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- Issue 1 June 89
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- Powerpacker Update (V2.2), Rulps Belch Gag, When The Rain
- Falls Music, Demon Artwork, Hypnotic Tunnel, UGA Art and
- UGA Music, Coverpicture, Screenshots from Circus Attractions
- Grand Monster Slam, Sampler, Bloodmoney, Aquaventura and
- Chariot. Demo and reviews of Fantavision. Help with Kings
- Quest II, Space Quest II, Ultima III, Knight Orc and
- general information etc.Due to other commitments at the
- time, (the Commodore Show at Novotel) we were unable to
- get anything done for this issue. We decided to start 'full'
- distribution of Newsflash from Issue 2 onwards instead.
- Issue 1 is available should anyone want a back issue.
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- Issue 2 July 89
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- Normal service was resumed for this issue with full 17Bit
- articles, documents, news, letters and feedback. On the
- discs besides all the text was; Art by H.V.Graaf, Pseudo Ops
- Small Demo, Ping-Pong game (good), Boot-game installer,
- 5 pieces of music (4 from Suntronic, 1 from Dtack),
- Screenshots from Oceans 'The Long Walk' and Grandslams
- 'Thunderbirds', software reviews and news, C,Assembler and
- CLI Tutorials, Hardware reviews and a full Comms section
- featuring 2 BBS's reviewed plus Compunet & Micronet features.
- Utilities featured were Bootleg, Fontmaster, Virus Killer,
- Preset-Ed for Soundtracker enabling you to convert a disc
- full of IFF files to soundtracker quickly & easily, also
- a pre-production monitor program. All this plus lots of
- information, hints, tips and the solution to Police Quest.
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- Issue 3 August 1989
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- Major presentation improvements made this time, a different
- font and the choice of background colours stopped people
- moaning about the blue colours.. Anyway the contents were
- well up to standard with the following utilities included..
- ACE - Text Editor, BIGBENCH (Double your workbench size!),
- MOST - Document displayer, CLITEXT - covert ascii text into
- a program, TEXTMAKER - convert a document into a runnable
- program, RAINBOW WRITER - a small intro creator (Great!),
- IFF-EX makes pictures into runnable programs, IFF-MOD makes
- a picture and a soundtracker module into a program, MOD2EX
- makes a soundtracker module into a runnable program, PICVIEW
- which shows any type of Iff picture inc overscan etc,
- BOUNCESHOW - small slideshow utility. 4 assembler sources
- are included (including comments) - sampleplayer, Loader,
- LibBase, Iff Display. Preview of a new music program plus
- screenshots of it. Populous entry codes part II. Superb
- cover art by Rico Holmes - Joker Remix. Reviews of
- Xybots, Rodeogames, Powerdrome, New Zealand Story, Falcon
- Mission Disc, Jaws, Mystery on The Nile, Oil Imperium
- (plus screenshot), Amos Preview, Lattice C v5 buglist,
- Animagic Review. Plus all the usual latest release info
- and 17Bit banter, comms news, jobspot etc..humour etc...
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- Issue 4 September 1989
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- Yet more improvements this issue, a fine text displayer
- that includes the ability to print the file (at last!)
- also it takes crunched text which is obviously a great
- advantage to both you and us, you get more text and we
- get more space to play with! Superb Interlaced cover art
- by Rico Holmes, (officially called Mariano Fortuny) nice
- Hawkeye music conversion by Allister Brimble (able to be
- run in the background while you read). Theres MIDI info,
- news of the latest 17Bit discs, lots of game hints and
- tips, Arp info. Assembler sources for plotting fast
- pixels and a small text intro. Full C listing for the
- great text displayer. Sillyness galore in the 17Bit
- Editorial, banter and chat as well as news of a new
- virus currently stalking around. Theres the Boardwalk
- section covering the Bitmaps BBS and The Crusaders BBS
- in Norway. The familiar Jobspot section is there also!
- The first Newsflash interview is done with Tobias
- Richter known for his tremendous Videoscape animations.
- Theres also a Questionare - you can tell us what you
- want! Theres 3 internal soundchip music creations by
- Brian Postma, Sony Art, Complex Bob Demo (nice) and
- another two short demos. On the utilities front there
- is a great picture ripper that can even regain pictures
- and art lost if the Amiga crashes! Theres a file coder,
- 2 new virus Killers to keep you up to date, a utility
- to make your startup-sequence just one program file,
- Kickstart Reset, A68K assembler too! On the entertainment
- front theres a great Tetris style game (well good!) and
- a shanhai style game! Phew! and all for 2.99!!!
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- Newsflash is available at 2.99 per issue.
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