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•Scanning Explained •Scanner Review
•fxSCAN Review •Scan Quix Review
•Scanner Software Roundup
News:
SEAL-O-RAMA Report
OS 3.9 First look
Reviews:
fxSCAN 3.0
ScanQuix 5
ArtEffect 4
Bubble Heroes
PD Paradise
Support:
ProNet Setup
Start-up Problems
ArtEffect Tutorial
Shell Scripting
Issue 7, Winter 2000/01
NEWS
NEWS
SEAL-O-RAMA
Show Report
Contents
News
SEAL-O-RAMA Report ................5
News Items ..................................7
AmigaOS 3.9 Preview..................10
PCI Update ..................................12
AmigaOS 4 PPC? ........................13
Czech Amiga News Interview ......14
Features
Scanning Explained .....................16
Reviews
fxSCAN 3.0 ..................................20
Mustek Paragon 600 Scanner .....22
ScanQuix 5 ..................................23
Scanner Software Roundup.........24
ArtEffect 4 ....................................26
EZMouse PS/2 Adaptor ...............32
Bubble Heroes .............................34
Key to Driving Theory ..................35
PD Paradise.................................34
.....................................................40
Support
ArtEffect 4 Tutorial........................29
Top Tips........................................36
Pronet Step-by-step.....................38
Back 2 Basics - Scripting .............41
Solving Startup Problems ............43
Chairman
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Clubbed is published quarterly by South
Essex Amiga Link. For subscription details
see the back page.
Editor:
Robert Williams
Design:
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Contributors:
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T
his issue of the magazine I
and several SEAL
members intend to
return the compli-
ment on the 24th
of February when
they are putting on
a similar style
show (go for it).
would just like to tell you about
our SEAL event “SEAL-O-
RAMA” which took place on September
the 10th. We (SEAL) had been so im-
pressed with the Kickstart shows (well
done again guys & girls of course!) that
we decided to hold one of our own (as I
mentioned in the last issue), and I can
tell you that at first we were very ap-
prehensive about doing it, but we had
alot encouragement from the likes of
John from Forematt Home Computing
who has helped SEAL from the very
beginnings with offering credit card
paying facilities for subscribers of
“Clubbed” magazine and distributing our
flyers for both the user-group and maga-
zine.
by Gary Storm and Robert Williams
We didn’t know whether our first show
would be a success or not. As far as we
were concerned if we could get around
150 people coming through the door it
would be a great start. If we didn’t get any
more than a hundred it would probably be
our first and last show :)
As it was we had nearly 100 Amigans rush
the gig in just half an hour after opening.
At the end of the day the final attendance
was about 190, which is fantastic for our
first show. Of course this is in no small part
in thanks to the brilliant support of Czech
Amiga News, Amiga.org, Amiga Active
magazine and everyone else who helped
to get the show known (I must point out
here that Gary himself and Mick Sutton
were the guys behind the shows publicity
and obviously they did a great job, Ed.).
Setting Up
SEAL members and exhibitors arrived at
our venue in Basildon at 10am to set up
everything for the 12 noon opening.
Setting up was pretty painless, even
though there were lots of Amiga’s (and a
couple of PCs - cough) being used for
various things. About our only problem
was that the parking area was being in-
vaded by the cars of a junior soccer team’s
parents (who had a match on which we
didn’t know about), but after we bran-
dished our baseball bats they disappeared
for some reason. Strange.
Robert Williams (SEAL God and editor of
Clubbed magazine) (BLUSH, Ed.) had
printed loads of posters for the exhibitors,
and also some for us to stick on the road-
signs to show where we were. Mandyleigh
(my fiancé www.mandyleigh.co.uk), Dave
(not my fiancé) and myself went and il-
legally plastered the signs up with some
gaffer tape. We even had a police car drive
by us as we were doing it, but they didn’t
stop to beat us up, which was a shame.
Exhibitors
Once the doors were open to the general
public, a deluge of Amigans filed into the
venue for the princely sum of £1 each, and
were handed a raffle ticket each for the
multitude of prizes that were on offer.
