-= SLIDESHOWS =- Here is a complete run down of all the slideshow discs and their contents... Disk 1: Contains 31 IFF files in a slideshow format that also features some great music. Files on this disc are:Alien,Andy,Angel,Auburn,Bees,Benz, Bloom,Cave Women,Copperstate,Cycles,Enter, Flight,Hall,Horses,Jet Sabre,Lighttower, Moonscape,Odie,Opel GSI,Paintcan,Porsche 1, Porsche 2,Porsche 3,Takeoff,Title,Titlescr, Train,Tric,Venus,Warp 1. (Bootable disc) Mostly NTSC files that will load into most popular art packages ie Dpaint series by Electronic Arts. Disc 2: The 2nd Slideshow consisting of 29 IFF files in sequence to some music. Files are again IFF format and mostly NTSC format suitable for loading into any of the usual art packages. Files: Amigasys, Amoeba,Background,Bike,Bloom, Bully,Daynight,Diamond Ring,Hospital,Jumbodog, Larry,Maria,Mountain,Mau,Murial,Orphan 2, Orphan 3,Parrot,Pie,Rearsafe,Roberta,Robot, Saturn,Saturn2,Superman,Titlescreen,Token, Wet T Shirt,Wildcat.A couple of the pictures are of questionable material.. Disc 3: This slideshow is a rolling show of stills from the Cinemaware game `Rocket Ranger' released in 1988.The sequence is accompanied by some suberb digitised music and the game itself in now way looks as old as it now is, try this demo if you are interested in the game. Disc 4: Another 24 pictures getting the slideshow treatment, most of these are pictures converted from HAM (4096 colour) format down to standard 32 colour mode.The results of converting 4096 colour files to 32 colour files are not as bad as you would first think, as these very good examples show. Files: Bidonhorse,Brick,Butterfly Checker,Coffecup,Excalibur,Earth,F-15,Floral, Glass,Helen,Lady,Lambo,Liberty,Lion,Litgirl, Lolly,Marble,Mars,Model T,Moon,Old Pa,Room,RX7. Once again these will load into any standard art package. Disc 5: This slideshow is another series of low-res 32 colour piccies suitable for grabbing as clip art etc from any paint package. Files: Alien, Aquarian,Archie,Blue Porsche, Earth,Football, Foxpuppy,Knight 2,Moon,Moonscape,Odie,Ooh, Porsche 1,Sachs Castle,Saucer Attack, Self Portrait,Shuttle,Snowscape,Space,Swamp, Title,Trans#1,Trans#2,Wood. Contains some excellent art by Sachs who was responsible for the graphics in Defender of the Crown and the vastly under-rated Ports Of Call. Disc 8: Not really a slideshow but a collection of stills taken from a Holsten Pils Tv advert (a western) featuring Griff Rhys-Jones. Accompanied by a digitised soundtrack also taken from the ad. Disc 10: Another low-res NTSC slideshow including some more of Sachs`s excellent work. 29 files: Abe, Alien,Castle,Dan,Eye,Fanplane,Ferrari 225, Final Cut 4,Glowplug,Gorilla,Green Porsche, Honda Accord,Hover Bubble,Iris,Jet Fighter, Jet Sabre,King Tut,Laser,Lemur,Lost,Mazda, Ninja,Pistol,Ps Disc 13: This slideshow consists of 12 great HAM (4096 colour) pictures digitised with the Digi View graphics digitiser. Various files include a superb space ship and a brilliant picture of an old man. Files are in the old digiview format and have to be converted with Pixmate or similar before it will load into Photon Paint etc. Disc 26: This slideshow consists of 18 files of which all are of a classical nature, ie digitised oil paintings etc. Not my cup of tea but the artists among you may appreciate this one. Again a bootable disc with files that can be loaded into other programs. Disc 27: Roger Dean hits the Amiga in the form of this HAM slideshow. 