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Do you go green with envy when you see the WIMP front ends on 16-bit machines? Well now you needn't go green any more! (Unless you've go a green screen.) “It certainly is, my pathetic little friend.” “But hang on, Amstrad's only have a one-line interface!” “Until now.” “Yeah, but it looks like a proper computer now, dunnit, like the ST or Amiga!” “The Amstrad always has been a proper computer you repulsive tick. And here's a smack round the ear to prove it.” [Spotty gimp staggers off clutching ear and wailing]. It's true, readers. There's nothing that the Amiga or ST can do that the CPC can't (in its own time, admittedly). The CPC too can display an extremely polished WIMP (Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointers) interface if you can't get on with the rather clanky Amsdos version. At least it can now. The first WIMP front end we saw was from ace coder David Wild up in Humberside. However, AA's very own techie new recruit Richard Fairhurst has polished up the principle to produce this stunning version that will have 16-bit owners goggling and drooling (they drool anyway, but the goggling bit's new). There's no space to go into all the things it does here, partly because we've wibbled on too long and partly because it comes with its own DOC file which is over 20k long. We'd have had to write pretty small to fit that in... as it is, to read it, just load it into any old text editor.
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