Here we go with details of latest editions to the library.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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. We also have 3 excellent pieces of Music, un- fortunately the original disk they were supplied on was corrupt so I do not know who wrote them! Needless to say they are very good indeed! In fact I would class the second one as my favourite piece of amiga music EVER! Very funky, very 70's very... original, especially for the Amiga! Disk 567: Demons Music Disk - Live 3!! Very good music disk from French group The Demons. Good presentation, graphics and more importantly 5 great tunes! Thanks to Billy of the Demons for sending this in to us! Disk 568: Demons MegaDemo, good first megademo from the French outfit. Several parts that include various graphical/musical effects and there is also a different style of shoot-em-up, where you have to blast the zits of the poor adolescents face!! Another good disk for all you demo collectors out there! Disk 569: 17 Bit Software Intros Disk 27. 8 More Amazing examples of Amiga Programming, with demos from THR, Anarchy (Weird Scroller), Bloodsuckers (2 Part demo), DMob, Hypnosis, Legend, Network and Scoopex. Great Stuff! Disk 570: Flash Music Disk.8 Tunes from Flash Productions, all backed by a decent demo and the usual scrolly effects! Tunes are: Live Inside Paula, Tequita Sunrise, Pissed Off, Terminated, Beyond Darkness, Extend, Headbanger Zax and Times Of Dawn. Disk 571: IKS Music Disk 2, follow up to Music Disk 1 (you don't say!!) Features 8 great Soundtracker tunes by the IKS. Void Vision, Tune 14, Vagu 4, Tangerine, Tune 17, If I could fly, Pure Bit Not Set, Tune 13. As per norm nowadays you also get a demo backing the music. Disk 572: VideoClips, done specially for 17Bit by our good mate the Cheapo Geordie (AKA Steve Heley), 4 digitised sequences (in B&W) from: Erasure (The Innocents), Beverley Hills Cop 2 (Playboy Mansion) Kylie Minogue (Videos 2) and last but definately NOT least a rather tasty looking girl from the only TV program to beat Magiver in the Unbelieve- abilty stakes, BAYWATCH!! All the action is backed by a HCC Erasure Remix. Works fine on half meg machines. Thanks to Cheapo for sending it in! (famous at last, eh Stevey!!) Disk 573: Arcane Music Disk. 11 great tunes for you to blast through the hi-fi.. AciudHouse, Soft Madrass, Midi-Lover, Paradise, Sputnic, Red Friday (a rip off of quite a well known New Order song!) Confusion, Dream Attack, Jaeisbaeis & Blabar Remix. Backed by a very nice demo indeed, to select the tune use arrow keys Up and DOWN, press RETURN repeatedly to load! Disk 574: Flash HIT THE ROAD. A 2 disk megademo from FLASH Productions. 9 Great parts featuring some great graphics and sound. Disk 575: Disk 2 of HIT THE ROAD, requires disk 574 to run. Disk 576: Digital Concert2, from FLASH Productions. Yet another disk from FLASH (these guys must be really fast coders!)This time a massive 12 minute 41 seconds long Soundtracker megamix, very good indeed. Just the one tune on the disk, backed by an impressive demo/scrolltext. Disk 577: The Sun Connection Slideshow. 10 impressive pieces of Amiga Art backed by a lovely super soothing tune (aaahhh very relaxing!!). Includes a few Ray Traced pics (Wooden Dog, Cocktail, White Mouse and Link) which are brilliant, and also a few "normal" pics:- Weird, Metal Demon, Mannequin & Donald Duck Rockstar! Disk 578: The FRAXION FORGOTTEN REALMS Slideshow. 13 amazing digitised pics of the fantasy genre. Very good indeed, especially if (like me) you are into this fantasy RPG type stuff!! Backed by a couple of decent tunes and a scrolltext (which you can turn off if it gets in your way!) Disk 579: Another SLIDESHOW disk! Features 20 piccies, some digitised a few hand drawn. Includes 8 pictures taken from Star Wars (some great pics of Hoth, the Ice world.) and various other digitisations (Monkey, Heineken, Dracula, Paul Hogan, Creature from The Black Lagoon, Man, Garfield, SpaceShips & more!) Disk 580: VISION MegaDemo IV, another masterpiece of Amiga Programming from the guys in Vision. 