Bugs and Upgrades   || 33 ||| 33 ||| 33 ||| 33 ||| 33 ||| 33 ||| 33 ||| 33 ||| 33 ||| 33 ||  WordWorth Upgrades  If you own any word processor you can upgrade to Wordworth 1.1 for $106. If you own any Wordworth version you can upgrade to Wordworth 2 for $150. These prices include p&p. So that means you can get Wordworth 2 for $256 by trading in any old word processor - the retail price is $320. Send to: Pactronics, 98 Carnarvon St Silverwater, NSW. Supra Rom Upgrade  This is for owners of its SupraFaxModem V.32, allowing fallback to a lower comms speed when confronted with a bad connection when in V32bis mode. And it will increase the speed when the connection improves. There is also an Error Correction Mode, enabling error-free faxes to be sent, and a Silent Answer feature, letting you use the same line for voice and fax. To know if you need the upgrade, issue the AT13 command to your modem - if the Rom part number returned is lower than 1.2H or 1.2J then you need the upgrade, which is available from Supra: ROM Upgrade, Supra Corporation 7101 Supra Drive SW, Albany OR 97321 USA. CD-ROM Audio Software V 1.63  Now available from our PD library, this has been supplied by Ami-Tech who assemble the CD-ROM player which we sell. This software lets you run the player with audio CDs. Ask us for this upgrade if you've bought one of these systems.  Final Copy II V.2  Now supports both kinds of outline fonts - check the review this issue for all the details. To upgrade from V 1.3 to the latest V 2, release 2, send in $95 to Solutions Rendered (if you're a registered user): 9 Miller Ave Hornsby 2077 Tel: (02) 4775353  From Desktop Utilities ADPro V. 2.3 - Direct reading/writing of Video Toaster FrameStore files without requiring a Toaster. - Direct connection of ADPro to paint programs (DPaint AGA and OpalVision). - Undo capability with a TEMP buffer. - ANIM support including the new ANIM-8 format. - New loaders, savers and operators (including WYSIWYG Rotate & Twirl, WYSIWYG Collapse, Displace Pixel, Polar Mosaic, SimPrint, Pseudo Operators). - Additional ARexx commands. - More powerful FRED with over 50 pre-written ARexx programs. - Digital image compositor allowing multi-layer animations to be created easily and quickly. - A new utility, SENTRY, which allows you to automatically process images as they are generated. - Two new dithering techniques have been added. Upgrade available from Desktop Utilities Tel: (06) 2396658 DOpus 4 Send in your old disk or quote serial number, and cheque for $79 if you have V. 3.42. Call re other versions ($93). Upgrade available from Desktop Utilities Tel: (06) 2396658 Pagesetter III Article editor and graphics ediotr are the same as ProPage 4 now, and is now more similar to ProPage than it used to be. Upgrade available from Desktop Utilities Tel: (06) 2396658  BLITZ BASIC 2 MAGAZINE  Blitz User Issue 3 is now available. Included on the disk is a new upgrade of Ted (text editor). Ted now includes overscan as well as 3.0 compatibility. Also included is a runtime debugger for Blitz2. There are also several blitz basic games on the disk! Available from Acid Software in New Zealand - check your manual for the address. ImageMaster (from a PR blurb)  Black Belt Systems is in the process of releasing a major new upgrade to our Imagemaster product, designated v9.50. [Ed: looks like a major upgrade from the huge list of features, and is going head-to-head with ASDG's AdPro, etc.] For more information or outside the USA and Canada, call (406) 367-5513. You can FAX us orders at (406) 367-2329. Our multi-line, 9600 (HST & v32) open user BBS is reachable at (406) 367-2227.  From Electronic Arts Deluxe Paint DPaint 4 to DPaint AGA $50 DPaint 3 to " " $150 DPaint 3 to DPaint 4 $100  Deluxe Music Construction Set Version 2.0  Major Feature Enhancements: o Supports all Standard Display Modes o Compatible with AGA Hardware o Multiple Document support o Hide/Reveal Project options to manage open projects o Support 32 staves (and 32 MIDI notes played out) o Improved MIDI support - File Import/Export Support Commodore's MIDI driver o Stand-alone Player mode o Full ARexx support which will allow: Creating compositions algorithmically through an ARexx script Creating shortcut macros Scanning a musical document and making changes through an ARexx script o Macro definition to automate repetitive tasks o 64th Notes and Rests o Can attach any musical instrument sample or MIDI Channel to an instrument name Other Feature Enhancements: o Undo/Redo o Full support of the Amiga clipboard o Go to Measure option o Support beams over rests o Two way ties o Insert Tempo changes anywhere in score (not just at measure bars) o Embed samples in file when saving o Set Instrument Pan so that internal instruments prefer left or right speaker when playing back o Share Sample option for instruments so that more than one instrument can use the same sampled sound o Transpose option for transposing the sound of an instrument in semi-tones without changing the score o Tune option for tuning instruments upward or downward by fractions of a semi-tone o Save Settings option for saving the current state of the program options so that the program will have the same settings at your next session o Print As... requester for setting printing options for score Interface Improvements/Changes: o Totally revamped file requesters to conform to modern Amiga standards (look and feel of 2.0) o Most requesters allow multiple Apply to make several changes to score