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The Assassins Ultimate Games is the second
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rnmensely popular first instalment It included
all the Assassins collections packed, and
ready to unpack, onto floppy disks. The first
CD contained a wide variety of excellent
games as well as some compilations of
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The first Network CD arrived
courtesy of Weird Science
some time ago, and now their
latest Networking CD has
finally appeared - faster and
far more powerful than ever
before.
The main idea is to join
together the Amiga and a
CD32 via a cable from the Serial or Parallel port to the
Auxiliary port on the CD32. This will give your CD32 a new
lease of fife as a remote CD-ROM drive. As most CD drives
are operated via SCSI and the PCMCIA slot, the majority
tend to be quad-speed and almost instantaneous. You may
be thinking that because the CD32 is only double-speed,
the file exchange rate won't be particularly good. Well, you
would be right, although on this Network CD there are
many programs to get the most from your CD32 as well as
the fastest speed.
Setting up is made even easier than before - a simple
process of entering the CD, booting up the machine, waiting
for it to be ready, and sending all the relevant information
down the Serial cable. Then a pseudo-device entitled
'Network' will appear on your desktop. Inside here you will
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utilities. What made this compilation superb
were the presentation and features, an
excellent menu system, bootable or nonbootable
as well as compatibility with the
CD32.
This collection has game disks 1-120, 60
utility disks, and 70 workbench games.
These are all in the usual DMS format and
will need unpacking to floppy disks. You can
access everything from the excellently implemented
AmigaGuide database, and all the
information you require will undoubtedly
feature here, including compatibility with
various machines.
The games contained on the CD range
from shootem-ups to pub quizzes, and if
you're not looking for something specific
then there is something here for absolutely
anyone.
If you're looking for a decent CD with a
whole host of PD games and utilities,
Assassins is undoubtedly the best. It features
art easy-to-use menu system, accompanied
find a CDO and RAM drawer, and you must remember that
they are only drawers and not devices. Once this is setup
you can change the CD in CD32 because it will override the
auto-reset function, then all you have to do is assign it and
away you go - it's as simple as that.
What makes this one of the most delightful packages is
that if you should move the mouse pointer off-screen it will
simply appear to have locked up. Adding another monitor
through the CD32 will reveal your mouse pointer moving
swiftly around on the other monitor. Also, not only can the
mouse be transferred to the other machine, but also the
keyboard, as soon as you move off-screen.
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Depending on your machine and setup, you will have a
variety of baud rates from 57,600 to 115,200, and
for a standard Al200 you'd be able to get
away with 76,800. There are programs
such as SID, for file transfers and
for viewing various formats,
as well as many other
Internet and access tools.
You can also unpack
various bootable disks
to make the connection
procedure even easier.
The main improvements
over the first are that the CD
boots in around 45 seconds, the
CD32's programs can be run from
the Amiga itself, the connection procedure
is simplified to only a click of a
button, and you also get many animations,
games and images bundled on the
disk to kickstart you CD-Rom usage - these
can all be viewed or played through SID, so
everything you could possibly think of has
been included.
Anybody with a CD32 and Amiga should
seriously think about getting connected. If
you look at all the CD-ROMs on these very
pages you will see just what you are missing
Out on. This is none other than an essential
purchase.
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Ease of use 88%
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by some excellent presentation. There are
descriptions of the games as well as information
on the author, so it really does add up
to being one of the most professionally
presented CDs around today.
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Network CD 2
Weird Science
614,99 Serial Cable: E24.99
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