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@5 F1 Software catalogue F1-159 TO F1-101 @4 ====================================== @3 Please make cheques / P.Os payable to F1 Software @2 --------------------------------------------------- @6 ALL TITLES WORK ON A500, A500+, A600 and A1200 UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED. ALL OF OUR TITLES REQUIRE AT LEAST 1 MEG OF MEMORY @4 ------------------------------------------------- @1 F 1 S O F T W A R E L I S T I N G P A R T 2 @4 ------------------------------------------------- @3 Each title is assigned to a page or more. Click on the 'Next' button below to turn the next page. Click on 'Prev' for previous page. Click on 'Index' when you are finished. @4 If you want to move quickly through the pages click on the 'GOTO' button, type in a page number and then press return. @6 @3FISH HEAD BUDDA F1-159 Matt West £3.99 1 Disk @1Reqs:WB2 + 1MB chip --------------------- This game is like no other game you may have played, EVER!! It's author Matt West as a knack of taking a simple idea and by adding his magic touch can create a complete new gaming style, which will amaze you. All Matt's games are superbly presented in a witty and fun way, with bold and colourful graphics. I'll now handover to Matt to try and explain the game to you. F.H.B. has been inspired by the principles of Buddhism. In fact each aspect of the game has been designed to represent a Buddhist idea. Therefore the game can be thought of as an allegory for Buddism in general. The object is to break the cycle of life and achieve Nirvana. To do this you must be reborn as a number of different creatures, finding the final configuration of each and ascending to the next one. @3HERMANS EDUCATIONAL ADVENTURES F1-158 Dean Wood £6.99 4 Disks @1Reqs:WB3 and a hard drive@5 ------------------------- A new character to F1 this month is Herman. He's a Mario type chap who wants to help you have fun on your computer and hopefully learn a few things as you play. The package can only be run from your hard drive and Dean Wood the author as made the task of setting up the game a breeze. A custom installer guides you every step of the way, so within minutes you'll be playing the games. The program is split into 10 platform levels and 10 sub games which are: @3 * PICTURE PUZZLE @1 * CARDS @3 * NAUGHTS AND CROSSES @1 * MUSIC @3 * MATCH-IT @1 * COUNTING @3 * LETTERS @1 * MEMORY @3 * PAIRS @1 * VOWELS @5 Basically you can jump to any level via a transporter or reach your selected game by completing a colourful platform game. Herman's Educational Adventures should keep you or your kids occupied for weeks. There are loads of things to explore, so load it up and start learning now. @3PROTOTYPE F1-157 Christopher Caleb £7.99 5 Disks @1Reqs:WB2 or 3 and an external floppy drive or hard drive@5 ----------------------------------------------------------- This is a cracking game and no mistake, it's also very big infact for a shoot'em up it's huge...5 disks of trigger pumping action. Prototype can run from floppies, but it's a tricky job and spoils the flow of the game a bit. Still the option is there for all you floppy disk freaks. The game is very easy to install to hard drive as it comes with a custom made installer. Once loaded up you are given your first mission to destroy an enemy communication tower, let the action begin!! The gameplay is very much like "Operation Wolf" or "Zombie Apocalipse", but with a few extras to spice it up a bit. The enemy soldiers attack thick and fast, so you'd better have a quick trigger finger. Once hit they also seem to bleed a lot, but when you are armed with sub machine gun you've got to expect a bit of gore. You can collect power ups, including missiles which you'll need to knock down the comms tower. The missions are set across the globe from the jungle through to city streets and involve some pretty tough missions. @3GRAC V2 TUTOR F1-156 Andy Gibson £4.99 2 Disks @1Reqs:WB2 or 3 and an external floppy drive or hard drive@5 ----------------------------------------------------------- At last! A proper GRAC tutorial has been written for both the beginner and more advanced users. This tutorial delves deep into every aspect of GRAC from what each button on your Editor does right down to writing scripts. Everything is covered here. Nothing has been left out. If you want to know what the difference is between a Forground Object and a Background Object? Look no further. Having problems with Flags and what they all mean? Fear no more!!! The GRAC V2 Tutorial Disk is set out in an Amigauide format and is therefore easy to follow through each section. A lot of time has been spent not only on what each button on your GRAC Editor does, but on actually telling you how to write a game from scratch. Even every one of the GRAC Commands are explained in full. So if you are having problems working on a GRAC game, chances are that this tutorial will help you out. As if covering the GRAC Editor, Scripts, Commands wasn't enough, Andy has actually covered a wide range of topics missing from your GRAC manual such as...Bugs, Tips, Full Easy To Follow Tutorial On Writing A Game - In EASY Steps etc. There is also a handy utility included which will help you out (Amos Pro source also included) with Hex strings for some of GRAC's more harder to use commands. Everything has been explained in very simple and easy to understand terms. Example pictures are at hand to show you exactly what to do also. These can also be used in your own production(s). The tutorial can be run from floppy or be installed to your hard drive by the supplied installer script. (Please note that floppy users require two disk drives to benefit fully from the tutorial.) If you own GRAC GOLD V2 then this tutorial is a must have! There has never been a more in depth guide to GRAC... Until now :^) @4THE WORLD OF MAGIC F1-155 Bosco Brothers £4.99 2 Disks @1Reqs:WB2 or 3 and at least 2MB of free memory ie A600/A1200@3 ----------------------------------------------------------- A great new graphic adventure created by a new programming team called "The Bosco Brothers", remember that you saw their work here first. You play Grendon, a sixteen year old boy. You must direct him in his goal to become a mage (Wizard). You will have to find someone to teach him first. The story takes place in Kawamoon, a world of magic. A world of Dragons, Orcs, Goblins, Werewolves, Kings, and evil priests that worship the god Tyook. Part of your training involves the art of herb mixing to create potions, some to heal and some to kill. There is of course a story to follow and a mission to complete. The graphics and