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-= PRODUCT DEMOS =- Here lies a listing of the product demos we have recieved... Disc 3: Rocket Ranger Slideshow, see the entry in the slideshow section for further details. Available from Cinemaware rrp 29.95 Disc 33: Not strictly an animation disc but a demo of the capabilities of Deluxe Video by EA. Has 5 or so short `films` showing what can be done quickly and easily. Mock film titles are included, and a good education film teaching pythagoras. Disc 44: Star Ray demo, playable to the 1st level. Very nice defender type clone with excellent graphics.Available from Logotron rrp 24.95 *Not compatible with Issue 1.3 machines. Disc 81: A brilliant demo for 1meg amigas (2discs) Disc 82: of Digiview,Digipaint and DigiFX all by US based Newtek. Features amazing quality digitised graphics, sound & animation. Disc 94: A nice demo of Cinemawares KING OF CHICAGO the stratedgy version of the Al Capone era complete with all the distinctive touches, music,hoodlums,cars and of course the prohibition. As always graphics are top notch and include facial animation etc. Demo works with 512k and single drive although the game really needs 1meg or 2 drives. Available now. Disc 98: Video 3D demo. a product demo of an extremely powerful and professional video titler. Excellent and ultra smooth effects such as 3D rendering and shatter effects.. Disc 132: A demo of the Professional text editor available from DIGIPRO, a really powerful text editor. If thats what you are looking for then take a look at this first then decide. Usable upto 20K of document. Disc 133: Contains a playable demo of SHANGHAI by Activision. The chinese strategy game which is very playable, difficult to get hold of now though. People who like it should try the PD game, Tiles on a later disc - check out Games discs for details. Disc 138: Demos of Aegis Draw and Animator. Draw is a CAD package that is usable but you cant save anything. There are a number of aegis animator demos included and the lander demo is probably the highlight. Disc 145: Jet Demo. A running demo of Sublogics JET, a sort of sequel to Flight Simulator 2. Shows you and guides you through all the main features of the game. Try before you buy.. you will probably find Falcon a better game.Available now. Disc 147: Demos of Battlechess and Fusion by E.Arts. Battlechess is perhaps the best graphical version of chess yet with some superb animation and sound. (Although there is no sound in this demo). Fusion is a game that met a fair amount of claim. See what you think about this playble demo. 1meg required for the battlechess demo... Both programs available now. Disc 165: Crimetown Depth Demo. A demo of this cinemaware style game, coming soon from Mirrorsoft. Features some nice graphics and sound and animation sequences from the game. Disc 167: Skychase Demo. A demo version of the Image Works dog fighting game where you have a dog fight with either the computer or a human opponent. The graphics are very fast and smooth as shown here. Available now. Disc 181: A demo of Dragons Lair, the game that raised more than a few eyebrows when released. Needs at LEAST a meg (you only get sound with 1.5 meg and more). Brilliant animation sequences that look straight out of the arcade machine.Available now. Disc 189: A demo of Sword Of Sodan, another game that has recieved good reviews, just shows what can be done instead of poor quality game-ports. Massive sprites and fast gameplay are a hit in this true arcade style game.Available now. Disc 191: Product demo of Incentives 3D freescaping epic Driller. Guides you round the planet of which the game is based - the aim being to release gas after drilling for it. Fast,smooth graphics. Available now. Disc 192: WB1.3 Test version. Contains a few samples of what you could expect to find on the release version. 1.3 offers faster hard drive access, much faster printer drivers and a recoverable ram-disc.Available now. Disc 204: Buggy Commando. A playable demo rather like the old Moon Alert/Moon Buggy games, control your buggy over obstacles.Featured in The One. Disc 207: A product demo of Pioneer Plague, the first HAM game from Mandarin Software. Nice colourful graphics and atmospheric sound effects. Available now! Try it out before buying... Disc 208: A rolling demo of Deluxe Photolab, featuring 209: some excellent graphics and acts as a superb tutorial/introduction to the program. Requires 1meg to run. Similar format to the Dpaint 3 program which I deem to be a better program although theres no HAM mode on Dpaint III. Disc 215: A product demo of the original and playable 'Bombuzal' by Imageworks. Nice little strategy, puzzle game. Disc 227: A thorough demo put together by Digita to demonstrate their suite of application programs, Home Accounts, DG Calc,Mailshot and Mailshot Plus. Theres an explanation of each program and a cut down version for you to try out with save options removed (so you cant use it!) Disc 290: Zoetrope Demo disc. A new animation package using yet another format (RIF) that allows you to use anim files from just about any machine/format including cyber studio ones from the ST and .anim amiga files. Included on the disc are five animations the best of which is the Skeleton doing the backflip. Also includes Zoedemo 1 (a cutey creature that wobbles and falls over), Dinonew a simple animation, Li`l Guy - another cutey guy. Backflip (need 1meg for the whole flip!) and Zoesparklet - 3D text animation. Zoetrope is available from ISM, Grove House, Ventor