15 of Rogers classic paintings are captured in the Amigas 4096 colour mode, again digitised with DigiView. People unfamiliar with Roger Deans work may be interested to learn that he is the artist responsible for much of PSYGNOSIS`s artwork. (Inc Barbarian,Terrorpods). Disc 32: This disc contains possibly the highest quality digitised graphics yet, all digitised with Digiview by NEWTEK (the manufacturers) themselves. All load into any standard HAM package and are unbelievable when first seen. Includes a brilliant table of food (?!) and a couple of interlaced pictures so crisp and clear that lead you to think its not an Amiga you're using! True photographic quality - plus some music. Disc 40: A special full screen slideshow (ALL of the screen inc the border!) including 13 excellent pictures of which all are HAM mode again. Includes a couple of Roger Deans artwork, some of Sachs work and some digitised graphics. Note: Some of the graphics may be considered risque. Disc 53: Another low-res slideshow featuring some very good artwork.Files: Amigarock,Art_deco,Champagne Buggati Royale,CutyLights,Dawning Eagle,Donald, Eagle,Erdbeeren,F15-Staffel,Fantasy Castle, Fantasy Rider,Futuretown,George-stubbs,Golfball, Icecream,Jetta,Lambourghini,Motorad,Max Headroom Planeten-Mobil,Planet 1. Disc 54: More art in this slideshow, quite a substanstial amount of which are digitised.Files:Cobra, Dunhill Pipes,Earring,Fantasy Warrior,Jones, Liberty Skull,Looking Up,Magnum Force, Maison Du Lac,Mark Knopfler,Marlboro,Mobil Oil, PCM,Skier,Sudden Impact,Tongue,Train,TvDramagirl Disc 55: More graphic art in this slideshow that includes a great At-At walker. Includes:Adept,artamiga, At-At,Butterfly,Direstraits,Diver,EarthWindFire, F15Navy,Fantasia,FoggyHarbour,Impossible,Jolt, Kodak,Lightbulb,Mail Order Monster,Money for Nothing,Noid,RobotTV,Roland,Solitary,Trinity, T-Rex,Worm. Disc 56: A superb collection of quality HAM artwork all of which is digitised. Most of it is fantasy art and included are some risque files. Some of the best amiga art (even though it is digitised).17files. Disc 57: More fantasy art (including some by Boris Vallejo) and some risque files. Fourteen high quality images all HAM (4096 colour) mode. Disc 58: More graphics, some digitised and some drawn, includes logos and artwork of games,adverts etc. Files:Animator,Capitol,Cathy,Chessmaster, Defender,Elalogo,Formula1,Jazz,Level9,Lincoln, Madonna,Rampage,Spacegun,SpaceHarrier,The Study, The Wall,Tripods,Uninvited. Disc 59: Sam Fox Slideshow. Fox fans get a treat as Sam slides onto your monitor screen. A dozen HAM 4,000 colour pictures on this disc. Not overly rude but you still might not want show the kids it. Disc 90: The Mayfair Beauties show. A disc full of Girlies in black and white digitised splendor. Complete with some digitised music. Cert 15. Disc 93: Another good one for Wacko Jacko fans as the megastar hits the amiga in full colour HAM graphics, complete with a bit from Thriller running in the background. About 10pics (4096colour). Disc 119: Sabrina slideshow! Complete with a digitised sample of her hit Boys,Boys,Boys. One for the Boys this one... 5 HAM digitised pics. Disc 144: BFPO (1). This disc contains a selection of very scantily clad ladies in uncompromising positions plus a handful of cartoons. CertX. Stay clear if easily offended,not one for your granny or your kids. Disc 170: Contains examples of the type of quality you can expect to find when using the digitising service. Full details of the service are also on the disc. Disc 171: Good slideshow featuring the following files: MagForce,Gryzor,Flatball,Ravage,Roadblaster, AmigaForce,Tetragon Hifi,Full Metal Jacket, Mountain Tiger,Hack,Flash Gordon,Im Late, Legend (brilliant),Garfield,Guru,Woman and Morris - and of course a suitably silly piece of music - this time In The Mood! Disc 199: BFPO Disc 2, same concoction as before, more ladies in revealing poses. All Ham 4096 colour graphics but watch out for big momma...and of course some jolly music! Cert X Disc 200: BFPO Disc 3, the last of the BFPO discs! Yet more women adorning your amiga screen. Sexist? Yes. Controversial? Yes. Popular? Yes. Includes crazy music as well... Cert X Disc 212: The Madonna slideshow, a black and white slideshow of Mrs Music in her usual poses. Great for fans but not so great for others (like me). Disc 225: A nice demo with a remix of MIAMI (by Alvin Starr) features 10 very nicely drawn game-adverts... Gryzor,Rastan,Last