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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

1245.0. "Berserk Demo" by FORTY2::MCCARTNEY (Colin McCartney, MB Development) Mon Mar 14 1988 17:39

    Hi,

    I just got hold of a copy of the Berserk demo. It de-arcs fine but I
    can't seem to do anything with it. If I try and run it from the CLI it
    gives me a Can't load, file not object module error. Do I need some
    other bit of software to run, if so what ?

    Thanks in advance,
	Colin.
    
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1245.1No ProbDICKNS::MACDONALDWA1OMM Listening 52.525Mon Mar 14 1988 21:528
    You need a file called SHOWANIM. Place that into the same directory
    as BESERK and type:
    
    SHOWANIM BESERK
    
    You can fetch SHOWANIM.ARC from PAULY"AMIGA"::SHOWANIM.ARC
    
    Paul
1245.2LEDS::ACCIARDITue Mar 15 1988 00:038
    SHOWANIM accepts a few arguments; -c will play a continuous loop.
    +n selects the frame rate, where n=1/60 of a second.  For example;
    
    SHOWANIM -c +2 Berserk.anim will play a continuous loop at 30 frames
    per second.
    
    Ed.
    
1245.3Truncated UnicyclesSSDEVO::YESSEComputing at 6200 ft.Tue Mar 15 1988 13:0210
	Berserk runs fine on my 2000, except that I get the message
	**** Animation Truncated ****  and a few frames seem to be
	missing (where the ball is over to the left side). This is
	after clearing out all my RAM except for Showanim (I run
	Berserk from DF0:). Do I need to do some reconfiguring,
	or is this really a memory eater?

	BTW it's nifty that this should truncate, rather than abort
	outright. 90% of an animation is better than none...    

1245.4Oink, OinkNAC::PLOUFFLANsman WesTue Mar 15 1988 16:463
    It's a real memory eater.  The whole cycle runs on a 768K A1000,
    but not on a 512K machine.  Funny you should not see the whole thing
    on an A2000.  Isn't 1 meg RAM standard?
1245.5FORTY2::MCCARTNEYColin McCartney, MB DevelopmentThu Mar 17 1988 13:3012
    Thanks Guys,

    I got the ShowANIM utility and it works - the Red Baron Demo is pretty
    cute. Don't know if getting hold of the Berserk demo was woth it at
    present, with my unexpanded A500 I get about five frames ot the
    animation. This is without workbench, extra disk buffers, background
    tasks etc. Guess I'll just have to save up for more store - sigh !

    Thanks,
	Colin.