READER'S ADVERTS - Part 1 --------------------------- ======================== || ##########|| || ##### #####|| || ####### ###|| || ##### ### ##|| || #### #### ##|| || #### ##########|| || #### #### ##|| || ##### ### ##|| || ####### ###|| || ##### #####|| || ##########|| ======================== © 1993 Cynostic CYNOSTIC, Office O1, New Enterprise Centre, Little Heath Ind.Est., Old Church Road, Coventry, CV6 7NB, UNITED KINGDOM. Tel: (+44) 0203 681687 Fax: (+44) 0203 638508 You may recall our advert from the last issue of TFF. Or you may not. You may remember that Cynostic offers one of the best Amiga-only public domain services around. Or you may not. You may, even, have bought this very issue of the best Star Trek publication from Cynostic. Or you may not. You may never, in fact, have heard of Cynostic. What a terrible, terrible shame. For you. Because if you haven't then you don't know what a fantastic company we are. You won't know that we offer the definitive Amiga PD service. You won't know that we sell software, hardware, CDs, tapes, videos and magazines, all to do with the Amiga. In all honesty, you won't know much about your computer at all without us. Why? Well, we can provide software that can: a) Make your computer work even simpler; b) Make you dance (it has been known); c) Make your head spin; d) Make you laugh; e) Make you cringe; f) Make you wish you'd never heard of us; g) Make your Amiga a much nicer thing all-round; and; h) Make your life that little bit more bearable. Not only do we offer PD, hardware, software, CDs, tapes and all the rest, but we also offer complete customer service; if you've got a problem, just give us a call. We will help as much as we can. And, honestly, we're really quite easy to talk to. Whatever you require, we won't baffle you with jargon and we won't try to sell you something you don't need or want. Cynostic wants to help you. Really. You can get a full paper catalogue (updated monthly) by sending us an SAE. If you want something that little bit fuller in flavour, then send us an SAE with a blank disk OR 50p. For this you'll get our very latest Catalogue Disk (updated monthly), which contains the latest in free utilities, demos and music, all our latest listings, with descriptions on most disks, plus a hell of a lot more. Have a look at: Simplicity audio tape by Minimal Art: £6.00 (plus 50p p+p) The new audio tape by Volker Tripp (also known as Jester of the demo group Sanity). With 40 minutes of MIDI produced music, including a full vocal accompaniment, this is Volker's first full music production. Hopefully, judging from this, there will be more to come! Access Amiga magazine by Weekend Developments: £1.75 each (plus 50p p+p) The ONLY Amiga magazine by Amiga users FOR Amiga users. Published monthly, each issue features a free coverdisk, articles, reviews, news, views, beginner's guides and much, much more. The newest and best magazine for serious Amiga users. You see, we do try and bring you things which other people can't. And, oddly, we always do... Cynostic is more than a PD company. We are your direct contact with everything which is really happening in Amiga-land. We provide a complete and inexpensive service which you cannot be without. Guaranteed. Once you've tried us, you'll always come back to us. We're like a bad rash, really. So, get in touch with us at: CYNOSTIC, Office O1, New Enterprise Centre, Little Heath Ind.Est., Old Church Road, Coventry, CV6 7NB, UNITED KINGDOM. Tel: (+44) 0203 681687 Fax: (+44) 0203 638508 Does this advert sound pretentious? Maybe. But only on the pretence that I know we're right...! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- SPACE WARS The Movie Animations by Tobias Richter Music & SFX by Bjørn "Dr Awesome" Lynne Available now on VHS video cassette Watch the Amiga brought to new heights in this spectacular motion picture created with Amiga animations! Watch your PC/Atari friends pick their jaws off the floor, their drool from the table, and their hair from their heads, when you show them what the Amiga can do! To create the animations in Space Wars, 5 Amigas, all equipped with 68030 processors, were rendering animation frames around the clock for about 6 weeks. Original blueprints from the movies Star Wars and Star Trek were used to model the objects. The music in Space Wars was composed by ex. Crusaders musician Bjørn "Dr Awesome" Lynne, on some of the best 24-bit synth equipment around, digitally recorded to DAT, and then put onto the video in hifi stereo. The price for Space Wars including Post/Packing is: Norw., Swe, or Dan. Kroner 100 Finnish Marks 70 UK Pounds 12 German Marks 30 French Francs 100 If your country is not on the list above, just calculate the price in your own currency, using GBP 12 as your basis. The price includes packing and postage within Europe. If you're outside Europe, please add 20% in extra postage costs. Please send the money in cash to: (no coins please) Bjørn A. Lynne Schleppegrellsgt. 10 0556 Olso NORWAY Space Wars is delivered on superb quality Maxell Professional hifi stereo VHS cassette. Only the best is good enough. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to the BTK PD/Shareware library ----------------------------------------- Many Thanx for your interest in our library, we are distributing data which is not readily available elsewhere; This includes:- IFF Sound Samples - these can be used in any music program that supports IFF 8SVX. Music Modules - these can be used in Amos Pro, ScalaMM200, and any other application that supports Modules to add music to your Demos and Creations. Each volume is supplied with a module player. Books - in ASCII text format, so you can import them into a WP/DTP. You can also simply click on the icons to read them straight off the disk. Recipies - these will be available sometime towards the end of November, and include nearly 1000 different recipies of all sorts, Indian, English, Chicken, Fish, Cakes to name but a few. Cocktails - these disks include every type of cocktail imaginable, GIN, RUM, NON-ALCOHOLIC, VERY-ALCOHOLIC, PUNCH, TEQUILLA, BRANDY plus mucchhh mucccchhhhh moreeeee..... hiC???!!!! #:-> Fish Disks - these can be supplied as a single disk... or as... ****** Something Fishy ****** This is the BTK custom fish disk service, you tell us what fish files you want and we will be create a custom fish disk for you; all we need to know is the Fish Disk Number and the name of the program you want. -------------------------- BTK's aim to specialise in PD/Shareware software that isn't readily available from other sources. If you are looking for something different, and we don't stock it.... please.... let us know and we will try and source it for you! -------------------------- Special thanks to Errol from EMC... This is a company that sets standards in quality of software and technical support that I have never before experienced. To be honest Errol gave me the inspiration to set up BTK. I would like to thank him for all is encouragement, good ideas and the kicks in the rear when I was about ready to give up! ............. Thanks Errol... for everything BTK 7 Callander Road, Catford, London. SE6 2QA TEL (081) 473 1650 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- WANTED -------- Hologram cards from the latest Next Generation Collectors Cards by Impel (Inaugural Edition), especially Ferengi Marauder and Klingon Bird of Prey. Must be in mint condition. Contact: John Kitts Flat 1 24 Shirley Road Acocks Green Birmingham B27 7XH ENGLAND --------------------------------------------------------------------------- WANTED -------- Games wanted for the CD³². I will considered anything as long as it is in good condition, the cheaper the better! Games I currently DON'T want (I already have them) include: Arabian Knights CD³² Demo Disk D/Generation Oscar/Diggers (the early version with the A1200 version of Oscar) Pinball Fantasies Robocod Whale's Voyage Zool If you have any of these, I will give priority to the following: IK + Lotus Trilogy Microcosm Morph Oscar/Diggers (with the CD audio for Oscar) Overkill/Lunar-C Sleepwalker and anything by Team 17!! I am willing to buy or swap for normal Amiga games/magazines etc. I have a selection of RPG/Strategy games to exchange. Interested? Call me (Simon) on (021) 358 1213 any night between 7:00 pm and 10:00 pm. Thanks. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ********************************** AM/FM **********************************    AMIGA MUSICIANS FREEWARE MAGAZINE       (AM/FM)       GENERAL INFORMATION FILE       REVISION 02        1) What is AM/FM ? 2) Financial situation of AM/FM 3) How often is AM/FM released? 4) Copyright / Copying / Selling AM/FM 5) Where and how can I get AM/FM? 6) How to subscribe for future issues of AM/FM 7) AM/FM Dealers wanted / how to become an AM/FM Dealer 1) WHAT IS AM/FM ? AM/FM (Amiga Musicians Freeware Magazine) is a disk-based magazine especially made for everyone who has an Amiga and is interested in music. Whether you're into composing music, collecting music, arranging music, studying music, or even if you just like listening to good music, then AM/FM has lots to offer you. Each issue of AM/FM consists of two disks: The Magazine Disk, and the Sample Disk. They are always released together, but if you want to buy AM/FM, you don't have to buy both disks - you can choose just one of them if you prefer that. The AM/FM Magazine Disk contains music, articles, music utilities, news, reviews, MIDI music, tutorials, hints & tips, tech-corners, and everything about music in general. Everything is nicely laid out with a menu and running with system-friendly routines, so that the magazine won't crash your computer, and so that you can easily take out the files and examine them and/or copy them to other disks etc. The AM/FM menu system was programmed by Teijo Kinnunen, the author of MED and OctaMED. The AM/FM Sample Disk is filled up with new and fresh superb quality sound samples for use in any music editor or sound sampling package. The AM/FM production staff has access to the very best in synthesizers and sampling CD's etc. A special group of instruments, or a special synthesizer is the "theme" of each AM/FM sample disk. For example, AM/FM Sample Disk #2 contains orchestral winds sounds, #3 contains Death & Horror sound effects, #6 contains only sounds from the Korg Wavestation, etc. 2) FINANCIAL SITUATION OF AM/FM AM/FM is not being produced for financial gain, but simply for pleasure and interest. The magazine is being distributed by the AM/FM production staff themselves, and by selected PD distributors who support our work. When a PD distributor sells an AM/FM disk, a small part of the price for this disk is given to the production staff, so that they can continue producing the magazine without losing any money on it. If the production staff should gain more money than they have spent on AM/FM, and they get a profit, then this money will be used to pay programmers and musicians to produce high quality material for use in AM/FM. So whatever money is gained on AM/FM, is put back into the magazine, to create an even better product. 