AmigaShopper52-Aug95.pdf

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Issue 52 August 1995 £3.99

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Ami-FileSafe, applications,

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ShopperReviews

• Check out Samsung’s new

SyncMaster monitor.

• We review the latest incarnation

of the world's best multimedia

presentation and information

display program, Scala MM400.

• Keep your life on track with Digita's Organiser.

• Final Data 2: the update of SoftWood’s database.

• Ami-FileSafe is a brand new commercial file system

from Fourth Level Developments.

• Flexi-Link: Parnet is finally challenged.

• Plus: 19 new CD-ROMs reviewed.

S h o p pe rT utor ials

Photogenics

Create stunning effects by combining images. We

show you how easy it is.

Assembler

We explain how to by-pass the Operating System in

the penultimate Assembler tutorial.

DICE

Make debugging as painless as possible. (The listings

are on the Coverdisks.)

Comms

Make the transition from using an off-line reader to

becoming a Fidonet Point.

When is an Amiga not an Amiga? Now your

computer cgfi emulate PCs, Macs and more!

Interview

Scala’s Amiga plans.

the makers of

DELIVERY TARIFFS

n I 7 9 *1 I QAAA

I HOW TO ORDER

Order by telephone quoting your credit

card number. If paying by cheque please

make payable to: "FIRST C O M PU TER

CENTRE" In any correspondence please

quote a phone number, post code & Dept.

Allow 5 working days cheque clearance

S H O W R O O M A D D R E S S :

DEPT. AS, UNIT3, ARMLEYPARK

COURT, STANNINGLEY RD,

LEEDS, L S I2 2AE.

• Standard delivery

£1.95

T e l e p h o n e V I I J A < J I

• Standard delivery

£1.95

24 H O U R M AIL ORDER SERVICE FAX: 01 13 2319 19 1

NEW! BBS Modem sales & technical line Tel 0 1 13 2311422

AMIGA REPAIR

CENTRE

I We offer a FREE quotation on your I

Am iga or any I

peripheral!

(monitors, printers I

etc). A delivery tariff I

of just £5 00

ged .

•natively you c;

our showroom. I

I W e can also arrange a courier pickup I

• 2-3 W eek Days

£2.95

• Next W eek Day

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Delivery subject to stock

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• Multi-million pound company

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Tel. 01 13 2319444

Hard Drives

3.5" H ard Disk

Drives

w ith A I 200/600

install kit

(W e recommend 3.5" drives be

fitted by fully qualified

com puter engineers)

inc. software, cables and instructions

260M b..£l54.99 420M b...£l69.99

540M b..£184.99 850Mb...£259.99

3.5" H/drive upgrade kit n o HD

o n ly !!£ l8 .9 9

I Includes set up software, cables and full

instructions.

F ittin g service available if required.

RAM Expansion

RIMA

1 R e a lise th e fu ll p o te n tia l o f y o u r A I2 0 0

I w ith th e P rim a T e c h n o lo g ie s tr a p d o o r

I R A M e x p a n s io n , in c lu d e s re a l tim e c lo c k .

I MB RAM £89.99

| 2 MB RAM £125.99

4 MB RAM £189.99

I 8 MB RAM £333.99

|| 2 MB & 33 M H z C O PRO £163.99

4 M B & 3 3 M H z C O PRO £214.99

| 8 M B & 3 3 M H z C O PRO £357.99

P art exchange available on your

old m em o ry, C all fo r pricing.

A500/500+/600 RAM Expansion

1 PRIMA A500 512k RAM (no clock) £ 19.99

I PRIMA A500 Plus I Mb RAM

CD ROM Drives

a i i n a

A CD -300 .

® l.argo LCD operation panel

• SCSI 2 interface

Monitors

A ll o u r m o n ito rs com p ly to U K

specifications. A ll m o n ito rs com e com p le te

w ith con ne cting leads*.

