AmigaComputing_099_May_1996.pdf

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3 5MB on a high density disk.

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120

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1,76 XL DRIVE INTERNAL , 175

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FLOPPY EXPANDER

,110

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£35.95

135.95

DISK EXPANDER

PC881 A500

PC882 A2000 •

PC883 A600/1200

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850MB 2.5 IDE

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16MB GVP RAM

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A2000 68060

A 68060 accelerator board for the A20KI

running at 50MHz and allowing upti

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SCSI-II hard disk controller.

SX-32

SX-32 is an internal add-on card for your

CD32 and features: VGA port, RGB port,

parallel port, serial port, external disk

drive port (1.76M8), clock, controller for

2.5" hard disk, and a SIMM socket (up to

8MB). Turn your CD-32 into a Al200

E239

DISK EXPANDER (WITH HD PURCHASE) EIS

GENIUS

RAPID FIRE SCSI

Rapid Fire SCSlill controller card.

Install up to 8MB on•board, For the

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DKB RAPID FIRE SCSI-II , .1139.95

A2000 68040 (0MB RAM) .1629.95

A2000 68060 Come RAM) ..1799.95

4MB STANDARD ADD

5.95

SX-32 MODULE

E199.95

4MB GVP ADD

E159

CHIPS & SPARES

256 x 32 SIMM 72-PIN (1MB) , .140

512 X 32 SIMM 72-PIN (2MB) £75

1 x B SIMM 32-PIN (1MB) EPOA

4 X 8 SIMM 32-PIN (4M8) EPOA

1 X 4 STATIC COLUMN A3000 ...125

i X 4 DiP

A 0 'I' •I:

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External IDE hard disk for the A500

comes complete with an internal ROM

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MODEMS

ACEEX V32 BIS 14.4 NOTRE APPROVED 180

X-LINK TRUE V 31 28 B EIT A P P ROV E D f19935

AIL M ODE M S INCLUDE S OFTWA RE A ND

68020EC

M-TEC AT500 BARE £99

PLEASE CALL FOR HD SIZES

MEMORY RE QUIRE S ) 0 P IN S IM M S

256 X 4 DIP

1 x 1 DIP

111

CI A

HI-SOFT

ZIP DRIVE

A £ 1 9

DENI SE £ 1 9

SUPER DENISE £ 2 5

KEYBOARD IC El 2

FAT AGNUS 1 Me E19

FAT AGNUS 2 MB £29

PRINTER CABLE E 6

R5232 CABLE £ 6

SCSI EXTERNAL E15

WORKBENCH 3.1 A500/2000 185

WORKBENCH 3,1 A300014000 E95

ROM SHARE DEVICE

SQUIRREL SCSI INTERFACE 1E59.95

AURA E79. 95

MEGALOSOUND E29.95

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ZI P DRIVE 100MB SCSI E199.95

ZI P DRIVE Inc. Squirrel £249.95

100MB DISKETTE .E19.95

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SY•UEST E2135

The Syquest EZ135 drive is an ideal

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135M8 CARTRIDGE 119.95

SURF S•UIRREL

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SCANDOUBLER II

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monit ors to display them.

S•UIRREL MPEG

Squirrel MPEG allows you to play VideoCD

and CDI CD-ROM's, Squirrel MPEG brings

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16-bit stereo sound to you and your

Amiga.

MICROVITEC 1438 14

£289

EPSON STYLUS INCPAPER E489

EPSON STYLUS COLOUR II; 1249.95

EPSON STYLUS COLOUR II E335.95

EPSON STYLUS 820 E219.95

EPSON S TY LUS R

SCAN DOUBLER II

E399

STUDIO II SOFTWARE E49.95

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AMIGA 600/1200

x2 SPEED CD-ROM twc SQUIRREL - .E179

X4 SPEED CD-ROM INC SQUIRREL .E249

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FPU's complete with crystal. Please