Road, Apseheath, Isle Of Wight PO36 OJT contact Paul Booth for full details. Disc 299: Slipstream `Product` Demo.. not one of Microdeals better efforts but we included it in the hope that if you see this you may know about the game, a superb example of Try before you buy... if you dont, dont say you didnt have a chance this time... Disc 317: Design 3D Demo. A nice full-screen demo of the new CAD package. Looks very easy to use and is an excellent demo as it shows you quite a few examples as well as exactly how something is created (all mouse movements have been recorded and playedback). Includes the facility to create animation files, copes with 16 colours, light shading etc. Full commercial package is available NOW. Disc 354: A product demo of C-Light the Ray-Tracing/3D package which came out earlier this year. Contains 3 demos, a Star Trek enterprise animation a weird landscape one and a strange blind animation. Needs 1meg and apparantley it allows you to animate in real-time.(!) 1meg req. Disc 355: A nice playable demo of Blood Money by Pysgnosis, one of the better shoot`em ups to appear in a long while (actually we werent too keen until we played it, its very addictive!) this demo allows 1 or 2 players (simultaneous) to play the first level. Good demo. Great Game! Disc 356: Dpaint III demo, a two disc affair showing the 357: reasons why it is the best art/animation package around! You`ll need 1meg to see it though, and to use the program which is available NOW. Shows what can be achieved and how the various additional features work. Includes some nice animation sequences. Disc 358: A nice presentation by Ron Fonteine that shows you three forthcoming Psygnosis games Blood Money, Aquaventura and Chariot. Bloody Money is already out and looking superb the other two are due shortly. Disc 383: A running demo of Wicked from Activision, this game is getting high ratings, try before you buy. Disc 400: Product Demos, 4 demos of forthcoming titles, Raider (a bit like gravvatack disc 83),Datastorm (a brilliant defender clone by SODAN), Vortex (a strange game!) and Sequencer - a sound sampling utility. Datastorm looks the most promising of these.. try now.. Disc 400: 4 Product Demos of forthcoming titles, Raider, Datastorm, Vortex and a Sound-Sampler. Datastorm looks particularly excellent! Disc 413: A product Demo of Navy Moves. Try before you buy... Disc 421: Adrian Pursers Ray-Trace Graphics. Adrian has developed his own ray-trace techniqes and he is currently writing the front-end and editor for his program. His actual maths code etc is done and here are some early results which are very good. Adrian promises much more complex graphics and effects in the near future. Disc 431: A demo of POWERDROME by E.Arts. Try before you buy! Shows you the major features of this playable futuristic racing game. Disc 432: Another Product Demo, this time from Palace as Delphines Castle Warrior makes its debut. Large colorful graphics in a Dragons lair type of Scenario. Disc 442: *** WITHDRAWN *** Disc 458: IT CAME FROM THE DESERT! Yes! Its crawled out from Cinemaware and is attacking your screens. A great product demo for the already famous unreleased game - IT Came from the Desert! Based on all the classic 50's bug movies get this and find out what all the fuss is about. Spectacular sound and animation plus of course a superb intro sequence. IT should be available before Xmas 89... 29.95 courtesy of Mirrorsoft. * 1MEG ONLY ! * (Sorry!) Disc 467: A Product Demo of Gemini Wings, a game by Virgin. Based on the arcade game. Try it before buying! Disc 481: A product demo of Mindscapes 'Fiendish Freddies Big Top Of Fun!' - the circus game where you have to complete events whilst avoiding the menacing antics of Freddy. This demo has a small amount of animation and a slideshow of stills from the game. The game is due out in september rrp 29.95 and on three discs... Disc 483: A demo of the game Xenon 2, contains half of the first level and should be enough to convince ANYONE of the sheer quality of this game! (Great music too) Due in September 24.95rrp Disc 484: A demo of a music program by Intelligent music. As far as I can tell all features bar the save option are present and it works with/without Midi. Due to me being rather musically incapable I cannot go on about its features.. But if you`ve heard about it and want a demo.. here it is.. Disc 486: A product demo of BEAST by Psygnosis.. probably the most technically clever game yet on the Amiga.. this is a real beast.. 13level parallax scrolling, 128 colours on screen, 50 frames per second scrolling and animation, 900K of music, 2.5meg of graphics, 4meg of data, hundreds of monsters... slick presentation.. in fact it looks like something out of an arcade! Check out this demo.. the game is going to be 34.95rrp so you might as well make sure you know what its going to be like! Disc 488: A demo of a game announced AGES ago! Remember Mars Cops? No? Dont blame you! Anyway years have past and finally the game is due soon. This demo shows what it will be like and it does feature some nice graphics done by Ian Harling (who did the graphics for Oceans Last Patrol). but the game looks a little like 3D asteroids so try this demo if you fancy the game. Disc 497: Heres a demo to make your trigger finger itch! This is a product demo of "Battle Squadron" which is the follow up to Hybris. Featuring full Pal scrolling, twin player simultaneous action, added horizontal scrolling (as in the game sidewinder). Great sound, great graphics and probably the most