Microvitec

Autoscan 1438

.28 dpi, 15/38 K H z, all A m ig a

m odes, A G A com p atib le . N o

audio, t ilt & sw ivell stand.

only £274.99

*A I20 0's require an adaptor £6.99 extra

NEW!! A M IT E K 1084-S

14" ste re o c olo ur C G A m o n ito r. Ideal fo r both

th e gam e p layer and th e m o re serious user.

only £195.99

T ilt and sw ivel stand on ly £9.99 w hen

purchased w ith m o n ito r

A ll m o n ito r dust covers only £5.99

2.5" H a rd D rives fo r A 6 00/

A I 200 w ith installation kit

inc. software, screws, cables and instr.

60Mb...£99.99 130Mb...£ I 19.99

80Mb...£l04.99 250Mb...£l79.99

All drives supplied by The First

Com puter Centre have a m inimum 12

month warranty and are tested to

ensure 100% compatibility.

Full range of SCSI & IDE

drives always in stock, call!!

A 6 0 0 /I2 0 0

_ Hard Drive

^ U iU a J I set up software

£ 5 .9 9

O N LY

• 300kjV’C data transfer 275ms access time

•Audio CD dedicated operation buttons £169.99

• Supports Kodak multisession photo CD

Sanyo-H94AX2 £126.99

• 320Ms Access tim e*3 00 K B transfer rate.

Plextor-PX43CSX4 £239.99

• 150Ms Access tim e»660K B transfer rate.

Nakamichi-MBR7 £335.99

•A llo w s up to 7 C D ROM disks to be installed.

• Fully SCSI II com patible *D u a l speed drive

Dataflyer4000SX-25 £89.99

SCSI II interface card, allows connection o f any

SCSI device into big box A m iga’s.

Squirrel SCSI interface £40.00

W hen bought w ith drive, £54.99 separate.

£29.99

I PRIMA A600 I Mb RAM (no clock)

£29.99

Floppy Drives

Memory Modules

I M b 72 Pin SIM M

I 2 Mb 72 Pin SIM M

I 4 M b 7 2 Pin SIM M

* Mb 72 Pin SIM M

I I 6 M b 72 pin SIM M

I I Mb 30 pin SIM M

4 M b 3 0 pin SIM M

256 by 4 DRAM (DILs)

I M bby4ZIPPS

| 256by4ZIPPS

P art exchange avai

old m em o ry, Call

Scanners

PowerScanv4. £105.99 1

256 g/scale on AG A Amigas, 64 g/scale non AGA

PowerScan Col. £204.99 |

24 bit colour scanner, 16.7 million colours

I Alpha Scan 800 £99.99 |

800 dpi, 256 g/scale, works on all Amigas

AlphaScan256 £139.99

256 g/scale,full OCR software.req. HD to use OCR

Epson G T8500 £549.99

30 bit flatbed scanner, gives superb results, requires

A rt Department scanning software, price £99.99

Genlocks

RENDALE

hama292 £275.99

I S-Video, and com p osite com p atib le

hama290 £669.99

I S-Video,and compositemixing,plusfarmore

hamaA-Cuteditor £179.99!

Rendale8802FMC £159.99

I Superb e n try level genlock, w ith pro features

Rendale9402 £285.99

| Full fe atu red , Super-VH S genlock

£39.99

£79.99

£130.99

£262.99

£399.99

£34.99

£1 10.99

(each)£6.99

(each)£32.99

(each)£5.99 |

lable on your

fo r pricing.

SONY DELUXE 3.5"

EXTERNAL DRIVE.

£ 5 4 . 9 9 ^ 2 ^ 0 1

AMITEK

C U M A N A E x t.d riv e O N L V !!£ 4 9 .9 9 I

I m b ext. the best name in drives.

A 1 2 0 0 /6 0 0 internal drive

only £59.99

The amazing new graphics tablet for the Amiga

developed with the help of First Computers. 94%

rated in Amiga Shopper. Requires 2.04 W B or

I above.

