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-= PRODUCT DEMOS =-
Here lies a listing of the product demos we have recieved...
Disc 3: Rocket Ranger Slideshow, see the entry in the
slideshow section for further details.
Available from Cinemaware rrp 29.95
Disc 33: Not strictly an animation disc but a demo of the
capabilities of Deluxe Video by EA. Has 5 or so
short `films` showing what can be done quickly
and easily. Mock film titles are included, and
a good education film teaching pythagoras.
Disc 44: Star Ray demo, playable to the 1st level.
Very nice defender type clone with excellent
graphics.Available from Logotron rrp 24.95
*Not compatible with Issue 1.3 machines.
Disc 81: A brilliant demo for 1meg amigas (2discs)
Disc 82: of Digiview,Digipaint and DigiFX all by
US based Newtek. Features amazing quality
digitised graphics, sound & animation.
Disc 94: A nice demo of Cinemawares KING OF CHICAGO
the stratedgy version of the Al Capone era
complete with all the distinctive touches,
music,hoodlums,cars and of course the
prohibition. As always graphics are top
notch and include facial animation etc.
Demo works with 512k and single drive
although the game really needs 1meg or 2
drives. Available now.
Disc 98: Video 3D demo. a product demo of an extremely
powerful and professional video titler.
Excellent and ultra smooth effects such as 3D
rendering and shatter effects..
Disc 132: A demo of the Professional text editor
available from DIGIPRO, a really powerful
text editor. If thats what you are looking
for then take a look at this first then
decide. Usable upto 20K of document.
Disc 133: Contains a playable demo of SHANGHAI by
Activision. The chinese strategy game
which is very playable, difficult to get
hold of now though. People who like it
should try the PD game, Tiles on a later
disc - check out Games discs for details.
Disc 138: Demos of Aegis Draw and Animator. Draw is
a CAD package that is usable but you cant save
anything. There are a number of aegis animator
demos included and the lander demo is probably
the highlight.
Disc 145: Jet Demo. A running demo of Sublogics JET,
a sort of sequel to Flight Simulator 2.
Shows you and guides you through all the
main features of the game. Try before you
buy.. you will probably find Falcon a better
game.Available now.
Disc 147: Demos of Battlechess and Fusion by E.Arts.
Battlechess is perhaps the best graphical
version of chess yet with some superb
animation and sound. (Although there is no
sound in this demo). Fusion is a game that
met a fair amount of claim. See what you
think about this playble demo.
1meg required for the battlechess demo...
Both programs available now.
Disc 165: Crimetown Depth Demo. A demo of this cinemaware
style game, coming soon from Mirrorsoft.
Features some nice graphics and sound and
animation sequences from the game.
Disc 167: Skychase Demo. A demo version of the Image Works
dog fighting game where you have a dog fight
with either the computer or a human opponent.
The graphics are very fast and smooth as shown
here. Available now.
Disc 181: A demo of Dragons Lair, the game that raised
more than a few eyebrows when released.
Needs at LEAST a meg (you only get sound with
1.5 meg and more). Brilliant animation
sequences that look straight out of the
arcade machine.Available now.
Disc 189: A demo of Sword Of Sodan, another game that has
recieved good reviews, just shows what can be
done instead of poor quality game-ports.
Massive sprites and fast gameplay are a hit in
this true arcade style game.Available now.
Disc 191: Product demo of Incentives 3D freescaping epic
Driller. Guides you round the planet of which
the game is based - the aim being to release
gas after drilling for it. Fast,smooth graphics.
Available now.
Disc 192: WB1.3 Test version. Contains a few samples of
what you could expect to find on the release
version. 1.3 offers faster hard drive access,
much faster printer drivers and a recoverable
ram-disc.Available now.
Disc 204: Buggy Commando. A playable demo rather like the
old Moon Alert/Moon Buggy games, control your
buggy over obstacles.Featured in The One.
Disc 207: A product demo of Pioneer Plague, the first HAM
game from Mandarin Software. Nice colourful
graphics and atmospheric sound effects.
