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{subhead} Countdown 2000{def}{p}
Review by Renne Nissinen
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This is the last year of the millenium!! Year 2000 will come and crash all
the Windows machines every 20 minutes (which is 15% more often than now ;-)
and the aliens will come to evacuate us from a great disaster! And all that.
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Oh well, maybe not but you can always hope or fear or whatever. Anyway, it's
going to be a big event (or so it seems now.. :-) so it's worth some waiting.
And to tell you the amount of days, hours, minutes and seconds until the
year 2000, here is Countdown 2000 in case you didn't guess already.
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There are loads of millenium-counters around, but they're usually just small
windows or titlebars or something, well this one is a nice, animated
full-screen picture, especially suitable for a boot picture. It shows a view
of the millenium dome, and currently it's night and there are lots of twinkly
stars and some more activity (e.g. airplanes), and of course a big digital
counter showing the time left (and an even bigger "Counter2000" logo, which
isn't so nice :-). When we get closer to the year 2000, it'll turn into a
sunrise; first there are less stars, then the lights will go out on the
buildings and finally the sun will rise and you'll see a silly fireworks
behind a greeting to the 21st century :-) And of course the sky will become
brighter and brighter all the time.
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Despite all that, Countdown 2000 isn't so good-looking; it's a 320*256 PAL
picture (won't work on GFX cards) with a not-so-nice OCS-style copper slide
representing the sky. And there are only 32 (or so) colours, which is horrible
especially on that resolution :-) But, if you don't have a nice boot pic yet
and you want to see the amount of time until the next century on every boot,
then you should try this one out.
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The only downside is that you won't be there to see Countdown 2000's meagre
fireworks when the year changes (if you are, *shame* on you! ;-) and after
seeing the real fireworks you'll laugh at this one =) So check it out before
it's too late =)
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{bold}Available from{nobold}: Aminet:util/time/Countdown2000.lha
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{bold}Overall{nobold}: 74%