PRODIGY ARE BACK AGAIN WITH ANOTHER COOL SLIDESHOW PUT TOGETHER BY MOTIVE + R-9 HI, HELLO, R-9 HERE, PRESENTING... PROJECT: ACHERON -- IN SPACE, NO-ONE EATS ICE CREAM.... CREDITS: LOGOS, FONTS, PIC DIGITISING, SHRINKING, COMPILING, RECOLOURING AND PORTING BY R-9. ALL CODING BY MOTIVE. MUSIC BY ACCEL/JESTERS (THANKS FOR LETTING US USE YOUR MUSIC AT SUCH SHORT NOTICE!!!) WE WOULD ALSO LIKE TO INTRODUCE OUR NEW MUSICIAN "SOAPY BUBBLES" UNFORTUNATELY WE WERE UNABLE TO USE HIS MUSIC ON THIS SLIDESHOW BECAUSE WE HAD A SLIGHT PROBLEM WITH THE REPLAY ROUTINE - ALL THE SYNTHETIC INSTRUMENTS SOUNDED OUT OF KEY - BUT WE ARE HOPING TO RELEASE ANOTHER MUSIC DISK PACKED FULL OF MUSIC...... PRESS THE LEFT MOUSE BUTTON TO VIEW THE NEXT PICTURE. IF THE PICTURE IS NOT DISPLAYED ON THE SCREEN THEN THIS MEANS THAT IT IS STILL DECRUNCHING...... HOWDY FUNSTERS, R-9 HERE, YOUR FAVOURITE (!) SCROLLY WRITER, ADDING SOME WHACKYNESS TO THE ATMOS AFTER MOTIVE'S SPECTACULARLY MUNDANE BIT OF TEXT. OK, HERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF NEWS THAT SOME OF YOU MAY FIND FASCINATING.... WE ARE CURRENTLY PLANNING THE RELEASE OF A NEW DISK MAG UNDER THE GROUP NAME "RAPIER INTERNATIONAL" WHICH CONSISTS OF THREE OTHER GROUPS: METANOIA, DIMENSION X AND GURU MASTERS. WE (RAPIER INTERNATIONAL) ARE LOOKING FOR ARTICLES FOR THE MAG WHICH CAN BE ON ANY SUBJECT (APART FROM POLITICS (SHAME - ED) AND RACISM ('CEPT IRAQIS) AND OTHER CONTROVERSIAL SUBJECTS). ALL ARTICLES WILL GET A FREE AD! SEND ALL YOUR ADS/ARTICLES TO THE ADDRESS AT THE START OF THE SLIDESHOW. RIGHT! THIS DISK CONTAINS 40 SCREENS, EACH HAVING 4 PICTURES DIGITISED USING AN ATARI ST AND A VIDI DIGITISER (MEGA-THANX TO AMAR FOR THE USE OF THE DIGITISER). THE PICTURES WERE FULL-SCREEN (NTSC) AND OCCUPIED THREE DISKS. THERE ARE 160 IN TOTAL ON THIS DISK (THERE WERE IN FACT MORE BUT SOME HAD TO BE SACRIFICED IN ORDER TO FIT THE LOADER AND MUSIC ON). LOOK OUT FOR OUR OTHER SLIDESHOWS AND MORE PRODUCTIONS COMING SOON. PRODIGY MEMBERS ARE: ASMODEUS - GFX *** AXEMAN - VIDEO TRADING *** BLADE - GFX, SAMPLING *** MOTIVE - CODING *** PENFOLD - CODING *** R-9 - GFX, CODING *** ROBO - DIGITISING, SLIDESHOWS, COMPACTS, PUBLIC RELATIONS *** SOAPY BUBBLES - MUSIC *** WAYNE - CODING IF YOU WANT TO JOIN, WRITE TO THE ADDRESS GIVEN AT THE START OF THIS SLIDESHOW AND DON'T FORGET TO INCLUDE A SAMPLE OF YOUR WORK. WELL, THIS HAS BEEN AN UNUSUALLY BORING SCROLLY FOR ME 'COS MOTIVE KEEPS CRITICISING IT SO WE'LL HAVE R-9'S FABULOUS QUOTE NUMBER 7 (I THINK): "WIBBLE WIBBLE! FISH! HAIRDRYER! EVERY THURSDAY! WITH A WET CHICKEN AND A BENT SPOON!" - ROGER IRRELEVANT. OK, HERE'S AN INTERESTING LITTLE INSIGHT INTO HOW WE (EVENTUALLY) CAME UP WITH THE SAD NAME FOR THIS COOL SLIDESHOW. AFTER SEEING ABOUT TWENTY OR SO OTHER "ALIENS SLIDESHOWS" WE DECIDED TO GIVE IT ANOTHER NAME WHICH WOULD BE TREMENDOUSLY EXCITING AND EQUALLY