Sites and Downloads - August 2001

    These are a few of the more interesting places I've
    visited on the Net this month - hope you find them
    interesting too ...  Sue

Cultures Screensaver - www.thq.co.uk/cultures

Having started to play Cultures, I decided to visit their
homepage and on one of the sections was a screensaver. It
was quite large, over 6 MB and strictly speaking was designed
to give people an idea of the style of the game before it was
released. It shows the characters from the game wandering
about over a series of different backgrounds. Quite fun to
watch but nothing special.

Aero Mouse - www.allbubblenosqeak.co.uk

Vicky Campbell told me about the Aero site. At the time I
hadn't even seen the advert, though I did soon after. If YOU
haven't, you can download a movie file from the site.  On the
site, you can apply to adopt an Aero mouse. Well, he'd looked so
miserable in the advert when he was rejected by the chap buying
his 'bubbly chocolate' that I thought I ought to put my name down.
It was about a week before I was emailed with an URL from which I
could download my little mouse. (In between I was sent an email
saying my application was 'being considered'!). The file is 1.24
meg in size so doesn't take too long to download. Saving the file
to the Desktop, all you have to do then is double-click on it to
run it. Your Aero mouse will then take over your Desktop, or
whatever program you happen to be running (he even works over
screensavers) as he wanders along the bottom of the screen, floats
up on an Aero bubble or plays with his hula hoop, to name just a
few things.  Unbelievably cute.

Heroes Chronicles Wallpaper -
www.3do.com/products/pc/chronicles/downloads

When I was looking for info on these games to put into
SynTax, I checked out the downloads page and found four
great wallpapers, one for each game. Each can be
downloaded for PC or Mac. In the case of the PC, they are at
either 800x600 or 1024x768 resolution. I went for the latter and
they were downloaded as zip files of 1.3 meg or less. The
actual wallpapers are closer to 2.5 meg each, unzipped. One
shows a castle being attacked, another a fort manned by
skeletons, a third a ship sailing into the distance and the fourth
a snowy wasteland with a turretted castle (my favourite).
Brilliant art work, and it will make your desktop look really
special.

Holodeck3 Desktop Theme v3.0 -
http://w3.one.net/~smeghead

Created and assembled by Smeghead, this is a set of desktop
themes to use with Plus or any similar theme package. There
are 8 in all, 4 each in 800x600 and 1024x768 resolution, one of
each can be used with active desktop. The background makes
your desktop look like the computers on the Enterprise and
Voyager. There are start up and shut down screens and great
sound effects, many using the Star Trek computer voice.
There's even three new Star trek fonts and a load of icons. The
whole package is of excellent quality. Star Trek fans, don't
miss this.















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