arcade lookalike yet to appear. Time to oil your joystick methinks... Disc 498: Another product demo (by the way we will deduct a pound off a purchase of the game if you have previously had the demo!). This is a demo of Ancos playable `Rally Cross` - a 4 player super sprint clone that includes new tracks and night driving by headlights. Looks VERY good. Disc 514: Space Ace Demo. Readysoft`s follow up to the amazing Dragons Lair (remember THE demo 181?) is here and it looks even better than the first! Nearly half a minute of top notch, near faultless animation from the game. PLUS Readysoft have excelled themselves in the compression department as they have managed to squeeze a whole host of samples in aswell, including the unforgetable "I`ve only been kidnapped by aliens, thats all!" One meg owners get a continous loop of the full demo, Half meg owners can choose between the first and second parts. Disc 522: Interphase Demo. Imageworks latest looks like being one of, if not, THE best 3D games yet seen on an Amiga. Superb graphics and speed, and a decent plot to boot. A sort of strategy come action game that should please most games players out there. Heres a chance to see before you buy. Disc 525: Ghostbusters 2 Playable demo. Play one level from Activisions megabucks film license. The game is out now so if your interested, try the demo first! Disc 527: MoonWalker Demo. Jacko hits your Amiga! Actually this isn`t that bad. A few pieces of animation from US Gold`s game of the film of the record of the operation of the strange mind. The best bit being the grand finale, featuring the infamous spin. ** 1 Meg only ** Disc 528: Dragons Breath Demo. The intro and a few stills from Palace`s "RolePlaying/Strategy Game of 1990" , Anyone who saw the Work in progress feature on this game in The One recently would`ve seen the amazing graphics, now`s your chance to see them for "real" on screen. The whole thing is backed by some very nice atmospheric music. Disc 529: Lets go TOOBIN`, preview of Domarks conversion of Atari`s Mega Arcade game, race down the river in an inflated innertube, avoiding various nasties along the way. Again, this isn`t playable just sit back and watch. Disc 530: Cinemaware Basketball Slideshow. 8 Pictures from Cinemawares forthcoming simulation. More great graphics from one of the leading Amiga Developers The game will be coming out sometime in 1990 via Mirrorsoft, and if this demo is anything to go by , it should be pretty amazing! Just to prove 17Bit are THE leading PD suppliers we actually received this demo BEFORE Mirrorsoft even knew one existed! How`s that for speed??!! Disc 532: This is the demo of French Software House Delphine`s new Adventure come Action game Future Wars - Time Travellers. Shows the intro to the game before cycling through a few scenes from the game which is similar to the Sierra style of adventures. If this demo is anything to go by all adventurers are in for a real treat when the game is released.... Disc 539: Clownamania Demo from Starbyte. 3D Platform type game that casts you as a clumsy clown!! Not Playable, just a rolling demo. Disk 555: X-OUT from Rainbow Arts. Playable demo of the soon to be released shoot em up from the German based company. This first level plays very well and the game should be something to look out for! It's a sort of underwater R-Type with loads of extra weapons to blast all the nasty baddies!! Disk 563: After the War - See before you buy autorunning demo of Dinamics latest, a sort of Beat em, shoot em or generally do-anything-as-long-as-you kill-em UP! Not playable, just sit back and watch.. Disk 566: Odds 'n' Sods - A couple of Product demos and some music on here; we have demos of the excellent drivin' game DRIVIN' FORCE from DMS. Also a demo (in the form of a mini slideshow with soundFX) of Gainstars forthcoming Adventure Dragon Quest - Looks very good, and recently got 82% in CU. Disk 594: Elvira (Mistress Of The Dark) DEMO. Running demo of the forthcoming Horrorsoft game featuring Miss Elvira and her "assets" (ehem). This game is going to be a sort of Adventure/RPG type game where the aim is to rescue Said temptress from her capturers,the graphics look extremely impressive and in parts are quite gruesome (so don't watch if you are squeemish!) also has some sampled atmospheric spot effects and a tadge of Sampled speech from Elvira herself, though it sounds as though she is doing her Shy Postman impression and none of us can actually make out what she says... This is a very good demo and fans of this type of game should be well impressed. Disk 600: AMOS DEMO. Stunning demo of Mandarins forthcoming Game Creator. This disk is a brilliant example of what to expect when AMOS is finally released in May. Shows moving, animated sprites and bobs. Brilliant scrolling routines (Amazing IFF piccy scrolling!) And all from BASIC! Should set the Amiga world alight when it is released. Heres a great chance to whet your appetite! Anyone with any level of interest in proggramming should check this out! IT'S BRILLIANT!! Disk 615: Castle Master Slideshow. 15 stills from the forthcoming Incentive/Domark game. The latest game to feature Incentives 3D routines known as Freescape - here's a chance for you to see what the game looks like before you part with any cash! Disk 621: E-Motion - Playable demo of U.S. Golds "soon-to -be-released" strategy puzzle game. 4 levels are on here for you to test out. Looks very good indeed, ideal for those of you who like to use your old grey matter rather than just sit down and blast!