5 Parts including some great scrolling, equalisers (including a mans turning head from a recent Norman Cook video! [We Think]), graphics and music. Very well put together, this is a real corker!! Disk 581: Exodus Real 3D show. 9 BRILLIANT Ray Traced Pictures done using Exodus' own Real3D utility. These Ray Traced piccies really are amazing. Pics on the disk include: Dumbells, Woodglass, Lantern, Pencil, Edam, Flower, Goblet Of Balls and an amazing guitar. A must for all graphics fans. Disk 582: Gate Music Disk. A nice refreshing change with this disk as it ignores all the usual styles of Amiga Music (a la SoundTracker) and makes its own slower paced music. Using really clear well sampled new instruments this is an ideal disk for those of you who'd like to hear a different style of Amiga music. Songs on the disk are: Hipster, SlidePick, Avernus, Rumppa & Overhud. Disk 583: The Busy Bee Animation, featured in the library a while back but had to be withdrawn 'cause of a irrepairable disk error, well thanks to an anonymous member we have this brilliant animation back in the library, for those of you who haven't heard about it, this animation features a Sculpt3D designed Bee flying around (super-smoothly) the screen, hurridly beating it's wings. An amazing animation for all you one meg owners out there. Also on the disk is the tree frog anim. Disk 584: 17 Bit Software Intros Disk 28! 7 Intros to show off with! Get those St owners jealous with demos from BlackMonks (Big Scroller) Complex, CounterForce (Nice Music), Fraxion MiniMegaDemo (3 Part demo), Phenomena (Gunship sprite), Public Enemies (Amazing scroll on the 2nd part!) and a demo from Vix\sion Factory which shows how games like Afterburner should be done, super smooth scrolling at amazing spoeed, just hit the fire button and watch those bushes whizz past! Disk 585: 17 Bit Software Intros Disk 29! 6 More offerings from Amiga Coders from around the globe.. Brainstorm (Bouncing Ball), Complex (Disk Bobs), Disknet, Poison, Vision Factory Beast Demo and another brilliant demo from DMob who are putting out some of the best demos at the moment (even if they are infatuated with the hideous BatMan Film & Prince song!) Disk 586: Number 30 in our Intros series, featuring 5 brilliant Amiga demos:- Ivory, Silents, Silents1, Rebels and THR with a Pump Up The Jam demo featuring a sampled remix TechnoTronics recent smash hit single. Disk 587: Intros Disk 31! 6 More great demos to watch and enjoy!! On this disk are offerings from: Celtic - Good 3 part demo featuring 700 Bobs (??!!!), a fairground scene and a vectorscroll. - Excel, EXCELLENT bob demos featuring great `balls' - Exodus, spiral scroll - Rebels Vector scroll - Red Sector BRILLIANT Follow ME Demo featuring mega GFX and Music! TPL, Vector demo. Disk 588: PREDATORS Megademo! An absolutely brilliant 2 disk megademo from these Australian coders. Features 11 original demos, all linked together, and backed by some great music!! Part 1 - Glass Bobs, Part 2 - Three Dee, excellent 3d Objects spinning around, VERY IMPRESSIVE some of the fastest 3D vectors ever seen! Part 3 - Sinestars, sinus scrolling starfield, Part 4, A Good Tron style light Cycle game, Part 5 Bouncing Balls, SuperScroll & Groovy Musak! Part 6 Features a bouncing blue ball, and some very impressive spinning cubical bobs! Part 7 allows you to design your own graphics and then see them spinning around, Part 8 is a Beast Rip-off "Bones Goes Home" shows a cutesy skeleton travelling along a parralax scrolling background, Part 9 is another playable game - this time a version of Combat, the classic cartridge game of eons ago! A two player strategical shoot-em-up with bouncing bullets!! Part 10 has various scrolly effects and includes some sprites ripped from Xenon2. The last part has some great scrolly lines & Mega musak!! Disk 590: AGATRON Slideshow 4. Yet more excellent Ray Traced Pictures from Tobias Richters own-made RayTracing utility REFLECTIONS! 16 very impressive pictures (mainly on the `Space' theme) that include.. Saturn Rocket, Flying To The Moon, Space Station, Old Ship, Primary Hull, Starbase 12, Dry Dock. There are also some great pictures of the Enter- prise and other Trekky items... including an amazing close up of the Enterprise that took 38 hours to render!!! Disk 591: THE RUN! (Agatron Animation disk 25) An ABSOLUTE MUST FOR ONE MEG OWNERS!!! This superb animation has a "Out Run" style view point and features, in FULL 3D, a cop car chasing a red lotus down the road, both cars weave in and out of the other oncoming cars (which are also animated!) Tobias Richter has excelled himself with this one, the attention to detail is superb, the flashing lights, brake lights, spinning wheels, shadows, the lines on the road, EVERYTHING! One of the best, original animations we've seen in a long time... If only racing games were as good as this... Disk 592: Agatron Animations 27 - 3 More Animations from the master of Videoscape - Tobias Richter! BUCH - A very smooth animation of a book opening it's covers, very nice!! PYLON 1 & PYLON 2 - 2 more Star Trek animations featuring various Trekky objects flying around! More good stuff for all you One meg owners out there! Fans of Star Trek and Tobias Richter may be interested in the Star Trek game Tobias has written - see disks 595 and 596 for more info! Disk 593: Agatron Animations - Disconnect, a very good Star Trek animation featuring various Start Trek ships flying round the screen in their own manner. It's alive - a line drawing of the enterprise comes alive and flys away from the paper! More great anims for all you trekkies out there! 