CU AMIGA DECEMBER 1992,
'Fangtastic'
PICTURE BOX
In a fit of gargantuan generosity, we gave a huge pile of money to a talented programmer and asked him to come up with a graphics manipulation package to rival the likes of Pixmate and Butcher. The result is Picture Box which appears here in its entirety for the Amiga-owning world to use and enjoy.
Picture Box is a 12-bit image processor. It works with both IFF and TIFF format files. It's loaded by double clicking on the Picture Box icon in the Picture Box drawer. Users of '020 or higher processors should load the '020 version instead.
VIRUS CHECKER V6.17
Eradicate viruses from your system with this, the latest version of Virus
Checker. Load it by double clicking it's icon in the Virus Checker
directory. If you've used previous versions of VC or Virus X, you'll be
familiar with the way it works.
SYSINFO
Sysinfo could be subtitled 'All you ever wanted to know about your Amiga,
but didn't.' Sure, you know whether you've got a 1.3 Kickstart or a 2.0,
seeing as the machine tells you every time you boot up, and you should
know how much memory you've got, but what about all those other technical
details? There are so many different permutations of the Amiga now, that
there's virtually no such thing as a 'standard' model.
SOUNDS
Open the SOUNDS drawer to access the dozen IFF samples on the disk. You
can hear them by double clicking on their icons. If you're to get the best
out of them, you should load them into any sequencer or tracker, and that
includes MED and Octamed of course.
GALAGA '92
Take a trip back in time with Galaga '92, an updated version of the
classic coin-op shoot'em-up. Load it as usual by double-clicking its icon
the Galaga drawer.
PROJECT X CHEAT
Project X just has to be one of the best all-time shoot'em-ups on the
Amiga. It's also damn hard. This is a frustating because Team 17 didn't
include any cheats in the game. Curses. But now, the Wakefield-based team
have programmed a special cheat exclusively for CU Amiga readers.
BILL'S TOMATO GAME
The purpose of this intriguing puzzler from Psygnosis is simple, but bizarre. Guide your tomato through each of the five screens, from left to right, using an array of fans, trampolines, jack-in-the-boxes, and so on.
STREET
FIGHTER II
They're mean, they're ruthless, and they're now destined to appear on
an Amiga near you this Christmas. Probably the most eagerly awaited game
of the century, or this year at least, is finally about to make an
appearance on everyone's favourite home computer. Will it seriously rival
the SNES version, and how close can it come to emulating the brilliant
coin-up?
Ever wondered why the dinosaurs died out? Forget meteors and ice ages, it was probably due to acute migraine after encountering the Neanderthal nipper you'll meet here. It is your job to steer the toddling tearaway star of Ubisoft's new platformer safely through his volcano-strewn world.
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