There was enough to see, even though
Mick Tinker and the mythical beast of a
BoXeR couldn’t make it, as well as iFusion
PPC (which I was hanging out for, al-
So on reflection, we needn’t have
worried about getting the com-
panies/exhibitors to attend at all, now all
we needed to do was to get the punters
through the doors, in my opinion that is
the hardest bit. We put the announce-
ment on all the news sites and several
companies agreed to send out flyers to
all their customers and of course a big
bonus was having a news article in
AmigActive (thanks guys).
The Mediator PCI board got its first
UK showing at SEAL-O-RAMA
Only a few days after announcing the
show to the world we had several com-
panies on board wanting to attend and
co-sponsor which was a big relief I can
tell you! Thanks to Gary Storm with his
promotional tactics (I don’t know or
wanna know how he did it), it was only a
matter of weeks before we had ALL the
tables booked and were looking to
reduce the number of tables exhibitors
were able to have (due to our hall not
being the largest in the world), not only
that, Gary had managed to “persuade”
all the companies attending to offer us
prizes to give away!
though I am assured it should reach us
fairly soon).
Blittersoft had a sexy looking Mediator PCI
running with a Virge graphics card, which
looked great on a motionless screen.
Unfortunately there wasn’t any application
or game running at the time I was there to
see how it performed under working con-
ditions, but it’s very exciting. The excellent
Payback game was on a separate AGA
Amiga. Payback looks and plays brilliantly,
and it’s not even finished yet. You
definitely have to buy this game if you liked
Grand Theft Auto in any way.
Later in the show Bart, the programmer of
“Fubar” showed up to demonstrate his
Cannon-Fodder/Command & Conquer-
esque game, which looks very promising.
Eyetech had what I think was one of the
most interesting tables, thanks to the stock
they brought with them which included
XSurf Ethernet cards, BVisions and their
many A1200 products and the d’Amiga
system that was running.
Analogic didn’t bring anything to demo, but
had a few bargains, including 17” Compaq
V70 monitors for £120. I grabbed myself
one of those baby’s. Yum.
Forematt Home Computing brought along
quite a bit of good software, old and new,
games and serious stuff. We were happy
to see they had brought along some of the
new releases such as Heretic II and you
could order anything they didn’t have and
still get the show price. John and his lovely
wife kept on smiling all day, which makes
me wonder what drugs they were on, and
where I could get some :)
Mark Hinton and Russell from Amiga
Active magazine weren’t looking so im-
But on the day we were pleasantly
surprised when around 180 people
turned up, which I didn’t think was too
bad for our first ever event. From per-
sonal comments, articles on mailing lists
and news groups it would seem that
most who came along enjoyed them-
selves. From feedback I have had from
exhibitors most of them did well enough
in sales to make it worth their while com-
ing along, and nearly all have stated that
they would like to come along next year
if we decide to do it all again. Another
success was the games arena which
pulled the crowds and helped sales of
games, particularly Heretic II which com-
pletely sold out by the end of the day!
This game sold itself, by being played
people got to see what all the fuss was
about which no review or screenshot
can do. This just proves how important
shows are in an Amiga market where
there are no shops demonstrating
Amiga wares.
Back Issues..................................46
Next Issue ....................................46
Gallery..........................................48
Analogic did us proud by announcing
that every subscriber to “Clubbed” at the
show would receive a free gift (a track-
ball) which was not to be sniffed at plus
several hard drives. Thanks to them and
all the companies (nearly all) who
donated prizes. Also I would like to men-
tion that Hyperion gave us a copy of
Heretic II to give away as a prize for the
Heretic II competition and Amiga (Petro)
gave us two A1200 Magic Packs and
loads of promotional goodies, even
though they didn’t attend the show.
Crystal Interactive Software brought
along a special SEAL-O-RAMA version
of their brand new game Bubble Heroes,
which was nice!
Do The
Thing
Legalese
The views expressed in this magazine are those
of the author of each piece, they do not
necessarily reflect the views of the editor, other
contributors or SEAL.
