The Peg-Leg Pete Project - updates 3 and 4
                      Zenobi Software

                      Reviewed by Sue

The Peg-Leg Pete Project first got a mention in SynTax #58 in a
short article by John Wilson of Zenobi Software. But whereas the
original CD was œ15 and updates œ5, these appear to be only œ2.99
each, a real bargain.

The contents of both CDs are fascinating. I'll let The Balrog
introduce them:

Update 3

     This time around we have put together a real strange
     collection for your pleasure. There is some neat 'clipart'
     for you to adorn your artistic creations with - some lovely
     pictures of various 'loading-screens', 'cassette-box covers'
     and other game-related 'art' to cast an eye over - an
     'Amstrad' emulator and loads of games to try out on it (if
     you ever figure out how to get them loaded into it in the
     first place) - a pile of 'music' files for you to listen to
     (all of them game-related) - the last-ever issue of 'THE
     GOBLIN GAZZETTE' - a copy of the 'SHADES OF EVIL' booklet - a
     small collection of some 'Balrogian' short tales and
     vignettes - and last but not least a couple of games to keep
     you busy over the coming weeks.

     No matter what there is on this CD you will be sure to find
     that it is 'adventure-related' in some way or other and at
     times guaranteed to bring a tiny smile to your lips .... hope
     you enjoy it all.

As Balrog said, the clip art varies from scanned covers, loading
screens and screenshots of various computer games on many
different formats, to logos and grabbed icons from Lords of
Midnight and Doomdark's Revenge. Seen on their own, the characters
look strangely like Lego men!

Do you want games? An Amstrad folder has a CPC52 emulator and well
over 100 adventure game disk images. Another called Games has
folders for 8 Adventions TADS games (Unnkulia, Rylvania etc) and
solutions to most of them, 15 Basic PC games and the three-parter,
Tales of Treasure from John Olsen. There are more scanned covers
etc in the Pictures folder. Roal and other stories by The Balrog
are also scanned in and there are Acrobat files containing the
Topologika manuals.

There are also a couple of utilities - IView and JPEGview.  The
Mags section contains JPGs of the complete copy of the last Goblin
Gazette scanned as individual pages as well as Frank Oliver's book
Shades of Evil. If you're short of things to do, there are a load
of Speccy programs and an emulator - GAC, PAW, Quill and more.

Also on the CD is an HTML map of Doomdark's Revenge. Hmm, I'd
never though of making an RPG map using tiles and HTML code ... it
looks great but is slow to view and has the most longwinded code
you've seen!

Update 4

Again, over to The Balrog for an intro.

     Here is a small collection of 'Help-line', 'Tips' and 'Hints'
     pages from various magazines .. they might make some very
     interesting reading (if you are that way inclined). They were
     uncovered whilst clearing out the debris under the stairs and
     brought back many fond memories when reading through them.
     The various 'pics' can be viewed individually or collectively
     (a small viewer prog has been included in order to achieve
     this, so check it out). If you so wish the 'pages' can be
     printed out for future reference.

     Also on the CDROM are a number of little 'extras' in the form
     of a number of games (both ADVENTURE and ARCADE - more of the
     former and less of the latter) and the applications to play
     them with - read the various 'txt' files to learn more. There
     are also a couple of little utilities to play around with.
     Have fun and enjoy the 'memories'.

So, there's not so much variety on this disk. The hints come from
Computer and Video Games, PCW, Sinclair User and the CVG Book of
Adventure.  There is an emulator folder and one for games, some of
the adventure ones being Lords of Midnight, The Mysterious
Adventure range, all the Level 9s, and a folder containing over
100 Z80 emulated Speccy games.

In conclusion, then, both CDs are good value for money with some
great files included on them. Both also have some which I couldn't
see any point in including, such as the animated graphics on
Update 3. But you'll always get a few oddities in a varied
collection like these ... and that's partly what makes it so much
fun to dip into, like a bran tub. You never know what you're going
to pull out.

Zenobi Software, 26 Spotland Tops, Cutgate, Rochdale, Lancs.  OL12
7NX

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