June 1991 D market uge savings in a poke? \ explored ifdhhtfCm, Going tor^Gou Commodore !s topjm Irving Goridyttlin} the future forthe Ami* vents 9 770959 ijijiiuzj} daiw 'juyjj A/'Jiitl? U'jiiun ujj juur PLUS: Games • DTJbeUachine Code • Music * Comms • Amos • OTP 3 *® Flv* years to the month irfier Protext version 1 was launched Arnor are pleased to present version 5, on enormous leap forward in both ease of use end performance. Pretext 5*0 introduces a completely integrated system of pull down menus and dialogue boxes. The menus ore among the many operations that may now be tarried out with either the mouse or the keyboard. Pretext really does give you the best of both worlds. Pretext 5.0 handles printer foots flexibly and accurately. You can make full use of any number of proportional printer fonts, mix them freely within any tine, centre them in headers, use automatically formatted footnotes. And Pretext correctly formats your text as you type it, no matter how many font changes you use, showing you line and page breaks exactly as they will be printed. Pretext 5.0 is still the faslesl word processor around. Even though we have made all these major improvements we have token great core to ensure that text editing is ns fcsl as ever. The menus work smoothly and quickly even with high resolution displays. But of course, you can use Pretext's efficient set of commands and keys just as before and 5.0 remains compatible with oil earlier versions from 1 .0 onwards. Pretext 5,0 is a worthy successor to version 4, which was described as "the best word processor al any price", "the besl lext processor on the Amiga" and "the most powerful ward processor on the Atari SF (AUI, SI/ Amiga Formal, ST User). Pretext 5.0 heralds a new era of multi lingual European software, in time far 1992 and the opening up of Eastern Europe, Pretext may be used in at least 27 different languages and has 10 m different notional keyboard layouts built in (plus the capability to define * The Features j New fast £ easy ta use poll down menu system witti dialogue boxes and alerts; fib selector; moose dragging to set^ blocks. Menus complement existing commands and keyboard shortcuts, do nol replace them. Menus may be used with mouse or keyboard. Amiga version fallows Intuition guidelines. > Enhanced prinllng capabilities supports multiple proportional fonts; mixing of different font sizes on the same tine; proportional formatting whilst editing; side margin, headers and Footers independent of main text font. labs, decimal tabs and centre tabs. Extensive range of printer drivers supplied. Jr Multiple file editing - up lo 36 files may be open; spirt screen editiing- ,V Graphics mode support on PC allows use in virtually any text or graphics mode including 1 32 column or 75 line VGA modes; user defined characters and on-screen bald, holies and underlining now on all versions; use of 13 different accents an my di trader. /, Language support Includes Albanian, Bosque, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Flemish, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latin, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Rumanian, Serhacroation, Slovak, Spanish, Slovene, Swedish, Welsh. (Note: some printers do nal support oil languages]. Jr Index and contents generation. Indexer lakes marked words or phrases; contents entries automatically taken from titles wrapped in control codes; many options far style of contents output. Jr Spelling checker features completely new 1 1 8,000+ word Collins dictionary with very fast phonetic lookup. Anagrams and find word pattern. Foreign language dictionaries {German, Swedish available now, others ta fallow). JV Many other enhancements including mufti-line footnotes and endnotes: automcitk timed save; odd column or raw of figures; indent tabs; find word at cursor; 40 column made support; sentence operations; inter- paragraph space; much improved expression evaluator; self incrementing variables; Raman numerals; rvewspaper-styli column ■printing; fie sorting utility with special options far names and addresses; revised manual plus new tutorial guide. Jr And don't forget Pretext stiff includes background printing; box manipulation; macro recording; exec files; headers and footers; find and replace; mail merging; undelete; file conversion utility; configuration program; auto reformatting; on screen help; lime and date; typewriter made; line drawing: disc utilities. PrQlexl 5,0 rosy be purchased bom any good computer shop or directly from Arnor. Upgrades from earlier versions are only available from Arnor and the original discs should he returned with your order, PC Amiga ST/TT Archimedes ii ms £14995 £149,95 £149.95 m m £60 N/A E75 £75 £75 H/A £99.95 £99.95 £99.95 N/A £79.95 £79.95 £79.95 due 1991 Q1 Protaxl 5.0 requires at least 64QK of memory on all machines Protect 4.2 requires of least 51 ?K of memory on oil machines Prodata requires 1 HB of memory on ihe Amiga 7 « Arnor Ltd (amcI, 61 1 Lincoln Road , Peterborough, PEI 3HA . 7e/: 0733 68909 (24 hr). 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Eirqu^tuse AdlnjlQC- Ffci, MKCtelfed EXIO JHF: 126-141 Something for - everyone, every month, from the r Amiga experts 9 1WI Enpnu PuHkilims 1M Hi ufriil m it wrnliud li ftoh «r It irl **Ht irfan HiMa. HtNi miy cm * Vm, Dll jftiHttitt unm kitaU Hum moist m at r pUrOPRESS 6 L I C ATIONS Music 126 & 133 Machine Code Wit the right note! Tune in to Britain's most lyrical musk page The best advice for coders — assembled just for you 4 Amiga Computing What's new If It's happening. Ft's here. Six pages packed with the latest news. Including location reports .. Back to the future After Amiga Computing 1 3rd bi rthday party q Eddie McKendrFck gen nostalgic ,30 Public Domain Our regular guide to the best In free software. Paul Austin sorts out the best from the rest Beginner's guide: CLI Confused by the Amiga s Command Line? q — Let Stevie Kennedy lead the way... S3 Write like a pro Stevie Kennedy takes a look at the latest version of the Pro write word processor...... The hard stuff Our Technical Editor gets knee-deep in the latest Amiga hardware offerings., Gallery Proudly presenting a two page showcase of the very best Amiga art........ Going for Gould Chairman of Commodore, Irving Could has quite a bit to say. Eton Maple listens in The magic of MED Paul Austin takes a look at the built-in sample editor sported by our old friend MED 3 .. 143 Rock Lobster In the true tr...
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