£ 3 9 .9 9 I

A 5 0 0 /5 0 0 + ln te rn a l drive

£ 3 9 .9 9

Printers

Canon

I NEW ! Canon BJ30 £204.99

I Compact Portable mono printer, 30 page ASF built in.

NEW / Canon B JC 70C olour £299.99

I High quality Portable colour printer, 30 page ASF built in.

NEW ! Canon BJ200ex £229.99

I High speed,high quality mono printer, virtual 720 dpi.

I Canon BJC 4000Colour £299.99

I High quality colour, super fast mono printing 360x360 dpi.

I N£VV/CanonBJC600eColour £439.99

I New enhanced, dedicated colour printer, virtual 720 dpi.

H E W L E T T ®

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500

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• Silent & Adaptive Answer • Unique LCD Display

• V34 Standard • flash ROM

• NComm Software # 5 Year Warranty

only £199.99

Is it a bargain th e size o f a H ippo's Bum? .

Y ou Betcha!! - A m ig a C om pu ting O ct. 1994

£4.49

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£142.99

£253.99

| All disks are guaranteed 100%. All branded disks come with labels |

MULTI

COLOUR

Disk la b e ls

500 £6.99

1000 £9.99

10 C apacity box £0.99

50 C apacity lockable box £3.99

100 C apacity lockable box £5.49

*90C apacity B anxbox £10.99

* 150 C apacity Posso box £20.99

100 C apacity C D holder £4.99

*add £3.00 delivery if purchasing just one Posso or

Banx box. Normal delivery when purchased with

other product or when buying 2 or more.

£3.49

£9.99

£15.99

£29.99

£52.99

£118.99

£21 1.99

Citizen printers have a 2 year guarantee

ABC Colour printer £145.99

simple (as easy as ABC) to use 24 pin printer. Comes as

standard with 50 sheet Auto sheet feeder.

Tractor feed optional at £27.99

only £ 134.99 if bought without the colour option

NEW Z/Projet II C o lo u r £254.99

New colour inkjet printer with built in auto sheet feeder

N £W //P rojet3 m ono £P O A

High quality 720 dpi mono printer, 3 p/p/m, 3 year warranty.

S u p r a s S M m M o d e m v.32bis

This modem has full 14400 baud, includes V.32bis, V.32,

V.22bis, V22, V2I, MNP2-5, V.42, V42bis, Class I & 2

commands, 9600/14400 Group 3 Fax. Includes free mo

dem comms (not Fax)s

SuprarmmModem \44 LC

V.32 bis (14400 baud !)

only £152.99

[Mobotics

W E ARE PREFERRED USR DEALERS

now only £96.99

Supra modems are not BABT approved, however they

perform as well & often out perform BABT approved

modems. Supra Modems have a 5 year limited warranty

£269.99

S ta r LC 1009 pin Colour £121.99

9 pin colour printer, 8 NLQ fonts, 180 cps draft.

S ta r LC 90 9 pin m ono £102.99

9 pin mono printer, ASF built in, push tractor optional.

S ta r LC 24024 pin mono £117.99

24 pin mono printer, 192 cps draft,with ASF built in.

S ta r LC 240C 24 pin Colour £134.99

24 pin colour printer ASF built in, 4 LQ fonts.

S ta r SJ I 44 Colour £229.99

Stunning affordable colour thermal transfer printer, low

running costs, 3 p/p/m mono, 1.4 p/p/m colour.

I Colour upgradeable mono ink jet.

] H P 320/540 C o lo u r upgrade £36.99

NEW! H P 660 C o lo u r

£389.99

I New colour inkjet from HP.

| H P 4 L la s e rp rin te r

£469.99

144 £146.99

Amazing price reduction on

Courier Dual Standard V34

now only!! £319.99

288

only £225.99

fe atu res V34, 28,800 BPS,

B A B T approved

ught V32bis was fast try V 34 (28.800 bps).

