Welcome to the News In Brief Section. This page contains all articles from 16th - 31st December. Enjoy.

Flyin' High a 3D car racing game was released in August this year and now P.U.R.E. Design have released data disks containing two new worlds, lava & space. Each have 5 new tracks including new music modules and the patched version of Flyin' High to update and correct the original version.

The Flyin' High data disks are available from Islona at a very good price.

Here are the screenshots of Max Rally which was mentioned in a previous article.

It has been confirmed that a deal between ClickBOOM and ID Software has been completed for Quake, Amiga owners will now finally get a chance to try out this excellent title.

It will of course be CD- Rom only and will be of a high spec to be able to play Quake at it's best. The release date of Quake for the Amiga is said to be soon.

RSA Laboratories has announced an interim challenge, DES II, which Bovine is likely to participate in, as are we. The challenge starts January 13^th 1998, there will most likely be a hybrid client that will allow you to take part in DES II as well as the current RC5-64. Info on this is somewhat sparse at the moment, check out the Bovine DES II page for now. The DES Challenge II is likely to take a couple of months at most (with prize money up to $10,000 tied to it), so the intermission will probably not detract too much from the current RC5-64 effort.

Aphasia has been mentioned before a long time ago, well here is the latest, it'll be released sometime late in 1998, with a demo planned for release near the end of 1998.

It has been assumed from the presence of Quake in the Products section of ClickBOOM/PXL's web site that a deal with ID Software had been reached allowing ClickBOOM to bring Quake to the Amiga. Well, this has now been removed from their site, but it has been revealed through people on the Newsgroups, who have bought Myst that there is a card inside the box mentioning that Quake is coming soon. So according to this, it seems that ClickBOOM haven't got the deal sorted yet, but below is some more information on Quake for the Amiga.

The Amiga version of Quake has all the features of the PC version. It should be possible to use a wide range of Quake add-ons, and network access has also been promised. Indeed we can expect to see Quake "clans" of Amiga users turning up on the internet based multi user Quakeworlds.

We'll have to wait and see how well the final version of Quake runs on the Amiga before we can tell you exactly how fast it will run on your system, but from what we have seen, it's going to be pretty good. Keeping in low resolution, it should be playable on an AGA machine with a 68040 or better accelerator, although clearly the better the processor the better it will run. We'll have to wait for the PowerPC version to see Quake running at its best, however. A Quake demo was shown running on a PowerPC by Haage and Partner in Cologne, and it run at an impressive speed indeed. It is yet to be confirmed, but it seems likely that Clickboom will also be supporting the Permedia 2 based Cybervision and BlizzardvisionPPC graphics add-on cards. Quake is noted for using the OpenGL 3D graphics API, which is directly supported on the phase5 cards by the CyberGL implementation of the OpenGL standard. A 68060 Amiga with a graphics card will run Quake rather nicely, a PPC Amiga with the 3D card will be something to behold. I've heard that in the March issue of Cu Amiga Magazine there will be exclusive details, but stay here to find out the latest.

The CyberGFX add-on for Myst to allow GFX card owners to play the game has been released.

Myst, which was released a couple of weeks ago didn't have full GFX card support at release. This was due the fact that ClickBOOM wanted to get it out before christmas and the CyberGFX part was not completly tested. However, it has now been completed and is available from the ClickBOOM website ONLY (It will be made freely available on Aminet in the future).

Myst got quite a good response when it was released and it one of the first Amiga games to provide decent support for Graphic Card users.

I suggest that all you Graphic Card users out there buy this game, of not only to show your suuport forClickBOOM, you moan about games not supporting graphic card, well heres one that does! They are giving the Amiga some excellent games and will continue to do this in 1998, with our support anyway. To get hold on the CyberGFX archive, you have to email ClickBOOM from there webpage (In the Myst, downloads section) and they will then send you an email with the archive attached.

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