All Newsflash Issues are now on two disks!! ------------------------------------------- Newsflash Issue 6: December 1989 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ARTICLES: ========= Reviews of Chambers Of Shaolin, Terrys Big Adventure, Axels Magic Hammer, Hard Drivin, Kick Off Extra Time, Leisure Suit Larry II, Powerdrift, Never Mind and Chase HQ. Previews of Driving Force from Digital Magic and SmartKey (Plus Demoversion). Latest demo and music-disk news, Harry Harts Hardware report, Music Forum incorporating job-advertisements; info about musicians; Interview with Bjorn Lynne [Dr Awesome], How to fit the new fat agnus chip, Game hints, Codes corner, Battle-Squadron super-cheat, Editorials from England and Holland, Commodore Show Report (Novotel, London), Ami-Expo report (Cologne, West Germany), New synthical music releases, Cracker-Party rumbled! Entertainment: ============== Main background score, GONE FOR GOOD by Bjorn Lynne of Norway. Classic 64 track "Commando" using synth sounds by Allister Brimble, UK. Classic 64 track "Green Beret" again by Allister Brimble, UK. Classic 64 track "Ocean Loader" yet again by Allister Brimble, UK. Classic 64 track "Ghosts and Goblins" by Sebastian Lentfert, Holland. UGA PD Music "The Way it Is" converted by Trash. Peter Gunn [Art of noise] Converted by Allister Brimble, UK. Bach 80`s Mix [ Classical ] Converted by Allister Brimble, UK. Gapulus [ Synthical ] Converted by Allister Brimble, UK. Subway Music [ Original ] In the Rebels/Subway Demo, on the disk. Unbelievable cover picture by Rico Holmes, UK. "Cal" "Cat in Boot" Art by Henk Van Der Graaf, Australia. Looks digitised! "Bombing" Art by Tony Palmer, UK. Bally II - A great QIX style game. Addictive!! Amazing Stories Knight Animation. Works fine in 512K!! Rebels, Subway Demo. Great demo with good music and an original style! Programs, Tools and Utilities: ============================== Pcopy - Dos Copier Zoomwindows - Neat hack Powerpacker 2.3b - Latest Update Virus X 4.0 - Latest Update Batch-Exe - Change batch files into executable! Soundmon 1.1 - Brian Postma`s Soundmon. Sekagen 7.0 - Create source codes by disassembling! VG Install - New install routine. Install Fast - For A1000 users Calc-Key - Excellent little utility by Craig Fisher. Pseudo Ops Virus Killer V2 - Very good utility (On Support Disk) Assembly-Code Sources: ====================== A1000 Fast-Ram Install Routine. VG Install Routine. Trackloader Routine. Jumping Bars (Copper bars) routine. (Plus assembled eg.) Meteor Simple 68000 game. (Plus assembled eg.) NEWSFLASH ISSUE 7: JANUARY 1990 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Articles: ========= Reviews of 7 Gates of Jambala, Double Dragon II, Driving Force, Sim City and Untouchables. Proffesional Page 1.3 (Details on changes). Screenshots of Bomber, Stryx and Sliding. News about new demos and music. Hardware news of the new IBM Emulator and the Nordic Power Cartridge. Comparison of magazine ratings systems, Solution to Manic Mansion, Ghostbusters II help, Editorials from England and Holland, 16Bit show report (England), Tynesoft rip off PD music, Music Forum (Music news), Buzzwords - a computer dictionary, Hacker-Quiz, Midi Info and Usergroups listing. Entertainment: ============== Main soundtrack "Greensleeves" converted by Allister Brimble,UK. "Spaceship 505" By Sebastian Lentfert, Holland. (Internal music) "Creation 4" 190K of amazing Amiga music by Allister Brimble,UK. Critical Music Demo with music by Ron Klaren (Master Blaster) - contains TEN pieces of great internal music including all the music from the game BATTLE-SQUADRON [Used with permission]. (14 pieces of music this issue!!) Nice cover art from Holland, nice artwork in the Critical demo and two sensational pieces of artwork by Rico Holmes, Uk. (Both are HAM) 3 Animated pointers, Arrow, Small and Ball by Syphus. Super Scroller by Roger Heykoop. Star Booter by Extreme. Programs/Utilities: =================== Chop - Special Input Handler Choppie - Colour font utility Dos Logo - Pop a logo on your dos! View 80 - Superb Text Displayer Iff Booter - Pop an Iff picture on your bootblock Trackripper - Disects Trackloaders Converter - Graphic Converter TMT - Sinus-Data creator for programmers LHarc - Improvement on ARC JoyTest - Test your joystick! Etiketter - Label Printer Source-Codes ============ Improved Soundmon play-routine. Linebouncer. (Plus Example) Bobs in action. (Plus Example) Bootext Install DevPatch II Shake `C` Source. DID YOU MISS IT ??? =================== To get hold of this issue of Newsflash just get in touch with your local dealer or look for adverts in the press, if that fails contact Newsflash UK direct or UGA Holland.