EPSON

I E psonS tyluscolour £449.99

I Up to 720 dpi, 100 sheet ASF, Piezo printhead technology.

I Epson Stylus 800+ £239.99

I 360 dpi, 100 sheet ASF, dedicated mono printer.

Software

CD Software

Consumables

R ibbons

i Citizen Swift/ABC mono £3.99

| Citizen Swift/ABC colour £12.99

I Star LC90 mono ribbon £4.99

| Star LC 10 /100 mono £3.69

I Star LC 10/100 colour £7.99

1 Star LC240c colour £13.99

I Star LC240c mono £8.99

I Star LC240 mono £5.99

[ Star LC24-10/200/300 Colour £ 13.99

| Re-Ink Spray for mono ribbons £ I 1.99

MOST O TH ER MAKES AVAILABLE

P R E M IE R -IN K

C a rtrid g e R efills

I Save a fo rtu n e in ru n n in g costs w ith y o u r in k/

I bu bb le je t. C o m p a tib le w ith th e H P D e s k je t

I s e rie s , C a n o n BJI 0 /2 0 /8 0 /1 3 0 /2 0 0 /3 0 0 /3 3 0 ,

1 S ta r SJ48, C itiz e n P ro je t and m an y o th e rs.

I F ull range o f c o lo u rs ava ilab le .

| Single refills

Peripherals

Viper I 28 mhz £114.99

Viper II 28 mhz £139.99

NEW Mega Mouse+ £14.49

MegaMc>use400Dpi90%£l 1.49

True Mouse 300 Dpi £10.99

Crystal T rackball £34.99

ZyFi-2 Speakers £26.99

ZyFi Pro Speakers £57.99

Am iga M odulator £34.99 I

Amiga PSU £34.99 |

Turbotech realtime clock

cartridge £17.99 fits any Amiga

Chips

.................. ......................[

£30.99

£26.99

£18.99

£13.99

£10.99

£34.99

£44.99

17 Bit Collection £28.99

17 Bit Continuation £14.49

17 Bit Phase 4 £14.49

17 Bit/LSD compendium 1 £16.99

17 Bit/LSD compendium 2 £16.99

Am inet5 £14.49

Am inet collection (Box set 4 CD's) £24.99

Assassins CD £16.99

CD-PD 1 £8.99

CD-PD 2 £8.99

CD-PD 3 £8.99

CD-PD 4 £8.99

Dem o CD 1 £8.99

Dem o CD 2 £8.99

DeskTop Video CD £13.99

EuroScene 1 £9.99

GIFs Galore £14.10

GoldFish 1 £24.49

GoldFish 2 £24.49

lllusionsCD £8.99

Light ROM £37.99

M ultiM ediaToolKit 2 (2xCD's) £27.99

Netw ork CD £12.49

Professional Fonts £16.99

Ten on Ten pack (1 OxCD's) £35.99

Towns of Tunes £16.99

W P D Fonts £ 12.49

W P D Hottest 4 £12.49

W P D Utils 1-1500 £12.49

PRIMA CD-ROM Vol. ONE

510Mb offonts, artwork, photo's, demos, utils, games

now only £16.99

Ink Cartridges

Canon BJ 10/Star SJ48 £ 19.99 I

Canon Bj200/230 £19.99

Canon BJ30 (3 pack) £13.99 I

Canon BJC 70 mono (3 pack) £ 10.99 I

Canon BJC 70 colour (3 pack) £16.99 I

Canon BJC 4000 colour (single) £16.99 I

Canon BJC 4000 m ono (single) £7.99 1

Canon BJC 4000 monohi capacity £28.99 I

Canon BjC 600e mono £6.99 I

Canon BjC 600e colour £8.99 I

HP.Deskjetcolour £26.99 I

HP. Deskjet double mono £24.99 1

HP. Deskjet660 double mono £25.99 1

HP.Deskjet 660 colour £27.99

Epson Stylus mono £15.99 I

Epson Stylus colour £36.99 I

Star SJ 144 m ono/colour (single) £7.99 I

C o v e rs

All printer dust covers

■ S S L V ID II2 A G A

SSUSK5S only!! £59.99

I NEW V ID I 24 RT£I 34.99

I Real tim e colour digitising from any video source.

