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- YOU DID THE RIGHT THING - NOW DO SOMETHING EVEN BETTER !!
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- Look Gran ! It's those Zircon people again ! Turn on your Amiga, put the iron
- in the fridge, hide your trousers and dribble on the carpet 'cus it's ....
- ANOTHER UNIQUE DISK BY ZIRCON !!!! (Wagga wagga) Now, wouldn't you like to
- be part of us ? You would ? Well read on....
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- Have you produced a disk of your own ? Have you made a good utility ? Have
- you made some good music or drawn some pictures?. In fact, if you've done any
- work on the Amiga and it's just sitting in the box because you're thinking,
- "That won't be any use to anyone" then send it to us!!! We like to recieve any
- of your work, be it a utility, program, artwork, sound, music, anything!!
- Make sure that it is fully P.D. (It isn't copyrighted in any way).
- If your work doesn't take up much disk space, we will put it on one of our
- disks. Even though your work will may be put with other work, you will be
- fully creditted and recognised for your contribution to Zircon.
- If you want other people to see your work, have the advantage of it being
- released on a Zircon disk AND automatically become a member of Zircon, write
- to this address :-
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- C/O GEARS,
- 49 Love Lane,
- Great Wyrley
- Walsall,
- WEST MIDS.
- WS6 6NW.
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- If you send pictures they don't have to be in slideshow format, just save
- them on a blank disk and send them to us. If you send music, please indicate
- which music program you have created it on. This also doesn't have to be
- auto-running.
- Letters are much appreciated, and replies will be given to all. You may work
- may even be featured in the P.D. sections of Amiga magazines !!
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- THE TECHIE BIT
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- What I should have used when I compiled this Zircon disk was a 9 Meg Amiga
- with added reverse thrust, hot and cold running water, mains gas supply,
- quantum audio overload quadrophonic bass amplifier, 25 extra drives, a 100
- inch monitor, a 99 million colour tri-laser printer, a stereo sound sampling
- unit (with flouresent pink faders), 10 mice, 14 joysticks, a 500 Mb hard
- drive, a 12000 baud modem, a NICAM stereo twin-head VCR, a 5000 Mhz
- accelarator card, a built-in kettle and a PAIR OF FURRY DICE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- But I didn't..........Instead, my setup is this :-
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- A data-linked Amiga A500 Plus 1Mb
- A Power external drive
- A stereo speaker booster system
- An Alba Stereo system
- A Matsui T.V.
- A Video Sender (Send signals from Video Out to T.V. and gives a very clear
- picture)
- A Star LC-20 (I got this 10 months before it went on sale in September '91 -
- Thanx Trilogic)
- A Trilogic sound sampler
- A Mouse !
- A ProF competition joystick, and a QuickJoy TopStar joystick (For the sims)
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- And thanx to Great Wyrley High for letting me use their Toshiba Lap-Top's
- (Charge them up properly!!) the LC24-200 printer, the Hewlett Packard Paint
- Jet Printer, the PC's and the BBC MICROS !!!!!! (That last one was a joke)
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- Na, you won't believe this, but when I first went to GWHS (Great Wyrley High)
- all they had was some Apple micros (ha ha ha ha ha!!!) and a few BBC micros
- with sparkling graphics (ha ha ha ha !!!!) But not any more .... Now they have
- 6 Toshiba T1000 Lap-top computers, loads of 480Z research machines (not so
- good), loads of Nimbus's linked to the school's LAN (Local Area Network), 2
- Amiga 500's, some PC's (which they TRY to show off....oh dear.. It's like a
- Dixon's shop) and they still have the BBC micro's !!!
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- Anyway, you don't want to know about that ....
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- MORE STUFF ABOUT ZIRCON
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- Our morals are still the same as ever (We fight for Justice, truth and the
- American way - or maybye not), no matter what we name the group. I'm still
- using my first trusty Amiga A500 which is (still) going strong *** Update, I
- sold it !!!! I've got an Amiga A500 Plus now (In case you hadn't realised).
- It's the first computer I've had that hasn't packed up after a year or so.
- Before this Amiga, I had a Spectrum 48k, then a Spectrum 128k +2. I also had
- one of those black + white games consoles where you used a gun to shoot balls
- off the screen, but you can't really call that a computer, can you ?
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- GET SOME QUALITY IN YOUR LIFE
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- Well, Zircon alway's trys to give you quality and quantity in one package,
- and that's what we did with :-
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- Zircon Mega Utilities #01 - I did a few other utility disks, which had about
- 10 utilities on each. I didn't release them 'cus a pilfering 10 utilities on
- each disk is not what I'd call value for money. So, I put them all onto one
- disk and POP (Thank-you sound FX department) It's the Zircon mega utilities
- disk! It has 60 utilities on (And they're not small ones either) and they're
- all easily accessible from the on-screen menu.
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- Zircon Classic 2 Players - Great disk for two players ! Totally addictive
- and great fun !!!! Get it now !! Fully documented.
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- Zircon's Fractal Mania - Do you like fractals ? You do !!! Well, this disk
- will be perfect for all you guys & girls that want quick landscapes. This disk
- has a program which produces amazing mountains, hills and fields right before
- your eyes! Fully documented.
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- Zircon Demo's - A great selection of demos. Put together by Gears (ME!) and
- the demos are by ..... Gears...!! Wow !! Pick a demo/intro from the menu and
- show off your Amiga to all your friends.
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- Zircon Boot-blocks - A library of boot-blocks a disk ! This is for the
- experienced user, as you need to know which disks you can and cannot put a new
- boot-block onto. It has over 30 different boot utilities/demos/etc Also
- includes several boot-block programs
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- ALL THE DISKS ABOVE SHOULD BE / SOON WILL BE IN ANY GOOD P.D. LIBRARY
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- ****** COMING SOON ******
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- Zircon Samples Disk - Being considered at the moment is the Zircon samples
- disk, a great disk for anybody that hasn't got a sampler. It will probably
- have a range of samples from music to tennis.
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- Zircon Disk Magazine - Not a new idea, I know, but look out for it in the
- coming months... It will have tips on sampling, hints + tips for that
- brilliant piece of software - Deluxe Paint IV (Like how to get loads of extra
- animation frames) and bags more. We will include any of your interesting
- features, stories, hints, tips, cheats etc. Any length will be considered as
- text does'nt take much disk space.
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