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VGA ADAPTOR

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EVIEWS

•

SYSTEM NEWS 82

Andy Maddock brings you all that is weird and

wonderful on the Amiga games scene

HINTS AND TIPS 84

Okay, so you got a bit stuck? it took us three

months to get this far, so stop complaining. We

lost sleep over this - honest

WATCHTOWER 86

Commando meets Mari Warriors in this top-

down blast-"em-up-type romp by OTM. 0oh, it's

great

CHARUE I COOL 88

Cool Charlie returns to the Amiga screens for

the second time, although this time has been

revamped and everything

WORDWORTH 5

The word is given on the ﬁnal release of

Digita's all new copy cruncher

CLASSY GRAPHICS En FINAL WRITER LITE _EL

MODELLER CO _El

Paul Austin takes a dose look at the straight

man in the Amiga's premier 3D partnership

Could Softwood's slim-line VVP steal some sales from

Digita's big budget production number

The latest mouse replacement plus an all

new graphics tablet get taken for a test drive

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CAPITAL PUNISHMENT 90

Andy Maddock talks to the producer, Alexander

Petrovic, to ﬁnd out more about the excellent

forthcoming beat'-em-up

XTREME RACING DATA DISK • 94

Guildhall's dreams to release a data disk have

come true. If you want new graphics and

tracks, feast your eyes upon this

PREMIER MANAGER 3 DELUXE 96

You can forget about Actua Soccer on the PC

and Playstation right now because the deluxe

version of Premier Manager 3 is here

ALIEN BREED 3D 2 99

The sequel to Alien Breed 3D is ﬁnally here.

Download a demo from their homepage - the

address is on the news page

DEVKIT

The omnipresent Mr South casts a knowledgeable eye

over the latest extension to our old mate Amos

SFX SPECIAL EB MACROFORM

Frank Nord explores a brand new SFX tutorial

video plus its CD-based alter ego

CEBIT EATURES r

The ultimate LightWave add-on or just another collection

of expensive macros? Ben %lost investigates

HARD DRIVE ROUNDUP131

The big, the bad and the over priced. Frank Nord

delivers a buyer's guide to the best in serious storage

The biggest news, the latest release, all courtesy of our

globe trotting computing correspondent - big boy Ben

LASER GUIDANCE El]

Andy Maddock spins those wheels of steel in the

latest incarnation of AC's very own CD special

OPERATION DATABASE _00 BEGINNER'S GUIDE _EE

Paul Overaa moves to the second phase in his

latest programming extravaganza

Dr White coughs up another panacea for the

growing pains of Amiga ownership

AMI GA COMPUTING

MAY 1996

OVER

STORY

HE COVERDISKS

MAGIC USER Ilv -

MAKING WAVES

The ultimate in graphical user interface

enhancement, and an essential system add-on

for all Amiga Internet users. This unregistered

version will allow you to run every Mill program,

faster than ever before

TOOLED UP

Try out MI with a selection of the most useful

MUl utilities, along with the usual collection of

up-to-date tools including:

Lottery, Disk Squeeze, MUI Screen Mode, Startup

Control, Scheduler, AmiCDFS 2.4, UCBackup, Mad

House, Scout 2.6, Dialer, Update libs, WBStartup+

LETTERS

The punter's opinions on the good, the bad

and the ugly in the volatile Amiga business

COMMENT _101 ACAS

Will the bundling exploits of AT destroy the software

market? Ben %/psi puts the argument into perspective

EGULARS

Out very own tech-psychologist probes the dark

recesses of Amigaphobia. What a nice bloke!

NEWS ED PUBLIC SECTOR_ In

The news just keeps ﬂooding in — needless to say our

in-house new hound is Out on the case

Dave Cusick searches through the best freebies

and cheapies in the AC PD spectacular

MICA GUIDE

105

115

Tthe menu tour comes to

a dose with a ﬁnal foray of

menu add-ons

The art of Amos-based

multimedia concludes with

a close look at buttons

107

117

Paul Overaa teaches the

basics when it comes to

Assembler essentials

Paul Overaa scans over the

good and the bad in the

Amiga music scene

Neil Mohr guides,

as gently as

possible, the

innocent Interneter

through the trials

and tribulations of

getting online with

the Amiga

109

119

Paul Overaa reveals the

rights and wrongs of

reading text ﬁles

Building the body perfect?

Steve White tells all when

it comes to tasty torsos

111

121

Phil South ponders all

the latest Internet

developments

Gary Whiteley runs throuh

a few videographic stories

prior to a summer of fun

113

Frank Nord outlines the

ﬁner points when it comes

to keying

122

Paul Austin takes the ﬁrst

steps to building the

perfect bad guy

AMIGA COMPUTING

MAY 1996

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