I Full AGA support. Inc. 12 Volt PSU.

V ID I 24 RTPRO £214.99

Music/Sound

I A u ra 12 b it sam pling

SP EC IA L O FFER !! M usic X 1.1

I P ro M idi Interface

I T echno Sound T u rb o 2

I T ecno Sound T urbo

£74.99

£19.99

£24.99

£28.99

£20.99

Utilities

N E W !! D ire c to ry O pus 5

£59.99

G P F A X 2 .3 softw are

£49.99

(22m l)

£6.99

£5.99 |

X C o py P ro V2 plus hardw are

£24.99

| Twin refills

(44m l)

£12.99

Paper

Prices apply only w hen o rd ered w ith p rin te r o

purchased d ire c t fro m th e show room

Fanfold (tractor feed) 500 sheets £4.99 I

Fanfold (tractor feed) 1000 sheets £8.99

Fanfold (tractor feed) 2000 sheets £17.99

Single sheet 500 sheets £4.99 I

Single sheet 1000 sheets £8.99 I

Single sheet 2000 sheets £17.99 f

Delivery for 2000 sheets £5.00 when purchased without I

printer

Epson Stylus 720 dpi paper (pack) £22.99 |

Printer repair specialists call for quote..

NEW !! Discology

£35.99

I Three colour kit (66m l)

£19.99

| NEW !! C D B o ot 1.0

£29.99

Kickstart3.0

Kickstart 2.04

Kickstart 2.05 (for use in A600)

Fatter Agnes 8375

Super Denise

6571 -0326 Keyboard controller

C IA 8520A I/O controller

68882 Co Pro 25m hzPLCC

1 68882 Co Pro 33mhzPLCC______________

SPECIAL LIMITED OFFER!!

I Full colour kit

(88m l)

£27.99

Video & Graphics

I N EW /JDeluxe P a in t5 £69.99

D istan t Suns 5 £29.99

M ake Path fo r V ista £8.99

Special offer!! Lightwave £399.99

I V ista P ro 3(4M b required) £29.99

W o rd Processing/DTP

I Final Writer DTPNEWI! £69.99

I Final C opy V2 U K ..N ew Low Price! £48.99

1 Penpal__________________________________£29.99

| Bulk refills

(125m l)

£24.99

Miscellaneous

I Printer Switch Box 2 way

£ 12.99

Printer Switch Box 3 way

£ 17.99

I Printer Stands (Universal)

£7.99

1 1.8 M etre printer cable

£4.99

I 3 M etre printer cable

£6.99

1 5 M etre printer cable

£8.99

I 10 M etre printer cable

£ 12.99

W orkbench 2.1 upgrade kit, includes

2.05 ROM/software and manual £64.99

| Parallel port extension cable

£9.99

Who’s Who

Editorial |J^S^hopperWelcome

The essential magazine for Amiga enthusiasts

Editor: Sue Grant

E-mail sgrant@futurenet.co.uk

Consultant Editor: Nick Veitch

A rt Editor: Nick Aspell

Production Editor: Anna Grenstam

Coverdisk Editor/Technical W riter: David Taylor

Contributors:

