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object to perform the action, Graphics and sound are impressive - particularly the sampled sound effects which accompany many actions Also, there's always plenty of depth in games of this ilk, so Dead Of Night is a fairly fine game on all Counts. Although I haven't yet reached the message telling me that's as tar as I can go, this is apparently a demo version. The full mority costs US $10 and is available from the authors. Magoptic FieId5 Tanks Produced by: Magnetic Fields Available from On Line PD Disk No. 0G87 From the title screen logo it appears this is the same Magnetic Fields responsible for the hit Lotus games. This might just raise expectations a little, although it would hardly be fair to expect PD offering Tanks to compare with that classic arcade racing series. Approach MF Tanks as if it were any other PD disk and you'll find it to be a competent and enjoyable blaster. Controlling your tank via the mouse, the obiective is simply to seek out and destroy enemy tanks before they do the same to you. Hitting the left button fires, whereas the right button activates one of your three smart bombs, killing all enemies in the area. The scanner at the top of the screen is an invaluable aid as increasingly large numbers of enemy tanks close in. The simple line graphics might not look too stunning but they contribute to a fast and smooth game. In fact, while Tanks is a very simplistic affair, it's actually quite entertaining for a while. Admittedly, after a bit it does start to drag, but it is the sort of thing you can whip out every now and again for a quick blast. altr ille ga Di sk * 2 1 1 1 Compiled by: Jonathan Fisher Available from. Professional PC Disk No. MG02 Hot on the heels of Mega Disk #1. which featured oodles of tiny top-quality games, comes this selection of utilities. A couple of these programs will already be favourites of Amiga users across the country such as GUlarc, which removes a great deal of the tedium from archiving and extracting LHA files. There are also plenty of decent programs that might not be part of everybody's collection. For instance, ARestaure is a file undeletion program, the sort of thing you might not fully appreciate the value of until that special file bites the dust and there's no backup copy to fall back on. Chopper performs the same function as JSplit, reviewed elsewhere in these pages, with a similarly attractive interface, and Crypt is an excellent file protection program ideal for paranoid comms butts. There's also SystemSpeed, a tiny benchmark program. SoftProtect, a way of tricking your machine into 11=ex Slice M os up le tt° manageable chunks It might actually bet called ranks. hut *Mouth action is very much the name of the game here Imagine your worst enemy was in that exploding tank. Fat from provoking aggression. computer games can relieve it with -1Sptit Amiga Computing MAY 1995 Pluming iltils *2 Written by: Various Available from: Online PD Disk No. 0U84 A mixed bag of utilities are included on this disk, of which the highlight is probably JSplit. Imagine for a moment that you want to transfer a large file from your friends' hard drive to your own - possibly a picture or a huge archive. The problem is. it's too big to fit on a floppy disk. JSplit is designed to deal with this sort of situation. It takes a file and basically splits it into parts of a specified size. It can then rejoin them later, perhaps on another machine. It's a simple but good idea and the user-friendly interface makes this an extremely valuable program to have handy. The descriptively