Available now! Try it out before buying...
Disc 208: A rolling demo of Deluxe Photolab, featuring
209: some excellent graphics and acts as a superb
tutorial/introduction to the program. Requires
1meg to run. Similar format to the Dpaint 3
program which I deem to be a better program
although theres no HAM mode on Dpaint III.
Disc 215: A product demo of the original and playable
'Bombuzal' by Imageworks. Nice little strategy,
puzzle game.
Disc 227: A thorough demo put together by Digita to
demonstrate their suite of application programs,
Home Accounts, DG Calc,Mailshot and Mailshot Plus.
Theres an explanation of each program and a cut
down version for you to try out with save options
removed (so you cant use it!)
Disc 290: Zoetrope Demo disc. A new animation package using
yet another format (RIF) that allows you to use
anim files from just about any machine/format
including cyber studio ones from the ST and .anim
amiga files. Included on the disc are five
animations the best of which is the Skeleton
doing the backflip. Also includes Zoedemo 1
(a cutey creature that wobbles and falls over),
Dinonew a simple animation, Li`l Guy - another
cutey guy.
Backflip (need 1meg for the whole flip!) and
Zoesparklet - 3D text animation. Zoetrope is
available from ISM, Grove House, Ventor Road,
Apseheath, Isle Of Wight PO36 OJT contact
Paul Booth for full details.
Disc 299: Slipstream `Product` Demo.. not one of Microdeals
better efforts but we included it in the hope
that if you see this you may know about the game,
a superb example of Try before you buy...
if you dont, dont say you didnt have a chance
this time...
Disc 317: Design 3D Demo. A nice full-screen demo of the
new CAD package. Looks very easy to use and is
an excellent demo as it shows you quite a few
examples as well as exactly how something is
created (all mouse movements have been recorded
and playedback). Includes the facility to create
animation files, copes with 16 colours, light
shading etc. Full commercial package is
available NOW.
Disc 354: A product demo of C-Light the Ray-Tracing/3D
package which came out earlier this year.
Contains 3 demos, a Star Trek enterprise animation
a weird landscape one and a strange blind
animation. Needs 1meg and apparantley it allows
you to animate in real-time.(!) 1meg req.
Disc 355: A nice playable demo of Blood Money by Pysgnosis,
one of the better shoot`em ups to appear in a
long while (actually we werent too keen until
we played it, its very addictive!) this demo
allows 1 or 2 players (simultaneous) to play the
first level. Good demo. Great Game!
Disc 356: Dpaint III demo, a two disc affair showing the
357: reasons why it is the best art/animation package
around! You`ll need 1meg to see it though, and
to use the program which is available NOW.
Shows what can be achieved and how the various
additional features work. Includes some nice
animation sequences.
Disc 358: A nice presentation by Ron Fonteine that shows you
three forthcoming Psygnosis games Blood Money,
Aquaventura and Chariot. Bloody Money is already
out and looking superb the other two are due
shortly.
Disc 383: A running demo of Wicked from Activision, this
game is getting high ratings, try before you buy.
Disc 400: Product Demos, 4 demos of forthcoming titles,
Raider (a bit like gravvatack disc 83),Datastorm
(a brilliant defender clone by SODAN), Vortex
(a strange game!) and Sequencer - a sound
sampling utility. Datastorm looks the most
promising of these.. try now..
Disc 400: 4 Product Demos of forthcoming titles, Raider,
Datastorm, Vortex and a Sound-Sampler. Datastorm
looks particularly excellent!
Disc 413: A product Demo of Navy Moves. Try before you
buy...
Disc 421: Adrian Pursers Ray-Trace Graphics. Adrian has
developed his own ray-trace techniqes and he is
currently writing the front-end and editor for
his program. His actual maths code etc is done
and here are some early results which are very
good. Adrian promises much more complex graphics
and effects in the near future.
Disc 431: A demo of POWERDROME by E.Arts. Try before you
buy! Shows you the major features of this
playable futuristic racing game.