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 atmnospheric 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 595: THE STAR TREK GAME! Brilliant 2 disk game from the ultimate trekkie Thobias Richter, designer of all the AGATRON Start Trek animations, and part of the team that brought us Oil Imperium, Thobias has now released his latest game into the Public Domain. Featuring Brilliant (as you'd expect) graphics and sampled sound this has you on a journey where no man has ventured before, a journey into space (The final frontier etc etc) where you must carry out a series of missions, search out various planets, avoid the enemies ships, Captain your ship and ensure the safe keeping of your staff. The whole thing is very well put together, but the instructions are in German so it may take a while for you to sort things out. Works fine in half-meg, but one meg owners get added extra sound effects. Disk 597: Seriously Good Music Disk 1, An excellent YELLO remix by 17 Bit member Bill Turner, featuring loads of clear samples this is extremely well put together using the MusicEDitor utility. Much longer and better than the version on disk 8, all fans of YELLO will go bananas over this one... Also on the disk is a Tune called Fifteen, Fourteen and twenty seconds. Disk 598: New Order Remixes, 2 sonixed remixes of Blue Monday and Fine Time by New Order. Both tunes have been sampled, remixed and rereleased on the Amiga by Radio Poland (authors of the excellent Amiga Chart disks). The Blue Monday remix is absolutely superb. Disk 599: Crypto Burners Music Party 1990, 6 Great tunes backed by a wicked Vector scroller! Songs on here are: F1 - 1989:El Kule! F2 - 2010 Survival F3 - One On Two F4 - Isis Unveiled F5 - Stunning Lightning F6 - Flying High All the music is of a high standard and was composed using good, original clear samples. 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 601: Utopia Photomontage 2, Mr Utopia strikes again, with another Digitised extravaganza! No naughty piccies on here (Mr Utopias come clean y'see!) but 17 fun-for-all-the-family digitised pics, of: Garfield, Dove, Jitterbugs, Car, Spagna, Cottage, Maggie, Skeletor (this ones awesome!!), Thunderbirds (another classic), Bike, Daddy, Beatles, Charlie Chaplin, Bulldog, Snail, Mickey and Eric Clapton (or maybe some one who just looks extremely like Eric Clapton.) As usual for Mr Utopia ALL the pictures are of an excellent quality. Disk 602: CLUB MIX by Mike "BeatMaster" Archer. A mega Seventeen minute house mix by the master of amiga House, the BeatMaster! Features new house samples and also some original Amiga bits! Really is of an excellent quality and one of the best Amiga House tunes I've ever heard! All fans of house and/or Amiga music should lurve this one! Many thanks to Mike for sending it in to us! Disk 603: Intros/Music disk - 4 great demos and 3 pieces of music for you to enjoy! Demos come courtesy of Level4 (Megamultiscroller), Rebels, Silents and Setrox. The music includes a rendition of MegaBlast by Bomb The Bass (Y'know the tune that was on Xenon2) a great version of You Spin Me Round (The only SAW song I admit to liking!!) and a brilliant original piece by 4-Mat called In The Shadow Of The Sun. Disk 604: "RubADubDub" X rated disk featuring 5 bouncy, bubbly, voluptious ladies doing things they normally only do in private but this time they did it for a famous Adult Video and were transferred to the Amiga for your enjoyment... The whole thing was grabbed using a Real time frame grabber then animated using Deluxe Paint3. Obviously the subject matter may be offensive to some (especially our female members) so if you're unsure don't buy! Then again if you're into this sort of thing this ones a MUST!! Many thanks to Gary Tinsley for sending it in to us! Works fine on half meg machines!! Disk 605: The DEMONS Slideshow. 15 pieces of great Amiga Art by C-Dryk of the French team, DEMONS! Art on the disk includes:- AmigAmigo, BatLogo (the best yet on the Amiga & it's handdrawn!), Black, Broken, Castle, Chase, Dragon, Excalibur, Future, Lamborghini, Monolyth, Orbiter, Present, Space, Storm. The slideshow is backed by some great music! Many thanks to Billy of Demons for sending it in!! Disk 606: Mirage UK Music Disk 1. 