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- \ / elcome to the PD Section in Page. It's Rick here and I'm doing
- \ / the PD section this disk as Mike is in hospital, nothing too
- \/\/ serious. There is a slight change this disk though, as I'm
- doing little mini-reviews of some PD programs I have got
- lately. If you want any of them, then send an extra disk along
- with your next disk for Page and a little note and I will send
- you it. Here goes...
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-
- MTV:
-
- Bring the ultimate Sky TV music channel to your Amiga. This is another
- one of those little Workbench hacks. This one puts a little transparent
- MTV logo in your top right hand corner of the screen and it zooms in
- and out and twirls. Simple but cute!
-
- Rating: 8
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- Pac Man Copy:
-
- This is a Nibble-Copy program. You can back up all your protected disks
- with this excellent copier.
-
- But why use Pac Man copier, instead of other programs like, Nibble Copy,
- XCopy 8 or even Workbench Copy? Because you can play Pac-Man at the
- same time!
-
- Excellent stuff.
-
- Rating 10
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- Sys Info :
-
- This new version is an even more comprehensive tester. Also in the speed
- testers there is no A500 mentioned so you look at the 600 one. There
- are tests for speed, versions, drives, boards, memory, chips, and much
- more. If you are curious about how your Amiga works then get this!
-
- Rating: 9
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- Virus Checker:
-
- VIRUSES! They are little buggers aren't they? Well now you can get
- revenge on the little blighters by installing a Virus Checking program
- on your Workbench. Virus Checker is a very good one, and the most
- up to date one available on the Amiga (I think). The program runs
- in the background on Workbench and automatically checks every disk you
- insert for viruses in a few seconds. This program is one that every
- Amiga user should have in their collection and indeed be installed
- in your WBStart up drawer or User-Start up file. Get it as soon
- as possible if you don't already have a virus checker.
-
- Rating: 9
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- KingCON:
-
- The Amiga Shell is one of the best Command Line Interfaces around. Much
- better than the crappy MS-DOS or UNIX that PC's use. The Amiga one
- can run in the background on Workbench and is totally interactive
- with the Amiga's WIMP system. Of course it could be made even better.
- This program is a Console Handler replacememnt. When you install this
- in your MOUNTLIST or inside your DEVS drawer it will give your Shell
- lots of new features, such as Pop Up menus and a scroll bar down the
- side, a buffer and loads more. You must have it!
-
- Rating: 10
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- Flexer:
-
- This is a PD database program. You can do all sorts with it, like list
- your video collection, your addresses, phone numbers or even your
- issues of Page. It is a very good one for free. You can create columns
- and give them titles, and all the other things which are expected of a
- database program are all in here. It is a very good and easy to
- use database and it should definately be high on your Database list.
-
- Rating: 8
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- Lotto:
-
- This is a very small program which simply produces 6 random numbers
- inbetween 1-49 which can be used to choose your lottery numbers with.
- It is better than those systems of counting the sheeps coming
- back to the field, or the old birthdays system, and I have
- won a tenner using it.
-
- Rating: 9
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- Monkey Island Demo:
-
- This is a little snippet of the game Monkey Island from Lucas Films
- which is quite long for a demo and gives you a taste of how great
- the full game is. This is definately reccomended and does the
- job of advertising much better than any old poster.
-
- Rating: 9
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- Magnetic Pages:
-
- This is a program which enables you to create your own disk mags.
- You can make pages in colour and connect sounds pictures and
- animations to pieces and pictures. It is really good if a bit complicated.
- It does take quite a long time to create a mag using this though
- so that's why we don't use it for Page. It is quite a good
- laugh though if you want to have a bash at creating your very
- own disk magazine.
-
- Rating: 7
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- Speechtoy:
-
- This is a cute little Workbench hack thingy. It has quite
- a few options on it and it also has an animated face when the computer
- speaks. You need the narrator.library for this so it is no good for
- users of Workbench 3 -->.
-
- Rating: 7
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- Juggler:
-
- Stunning animation of a robot juggler. This is in 3-D and uses
- HAM mode with sound effects to boot!
-
- Rating: 8
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- Printext:
-
- Program to display ASCII text files on the screen with scrollbar,
- arrow gadgets, automatic word-wrap, a search function, speech,
- IFF picture loading, and online help. Version 1.2
-
- Rating: 9
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- WBLander:
-
- This is a cool little Workbench hack program which is really a little
- game. You have to land your little rocket on to a workbench
- window using your stick (joystick - that is :-) !).
-
- Rating: 7
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- Beachbirds:
-
- An animation with sound effects which shows birds flying around on a
- beach scene. It is very relaxing and it sounds like you are
- really on the beach as the sound FX vary. Great stuff!
-
- Rating: 8
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- Asteroids:
-
- A nicely done "blast the asteroids type game". It does have a unique
- feature, because you can change the sound FX and graphics to suite
- your own needs. So you could have an Amiga blasting away loads
- of Atari STs.
-
- Rating: 9
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- Muncho:
-
- This is a little program which puts a little window at the top of the
- screen. Now every time you insert a disk or remove a disk
- it plays a sound sample. You can change the sounds to your own.
- It comes with a default of a gulp and a burp. Good laugh.
- This should be on the next disk.
-
- Rating: 8
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- EFJ:
-
- Escape from Jovi. This is a machine code game featuring a hi-res
- scrolling, large playfield, disk-based highscore, sterio sound and
- multiple levels. A joystick in port 2 controls the ship.
-
- Rating: 7
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- Animal Sounds:
-
- These are simply IFF sound files of animals, there are dogs, cats, chickens
- , birds, wolfs, chimps, and loads more, like cows, horses etc.
- This are only little IFF sound files for loading into programs like
- MED or Protracker. I use these often for some local radio shows
- I do.
-
- Rating: 8
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- Keyfiler:
-
- This is a good one for all BBS boffins out there. This is a BBS message
- file sorter which allows sorting by keywords. Includes a textreaders,
- Soundex matching, and limited wildcard capabilities.
-
- Rating: 6
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- Term
-
- A giftware telecommunications program written for the Amigas with
- Workbench 2 and upwards (Kickstart 37.74 and Workbench 37.33 or
- higher is required, Kickstart 37.175 and Workbench 37.52 is recommended)
- Features include total configurability, full Arrex control, Xpr-transfer-
- support, filetype-indentification after download, cut&paste, point&click
- on screen, automatic upload and downloading, scrollable review buffer
- of unlimited size, solid and fully-featured VT100/VT220/ANSI emulation,
- optional fast atomic terminal emulation, hotkey support, powerful
- phonebook and dialling functions, abilitiy to save and print the contents
- of the screen as IFF-ILBM or ASCII formats, overscan and screen
- resolution support (new ECS screen modes are included) asynchronous
- operation and a lot more. Comes with six XPR-transfer libraries (ascii,
- jmodem, kermit, quickb, xmodem & zmodem) and documentation both in
- German and in English. This is version 1.8a and also includes C
- and assembly language source code. A nifty little program.
-
- Rating: 9
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-
- There you have it. If you want any of these programs then send
- an additional disk with the next disk for Page and include a note
- for me and i'll do me best. Mike should be back next disk, if
- not then we'll do more of this. So until next time I do this bit,
- bye!
-
- Rick
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