Read Me File (Including QuickTime License) -------------------- Welcome to Virtual Galaxy --------------------- Produced by: Tony Quinn Published by: Wayzata Technology Inc. This CD ROM contains five main sections with many subsections. The topic of this disc is computer generated animation and graphics. The animations and graphics have been assembled with an easy to use and very interesting Macromind Director interface. The movies on this disc will play on Macintosh computers as well as Windows-based PCs. ------------------------ Instructions ------------------------ Running Virtual Galaxy: Macintosh: It is recommended to have a color monitor and at least 2 megabytes of free RAM. It will not run on the Macintosh Plus, SE, Classic, or Macintosh Portable. Make sure that QuickTime is installed (provided on the CD-ROM in the "Place contents in system folder" folder). Double click on one of the the Virtual Galaxy icons to run the main program. (Choose the icon with the nearest corresponding RAM setting to the amount of free RAM on your system) PC/WINDOWS: To play the QuickTime movies: Windows 3.1 and MSDOS 5.0 A PC with an 80386SX or higher microprocessor 4 megabytes of RAM VGA, Super VGA, XGA, or compatible color video graphics card and color display. 256+ color display recommended. Sound Card is also recommended. From the Windows program manager, select "RUN" from file menu, on the command line type D:\INSTALL.EXE (where D is the letter for your CD-ROM drive, if the letter for your CD-ROM drive is something other than D use that letter instead) then click "OK." This will install icons for the Virtual Galaxy program, Virtual Galaxy Demo, Read Me, Virtual Universe Demo and Register. Double click on any of the icons to start the desired program. The Virtual Galaxy and Virtual Galaxy demo are self contained programs, where the Read Me and the Registration Form are used with the Write program provided with Windows. The Virtual Universe Demo is a preview of Tony Quinn's latest project Virtual Universe. The images and Quicktime movies that are contained within Virtual Galaxy are also available on the CD-ROM in the "Images" and "QT_movie" directories. The images can be viewed separatly through desktop publishing software and the Quicktime movies can be viewed through the "Movieplayer" provided on the CD-ROM. ----------- Virtual Galaxy (words from the author) --------------- VIRTUAL GALAXY - The Concept. by Tony Quinn c1994 The idea of producing a CD collection of totally digitally produced artwork & animation was my aim early in 1993. Requirements: MacII & above, plays best with at least 2Mb of free REAL RAM (with virtual switched off). 256 color 13" display. 386SX or better, 256 color monitor, 4Mb free RAM, sound card. Things that happen if you don't have enough free RAM: All kinds of things slow down. Macromind Director loses some castmembers (can result in menus disappearing - oops!) DO NOT ATTEMPT TO PLAY THE ANIMATIONS FEATURED IN THE 'Caution Experimental' SECTION (Mac only) UNLESS YOU HAVE AT LEAST 16 MEG FREE RAM AND A VERY FAST (BY 1993 STANDARDS) PROCESSOR. This section is not playable on PC computers(yet). SOME ANIMATIONS NEED YOUR MONITOR TO SWITCH TO DIFFERENT COLOUR DEPTHS - CHECK COMPATABILITY SOME ANIMATIONS WILL TAKE A LONG,LONG,LONGGGGGG TIME TO LOAD TO YOUR RAM FROM THE CD. GOOD LUCK! Production Information: Equipment: 2 x Quadra 700 macs 1 @ 8Mb/160Mb, 1 @ 36Mb/200Mb. 1 x 128Mb Magneto - Optical removeable disk drive. (which broke) another x 128Mb Magneto - Optical removeable disk drive. (which broke) 1 x 128Mb Magneto - Optical removeable disk drive. (which hasn't broken YET) 1 x 1Gig External drive. 1 x 200 Mb External drive 1 x 200 Mb External drive Toshiba XM 3200 CD ROM drive Kodak PCD 865 Photo CD player 24 XLTV 24 bit accelerated display board Quickimage video grabber board (cheap AND cheerful) 19" Eizo 24 bit colour Display / Apple 13" 24 Bit colour display. Lots of bits of wire, a thousand cups of coffee, and thousands more cigarettes. Thanks to: Andy & Tim at Ulix Computers, Leeds, England. Rob Warren for his 'this place is amazing' soundtrack Andrea, Johnathan, Mike, Rob, Richard, and all the others who have been subjected to beta-testing the CD. And of course my mum, who never saw the finished version. --Tony Quinn September 1993 Additions: Caution Experimental - Some files created on Quadra 840AV Mac 40RAM/500hd/2VRAM/CD Updated to Quicktime 1.6 NOV 1993 ----------------------------- Legal Stuff ------------------------------- QuickTime and the QuickTime software are Copyright1992 Apple Computer, Inc. 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