10 pieces of soundtracker music, backed by a scrolly demo! Tunes on 'ere are: Revenge Is Sweet, Shout it Out, Daley, Totally weird, Headache, New Beginning, It Aint Heavy, Xenon 2.3 (This is BRILLIANT - anyone who hasn't got the game - get this disk- the music is AWESOME!), Synth, Onslaught Mixer. As usual some of the language used in the scrolltext may be offensive to some. (i.e. they use lots of swear words!!) Disk 607: St Bash!! - Great PD space invaders type shoot-em-up from a 17Bit member in Germany (unfortunately you didn't sign your name on the letter, so whoever you are THANKS!) the aim is to blast your way through 520 levels of St related sprites (spinning ST logos etc), and there are several various levels of play so you can make the game as easy or as difficult as you want. With all the available options and great playability this will keep you amused for quite a while and should keep your kids quiet for an hour or two!! Better than Amoeba Invaders?? Well, I'll let you make the decision........ Disk 608: Brilliant TECHNOTRONIC music disk - from the authors of The Amiga Chart Disks!features 2 sampled remixes by Radio Poland. Both their latest hits are on here: Get Up (Before The Night Is Over) and Pump Up The Jam (or permp erp ther jam!). The quality of samples is excellent, indeed it is the best Radio Poland disk yet! Disk 609: SUBWAY music - 7 great tunes - Clap, N is Nobody, Mr Hyde, Devils Treasure, N is Somebody, Strom, Dego & Apple Boogie. The whole thing is backed by a brilliant spinning globe and features an original equaliser (Clapping Hands!!) Disk 610: The VISION Music Disk. One of the best music disks in ages, features 8 tunes inspiringly called: Musix1, Musix2, Musix3 etcetera. Backed by a very impressive demo (what else would you expect from Vision?) This disk is EXCELLENT. Some people, however, may find some of the language offensive. Disk 611: VOX DEI Megademo, 7 brilliant demos, put together on one disk. Parts include Acid Bobs and Music, Batman music, Megascroller.. Very well put together indeed. Disk 612: 17 Bit Software Intros 32! Another 7 brilliant demos. We have offerings from Vision (The best Amiga group??!), DPS2010 (Nice spirally, swirly dots) EXODUS, Factor 4 (Music ripped from Onslaught) No Limits (Mega Music), PowerLords (XCopy3?) and Introspective. Disk 613: Pace Music Disk 2 - Another disk full of Char hits converted to the Amiga. On here we have Ride On Time (The best version yet, well done Jools!), Smooth Criminal, Right Back (Aaaargghhh! Sinnita hits the Amiga!) Phantom of the opera, BAD, Eye of the Tiger, Suburbia and Don't make we wait. Some very good music on here, any fans of the originals may be interested to hear how the amiga versions compare.. Disk compiled by 17 Bit member Jools, Thanx for sending it in!! If you have any Music/Demo/GFx disks you have compiled - why not send 'em in, we amy be able to use them! Disk 614: 17 Bit Software Intros 33!! 10 (TEN!) mega demos. Some great examples of Amiga proggramming from : Animate (nice vectors), Animatix, CryptoBurners, Defjam, Disknet, ImageMakers, Red Sector (Great copper bars!), Savage (Good beast rip-off) and TPL (Multi scroll). A truly awesome disk, and as our man Steve says "It's well crucial!" (And our Steve knows his demos!) 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 616: The 2 Disk KEFRENS MEGADEMO a truly magnificent megademo. 10 AMAZING demos, spread over 2 disks that really show you what the Amiga is capable of. All the parts feature excellent Graphics and sound. Highlights being:- Transformer (a brilliant Vector demo), Kill The Beast (Beast rip off but with added graphics and spinny Bobs!! (Bobs ripped from Xenon2) VectorManiac (Mega Vectorball scroll!), Walkman (You thought the vectorbobs from the RSI megademo were good, these are AWESOME!). Kill Victor (more amazing vectors!). An amazing collection that no demo fan should be without! Disk 617: Kefrens Megademo Disk 2 - Requires disk 616. Disk 618: FLASH Productions Digital Concert 3. A brilliant 12minute 25second long House style soundtracker remix. Features samples from Ride On Time, Numero Uno, Don't Believe The Hype, Pump Up The Jam, Don't Balme It On The Boogie, and MORE!! This is a brilliant disk for fans of this style of musak, backed by a nice piccy! Disk 619: The DUAL CREW Megademo. Another fine collection of demos! on here we have a Weird Psychadelic Colour cycling freak out demo, An original 3D scroller and equaliser, Nice Dotmania. A very good disk, 7 parts in total. Disk 620: The REBELS Megademo. Here we have 7 demos from Rebels, all of high quality this is another fine disk for demo collectors. Parts include: Equaliser (featuring her from the NewTek demo), Vector- Scroll, Smiley, Fuzzacs Bobdemo, Made In Sweden, Altas Bobscroll and The End! 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!