Issue 1 June 89 ------- ------- Powerpacker Update (V2.2), Rulps Belch Gag, When The Rain Falls Music, Demon Artwork, Hypnotic Tunnel, UGA Art and UGA Music, Coverpicture, Screenshots from Circus Attractions Grand Monster Slam, Sampler, Bloodmoney, Aquaventura and Chariot. Demo and reviews of Fantavision. Help with Kings Quest II, Space Quest II, Ultima III, Knight Orc and general information etc.Due to other commitments at the time, (the Commodore Show at Novotel) we were unable to get anything done for this issue. We decided to start 'full' distribution of Newsflash from Issue 2 onwards instead. Issue 1 is available should anyone want a back issue. Issue 2 July 89 ------- ------- Normal service was resumed for this issue with full 17Bit articles, documents, news, letters and feedback. On the discs besides all the text was; Art by H.V.Graaf, Pseudo Ops Small Demo, Ping-Pong game (good), Boot-game installer, 5 pieces of music (4 from Suntronic, 1 from Dtack), Screenshots from Oceans 'The Long Walk' and Grandslams 'Thunderbirds', software reviews and news, C,Assembler and CLI Tutorials, Hardware reviews and a full Comms section featuring 2 BBS's reviewed plus Compunet & Micronet features. Utilities featured were Bootleg, Fontmaster, Virus Killer, Preset-Ed for Soundtracker enabling you to convert a disc full of IFF files to soundtracker quickly & easily, also a pre-production monitor program. All this plus lots of information, hints, tips and the solution to Police Quest. Issue 3 August 1989 ------- ------------ Major presentation improvements made this time, a different font and the choice of background colours stopped people moaning about the blue colours.. Anyway the contents were well up to standard with the following utilities included.. ACE - Text Editor, BIGBENCH (Double your workbench size!), MOST - Document displayer, CLITEXT - covert ascii text into a program, TEXTMAKER - convert a document into a runnable program, RAINBOW WRITER - a small intro creator (Great!), IFF-EX makes pictures into runnable programs, IFF-MOD makes a picture and a soundtracker module into a program, MOD2EX makes a soundtracker module into a runnable program, PICVIEW which shows any type of Iff picture inc overscan etc, BOUNCESHOW - small slideshow utility. 4 assembler sources are included (including comments) - sampleplayer, Loader, LibBase, Iff Display. Preview of a new music program plus screenshots of it. Populous entry codes part II. Superb cover art by Rico Holmes - Joker Remix. Reviews of Xybots, Rodeogames, Powerdrome, New Zealand Story, Falcon Mission Disc, Jaws, Mystery on The Nile, Oil Imperium (plus screenshot), Amos Preview, Lattice C v5 buglist, Animagic Review. Plus all the usual latest release info and 17Bit banter, comms news, jobspot etc..humour etc... Issue 4 September 1989 ------- -------------- Yet more improvements this issue, a fine text displayer that includes the ability to print the file (at last!) also it takes crunched text which is obviously a great advantage to both you and us, you get more text and we get more space to play with! Superb Interlaced cover art by Rico Holmes, (officially called Mariano Fortuny) nice Hawkeye music conversion by Allister Brimble (able to be run in the background while you read). Theres MIDI info, news of the latest 17Bit discs, lots of game hints and tips, Arp info. Assembler sources for plotting fast pixels and a small text intro. Full C listing for the great text displayer. Sillyness galore in the 17Bit Editorial, banter and chat as well as news of a new virus currently stalking around. Theres the Boardwalk section covering the Bitmaps BBS and The Crusaders BBS in Norway. The familiar Jobspot section is there also! The first Newsflash interview is done with Tobias Richter known for his tremendous Videoscape animations. Theres also a Questionare - you can tell us what you want! Theres 3 internal soundchip music creations by Brian Postma, Sony Art, Complex Bob Demo (nice) and another two short demos. On the utilities front there is a great picture ripper that can even regain pictures and art lost if the Amiga crashes! Theres a file coder, 2 new virus Killers to keep you up to date, a utility to make your startup-sequence just one program file, Kickstart Reset, A68K assembler too! On the entertainment front theres a great Tetris style game (well good!) and a shanhai style game! Phew! and all for 2.99!!! Newsflash is available at 2.99 per issue.