CHOKE-WORTHY. SO WE GAVE IT THE TEMPORARY NAME "ACHERON" (THE NAME OF THE PLANET WHERE THE COLONISTS TERRAFORMED ETC.) WE SUGGESTED SEVERAL (DISMAL/CORNY/CRAP) NAMES ALL OF WHICH WERE TERRIBLE. SO WE ENDED UP STICKING "PROJECT:" BEFORE IT. AFTER ALL, I SUPPOSE IT IS A 'PROJECT' (IE: TERRAFORMING) AND 'ACHERON' IS RECOGNISED BY FANS OF ALIEN/ALIENS. SO THERE YOU HAVE IT. OK, AS YOU KNOW, DISK MAGS PARTIALLY RELY ON READERS SENDING IN COOL ARTICLES, NOT NECESSARILY TO DO WITH COMPUTERS, AFTER ALL, THERE IS MORE TO LIFE THAN COMPUTERS (LIKE WOMEN AND LAGER). SO WE WANT YOU TO ALL SEND IN *FUNNY* ARTICLES ON ANYTHING AS LONG AS THEY AREN'T BORING. A LOT OF PEOPLE WRITE ABOUT THE SCENE IN THEIR COUNTRY BUT THE TEXT IS SOOOOO DISMAL YOU ALMOST FALL INTO A COMA. SO DON'T PUT SOMETHING LIKE "HELLO, MY NAME IS OLAF AND I AM BEING VERY EXCITED TO WRITE FOR THIS WONDERFUL DISK MAG. IN OUR COUNTRY.... YAWN, YAWN, ZZZZZZZ...... SNORT, EH? ....THE COPY PARDIE (WHAT? - ED) WAS BEING VERY FUNNY INDEED, JOHANN SPILT HIS LEMONADE ALL OVER MY DISKS AND I WAS CODING A THREE BOB DEMO WITH 1 PLANE VECTORS WITH A CRAP, ILLITERATE, UNFUNNY, BORING, SLOW SCROLLTEXT...... ZZZZZZ.....". SEE WHAT I MEAN? ABOUT AS FUNNY AS PILES. ON THE OTHER HAND....... ALTHOUGH I'M BRITISH (YEAH!), DON'T THINK I'M BEING PREJUDICED WHEN I SAY THAT BRITISH IS BEST (OF COURSE) IN TERMS OF HUMOUR. YES INDEED PEOPLE, JUST LOOK AT SOME OF THE BRITISH PROGRAMMES ON TV AND COMEDIANS: BOTTOM, THE YOUNG ONES, BEN ELTON, A BIT OF FRY AND LAURIE, HARRY ENFIELD, ROWAN ATKINSON, MR BEAN, BLACKADDER, FILTHY RICH AND CATFLAP, ALEXEI SAYLE, JOHN HEGLEY, SMITH AND JONES....... NEED I SAY MORE? THE REASON I SAY THIS IS BECAUSE ONLY BRITISH SCROLLTEXTS/TEXTS HAVE EVER MADE ME LAUGH (MOSTLY PHIL OF B.S.S. - A BIT OF A WHACKY FUNSTER AND NO LARGE ERROR). SO WHEN YOU SEND YOUR ARTICLE DON'T JUST WAFFLE ON ABOUT LAME COPY PARTIES, OR IF YOU DO, WRITE ABOUT THE *FUN* THINGS THAT HAPPENED LIKE GETTING FISH-FACED AND POURING NAPALM THROUGH SOMEONE'S LETTERBOX ETC. OK, WHILE I'M STUCK FOR SOMETHING TO TYPE, HERE'S ANOTHER INSANELY FUNNY QUOTE (NO. 8): "I LOVE YOU, DON'T GO IN THERE, GET OUT, YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO SAY THAT, STOP IT, WHY SHOULD I?, THAT HURT, HELP, MARJORIE IS DEAD." - STEPHEN FRY. IF YOU WANNA GET IN TOUCH (FNARR!) WITH A MEMBER (FNARR!!) OF PRODIGY (ME! ME!!) OR RAPIER INTERNATIONAL THEN WRITE TO THE ADDRESS AT THE START OF THIS SLIDESHOW AND DON'T FORGET TO INCLUDE THE NAME OF THE PERSON AND GROUP, SAY FOR EXAMPLE, YOU'RE A TOP MODEL AND FOR SOME REASON YOU WANT TO WRITE TO *ME!!* THEN PUT SOMETHING LIKE.... R-9, C/O PRODIGY..... ETC. OK, THAT'S IT FROM ME (R-9) - PLEASE VOTE FOR ME AS BEST GFX ARTIST WHEN THE MAG COMES OUT!! OH CRIPES, LOOK AT THE TIME, SEE YA, I'M OFF DOWN THE PUB...... OH, ONE MORE THING... MAY THE ACTING ENSIGN WESLEY CRUSHER BE WITH YOU.