Disc 432: Another Product Demo, this time from Palace
as Delphines Castle Warrior makes its debut.
Large colorful graphics in a Dragons lair type
of Scenario.
Disc 442: *** WITHDRAWN ***
Disc 458: IT CAME FROM THE DESERT! Yes! Its crawled out from
Cinemaware and is attacking your screens. A great
product demo for the already famous unreleased
game - IT Came from the Desert! Based on all the
classic 50's bug movies get this and find out
what all the fuss is about. Spectacular sound and
animation plus of course a superb intro sequence.
IT should be available before Xmas 89... 29.95
courtesy of Mirrorsoft. * 1MEG ONLY ! * (Sorry!)
Disc 467: A Product Demo of Gemini Wings, a game by Virgin.
Based on the arcade game. Try it before buying!
Disc 481: A product demo of Mindscapes 'Fiendish Freddies
Big Top Of Fun!' - the circus game where you have
to complete events whilst avoiding the menacing
antics of Freddy. This demo has a small amount of
animation and a slideshow of stills from the
game. The game is due out in september rrp 29.95
and on three discs...
Disc 483: A demo of the game Xenon 2, contains half of the
first level and should be enough to convince
ANYONE of the sheer quality of this game!
(Great music too) Due in September 24.95rrp
Disc 484: A demo of a music program by Intelligent music.
As far as I can tell all features bar the save
option are present and it works with/without
Midi. Due to me being rather musically incapable
I cannot go on about its features.. But if you`ve
heard about it and want a demo.. here it is..
Disc 486: A product demo of BEAST by Psygnosis.. probably
the most technically clever game yet on the
Amiga.. this is a real beast.. 13level parallax
scrolling, 128 colours on screen, 50 frames per
second scrolling and animation, 900K of music,
2.5meg of graphics, 4meg of data, hundreds of
monsters... slick presentation.. in fact it looks
like something out of an arcade! Check out this
demo.. the game is going to be 34.95rrp so you
might as well make sure you know what its going
to be like!
Disc 488: A demo of a game announced AGES ago! Remember
Mars Cops? No? Dont blame you! Anyway years
have past and finally the game is due soon.
This demo shows what it will be like and it does
feature some nice graphics done by Ian Harling
(who did the graphics for Oceans Last Patrol).
but the game looks a little like 3D asteroids
so try this demo if you fancy the game.
Disc 497: Heres a demo to make your trigger finger itch!
This is a product demo of "Battle Squadron"
which is the follow up to Hybris. Featuring
full Pal scrolling, twin player simultaneous
action, added horizontal scrolling (as in the
game sidewinder). Great sound, great graphics
and probably the most arcade lookalike yet to
appear. Time to oil your joystick methinks...
Disc 498: Another product demo (by the way we will deduct
a pound off a purchase of the game if you have
previously had the demo!). This is a demo of
Ancos playable `Rally Cross` - a 4 player
super sprint clone that includes new tracks and
night driving by headlights. Looks VERY good.
Disc 514: Space Ace Demo.
Readysoft`s follow up to the amazing Dragons Lair
(remember THE demo 181?) is here and it looks even
better than the first! Nearly half a minute of top
notch, near faultless animation from the game.
PLUS Readysoft have excelled themselves in the
compression department as they have managed to
squeeze a whole host of samples in aswell,
including the unforgetable "I`ve only been
kidnapped by aliens, thats all!"
One meg owners get a continous loop of the full
demo, Half meg owners can choose between the first
and second parts.
Disc 522: Interphase Demo. Imageworks latest looks like
being one of, if not, THE best 3D games yet seen
on an Amiga. Superb graphics and speed, and a
decent plot to boot. A sort of strategy come
action game that should please most games
players out there. Heres a chance to see before
you buy.
Disc 525: Ghostbusters 2 Playable demo. Play one level from
Activisions megabucks film license. The game is
out now so if your interested, try the demo first!
