/48 8115
Before using either of this
Index 5,492 21/87/48 81:5
Prefs 27,488 21/87/43 81:5 month’s Coverdisks, please
ReadMe 29,228 21/87/48 81:5 be sure to back them up -
just in case. Simply follow
Ell
The AMOS the easy instructions below.
Ran Disk file requester
is a horror o I Systen_______________________________IB3J.B.
from the past. ^U l| M
Now with IntOS She 11 Fornat RexxMast
Hork you can use
Pattern #? i JEA
the standard tixFonts n t «-rrrTT3nr«4. a-
Drawer | SET1B: ASL file
requester that
File Index
everyone knows n Boof up from your Workbench disk or
WorkBench 8K Vo I unes Parent Cancel and loves. partition, double-click on your Shell
icon - to be found in your System Drawer.
Workbench Screen__________________________________
Calling a file requester □ | Workbench________________________________________
IN_SCREEN_[1,0,640,512, 8, $8004, ""]
Just to give you an idea of how easy it all is, IN_LOAD_IFF_ [ 1, "work: AGA_PIC. IFF" , 0 ] fica]
a Ht-uqaShel t_______.........................................................
here is how to get an ASL file requester up and IN_WAIT_RAT ■few ~$*li i*Ti process 7
7.Workbench:> diskcopy fron df8: to df8:
running on your Workbench screen and
returning the selected file string to AMOS. The first line is similar to AMOS's SCREEN OPEN
First, load ALL_PROCS. AMOS which contains command, but it opens an Intuition screen. In
all of IntOS’s procedures. You can later delete this case the screen is to be numbered 1, (you 0 If you only have one disk drive, type in
unneeded procedures when your program is can have up to 63 screens). The 0 is the Y the following line and then press Return.
complete. Once loaded, a REM will tell you positioning of the screen, 640, 512 is the size of Diskcopy from DF0: to DF0:
where to enter your code. This is what you need: the screen. The 8 is the screen depth which is If you have two drives, place the Coverdisk in
256 colours and the $8004 indicates the screen DFO: and a blank in DF1:, then type in this
IN_WB_TO_SCREEN_ [ 0 ] mode, high-res + Interlace. See the sections on line instead:
IN_FSEL_[0,0,320,200, "Select A depth and screen modes. Diskcopy from DFO: to DF1:
File.","ram: The IN_LOAD_IFF command is virtually the
□ Follow the on-screen prompts and
SEL$=Param$ same as AMOS's. The IN_WAIT_RAT is a
remember that the Coverdisk is the
Print SEL$ mouse wait command explained earlier. If you
source disk and the blank is the destination.
(Sel$ will hold the path and file of anything combined the file requester routine and this
selected.) AGA routine you would have just written the □ If you used the two-drive method,
beginnings of a simple AGA picture viewer. You remember to rename the copy by
All those numbers and things in the IN_FSEL_ could present the user the ASL file requester to clicking on its icon and pressing right-Amiga r.
line look confusing, but they make sense if you select the PIC and then use the above routine If you have two drives, you can also
take a closer look. to display it. Not bad in a few lines. copy the disk from Workbench by
Here is what the parameters represent: One problem with loading large AGA dragging the Coverdisk icon over the
pictures from IntOS is that the user gets to see destination disk’s.
IN_FSEL_[x,Y,width,height,"TEXT","DIR the picture being “built” on screen as it is
O Then place either of the Coverdisks in
loaded. To avoid this problem just delete the
DFO: and reset the Amiga to boot it. It
x - x co-ordinate AMOS To Back line at the beginning of the
is best to boot disk 1 (or the Subs disk if
y - y co-ordinate IntOS code and instead insert it after the
you’re a subscriber). This will let you install
width - Width of box (max 640) IN_LOAD_IFF command. This way the picture is
all the disks to either floppy or hard drive.
height - Height of box (max 256) built out of view and when it is ready you then
"TEXT" - Message text • flip to the Workbench screen.
"DIR:" - Directory path to open
"" - Leave this as null string IN_SCREEN_[1,0,640,512,8, $8004,""] The IntOS on-disk examples suggest using the
"#?" - File pattern IN_LOAD_IFF_[1,"work:AGA_PIC.IFF", 0] AMOS Break Off command, but it would be
AMOS To Back wise not to use this while developing your
IN_WAIT_RAT program. Insert your Break Off command only
Displaying AGA screens
when you are ready to compile it.
