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***CALVIN & HOBBES "REVENGE OF THE BLOB" README FILE***
An animated interpretation by David Wiles of the original cartoon strip
by Bill Watterson.
Description:
A short animated MovieSetter creation telling the story of Calvin's
encounter with his mother's food, and how the dreaded tapioca monster
gets its own back on Calvin for turning his nose up at it.
Creation date: December 1992 to January 1993
Version: 1.0 (the one and only!)
Author: David Wiles with humble apologies to Bill Watterson, Eric Schwartz,
Walt Disney and so on, for the inspiration they gave for this project.
Copyright: This is public domain completely and utterly! The character
is the original creation of Bill Watterson as is the basic concept, but
the animation is 100% my doing!
Distribute as you want, but the credit for doing all the hard work will
always be mine.
Running the animation:
The freely distributable player program from Gold Disk Inc., MoviePlayer
is included on this disk, and can be used to run the animation from the
Workbench.
How to do it:
All the animation files fit onto two disks namely C&H01: and C&H02:.
I have only a single disk drive on the Amiga 2000 that I used to create
this animation. But I did have enough memory (5Mb) to create a recoverable
RAM drive which I renamed as "C&H02". I copied my second master disk onto
that and worked off of that, with the first master disk, "C&H01", in DF0:
It worked without a hitch. I also tested it on another older Amiga which
had only 3Mb. It was purely a playback test but no problems there also.
If you have 2 disk drives (lucky sod!) and 3Mb then it should run alright.
I have created an IconX-run script file "Make-Assignments" to allow you
to run it of a hard drive. A little bit of tweaking should get it to run
of of Fred Fish's Library disks.
To get it running off of your hard drive, copy all the directories and
their contents from your master disks to a drawer on your hard drive called
"DEMOS" or whatever you want. Assign the logical devices C&H01: and C&H02:
to you special directory on the hard drive. Double-clicking on the
"C&H01.prod" icon will load and run the animation. The animation is set to
run in a continuous loop - hitting the space bar on the keyboard will quit
the animation, and the p key acts as a toggle to pause and unpause the
animation.
History:
Well, now comes my life story - I doubt it this part will ever be read.
I skip the README files usually, and only resort to reading them if the
programs don't work immediately. I have a saying which applies here, and
which I use quite often when giving my seminars on Amiga computers.
"IF ALL ELSE FAILS...READ THE MANUAL!"
I became the proud owner of a CD-TV last year (cost me an arm and a leg).
I also bought the Fred Fish Collection on CD-ROM and have spent many
happy hours wandering through the abundance of software. I was
particularily immpressed by Eric Schwartz's animations and decided to
attempt my own creation. I borrowed one of my work's Amigas, (that's what
I do for a living - medical illustration - using the Amiga) and over the
Christmas holidays created this little gem. The following programs were
used:
Some kind of well-known paint program now in version IV (Har! Har! I
wonder what that can be?)
Gold Disk's MovieSetter (good for any beginner to attempt such a project)
HP-ScanJet Plus and Scannery 1.0 software (borrowed from my work to scan
in my pencil roughs)
AudioMaster II, with a borrowed sound digitiser (for capturing various
sounds that I couldn't source elsewhere - Some of these included me
having a bad attack of flatulence, wearing underwear that was too small-
for a high-pitched squeaky voice and blowing bubbles in a bucket of water.)
(Note: All the above mentioned software I have purchased and registered
myself, which is a trend that can be a little unusual amongst a lot of
Amiga users - I loathe software pirates.)
Enough said, I think!
If you want to contact me for the delivery of Oscars, Letterbombs, praise
or just for a chinwag, I can be contacted at the following adress:
David Wiles
B.M.D.E.
Medical Faculty
University of Stellenbosch
P.O. Box 19063
TYGERBERG 7505
South Africa
(Yes, there are civilised people with Amigas in Southern Africa)
Regards
David Wiles and his 3 favourite ladies, Paula, Agnes and Denise.
(I hear that there are three other damsels that are new in town)