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MINET 15
Since the last Laser Guidance, two Aminet CDs
have plopped onto the Amiga Computing
doormat: Aminet 15, the November Aminet
release, and Aminet 16 the Christmas release.
Each release has a certain theme, and the
focus of Aminet 15 is music and animation.
One helluva lot of music and animation in fact
In its uncompressed form there is over 1Gb of
software on the CD, including 124 Mb of glori
ously over the top trippy animations with
accompanying dance music. There are 143
MPEG animations and a number of excellent
five minute animated films which look exactly
like those 4-matbns shorts they show on
Channel 4. The pick of the crop is the lovably
stupid 'Alien Space Vampire' animation.
As usual the Aminet CD contains a number
of games, and along with the usual shoot'em-
up clones, space invaders copies and primitive
PD platformers, Aminet 15 contains a demo of
a game called Genetic Species. It really does
have to be seen to be believed -1 would stick
my neck out and say that it is almost worth
buying the CD for th.s game alone.
Genetic Species is a very sophisticated
Doom done that looks utterly professional but
was in fact created by a small group of Danish
coders calling themselves Ambrosia. I can safe
ly say that Genetic Species, even in its early
form, is the best Doom/Quake clone I have
seen on the Amiga.
The inclusion of a Genetic Species demo on
the CD couid be something of a coup because
Ambrosia have agreed to collaborate with the
Amiga games giant Vulcan to develop the
game. If all goes according to plan, Genetic
Species couid be one of the most successful
games in the Amiga's recent history. Aminet
offers you the chance to own an eariy demo
months before the finished product comes out.
There are a ton of pictures on the CD, rang
ing from interesting little presentations, films
and pictures (such as the ace bird changing
into a plane morph) to the obligatory dull ren
derings of the starship Enterprise drawn no
doubt by people who spend every hour of the
day watching Deep Space Nine reruns and
swotting up on their Klingon warrior curses in
ill lit bedrooms.
Amiga Computing
MARCH 1997
I Hugh Poynton sifts through
the latest Amiga CD releases
1 found the CD fascinating and, although
perhaps a little less useful than the average
Aminet CD in terms of business software and
the like, it is certainly a great deal more fun. For
anyone with an interest in animation or com
puter generated music, this CD is a must, as it
includes music modules and software and
some pretty good quality dance tracks.
If you're after business software, buy Aminet
14, but if you want a genuinely interesting and
fun CD that'll keep you browsing for hours, go
for Aminet 15.
Genetic Species - worth
buying Aminet 15 for
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