Here is how to display a high-res interlaced, If your program does not make use of
Hints and tips
256-colour pic using IntOS. certain IntOS commands you can delete the
Remember, if you do not tell IntOS to use a appropriate procedures to save space and
b| Hello'. ■' |t» screen then you can't open a window and if you memory. IntOS supports its own sub-language
do not open a window some commands will not called Turbo which is similar in style to AMOS's
Oinkdaeye, d noaw TRtoU E pAromuigea DtOhSa t wtinhdiosw i, s work. As a general rule most of your IntOS Amal sub-language.
pallel aysoeu f *leiekl ef, reues e toan dn ouloea di t parbogoruat ns programs will need at least one of the following Turbo can give speed increases of up 70
if you like... Anything AnigaOOSy. lines, or versions of them tailored to your tastes. per cent if you are using a lot of IntOS
Athfatet r iyto uis h ainvde eepdro vae dT RUtoE yInouturisteiolfn commands in your program. To use the Turbo
window, then press the CLOSE gadget 'Use the Workbench screen as screen 0 version of IntOS you need to put your IntOS
IN_WB_TO_SCREEN_ [ 0 ] commands in strings. There are also lots of
other rules to using Turbo which we don’t have
The IntOS window demo explains quite a few 'Open a Window the space to cover here. See the example Turbo
useful window manipulation commands. IN_WIND0W_[0,160,12,320,188,$100E,"Title",-1] program on the IntOS disk for more info. ^8
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Instructions Steve Bye
or a window's close gadget being clicked. By
Dodgy disk?
knowing what these event codes are you can
tell what the user is doing and act accordingly.
To avoid errors when installing to floppies, Here’s a chart of events and their codes:
ensure that your destination disks are of
high quality. If an error occurs, try re-booting Code Event
and using a different spare disk - the $2 Window's size has changed
The IntOS buttons and Gadgets example code majority of errors are caused by faulty $4 Window's display is corrupted
strutting its stuff. destination disks. $8 A mouse button has been pressed
If your Coverdisk absolutely refuses to $10 Mouse has moved
work and you are certain it is faulty, please $20 A gadget has been pressed
Things to remember
return it, along with an S.A.E., to: $40 A gadget has been released
The IN_SCREEN command, as used in the AGA Amiga Shopper Coverdisk $100 A menu option has been chosen
screen example, requires a parameter for the (insert the name of the disk), $200 Windows close gadget has been pressed
“depth” of the screen. AMOS uses a simpler Discopy Labs Ltd., PO Box 21, $400 A key has been pressed
approach to assigning the amount of colours to Daventry NN11 5BU. $8000 A disk has been inserted
a screen (i.e. you state the actual amount). Don't $10000 A disk has been removed
get confused with IntOS's more traditional $40000 A window has bee activated
method of depth. The following chart can be most other programming languages. Here is a $80000 A window has been de-activated
used for easy reference when assigning colours chart for IntOS screen modes:
to your IntOS screens: Here’s a simple piece of code that loops until
Code Screen mode the user clicks on the close window gadget
Colours Depth $0 Low-res (Event code $200).
2 1 $4 Interlace
2 $20 SuperHigh-res (AGA only! - 'Set screen
3 use with $8000) IN_WB_TO_SCREEN_ [ 0 ]
16 4 $8000 Hi-res 'Open a window
32 5 (low-res only) IN_WINDOW_[0,160,12,320,128,$100E,"Cl
64 6 (low-res only) Don't forget you can only use AGA modes on ick on the close gadget",-1] Repeat
128 7 (AGA only) an AGA Amiga. In the supplied IntOS example ' Wait for an event
256 8 (AGA only) programs you may have come across the IN_WAIT_EVENT
command IN_WAIT_EVENT. This command halts 'Ev holds the event code
Screen modes in AMOS are usually defined by the IntOS program as well as AMOS itself until EV=Param
low-res, high-res and Interlace. IntOS is an AmigaDOS event occurs. An event can be 'loop until close gadget is detected
different, or rather AMOS is different to that of something like a disk being inserted or removed Until EV=$200 ■
IntOS and PowerBase offer from OTM
Now you’ve had a chance to IntOS manual PowerBase v3.4
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for AMOS program on our OTM are offering Amiga Shopper readers the PowerBase is a powerful Amiga database
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OTM, which are exclusive to Amiga the manual. IntOS for AMOS is FREE on this has a powerful record filtering, searching and
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S h o p pe i Coverdi Instructions David Taylor
ShopperChoice
There’s much more besides the IntOS package on this
month's Coverdisks, including a selection of
programs to help you protect your Amiga and a
brand new music editor.
