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Contents

Editor: Stuart Cooke

Assistant Editor: Sue

Joyce

Manager: Stuart Taylor

Advertisement Copy

Control: Laura

Champion

Origination: Ebony

Typesetting

Design: Argus Design

Studio

• Amiga News

The latest round up from the Amiga world

• The LM.P. is out

of the bottle 6

Getting to grips with

image manipulation

ARGUS

PRESS

GROUP

• Amiga Graphics

Take a look at the latest in graphics packages

• Play it again Sam

Need multi-tasking support? Then SAM

Basic is for you

• Maxiplan

We look at the continuing growth of Maxiplan

• Amiga Games

Keep up-to-date with

what's new on the games

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in reviews are the opinions of

the reviewers and not

necessarily those of the

magazine. While every effort is

made to thoroughly check

programs published for errors

we cannot be held responsible

for any errors that do occur.

Knight e el?(

• How to get it

A useful compilation of names and addresses

• Midi Music 29

We are pleased to

announce the marriage

between computers and

music!

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Tout( AMIUA January ma

NEWS

Amiga

News

The Personal Computer World Show saw the

announcement of a huge range of new games for the

Amiga and there's lots more besides. Anne Owen brings

us the latest news.

Microprose conﬁrmed Ultima Il

and IV and Autoduel and added Ogre

to their list of Amiga games.

Interceptor's Pandora label will

have an Amiga version of Into the

Eagle's nest soon.

Hewson released their ﬁrst 16 bit

products and expressed their

satisfaction with the conversion of

Uridium to the Amiga.

Mirrorsoft have more Amiga

games on the way with Mean Streak

and Strike Force Harrier (renamed

High Roller on the Mindscape label).

A brand new adventure called

Bermuda Project is also in the wings as

are Mindscape's King of Chicago -

challenging Capone for dominance of

the Windy City, Sinbad and the

Throne of the Falcon. Deja Vu.

Uninvited and the occult horrors of

Shadowgate. Also on the Spectrum

Holobyte label is Gato.

PSS added a to be announced'

date to Amiga games Spycatcher

(f.24.95), Leathernecks (t24.95) and

Power Struggle (C9.95).

TI•neSqli announced that Amiga

owners could exercise their joysticks

with the October releases of Plutos and

Mousetrap. Formula One Grand Prix

will follow. All are on the MicroValue

label at t 14.95.

Dutch company Aackosof/

announced an Amiga version of their

hit aircraft carrier game, Flightdeck.

Mastertronic and sister company

Melbourne House announced a large

number of new games at i.:14.95 and

the company in the UK has resulted in

some sensible pricing for software

which was originally imported and

sold at inﬂated prices. For instance

Arctic Fox, Adventure Construction

Set and Marble Madness are now

£19.95: Skyfox and Seven Cities of

Gold are E14.95. Instant Music,

Chessmaster 2000, Bard's Tale and

Deluxe Print are £24.95, as is new

release Earl Weaver Baseball. Deluxe

Paint 2. Deluxe Video and Deluxe

Music Construction Set are £69.95.

Skidding in for the winter months will

be new releases Formula I Racing and

Test Drive.

software houses are taking the Amiga

seriously, at last.

Ocean showed ECO. Developed by

Denton Design speciﬁcally for 16 bit

machines, ECO simulates an

ecosphere, a self-supporting natural

environment which is depicted in 3D

scrolling landscapes. The objective of

the game is survival. Beginning life as

an amoeba, the player must evolve

through ﬁ sh and fauna stages.

eventually achieving human status.

Electrionic Arts contribution to the

autumn should be interesting and it's

worth remarking that the presence of

Wi r Tar i ate% Strike Force Harrier

YOUR AMIGA january 1988

NEWS

VideoTitler contains a range of

facilities for attractive screen

presentations and titling in all screen

modes with multiple colours and

styles. Amiga fonts and 'polytext'

fonts - made up of polygons - can be

entered anywhere on screen and

moved around at will and I FT

pictures, including colour cycling, can

be loaded as backdrops. 3D block, thin

edge, neon and emboss are among the

20 styles available and the user can

DIY new types.