Toby Simpson, Larry Hickmott, Jason Holborn, Graeme Sandiford,

Gary Whiteley, Darren Irvine, John Kennedy, Steve McGill, Steve

Jarratt, R. Shamms Mortier, Jason Compton and Paul Overaa

Photography: Pete Canning

Advertisement Manager: Tony Hickman

Senior Sales Executive: Diane Clarke

Production Manager: Richard Gingell

Production Co-ordinator: Charlotte Brock, Colette Varga

Production Technicians: Jon Moore, Mark Gover,

Simon Windsor, Chris Stocker, Brian Hook, Jason Titley

and Oliver Gibbs

Group Production Manager: Judith Green

Print Services Manager: Matthew Parker

Print Services Co-ordinator: Janet Anderson

Paper Controller: Fiona Deane

Production Administrator: Cathy Rowland

Circulation Manager: Jon Bickley

Distribution: Sue Hartley

Publisher: Simon Stansfield E-mail sstansfield@futurenet.co.uk

Joint Managing Director: Greg Ingham

Chairman: Nick Alexander

Escom and Amiga Technologies GmbH have promised to get

Amigas back in the shops by the Autumn.

T he future of the Amiga was

to find out the results

of his rigorous tests.

Our interview this

month is with Scala in

the States. Our US

correspondent,

R Shamms Mortier

asked them what they

had in mind for the

Amiga. This interview

was actually held

before the Escom press conference in Frankfurt

and the fact that Scala MM300 will now be

bundled with every Amiga on sale was not

confirmed at the time of writing.

You'll also find reviews of Scala MM400, a

three-page feature on emulators for the Amiga

and loads more reviews of the latest products,

plus two pages chock-a-block with CD-ROMs.

This month we have a special conference

with Almathera, producers of Photogenics, the

truly excellent image processing program. You'll

find the conference on page 66, just before our

Photogenics tutorial on page 68.

And don’t forget to write in to Talking Shop

to tell us what you think of Amiga Shopper and

what you would like to see featured in the mag.

outlined by Escom in a recent

press conference that Amiga

Shopper attended. We also asked

lots of companies associated with

the Amiga to comment on Escom's plans for the

Amiga and what they had lined up for the future.

Turn to page 14 to discover what Escom have in

store for our machine.

We have taken a slightly different tack on

the Coverdisks this month - we have an

exclusive demo of Fourth Level Developments'

new file system for professional users, Ami-

FileSafe. But, because that didn’t take up much

room, we crammed loads more useful programs

and utilities on to the disks too. You'll find

several new areas which are designated to

particular programs: for example, there's an

Application Zone, a Utility Zone, a Programming

Zone, a Technical Zone and a Creative Zone. All

these zones will appear on the disks every

month from now on and they will be packed with

relevant programs. So you should always find

something to interest you.

Back to the issue itself, we asked Larry

Hickmott to take a look at the latest in scanners

and tell us which are the best value for money.

He also mentions other methods for bringing

pictures into your Amiga, so you can make the

right buying decision for your particular

requirements. Turn to the Supertest on page 22

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Hickman on S' 01225 442244.

Turn to the Amiga Shopper Supertest on

page 22 to find the scanner for you.

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Issue 52

ShopperContents

August 1995

The essential magazine for Amiga enthusiasts

ShopperTutorials

Photogenics 68

In part 5 of Graeme Sandiford’s series of

Photogenics tutorials, he shows you how to

combine and compose two or more images.

Assembler 72

Fancy a bit of metal bashing? Toby Simpson

gives you a lesson in hardware registers and

other exciting bits of your Amiga's innards.

ShopperFeatures

ShopperReviews

DICE__________

Debugging is a pain. Toby Simpson knows

this better than anyone and he is the best man

to give you a few tips on how to make it easier.

Special report. ___ 14

Escom held a press conference in Frankfurt on

30th May and Amiga Shopper was there.

Organiser. 43

His desk might be untidy, but his

0 life is in order as David Taylor gets

to grips with Digita's rather fine

electronic filofax, Organiser.

scanner and what can it

do for you? Larry Hickmott

reviews and rates a selection of

flatbed and hand-held scanners.

Supertest

What is

Comms 81

How do you make the transition from using an

off-line reader to becoming a Fidonet Point?

Darren Irvine looks at Pointing software.

SyncMaster 17GLsi _44

Yes, it's a monitor; yes, it’s big; and yes, it’s

Samsung. Nick Veilch checks out the truth in

the saying “size isn't everything".

