OZ_PRODUCTS VIATEL AND GENERAL COMMUMICATIONS GPTERM for the Amiga. Reviewed in Megadisc6, we know this product is fully tested and works with ease. By Greg Perry and Steve MacNamee, who fully support the product. If you can show proof of purchase of Megadisc, there is a current offer of a Netcomm Pocket Modem WITH GPTerm for $360, not bad for any communications, and particularly if you're into Viatel. Enquiries: GP Software, 21 Aloomba Rd, Ashgrove Q 4060. Tel: (07) 3661402. HARD DISK 20 Meg ($898) and 40 Meg($1040) Hard Disks using ST506 type drives available by the time you read this from Andrew Wilson in Adelaide, Tel: (08) 2933960. If you want to mount your own hard disk in Andrew's setup, you can get the whole setup without hard disk for $440. Andrew also makes other good hardware for the Amiga, particularly RAM expansion boards (up to 8 Meg) - full details on Megadisc 7 or call him. STEREO AUDIO DIGITISER Dual 8 bit converters, inputs via RCA sockets; emulates PerfectSound and compatible digitisers. Works with Aegis Audiomaster, PerfectSound, Studio Magic (Demo versions available from George or Megadisc). Available as: * Plated through, solder masked, silkscreened PCB with full instructions : $30 each or $25 for 5 or more. * As above with all components without case: $60 each or $55 each for 5 or more. * Please include $3 for P&P, and don't forget to specify what sort of Amiga you own. Payment can be made by cheque or money order. Due to underwhelming demand for built units, George will not be making available any more built up digitisers, only kits and PCB's. [ED. NOTE: See the review AUDIO_DIGTSR.rvw on MegaDisc 7] MULTI-FUNCTION BOARD FOR THE AMIGA George is currently designing this board, which will be a quantum leap in power and flexibility for the Amiga, and he is looking for people who are capable of writing software and/or designing further hardware for the board. Inside the Motherboard box will be: 68000 processor running at 12MHz; 512K static RAM or EPROM; 4 INMOS link adaptors; 68881 Floating point coprocessor running at 16 MHz; 68450 4-channel DMA controller; POD (application board) interface; IBM buss interface. The design will be such that it will be able to function without being plugged into the Amiga, if required, and will be expandable in many ways, including extra PODS designed by George and other interested people according to specifications obtainable from George, who will himself be designing: a serial pod with 8 RS232 lines; Parallel pod with 4 Centronics ports; A/D card; Parallel I/O card; SCSI controller. This sounds like a great project, and interested people should send a SASE to George (see below) for general info; or send $10 and a written recommendation from a current developer, to gain developer status. Call Megadisc or George for such contacts. From George Vokalek, GPO Box 121, Adelaide, 5001. Tel: (08) 294 1283 (AH) INTERACTIVE DISASSEMBLER FOR THE AMIGA : "RESOURCE" This is a very deep program and deserves support, so buy it! There is a shareware version available from Megadisc's PD collection, so you can assess the quality. Available from : Glen McDiarmid, 28 Marginsom St, Ipswich, QLD 4305. Price: $80 DIGISOFT [ 12 Dinmore St, Moorooka, Brisbane 4105] Tel: (07) 2773255 1. AUTOKICK - Modifies your Kickstart 1.2 to add some interesting facilities, including autoconfiguring of fast memory; fast addmem of 2nd block of expansion memory; toggle-able expanded memory; drive speed-up; no-click drives (on some!); font change; virus check; extra chip memory. $39. 2. CHECKSUM - Lets you locate & correct disk errors, find duplicate disks with different names; compare multiple copies of disks; compare 2 disks on a byte-by-byte basis; compare files; etc. $25. 