============================================ THE TOTAL IRRELEVANCE PUBLIC DOMAIN LIBRARY. ============================================ Welcome to the new look PD section. You'll find quite a few disks on review here. Before we start though, I'd like to say one thing... Almost all the disks reviewed here can be obtained cheaper elsewhere. If you want to order them from TIPD, please feel free but shopping around will almost always get you a better deal. Pick `n` Mix disks are only available from the club though and watch out for a few exclusive club disks in the not too distant future. Once a regular and trusted distributor has been found, we'll probably stop selling our PD so you can obtain a better deal on TIPD elsewhere... NEW PRICES Due to a little re-shuffle in suppliers and a quick re-think new disk prices are as follows: TWO blank disks for every ONE ordered.... or £1.5O each payable in Sterling, English Stamps, Postal Orders, or a cheque made payable to "R. Bannister". I haven't included any forms for buying PD this issue as there are no special offers to take advantage of this time. Just write me a letter telling me EXACTLY what you want and with the correct amount of disks/ money. =========== THE REVIEWS =========== All the disks have been summed up in a sentence and given a mark out of ten. However, BEWARE! A disk which gets 2/1O might just be the ideal disk which you've been searching for for years. READ THE FULL REVIEWS! TOTAL IRRELEVANCE #1 : DRUM KIT VOLUME ONE This is the first disk in the TI range and has been put together especially for the club. We don't put our name to just anything you know and this disk is absolutely JAMMED with drum samples. There's 44 Bass Drums, 6 Claps, 49 Cymbals, HiHats and Tambourines, 48 Snare Drums, and 6 more various effects. That's a total of 153 samples! You couldn't fit another one on the disk if you tried. Basically, this disk (along with volume two which is already in preparation) has all the drum samples you'll ever need. The disk has also been optimized so that it will only take seconds to load into OctaMED so you don't have to wait for hours until the name of the sample you want appears. ESSENTIAL 9/1O Note : At the moment, you'll probably only find this in TIPD but some of the PD libraries may be stocking it by the time you read this. ZYDEX 3 by Kenny Dee (2 Disks) This slideshow/animation is very similar to the Another World/Flashback intros which "gamers" have to come to know and love. The two disk extravaganza borrows it's storyline from every Science Fiction film known to man (and women) and basically, it's Alien 4 with a few surprises to boot. The actual standard of animation is very good and the artwork is brillient considering the limited palette (16 colour, low res). The major downfall of this disk is the time it takes to load each animation sequence. You're left on a cliffhanger for so long while the next bit of the story loads, it's very surprising that you don't fall off. It's nearly an anti-climax when you finally see what is actually going to happen. A better solution would have been to copy everything to RAM: and then played it from there which would have vastly improved on loading times. All this said, I liked Zynex 3, it was a good animation and the music created a mood that suited the storyline. However, it's one of those things which you load up a couple of times and say "That's nice" and then never see it again. Incidently, the music from this animation is reviewed in this month's ModSpot, so check it out! A GOOD ANIMATION, LET DOWN BY IT'S LOADING TIME. 7/1O BLUE ROSE FONTS By Eddie Barry If you ever needed loads of different fonts for use with DPaint etc. then this is the disk to get. Each font is very high quality and can be used in any pictures, demos, or video work etc. Expect some TI stuff to feature these disks in the future! This disk got 9O% in May's CU Amiga and it's author is a member of MUG! Volumes one and two are both available. THE BEST DISKS OF THEIR KIND 8/1O FRIENDS OF PAULA VOLUME ONE VOLUME ONE By The Raven As promised last issue, a review of "FOP ONE" by Chris "The Raven" Wright who just so happens to write the ModSpot column for us here at