>2{3      Amiga Format CDROM II Review:
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      Erm,  I  must admit when I first read in Amiga Format that they would
      be  covermounting  a CD each and every issue I didn't believe them, I
      thought  they  were  winding  us  CDROM  owners  up.   Obviously they
      weren't.   Amiga  Format is now up to the second CDROM at the time of
      writing,  look  out  for  a  review  of  AFCD  III in Beyond Sanit-E.
      Anyway,  Format  CD II looks promising from the cover, there's a nice
      picture  of  a  red  hand in the bottom left, which leads me to think
      that  one  of  those  naughty  Amiga  Format reviewers had been up to
      something with their girlfriend the night before.  Err, yeah, anyway,
      moving  back  on  track,  the  CD includes: Cando v2.5, Octamed 5.04,
      Wordworth 5 CD, a demo  of Soundstudio  Licenseware titles, loadsa 3D
      images  etc.   Upon  loading  I found that I had to select the assign
      icon,  plus  the  magic  workbench colour icons, that is, if I wanted
      magic  workbench  colours.  As usual, I headed straight for the music
      section,  it  is  located in resources/music.  There were two players
      included.   The first being that infamous program, Hippyplayer, or if
      you're  into  animals,  Hippoplayer.   Another  player  included  was
      miniplay.   I  had  a  look at Hippoplayer, and sure enough, it was a
      player.  Surprisingly.  There were options to load and save a module,
      fade mods off at the end, select a list of mods and play them all....
      good  stuff.   The  rest  of the music section was full of mods which
      were definately just pulled off a module compilation CD, many of them
      even  came  in the same order as on one of my CD's!  So, overall, the
      music  support wasn't too bad, it could do with a few more up to date
      and  relatively  unheard  mods.   Right,  onto the graphics.  All you
      artists  will  be  in paradise with Amiga (render) Format CD, there's
      anims, pics, support, objects and texture support for pretty much all
      of  the  popular  packages,  such  as  Cinema  4D,  Aladdin, Imagine,
      Lightwave blah blah blah, boring, waffle, etc etc.  Next up, it's the
      Licenseware  drawer, it was full of compressed DMS files which mainly
      comprised  of  games.  I saw a game called bouncer, which set off the
      A.F  relic  alarm,  so  I  steered clear of it.  Black Dawn II was on
      there,  along  with  plebs and several other exciting(?) games.  Err,
      next   was   the   commercial   drawer,  which  was  very  commercial
      indeed..........    commercially  speaking.   This  drawer  contained
      CanDo, Med 5 and several patches for use with final calc, i.e patches
      to allow use of an FPU with this great package.  
      Well, I dunno about you, but this  CD  is  boring  me  to  hell  so
      far, I'm really trying to find something  interesting to talk about,
      hence the occassional waffle at various  points  through  the review,
      but alas, I can waffle no more.
      It's  crap.   I  much  preferred  the  CU Amiga CDROM, even though it
      wasn't brilliant, at least I spent a few hours looking through it for
      a  week  or  two, and it least it was a bit exciting.  Sorry, but the
      AFCD  is lacking in something.  Something I can't quite put my finger
      on,  maybe  more  PD  Demos,  readers  mods,  readers pics and latest
      popular  PD would help, I think they've tried to fill the CD with too
      much commercial software, hence the huge space for Licenseware, Cando
      etc.  The games demos were alright though, I can't whinge about that.
      Overall,  a  decidedly  averagey  CD  which  will  probably  keep you
      occupied  for almost a day.  Steady now!  I only said ALMOST.  Still,
      for  an  extra  pound  on top of the old £4.50 fee you get loads more
      stuff.

      Scores:

      Overall:   68%  `sorry  A.F  guys, but it's dull and what's more, you
                       promised a demo of the new Scene storm CD....  
                       Where is it?.....
                       It's not there is it you little fibbers.