Please Note: Clubbed is produced by SEAL
members in their spare time, while we will always
strive to produce the magazine on time and
include all the advertised contents this is not
always possible due to other commitments. The
price you pay for Clubbed covers our costs and
nothing more, we don’t make a profit from it.
If you wish to contact a contributor please send
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we will pass it on.
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Powered by Amiga are trademarks of AMIGA Inc.
All other trademarks mentioned are the property
of their respective owners.
In summary I would like to thank all the
exhibitors for their support and the
people who turned up not knowing what
to expect. Without doubt the heroes of
the day were the SEAL members who
got this thing off the ground and kept the
momentum going (where have I heard
that?) in particular, Robert who done all
the promotional artwork and posters,
Gary for mugging companies into com-
ing, Jeff Tony & Glenn who ran the
games arena faultlessly , Roy for selling
so many subscriptions of this wonderful
magazine and not least Sharon and
Mandyleigh for all their hard work in the
kitchen a.k.a. the Turkish bath!
We’d like to make Clubbed more “in-
teractive” so we need your input!
Got a question
you’d like answered
or an opinion you’d like to share?
Write to us and we’ll include it in a
letters page.
Several user groups came along to
show what they are up to and these in-
cluded ANT (Amiga North Thames),
ASA (Amiga Support Association) and
Kickstart who you cannot keep away
from any event! Some members of
HAUG (Huddersfield Amiga User Group)
came all the way down from Yorkshire,
Got a tip
for other readers or even an
article up your sleeve? Send it in and
you could very well see your name in
print.
Got a suggestion
or comment on the
magazine? Let us know and we’ll try
and make Clubbed better for you.
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CLUBBED
- Issue 7
Winter 2000/1
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NEWS
NEWS
pressed on their stand when I was
wandering around... or maybe it’s ‘cos I
was there, and joking about Mark’s gay
Amiga following :). Amiga Active had an
absolutely outstanding huge poster behind
them as you’d expect (even bigger than
our SEAL and Clubbed ones, grrr, Ed.),
and a lot of their excellent magazines on
show. Unfortunately Andrew Korn didn’t
make it. I was doing a bit of Amiga Active
magazine promoting, and most of the
people I spoke to were already sub-
scribers. One guy even said he didn’t want
to subscribe because he ordered it through
his local small newsagent and wanted to
support them even though it cost him
extra. If you haven’t experienced the
delights of the best commercial Amiga
magazine in the world yet (OK, the only
commercial Amiga magazine in the world),
then get your ass to www.amigactive.com
and subscribe. You have no excuse not to,
as it’s brilliant and is delivered all over the
world.
Crystal Interactive premiered and sold
Bubble Heroes, which is a game very simi-
lar to ‘Bust A Move 2” on the Playstation
(you can read a review on page 34 of this
issue). Anyone who’s played that knows
how addictive and fun it is, and Bubble
Heroes is a fantastic Amiga rendition, and
well worth buying. Andrew also gave a
popular demonstration of Gilbert
Goodmate, Crystal’s new point and click
adventure game, this was running on a
laptop PC and Andrew was keen to judge
the reaction to an Amiga version.
Unfortunately I didn’t get to see the
Gasteiner stand, but it’s nice to have had
them at an Amiga show again.
Ideas2Reality had brought along a working
QNX system, which looked very interest-
ing. Bernard and his accomplice were nice
to chat to, and very interested in the
response (which was pretty positive). They
didn’t really bring much to sell, just a
couple of pc keyboards and mice really,
but they came to gauge reaction to the
QNX RTOS and I think they were pleased.
Kickstart were doing a great business of
selling registrations to MooVid for PPC
and non-PPC Amiga’s for the author.
MooVid is a great .avi and .mov video
player, and I’ve always wanted it for my
PPC. It’s a real pity that the Frogger
author didn’t trust Kickstart enough to let
them sell his program at the show as well,
as it’s much less of a pain in the arse to
buy shareware through Kickstart than
trying to get get foreign money posted off
to God knows where. So c’mon all you
shareware authors... let Kickstart do the
biz for you.
