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***********************OTHER CDS FROM FLOPPYSHOP****************************
In addition to the Floppyshop Gold Collection, five other Atari CD-ROM
compilations are available from Floppyshop. Brief write-ups can be found
below. Directory listing for all our CDs can be found in the DIRECTOR.Y
folder.
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DTP+Graphics CD-ROM
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Program Type:- CD-ROM compilation
System: Any Atari computer with a CD-ROM drive and suitable driver software.
Memory Required: Some files need 1 Mb or more.
Display Type: Some files are colour, others are mono, most work on either.
PRODUCT INFORMATION
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Floppyshop are pleased to announce the release of DTP+, the first of our new
range of CD-ROM products for the Atari range of computers. This quality
product is the culmination of several months' work and has come about as the
result of a massive collaborative effort between Floppyshop, John Weller (Mr
DTP himself!), countless Shareware authors and several of the leading
companies and individuals operating in the Atari market. It is this combined
effort which has resulted in a single CD-ROM which is undoubtedly the DTP
and Graphics enthusiast's dream. Lets look at what's on offer.
SO WHAT IS IT
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DTP+Graphics is a collection of fonts, clip art, DTP support programs,
printer drivers, printer utilities, word processors, image processing
packages, vector graphics packages, all popular non-commercial graphics
packages, demos of DTP related commercial programs and more besides. It
includes everything you need to enhance you existing Desktop Publishing and
Computer Graphics setup, regardless of which package you use. In fact, much
of the contents are generic and can be used with more than one application.
In addition, there's a small section with a number of useful bits and pieces
designed to enhance the use of your computer in general. Over 90% of the
contents are in English and there's an easy to use catalogue which gives an
overview of each and every program on the CD along with the full directory
path to the relevant program/file. Finding things just couldn't be easier
and everything is uncompressed and ready to run so there's no time wasted
dearchiving or space occupied on your hard drive, almost everything runs
direct from the CD.
FONTS
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Wasn't it all the rage when Compo brought out their 500 Fonts CD-ROM? So you
thought that 500 fonts for £50 was a bargain? Well here's news for you, the
fonts section (and it's ONLY one section) of Floppyshop's DTP+Graphics
contains over 3,600 fonts for all popular Atari packages. There are 14 types
of fonts with the largest collections being Calamus (almost 1200), True Type
(almost 500), PostScript (over 400), GDOS (about 450), Signum (over 200) and
Fontkit (over 150). Of course there's PageStream, Publishing Partner, That's
Write and Degas fonts too. Yes, EVERY font in our collection to date! This
includes the prestigious Oxieware and Bournemouth CFN collections (semi-
professional fonts released as PD) and a PostScript version of the
Bournemouth collection. These high quality fonts make up around 50% of the
Calamus and PostScript collections and would cost around £80 alone even at
PD prices!
CLIP ART
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It is said that picture paints a thousand words and there's nothing to beat
a pertinent graphic to add a bit of class to an otherwise dull flyer,
poster, newsletter or magazine. Well we've done it again. There's over 8,000
clips included in our Clip Art section on DTP+Graphics! We've weeded out the
duplicates and categorised everything into logical sections for ease of use.
As you would expect, IMG accounts for the lion's share (over 5400 items!)
and has been split into 84 main subject headings and several sub-headings
besides. Included here are complete collections by Stan Otterburn and John
Weller (these are astounding) and others. Other bitmapped graphics include
over 160 GIF images (256 colour), over 1000 PCX clips split into 24
categories and a few hundred Degas and Tiny clips. As for vector clip art,
DTP+Graphics contains almost 800 clips in GEM Metafile format and over 200
Calamus CVGs.
DTP SUPPORT UTILITIES
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These have mostly originated from our various DTP support disks. There's
everything imaginable to enhance the use of Calamus, PageStream, Publishing
Partner and Timeworks. There's also several utilities aimed at GDOS and
SpeedoGDOS users as well as useful file templates for Calamus, PageStream,
Publishing Partner and Atari Works. Also in this section are demo versions
of the top DTP sections, including DA's Layout TC v6.1 and Calamus 96, both
'hot off the presses'.
FONT EDITORS
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Includes GEMFED for designing GDOS and Degas fonts, font editors for
Publishing Partner and PageStream, Fontedit - the forerunner to FaST Club's
Fontkit/Fontkit Plus, specialised font designers for creating downloadable
fonts for Star and HP printers, and more...