TI. FOP ONE (although not as polished as FOP TWO) contains four brillient modules and believe me, both FOP disks are ESSENTIAL if you are into MED music in any shape or form. From the upbeat "Raven's Theme" (which, incidently, is a favourite of Teijo Kinnunen, the author of MED) to the ballad "Vision Of Love" (my personal favourite). The way the disk is presented could have been a lot better but then you can't have everything! NOT AS GOOD AS FOP2, BUT STILL ESSENTIAL 9/1O (and he didn't pay me to say any of that!) ================ = = = PICK `N` MIX = = = ================ A grossly enlarged pick `n` mix selection this issue. Just a quick explanation. The mark of the left is what the mod achieved in ModSpot. NR means not reviewed. If it has a mark, the issue number where it was reviewed is given next. Then it's the title of the mod and finally, it's size in bytes. If one of your mods on this list says NR on it, it doesn`t mean it won't ever be reviewed so watch out just in case! MODS BY MICHAEL RICHMOND NR Star Wars Remix 191324 6/1O 2 1992 81932 NR At The Moment 63824 NR Monty - Highscore 70794 5/1O 2 RED5 98022 NR Techno Comets 150682 NR Highway to Heaven 133040 MODS BY TOM COZZOLINO NR Da Da Da 37866 6/1O 2 Don't Give Up 149068 5/1O 2 Feeling Good 46268 5/1O 1 Free 48838 7/1O 1 Spaceship 70340 NR Spaceship Remix '93 120280 4/1O 1 Technoslam 80912 5/1O 2 Technoslam 2 62464 NR The Beast 62746 3/1O 2 Tom + Asle Make Music 116532 NR Tom Er Best! 152314 NR Tom's Piano Mod 38496 NR Tom's Second Piano Mod 33882 NR Ultrashort 87820 MODS BY SIMON OUZMAN NR Morph 318524 6/1O 2 It's Raining 263980 NR Co-Operative 239826 NR Dwarf-Esque 397576 7/1O 2 Hipno 192264 NR Monster 337474 MODS BY PETER KWANN 6/1O 2 Finish This 133798 5/1O 2 Jill... 5710 NR R4 Rap 25574 NR Otherday 249468 MODS BY CHRIS MOCOCK NR G-Force II 143726 NR Harmony 179410 NR HypeHop 40938 NR Relijun 229660 NR U-Phoria 132180 MOD BY JOHANES RINGHEIM 5/1O 2 Weetabix 80054 MODS BY ROSS COUCH NR EnTrance 84876 NR Techno Mission 33198 NR Out There 91994 MODS BY JOHN NASILLO NR Braven 96924 NR London's Burning 75064 NR Relentless 41516 NR Time 91900 MODS BY JON MARSDEN NR Jim'll Fix It For You 249899 NR I Am Not A Bimbo 118523 MODS BY ROB MOSELEY 7/1O 1 Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence 364176 7/1O 1 Taylor Dayne - Tell It To My Heart 165492 5/1O 1 Human League - Don't You Want Me? 397486 MODS BY THE SIDEWALK 7/1O 1 Erasure - Am I Right? 50282 7/1O 1 Erasure - Home 54886 7/1O 1 Erasure - Love To Hate You 54046 7/1O 1 Erasure - Perfect Stranger 74712 NR Erasure - Joan 128410 MODS BY BARNEY 7/1O 1 Lotus 86192 6/1O 1 5th Song 62914 NR DID 97632 8/1O 2 It 138226 NR Watching The Game 108372 VARIOUS PD MODULES The mods which have been given a mark out of ten have been graded in the PD mod review section (By Andy Baxter). The same system as above applies. NR 8 Channel Demo by Teijo Kinnunen 81908 NR Esc2Heaven by Teijo Kinnunen 135794 NR SynthSong2 by Teijo Kinnunen 44928 NR Bass 33532 NR Jack In A Pop '93 30132 NR King Of The Road 31374 NR Lars 102280 NR Red Dwarf 108324 NR Take A Trip From Me 198820 NR Another World 132514 7/1O 2 Bass On Fire 143302 NR Don't Go... 119660 6/1O 2 Ace of Zynaps - I Love Anu Saukko 46894 NR Mrs. Honeytrap 124778 4/1O 2 NewTech 53466 NR NoiseTracker 117010 NR Space 140544 NR Tune One 76754 NR Tune Two 94542 2/1O 2 Bigones 24976 8/1O 2 Cyclone II 105136 7/1O 2 Evolution 75492 NR Funky Nightmare 135280 7/1O 2 Good Times 124548 8/1O 2 Jester - Lemon Soda 134622 NR Monster Truck 85500 NR Synth Demo 25422 All the mods in the Pick `n` Mix library are (as far as we know) PD modules and where known, the author has always been stated. If you have a problem with any of the mods in the library (i.e It is not PD or you would like to be credited on your module) PLEASE contact the club. If this is the case, your postage will be refunded. Don't forget, anyone can submit mods to ModSpot and they ALL end up in the pick and mix library. There's also a prize for the person with the most mods in the library before the end of the year. If your mods aren't currently included in the library, have patience! PEOPLE WHO PLAGARISE ARE NOT WELCOME IN MODSPOT, TI, OR MUG.