ShopperRegulars

Emulators

How do you turn your Amiga into a

PC, Mac, C64, Atari ST or a

Spectrum? David Taylor looks at a

wide variety of emulators.

Final Data 2 ____

Softwood have already released version 2 of

their database. David Taylor looks at what's

new and whether it's worth upgrading.

A MIGA

The Coverdisks. 6

David Taylor wants you to make the most of

the jam-packed Coverdisks this month and tells

you how to achieve it.

Amiga Answers

Ami-FileSafe 46

Ami-FileSafe is a new commercial filesystem.

David Taylor looks at the safety this system

offers versus its price and passes a verdict..

News 18

The latest of the greatest on the Amiga scene.

IRC conference____ 66

Almathera, makers of Photogenics, were special

guests at a recent Internet Relay Chat

conference. Jason Compton reports.

Interview 30

At Escom's recent press conference it was

revealed that Scala M M 300 was to be bundled

with every Amiga. R Shamms Mortier speaks

to Scala's John Hillman.

Flexi-Link 47

W ith so many Amiga-owners now having two

computers, could this parallel connector bring

the two closer? David Taylor hooks up.

CD-ROMs_________ 48

Can you believe it, David Taylor reviews a

staggering 19 new CD-RO Ms this month. Too

many to list here - just turn to page 48.

Public Domain

ShopperReviews

100

Letters_______

Take a look at the back cover and see if you

could have come up with a wittier caption -

there’s £ 2 5 in it if you can.

Scala MM400 36

Scala are definitely in the hotseat after the

announcement of the bundling of Scala M M 300

with future Amigas sold. Gary Whiteley

checks out the very latest incarnation of this

brilliant multimedia program.

ShopperServices

106

Next month___

Another information-packed issue of Amiga

Shopper is out on Tuesday, 25th July.

Mail order

Reader ads

Subscriptions

Books ______

_34

PD Houses

Market Place

User groups _

Ad index___

102

104

CD-ROMs provide ideal picture libraries from

clipart to 3D textures; you’ll find this and more.

Amiga Shopper found out what lies in store for

the Amiga at Escom’s recent press conference.

Back issues

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A MIGA SHOPPER

Issue 52

August 1995

ShopperContents

m a8azine for

,a e n th u s ia s ts

Epson’s G T-9000 is a superb flatbed scanner.

S u p e r t e s t _ 2 2

’afe> application

samples. clip art. ,

I' 1 ■ f)ro'l^unir>iiui {,><>

The Amiga Shopper Supertest is renowned for

being the most comprehensive and informative

head-to-head review in the Amiga business. Every

month we take a good, long look at what we know

are of immediate interest to our readers. In the last

few months we have covered programming

languages (AS47), modems (AS48), CD-ROMs

(AS49), genlocks (AS50) and printers (AS51). This

month, our DTP expert, Larry Hickmott, tells you

which scanner, flatbed or hand-held, is the most

suitable for your particular needs.

I n t e r v ie w :

Am»ga plans.

The Alfascan 800 is a high-res hand-scantier.

ShopperDisks - turn to page 6 for full instructions

An exclusive and fully-working demo

of Ami-FileSafe is just the mere

beginning for this month's

Coverdisks, which are literally

stuffed to the gills with 4Mb of

utilities, applications, Imagine and

LightWave objects, sound

samples, programming tools,

bitmap fonts, music modules,

clipart, CLI commands and so

much more!

They are all sorted into

suitable areas so you can simply

lay your hands on what you want

without any trouble whatsoever.

Thanks to a new archiver, there’s so

much packed on the Coverdisks that

there just has to be something for

everyone. Take a look for yourself...

There’s so much on this m onth’s disks that there’s ju st no space to

tell you about all the programs, utilities, music, clipart, tutorials, CLI

commands... Anyway, this is one o f the 3D objects that’s on there.

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