PRINTER DRIVERS
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Almost 300 printer drivers for just about every imaginable printer type
(including the SLM804!) and application. The majority are for First
Word/Wordplus (some other applications can also use these drivers) but
there's also a good selection of SpeedoGDOS drivers, most notable amongst
these are 600/720 dpi drivers for the newer Epson, Hewlett Packard and Canon
models. There are HP drivers for near enough every application ever written!
PRINTER UTILITIES
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Printer controllers/command senders, screen dump utilities and other useful
utilities for use with the Canon BJ300, NEC Pinwriters, Panasonic KX-P
series, Epson LQs, Star NL series and others.
WORD PROCESSORS
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Word processors, text editors, spell checkers and dictionary listings. All
the popular packages are here along with demo versions of commercial ones.
GRAPHIC PROGRAMS
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This section comprises of over 120 Mb of graphics related programs and
associated data files. There's traditional art packages, image processors,
graphic conversion utilities, image viewers, animation packages, image
printing utilities, vector graphics editors, 3D packages, a massive
raytracing sub-section, graphics tutorials, fractal generators (including
landscape generators), stereogram creators and much more. Just about every
non-commercial package worth talking about is included here. There's even a
Falcon specific sub-section with around 20Mb of graphics related material
for use exclusively on that machine (a sizable proportion of the software in
the general graphics section is also Falcon compatible).
COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN
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All the popular non-commercial CAD packages are on the CD along with demo
versions of the commercial ones.
PICTURES
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OK, so nobody buys a CD specifically for images but there was enough space
left to include around 2,500 images in Degas, NEO, Tiny, Spectrum 512, IFF,
EZA, GIF, PCS and JPEG formats. This includes a special collection of over
500 astounding JPEGs of photographs taken by professional photographer Nigel
Scott.
ANIMATIONS
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As with pictures you would not buy a CD specifically for animations. The
space was available so why not fill it with quality! There are ninety of the
best FLI animations included on DTP+Graphics. These are all 256 colour
animations but can be easily viewed in any almost any resolution (including
monochrome) using Brainstorm's Movie100 animation player which is of course
included.
OTHER SOFTWARE
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This includes useful software for any Atari. These programs are not DTP or
Graphics related but are virtually indispensable once you've tried them out.
There's also a small Floppyshop section with demo versions of all our
commercial products as well as full versions of the DegasArt tutorial (parts
1, 2, & 3), Family Roots v1 (the forerunner to our popular genealogy
program) and the registered version of Xlator, a very capable German to
English translation program. Last but not least is an exclusive release of
the full version of the Edith Professional text editor on DTP+Graphics. This
quality product is almost impossible to obtain nowadays but it's included
free with DTP+Graphics.
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SELECT CD - A Falcon 030 CD-ROM
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Program Type:- CD-ROM compilation
System: Any Falcon with a CD-ROM drive and suitable driver software.
Memory Required: Some files need 4 Mb or more.
Display Type: Some files are for RGB, others for VGA, most work on either.
PRODUCT INFORMATION
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Floppyshop are pleased to announce the release of their fourth CD-ROM title
for Atari computers. It is an anglicised version of an excellent release
entitled Falcon 030 Version 1.00, which was compiled by Michel Goux and
Thierry Benet who run the popular Azimut RTC bulletin board in France. The
CD-ROM remains essentially their compilation, but we have modified it by
altering the folder structure to English names and replacing some of the
included software packages with newer updated versions. In addition, we have
squeezed quite a lot of interesting extras onto the CD which were not
present on the original release. The Floppyshop variant is called SELECT CD,
so as to avoid confusion with the French version.
As the name suggests, this collection is exclusively dedicated to the Atari
(or CLAB) Falcon 030. There's no antiquated ST software padding out this
collection, it's all top quality PD, Shareware and Freeware for Falcon
computers. Many of the titles coincidentally happen to run exceptionally
well on the Hades, Medusa and other high end clones, but others use the DSP
and are therefore only comfortable with the real McCoy.
SELECT CD includes all the top demos from Europe's favourite demo crews,
lots of audio programs, masses of games, graphic programs, file viewers,
lots of source code (in Assembler, C, DSP, GFA and other languages), several
multimedia packages, a number of STe emulators, some direct to disk
recording software, lots of disk magazines, masses of small utilities,
technical info, DIY electronics projects and an easy to install Unix
environment for your Falcon.