Clip and paste, mirror image,

compression, distortion, inversion and

tile animation are apparently all

possible. VideoSeg, an I FE slide show

program, is included. This allows

wipes in nine directions, fades and

dissolves, block effects such as

diamond, checker, drizzle and spiral in

and out. Manual and automatic modes

are available, parts of slide shows can

be selected and accurate timing

incorporated.

If your Amiga and your video

recorder are thinking of getting

together then VideoTitler looks

interesting.

If you taped any World Cup

matches last Summer '86 then you may

have seen Aegis Images in action.

Apparently the giant animated logo in

the stadium in Mexico City was

created with Aegis Images on an

Amiga or two!

Aegis' next co-operation is going to

be with the CD-ROM technology CD-

Interactive. CD-1 will retain a CD-

ROM drive, audio and video

processors, 68070 processor and

operating system in one box. CD-I

cannot at the moment play live video

but can animate the thousands of

frames stored. Frames from animation

packages such as Aegis Images can be

stored on CD-I for playback via the

computer.

Already the Sachs Enterprises

artists are working for Aegis on

storyboards for four CD-I titles: Fl

Circuit International Formula One,

The Seven Temples of Cortez, Mission

Space Station, 20,000 Leagues Under

the Sea.

Aegis has standardised its prices

for the British market with Sonix at

1:50. VideoTider at 1:60, VideoScape

31) at £125 and Draw Plus at £160 and

Animator/Images at £90. Audio

Master will cost £40.00.

Aegis is also embarking on PAL

program conversions and the

translation of manuals for

VideoTitler, VideoScape 3D and Aegis

Draw Plus for the European market.

£19.95 respectively.

Robtek came up with Extensor and

Alien Strike to add to Swooper and

the naughty Hollywood Poker. All

priced at £19.95.

Anco were showing Emerald

Mines, Pinball Wizard, Go Cart

Racing and Sprite Designer. There was

also Micro Base, Cale and Text.

Nine Tiles had networking for

business machines, among them the

Amiga 2000.

Precision showed Superbase

Professional which offers a high level

programming language, a new forms

editor to design screen and printed

forms to a high level of sophistication

and a text editor which is integrated

into the database.

There are 200 commands and fully

customised systems can be created

including new pull-down menus and

pop-up selection panels. Price £249.95.

Taw

Info-Mat

Bitstream Publishing has come up with

a simple but attractive idea, the Info-

mat, a cross between a mouse mat and

a reference guide. The mat contains a

listing of all Amiga DOS commands

on one side with explanations- and

syntax while the second side reveals the

mysteries of Guru Meditation

numbers. The mat is available direct

from Bitstream.

liina announced the availability

of their K-Spread 2 spreadsheet in the

very near future, priced at £79.97.

Enigma Publishing announced the

advent of a new Amiga magazine

aimed at serious users. The focus of

attention will be on features, business

reviews and technical support.

Josty UK had all those useful hurler

boxes and switching units and Amiga

printer cables.

1.3, a much reﬁned version including

cut and paste between packages (such

as Scribble!).

Pioneer is a low cost version of

Acquisition without the programming

language. Also from Taurus, the BEST

business management integrated

accounting system and City Desk.

Nucleus Software showed an

Amiga 2000 based supervisory control

system. GEFICS, as it is known.

manipulates data collected from a

logic controller or keyed in. Output is

displayed in colour graphics.

Cadvision exhibited X-CAD, a 2D

CAD program for Amiga 2000, price

C.399-1- VAT. Also for the 2000. Artisan

graphics workstation from Burocare.

System Architects impressed with

their rolling point-of-sale system,

again based on the 2000, They also

have an interactive training system.

Micro APL announced a new

£99.95 price tag for their Amiga API,

language and showed Microspan, a

self-teach package priced at £49.95.

HBML launches the Sunword

£99.95 wordprocessor. A pparenti

Sunword is highly successful in

Europe. Also available was Micro-

Illusions' Firepower.

Amiga Centre Scotland had Scot

Peterson. President of Byte by Bytes.

on their stand demonstrating Sculpt

3D. There was also Animator's

Apprentice, Express Paint, AiRT and

Doug's Maths Aquarium - the latter a

'different' approach to programming.

Advanced Memory Systems

announced that its current PC DTP

product, Finesse, will be available on

the Amiga.

The MCL092, 3 meows primer cable from Jaw UK

YOUR AMIGA january 1988

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