named ILMB2ASCII converts IFF pictures into text files. As well • •big lielsre tuttereer luttrritin /lir* kulentio - k i ' sr irisual I \ Caul liG) . - 4 A software accelerator Is included on the Flummy Ettilitie• disk Ii • K11-%7 t ilasitispciac 41 rkopt mtd.im Foutrile apm.0 P: nitro t11 i1cp l44 '101 Ite slli ThereW ' he no moro messing around with command - lines whenever you want to do•arc h an LNA archive thanks to OUlarc t thinking " a floppy disk is wnte-protected when it's not, and I a whole host of other interesting offerings. And for just " E1.75 for a total of 26 programs, Mega Disk 2 is also very good value, as possibly being of use to bulletin board operators, this could prove useful for people writing Read-Me documents as, for example, a logo could be incorporated. Games fans struggling with their favourites will be particularly interested in Frontier Trainer and Skodmarks Edit. These allow various settings to be altered, making the games slightly easier. Among the best of the rest is Sound:lox, a competent if slightly limited sound sample editor and converter. The small amount of documentation provided is in German but the interface is hardly difficult to work with and overall this isn't a bad effort. In conclusion, this is an interesting although scarcely essential compilation of utilities. Still, it might be worth getting hold of if only for JSplit. 1 1 7 alekome to paradise._ Cheetah PD 29 Green Lane. Middlesborough, Cleveland TS5 7S,1 Freestyle PD 108 Woodside Way, Short Heath. Willenhall. West Midlands WV12 5NH (Tel: 01922 710985) OnLine PD 1 The Cloisters. Helsel! Lane, Formby, Liverpool L37 3PX (Tel: 01704 834335) Philip C Swales 28 Campbell Road, Hartlepool, Cleveland TS25 3BB (MovieZone costs E1.40) Professional PD 28a Woodland Rise West. Sunway Park. Sheringham, Norfolk NR26 8PE
and Or lust s also board people is, tor their sled in These making ndbox, iample )unl of an but rk with ;onolu- Mrcely 'Still, it lly for &-g y h, •NH by, •Y PF / N 2 e x t Day £5.00 N!.- Nertes - are subject to stock availability 3 , .,t4 up to 7 days for cheques to clear D a y s £ 2 . 5 0 S a t u r d a y L I 0 . 0 0 GENLOCKS/DIGITIZERS d111111 Naritaroci, ,Sk • A4000 ,••• • - •••-• • fi ll 1111111 1SA MeniKti MOW keyboard Is extra EX MODEMS FIV tea Fa* Modems feature: Full Haynes mpatiblity, error detection • correction, m cable arid manuals included, NCA)MM ommunications software, Auto dial, Aut.. iwer and leased line support. EEX v32 MS 14,400 bps 4 1 6 9 ACEEX v32 MS FastFax 28,800 bps £229 TRAPFAX Fax Modem Software .449 1 4 1 5 , MEP TELEPHONE 01234 273000 MII)W E INCASES • The Al200 Tower comes complete with 3 a 5.25 drive hays, real time - dock, 5 a Zorn dr . board inierface. PC slots and a key- iv , slots, The e 4 A4000 Thwer comes complete with 6 x b x5.25" drive bays, 5 x drive bays, real time clock. a 7 a Zorro slots and 5 a PC slots. Both y Towers are easy to install, s TOWER Al200 , TOWER 5 A4000 £ £ 4 4 9 2 9 9 EXTENDED a KEYBOARD .429.95 PSU 3 230watt £ 9 9 . 9 5 Psu . 250watt (available 3195) • 1129.95 5 - Not ST Approved GRAPHIC SYSTEMS • Microgen genlock allows you to overlay professional looking graphics onto your homemade movies, Microgen comes complete with titling software and hardware controlled fades MICROGEN sylISCallock .LI 79.95 MICROGEN VHS GerticKk 199.95 ideon 3_0 unlocks the Amiga's graphic potential. Digitize and display all 4096 colours in high resolution mode and the stunning 29.791 colours mode, Digitize in 24-bit. directly from a VCR, Video Camera, LaserDisc_ VIDEON 3.0 £ 1 3 9 . 