SEAL ourselves were there promoting this
very magazine and issue 6 was released
at the show. We sold another 20 subscrip-
All three of these games are just fantastic,
so if you have any interest or equipment to
be able to play them... do it. Get them.
The Prizes
After many tickets were drawn only to find
that the winner was no longer there (it was
probably YOU), other prizes to be handed
out at 4pm were:
Amiga Show "oop North"!
Huddersfield Amiga User Group are
holding the first Amiga show in the North
of England for many years on Saturday
the 24th of February 2001. Christened
the Alternative World of Amiga (alt.WoA
for short) the show venue is The Old
Cornmill on the outskirts of Huddersfield
only about one minute from Junction 25
of the M62.
• A 6-month subscription to Amiga Active.
This had been won by one dude, who
because he was already a subscriber,
kindly donated the prize back to be re-
drawn. Excellent dude.
• OS3.5 from Ideas2Reality.
• Various great game and utility CDs from
Forematt Home computing.
• Another Amiga 1200 Magic Pack.
• Port Plus Junior, STFax 4 and other
things from Eyetech.
The games arena was popular all day.
tions, and loads more single issues. A
large number of these sales were down to
Roy Burton who spent most of his time
behind the SEAL table, thanks Roy.
Usergroups ASA and ANT where there too
attracting new members and selling a
variety of second hand bargains. ANT’s
Michael Carillo who isn’t known for his shy-
ness also did a great job of helping us out
throughout the day. His loud voice came in
useful with announcements (as we had
three separate halls), and during the prize-
giving at 4pm.
OS 3.9
Is Here!
At the time of writing the following com-
panies were confirmed as exhibiting at
the show:
There will be plenty of things to see and
do at the show. In the games you can try
your hand at Heretic II (which is being
organised by SEAL), Napalm and the
ever-popular Sensible Soccer. An
Internet Cafe will let everyone have a go
at surfing plus door prizes and
demonstrations are also planned.
• Eyetech Group
• Wirenet
• Classic Amiga
• Cartridge Club UK
• Forematt Computing
• Ram Jam Consultants
• Weird Science
• Epic Direct
• Trogladite Software
Amiga and Haage and Partner surprised
most people in the Amiga community by
delivering a new version of the
AmigaOS at the World of Amiga show
held in Cologne, Germany in December.
The new OS version has a range of new
features and lots of new bundled
utilities. Some of the major features in-
clude:
Thanks again to all the exhibitors for
donating the prizes. Brill.
Special thanks must go to Analogic as
their give-away helped to sell many
Clubbed subscriptions and to Forematt
Home Computing who have been a great
support to SEAL right from the start. John
of Forematt eagerly supported SEAL-O-
RAMA and was the first to book a table.
He also sends out Clubbed flyers and
provides our credit card subscription ser-
vice, thanks John!
All in all the day was fantastic. SEAL
members did a sterling job throughout the
day and the way everyone worked
together was really fantastic. Cheers espe-
cially to the hard working ladies who
sweated it out in the kitchen - Sharon &
Mandyleigh. The kitchen was seriously a
sauna. Of other note from what I saw were
Roy, Jeff, Glenn, Robert, Mick, Dave and
David who was tied to the door for most of
the day. Well done to those and all the
people we didn’t see or have forgotten.
After the show we contacted all the
retailers who attended and almost all of
them seemed very happy with how the
show had gone. We were very pleased
that everything went so smoothly, there
really were no major problems although we
do have a few ideas to make a future show
even better. To top it all off the final tur-
nout significantly exceeded our expec-
tations, not bad for out first show!
Thanks to all of you who came, and all of
you who made it worth coming to :)
We wish HAUG all the best with the
show and hope to see you there!
Games
!
The games arena was the area we were
most worried about but in then end every-
thing went off very smoothly thanks to the
hard work of Jeff Martin, Glenn Pudney
and all the other members who helped out.
