WELCOME TO SCI-FI SENSATION THE DATA CDROM FOR SCIENCE FICTION ADDICTS. THIS DOUBLE CD SET CONTAINS OVER 1000MB OF SCI-FI RELATED DATA FOR USE ON THE AMIGA & PC WINDOWS. THIS CD HAS BEEN PRODUCED FOR AMIGA KICKSTART2 AND ABOVE AND FOR USE WITH WINDOWS 3.11 OR ABOVE MOST FILES/PROGRAMS MAY WORK ON OTHER CONFIGURATIONS, BUT THIS IS NOT GUARANTEED. TOOLS FOR PLAYING MUSIC, DISPLAYING PICTURES, PLAYING SAMPLES AND ANIMATIONS CAN ALL BE FOUND IN THE TOOLS DIRECTORY OF THIS ROM. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO DISC LIMITATIONS ALL THE IMAGES ARE NOW ARCHIVED. On a PC system simply type EXTRACT FILENAME.LHA to uncrunch to C:\SCI-FI --------------------------------------------------UPDATE V2.2---10.06.95---- SCI-FI SENSATION MAIN README FILE ------------------------------------ To the best of our knowledge all items contained on this CD-ROM have been released into the Public Domain and thus freely distributable. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure all titles work as described we cannot guarantee or be held resposible for the functioning or results of using any program. Please give your support to and Shareware titles. If documents are available they are supplied. SOME FILES/DIRECTORIES CAN ONLY BE VIEWED ON THE AMIGA Nearly all the files on this CD-ROM can be viewed/played through an appropriate software package. Tools for both the Amiga & PC can be found in the "TOOLS" directory of this CD. FLI PC STANDARD ANIMATION FORMAT FLC 2ND GENERATION PC ANIMATION FORMAT MPG MPEG MOVIE FILES ANI AMIGA ANIMATION FILES AVI WINDOWS AUDIO/VISUAL ANIMATION FORMAT MOV QUICKTIME MOVIES SUITABLE FOR WINDOWS & APPLE MAC FILMS AMIGA MOVIESETTER FORMAT GIF INDUSTRY STANDARD PICTURE FILE FORMAT SND AMIGA IFF SOUND SAMPLE WAV WINDOWS SAMPLE FORMAT VOC DOS SAMPLE FORMAT IFF AMIGA IFF PICTURE FORMAT WAD PC DOOM LEVELS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- AMIGA CONFIGURATIONS -------------------------------- Due to the huge amount of Amiga configurations available, you may find a few programs won't run on your Amiga. (Sorry!) Using the animation players provided you can view animations direct from this CD, so low memory equipt Amiga's can still show large anims. Some animations are only usable on AGA Amiga's. 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