before closing requester o Advanced Keyboard commands - keyboard binding in requesters) o Load program by double-clicking on score file o Delete File option in the File menu o Hard Disk installation Program Upgrades available for original Deluxe Music Construction Set owners. Please call Electronic Arts (008) 074 277for more information. Press Releases: SILICON PRAIRIE SOFTWARE RE : HyperCache Professional v1.01 Now Available (Upgrade information follows for v1.0 owners) HyperCache Professional is a filesystem and device accelerator for the Amiga series of personal computers. It greatly improves the performance of all AmigaDOS compatible storage devices, including hard drives, floppies, CD-ROMs, optical floppies, and removable SCSI devices. Performance increases of up to 2200% are attainable via HyperCache's intelligent sector caching algorithms, and its ability to anticipate the demands placed upon the storage devices attached to your Amiga. In fact, its fast enough to accelerate some RAM disks! Filesystem performance on a HyperCache-equipped A500 can exceed that of a stock A3000, while sustained read speeds for the A4000 can jump to more than 5 megabytes per second. Owners of the new IDE equipped systems will appreciate the workstation-like performance not normally attainable with the restrictive IDE controllers. UPGRADE AND ORDER INFORMATION HyperCache Professional can be purchased directly from Silicon Prairie Software. Suggested retail price is $49.95 US, but if you state on your order that you saw this offer via electronic distribution, you can obtain it at the special offer price of $39.95 US. This price includes all shipping, handling, and applicable taxes in North America (Overseas orders please add $3.00, which includes air-mail delivery). To receive your copy, send your check or money-order for $39.95 in US funds to the address below. Remember that postal rates to Canada are slightly higher, so please use sufficient postage to avoid delays. Owners of version 1.00 can obtain the upgrade free by returning their distribution diskette along with $4.00 US shipping. SILICON PRAIRIE SOFTWARE 2326 Francis Street Regina, SK S4N 2P7 Canada (306) 352-0358  DISTANT SUNS 4.2 (tm)  Distant Suns turns your Amiga into a planetarium. It will show you the sky from before 4000 BC up to 10000 AD. With Distant Suns you can see where the planets are tonight, or when you were born. Animate solar and lunar eclipses and even follow Halley's comet around on its orbit. By using the anim feature, you may create time lapse movies of astronomical events. Or use the AREXX support for controlling a telescope. Version 4.2 adds in a number of new features designed to make life easier: * New clock-control menus items will let you change the time in 1 day increments or set the time to either sunrise or sunset, saving considerable effort over previous methods. * You may now set your location via a user-modifiable list of cities, accessible via the environment window. * There are 3 default state files, permitting you to specify which options are desired for startup, reset and the quickview functions. * The system will now permit you to load in a state file to set your options, without changing the system time if desired. * A new center option will let you center individual stars by their Greek identifier, or various catalog id numbers. * Previous versions of Distant Suns would demonstrate the motions of the planets, but not the stars. Now you may view this "proper motion" and see the movement of the stars for a 50,000 year period of time. * Scrolling lists now recognize double-clicks. * A lunar-phase chart has been added to let you quickly see the moon's phases at a glance for the entire year. * Angular distances between objects may now be measured using the "reticle" function. * In order to help you see visually what planets are currently up, a simple "Planet guide" window was added. This shows at a glance the entire sky from your location, rendering just the planets, sun and moon. * The What's Up window was reworked to be more useful, giving much more data in a single view. * Several new AREXX commands have been added to support the new features. * Keyboard shortcuts have been changed around to conform to new user- interface guidelines. * The constellation outline data has been improved so as to align more closely with the stars. *************************** Distant Suns 4.2 is available for AmigaDos 1.3 and above, and requires a minimum of 1 Meg. A separate version which utilizes an FPU may be special ordered. Registered owners will notified by newsletter. If you have not registered, you may receive upgrade information by calling VRLI at 805- 545-8515 or by logging onto the BBS at 805-781-2257  || 33 ||| 33 ||| 33 ||| 33 ||| 33 ||| 33 ||| 33 ||| 33 ||| 33 ||| 33 ||    BUGABOOS   A1200 Incompatibilities  Pen Pal II - no menus come up   AmiBack Tools AmiBack tools won't work on an XT drive such as an A590. It won't do the reorganisation, although it'll back up, etc. It is designed only for SCSI drives.  ProWrite III.3  When converting to ProPage document, watch out for which fonts you use - various outline fonts from WB2 seem to crash the machine. However, using bitmapped fonts, no problem. Thanks to Barry Caudle for this info.  ProPage 4 There are some problems with style tags between v. 3 and v. 4, which can be fixed by a patch available from Desktop Utilities - see contact above.  || 33 ||| 33 ||| 33 ||| 33 ||| 33 ||| 33 ||| 33 ||| 33 ||| 33 ||| 33 ||