3) HOW OFTEN IS AM/FM RELEASED AM/FM does not follow specific release dates. Rather than rushing towards a date, we prefer waiting until we have enough good material to release a good product. In other words, we will collect quality material until a disk is 100% full, and then we release it. 6 issues have been released within a little under a year, so there has been about 6-8 weeks between each issue so far. This may vary, but it will never take longer than 10-11 weeks, we promise. 4) COPYRIGHT / COPYING / SELLING AM/FM You are allowed to copy AM/FM to your friends. But you are not allowed to take any money for it, not even a small fee to cover for the disk and postage. You may not take one single penny for it. AM/FM is Freeware and may only be copied For Free. If you take any money at all for it, it will be regarded as selling the magazine, and then you must fulfill the royalty demand from the production staff, and send a royalty of 1 UK POUND for each AM/FM disk you sell. Before doing this, you must become an "AM/FM Dealer". (More on that below). 5) WHERE/HOW CAN I GET AM/FM ? You can either buy AM/FM directly from the AM/FM production staff, or from any AM/FM Dealer. If you buy it directly from AM/FM, it will be a bit more expensive, but you will also receive it as soon as it's released. It takes a few days or weeks before it is available from the Dealers. Also, if you buy many disks at a time, the price will be about the same if you buy it directly from AM/FM, because if you buy it from AM/FM, it will get cheaper, the more disks you buy. You can also subscribe to future issues, if you buy directly from AM/FM. As far as we know, no AM/FM dealers offer this possibility. If you want to buy AM/FM disks directly from the AM/FM staff, or if you wish to subscribe to future issues of AM/FM, send your order to: AM/FM c/o Bjorn Lynne Schleppegrellsgt. 10 0556 Oslo NORWAY The prices directly from AM/FM are:  1 disk 2 disks 3 disks 4 disks 5 disks 6 disks UK Pounds: 4 8 10 13 16 18 US Dollars: 8 16 20 25 30 35 German Mk: 10 20 30 35 40 45 Finnish Mk: 25 50 70 90 100 110 Norwegian Kr: 40 80 100 130 160 180 Danish Kr: 40 80 100 130 160 180 Swedish Kr: 40 80 100 130 160 180  7 disks 8 disks 9 disks 10 disks 11 disks 12 disks UK Pounds: 20 22 24 26 28 30 US Dollars: 40 45 50 55 60 65 German Mk: 50 55 60 65 70 75 Finnish Mk: 120 130 140 150 160 170 Norwegian Kr: 200 220 240 250 260 270 Danish Kr: 200 220 240 250 260 270 Swedish Kr: 200 220 240 250 260 270 For a number of disks greater than 12, simply add the price difference between 11 and 12 for each disk. For payment, please transfer the applicable amount to the Norwegian Post Giro account number 0824 0681472, or send a cheque made out to: BJORN A. LYNNE, who will then transfer the cheque into the account. Remember to write down exactly which AM/FM Magazine Disks and/or which AM/FM Sample Disks you want. Write your name and address clearly. (Preferably by printer or typewriter). The disks will be sent to you immediately when we have received the money. If you've sent a cheque, we will see if the cheque is valid before we send you the disks. 6) HOW TO SUBSCRIBE TO FUTURE ISSUES OF AM/FM Making sure you get your future issues of AM/FM as soon as they are released is very simple. Just send us your order and tell us which issues you are paying for. You will be entered into a database, and when the new issues are released, you will receive them immediately. Say, for example, that you want to buy the first 10 issues of AM/FM, with both the Magazine Disks and the Sample Disks. That's 20 disks total. Simply send money for 20 disks, and write in your order: "I WANT AM/FM MAGAZINE DISKS 1-10 AND AM/FM SAMPLE DISKS 1-10". Then, you will immediately receive the disks that have already been released, whereas the future disks will be sent to you as soon as they are released. 