soundFX are well designed and contain more than a hint of humour. Some people may consider some of the animation scenes a little disturbing, because of this the authors recommend that the game should only be sold to cutomers over twelve years of age. That said I'm sure that this will keep adventurers happy for ages. @6STAR BOY F1-154 Jonathan Caplin £3.99 1 Disk @1Works on any 1meg+ Amiga@4 ------------------------ Star Boy is a Shoot-em-up / platform game with excellent graphics. It starts by introducing you to the basics of the game and then turns into a fast puzzle platform game. Set over 55 levels and 5 themes, you control Star Boy, whose mission is to collect various bombs to complete levels. Complete with throwing stars, Star Boy can also swing from chains and various background blocks, activate door switches and use teleporters. This game will to keep you busy for quite a while. #7Demo version available. @6STEREOP-JR Ernest Ruckle F1-153 £3.99 (1 disk + DIY 3-D glasses kit) @1Any 1mb Amiga@4 Stereop-Jr is a creative art program for children and adults. It turns three normal IFF pictures into a true stereoscopic (3D) picture, viewable through red/blue 3-D glasses. The User makes the background, middleground and foreground of the picture in a paint program (such as Deluxe Paint) or uses the supplied pictures and loads them into Stereop-Jr. The processing is interesting to watch and produces pictures with an immediate and absolutely amazing three-dimensional effect, that can be experienced by everyone with normal vision. Just process the pictures, put on your 3D glasses, wait about 20 seconds for your eyes to focus and you will then see a stunningly 3D picture that you can put your hand 'inside', the pictures look like they are not even on the screen. Rated 96% and 93% in the Amiga press. The program includes a stereoscopic interface, an illustrated on-disk User Guide and a simple stereoscopic game. Please note that Stereop-Jr makes TRUE STEREOSCOPIC pictures and has nothing to do with magic eye pictures or random dot stereograms. @4 Demo version available with 3D kit, please add an extra stamp to cover the cost of the 3D kit. @6SCAVENGER II Ben Wright F1-152 £3.99 (1 disk) @1REQUIRES: Any Amiga, Joystick required.@4 ------------------------------------------- A rather cool scrolling Asteriods clone with some rendered graphics. Scav2 is a huge Asteriods game with a difference. You have to survive 12 huge scrolling levels by destroying asteriods, collecting powerups and avoiding the guardians. Hard drive installable. #7Demo version available. @6DARK CITADEL Rob Massey F1-151 £6.99 (4 disks) @1REQUIRES: 1 meg chip (i.e NOT A500) Joystick required.@4 ---------------------------------------------------------- This is one of the best games we have seen for a long time. It is a Valhalla type adventure game with real-life digitised speech. The main character is very cute and entertaining. There are 3 massive levels to the game (each level takes up a whole floppy disk) You must guide your animated character around the screens examing, eating and picking up objects to manipulate other objects in order to solve the puzzles. You can also save your game at any stage. Dark Citadel is hard disk installable (runs much better) and comes with an easy to use installer. #7Demo version available. @6SOREFIST R.McConnell F1-150 £3.99 (1 disk) @1 REQUIRES:Any 1meg+ Amiga, A1200 recommended (speed wise).@4 ------------------------------------------------------------- This beat 'em' up is a tribute to the best game of its era, RENEGADE. Renegade was a smash hit on the 8 bits and this conversion is really close except for the enhanced (i.e colour) graphics. There are five hard worlds to conquer with four difficulty levels and a 'turbo' mode in case you are really in the mood to kick butt. Joystick required. #7Demo version available. @6DISTANT DRUMS Malcolm Bamber F1-149 £3.99 (1 disk) ---------------@1 REQUIRES:Any 1meg+ Amiga.@4 Distant drums is a small war game. You have four worlds to conquer and each world has 21 towns. Each game will not take long to finish, it was designed for short games just to pass a few hours away, rather long labourious conquests. To win a game in Distant Drums you must capture all 21 towns on each world.You have at your disposle, soliders, horsemen, weapons and a set amount of cash to carry out your campaign. #7Demo version available. @6ABOVE TOP SECRET Paul Nordovics F1-148 £3.99 (1 disk) ---------------@1 REQUIRES Workbench 2 or higher.@4 Above Top Secret was produced using Q:Whiz!, a simple quiz creating utility available from F1,(see F1-140) and shows what kind of results can be achieved.This disk is a stand-alone product and does not require Q:Whiz! to work. Above Top Secret is a quiz disk completely devoted to Sci-Fi. 500 questions are available, consisting of the following subjects: * Alien: 50 questions on the first (and best?) of the Alien films. * Blade Runner (BRDC-92): 100 questions on the cult movie * Doctor Who :100 questions covering the classic Doctor Who films & TV * Red Dwarf :100 questions on the popular Red Dwarf television series * Star Wars :50 questions covering the Star Wars trilogy of films * The X-Files (Season Two):100 questions on the cult TV programme @6POT LUCK 3, DATA DISK Andy Gibson F1-147 £3.99 (1 disk1) ---------------@1 REQUIRES F1-065, THE ULTIMATE QUIZ II.@4 This disk contains 500 new questions and 1500 answers for the popular Ultimate Quiz II. As the title suggests the questions are of a random subject matter. As a bonus also on this disk you will find a updater program to fix a bug or two in Ult Quiz and allow you 9 playing credits instead of three. @4CLASSIC PUCMAN Augenblick F1-146 £3.99 (1 disks) ---------------@1 Any Amiga.@3 This is a really great game. The greatest and most simple arcade game ever written is faithfully reproduced here which even includes the exact same sound effects as in the original arcade game. Every detail has been reconstructed from the colours and graphics to the level design. But there are added features too such as options to play in different modes 'Super Pacman' 'Arcade' etc. 1 or 2 players can play and this game is suitable for almost any age, my 3 year old son loves it and so does my Mum! That's two F1 titles mymumlikes, can you spot the other? Send the answer to Steve at F1 and win a booby prize. #7Demo version available. @2KEITH'S QUEST Jasper Byrne F1-145 £6.99 (4 disks) ---------------@1Reqs: A1200 or A4000 (not as prev stated).