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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:	AMIGA NOTES
Notice:	Join us in the NEW conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:	HYDRA::MOORE

Created:	Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:	Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5378
Total number of notes:	38326

688.0. "The Dream Goes Beserk" by 18583::ACCIARDI () Thu Sep 03 1987 09:22

    Leo Schwab has done it again.
    
    He has created a new demo called 'The Dream Goes Beserk'.  I won't
    describe it here.  I believe he used VideoScape3D to create it. 
    
    I've tried to piece the story together from various threads on Plink,
    so I may not have it exactly right.  Apparently, Leo had created
    a demo for some show (it was either Siggraph or the BADGE Killer
    Demo Contest).  Leo's demo remarkably resembled a demo done on a
    megabuck Pixar machine, which was no coincidence.  Pixar became
    annoyed, and insisted that Leo not distribute his demo.  So we'll
    never see that one.
    
    Leo then went back to the drawing board and created 'Dream'.	
    He first demo'ed it at a recent FAUG meeting (First Amiga Users
    Group).  The audience went wild.  In fact, RJ Mical, Jay Miner,
    and Dale Luck came up on the stage to congratulate him.  Jay Miner
    even hugged him.  (To any neophytes, these three guys pretty much
    designed the Amiga, and Leo Schwab will probably win the Nobel Prize
    in the 'Making the Amiga do Incredible Tricks' category).
    
    I think this is pretty much the background scenario; if anyone can
    fill in any missing pieces, please do.                                      
    
    I haven't seen 'Dream' yet, but I expect it to show up on Plink
    by the weekend.  I'll be camped out there with my finger on the
    download button.  I just hope it runs on 512K machines for you
    folks living in the dark ages.

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688.1		LEDS::ACCIARDI		`Wed Sep 09 1987 09:11`	7
	Leo's latest creation has been sighted on Genie, but hadn't made it to Plink as of 9/9/87. Does anyone have a Genie account and some extra download hours to spare? If not, you probably won't see it here for another week or so, since our department is moving and it will take some time for the cluster to get fully operational again.
688.2		AUTHOR::MACDONALD	WA1OMM Listening 224.28	`Wed Sep 09 1987 10:35`	1
	What is it that you are looking for on GEnie?
688.3		LEDS::ACCIARDI		`Wed Sep 09 1987 12:09`	3
	Leo's latest demo; it would probably be called 'Dream.arc' or some such.
688.4		AUTHOR::MACDONALD	WA1OMM Listening 224.28	`Wed Sep 09 1987 15:01`	1
	I'll look for it.
688.5	Got it!	LEDS::ACCIARDI		`Wed Sep 09 1987 23:05`	22
	Well, I've got Leo's latest, called "Beserk" whirring away on my Supradrive, but I've got some good news and some bad news... Good news: I can absolutely guarantee that you've never seen anything like this before. Suffice it to say that Leo has outdone himself again. Also, it's perfectly clear that this animation was intended to 'irritate' Pixar for blocking his first demo. Bad News: You'll need a minimum of 1 MByte of RAM to wiew this. The frames occupy 585 KBytes, and ShowAnim requires another 28 KBytes. Sorry. All the more reason to get with the program and up the memory ante. Quandry: I don't really know where to upload this ARC to. Our department cluster is coming down this Friday (9/11) and I'm not yet sure of my new net address. If someone has a spare 380 KBytes of storage that they can write un-protect, I'll send it there. We can go the 'swap the disk' route, but it may take another week or more to even get our new interoffice mail system functional. Ed.
688.6	You was replying while I was uploading	LIBIDO::SANTIAGO	Sliding dwn the razorblade of life	`Wed Sep 09 1987 23:42`	22
	Look in ROZETT""::AMIGA: This is a ~1 hour download at 1200bps. Ditto on the memory problems. I had to completely zap my 1meg system (fresh reboot, CTL-D before anything happens) to get the full thing running. To run, unarc and type: % ShowAnim -c Berserk The -c makes it go continuously - otherwise it's over in a flash and you have to go peruse ShowAnim.doc to see how to get it back. To those of us desperate to see the beastie, those seconds wasted are precious... Enjoy. .another_Ed
688.7		VIDEO::LEIBOW		`Mon Sep 14 1987 08:09`	11
	Howdy, Ran Leo's demo. Try it in this configuration... Run boing! and then then do showanim -c berserk. Then, just as Leo's demo begins to take over select the boing! screen to the front. The frames from each will flicker back and forth. Looks real weird with a couple of balls rolling around... --Mike P.S. Have you noticed that showanim leaves the amiga in interlace mode?