Neil Johnston,
						Radmoor House,
						Radmoor Road,
						Loughborough,
						Leics,
						LE11 3BT

Hello once more!

    Yes after an absence of several weeks, I return to ACC! Sorry for not
supplying my loyal fans (who are they?) with source + waffle over the past
issue or two, as I've been pretty busy with work and moving to England!
Yep, I'm now living in Loughborough, a town about 10 miles from Leicester.
Well, I'm staying in College accomodation here, and in case you haven't
realised I've brought my Amiga over with me, so I'll be able to keep on
coding for a while yet!

    Unfortunately I can't really comment on stuff in the previous issues as
I haven't (yet) seen them, but I must say that ACC is getting pretty big
now as it occupys a good 40% of the Amignuts' advert, and the whole mag has
received decent reviews in several PD columns, and has even been
recommended to somebody wanting to start coding by Amiga Format. I wonder
how big it'll be in another twelve months? (Two disks? An ACC 'paper'
magazine?) who knows.....

    Here's a little tip I discovered by accident: Have you ever wanted to
make 3 or 4 directorys in one go? Well usually it would involve a:

    makedir dir1
    makedir dir2
    makedir dir3

    From the CLI, well there's a quicker way, just type:

    makedir dir1=dir2=dir3

    And all three directorys will be made seperately! Note: you must be
using the ARP version of the 'makedir' command for this to work.

    Way-hay! I'm famous! Yes, if you look at page 167 in the November
edition of Amiga Format, then you'll see what I assume to be the new text
reader for ACC (I've not yet seen it though) and at the top, Mark has
greeted me along with a few others! Cheers Mark!

    Ok, so there's not a lot of source from me this month, but what I have
got is a nice little routine which will enable hardware coders who set up
their GFX colours via the copperlist to fade their GFX in and out with
relative ease. The assembled code itself is a smidge over 500 bytes
(without any GFX) and therefore may be quite useful. The source is fairly
well commented, and shouldn't be at all difficult to follow (!) I've
included the code as a seperate module which you can either 'INCLUDE'
straight into your code, and also a quick demo, which fairly sings the
praises of ACC! Hope this code is useful to some people, as I myself will
be using it in the future.

    That's all folks,

        -=NEIL=-