We had three games Wipeout 2097 and
Heretic II representing bang up-to-date
Amiga gaming and the classic Sensi
Soccer. Wipeout was running throughout
the afternoon, with people trying to better
the best time on a certain track. The
winner got a copy of Wipeout 2097, kindly
donated by Blittersoft. I used to be great at
this game on the Playstation, but everyone
was beaten by some kid who’d played it
once or twice on a friends PSX. Brat :)
Heretic II was played on two PPC’s op-
posite each other, networked in a death-
match. I got through to the quarter-finals
but was trounced. I blame the lack of a
mouse-mat myself :) The prize was Heretic
II of course, donated by Hyperion them-
selves.
Finally there was a SEAL-O-RAMA! 2000
Sensible Soccer tournament, where I was
knocked out after an own-goal in extra
time (a shot deflected from a defender)
and a couple of other goals just to make
sure. The final was between Paul Qureshi
and Glenn. It wasn’t Paul’s day, as Glenn
beat him here, and he’d also lost his long
standing best time on Wipeout 2097 to that
talented bratlet. Glenn is actually a SEAL
member who had organised the Sensi
comp, but in no way was it rigged (or I’d
have won) :). Glenn had the grand prize of
an Amiga 1200 Magic Pack from Amiga
and a 3.2 gig 2.5” HD from Analogic to go
into it.
For more information and directions visit
the show website at:
http://www.alt-woa.org/
A number of usergroups will also be
attending including: The Amibench
Team, Kickstart, Amiga North Thames,
the Glasgow Amiga User Group and of
course SEAL.
• Multimedia programs
• Internet suite with unrestricted
Genesis TCP/IP stack.
• New OS utilities including: AmiDOCK,
IomegaTools, Un-archiver and Find
• New powerful Shell
• Extensive HTML documentation
Storm C
Haage and Partner have released a
major new version of the their StormC C
and C++ development suite. The major
change in version 4 is a move to the
open source GCC compiler, this is
designed to aid portablility to the new
Amiga DE. Currently StormC runs solely
on classic Amigas but H&P say that this
move will make future porting easier.
GCC has been modified to be very com-
patible with the Storm compiler from ear-
lier versions and outputs the same
debug file format. The PowerPC version
supports H&P’s WarpOS PPC system.
Other new
features include:
For more details turn to our AmigaOS
3.9 first look feature on page 10 or visit
the OS 3.9 website at:
• Enhanced Editor
(Shows
Prototypes of
Functions).
• StormDOC to
manage ToDo-
lists, bug reports and so on.
• Enhanced debugger (for GCC also).
• Debugging of Tasks and Shared
Libraries.
• Global full text search.
• Comprehensive Online-Help.
StormC 4 is available now and costs
498DM (about £170) upgrades for users
of older versions are 198DM (£70).
http://www.amiga.com/3.9
OS 3.5
BoingBag 2a
Soon after the release of 3.9 Amiga also
made available an update to OS3.5,
called BoingBag 2 this includes a variety
of minor bug fixes and it was nice to see
purchasers of the older version hadn’t
been abandoned with the new release.
Note: the initial release of BoingBag 2
was updated to 2a very soon after it was
released due to the wrong version of
some files being included if you got the
earlier version you should grab 2a now.
Several networking features have been
added to version 4 such as support for
the Concurrent Versions System (CVS)
which allows several developers to work
on the same project and distributed
make which allows the task of compiling
to be spread over several machines on
a network.
For more details or to order on-line visit
the Haage and Partner website:
http://www.haage-partner.com
Squeeze!
Sorry that there was not room for an
Editorial or SEAL-Update this issue...
they will return!
BoingBag 2a can be downloaded from
the Support section of Amiga’s OS3.5
website:
http://www.amiga.com/3.5
For more big news see our news
features starting on page 10!
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- Issue 7
Winter 2000/1
7
NEWS
NEWS
Simon Released!
Even More
Perfect
100% Amiga
Epic Interactive have been busy over
the last couple of months, as well as
Earth 2140 they have also released the
long awaited sequel to Simon the
Sorcerer which is called (surprise,
surprise) Simon the Sorcerer 2.