7) AM/FM DEALERS (WANTED!) The AM/FM production staff is still looking for more AM/FM Dealers in all European countries and USA. If you are running a PD company, or if you are thinking of starting one, or if you would just like make a little extra money by distributing AM/FM, then feel free to get in touch and become an AM/FM Dealer. If you want to sell AM/FM disks, then each disk you sell must have an original AM/FM disk label on it. These labels can be bought from the AM/FM production staff, at 1 UK POUND each. If you sell an AM/FM disk without an original AM/FM disk label, then you are violating the AM/FM copyright and you will get in trouble with all the registered AM/FM Dealers and the AM/FM Prouction Staff. So you must first buy disk-labels from AM/FM, and then you can sell as many disks as you have labels for. Then you buy more labels, and so on. You can choose whatever price you want to sell the AM/FM disks for. As long as we get our 1 GBP per disk sold, we will not interfere with how you sell it, price it or market it. As long as you buy a minimum of 10 disk labels each month (anyone can sell 10 disks a month), you will have status as an AM/FM Dealer, and you will automatically receive all AM/FM disks as soon as they are released. If you want to become an AM/FM Dealer, we would love to hear from you. Send your order for original AM/FM disk labels (1 GBP each) to: AM/FM c/o Bjorn A. Lynne Schleppegrellsgt. 10 0556 Oslo NORWAY Along with your order, send a cheque made out to BJORN A. LYNNE, or transfer the amount to our Norwegian Post Giro account number 0824 681472. Once the cheque has been validated, you will receive the first batch of original AM/FM disk labels. You will of course also need to get all the back issues. These will be sent to you free of charge, but please include blank disks to copy them on, so it doesn't get so darn expensive for us. (You have no idea what blank disks cost in Norway (and no, we will not accept payment in blank disks)). ********************************** AM/FM ********************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------------- GENESIS II Star Trek Club --------------------------- Membership Rates: 3 Newsletters - £4.50 6 Newsletters - £8.00 Genesis II is also involved in organising the popular T'KON Star Trek conventions and also holds regular club meetings at The Royal Angus, Birmingham. A Bowling Championship is also held each year as well as several, special events. Full details and a membership form can be obtained by sending an SAE to either of the following: Kathy Yates 167 Kingshurst Road, Northfield, Birmingham, B31 2LL, ENGLAND - OR - Maureen Rowley 36 Kingscote Close, Church Hill, Redditch, Worcs, B98 9JL, ENGLAND --------------------------------------------------------------------------- WANTED -------- Any item of Star Trek/Star Trek: The Next Generation merchandise! I am interested in buying almost anything, ranging from models to books, comics to videos... basically anything as long as it is in good condition and preferably in its original packages. If you have anything to sell, send me a list complete with prices that you are asking for each item and the condition of each item. I will reply to EVERYONE who writes to me! I can't promise to buy everything all in one go, as I only have a limited amount of money to spend each week/month, but if I'm interested, I'll probably buy it! Specific items I am really interested include: Comics - Early issues from DC and any Star Trek titles by Marvel and Gold Key. Also DC six issue TNG mini-series. Books - Any of the photonovels, reference books and novels by Bantam Books. Also any of the Trek info books by Files Magazines. CDs - Soundtrack albums to Star Trek V, Encounter At Farpoint, Classic Trek Sound Effects and Classic Trek - "Amok Time"/"Doomsday Machine". Models - ST: TNG figures by Galoob, especially Data and Tasha. MUST still be in original boxes and UNOPENED. Magazines - Back issues of Starlog, Star Trek: The Next Generation Poster Magazine (UK release) and the Star Trek Official Fan Club magazines. Other fan club magazines and fan publications considered. Trading Cards - ST:TNG trading cards by Impel - any cards, any quantity, but hologram cards especially wanted! I'll consider anything else as well - it's just that these are the more important things I'm after and lists that include these will get a higher priority. Send your lists to: Simon Plumbe, 14 Rousdon Grove, Great Barr, Birmingham, B43 5HN, ENGLAND --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Huge range of Star Trek memorabilia for sale. Books, comics, trading cards and more all up for grabs. Write to me at the address below with what you want. All prices negotiable. Tim Smith 159 Metchley Lane Harborne Birmingham B17 0JL ENGLAND --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mr Disk have been in the computer trade for more than a decade. This time has been well spent building a reputation for cheap prices yet maintaining a supply of quality equipment and always offering advice to back up customers. Offering a wide range of software and hardware, Mr Disk is the best place in the Midlands to see and purchase all the latest computer goods. However, if we do not stock the item that you are looking for, we will trace it for you and quote you the best price on the day. Most orders will arrive to us within 24 hours! If you would like to order any goods from us please contact us on the relevant number. Mr Disk leisure Centre: Amiga games Atari ST CBM 64 Spectrum (021) 616 1168 Amstrad Sega Nintendo Atari Lynx Mr Disk Business and Education Centre: Amiga Serious PC PC Books (021) 643 6222 Acorn Amstrad PCW Both stores carry a wide range of hardware and peripherals for all computers. * Sorry, mail order limited to U.K. only.