Ninja,Road Runner,Outrun (shows you just what it COULD have been like!) IK+, Target Renegade,Thing Bounces Back,Head Over Heels Sanxion. All very nicely drawn with good music. Disc 233: A novel idea this one, a comic on a disc! Files are all in GIF format which allows them to be loaded on most of the major machines using the GIF program. About 50 screens of story about vampires amongst other things. Nicely done. Taken from Compuserve in the states. The story is called Jack Frost. Disc 264: Slideshow 23 consists of some superb artwork by Ian Harling Tudor Cottage, Biplane, glass and 4 screens from `The Long Patrol` which is a game based around Vietnam and the graphics are really nice, atmospheric and lets hope the game lives up to the graphics. Ian is also available for commercial work. Also on the slideshow apart from a very nice sample are some hi-quality interlaced HAM digitised shots of NASA space operations, the shuttle etc. Disc 291: Utopia 1 (Cert X) First X-Rated show from a member in Ireland consisting of various women in states of undress, not one for Sunday afternoons. well I suppose thats up to you really.. Comes complete with 'In The Mood` music by Glen Miller. Disc 303: Agatron Slideshow 2 sent to us by Agatron supremo Tobias Richter. Nice slideshow with some A-Team music(!!) files:Alert,Enterprise,Star Wars, Spaceships (loads of these!),Excalibur,Startrek (more startrek stuff!),Valley,At-At,Battlecruiser Warp,Balls,Car. Mainly sci-fi and fantasy based with heavy leanings toward StarTrek and Star Wars as Tobias is a real `Trekkie`! Disc 304: Agatron Slideshow 1 again sent by Animation expert Tobias Richter. More Sci-Fi and fantasy including..Garfield,Mad Cad,Enterprise,Planet, Speeder,Flight,Cliff Bridge,Enterprise-Klingon, Cockpits(various),Castle,Skyship,Enterprise,Town (very nice),Quasar,Klingon,Bowgirl,Warp,Dragon. Again nice work from Tobias. Disc 313: 7 Superbly digitised Boris Vallejo pictures, all interlaced HAM mode, some of the best we have ever seen. The quality is absolutely superb, and so is the artwork. If you like this sort of thing, go out and buy a Boris Vallejo book because they are superb! Art:Boris B, Bride, Jade, Spider,Touch, Wonder, Jungle. Some of the artwork is a bit risque as it is Fantasy art. Disc 314: More of Boris Vallejo, another 7 superb pictures Angel, Snake, Burning, Quest, Boris A, Wanderers, Masquerade. Brilliant quality pictures, difficult to find HAM graphics as good as these! Disc 324: Utopia `Music Makers!` a nice digitised slideshow composed of pop music artists and the like.. all black & white,including 16colour icons of the test card(!).. Artists:Whitney Houston,Sheena Easton,Sabrina,Tanita Tikaram, Bangles, Holly Johnson, Kim Wild, Madonna, Sam Brown, Spagna, Vanessa Paradis, Primatives, T`Pau. Nicely done. Disc 325: Utopia 'Black & Whites' a selection of 20 models in various states of undress, again excellently presented through 16 colour icons. Cert 15, similar in content to disc 90, the mayfair slideshow. Disc 359: Its another Sam Fox show (this time it comes 360: from Holland!) and features 22 very well digitised full-screen shots of Sammy and her wotsits. Thanks to Paul K for sending us this. The one with the fox in is excellent. Great for Fox Fans! Disc 386: The Watership Down slideshow, featuring screens of oooh-errr ever so cutesy rabbits and things... one for your granny and the little children. All the pictures are in HAM format resulting in excellent quality and are all full-screen. Disc 387: Utopia II. The second of the naughty slideshows by Utopia, this one features the same style, 11 ladies and crazy music,not one for the minors or the grannies.. (try 386).Cert X. Disc 388: Utopia Black & Whites, more risque presentations from Utopia,extremely well presented with 16colour icons and even some animated pointers. Nicely digitisied, cert 15. Disc 389: Utopia III. The third in the Utopia series by a member in Ireland, this consists of a dozen