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HARDNOSED HARRY IS NEVER ONE TO PASS UP AN EASY WAY TO DO HIS OWN REVIEW OR WORK.  
HARRY DOES THE FOLLOWING REVIEW OF POWERTOOLS BY HARDNOSED HARRY HAS BEEN HEAVILY BORROWED FROM AND BASED ON A REVIEW OF SAME BY RICH LEFKO IN MOAUG (JAN. ISSUE).  
HARDNOSED HARRY IS NEVER ONE TO PASS UP AN EASY WAY TO DO HIS OWN REVIEW OR WORK.  
HARRY DOES EXPRESS HIS APPRECIATION TO RICH LEFKO AND MOAUG. 
 
THERE IS AN EXCELLENT REVIEW OF POWERTOOLS WHICH IS : 
THAT'S RICH column by Richard Lefko: "May the POWER be with you!" ...as printed in January, 1990 MOAUG newsletter

     POWERTOOLS is a new utility available for our ADAM computer system.  But you have never seen a utility program like this one (how could you if it is a new item; new means never seen before).
     POWERTOOLS is a utility for use with PowerPAINT by Digital Express.  (You know Digital Express, the people who brought you GODOS, but now they are called The Softworks Factory or is it Z-DELTA SOFTWARE.  I am not sure but they have almost as many names as BJ's various ventures have had. You need a score card to tell the players). 
You must own PowerPAINT in order to use POWERTOOLS, this is because POWERTOOLS is a variety of graphic "tools" for use from within PowerPAINT.
     There are an incredible not l0, not 20, not even 30, you would pay more for only 40 files elsewhere but here you get 91 countem, yes I said 9l, not 89 nor 92 nor 90 but 91 files on the POWERTOOLS medium, including fonts, sprites, pixes, wood nymphs, brushes, clips, hair clips, bows, as well as full-screen graphics and the Christmas Tree Construction set. NOW I ASK IS THIS FAIR, NO IT IS DISCRIMINATORY.  WHAT ABOUT OUR JEWISH ADAMITES, THERE SHOULD BE AN ALTERNATE SELECTION OF THE CHANNUKKA BUSH CONSTRUCTION SET.  ALSO WHERE IS THE TURBIN CONSTRUCTION SET OR THE BUDDA IDOL CONSTRUCTION SET.  THIS SHOULD BE REPORTED TO THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT.  UNFAIR DISCRIMINATION HAS NO PLACE IN ADAMDOM. !!!!!!

     Stand back and hold onto your hat as we see some of the most useful PowerPAINT tools you'll EVER own!  (Short of having Pat Herrington or Tony Patterson who demo'd Power Paint at ADAMCON0l living with you as your personal paint advisor). 

     
FONTS:  There are three different font sets on the POWERTOOLS medium.  Two of these are unique character sets, while the third, Detail.FNT, is ANYTHING but regular.  Loading "Detail.fnt" is like filling your keyboard up with half-sized sprites, merely pressing different keys to use the various shapes, lines and shades.
  
SPRITES:  The 17 sprite sets available give you over 500 different shapes and things with which to work!  And as the A.N.N. combined weight contest will show, Adamites come in various different shapes. There are three alphabet-type sprite sets and 14 other sets consisting of things like Scroll, Ribbon, Hollowbox, Shadowbox, Rope, Footprints, Nudes, Semi-Nudes, Fully clothed, foolishly clothed, and my favorite, Arrows (bows & arrows, Indian arrows, arrows that point to the mens room, the ladies room, to exits, straight arrows, etc.). .  Almost all of these sprite sets allow the user to "link" consenting and adult sprites together in all types of sick and perverted ways to form a multitude of various designs.  The possibilities are endless, only limited by your own sick mind. 
CLIPS:  There are 55 clip art files, 39 of which are dedicated to "Gotham" clips which consists of large capital letters, numbers, and punctuation. These are great for making flyers and such.  The remainder of the clip art files include demonstration examples of sprites and brushes and various pictures such as a pelican, left and right hands, other body parts which we cannot mention in polite society, and an excellent full color drawing of a gumball machine, not to mention many others. The problem with this is that YOU have to supply your own gumballs, talk about cheap, they could at least give you a couple of green gum balls and maybe a red along with the software. 
 
BRUSHES:  There are eleven brush sets, and these are easily the most powerful of your POWERTOOLS.  There are "small" brushes (8x8 pixels) and "large" brushes (16x16 pixels.) There are three "airbrush" sets, as well as Pine, Seagulls, Laurel, TREETrimA, TREETrimB, and TinyTrim (for use with the Christmas tree.  There are also two sets called "Speedball" which can give you all kinds of effects like calligraphy, "neon", or three-dimensional shadowboxes.
     Finally, there is the Christmas Tree Construction set, which consists of various ornament sprites, and brushes.  There is a full screen Christmas tree that you can decorate as well.  NOTE This Christmas tree always stays fresh and looks like new, there is NO fire hazard with it, you do not have to replace each year and it stores on a disk, taking up little storage space or room.  A GREAT IDEA !!! As with the rest of the package there are several ways in which to decorate your tree using the POWERTOOLS available.  The ornament sprites and the TinyTrim brushes are literally delightful to look at and a pleasure to use.  These, as well as any other sprites or clips, can be used to make great-looking labels, halloween masks,etc.
     One of the best things about POWERTOOLS is the very thoughtfully done 14-page manual included.  It not only explains in fine detail all of the included files, but it also gives INSTRUCTION on how to use the brushes, sprites, and other tools. 
     I've always felt that the Adultware Adult programs were ADAM were the best disks of software I'd ever bought for my ADAM, but now PowerTools makes me reconsider.  (Naaaahaa, the Adult stuff still ranks high but for non-perverts I would think POWERTOOLS would be an absolute MUST.
     The folks at Eyezod Graphics should be VERY proud of their fine package of graphic tools!  I can't wait for POWERTOOLS II, The Sequel or Son of POWERTOOLS, or the Return of POWERTOOLS, or the FURTHER ADVENTURES OF POWERTOOLS, or POWERTOOLS, THE BEGINNING, OR ............

     If you own PowerPAINT by DEI then you simply MUST own POWERTOOLS by Eyezod Graphics!  I can't think of a better way to put it!  POWERTOOLS is simply awesome!
     POWERTOOLS is available from The Softworks Factory, or Reedy Software for $12.95 on disk or $14.95 on data pack. 
 
IT IS ALSO AVAILABLE FROM PETER PIRATE FOR $ 6.99 BUT THEN YOU RISK THE CHANCE OF A FINE AND/OR JAIL SENTENCE AS WELL AS DRIVING MORE PROGRAMMERS OUT OF BUSINESS AND THE RESULTING LOSS TO ADAM.

 
 
YOU HEARD IT HERE FROM HARDNOSED HARRY.  (who borrowed liberally from Rich Lefko's excellent article in MOAUG. 
 

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