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Ti, ever that Belgians are a peculiar breed.
Zootje is a demo, and I won't even attempt
to guess what the tale means in English. It's
got decent enough music and graphics but
to thing is, I can't understand why anybody
'mould want to put together a two minute
sequence featuring a heactbanging ostrich.
Its not all ostriches, however - there is a
bnet interlude featuring the twosome the
Radio Times is keen to describe as the
heavy metal anti-heroes*, Beavis and
thAthead, I have to say that in all honesty,
to term I would be keen to describe these
%PO characters could not possibly be printed
ati a family magazine, but suffice it to say that
the aptly named programmers Tragedy have
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got the cult MTV characters to a tee. As a
consequence, if you're one of the distressingly
large number of people who wander
around mindlessly mumbling "Huh huh,
that's like cool, and stuff then you'll be in
heaven,
More sane people might be impressed by
the animation and crisp sound samples but
will probably be eager to get back to the
ostrich, and they won't be disappointed.
After something at a repeat performance,
our lone ostrich makes way for a looping animation
of many things running along while
the credits scroll up the screen.
At the end of the day, it's quite well done
and I'm sure it's very nice if you are into this
sort of thing. Be warned though; don't expect
to understand why on earth anybody would
produce such peculiar 'entertainment.'
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Produced by: Trecision
Available from: Freestyle PD
Despite suffering a little from some minor
translation errors, this Italian murder mystery
game is a pretty impressive effort, In a manner
not entirely dissimilar from Delphine's
Cruise For A Corpse, the plot finds several
people together in an isolated location - in
this instance a mountain chalet - where a
murder has taken place. The victim, by the
name of Diana, could have been killed by
any one of the other eight individuals in
residence. A good helping of pointy-clicky
Ting bons (lip Art
Produced by: David Hearne
Available from: Online PD. Disk No. 0F5
This selection of cartoon clip art covers themes
and characters as varied as skateboarding
ducks and Roadrunner. There are, in total, five
coloured
screens and 21
black and white
screens, each
filled with
plenty of
pictures.
The artwork (or it
could be scannerwork,
since it doesn't
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similarly twee cartoon charee•
I.,. are on offer on the Tiny duced) is of a high
standard throughout,
Icons Clip Art disk
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where you commence
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Dead Of Night
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Amiga Computing
MAY 1995
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While the majority of the screen area is
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taken up with a well-drawn depiction of the
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current location, complete with any occupants,
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an inventory is also displayed in a
strip across the bottom of the screen.
When the right mouse button is pressed,
an additional strip containing the options
Close, Open, Take and Use appears.
Actions are accomplished by moving the
pointer to one of these options and releasing
the button, then left clicking on the
Some of the characters appear to be
original, although it has to be said, a fair
few are famous cartoon stars, which it
must be said raises a few questions about
copyright. With this in mind it appears to
definitely be a case of 'for personal use
only:
Still, even in this sort of limited role the
pictures
could well be
worth getting hold
of. T h e
coloured
screens,
attractive as they are,
might not really prove
very useful, but the
black and white
screens are certainly
of sufficient variety and
quality for use by keen
desktop publishers.
Attractive although slightly
useless, the World Cup
screen is one attire
coloured pictures on the
Tiny Toons disk
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