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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

1199.0. "Movie V1.3 does sounds!" by LOWLIF::DAVIS (That's not a BUG, it's a FEATURE!) Fri Feb 26 1988 13:10

(I really kinda hated to write a new note for this, maybe we should have a note
for new uploads?  Any ideas, Mr. Moderator??)

Anyway, I came across a sound file that plays along with Kahnankas.  Yep, it
actually 'clicks' when the balls hit each other!! :-)  Makes the demo seem
more impressive.  It requires a new version of Movie that plays the sound.
The most recent I've seen is Movie 1.3.  The files are:

		o MDKCSW""::DUA2:[DAVIS.AMIGA]KSOUND.ARC
		o MDKCSW""::DUA2:[DAVIS.AMIGA]MOVIE13.ARC

The sound also has some guy talking (says "Ray tracing animation by Sculpt-3D")
but he can get a little irritating.  Not to worry, he CAN be silenced.

						...richard
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1199.1Having problemsNOBHIL::BODINE_CHMon Feb 29 1988 13:5911
    I'm having trouble de-arcing movie13.arc. Is anybody else? I've
    downloaded it twice now and both tries were unsuccessful. I was
    also unable to de-arc ksound.arc.
    
    Bad header error.
    
    Incidentally, when I de-arced movie13.arc, my Amiga hung.
    
    ?
    
    Chris
1199.2CSC32::J_PARSONSMachine Checks don't bounceMon Feb 29 1988 14:284
    re .1
    I had the same problems to start with. You have to run it through
    cvtarc to make it downloadable. It needs to have 510 byte fixed
    length records for you to download it successfully.
1199.3?NOBHIL::BODINE_CHMon Feb 29 1988 18:377
    Do you have to do anything special to it before you de-arc it on
    the Amiga side (assuming I have run it through cvtarc on the vax).
    
    Do you need to do it for ksound.arc as well?
    
    Thanks,
    Chris
1199.4It IS downloadableMDKCSW::DAVISThat's not a BUG, it's a FEATURE!Tue Mar 01 1988 10:1515
re Note 1199.2 by CSC32::J_PARSONS "Machine Checks don't bounce"
 
 >   I had the same problems to start with. You have to run it through
 >   cvtarc to make it downloadable. It needs to have 510 byte fixed
 >   length records for you to download it successfully.

NNS (not necessarily so)!  It is quite "downloadable" in its present format.
Your comments assume the use of Kermit, but I use XMODEM.  Once again,
if the file is in Stream_LF, use XMODEM or 'CVTARC U' it.  If it is 510
byte fixed, use Kermit or 'CVTARC V' it.

All that aside (no, I'm not flaming), I'm glad you were able to dowload it.
It makes Kahnankas just a little bit neater, huh?

						...richard
1199.5WHAMMY::SPODARYKdigging for fireSat Jan 19 1991 18:2813
I copied some new demos - egganim.lzh, drinkingbird.lzh, etc, but I'm 
having problems "playing" them.  Movie starts up, and when it tries to 
do it's bit I get a "can't open window".  This seems odd because I
have over 3.5M free, including a large chunk of chip memory (750k).

Any ideas about this?  I will try to reboot using a lowres workbench.
This seemed to work when I only had a 1/2M Agnus.  I thought the 1M
version would solve these problems.  Is there a newer Movie than
V1.3 - I couldn't seem to find one.

maybe I just need a A3000...

Steve - looking for a diversion from Amiga/DECnet programming
1199.6TOOK::KEEGANPeter KeeganMon Jan 21 1991 08:513
RE: .5  Drinking Bird worked ok on my 1Meg Amiga using an old Movie from one
of the Fred Fish disks.  I didn't get any sound, though.
1199.7WHAMMY::SPODARYKdigging for fireMon Jan 21 1991 11:509
I can get those demos to work, provided that I reboot using a lo-res
workbench screen.  Normally, I go for the max-overscanned hi-res, because
I figure I have memory to burn.

Lo-res gives some decent chip memory savings, but I had thought that
750k would be plenty for these demos.  Guess not.  Has anyone else using a 
hi-res workbench tried these demos?

Steve
1199.8ADOV02::MCGHIEThank Heaven for small Murphys !Mon Jan 21 1991 18:379
I just remebered something. I too was trying to use
MOVIE on the weekend to show my nephew some demos but
my system kept crashing.

I now remember hunting this down and finding that by booting
with a workbench that didn't have "morerows" that movie
worked ok.

Mike