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The essential magazine for Amiga enthusiasts
rage
From humble
floppy to high-
end dual drives.
We test the lot!
Issue 55 November 1995 £ 3.99
Picture perfect!
Choose a new monitor from
our pick of the latest on
the market
HiSoft BASIC
Full details
of disks on
back cover
ShopperReviews
• Fiber Factory: Follically-
challenged? This new hair
generation program may help.
• InfoNEXUS 2: Brand new
version of the multimedia file
manager from Optonica.
• MainActor Professional: The latest upgrade to the
Shareware image conversion package.
• Cybervision64: The great new 24-bit graphics board
from Gordon Harwoods.
• Apollol 230:50MHz 030 accelerator for under £200.
• DataFlyer: Internal SCSI connector for A1 200.
• Plus! The latest CD-ROMs.
ShopperTutorials
3D
A new tutorial written by Mojo of Foundation Imaging -
if you like Babylon 5 you’ll love this!
DTP
The second installment of our DTP tutorial. This month
we discuss which software is right for you.
C programming
The subject of the month is portability. We tell you how
to make your code convertible.
Comms
We explain how to produce links to other Internet sites
and include them in your World Wide Web pages.
New-look Public Domain
We’ve completely re-vamped PD Select. It’s
slidker, it’s comprehensive, and it now includes
Licenceware and Internet sections.
PLUS! Amiga questions answered
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Who’s Who
Editorial ^^WKhTopperWelcome
The essential magazine for Amiga enthusiasts
E ditor: Sue Grant
C onsultant Editor: Nick Veitch
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A rt E ditor: Nick Aspell
C overdisk Editor/Technical W riter: David Taylor
P roduction Editor: Nick Harper
C ontributors:
Mojo, Toby Simpson, Larry Hickmott, Gary Whiteley, Darren Irvine,
John Kennedy, Graeme Sandiford and Paul Overaa
Photography: Stuart Baynes
Cover im age: Barry McCarthy, Mirashade
A dvertisem ent M anager: Tony Hickman
S enior Sales Executive: Diane Clarke
P roduction M anager: Richard Gingell
P roduction C o-ordinators: Charlotte Brock, Colette Varga
P roduction Technicians: Jon Moore, Mark Gover,
Simon Windsor, Chris Stocker, Brian Hook, Jason Titley
and Oliver Gibbs
G roup P roduction M anager: Judith Green
P rint Services M anager: Matthew Parker
P rint Services C o-ordinator: Janet Anderson
Paper C ontroller: Fiona Deane
P roduction A dm inistrator: Cathy Rowland
C irculation M anager: Jon Bickley
D istribution: Sue Hartley
Publisher: Simon Stansfield E-m ail sstansfield@futurenet.co.uk
Joint M anaging D irector: Greg Ingham
C hairm an: Nick Alexander
P rinted by: Southernprint Ltd, Poole, Dorset
ISSN 0961-7302 Printed in the UK
News Tfrade D istribution - U K and w orldw ide:
Future Publishing ® 01225 442244
Rush down to your local Escom shop and buy yourself a new
Amiga. They’re back on the shelves!
Y es, it's true! You can now get
Houses and User
Groups on
our Coverdisks.
Talking of Public
Domain, we've
re-vamped our PD
section this month.
David and Nick have
changed it beyond
recognition. They've
included a selection of
the best Licenceware and Internet programs
available too - which will appear every month
from now on. You'll find it all on page 68.
We decided monitors were the next bits of
kit to undergo our scrutiny in a Supertest, which
explains why John Kennedy's office was overrun
by huge boxes and he nearly did his back in
carrying them about! And David has written the
feature this month on storage for your Amiga.
He's been itching to write this piece for months,
so this time we let him.
We have another excellent competition for
you too. You could win a Canon BJC-600e
printer worth £450 - we tested one in our
printers Supertest back in issue 51. We were so
impressed with it that we gave it 91 per cent
and a Star buy.
As we always say
in Talking Shop, we
want to hear from you!
Tell us what you think
of the price of Amigas
these days, or what
you would like to see
featured in AS, or just
write and tell us how much you enjoy reading
the magazine!
Don't forget you can reserve your next issue
of Amiga Shopper at your local newsagents -
turn to page 82 for the form you can use. ■
hold of a brand spanking new
Amiga. Simply walk into your
local Escom shop and they
should be sitting proudly on
the shelves. For the full story turn to page 14.