@4 Another great Point & Click Graphic Adventure game. Thos one was inspired by Relics Of Deldroneye, Jasper liked Relics so much he decided to make his own adventure in a similar vein. As you must of guessed it is very good, otherwise it wouldn't be in the F1 scheme of course! The game was originally on 6 disks but using a good compressor the the lot now fits on 4 disks. You have plenty to do with nearly 6 megabytes of adventuring, there are 53 locations, many of them huge scrolling ones, 16 pieces of original music, a mapscreen, bonus in-games including beat-em-up, shoot-em-up and exploration games. Keith was 2 years in the making and it shows. A very good game indeed, Amiga Format, CU and Computing absolutely LOVED it, you will too. Don't take my word for it check out the demo version. #7Demo version available. @2EDWORD PRO V4.1 Martin Reddy F1-144 £3.99 (1 disk) ---------------@1 Works on ANY Amiga.@3 This older, bargain priced, but FULL version of Edword Pro is for people that do not have Workbench 2 or are on a budget. Please see F1 Shareware section for what Edword is all about. @2BORIS BALL EXTRA LEVELS P.Whitfield F1-143 £3.99 (1 disk) ---------------@1 REQUIRES BORIS BALL, F1-133.@3 This disk contains 600 new levels for perhaps the greatest bat 'n' ball game ever. If you have Boris Ball you will know just how exciting, addictive and fun filled it really is, and why its nearest rivals don't even come close in terms of sheer playability. This disk in effect gives you six new complete versions of Boris. These funtastic boards are about as WILD, WEIRD and WACKY as you are going to get, and will engage you in many happy hours of absolutely superb game play. Each set of boards has taken P. Whitfield hours on end to produce (considerably longer than most people would probably be willing to spend designing their own boards) in order to get them absolutely perfect - and the results speak for themselves! Presented on this essential data disk for any Boris fanatic are 600 of the very best boards; all highly imaginative, original and exciting. To install the boards all you need do is double click on the install icon and insert your Boris disk, it couldn't be easier. #7Demo version available @5THE EXPERIMENT John Clay F1-142 £5.99 (3 disks) ---------------@1 Will work on any 1meg+ Amiga. @4 At last GRAC created adventure games are starting to appear, expect more soon. The Experiment is three disks of excellent adventuring, not too difficult but challenging enough to make it enjoyable to solve. In the game, you play the part of Bud Lightning - clean cut, shade wearing, all round nice-guy as he tries to save a Primitive Tribe from extinction after his base is attacked by the nasty Stingons. Good graphics/music and competently designed, this will keeo adventurers quite for a while. One for the collection. The big bonus with the Experiment is even A500 owners can play. Demo version available. ----------------------- @2OUTFALL David Papworth F1-141 £3.99 (1 disk) ---------------@4 Will work on any Amiga.*****F1 BEST SELLER***** This is a brilliant arcade game, it is a clone of a MegaDrive cartridge game that I have never seen,but it supposed to be a close rendition. Outfall is one of those very simple games that are so very addictive and great fun. Based on the Tetris theme, 'beans' fall down the screen in pairs, you manipulate and position the beans into groups the best you can, 4 beans of the same colour together will elimanate that group. The idea is to keep your 'board' as clear as possible of beans. Just to add a bit of spice the computer randomly throws in some grey beans to messs you up. Meanwhile your opponent (or the computer) is busy doing the same on its own board, the one who lasts longest is the winner. There is quite a bit more to it than that, but I will let you discover that for yourselves. This games is very slick, written in super-fast Machine Code and is very configurable. For example it supports 1-8 players, tournament mode, demonstration mode,pratice mode, 3 difficulty levels, Pal/NTSC systems, acceleration, speed, height adjusters etc. etc. A possible F1 classic! Highly recommended. @6Demo version available. @4Q:WHIZ Paul Nordovics F1-140 £4.99 (2 disks) Requires WB2 and at least 2 meg of memory. ---------------@5 Q:Whiz! - Creator@3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Here we have a very simple, no frills quiz creating utility. Unlike other creator utilities which incorporate features for designing quiz systems, Q:Whiz! - Creator is written purely for the creation of quiz games. Everything regarding the quiz interface is already set up so there's no messing about creating text boxes, buttons, scripts etc. All you have to do is come up with the questions and choices which are then simply entered into the Creator and saved to the Player disk provided. And that's it! The Player disk is a stand-alone disk used to distribute your quizzes. The Player disk containing your quiz files can be released as PD / Shareware or you could even sell the disk yourself and make some money in the process! Fame and fortune are just around the corner*. No programming knowledge is required to use the creator, though to get the maximum benefit from it, you will need a basic understanding of your Amiga - not essential though. Facilities have been made to enable you to customize the quiz game to give it a unique look. You can insert your own company logo screen and include details of your game on the "ABOUT" screen included. Screens have been stored in IFF format enabling you to load them into a suitable paint program for editing. Change the game screen, game name logo, timers, buttons etc. You can even have the quiz game laid out over the top of an IFF screen if you want. 3 different game screens have been included which can be used as they are or form the basis of your own design. There's also a screen of "game bits" - timers, buttons etc to help you out. Game music and sound fx can also be changed. Full instructions have been provided on how to use the creator and how to get a disk ready for distribution - there's even a section giving information about Public Domain/Shareware etc. @5Q:Whiz! - Player@3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Used to distribute your quizzes. This is an improved version of Q:Whiz! previously sold for 6.99 and reviewed in CU Amiga. Incorporates ideas given from player feedback, faster routines and bug fixes. This version has NOT been previously released. Includes the following quiz files: FILMS&TV FormulaOne MIX&PIC MIX&PIC2 MIXEDBAG2 Red Dwarf (Easy) Star Wars (Easy) The X-Files (Season One) Also contains a basic text file giving instructions on how to play the game which can be distributed with your quiz files without needing any modifications. Demo version available. ----------------------- @5ARCADE DARTS B.Massey F1-139 £3.99 (1 disk) ---------------@4 Arcade Darts is for anyone who occasionally fancies a game of darts but can't find either a dartboard or someone to play with ! With a selection of different games to play, a range of computer opponents and sampled speech too, it could turn you into a darts master without the need to develop a beer belly ! Demo version available. ----------------------- @6J-WINDOWS John Housley F1-138 £4.99 (2 disks) Workbench 2.1 or higher (NOT A2000/WB2.05), Amos Pro and Compiler required. -------------------------------------------------------------------@5 J-Windows is a huge, previously unreleasd Amos extension designed to let you easily get at many of the interesting and useful parts of the operating system. The speed of the executables is the fastest seen yet from an Intuition extension and J-Windows supports just about every part of intuition, including ListView, which is pretty impressive.@4 In English, this means WINDOWS, AGA graphics(WB3),proper WORKBENCH support. @1J-Windows contains about two hundred new commands and is a 'PROPER' extension, not a set of procedures, though this is arguable since it can use procedures that you can create through GadstoolBox, not supplied. Full control of Workbench Windows. We're not talking Workbench look- a-like windows on AMOS screens, we're talking full, proper, multi-tasking, good-looking Intuition Windows and running as FAST as a normal Wb prog.@3 Full control of Workbench screens, including AGA, HAM-8 all the other interesting varieties of screens you can't use on AMOS. This includes support for text (better than AMOS), drawing and changing palettes. Proper gadgets to put in your windows. These are drawn and handled by Intuition and the extension - you just say where and when. By the way, these are MUCH easier to use than Interface gadgets.@6 Full support for menus. This includes checkable items, mutual exclude and hotkeys. Supports the GadToolsBox program, which makes the design of complex user interfaces quick and easy. Using this, you can create a fully working set of screens and windows with nice gadgets, all working, without typing a line of code! Because coding in AMOS is so fast anyway, you will be able to write your program quicker than in almost any other language. How quick? The entire examples set for this extension was written in 3 afternoons. Beat that! @1You can use the proper system file, font and screen requesters. In about 3 lines of code. @5 Replacement of the AMOS file handling system with a totally new one. This is faster (3-20 times faster...), and vastly more logical and efficient. A new font handling system, to replace AMOS's bloody awful one. Various assorted bug fixes for AMOS, including the equates system (which now works), and the Merge Ascii menu item which exhibited possibly the strangest bug I've EVER seen...@4Commands allowing you to use exec lists. Useful little utilities, such as one that generates code letting you easily use procs from the system libraries (sort of an extension creator). @3HUGE manual in AmigaGuide form, including 13 tutorials covering almost every aspect of the extension. Examples of programs, most of which actually LOOK GOOD and DO USEFUL things....Obviously lots more... @4 @6ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS GUIDE TO WORKBENCH 3, Volume 5 Steve Bye F1-137 £3.99 (1 disk) A1200/A4000 -------------@5 Vol 5 is the last disk in this series and its main topic is hints and tips. Some of the subjects covered are: * All the tricks on installing awkward programs onto your hard drive * What to do when you get a 'Not validated' error on your HD,30 second cure! * Everything you need to know about crunching files * Ditto file formats * What do those mysterious screen colours mean on boot up? * How to format a disk for use on a PC * How to change the Ram disk icon permanently * The history of the Amiga * How to cut down your Workbench and save tons of space And theres more. As I keep saying you will need all the previous volumes of this guide to get the best out of this disk. @4THE GUIDE TO BLITZ Neil Wright F1-136 £4.99 (2 disks) ---------------@3 Any Amiga. (You will need the Blitz Basic programming language to make any sense of this guide of course, Covers commands, including PD extensions, up to V2.0) The guide to Blitz is a truley MASSIVE tome spanning over 400 A4 pages of text and covers virtually every subject you are ever likely to need to know about. This superb reference is an invaluable aid to beginners and will serve as a great reference work for experts. Guide To Blitz comes on two disks, disk two is choc full of remmed example programs that are covered in the main guide to save you any typing. If you are tired of the miniscule manual supplied with Blitz and need to know what the commands REALLY do then now's your chance. For a full contents listing of the guide see the file 'Guide_2_Blitz' on this disk. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- @2PITCH 'N' PUTT Paul Phelps F1-135 £7.99 (5 disks) Any 1meg+ Amiga. -----------------@4 F1's first golf game, PnP was chosen because of its sheer playabilty. It is very easy to get in to, you don't even need to read the instructions, though an in depth on-disk manual is run if you boot up disk 2. Pnp's graphics are not top quality but they are good enough, you hardly notice anyway as you get sucked right into this game from the start. Disks 3,4 and 5 contain extra courses which will guaruntee longevity. There is not more much to say about a golf game really, err, get the ball in the hole in as least shots as possible to beat your opponents. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- @5AMOSZINE 11 Andy Gibson F1-134 £4.99 (2 disks) Any 1meg+ Amiga. -----------------@6 The LAST ISSUE (for now, at least) of the Amos coders dream. Wether you are beginner or expert you will learn from and enjoy participating in this mag. Join the friendly clan of the select Amos coders of the world. Demo version available. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- @2BORIS BALL Ben Wyatt F1-133 £3.99 (1 disk) Requires WB2 and at least 1.5MB of memory. ------------------------------------------@6 This isn't just another 'Bat 'n Ball' game, it has been written in direct competetion to the Shareware hit MegaBall. The author was tired of Megaball's bad points (he lists them in the doc file of the game) and decided to correct themand Boris is the result. I found it to be an exceptional game in all areas, and I don't mind telling you that each time I loaded it to have a 'quick' test I ended up playing it for hours. Boris beats Megaball and slaughters the commercial (and old) Arkanoid game. If you enjoy this type of game you won't find much better anywhere. *Load Workbench first to run this game. HD installable. Demo version available. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- @5GUITAR FRET MASTER PRO Bob Stanley F1-132 £3.99 (1 disk) Any 1meg+ Amiga. ----------------------------------@4 (Written by the author) GFMaster is a Guitar Scales Tutor, which displays the scale shape along the neck and Tablature below. It contains 141 scales/runs and is aimed at anyone with a guitar, and if used along with GCDirPro (F1-069) makes an ideal package if you are just starting to play. Andre Digard who used to review Pd and L/ware programs for CU Amiga first suggested that I write a program of this type, but with Fast Fret by Keith Clatworthy already available I saw no point. So when I brought Mike, my 6yr old son his first guitar I also purchased Fast Fret to help him. While I found it an interesting program my son soon began to get irritated with it. At first I put it down to his age and inexperience until Kev saw the program and found he had some of the same problems as Mike, so with the help of my son and Kev GFMaster was born. Also on the disk you will find: The Guitar, which is a brief history on the guitar, different string types, tuning etc. At the present it's not quite as complete as I would like, but I will complete it on day. Plus also, a colection of 120 arpeggio's in both text and M2T format. I've included my original M2T files for those of you who have a copy of M2T (F1 disk: F1-071) so you can alter the fret positions, i.e. re-tab from the 4th gives a collection of stretch arpeggio's. Demo version available. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ @4TEENY WEENYS Malcolm Lavery F1-131 £3.99 (1 disk) Requires: A1200/A4000 ----------------------@1 This game is outstanding, from the author of the top selling Magic Paint Box. The graphics, as you would expect are superb, well they would be since Mal is a commercial artist. The game itself is great too, it is a sort of Lemmings/Troddlers/Vikings clone. This arcade/platform/puzzler has great sound effects and music and tests the old grey matter somewhat. TW was originally sold by the author for £6 but you can get it now at a bargain £3.99. What are you waiting for? Highly recommended. Hard drive installable. Demo version available. Reviewed in Amiga Format May 96 ***SELECTION OF THE MONTH*** 'This game is testament to the design skills and ingenuity of the programmer. Well done Malcolm, we all love playing it.' --------------------------------------------------------------------------- @6BALLUNACY Mark Seymour F1-130 £3.99 (1 disk) Requires: 1meg+ WB2+. --------------------@5 This is a really good and original arcade puzzler & just my luck quite awkward to describe, but here goes anyway. Each level starts with a free rolling ball that you need to guide around a maze type screen by manipulating gates and running the ball into power-ups, fairly standard stuff so far, but you can also add your own 'gates' with a click of the mouse in any position and then swith the gates to manipulate the path of the ball in various directions. It all sounds really complicated but it isn't, it is a really simple game to get into and really enjoyable and addictive. The graphics are very nice and to top it all you even get the level designer chucked in so you can contine where the programmer left off and create as many new levels as you want, the game comes with 20 levels. The designer is a doddle to use by the way and no programming is involved, just mouse clicks. Highly recommended. Demo version available. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- @6TELL THE TIME Mike Austin F1-127 £3.99 (1 disk) Educational (5-9 years approx) Requires: Any 1 meg+ Amiga. ------------------------------@3 TELL THE TIME is based purely on helping Children to learn to tell the time and consists of five levels. Rather than follow the normal trend where certain levels have to be completed before moving on, this program allows the `User' to decide which level he/she wants to do and for how long. By pressing the ESC(ape) key at certain times during a level, you will be returned to the Level Screen. The five levels contain sub-games of a platform game, shoot-em-up, breakout and a great 'watch the train' animation. All these treats need to be earned though, by correctly telling the time. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- @5A TOUR THROUGH TIME V1.12 Mike Austin F1-126 5.99 (3 disks) Educational (8 years+ approx) Requires: any 1 meg+ Amiga -------------------------------------------@4 The purpose of this program is to give a brief coherent account of history from the moment of the creation of the Universe to the present day. The whole program is represented graphically by an imaginary "road" that is exactly one mile long. This mile represents the 15 billion years of evolution since the creation of the Universe. The road itself is used as the MAIN MENU and is divided into three separate sections. Each of the three main sections are further divided into 5 sub-sections. Thus the whole program is contained in 15 sub-sections with each sub-section following logically onwards from the previous one. There are on average three to four pages of text in each of the fifteen sub-sections and the total number of graphics is over 100. The graphics themselves contain textual information which serves to expand on the main text or a chosen subject. The text itself is kept as non-technical as possible although sufficiently detailed to explain some difficult concepts. The most up to date and generally accepted information has been utilized. Many areas are still controversial, for example lunar and planetary formation and Man's evolution. Where more than one theory exists we have tried to include it. The program is designed to give the user an overall account of the world and universe of which we are all a part. Anybody that reads the information contained within the program will come away with a fair grasp of the formation of the Earth and the evolution of life and mankind. We feel that this program is unique both in it's scope and content.@4 The topics covered in the first section particularly are frequently neglected, i.e.- The formation of galaxies, stars and planets. This is partly due to the difficult concepts involved and partly due to the fact that much of the relevant information has only recently been acquired by satellites and giant telescopes. We felt it was essential to devote adequate space to these fascinating topics. Rated 80% Amiga Shopper April 96 'This is a quality educational product' Demo version available. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- @3STRATEGY GAMES PACK Gordon Miller £5.99 (3 disks) Disk No. F1-125 Games Requires: Any 1 meg+ Amiga. ------------------------------@4 Three good strategy games here offering great value at only £2 each. Disk 1: It's Only Rock 'N Roll One of the winners of the recent Amiga Format Amos Pro competition. You have just formed your own rock band. Your ambition is to be the most succesful rock star ever. To achieve your ambition you must be a millionare, have at least one No. 1 single and have three status symbols. Disk 2: British Football British Football is all about scoring goals. no tactics, no management, no finances, just goals.@4 The idea is simple, score as many goals as you can. You may get one chance at goal, you may EVEN get five, but when your chance comes you must take it. after all, if you don`t SCORE, you don`t win. Arcade strategy. Disk 3: Space Warriors This is a kind of Mini 'elite' space trading game. The year is 2180 AD. The human race has conquered space and spread through the galaxy. Through-out history man has always fought, and this era is no different. Battles constantly rage on in the skies. There are hundreds of men desperate to prove they are the best fighters and traders in the galaxy, and earn the ultimate title of space WARRIOR. only the best can survive the never-ending battles of crazed killers. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- @5RELICS OF DELDRONEYE II Chris & Lee Bamber £7.99 (5 Disks) Disk No. F1-124 Game Requires: 2 meg chip ram, i.e. A1200/A4000) ------------------------@6 Regular F1 customers will know by now that my favourite F1 game of all time (so far anyway) is RELICS 1. After a long wait the authors of Relics released Return To Zantis (F1-111) this was a 'link sequel' to keep Relics fans happy while they waited over 18 months for Relics II. Well, wait no longer it is here, it is BIG, and it is BETTER than Relics 1. A brief outline of the story so far: After rescuing the king from the kidnappers and slaughtering them (Relics1) You (Falcon) was appointed the task of clearing the town Zantis of a bunch of psycho crims. On return to Deldroneye you find you have once again been betrayed and have been left cruising in space alone on your ship, that is until you discover two Alien craft in the normally deserted quadrant. You decide to investigate....... If you want to know more about this graphic adventure take a look at F1-018 and F1-111. Highly recommended for any adventurer with 2 meg of chip ram+. *The solution to Relics 1/Zantis and Relics II can be found in the 'solutions' drawer on this disk. RATED 89% By C.U Amiga March 96 'Highly recommended' ****Please note: Relics I or Relics II are *NOT* written with Grac**** Demo version available. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- @5PUNTER V3.2R Steve Bye £3.99 (1 disk) Disk No. F1-122 Game Requires: Workbench 2 or better & 1.5 meg free or more mem. -----------------@3 This is quite a big update. The whole cosmetic look of the game has been improved and a few bugs fixed and these new features added: * Press D to read the main doc file with Punter running in the background. * Help screens where needed. * Pressing any key from 1 to 9 will load in different music modules. * choice of 0-999 Pre-run races ,to auto build up form. * Three difficulty levels. * punter rating. * Player stats screen, bets record, horses trading record, profit etc. * Full race details screen during race, inc tipsters selections. Totally revamped tipsters section, the following info is given on each tipster: * SELECTIONS * How many tips given in the game so far. * WINNERS * How many of the tips actually won. * STRIKE RATE * % of winners to selections. * LEVEL STAKE * Would you make a profit or loss following this tipster? There are lots and lots more other little things as well. Hard disk installable, easy to use, and MUCHO FUN. Weather you want a serious horse racing form sim or just a fun betting game for 1-4 players, Punter will do the job for you. Rated 5 stars out of 5 in Amiga Power April 96 That's a 100% score innit! Demo version available. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- @5AMOSZINE 10 Andy Gibson £5.99 (3 disks) Disk No. F1-121 Magazine Requires:Any 1meg Amiga --------------------------------@2 Disk 1:articles/tutorials/help/advice etc. Disk 2:Archived (lha) source code Disk 3:Archived (lha) source code/prgs A stonkingly good issue as usual. More new talent has been drawn to AZ in recent months due to the exposure in the Amiga mags (See Amiga Shopper cover disk Xmas issue) So expect lots of cool coding ideas/advice and source code. The Amos Coders Bible. For beginners to Elite, all are welcome. If you contribute articles to AZ you get the next issue sent to you FREE. See AZ for more details. Rated 85% Amiga Shopper, April 96 Demo version available. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- @6THE INTUITION EXTENSION V1.3a Andy Church £3.99 (1 disk) Disk No. F1-120 Development Requires: Any 1meg Amiga + Amos/Amos Pro --------------------------@4 Straight from the USA, this wicked Intuition extension for Amos has been a well kept secret from the Amos world for quite a while now. Unless you are a regular to the Aminet (Dev/Amos) or on the Internet Amos Mailing list, I doubt very much if you have even heard of this great extension. In some ways it is similar to Intos, that is in its ease of use, on the other hand Intos is very slow compared to this and the IE is a REAL extension and NOT just a set of procedures. So, if you want professional loooking Workbench style programs in Amos this is the one to get. This program would cost you $15 to register for the full version and the hassle and long wait of sending off to Andy in America. Rated 90% Amiga Shopper March 96 'an essential buy for Amos' @3PARASITE Shaun Waters £3.99 (1 disk) Disk No. F1-119 Game Requires: A1200/A4000@2 Black Dawn is back again! This improved vrsion is now 1 or two players and has "layered" levels. If you don't know what a Black Dawn game is then take a peek at F1-115 and F1-085/86, needless to say it is as good as the rest of the BD's, if not BETTER! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- @5ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS GUIDE TO WORKBENCH 3, Vol 4 Steve Bye £3.99 (1 disk) Disk No. F1-118 Tutorial requires: Workbench 2.0 minimum, WB3.0/3.1 recommended ---------------------------@4 This volume covers the use of AmigaDos, how to handle archivers and cover disk archives easily, how to create AmigaGuide documents, discussion on programming languages, script writing and how to create your own compilation disks & more inter-related subjects. Comes with a free full *exclusive* to F1 program called Extractor which allows total beginners to handle archives easily. Please note: If you are a beginner you MUST read vols 1,2+3 before this one as it is an on-going tutor. Vol 1 is PD, please send 80p for your copy. *Extractor also appears on the F1 CD Vol 1. See also Vol 2 F1-077, Vol 3 F1-109. @6EPSILON 9 Edmund Clay £4.99 (2 disks) Disk No. F1-117 ---------------@2 required setup: An Amiga with at least 1Mb. Users with only 1Mb may miss out on some of the animation and music. recommended Second drive or (preferably) hard drive, 2Mb ram, 020 but not essential: processor or better. Epsilon 9 is the sequal to the PD hit Starbase 13. Don't worry though the graphics are excellent this time and the game is even more challenging. Epsilon 9 is a Monkey Island style adventure game (my favourite type!) and is absolutley superb, it could even given Relics Of Deldroneye a run for its money! Eps' was created with GR.A.C V2 by GR.A.C's author, Edmund Clay. I can't give you the story line as finding out is a part of the game. All I can say is that you are called to Starbase 13 after completing your previous mission sucessfully and are given instructions for a new, more deadly task. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- @5WILLYS WEIRDY NIGHTMARE Richard Williams £3.99 (1 disk) Disk No. F1-116 ---------------Amiga A1200/A4000 only@3 Willys Weirdy Nightmare is based on the classic Spectrum platform game 'Jet Set Willy'. This version, however, is greatly enhanced. Some of the features you can expect are :- * Approximately 500k worth of 64 colour graphics * Loads of puzzles, hidden rooms etc. * Save and load feature * Good, solid gameplay (unlike some games nowadays !) * Well over 150 levels ! * Loads in one go - no loading levels from disk * A lot faster than the original If you enjoyed the old style platformers you will defiently love this one, the music is exceptional by the way and greatly adds to the early 1980's atmosphere, excellent. Demo version available. @4BLACK DAWN 6 - HELLBOUND S.Watters £4.99 (2 disks) Disk No. F1-115 ---------------A1200/A4000 only@1 So now is YOUR chance to play what has been described as the best BD game ever. It certainly looks good and plays great. If you don't know what a Black Dawn game is like yet (where have you been living, in a cave?) it's a kinda Dungeon Master clone, you rove around a 3D tunnel type maze thingy, kicking butt and running away a lot. HELLBOUND is the first Black Dawn game to contain multilayered levels so keep an eye out for lifts and holes to other levels. It's also the first Black Dawn game to be able to load and save games at any time when playing. So if you think there is trouble ahead SAVE IT FIRST! So, if you enjoyed our Legions Of Dawn extravaganza (and who didn't?) you will love this one. Reviewd in CU.Amiga, Jan 96 RATED 73% @4DIALOG PROCEDURES V4.0 John Kinsella £3.99 (1 disk) Disk No. F1-114 ---------------@6REQUIRES AMOS OR AMOS PRO (NOT EASY AMOS) Another treat for Amos users. These procedures were designed and written to allow the user to incorporate a fully working button interface in their AMOS programs. The main advantage about using these procedures is that you do not need to install a separate extension, and also you do not need to address the Workbench Intuition System, so that makes it a lot easier to create fully working screens with simple command procedures. As an added bonus the system works a LOT faster than operating intuition from Amos using an extension. All the bits that you would expect are included like windows, 3D boxes. file requester etc. *Amoszine issue 8 (F1-106) carried an earlier version of Dialog Procs V3, that was Shareware (£5) This is a bug fixed version with a lot more features and no Shareware fee is required. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- @4AMOSZINE 9 various £5.99 Disk No.F1-112 --------------@2Any 1meg+ Amiga The classic Amos coders bible continues going from strength to strength with another packed issue of Amos programmers hints - tips - tutorials - opinions - articles - problems solved - free professional graphics and of course the obligatory bucket load of cool source code. A must for any Amos coder, beginner or professional. Buy one issue, contribute some articles and you can get your next copy free. Demo version available. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- @3RETURN TO ZANTIS Lee Bamber £3.99 Disk No. F1-111 ---------------@4Amiga A1200/A4000 only This is NOT Relics Of Deldroneye 2, it is what the author calls a "Link-Sequel". In his words, it is to keep quite all the people screaming at him and us to get Relics 2 done. As R2 is taking a lot longer than anticipated Lee has decided to release this new Relics mini adventure to keep all you hungry fans busy until R2 is ready. Players of the original Relics will feel right at home with Return To Zantis, Zantis is the main town in Relics remember. I won't go into the plot and spoil it for you but it is all excellent stuff and Relics fans will NOT feel cheated, Zantis has lots of brand new locations and takes many hours to complete. Zantis is a superb addition to the Relics range and is in my book the 2nd best adventure game I have ever played after the original Relics. A must have. Completely recommended. (See Relics F1-018 for more info) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- @3CODENAME NANO Malcolm Lavery £3.99 Disk No.F1-041 --------------@2 Nano is a thrust style game with georgous graphics and a perfect difficulty level. This is the full version that was, until recently being sold for £5 a copy. Mal is the author of F1 Gold title "Magic Paint Box", if you have seen the graphics in that you will know the very high quality to expect in this game and you won't be disappointed. Fly your "Thruster" around rescuing the hostages (who wave their arms at you frantically, al'a Desert Strike) and get them to home base to complete the level. Brilliant! HARD DRIVE INSTALLABLE. REQUIRES 2 Meg Chip. * IE. A1200/A4000 * --------------------------------------------------------------------------- @3ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS GUIDE TO WORKBENCH 3, Vol 3 (Tools) Steve Bye £3.99 Disk No.F1-109 --------------@5Workbench 2+ (Wbench 3.0 recommended) This is the third part of the on-going series of Workbench 3 tutorials. This volume concentrates on the contents of the Tools drawer of your Workbench disk. It discusses what each program is for and how to use them. There are plenty of diagrams and easy to understand explanations. Lots of other general information is also covered. This volume also looks at the contents of the Commodities drawer and the last part of the Extras3.0 disk is covered. It is recommended that you read Vol 1 and 2 first. Vol 1 is available from F1 FREE if you order volume 2 (see F1-077) If you would just like to try vol 1 then send a disk and a stamp or 2X1st class stamps to cover costs. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- @6PUSH AND PULL Amonn Phillip £3.99 Disk No.F1-108 --------------@2A1200/A4000 ONLY This is a really nice looking 1 or 2 player arcade puzzler. The main objective of the game is to simply clear each level of nasties by "pushing" blocks onto them, no quite as easy as it sounds as they appear to be fairly intelligent nasties! . You start the game with limited "pushing power" and have to build this up by collecting "pills" that are hidden in blocks that you crush on your crusade. Other items you may find in crushed blocks are Extra lives/speed up/immune and a mystery power up. Quite hard, addictive and fun with very nice graphics. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- @6AMOSZINE 8 various £5.99 Disk No.F1-106 --------------@3Any 1meg+ Amiga The Amos legend continues. The longest surviving (and growing) Amos dedicated disk mag. This is one of the best issues ever, catering for beginners to "Ace coder" there's plenty here for everyone. Some of the highlights of this issue are: * The complete source code to Fortress II. * Tutorials for complete beginners. * EXCLUSIVE demos of the new POWERBOBS extension And DMC Gold. * Megabyte+ of cool source code, mostly new stuff written by the AZ team. * Stacks of articles & a variety of programming subjects and probs solved. * Lots of freely usable graphics drawn by a professional commercial artist. @2MARTIAL MORPHERS Lee Bamber £3.99 Disk No. F1-104 ---------------@3Amiga A1200/A4000 ONLY Here is one for Beat-Em-Up fans. Martial Morphers is a bit different compared to your usual Beat-Em-Up type game, here you control TWO fighters at the same time, which requires a fair amount of strategic violence in the right place at the right time. The sprites are IK+ style but again with a difference, as you kick or punch you get some morphing thrown in for fun. I must confess I am not a Beat-Em-Up addict but I enjoyed a few rounds of this game. The presentation is nothing short of superb by the way. From the author of Relics Of Deldroneye - Fortress - Obliteratives - Aquakon. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- @5TELE-SUBTITLE V3 John White £3.99 Disk No. F1-103 ---------------@4 Any 1 meg+ Amiga Tele SubTitle (TS) is a Video SubTitler meant for people, who just have a basic video set up - I.e. A Camcorder, A GenLock, An Amiga of course and that's about it - and just want to SubTitle friends video films, etc with as much ease as possible. TS is very easy to use. You simply pick your subtitles from a main menu until you have built up a Sequence and then you press the Test/Play icon, which will send you to the `Total Control' part of the program. From there you simply use a set of sequence keys to display your subtitles, etc. It's as easy as that! Here are its main features.... * TS uses Bobs (Graphic Images) instead of Fonts, allowing you to use Cut `N' Paste type Fonts/Graphics, with upto 64 Cols, in your sequence. * TS can have upto 240 SubTitles (or 480 Lines) in a sequence. * TS can display upto 8 BackGround Bobs, upto 13 Numbers/Bobs, a small AMOS Animation and a SubTitle on the screen at the same time. 8 BackGround Bobs - Good for Logos, BackGround Graphics, etc. They can be turned Off/On. 13 Numbers/Bobs - Good for FootBall/Snooker Scores, Phone Numbers for Quizes, Video Diaries to be shown abroad, etc. They can be Increased/Decreased (for scores/results, etc), @4 Switched Off/On, etc. Animation - Good for Small Logos, etc. It can be Switched Off/On, Paused/UnPaused, etc. * TS can display a Timer with all the above on the screen, except for the subtitle. A subtitle can be displayed, but you have to wait for the timer to finish! There are 3 Timers, which can be Paused, UnPaused, Reset, Cleared from the screen and Reversed from counting up-to-down or down-to-up. The 3 timers are (with ranges) - 00:00 to 99:99 0:00 to 9:99 00 to 99. * TS can display the above (including the Timer condition) over a Picture. * TS has Bob Image Assignment, which allows you to assign any one of the 125 Bobs, stored in the bob bank, to your Number bob, Animation Bob, etc. So many advantages to using this. The best of them being that you could set up more than one production's bob (graphic) images and just toggle (assign) between the images. * Resolutions supported:@4 Low - 320 x 256 High - 640 x 256 Low Interlaced - 320 x 512 High Interlaced - 640 x 512 Low Overscan - 368 x 290 High Overscan - 736 x 290 Low Overscan Interlaced - 368 x 580 High Overscan Interlaced - 736 x 580 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- @5INTRODUCING WORKBENCH V2.0 K.Winspear £6.99 Disk No. F1-101 ---------------@3 ***REQUIRES A WORKBENCH 2 OR 3 AMIGA, i.e. NOT A500*** The long awaited sequel to F1's most succesful title title ever is here at last, again exclusively to the F1 Licenceware scheme. This new version comes on four disks packed to the brim with info that covers virtually every aspect of Workbench 2 and 3. There are now many more diagrams (taking up a whole disk in fact) A complete Amigados guide and reams and reams of text, featuring hints and tips and in depth information on general usage of the Workbench. What made the original Int Wb so popular with the press and public was it's unique way of loading a simulation of Workbench and when you attempt to run a Workbench program it displays all the information relevent to that program, rather than running the program itself. This makes it a lot easier to remember what does what. C.U.Amiga said "This should be bundled with all new Amiga's" Int Wb V1 was also rated the THIRD BEST Educational title of 94/95 by AS. It was also rated 90% by Amiga User International, and 90% C.U.Amiga Star Performer (Best of the month) by Amiga Pro. * * * * V2 RATED AN AMAZING 95% BY C.U AMIGA SEPT 1995 * * * * Tony Horgan said in the review: "I am very impressed in the sheer quality of this title" "This tutorial is essential for beginners and intermediate users." "Fantastic on-line-help" "Easy to find your way around" "I was Thoroughly chuffed" "The original was an excellent product, V2 has improved on it." * * * * V2 ALSO RATED 90% BY AMIGA SHOPPER NOV 95 * * * * #7 CLICK ON 'INDEX'