=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Amy Today A text-file magazine for all Amiga lovers Volume #9, Issue #2, March 20th, 1989 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Editor : John Rydell Writers: Tom Limoncelli and Udo Pernisz Address all correspondence to: "Amy Today" C/O John Rydell GEnie address: J.Rydell1 640 Willowglen Rd. (#54790) Santa Barbara, CA 93105 Plink address: J*Rydell (805)687-5643 GEnie discussion in category #2, topic #29 Plink discussion in AmigaZone Section #2 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Contents: 1. A Message From the Editor John Rydell 2. Distributing "Amy Today" John Rydell 3. Advertiser Information John Rydell 4. Interview with Max Toy Tom Limoncelli 5. The Amiga Plus Udo Pernisz 6. Newest Fred Fish Available John Rydell 7. Amy Today Advertising John Rydell =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= A Message From The Editor: Amy Today has now been providing up-to-date information to Amiga users for 24 issues. From what I've heard, people have enjoyed the magazine and my efforts in publishing a free magazine. BUT there are thousands of Amiga users who never see an issue of Amy Today and I would like to expand the user base of the magazine. In order to do this, I must first know how many people are reading Amy Today. I am requesting that EVERYONE who reads Amy Today become a registered user. I know what you're thinking. Oh boy, he's going to want us to pay for the magazine. WRONG! All I want is a postcard (or letter if you want to spend an extra $.10) sent to me with your NAME, ADDRESS, TYPE OF AMIGA, and where you get Amy Today. Everyone who sends this information will become a registered reader of Amy Today. Being a registered user will allow you to use the Advertiser Information Service (discussed later in this issue), as well as allow you to buy Fred Fish disks at Amy Today's low prices. Also, you will be put on Amy Today's official mailing list so that you can receive special information that Amy Today will provide. In the future, I will try to provide special services to registered users possibly including software discounts and other benefits. Yes, you can receive all of this for only $.15 postage and about 2 minutes of your time. I NEED to know the number of users reading Amy Today, and the type of Amigas they use in order to improve the magazine. Also, after I have received what I feel is most of the registrations there will be a drawing. One registered user will win 20 of the newest public domain disks including Fred Fish's newest. I cannot make every user do this, but I am pleading with you to honor this one request. 34 issues a year for the cost of ONE postcard! What could be easier? I know that in the past, users have abused public domain and shareware requests. Let's change this! Send your postcard today! Amy Today might not survive if I only receive ten postcards. (I'm certainly not going to spend hours and hours a week so that 10 people can read the magazine!) I know you can do it, send your postcard and become a registered user with the chance to win 20 public domain disks. You'll help Amy Today and keep it going strong. Show your support today! Mail to: I READ AMY TODAY! 640 Willowglen Rd. Santa Barbara, CA 93105 Enjoy the issue, John Rydell (Editor) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Distributing "Amy Today": Amy Today is file-based magazine which has been copyrighted by John Rydell. I am allowing everyone to freely distribute it as long as they give credit to Amy Today for anything taken from the magazine. I also request that the magazine, itself, remains "AS IS" when being distributed. Please do not modify it in any way if you are going to distribute it. About Distributing: Please upload Amy Today EVERYWHERE! This magazine simply will not flourish if it is not uploaded whenever possible. Every issue is kept near 15,000 bytes ARCed so that upload/download time should never be a problem. So, please, if you have the chance spread the magazine around the country! Give a copy to your friend! Keep Amy Today alive and going strong! A great way to spread Amy Today to non-modem users is to put the textfiles on your monthly user group disks. Please do this. Full permission is granted! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Amiga Happenings: (John Rydell) DeluxePaint III- Electronic Arts is now shipping DPaint III. An upgrade from Deluxe Paint 1 or 2 will cost $50.00 plus the front of the manual. If Deluxe Paint was purchased between 12/1/88 and 3/1/89 the upgrade will only cost $20.00. A brand-new copy will cost you $149.95. All users who sent in their registration card should have received an upgrade form in the mail. Fred Fish- Fred has been working hard and has released disks 179-194 into the public domain. Very soon, disks up to #200 will be available. Amy Today will have an overview of these disks in an upcoming issue. Commodore- According to Amy Today's information, Commodore has finally sold 1 million Amigas. Great job! Emerald Intelligence- Negotiations with Lotus Development Corporation and Emerald Intelligence have ended. MAGELLAN will continue to be sold for the Amiga under the same name. Mastertronic- Recently Mastertronic released their long-awaiting game, "War in the Middle Earth". WAR in the Middle Earth is based on J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. The game is a fantasy role-playing adventure with a huge world to explore. (A review of the game will be published in an upcoming issue of Amy Today.) Premier Software- Premier Software has started a new business in selling public domain disks. There are more than thirty disks already available. Each disk is well- organized and comes with a HOT label. One disk available is an AMY TODAY BACK ISSUEs disk. All programs on every disk can be run from CLI. I have used the disk "FONTLIB" which contains many fonts organized perfectly. The disks sell for $7.00 each. Currently there are disks available with Animations, Terminals, Virus Protectors, CLI utilities, Games, and much, much more. For more information use service #105. Amy Today- In this issue Amy Today starts a Advertiser Information service as well as a list of registered users. Registering is free and all readers should send in their registration. (Both of these new items are discussed elsewhere in the issue.) Amiga Happenings is a column dedicated to giving you information on what is happening in the Amiga community. Some of the information could possibly be wrong due to the fact that I am trying to get early information. I do not in any way guarantee that the information will be accurate although I will try my hardest to protect the innocent. >>If you have some new information you would like to share please submit it to Amy Today. ######################################################################### # Spectacular Amiga Product Specials From Electronic Ecstasy! # #-----------------------------------------------------------------------# # Amiga 2500 delivered........$3469 MAST Mimi-Megs (A500/1000)..$ 164 # # Amiga 2000 w/42 MB HD dlvd..$2275 Phoenix 2-Slot Expansion Box$ 159 # # Amiga 500 A-501 512k Upgrade$ 169 CMI Processor Accelerator...$ 149 # # MAST Uni-Drive external.....$ 144 30mb HD w/Tiny Tiger cont...$ 599 # # MAST Twin-Drive external....$ 259 50mb HD w/Tiny Tiger cont...$ 744 # # MAST Micro-Megs 512k (A-500)$ 179 80mb Quantum (19ms) w/Tiny T$1099 # #-----------------------------------------------------------------------# # Much more available! Call us with your best price and we'll beat it! # # Amiga Computer Package deals available! Price Quotes/Info: 805-682- # # 8330. Orders Only (No tech questions on this line): 800-999-9670. # # Hours: 1pm-7pm Monday through Friday. # ######################################################################### Advertiser Information comes to Amy Today: (John Rydell) Amy Today adds a new and exciting addition to its magazine in this issue. Each issue, Amy Today will assign a number to each of its advertisers. Any registered reader of Amy Today (see message from editor) will be able to receive more information from the advertisers by sending a postcard or letter to Amy Today with the numbers of the companies they would like to know more about. Twice a month, these names will be given to the advertisers so that they can provide you with more information about their products. Please include your full name and address along with the type of Amiga you are using when you send your request. This issues numbers are: 100 - Electronic Ecstasy 101 - NoodTech Productions 102 - Hermes' IconLab 103 - Amy Today's Fred Fish Disk Sale 104 - Amy Today's Advertising Rates 105 - Premier Software Send requests (postcards are best) to: Amy Today Advertiser Information 640 Willowglen Rd. Santa Barbara, CA 93105 I hope you take advantage of this new service which is being provided to Amy Today readers and advertisers. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= An Interview with Max Toy: (Tom Limoncelli) The premier issue of a new computer journal is out, AMIGA Plus, for the obviously growing Amiga population. It is dated April/March 1989 and is published bi-monthly by James Capparell of Antic Publishing, Inc. (Ed's Note: Antic Publishing has been publishing ST and Atari magazines for a long time.) The super-glossy cover promises a high quality journal. Its single issue newsstand price is $14.95, including a disk which contains demonstrations or software examples of many of the articles. Incidentally, the disk itself is available from the publisher for $10.95 plus $2.00 shipping and handling. A year's subscription gives you six issues for $39.95. This issue's theme is "DiskTop Video Power" and accordingly the disk contains a lot of graphics and animation. There is a total of 21 articles, ten of which are reviews of hardware or software. Of the remaining eleven, nine articles are represented on the disk. There is Steve Segal's "Happy Guy", a rubber hose style cartoon sequence which is really great, done with Byte by Byte's Sculpt 3D. For easy animation there is an article on color cycling. Games are covered by two examples, Jim Kent's Kamikaze Chess, and Mastermind in BASIC by Arnie Cachelin (of the editorial staff). More on the tutorial side are demos accompanying articles on the AMIGA Shell (on WorkBench 1.3), C programming routines, and assembly language tips. To round it off, still timely, is a 1988 Federal Income Tax template for the MaxiPlan spreadsheet. In addition to the two directories Art and Programming which contain the collection listed above, the root directory features another version of More (the text display program), the latest version of VirusX, and a copy of IconX (executes Amiga-DOS script files from the workbench, comes with WorkBench 1.3 disk). There is also a universal IFF picture viewer by David Grothe that includes overscan and scrolling around in larger-than-screen pictures. Smooth transitions between pictures can be specified, and the pointer is suppressed during display. Supported display modes are Hi-Res, Interlace, HAM, and Extra-HalfBrite. Quite a useful utility if you display a lot of graphics on your Amiga. The departments include New Amiga Products, an Advertiser's Index, and a Reader Art Gallery to which you may submit your pictures. Harv Laser heads Guru Busters where is answers Amiga users' technical questions. There is also Simon Rockman's View from a Brit, a European Amiga News column. More specific to this first issue, Ed Bercovitz writes about A-MAX, a Macintosh compatibility program for the Amiga (which emulates a Macintosh) - that's interesting news in regard to the established software base. New MIDI software, Amiga word processors, a program affording PostScript capabilities, and a Games Galaxy are also discussed. Nat Friedland, AMIGA Plus' editor, tells us in his Editorial column that there will be much more than just graphics and desktop video in this magazine. He announces programming information covering C, BASIC, assembler, and the Amiga operation systems, everything supported on the accompanying disk. An interesting magazine start-up. ########################################################################## # NOODTECH DIGITIZATIONS # # # # The best in digitized nudes. HUNDREDS of nude celebrities! # # Huge catalog on disk with sample disk only $10.00 # # NoodTech Productions, 1719 N. Oneida St., Appleton, WI 54911 # # # # (MUST be 18) # ########################################################################## =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Newest Fred Fish Available! Amy Today is once again offering the newest Fred Fish disks at fantastic prices. All disks from 170 to 194 are available. You may buy the disks from Amy Today for $2.50 a piece if you are ordering less than five. Or you may buy them for ONLY $2.00 each when ordering five or more. That works out to be only $32.00 for disks 179-194. Compared to the $6.00 or $7.00 you will pay from other companies, this is a great deal for Amy Today readers! Fred Fish's newest disks will be overviewed in an upcoming issue. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Amy Today Advertising: How would you like your own custom-made advertisement to be spread throughout the land travelling from computer to computer--printed from printer to printer!? Amy Today brings advertising to you at low, low prices. Just think of the number of readers you will reach with your ad! For more information on our low-cost ads call or write: Amy Today Advertising 640 Willowglen Rd. Santa Barbara, CA 93105 (805)687-5643 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "Amy Today" is copyright 1988/89 by John Rydell. Portions of the magazine may be reprinted but the content of this magazine may NOT be changed without the expressed consent of John Rydell. Yet everyone is encouraged to distribute it AS IS. Please give credit to "Amy Today" as well as to the individual author when reprinting material. "Amy Today" as well as any of its authors are not responsible for any damages that occur because of errors or omissions. Articles reprinted from other newsletters, as noted, are not property of Amy Today but are under the control of their original authors. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Remember to send in your registration today! 15 cents for a year of Amy Today is one of the best deals around!