July Aminet round-up
There's plenty of great stuff on the world's biggest archive of freely distributable software.
To kick us off this month, let me point you in the direction
of gfx/aga/Sork.lha (317k) where you will
find the best Amiga voxel engine I have yet come across. It is very fast, has all
sorts of rendering modes, fly and drive modes, the works. Looks great too.
Apparently the author used our cover disk of Vista Lite to generate the landscapes, too. If only there was a game in there!
Talking of games, fancy misc/emu/darkNESs0.12.lha
(23k) ? It claims to be a NES emulator which runs 70% of NES games. SWOS fan? Go to game/data and look at
SWOSAfr.lha (10k),
SWOSAus.lha (2k),
SWOSBra.lha (7k),
SWOSUSA.lha (3k),
SWOSEsp.lha (13k)
for some updates.
If you find your modem is always covered with disks and papers, maybe you should download
comm/misc/modemd11.lha (29k)
which displays the status lights on your workbench. You can do this while listening
to a pretty odd piece of digeridoo trance you'll find at
mods/med/bc-goann.lha.
If you would prefer something to read, you might want a look at
docs/mags/aiov1.lha (13k)
a small but well formed Amigaguide monthly mag with views, news and reviews (some nicked from CU, naughty naughty, ask first).
Eye candy doesn't come a lot sweeter than Sweet, by French demo team Silicon.
Go to demo/aga/SLC-Sweet.lha
(598k) for a tunnel and lighting effects demo with a sense of humour.
Men in Black after you? You've obviously spent too much time looking at
pix/trace/Abduction.lha
(94k). Sticking to a science fiction theme, check out
pix/trace/dune.jpg (73k) for
an excellent render of a giant Sandworm from Dune rendered by Amiga stalwart
Tobias Richter.
Ever lost something on your hard drive? Of course you have. Pity the Amiga doesn't
have a find facility as good as the Macintosh built in find file. It does now
thanks to util/wb/MacFind.lha (77k).
Andrew Korn