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- 3,THE AGATRON COLLECTION
- 4,
-
- There can't be many PD collectors who don't own any of the
- incredible slideshow/animation disks produced by Tobias Richter under
- the Agatron label. Well, here at Infinite Frontiers, we have managed
- to arrange rights to distribute these disks with Tobias (and unlike
- other PD libraries, we have the FULL range of 87 disks) and a
- MINIMUM royalty payment of 10% from the sale of EVERY disk will be
- paid to Tobias.
-
- The prices for these are:
-
- 1 - 5 disks - £1.50 each
- 6 or more - £1.25 each
-
- And those prices INCLUDE postage and packing anywhere in the world!
- We know that you can get these cheaper from many PD libraries, but
- how many libraries can claim to pay royalties to Tobias on the sale
- of every disk? As far as we are aware, INFINITE FRONTIERS are the
- only group to offer Tobias such payments. Also, most stockists DON'T
- have the full range as we do!
-
- Unless otherwise stated, all the disks below will run on a standard
- 1MB Amiga. We haven't tested them all for compatability yet, although
- we would be only too happy to try to resolve any problems with
- individual disks/offer replacement titles. If you order any disks
- and they DO work, we'd be really grateful if you could let us know so
- we can keep our records up-to-date.
-
- The disks we currently have are (all of them to date, but we haven't
- managed to write descriptions for them all as yet - these will be
- added in time):-
-
-
- ANIMATIONS
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-
- A01 - Animation Disk 1
-
- A02 - Animation Disk 2
-
- A03 - Animation Disk 3
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- A04 - Animation Disk 4
-
- A05 - Animation Disk 5
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- A06 - Animation Disk 6
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- A07 - Animation Disk 7
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- A08 - Animation Disk 8
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- A09 - Animation Disk 9
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- A10 - Animation Disk 10
-
- A11 - Animation Disk 11
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- A12 - Animation Disk 12
-
- A13 - Animation Disk 13
-
- A14 - Animation Disk 14
-
- A15 - Animation Disk 15
-
- A16 - Animation Disk 16
-
- This disk, "Star Trek", is the only DPaint animation in the
- entire Agatron range and is an animation featuring art, ships
- and animation from Tobias's Star Trek game, including a
- sequence showing a fleet of ships flying past on the
- viewscreen on the bridge of the Enterprise.
-
- A17 - Animation Disk 17
-
- A18 - Animation Disk 18
-
- Two short animations on this disk, both "inspired" by scenes in
- the Trek movies. The first is "The Wrath Of Khan" and is a
- rather bland animation featuring an overhead view on the
- Enterprise flying above the Reliant. The other is much better,
- seeing the scene from Star Trek III where the Grissom flies
- through space and approaches the Genesis planet.
-
- A19 - Animation Disk 19
-
- This is Tobias's James Bond animation! It features the famous
- Lotus driving down a cliffside road, whilst avoiding being shot
- at by gunfire from a helicopter flying overhead. Looped to give
- the impression of a continuous chase sequence.
-
- A20 - Animation Disk 20
-
- Still dealing with helicopters, "Huey" features a short
- animation of a Huey copter taking off from a landing pad and
- flying towards a range of mountains.
-
- A21 - Animation Disk 21
-
- "Enterprise Docking" - Tobias's interpretation of the visually
- stunning scene from Star Trek III where a battle-scarred
- Enterprise returns home and enters the mammoth orbitting
- Starbase. The Enterprise approaches slowly, the doors begin to
- open...!
-
- A22 - Animation Disk 22
-
- A23 - Animation Disk 23
-
- Probably Tobias's most famous animation, this is the legendary
- "Fleet Maneuvre" - a superb animation featuring the flight of a
- shuttle as it flies in and around a small fleet of about a
- dozen assorted Starfleet vessels, including the Enterprise. If
- you've ever tried using Videoscape, you'll aprreciate the skill
- that went into the creation of this animation.
-
- A24 - Animation Disk 24
-
- A25 - Animation Disk 25
-
- This disk features a single animation - "The Run", which is
- one of Tobias's more well-known animations, following a police
- car chase down a very busy street. Very fluid movement and
- looped to give the impression of a continuous chase. A
- classic!
-
- A26 - Animation Disk 26
-
- A27 - Animation Disk 27
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- A28 - Animation Disk 28
-
- A29 - Animation Disk 29
-
- A30 - Animation Disk 30
-
- A31 - Animation Disk 31
-
- Entitled "The Porsche", this is the first ray-traced animation
- in the Agatron range, and is a promotional animation created
- by the author of Reflections (the software that Tobias uses),
- Carsten Fuchs. It features a Porsche 911 rising up through a
- table top covered in an assortment of household objects. Very
- impressive.
-
- A32 - Animation Disk 32
-
- A33 - Animation Disk 33
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- A34 - Animation Disk 34
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- A35 - Animation Disk 35
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- A36 - Animation Disk 36
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- A37 - Animation Disk 37
-
- A38 - Animation Disk 38
-
- Just one animation this time, "In Memorium Gene Roddenberry".
- This is a superb ray-traced animation dedicated to the late
- Gene Roddenberry featuring fly-by views of both the film and
- TNG Enterprises, along with a shuttlepod from the first movie.
- Simply magnificent! Requires 2MB.