Disc 527: MoonWalker Demo. Jacko hits your Amiga! Actually
this isn`t that bad. A few pieces of animation
from US Gold`s game of the film of the record
of the operation of the strange mind. The best bit
being the grand finale, featuring the infamous
spin. ** 1 Meg only **
Disc 528: Dragons Breath Demo. The intro and a few stills
from Palace`s "RolePlaying/Strategy Game of 1990"
, Anyone who saw the Work in progress feature on
this game in The One recently would`ve seen the
amazing graphics, now`s your chance to see them
for "real" on screen. The whole thing is backed
by some very nice atmospheric music.
Disc 529: Lets go TOOBIN`, preview of Domarks conversion of
Atari`s Mega Arcade game, race down the river
in an inflated innertube, avoiding various
nasties along the way. Again, this isn`t playable
just sit back and watch.
Disc 530: Cinemaware Basketball Slideshow. 8 Pictures from
Cinemawares forthcoming simulation. More great
graphics from one of the leading Amiga Developers
The game will be coming out sometime in 1990 via
Mirrorsoft, and if this demo is anything to go by
, it should be pretty amazing! Just to prove 17Bit
are THE leading PD suppliers we actually received
this demo BEFORE Mirrorsoft even knew one existed!
How`s that for speed??!!
Disc 532: This is the demo of French Software House
Delphine`s new Adventure come Action game
Future Wars - Time Travellers. Shows the intro
to the game before cycling through a few scenes
from the game which is similar to the Sierra
style of adventures. If this demo is anything
to go by all adventurers are in for a real treat
when the game is released....
Disc 539: Clownamania Demo from Starbyte. 3D Platform type
game that casts you as a clumsy clown!!
Not Playable, just a rolling demo.
Disk 555: X-OUT from Rainbow Arts. Playable demo of the soon
to be released shoot em up from the German based
company. This first level plays very well and the
game should be something to look out for! It's a
sort of underwater R-Type with loads of extra
weapons to blast all the nasty baddies!!
Disk 563: After the War - See before you buy autorunning
demo of Dinamics latest, a sort of Beat em,
shoot em or generally do-anything-as-long-as-you
kill-em UP! Not playable, just sit back and watch..
Disk 566: Odds 'n' Sods - A couple of Product demos and
some music on here; we have demos of the
excellent drivin' game DRIVIN' FORCE from DMS.
Also a demo (in the form of a mini slideshow
with soundFX) of Gainstars forthcoming
Adventure Dragon Quest - Looks very good, and
recently got 82% in CU.
Disk 594: Elvira (Mistress Of The Dark) DEMO. Running demo
of the forthcoming Horrorsoft game featuring Miss
Elvira and her "assets" (ehem). This game is going
to be a sort of Adventure/RPG type game where the
aim is to rescue Said temptress from her
capturers,the graphics look extremely impressive
and in parts are quite gruesome (so don't watch if
you are squeemish!) also has some sampled
atmospheric spot effects and a tadge of Sampled
speech from Elvira herself, though it sounds as
though she is doing her Shy Postman impression and
none of us can actually make out what she says...
This is a very good demo and fans of this type of
game should be well impressed.
Disk 600: AMOS DEMO. Stunning demo of Mandarins forthcoming
Game Creator. This disk is a brilliant example of
what to expect when AMOS is finally released in
May. Shows moving, animated sprites and bobs.
Brilliant scrolling routines (Amazing IFF piccy
scrolling!) And all from BASIC! Should set the
Amiga world alight when it is released. Heres a
great chance to whet your appetite! Anyone with
any level of interest in proggramming should check
this out! IT'S BRILLIANT!!
Disk 615: Castle Master Slideshow. 15 stills from the
forthcoming Incentive/Domark game. The latest game
to feature Incentives 3D routines known as
Freescape - here's a chance for you to see what
the game looks like before you part with any cash!
Disk 621: E-Motion - Playable demo of U.S. Golds "soon-to
-be-released" strategy puzzle game. 4 levels are
on here for you to test out. Looks very good
indeed, ideal for those of you who like to use
your old grey matter rather than just sit down
and blast!