9 5 Maxigen 2 is a very high quality genlock for over-laying graphics onto VHS or SVHS_ Full hardware fades. colour composirion controls and excellent keying quality, FIVIDEO DAC - 11 7 17T program. - U P ' Video Dac I 8-bit is a graphics card prhich allows the Amiga to display 262.144 colours simulraneously. The software can display images or animations created and saved with any other 24-bit Video Dac IS-bit plugs externally into the RGB connector with thru' port capabilities. allowing the use of -such as Videon. or a genlock recording digitizers with your VCR any image you created in 262,144 colours. Video Dac 18-bit is able to split the screen and display images/animations at different resolutions or colours at rhc same time. IFIISOFT PRODUCTS U . - P I C A S S O I I • ChildlatSPARES 1111 MAXIGEN 2 Genlock i 2 9 9 95 x 32 72pin Simm • x 8 30pin Sio I 49.95 it TANDEM CD-DE 111 pOCTOGEN SCSI-2 • 4 x u 8 30pin Simm ....1149.95 I x n 8 GVP Simm £ 1 5 9 . 9 5 is atd allolss you to tonnect a CD- ROM 've to your Amiga 200013000/4000. Syquest b 5 . bye , software - and manual_ ROM 2.04 or above. TANDEM a CD-DE CARD £ 6 9 n SUSI-2 Lontrolier card for the Amiga 1500/4000 1.1pgradalile to 8MB of RAM. OCTOGEN 2008 £ 1 2 9 VGA ADAPTOR L I S £ x 4 Static 3 4Column A3000 . 4 5 0 i x . DIP 9 5 L S O 256 x 4 DIP L S i i DIP L S CIA 4 1 2 d I D E H All products have a 1 Trade and 2 Educational m o n t h orders welcome - Worldwide distribution available w a r r a n t y u n l e D s s sts-ce rOxe VAT Swaim*. re pnre am mallet". 1 1 wir • • • • • • • • • • — • 1 • • • . r a i t a t e POWER COMPUTING LTD 44a/b Stanley St Bedford MK41 7RW Tel 01234 273000 Fax 01 234 352207 A -4 111 - • •.? 9 . 11 ! k k' Medium Res: 320 a 256 PAL • 9 S 320 x 200 NTSC High Rest 3 2 0 a 512 PAL 320 x 400 NTSC Overscan: 384 x 576 PAL 334 x 482 NTSC Max Rest 768 a 576 PAL 668 a 482 NTSC All resolutions displef 2112 • t 41 c l a m i n g ' The free bundled software saves your images in the following formats: IFF. IFF24, RGB and Anim, plus a series of dithering modes to enhance the overall quality of the images. VIDEODAC £ 3 9 . 9 5 • SQUIRREL SCSI INTERFACE Connect SCSI perphierals £ 5 9 . 9 5 AURA 12116-bit direct- to -disk sampler A600/1200 £ 7 9 . 9 5 NEGALosoUND 8-bit direct- to -disk sampler, all Amigis £ 2 9 . 9 5 vIDEOMASTER AGA Realtime video with sound + stills A600/1200 159.95 VIDEOMASTER AGA RGB VideoMasrer AGA plus ColourMastet .09.95 VIDEOMASTER Realtime video with sound + stills A500/A500+ .152.95 VIDEOMASTER RGB VideoMaster plus ColourMaster A5001A500. £89.95 COLOURMASTER RGB splitter for VideoMaster £ 5 2 . 9 5 PROMIDI INTERFACE Amiga Midi interface £ 1 9 . 9 5 Picasso II is a 24-bit graphics card offering true retargetable graphics on any Zorro based Amiga. Picasso resolutions are available from the standard ScreenModes program, all useable by OS friendly programs. The new Chunky option offers incredible speed with a 256 Workbench which is many times faster than AGA! All screens are stored in fast RAM, removing 2MB Chip RAM limitations. PicassoMode allows the creation of custom screens quickly and simply. Picasso II comes with TVPaint Junior and drivers for ImageFX, AdPm, ImageMasrer, Re-al 3D and GIB IPF, WPC and MPEG viewers. Also included is the MainAttor animation program, PICASSO 11 4 2 9 9 . 9 5 WITH TV PAINT 2.0 1329.95 PABLO Video Encoder 1129.95 linowsesessr 512 x 32 72pin Simm .179.95 4010 1 vo , • • • • • GARY £ 1 9 PAULA £ 1 9 DENISE £ 1 9 SUPER DENISE £ 2 5 KEYBOARD IC L I 2 FAT AGNUS IMB L I 9 FAT AGNUS 2MB £ 2 9 PRINTER CABLE 4 6 RS232 CABLE £ 6 SCSI EXTERNAL L I S
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