-
-
- SLIDESHOWS
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-
- S01 - Slideshow 1
-
- Tobias's first slideshow is a collection of hand-drawn images,
- obviously looking crude when compared with his more familiar
- ray-traced work. The disk features a short anim of the Agatron
- logo, sound in the form a short 2/3 second looped sample and
- 22 NTSC-sized images, covering all aspects of sci-fi and
- fantasy including Star Trek and Star Wars. Two of the pictures
- also feature simple animation created using colour cycling
- techniques. Nothing spectacular, but there is quite a good
- picture of a Klingon Bird Of Prey in flight.
-
- S02 - Slideshow 2
-
- More of the same. This disk only features 16 pictures, again in
- NTSC format, although 5 of these are colour cycling, some of
- which create some stunning effects. Another short looped sample
- accompanies the art (8 or 9 seconds from the theme to the TV
- series "The A Team"). Highlight of the disk is a superb image
- of an AT-AT under attack from the Star Wars movies.
-
- S03 - Slideshow 3
-
- This is Tobias's first ever ray-traced slideshow, created with
- the German package Reflections. There is no sound to accompany
- the art, but as there are 15 HAM images, all in a PAL format
- (some using full overscan as well) I can't see any reason to
- complain! Mainly of a sci-fi/space theme, although there is
- only 1 Star Trek related picture.
-
- S04 - Slideshow 4
-
- Tobias's second ray-traced slideshow is yet another journey
- into the world of science-fiction and it features a selection
- of 16 HAM images, many of which are in overscan mode, and
- almost half of them are devoted to Star Trek!
-
- S05 - Slideshow 5
-
- Not as many pictures this time (only 10) as the images are all
- interlaced HAM meaning that they are twice as detailed as in
- previous slideshows. Unlike his previous slideshows, these
- images have also been compressed to fit even more onto the
- disk, offering even better value for money. Half of the images
- are devoted to Star Trek, the others catering for a general
- sci-fi audience including a couple of Star Wars pics. Note that
- for users of Kickstart 2.04 or higher, the overscan images may
- appear to be slightly off-centred, although this doesn't spoil
- the slideshow!
-
- S06 - Slideshow 6
-
- Only 7 pictures on this disk, but there is the welcome addition
- of a rather slow, melodic piece of background music. All of the
- pictures are of a sci-fi nature, with two Trek pics, and one of
- the general pics is a stunning image of a ship flying over a
- fractal mountain range with a planet in view in the background
- - and it's all ray-traced! Tobias's utility for incorporating
- fractals into Videoscape and a few other packages as objects
- for raytracing, called McFrac, can be found on Agatron Program
- Disk 6.
-
- S07 - Slideshow 7
-
- S08 - Slideshow 8
-
- S09 - Slideshow 9
-
- S10 - Slideshow 10
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- S11 - Slideshow 11
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- S12 - Slideshow 12
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- S13 - Slideshow 13
-
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- ANIMATION SPECIALS
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-
- AS1 - STAR TREK (15 DISKS)
-
- A mammoth story-like animation from Tobias, created with
- Videoscape for Trekkers everywhere. A lengthy animation,
- capable of running on 1MB machines by loading in segments. A
- must for collectors of Tobias' work.
-
- AS2 - 2001 (9 DISKS)
-
- The second Agatron Animation special to have been created with
- Videoscape, this animation set follows the voyage of a shuttle
- from the movie 2001 - A Space Odyssey as it travels from it's
- orbit around the Earth and it's subsequent approach and docking
- with the space station. Some very impressive animation, and
- all accompanied by sampled sound, but the story lacks any real
- "bite". The loading time can be pretty unbearable for anyone
- with a single drive!
-
- AS3 - LANDING (4 DISKS)
-
- This is the only ray-traced animation in the Special series,
- and it features the flight of a cargo transporter which flys
- towards a space outpost, lands on the planet, deposits its
- cargo and flies off. Stunning HAM images, although the
- animation is jerky on 68000-based Amigas. Needs 4MB!
-
-
- PROGRAM DISKS
- -------------
-
- Please note - as many of these disks contain software that was
- written primarily for Tobias's own personal use, the instructions are
- in German and, as we haven't really spent much time looking at them,
- we haven't figured out how to use them yet!
-
- P1 - Program Disk 1
-
- P2 - Program Disk 2
-
- P3 - Program Disk 3
-
- P4 - The Ultimate Star Trek Game - Disk 1
-
- This needs no introduction and this is generally hailed as being
- the BEST Trek game on the Amiga. Miss it at your peril.
- Unfortunately, the instructions are in German, but it's fairly
- easy to figure it out! Enhanced sound for Amigas with 1MB or
- more. Amigas with even more ram than that have the option of
- loading the entire game into ram! The second part of this game
- can be found on Program Disk 5.
-
- P5 - The Ultimate Star Trek Game - Disk 2
-
- Disk 2 of the above.
-
- P6 - Program Disk 6
-
- I don't know the full contents of this disk, but it does include
- a selection of IFF brushes that Tobias has used in many of his
- ray-traced images. Now you can see how some of his art was
- created! Also is a utility called McFrac - a fractal landscape
- generator that creates landscapes and saves them in a format
- that can be loaded into a variety of ray-tracing packages as
- objects!!!
-
-
- MISCELLANEOUS
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-
- M01 - Star Trek Megademo (1MB, 2 DISKS)
-
- This is a two disk collection of art, music and animation from
- Tobias, featuring a Trek based piece of music, 4 ray-traced HAM
- animations and about a dozen pieces of ray-traced art. Superb!
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