Banzai Productions

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Biography

Trading Name" of Dan Dooré in his Coupé guise.

Compilations

Title   Description Published
Banzai - Games Collection Collection of games from 1994 Sam PD
Banzai - Demos and Utilities Collection of demos and utilities from 1994 Sam PD

Banzai Slideshow Discs

Title  Description Published
Banzai Pics 1 Compressed disc of over 60 top pictures Sam PD
Banzai Pics 2 - The Atari Job Piccies ripped from the Atari ST Sam PD
Banzai Pics 3 - The PC Blag Piccies nicked from the PC Sam PD
Banzai Pics 4 - Pics 'R' Us More piccies nicked from the PC Sam PD
Banzai Pics 5 - Tell 'em Dan Sent Ya Even more piccies nicked from the PC Sam PD
Banzai Pics 6 - Blagarama Yet more piccies nicked from the PC Sam PD
Banzai Pics 7 Piccies nicked from the PC Sam PD
Banzai Pics 8 MODE 3 Piccies nicked from the internet  
Banzai Babes 1 Piccies nicked from the PC Sam PD
Banzai Babes 2 Piccies nicked from the PC Sam PD

Games

Title   Description Published
Fruit Machine  Simple fruit machine game (my first with sprites!) Fred 9
Laser Dodge  One player guide-the-line game, ripped off from Format :-) Fred 16
Simon  The old Milton Bradley memory game made virtual Fred 13
Yahtzee  Mouse/keyboard classic dice game Fred 17
Noughts 'N' Crosses  Mouse/keyboard AI demonstration tic-tac-toe game Fred 21
Drac Attack  Parabolic bomb lobbing game, not unlike QBASIC Gorillas Fred 24A
Worms World  Worm game with added features Fred 28
Dead Ducks  Vicious blood sport game Fred 31
Dan's Diamonds   Tetris-like puzzle game Fred 35
Solitaire  Mouse/keyboard classic peg game Fred 40
Annoyance  Mouse/keyboard memory game Fred 45
Spec Tiles  Mouse/keyboard memory game (do you see a pattern forming here...) Fred 51

Scrolly Demos

Title  Description Published
Banzai Demo 1, 2 & 3  The original and best! Number two in Fred 13
Vertical Scrollers  The first VS in basic (with little intro) Fred 11A
Smooth Scroller  Smooth Basic scrolly demo Fred 11A
Fake Printer  Teletype demo inspired by Grandstand's VidiPrinter Fred 19
Star Demo 1 & 2  Demo in memory of Star Raiders II, top game on speccy Fred 22
Total Recall Scrolly  TREC graphics with scrolly Fred 23
Fred Birthday Scrolly  FRED 3rd birthday scrolly  
Mission Demo  End of A-levels demo  
Samco Digitiser Demo  Demo shots of SAMCO staff and scrolly on Newsdisk 4  
Small Demo  Wee MODE3 scrolly with tune  
Ultra Smooth Scroller  VERY fast & VERY smooth basic vertical scroller Fred 19
Banzai:TNG  The Next Generation Demo - Last BASIC demo ever, music by David Sanders Fred 62

Misc & Silly Demos

Title  Description Published
Python Demo  GFX ripped from Zenith Graphics 'Choccy' demo of long ago Fred 38
Proud Demo  Horace Goes Political! Fred 23
GIF Converter  Maybe.... Fred 34
Chrimble Demo  Seasonal demo with snowman, blizzards and all that.  
Lottery  Random number generator  
SAM Shrink  AI (sort of) Psychiatrist program Fred 62

Menus

Title  Description Published
Freviews  Menu for Fred Freviews (would you believe) Fred 11B
Bits 'N' Bobs 1 & 2  As above but for different things

Fred 13

Fred 19

Fred 42 Menu  Fred Menu with some Wizball Sprites Fred 42
Fred 76 Menu  Fred Menu written in Sam C with music by Roger Hartley, a scrolly and a small starfield Fred 76
Fred 81 Menu  Fred Menu written in Sam C with music by Sean Bernard and two scrollys Fred 81