If that tickles your fancy Simon 2 costs
about £30 from your favourite Amiga
dealer, more details and screenshots
can be found at Epic Interactive:
http://www.epic-interactive.com/
no, it’s not a dodgy game show on Channel 5 :)
Haladjian Georges has released ver-
sion 2.4 of his fantastic freeware paint
program, Perfect Paint. It supports edit-
ing graphics from 1 to 24bit and now
has a very wide range of effects, and
useful features like anti-aliasing on all
drawing operations.
Our friends at FORE-MATT Home
Computing along with “another
prominent Amiga company” have
announced that they are working on a
new monthly CD based Amiga maga-
zine called 100% Amiga. They plan to
include news, software reviews, pre-
views, tips, cheats and many other
features.
2, a review of OS3.9 and sneak peaks at
PAYBACK and EARTH 2140 including a
demo. The feature this month will be the
AmigaONE presentation from Eyetech.
Simon 2 is a point and click adventure in
the style of the classic Monkey Island
series. It features beautiful hand drawn
hand drawn back grounds and all the
dialogue is spoken (in English, German
and Italian subtitles are also provided).
The game has over 80 locations, about
100 characters who you can talk to, all
these are portrayed with an amazing
total of 50,000 frames of animation!
100% Amiga is priced at just £5 for
single issues, £30 for 6 month subscrip-
tion or a 1 Year subscription for just £48.
Overseas postage is an additional £1.50
per issue.
The major addition to version 2.4 is the
Raylab factory, this is a simple GUI, in-
tegrated into Perfect Paint, for the
freeware Raylab 3D renderer. A range of
pre-defined shapes can be selected or
you can use a 3D font, then you select a
texture and lighting. Finally you can
rotate the object to get the effect you
wish. The completed image can then be
painted onto your Perfect Paint picture.
This new feature looks like it would be
ideal for creating quick web graphics
and adding a bit of spice to flat images
and compositions.
The first issue , January 2001, should
be available by the time you read this
and will include the
For more information contact Forematt
on their new phone number +44 (0)
8700 11 22 34 or visit their website:
new real time strategy game Exodus,
the brilliant sequel Simon the Sorcerer
Can You Save
the Planet?
http://www.forematt.free-online.co.uk/
The game was ported to the Amiga by
Paul Burkey of Foundation fame, you
can find some updates to the release
version on his website at:
http://www.shoecake.com/simon2.html
EZCam Makes
Digital Cameras EZ!
Earth 2140 is a real time strategy game,
a genre that first appeared on the Amiga
with Dune-II and went on to be hugely
successful on the PC with games like
Command and Conquer. E2140 was
originally written for the PC by Topware
Interactive and has been ported to the
Amiga by Pagan Games, it is published
by Epic Interactive GMbH.
Eyetech Amiga One
Eyetech have announced a new product
that should make a far wider range of
digital cameras available to Amiga users
and also overcome the problem of slow
download speeds across the serial
port... sounds good! The product is the
EZCam which connects the A1200’s
PCMCIA slot and adds some additional
logic enabling it to ready any size
PCMCIA memory card. Adaptors from
all types of digital camera memory card
(Smart Media, Compact Flash and Sony
Memory Stick) to PCMCIA are widely
available so with one of these and an
EZCam any camera should work (it
would probably still be wise to check
with Eyetech before buying a camera).
The EZCam connects to the PCMCIA
slot via an extension cable, the card slot
can be fitted into a 3.5” drive bay at the
front of a tower.
The other benefit is that the PCMCIA
slot is much faster than a serial port so
pictures can be copied from a memory
card almost instantly (we have seen
figures of 5MB per second quoted)! The
Eyetech software presents the memory
card as a Volume icon on the
Workbench so you can copy images
onto another drive, or even load them
directly into a graphics program.
Other new features in 2.4 include im-
proved design of some requesters,
colour level adjustment, a new rotated
ellipse tool and several bug fixes.
