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Issue 1 June 89
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Powerpacker Update (V2.2), Rulps Belch Gag, When The Rain
Falls Music, Demon Artwork, Hypnotic Tunnel, UGA Art and
UGA Music, Coverpicture, Screenshots from Circus Attractions
Grand Monster Slam, Sampler, Bloodmoney, Aquaventura and
Chariot. Demo and reviews of Fantavision. Help with Kings
Quest II, Space Quest II, Ultima III, Knight Orc and
general information etc.Due to other commitments at the
time, (the Commodore Show at Novotel) we were unable to
get anything done for this issue. We decided to start 'full'
distribution of Newsflash from Issue 2 onwards instead.
Issue 1 is available should anyone want a back issue.
Issue 2 July 89
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Normal service was resumed for this issue with full 17Bit
articles, documents, news, letters and feedback. On the
discs besides all the text was; Art by H.V.Graaf, Pseudo Ops
Small Demo, Ping-Pong game (good), Boot-game installer,
5 pieces of music (4 from Suntronic, 1 from Dtack),
Screenshots from Oceans 'The Long Walk' and Grandslams
'Thunderbirds', software reviews and news, C,Assembler and
CLI Tutorials, Hardware reviews and a full Comms section
featuring 2 BBS's reviewed plus Compunet & Micronet features.
Utilities featured were Bootleg, Fontmaster, Virus Killer,
Preset-Ed for Soundtracker enabling you to convert a disc
full of IFF files to soundtracker quickly & easily, also
a pre-production monitor program. All this plus lots of
information, hints, tips and the solution to Police Quest.
Issue 3 August 1989
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Major presentation improvements made this time, a different
font and the choice of background colours stopped people
moaning about the blue colours.. Anyway the contents were
well up to standard with the following utilities included..
ACE - Text Editor, BIGBENCH (Double your workbench size!),
MOST - Document displayer, CLITEXT - covert ascii text into
a program, TEXTMAKER - convert a document into a runnable
program, RAINBOW WRITER - a small intro creator (Great!),
IFF-EX makes pictures into runnable programs, IFF-MOD makes
a picture and a soundtracker module into a program, MOD2EX
makes a soundtracker module into a runnable program, PICVIEW
which shows any type of Iff picture inc overscan etc,
BOUNCESHOW - small slideshow utility. 4 assembler sources
are included (including comments) - sampleplayer, Loader,
LibBase, Iff Display. Preview of a new music program plus
screenshots of it. Populous entry codes part II. Superb
cover art by Rico Holmes - Joker Remix. Reviews of
Xybots, Rodeogames, Powerdrome, New Zealand Story, Falcon
Mission Disc, Jaws, Mystery on The Nile, Oil Imperium
(plus screenshot), Amos Preview, Lattice C v5 buglist,
Animagic Review. Plus all the usual latest release info
and 17Bit banter, comms news, jobspot etc..humour etc...
Issue 4 September 1989
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Yet more improvements this issue, a fine text displayer
that includes the ability to print the file (at last!)
also it takes crunched text which is obviously a great
advantage to both you and us, you get more text and we
get more space to play with! Superb Interlaced cover art
by Rico Holmes, (officially called Mariano Fortuny) nice
Hawkeye music conversion by Allister Brimble (able to be
run in the background while you read). Theres MIDI info,
news of the latest 17Bit discs, lots of game hints and
tips, Arp info. Assembler sources for plotting fast
pixels and a small text intro. Full C listing for the
great text displayer. Sillyness galore in the 17Bit
Editorial, banter and chat as well as news of a new
virus currently stalking around. Theres the Boardwalk
section covering the Bitmaps BBS and The Crusaders BBS
in Norway. The familiar Jobspot section is there also!
The first Newsflash interview is done with Tobias
Richter known for his tremendous Videoscape animations.
Theres also a Questionare - you can tell us what you
want! Theres 3 internal soundchip music creations by
Brian Postma, Sony Art, Complex Bob Demo (nice) and
another two short demos. On the utilities front there
is a great picture ripper that can even regain pictures
and art lost if the Amiga crashes! Theres a file coder,
2 new virus Killers to keep you up to date, a utility
to make your startup-sequence just one program file,
Kickstart Reset, A68K assembler too! On the entertainment
front theres a great Tetris style game (well good!) and
a shanhai style game! Phew! and all for 2.99!!!
Newsflash is available at 2.99 per issue.