Instant Music
INSTANT MUSIC S29.95 Elecironic Arts 1820 Gateway Dr. San Mateo CA 94404 415-571-7171 Instant Music is the first creativity program to use artificial intelligence to give users the illusion of being a real ex-pert-in this case, by letting them play and compose music that sounds good. In mouscjam mode, IM lets you use your joystick or mouse to play the lead in real-time in a disk-loaded piece of music. The computer does not necessarily play the note you hit, but picks the closest one that is in...
Abacus
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Global Commander
DataSoft EA 1820 Gateway Dr. San Mateo CA 94404 415-571-7171 I like this nuclear-age political simulation game for the C64 better than Balance of Power for the Amiga. Though Global Commander suffers from awful screen color combinations, the gameplay is more involved and enjoyable than 80P. Global Commander simply has more options, like an SDI system, spy satellites, and a world radio scanner. It also lacks the negative you can't win bias that becomes so tedious when you play Balance of Power....
Impressions
After PaperClip Publisher boots up, one is presented with a high resolution screen with 2 rows of icons on the right side and a reduced preview of an 8 x 11 inch page in the center. The screen, wiLh its joystick- or mouse-driven pulldown menus, requesters, and icons, may seem familiar to many users of Gold Disk's Amiga Pagesetter. Actually, PaperClip Publisher is Pagesetter for the C64 By the remarkable programming efforts of Mike and Allan Sedore, 20 year old Canadian twins, almost all of...
Flaws
Only four AiRT programs are included on the disk more arc badly needed. The unconventional and confusing requesters need to be differentiated. String and other gadgets should act like normal Intuition gadgets. Running any of the AiRT programs results in a lot of disk grinding, even when searching through icons in the Editor. They recommend using ASDG's Facc a disk caching program , but users who don't own it will spend lots of lime wailing on their disk drives. AiRT is not extendable. If you a...
Basic Paint
The BASIC PAINT program which comes with BASIC 8 is unique in sev- Pie chart and bargragh produced using BASIC 8.0. eral ways. It has many more features color, solid modeling, regular polygon oval support dian GeoPaint 128, the only other 80-column 128 drawing program on the market. And it is written entirely in BASIC BASIC PAINT is an impressive example of what BASIC 8 can do. But BASIC PAINT it is also slow. Part of the problem is the limited access to the 8563 video chip, which makes the...
Dik Wlaqafine
is the worlds most advanced publication of its type, featuring over 300 pages of articles, graphics, music, animation, and a complete user interface to make reading easy Each issue comes on three disks packed full with articles ranging from programming language tutorials, in-depth product reviews, regular columns, special features, programs, and unique departments. JflGWi is a must have item for every Amiga owner. We pride ourselves in covering every facet of the Amiga computer, and even...
The High Points
Wild Jim O'Flahcrty of Haitex Resources dragged me over to an A2000, put a pair of odd-looking goggles on me, shoved a joystick in my hands, and the next thing I knew I was doing battle with futl- v color 3D space aliens. fi- My socks went flying across die room. Called X-Specs 3D, the goggles will retail for 124.95. Mimetics gave me a copy of their new 3-Dcmon object editor. A quick glance indicated it should be much easier to use than existing object editors. It supports all the popular...
Mighty Thor
Computers especially the Amiga demand high-density, reusable, reliable mass storage. Tandy recently announced a major step forward in mass storage wiih their new THOR CD technology. THOR CD is an erasable, reusable optical medium compatible with current compact disk technology. The major difference is that you can erase and rewrite to a THOR disk. CD media is currently used for audio, video, and compuler data the new THOR CD capabilities will be identical. The first application that Tandy will...
The Amiga Transputer
Board shown at the Amiga Developer's Conference. Discovery Software 163 Conduit St. Annapolis, MD 21401 301 268-9377 With ZOOM , Discovery racks up their second straight habit-forming game hit right on the heals of their blockbuster, ARKANOID . ZOOM really uses the Amiga's graphics and sound to good advantage, from colorful gameboards that come tumbfing through space, to numerous outrageous sound effects. On the gameboard, your playing piece glides about the grid, trying to capture each square...