Utilities

Title  Description Published
Mega Font  Font utility  
Ultra Scroll System  Smooth scrolly development kit for Basic  
Anti-Aliased font  As it says, in a handy package Fred 24A
Application Launcher   Nice proggy for browsing graphics or launching programs Fred 34
Banner Printer  Print BIG letters on your Epson-type printer  
Tracker Player 1 & 2  E-Tune player with menu selection Fred 40
Frame  Frame drawing procedure  
VidiLabel  Prints labels for video+audio tapes  
Handy Procs  Handy procedures i.e. Systest, Justify, Mouse etc  
Spandex  SimPle bANzai inDEX of all my programs (this is where this list came from...)  
Disc Info  Handy Disc info & unerase program  
Mod Player Menu File selector for the original version 1 of Stefan Drissen's Sam MOD Player Fred 47
Palette Sorter 1&2  Basic & SAM C programs to re-order screen palette Fred 62

Graphical Demos

Title  Description Published
Embroidery  Multi-coloured patterns on screen, inspired by listing for BBC Micro in INPUT magazine  
Hypno  Hypnotising circles Fred 10
Hypno II  Hypnotising box Fred 10
Slide Show  Various piccys nicked from old PD discs  
Potty  Very nice 3D pot drawer Fred 19
Polyhedra Multisided shapes from ZX Spectrum+ user guide Fred 11A
Spinning thing Rotating shape using BLITZ$ Fred 11A
Buzz 256K  Flying bumble bees for those with less memory  
Etch-A-Sketch  Need I say more! Fred 22
Total Recall Shortie  MODE1 demo ripped from original  
Total Recall Revenge 1993  The TREC Demo in 5 greyscales and MUCH faster  
Red Nose Demo  Topical at the time, but now means little  
Cosmic Demo  Weird lines thing Fred 17
Four Lines  The line demo Bits 'N' Bobs could not kill! Fred 23 Fred 25 Fred 26
Wizball Demo  Screens and a bit of bouncy balls  
Vector Demo  Simple vector demo with parallax stars  
MegaLace Demo  Interlaced MODE3 demo  
GTF Morph  Girl-to-Frog morph demo Fred 61
Dan's C Demo  Demo of Sam C, music by David Sanders Fred 73
Nyan Cat Poptart cat needs no introduction.  Music by David Sanders 2015

Mouse Demos

Title  Description Published
WimpSys  Simple WIMP interface type demo inspired by RISC OS. Fred 16
Spooky  Trippin' colours, weird effect Fred 21
Circle II  Symmetrical circles in various sizes and colours  
Mousey II  Re-write of SAMCO mouse demo  

Banzai Protracker Modules

Title  Description Published
Mods 1 Amiga Module player from Stefan Drissen (Version 1) and ProTracker modules Sam PD
Mods 2 Extra Amiga ProTracker modules Sam PD
Mods 3 Extra Amiga ProTracker modules Sam PD
Mods 4 Extra Amiga ProTracker modules Sam PD
Mods 5 Extra Amiga ProTracker modules Sam PD
Mods 6 Extra Amiga ProTracker modules Sam PD
Mods 7 Extra Amiga ProTracker modules Sam PD
Mods 8 Extra Amiga ProTracker modules Sam PD
Mods 9 Extra Amiga ProTracker modules Sam PD
Mods 10 Extra Amiga ProTracker modules Sam PD
Mods 11 Extra Amiga ProTracker modules Sam PD
Mods 12 Extra Amiga ProTracker modules Sam PD
Mods 13 Extra Amiga ProTracker modules Sam PD
Mods 14 Extra Amiga ProTracker modules Sam PD
Mods 15 Extra Amiga ProTracker modules Sam PD
Mods 16 Extra Amiga ProTracker modules Sam PD
Mods 17 Extra Amiga ProTracker modules Sam PD
Mods 18 Extra Amiga ProTracker modules Sam PD
Mods 19 Extra Amiga ProTracker modules Sam PD
Mods 20 Extra Amiga ProTracker modules Sam PD
Mods 21 Extra Amiga ProTracker modules Sam PD
Mods 22 Extra Amiga ProTracker modules Sam PD
Mods 23 Extra Amiga ProTracker modules Sam PD
Mods 24 Extra Amiga ProTracker modules Sam PD
Mods 25 Extra Amiga ProTracker modules Sam PD
Mods 26 Extra Amiga ProTracker modules Sam PD
Mods 27 Extra Amiga ProTracker modules Sam PD
Mods 28 Extra Amiga ProTracker modules Sam PD
Mods 29 Extra Amiga ProTracker modules Sam PD
Mods 30 Extra Amiga ProTracker modules Sam PD
Mods 31 Extra Amiga ProTracker modules Sam PD

Trivia

The 'Four Lines' demo inexplicably featured on many Fred discs in the Bits 'n' Bobs section.