Welcome to Utility Heaven. Those useful dinky routines you really cannot afford to be without.
LOGOBENDER V1.1
Creating special text on most art programs is fairly limited. This little gem, coded by Vision of the Mad Guys, will turn your screen$ into anything from a gentle undulation to a mind-blowing 60's total freak-out! It makes good use of the RAMDISK to store screens before they get warped (as the process seems to be irreversible) but it does make it 128K only. If only more top demo coders would turn their keys to writing utilities...
SCREEN COMPRESSOR PLUS V2.1
Eh, like Mikropol with the most delicious screen code scruncher I've ever used. Each screen is squashed in 4 different ways and the most economical is chosen. Save as a locatable CODE file, RAND USR to call up and it's as simple as that!
PICREMA
Last Summer, we sat twiddling our thumbs as to how we were going to incorporate graphics into this fanzine. It needed to be dead simple - LOAD a screen in, grab certain bits of it, store it in a basic program (none of this sodding about with CODE files) and calling it to screen with the greatest of ease. The very next day, Picrema landed on our doormat from Garry Rowland that did everything we wanted! Spooky. It comes with a Read Me file and 2 demos. It's a genius at work.
COPY 128 V2.3
We use this copier all the time for transferring our latest acquisitions from libraries onto separate cassettes. That's PD stuff people, no pirates here. This copier will LOAD all program, code and even headerless files and SAVE them out again in any specified order. There is a baby 48K version that also handles TURBO, enabling you to SAVE your crappy efforts at lightning speed. I believe the people behind this beauty are called Dynamic. And it certainly is.
F-FONTS VOL 1+2
Just a quick plug for our very own PD free font packs. We love fonts - more than chocolate ice cream or Routemaster buses. All sets are triple checked for rouge letters. No ugly 'S's here! Programs featured here are available from Alchemist Research or Prism PD (see classifieds for addresses) and bucketloads more of course. I don't know why I'm telling you this, you probably obtained this fanzine from them!
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