ladies complete with music and not much atire. Cert X. Disc 390: Utopia IV. More of the same from Utopia, another selection of loosely clad ladies appearing to the sound of some strange music. Cert X. Disc 391: A digitised slideshow from Photo-file who run a digitising service from their base in Nottingham. This disc shows you all the modes you can get pictures digitised in and what quality you can expect. Our digitising service has been temporarily suspended because we simply dont have the time! Details of Photofile are also on the disc. Disc 392: A series of two discs put together by Photofile 393: and is based upon the Forgotten Worlds Fantasy Art series, all the images on the disc are of an extremely high quality indeed. Either disc works by itself but you can use both in conjuction for a big, high quality slideshow. Details of Photo-file are on here too. 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 439: Its been a long time coming but finally its here! What is it? It is 'Best of 17bit submitted Artwork' Volume 1!! All crunched files and some great music by Allister Brimble.(JMJ's September) Features artwork by Rico Holmes, Justin Warren, J Chappel, Andrew Nunn, Stu Collins, Andy Patrick. About 36 files, all crunched using the IFFc as featured on Update 6 so they will not load into Dpaint etc without being grabbed first. Includes two superb Ham interlace pictures by Rico that were over 200K prior to crunching! About 1.5megs of data on this disc! Disc 443: Jean-Michel Jarre Slideshow/Harp music. Very nice disc created by HCC featuring some nice Lazer-Harp music and a good slideshow featuring full colour graphics. Much better than their previous Docklands Demo. Disc 446: A slideshow composed of purely colour-cycled pictures. Colour-cycling is a way of producing simple animation using a static picture. There are some stunning examples on this disc, you can also load them into an art package and see how they are done. Includes, Squares, Jet, Plane, Tube, Space, Quarix, Mobile, Truck, Warp, Band, Dinosaur, Jeep and much more.. (20 IFF pictures (most of them are PAL format so will not load into Dpaint Version 1)) Disc 470: Tobias Richter Ray-Trace Artwork Disc 1. After producing many animations, Tobias has turned his hand to producing ray-traced pictures with a German program called Reflections. The results of his first foray into ray-traced images can be seen here, and very nice they are too! Anyone interested in Tobias can read an interview conducted with him on Newsflash Issue 4. Disc 490: A brilliant slideshow featuring some incredible artwork.. Henk Van Der Graaf is a Dutchman living in Australia who spends up to 5weeks at a time creating his `paintings` in medium res 16colours. The result is an image as good if not BETTER than an equivalent digitised image!! Check out the 5 Graaf pictures on this disc, the Joker from Rico Holmes and the incredible cover to this Newsflash. Also on the disc is a great piece of art by Rob Beston and 3 superlative Ham images grabbed with `Superview`. Backing the show is `September` created by Allister Brimble from J.M.Jarres original. Disc 496: Utopia: Photomontage. The imitable Mr Utopia again flies in with another digitised disc. And for the first time we have a Utopia disc you can safely show your granny! Yes, lots of digitised royalty and suchlike for all the monarchists out there.. God save the Digitiser! Disc 502: JOE Slideshow 2. Superb artwork from this guy! Contains artwork in a fast loading un-usable format along with a nice piece of music. Contains approx 20 pieces of artwork. One of the better slideshows knocking about at the moment. 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??!! 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 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 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 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 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!