With very few exceptions, almost everything on the CD-ROM is uncompressed
and ready to run. In fact most software will run directly from the CD, thus
avoiding the necessity to purchase a larger hard drive. Falcon exclusive
collections are very few and far between, with most Falcon owners having to
be content with a token "corner" on an ST based title. SELECT CD offers a
unique opportunity to own all those classic Falcon demos together with the
very latest versions of all today's popular PD, Shareware and Freeware
titles from the world's top Falcon programmers. What more could you possibly
want, apart from a Phenix or a Milan?
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Sounds and Stuff
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Program Type:- CD-ROM compilation
System: Any Atari computer with a CD-ROM drive and suitable driver software.
Memory Required: Some files need 1 Mb or more.
Display Type: Some programs are mono only, most work on any display.
PRODUCT INFORMATION
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Sounds and Stuff is a CD-ROM specifically compiled for the Atari musician,
with literally hundreds of odd, exciting, useful, and fun Public Domain and
Shareware music programs. These include sample convertors, players, editors,
trackers, utilities, MOD players, MIDI tools, sequencers, generic and
synthesizer-specific librarian editors, and MID file players. Some useful
non-musical utilities are also featured (including mono emulators, virtual
screen drivers and other weird configuration tools), as is over 20Mb of
Falcon-specific stuff (direct-to-disk recorders, and other audio bits and
bobs), a small selection of games that run on mono monitors, a helping of
interesting text files on audio and MIDI programming matters (with lots of
source code to try out) and even a fully working version of Sound Chip Synth
v2.32.
From the outset we decided that a high standard had to be maintained
throughout this compilation. With this in mind, we enlisted the help of
Electronic Cow's Danny McAleer to take charge of the project. Now Danny's a
bit of a perfectionist and wasn't content with just putting the music
content of our PDL onto the CD. He started off by wading through all our
stuff and ended up discarding at least 40% of it! He then checked out the
best music sites on the Net and added software from there. Finally, he
included Electronic Cow's entire sample library as well as a number of
Electronic Cow releases. Needless to say, we would like to thank Danny for
the enormous amount of work he has put into compiling this CD.
Here's a quick rundown of the contents of the CD-ROM...
* Nearly a thousand high quality 16-bit AVR samples covering a vast range of
instruments. There's bass sounds (acoustic and synthesized, including the
TB303!), synthesizer sounds from analogue and digital synths (instruments
such as the Korg T3, Roland SH101, Juno 106, JX3P and Yamaha DX7),
percussion loops and single hits (from the Linn drum, TR808, 606 and 909
amongst others), orchestral instrumentation and vocal samples.
* Hundreds of music files in MOD, Pro 24 SNG, Quartet and standard MIDI file
formats, covering classical, jazz, pop, drum programming and other genres.
* Librarians and sound editors for most modern popular MIDI synthesizers
including Korg, Roland, Kawai, Akai, Yamaha, Ensoniq and Casio.
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Suzy B's Atari Software Treasury Vol 1 CD-ROM
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Program Type:- CD-ROM compilation
System: Any Atari computer with a CD-ROM drive and suitable driver software.
Memory Required: Some files need 1 Mb or more.
Display Type: Some files are colour, others are mono, most work on either.
PRODUCT INFORMATION
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When it was originally released, this double CD set was hailed as the best
compilation of English language Atari software to date. The downside was the
price tag at over 50 pounds. This re-release of that popular CD includes the
complete contents of the original 2 disc set archived to fit onto a single
CD at a much lower price. Much of the software on this CD is American in
origin and has never made its way onto the Internet, BBSs or PDLs.
Categories include Games, Utilities, Children's Programs, Falcon software,
Databases, Comms software, Screen Savers, Picture Manipulation Tools,
Financial Software, MiNT Utilities, Midi Files and much more besides, with
each program catalogued on the disc. An Aladin's Cave of Atari software
at an affordable price. No Atari CD-ROM owner can afford to be without it!
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Suzy B's Atari Software Treasury Vol 2 CD-ROM
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Program Type:- CD-ROM compilation
System: Any Atari computer with a CD-ROM drive and suitable driver software.
Memory Required: Some files need 1 Mb or more.
Display Type: Some files are colour, others are mono, most work on either.
PRODUCT INFORMATION
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With 9 years' service to the Atari community, Suzy B Software know more
about PD and Shareware than most. This followup CD-ROM contains almost 1
Gigabyte (when uncompressed) of the very latest Atari software. The CD
contains everything which could not be squeezed onto the first compilation
as well as all the new software they have collected in the past three years.
As with their first CD, much of the software is of American origin and has
not received widespread distribution outside of the States. An absolute gold
mine of top quality Atari software, this CD has the contents of over 1400
floppies!
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