At the World of Amiga show held in
Cologne, Germany in December
Eyetech announced that they will be
producing an official PPC based
AmigaOne system, designed to work
with A1200s and A4000s giving
AmigaDE and classic Amiga compatibil-
ity. Eyetech say that the AmigaOne
boards are stand-alone computers
capable of running AmigaDE alone how-
ever because they have access to a
classic Amiga motherboard they should
be able to provide a high level of classic
software compatible.
run under emulation on the PowerPC.
The AmigaOne boards will fit in exiting
A1200 towers which can take a ZIV
board (Eyetech Z4, Power Tower etc.)
and we assume the A4000 version will
also require a tower. A fitting kit will be
available to allow fitting in a standard
ATX PC tower for those who don’t need
Amiga chipset compatibility.
Download Perfect Paint 2.4 from:
http://gothic.fr.free.fr/amiga/index.html
This is the first Amiga RTS game to use
16bit graphics and therefore a graphics
card is essential, 640x480 and 800x600
resolutions are supported. The game
also requires an 040 or above processor
with at least 24Mb of RAM, 32Mb and
an 060 and or PPC is recommended.
The PPC support is via WarpOS.
We expect to have a review of the
EZCam next issue.
On their new AmigaOne website (see
below) Eyetech have announced a chal-
lenging schedule for the release of the
AmigaOne boards which will see the
end product available in March this year.
For further details visit:
The EZCam costs £49.95 but remember
you will also need a PCMCIA adapter
suitable for your digital camera. For
more information visit the Eyetech
website at:
http://www.eyetech.co.uk/
Earth 2140 promises to be a huge
game, there are 50 levels to play and
over 100 units to command along with a
large selection of buildings. There is
also a long rendered intro movie and cut
scenes to help the story of the game
flow and a CD audio track completes the
experience.
Both models will have 6 PCI slots, an
AGP slot, PowerPC G3 or G4 CPU and
local memory. There will be no pass-
through for an Amiga accelerator so we
assume all Classic Amiga programs will
http://www.eyetech.co.uk/amigaone/
Got a Micronik
Bus Board?
DrawStudio from KickSoft
If so you want to take a look at Mike
Woods’ support page it covers the
various bus boards made by Micronik
and what Zorro cards and fast slot ac-
celerators (for the Z3 models) they are
compatible. If you have some experien-
ces of tips on getting cards working you
can submit them to Mike for inclusion on
the page.
Amiga SDK for Windows
Earth 2140 costs about £30 and is avail-
able from most dealers.
We are pleased to be able to report that
the excellent structured drawing pro-
gram, DrawStudio which we use for
some of the graphics in Clubbed, is now
available again thanks to the Kickstart
user group.
own right for single page layouts like
posters, CD covers and many other
jobs.
Amiga have released their Software
Developer Kit (SDK) for the Amiga
Digital Environment (AmigaDE) for PCs
running Windows in addition to the Linux
version already available. The SDK
needs a PC with an Ethernet card,
Windows 95B, 98, NT Workstation 4.0
(with SP3), 2000 or ME, 64 MB of RAM
(128 MB recommended), 100 MB of
hard drive space and a 200mhz
Processor or faster.
We can already tell you that the game
CD comes very nicely packaged in a
DVD-Style case with instruction booklet
but you’ll have to wait for the next issue
for our review!
Because Kickstart now handle the sales
of several software products they have
setup a new company dedicated to soft-
ware distribution, KickSoft. KickSoft cur-
rently supplies GoldEd 6, DrawStudio,
Metaview and MooVid.
More details are available on the Amiga
website:
http://www.amiga.com/
Although DrawStudio is no longer in
development it a very powerful package,
certainly the best of its kind on the
Amiga. It is ideal for creating images
and logos to be used in word processing
documents and also very good in its
For more information and to download a
demo visit Pagan Games at:
http://www.pagan-games.com/
Surf along to:
www.microniksupport.freeservers.com
They have a new website at:
http://www.kicksoft.co.uk/
complete with secure on-line ordering.
Colour screen shots from Earth 2140 and
Simon 2 on the back cover...
and Epic Interactive at:
http://www.epic-interactive.com/
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- Issue 7
Winter 2000/1
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