You may have noticed that Amiga Shopper
is a little thinner than usual. But don't panicl We
have actually cut the advertising pages and kept
the editorial content very much intact, so you'll
still find a huge Supertest every month, and lots
of reviews and tutorials, not to mention your
Coverdisk instructions and a feature or two, plus
Amiga Answers and Public Domain. The main
difference is that now you'll find the list of PD
Your guarantee of value
This magazine comes from Future Publishing, a company
founded just 10 years ago but now selling more computer
magazines than any other publisher in Britain.
Better advice. Our titles are packed with tips, suggestions and explanatory
features, written by the best in the business.
Stronger reviews. We have a cast-iron policy of editorial independence, and
our reviews give clear buying recommendations.
Clearer design. You need solid information and you need it fast. So our
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summary boxes, annotated photographs and so on.
Greater relevance. At Future, editors operate under two golden rules:
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More reader interaction. We draw strongly on readers’ contributions,
resulting in the liveliest letters pages and the best reader tips.
Better value for money. More pages, better quality: magazines you
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Copyright © 1995 Future Publishing Ltd. No part of this magazine may
be reproduced without written permission. We welcome contributions for
publication but regret that we cannot return any submissions. Contributions are
accepted only on the basis of full assignment of copyright to Future Publishing.
Any correspondence will be considered for publication unless you specifically
state otherwise, and we resen/e the right to edit letters published.
M em ber o f the A ud it Bureau o f C irculation
Audited circulation January to June 1995: 21,198
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How to contact Amiga Shopper
EDITORIAL AND ADVERTISING:
30 Monmouth Street, Bath, Avon BA1 2BW.
^01225 442244 Fax: 01225 446019
EDITORIAL: Send all press releases, feature
submissions and ideas to Sue Grant.
COVERDISKS: If you have a contribution, commercial
or otherwise, that you would like to submit for
consideration for the Coverdisks, send it to David Taylor.
READER ENQUIRIES: Amiga Shopper is
available for phone enquiries every Wednesday
between 10 am and 5.30pm. Please make sure your
call is necessary.
FUTURENET: You can also contact us, or browse
through a selection of Amiga articles, tutorials etc. on
FutureNet. Point your WWW browser at:
ADVERTISING: If you want to place an
advertisement in Amiga Shopper, contact Tony
Hickman or Diane Clarke on S 01225 442244.
ADVERTISING COMPLAINTS:
If you have a complaint about an advertiser in
Amiga Shopper, then contact Sophie Collins on
S' 01225 442244.
CUSTOMER SERVICES: 'S 01225 822510
SUBSCRIPTIONS:
Turn to page 66 for a subscription to Amiga
Shopper, if you already have a subscription, but have
a query, write to:
Future Publishing Ltd, FREEPOST (BS4900),
Somerton TA11 6BR, or S '01225 822511.
Annual subscription rate: The subscription rate
for 12 issues of Amiga Shopper including postage is
£47.40 (UK), £55.80 (EC), £68.40 (Rest Of World).
Sue Grant
Editor
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contents of issue 55 a
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November 1995
Issue 55
ShopperContents
The essential magazine for Amiga enthusiasts
ShopperTutorials
3D animation____
Mojo, animator on the hit TV series, Babylon 5,
kicks off the first in our 3D animation series. If
you've got an Amiga and you want to get
seriously 3D, page 54 is where you have to be.
Comms__________ 58
So you’ve got your Web site up and running
(AS53),.and you've created your own pages
(AS54). Now all you need is to create links from
one page to another. Darren Irvine switches
on his modem and explains how.
DeskTop Publishing 60
In part two of our DTP tutorial series, Larry
Hickmott examines the different software
packages available for the budding publisher.
C programming___ 62
Portable code. It sounds confusing, but is
actually very useful. If you write in portable code
you can convert your Amiga best-seller to
another computer with ease. Toby Simpson
reveals all (not literally, thank goodness).
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ShopperFeatures
ShopperReviews
Storage solutions__ 20
Having a floppy drive just isn't
enough these days. The obvious
suggestion is to move to a hard
drive. Or are there other
alternatives? David Taylor takes a
look at all the forms of storage available.
Cybervision64_
Forget HAM and AGA, anyone who's
really into cool graphics wants
millions of colours and ultra-high
resolution displays. Which means
getting your hands on a 24-bit
graphics card. Graeme Sandiford reviews a
top board that adds a whole new dimension to
your display.
