REVIEW: Tools Unlimited Volume 1: The Blanker Collection

by: Pauli Porkka


Tools Unlimited Vol 1


For those Blanker freaks out there this is a real treat. This CD-ROM contains ALL the freely distributable Blankers available for the Amiga. There are single mouse- and screenblankers, complete packages with multiple blanker modules and blankers for graphic boards.

For me there is more Blankers in there than I could wish, although I am happy with only one. It isn't very productive to start reviewing all the different blankers in there so I'll skip that. If you need one here it is, guaranteed.

As always one subject rarely fills CD-ROM and there just isn't that many blankers available that you could fill 600 Megabytes so extra stuff has been added to make this disk a better buy. There is some 31 Megabytes (uncompressed) of fonts. 5 MB of normal bitmap fonts and 26 MB coloured fonts. Colored fonts are divided into 2, 4, 8, 16 and 32 colour fonts. Over 300 coloured fonts should be enough for anyone's needs.

Then there is a bunch of animations from various artists. No complaints here, some are pretty cool some aren't.

Then to my favourite subject which is modules. There is about 64 megabytes of modules from 10 different composers.

So if you miss modules made buy these guys here they are. I don't know if these contain all the modules from these authors but it must be close. Overall quality is very good.

In addition to above stuff there is also NewIcons V2, some icon tools and MagicWB icons included. NewIcons comes with several AES icon packages, so you won't run out of them any time soon. This is actually the first time I tried out the NewIcons (I have always been a big fan of MagicWB) and it was quite good looking system, but I think I still keep the good old MagicWB. The installer script gives you a possibility to install NewIcons temporarily or permanently. Great thing that I was able to test it out adn remove it by just rebooting.

Summary

If you want blankers this is the one for you. Even if you didn't need them this is a good buy considering the quality of the other stuff included.

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