ack with yet more programs
to add to your arsenal,
ShopperChoice has
everything divided into
appropriate ‘zones’ so that
you can go directly to those programs that SELECT THE VIRUS VOU WISH TO OBTfilN INFORMATION ABOUT BV SELECTING THE L
BEGINS WITH (EG "L" FOR LAMER EXTERMINATOR) VIA THE GADGETS OR THE
interest you. There’s a slight change to the SELECT GLOBAL SEARCH FROM THE MENU TO SEARCH THROUGH ALL FILES IN THE
zones this month, with a Virus Protection OIRECTORV FOR SPECIFIC CONTENTS.
Zone to complement our virus feature on
page 22. To make room for this, there’s no
Creative Zone or Programming Zone this — ..I£.......—
month, but programmers should find our
first disk enough to be getting on with! Virus Information Base,
maintained by Safe Hex
Virus ProtectionZone International, gives you Index
all the information you SUBBBSBSS MM WSmSSSBBBm UBHB
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need about every known
It's a sad fact of modern day life that while Amiga virus.
computers are there to make our lives easier,
there are some people who want to screw most famous and this is a brand new version This new release can also, when registered,
things up for us. And getting a virus will certainly which has new features as well as check archive files for possible viruses so that
do that. Help is at hand, however. This protection against all known viruses, you don’t de-archive one by accident. It can also
month we have a special feature on including the latest ones. Among the detect the viruses - such as the dangerous and
viruses and how to avoid them, so it new features is the ability to check ominously-named $4eb9 link virus - that are
seemed natural to include the for viruses directly from a Workbench written into fake programs, such as bogus
programs that you'll need to keep menu item. Virus Checker, in the releases of Directory Opus. Don’t forget that
your system safe on our words of its author, “Is designed to even after de-archiving this program, it does
Coverdisk. That's where this hunt out Amiga viruses and kill them. It need to be installed from the installation icon to
special zone comes in. You can find also scans memory on startup and be put on to your system. The options should
four indispensable programs here that checks all suspect vectors. And it checks also be set correctly for your system or you may
should help you protect your computer. certain memory locations every two seconds get error messages. Read the documentation
for infection.” From this you can see why so fully before starting.
many people choose to have it running
Virus Checker 7.18
immediately every time they boot up. While this
Virus Information Base
First and foremost, it's important to make sure is important for everybody, it is absolutely
that you have an up-to-date virus checker essential for hard drive owners - could you What should you do should the worst come to
running at all times. Virus Checker is one of the really face reformatting your entire drive? the worst and you do get a virus? How many
viruses are there? What exactly do they do?
Workbench Screen The latest version of How dangerous are they?
n I Workbench nl I aimr hop I tn I fSM I PI Virus Checker offers Have you ever wondered about any of these
n| Virus.Checker Options
nUj irtuess.Pt rotect ion_Zone Use XFD Master _vj__| I snore Capture Vectors new options and an things? Well, here’s the program to sort it all out
Use Window I vf Use BootBlock.library updated interface as for’you. It is a full database that runs
Ignore BE) Read Error _^J|i.... Check into LHB/LZH Files well as protection from independently and has information on every
n I Virus_Protect ion_Zoni UnRack Fites vM I Do Nothing (Spare) all the latest viruses. known Amiga virus. It gives you all the details
Check DF8 Bootblock ___ Check DFB Full
you need, including what the symptoms of each
Check DF1 Bootblock _v^|___
Check DF2 Bootblock 3 ____ virus are and how you can deal with it. Virus
Check DF3 Bootblock _✓]___ Information Base (VIB) is compiled by members
Scan Hatch Change __]___ of Safe Hex International (SHI), who are trying
to make computing as safe as possible.
Pftbllo HntKpu In order for this program to work, you must
have the AmigaGuide.library in your libs: drawer.
This is included with more recent releases of
Workbench, but can be easily obtained from a
PD library if you don’t have it. VIB also requires
a couple of assigns for it to find certain
information. There are two icons for both floppy
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