DataFlyer 39
If you’ve already used up your PCMCIA slot and
trapdoor, you might have thought that SCSI was
beyond your reach. The DataFlyer might change
all that. David Taylor looks at a SCSI adapter
that fits into your internal IDE port.
Apollo 1230 40
Only last month we gave the Apollo 1 220 turbo
a Star buy award. But before we could get used
to the speed, a faster accelerator has zoomed
into the offices. This time you can add 50MHz
030 processing power to your A1 200. David
Taylor puts on his lycra and go-faster stripes.
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Picture perfect! _
If you’ve ever had an Amiga attached
to a television set, you'll know how
poor the picture quality is compared
to a monitor. Darren Irvine takes
you through the visual world of
monitors, explaining how they work, and giving,
as usual, the Amiga Shopper definitive review.
Canon competition_45
The £450 Canon BJC-600e capitalises on
Canon's colour Bubblejet technology. And
now you can win it in another top Amiga
Shopper competition.
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ShopperRegulars
Coverdisks_________ 6
An incredible 5Mb of software is bursting out of
this month’s disks, including HiSoft BASIC v1,
complete. For brief details see page 5.
News_____________ 14
Amigas are back on sale with a software bundle
worth around £460.
Amiga Answers. 46
Once again the Amiga experts don their thinking
caps and solve your riddles. Printers, monitors,
3D, programming. It’s all there.
ShopperReviews
Fiber Factory
Are you fed up with having rendered people
with silky-smooth skin? Are you trying to create
the designer-stubble look? If so, you need to
read Gary Whiteley’s review of Fiber Factory,
a hair-generating add-on for LightWave.
CD-ROMs 44
Just two CD-ROMs this month, but
think of it as quality not quantity.
There's an electronic encyclopedia
to rival Encarta on the PC, and
Aminet 7, the latest instalment in the
hugely successful Aminet series. As usual,
David Taylor casts a critical eye.
ShopperServices
InfoNEXUS 2 35
A new version of InfoNEXUS from
Optonica has won over David
Taylor. With excellent image
manipulation, this file manager is the
choice for multimedia users.
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Public Domain___
A new-look PD section. It’s awesome!
Letters ___________ 80
If you've got something to say here’s the place
to say it. Plus! 25 quid for letter of the month.
Next month_____
Another packed Amiga Shopper, on sale
Tuesday, 17th October. It’s better than life.
MainActor Pro ___
Although the Amiga is the best home graphics
computer in the world, it’s often frustrating to
see an image or animation on a different
computer. Gary Whiteley finds the solution -
a complete graphic conversion package.
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Reader Ads
Mail Order
Subscriptions
Back Issues
Market Place
Ad Index___
Mojo, from Foundation Imaging, is back with the
first of another series of 3D tutorials.
Win a Canon BJC-600e printer. Turn to page
45 to find out how.
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ShopperContents
Issue 55
November 1995
ShopperDisks
P i c t u r e p e r f e c t
p 2 6
We come bearing disks. Rather stonking
ones, as it happens (and it does happen
consistantly on Amiga Shopper). There's
two full packages, plus a whole load of
ShopperChoice PD programs.
HiSoft BASIC_____6
Get into programming with the complete
BASIC package from HiSoft. You can also
take advantage of our excellent upgrade
offer exclusive to AS readers.
Two brilliant programs to delight 3D
enthusiasts. There's FreeForm, the object
editor, and Texture Studio for Imagine.
Another three fab utilities for you to use to
improve your Workbench.
In the first of an exclusive series, AS teams
up with F1 Licenceware to bring you their
most popular titles, full and complete.
A new zone, bringing you comprehenisve
directories to PD houses and User Groups.
To complement this month's storage
feature, find a set of programs here to help
you get the most out of your drives.
On top of this month’s Application Zone,
we’ve collected several LightWave objects.
ProgrammingZone_12
A full Intuition interface for the DICE C
compiler this month.
CreativeZone_____12
In response to your requests, we tracked
down a collection of icons for you to use
to brighten up your Workbench.
The Amiga Shopper Supertest goes from strength to strength.
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 is of immediate interest to our readers.
But more than that. Not only do we give you the definitive low-down
on the top monitors avaiable, but we provide you with in-depth
knowledge on the Amiga display set-up - how monitors work, which
types of monitor are best for your needs, and what all that
terminology stands for Don’t just read the
Supertest for the reviews, read
it to become an expert.
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A M IG A SH O PPER 5
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