3. HDUTIL - Said to be a complete hard drive utility, allowing you to backup; update; restore; batch copy; rename; and various other utilities. Price $79.95. CAD FROM BASFORD SYSTEMS Not tested by us, we can only report what is claimed, viz., "Fully featured 2-D CAD, with local support assured." Version 2.2 is available, and it costs $250. Enquiries: Basford Systems, 25 Neale St, Bendigo, Victoria, 3550. Tel: (054) 433349. DUTILS UPDATE Mike Hansell, who wrote the directory utility DUTILS2 (on MD7), tells me that registered users can get the next update, which is a PAL version with a number of improvements, by sending in a disk and SASE. Anyone who'd like to register should send in a disk and SASE and $10. Mike has almost finished the manual, which will be on disk and can be printed out from the disk. Write to: 56 Shanke Cres, Kings Langley, NSW 2147. M.A.S.T. DEVICES - MEMORY AND HARD DRIVES This group seems to be making an effort to provide low-cost, locally designed and manufactured hardware for the Amiga. Among their products about to be released at the time of writing are: # Minimegs 500 - up to 2 megs of autoconfigure Ram for the A500, price starting from $299 for the setup without any Ram, moving up in 512K increments according to current price of Ram chips. # Tiny Tiger - A SCSI interface/drive for all Amigas, attaching to the parallel port with printer pass-through, this unit can be obtained as an interface/drive case/power supply without hard disk for $399, allowing you to add your own hard drive. They will of course also supply hard drives. Enquiries - Tel: (02) 436 2600 SERVICES ALMOST-OZ SERVICES - TeX FOR THE AMIGA Don't write off to the US for this suite of programs (the ultimate in type-setting for long and/or scientific text), you've got it here in Australia, specifically for the Amiga (amongst other lowlier machines). Anybody really serious about Desktop Publishing/type-setting should look closely at TEX, and if you contact these people they'll send you a sheaf of papers actually prepared with TEX, along with prices etc. In short, and I quote, "..AmigaTeX, a good choice of print drivers and MetaFont are immediately available for your Amiga." They will support the product and make available further accessories as they become available. Contact: TEXWORKS, 157 Danks St, Albert Park, Melbourne, Victoria 3206. Tel: (03) 6994083. Alex or Norbert know about the Amiga. PRINTER RIBBON INKING Leon Jarvis, a dedicated Amiga user who has provided us with a theme disk based on the UTILIMASTER Directory Utility, also re-inks ribbons of all kinds for very low cost ($5 for Megadisc users, more for others). Contact him at 26 Aston Ave, Sth Penrith 2750, Tel: (047) 363364. HARDWARE MODIFICATIONS Nic Wilson in the Toowoomba area will soon be moving into the Amiga area full-time, and is currently available for writing specific utilities in Assembly language (such as those on this issue); he can provide hard disks and all kinds of hardware modifications, such as putting Kickstart in EPROMS, making switches so you can boot from external drives, etc; and he and Andy Clay have already put together a lot of useful utilities for the Amiga, such as "Kicktricks", which is a collection of all available Kickstart hacks, with patches written for 1.2. Contact him on (076) 358539 (BH), or find his address in the documents in the Programs drawer. Chris Ralph - A hardware hacker from way back (professionally), this man will do all kinds of hardware modifications for you at a reasonable price. He's fixed a lot of people's problems already (recommended by us) including the enduring one of dud PAL chips for the A1000 (which require replacement or at least some kind of grounding treatment), odd behaviour by A500s, hard disk problems, etc. Contact him on (02) 511050. WANTED Rob Englander, an adept in graphics and animation on the Amiga is looking for a programmer who wants to collaborate on games projects, etc. Contact him on (08) 2765500. TRAINING ARTSCAPE - Graeme Whittle, who wrote the "FantaReview" on this disk, runs courses specialising in Graphics & Animation, which are really practical and hands-on. He will also take commissions for slideshows, presentations and the like. Find him on (02) 9771829. SMALL BUSINESS PACKAGES Ross Kellaway has put together an invoicing/data entry package on SuperBase Professional with custom screens etc, and is willing to set up similar packages for any small businesses. Contact him on (02) 5213010. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX END OF OZ_PRODUCTS XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX