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Corsair

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Corsair is a brand new shareware Falcon game put together by the Impulse 
coding crew in Sweden. This game was coded by Reine Larsson with graphics 
by Mandus Skoen.

Corsair requires 4Mb memory and works on both RGB/VGA monitors and TVs at 
320x240 in 16-bit colour. The game is programmed in over 25,000 lines of 
pure Motorola 68030 assember and features mostly hand drawn graphics with 
four channel music and sound effects.

Two players control a cannon each to blast aliens. The cannons can fire 
forwards over a 45 degree angle towards the other player. Cooperation is 
the key because if the aliens are not destroyed they land on one of the 
"tracks" and head off towards cannon on that track and disable it. If this 
happens that player is helpless, until rescued by a 45 degree shot from 
the other player. Registration costs just œ5 (50 SEK, 13 DM or $8 US).

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Reine Larsson
Email: d4reine@dtek.chalmers.se
Mandus Skoen
Stora Beddinge 387, S-231 98 Klagstorp, Sweden
Email: mandus@gfs.gu.se
URL: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d4reine/impulse/corsair.html
Impulse home page:
URL: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d4reine/imp_hp.html
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WinSTon Atari ST emulator

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WinSTon is an all new Atari ST emulator for your PC, running under Windows 
95/NT. It's still in its infancy at v0.0005 and is still buggy and slow 
but with frequent new releases it's one to keep an eye on. In common with 
most emulators you need a TOS image and TOS v1.0 is currently the only 
supported version which isn't very helpful!

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URL: http://winston.fatal-design.com/
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Redzone American Football is a tuned-up version of the STe game AFL Pro 
Football which quietly slipped onto the scene last year. If you haven't 
seen this, it's a detailed simulation featuring realistic player movement 
and fine control, various tactics options, sampled sound, sumptuous 
graphics and a great pan-and-zoom 3D rendering of the pitch. One or two 
players may participate in one-off games right up to a full season 
culminating in the Superbowl, and there are lots of customisable 
preferences from teams (out of 28 official NFL sides) to pitch conditions 
and difficulty level.

AFL was originally intended to be a commercial release but as the 
programmer, Brendan O'Brien, works alone (even doing the graphics) by the 
time it was ready the games market had been taken over by consoles and 
PCs. Not one to waste a large effort, he had the good sense to release it 
as shareware and now, a renewed interest and supply of ideas has sparked 
redevelopment.

Redzone attempts to thrash the hardware even more with improved player 
intelligence, more sound effects, higher frame update and larger playfield 
than AFL. Hopefully the finished game will have a customisable league 
table too, so it doesn't become outdated like AFL. Definitely one to look 
out for. Stay tuned for more info!

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NameNet 5

Roger Derry has updated his NameNet address and telephone manager and 
released it as freeware instead of shareware.
Roger is working towards an eventual NameNet release for Windows 95 which 
will be released as shareware. Existing registered users of the Atari 
version can switch to the Windows version free of charge.

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Roger Derry
Email: rderry@cix.compulink.co.uk
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Jet-Set Willy

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The Atari version of this classic Spectrum game, originally programmed by 
Matthew Smith, and converted to the Atari platform for Software Projects 
by Paul Taylor and Carl Whitwell was never released.
Consequently it's one of the rarest versions of the game around. After 
nearly a decade gathering dust has recently been made available for 
download and works with all Ataris including the PaCifiST and NoSTalgia 
emulators. Point your browsers at:

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URL: http://www.penelope.demon.co.uk/jsw/
Email: paul@penelope.demon.co.uk 
alt.binaries.atari
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Michael Ruge reports from Germany...

SPIN release 0.34
 
SPIN is a shareware CD-ROM file system driver, programmed by Julian 
Reschke (of Mupfel/Gemini fame), based on MiNT (copyright Eric Smith) and 
MagiC or an installed MetaDOS-BOS driver or SCSIDRV.PRG or drivers 
compatible with the HDDriver SCSIDRV function.
SPIN currently supports the following file systems: MINT-XFS and MagiC-XFS 
on ISO9660, ISO9660/Rockridge, ISO9660/Joliet and ISO9660/Apple, Mac-HFS 
and Audio-CD - including multi-session support. For more details contact:
 
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Julian Reschke
Email: Julian_Reschke@ms.maus.de
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Whirlgif

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Whirlgif is a TTP program to create animated GIFs. Tommy Andersen in 
Denmark compiled this release using the GCC 2.7.2.2 Compiler and Mintlib 
patch level 47 from the original program written by Kevin Kadow.
After creating a series of GIF format images and creating a plain ASCII 
list of the filenames the TTP program can produce an animated GIF.

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Tommy Andersen
Email: tommya@post3.tele.dk
URL: http://home3.inet.tele.dk/tommya/
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