The classic anime title Project A-Ko is examined in the first installment of this quarterly series. This demo version gives you much of the sights, sounds, and fury to be found in the full version. Plus, the publisher, Vanguard Media, has created a multimedia-enhanced section of their Web site available exclusively to bootDisc owners.
Mixman - Spin Control
This track from the dance disc, Mixman: Spin Control, will have you spinning and mixing tracks from the first moment. The full version provides even more tracks to get creative with and additional tracks are coming soon from the publisher.
Monty Python and The Quest for the Holy Grail
Join Eric Idle and the whole goofy troop from Monty Python as they translate their classic crusade from the big screen to your computer screen. This demo contains games, clips from the original movie, and all-new animations from Terry Gilliam. The full version contains nearly the entire move, more games, and new shot-for-the-disc footage with the original cast.
Shattered Steel
The year is 2132 and youΓÇÖre a mercenary with a Planet Runner, which can navigate most any terrain and packs the fire power of a light armored division. Your patrol is near the edge of known space and is plagued by frequent pirate raids. This demo contains the first 5 levels of the full game and puts you at the controls of the mighty mech.
Strife
Strife is a unique 3D game, which takes you into a world combining the fast-paced action of a shoot ΓÇÿem up with a riveting role-playing storyline. This demo gives you a taste of the full version, which features even more enemies, bigger badder weapons, and the rest of the gigantic Strife world to explore.
Quake
You get the phone call at 4 in the morning. "An enemy codenamed Quake, is using his own slipgates to insert death squads inside our bases to kill, steal, and kidnap." Quake, the long-awaited game from the people who created the original Doom, has two basic goals. First, stay alive. Second, get out of the place youΓÇÖre in. This demo contains the full first episode and all the lush graphics and gameplay that make the title destined to be a classic.
Duke Nukem 3D
"Come get some!" calls out our hero, Duke Nukem, as he sets out to take New Los AngelesΓÇÖ seedy underbelly back from alien marauders who have blown into town. At your disposal are shotguns, pipebombs, shrink rays, grenade launchers, and more. Find jetpacks, aqualungs, night vision goggles, and other toys to help you beat down the baddies. This demo contains the full first level.
Warbirds
Get online and get aerial with Warbirds, the flight sim that allows you to dogfight on the Internet. Install WarBirds on your computer and progress from a fledgling pilot to an experienced combat veteran. Best of all, with this software you can fly WarBirds free of charge. Just start an account on the ICI Games host. If you donΓÇÖt like WarBirds, cancel your account anytime within the first five hours and you will not be billed.
Adobe Acrobat reader 3.0 beta
Adobe has created a versatile PDF in Acrobat and this beta of the version 3.0 reader will allow you to take advantage of all the latest features added to the format.
Hijaak Morph
With this free application, from the people who brought you the graphics powerhouse Hijaak, you can create your own morphing movies. Simply select a starting image and a target image, assign reference points and let Hijaak Morph go to work generating digital magic.
Calamus
Calamus was designed to fulfill the need for a true 32­bit high­end desktop publishing application for the Windows95/NT market. Calamus offers a new concept in design and function, providing greater creative and production control than other publishing systems. The open architecture of Calamus enables you to add and remove features as required. It also allows for new capabilities to be seamlessly incorporated as they are developed.
PolyForm
PolyForm easily creates 3D objects and converts 20 different 3D file formats. With PolyForm's auto-tracing facilities, you can convert your .BMP logos and art into 3D outlines. Then use PolyForm's Logo Wizard to extrude and bevel your logo. View your object in a fully interactive viewer where you can move, rotate and scale any object in any one of five different rendering modes. And with the addition of advanced polygon optimization algorithms, visual 3D hierarchy dialogs and full conversion of EPS files and fonts to 3D, PolyForm is the powerful tool for anyone interested in creating 3D objects.
AnchorPage
Welcome to the world of automatic indexing. AnchorPage is an automatic indexer and abstractor, a program that analyzes your HTML documents, finding and compiling significant phrases and concepts. These phrases and concepts are displayed in an abstract page, a concept page, and a phrase page, which are hyperlinked to each other and to your original documents. This version of AnchorPage is a limited demonstration copy. You may process up to 50K of source files, roughly 25 printed pages of HTML documents, depending on the density of the text.
