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- Quality Time: A Flip the Frog Cartoon by Eric W. Schwartz
-
- Well, Well, Well, here's my first animation of 1993, and its a huge
- mother. It Runs for over six minutes(68000 processor)Here's some stats:
-
- Minimum System: Any Amiga with 5 megs memory and two floppy drives.
-
- You do not actually need two floppies, but trying to load the animation
- by floppy will give you a disk swapping heart attack if you only have one
- drive.
-
- Reccommended System: Any Amiga with over 5 megs and a Hard Drive.
-
- There are two versions of this animation, Quality_Time.NTSC and
- Quality_Time.PAL . Each version has its timing tailored to its
- corresponding video standard. This animation is very timing dependent with
- regard to sound synching, and the timing is tailored to the delays
- associated with the 68000 processor. Running this animation on a higher
- spec processor and/or an AGA chipset machine will probably make the
- animation run faster than it was intended to in places.
-
- Running the animation from Floppies:
-
- This animation comes as a four disk set, FlipDisk1: thru FlipDisk4:. To
- run the animation, Double-Click on either Quality_Time.NTSC or
- Quality_Time.PAL icons from FlipDisk1: The animation should load, asking
- for disks 2, 3, and 4 as you go. I recommend keeping Flipdisk1: where it
- is, as this will result in the least disk swapping.
- If you have no more than five megs memory, you may want to try booting
- from Flipdisk1: (Flipdisk1: should be bootable, if not, install it.) The
- animation should load upon booting, asking you to swap disks as mentioned
- above. Booting runs the NTSC version by default. if you want to run the
- PAL version upon booting instead, delve into the S: directory of
- FlipDisk1: and rename Startup-Sequence.PAL to "Startup-Sequence" ,
- replacing or renaming the existing 'Startup-Sequence'. The Disk should
- boot and run the PAL version afterwards.
-
- Installing on a Hard Drive:
-
- First of all, You'll need about 3 megs of free Hard Drive space.
-
- * Installing the easy way:
-
- You will need to have (or have access to) Gold Disk's MovieSetter
- animation software. Load the animation into the program (If you only have
- 5 megs, you should only run the SceneEditor module and turn off the
- workbench before doing this.) Once the animation is loaded, resave it in
- 'Embed' mode to whatever directory on your hard drive you wish. This will
- create a 2.5 meg file containing the entire animation. You can then copy
- the icon files (Replacing the existing movie icon) and the MoviePlayer
- program from Flipdisk1: to the animation's directory. The animation should
- then be runnable by double-clicking on its Icon (You may have to clear as
- much memory as you can if you have only 5 megs.)
-
- * Installing the hard way: (If you can't find a copy of Moviesetter)
-
- Create a directory for the animation, and three subdirectories inside
- that. these three subdirectories should be named "Backs", "sets", and
- "Sounds". copy all files from flipDisk1: thru Flipdisk4: into the
- animation directories, making sure files from a disk's root directory go
- into the main animation directory, and files from the floppies'
- subdirectories go into the animation subdirectories of the same
- name("backs","sets". or "sounds").
- Next, create ASSIGN commands with the CLI to direct the animation player
- to look to the new animation location. These can be part of a script that
- you execute before running the animation, or part of your machine's
- startup-sequence. these ASSIGN commands should be:
-
- ASSIGN FlipDisk1: {Animation directory on hard drive}
- ASSIGN FlipDisk2: {Animation directory on hard drive}
- ASSIGN FlipDisk3: {Animation directory on hard drive}
- ASSIGN FlipDisk4: {Animation directory on hard drive}
-
- The animation can then be run by double clicking on its icon from the hard
- drive, or by executing these commands from the CLI:
-
- CD {animation's path and directory}
- Movieplayer Quality_Time.PAL
- or
- MoviePlayer Quality_Time.NTSC (Depending on your video standard)
-
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- LICENSE:
- All E.S. Productions, Aerotoons, and other Eric Schwartz animations
- are Copyright ©1989 thru 1993 Eric W. Schwartz. These animations are NOT,
- NOT! to be considered Public Domain. All animations are copyrighted but
- freely distributable, with a few categorized as Shareware. The animations
- should not be sold for much more than the price of the disks and the time
- and energy required to copy. I also request that my permission be obtained
- before the animation is transferred to any other medium such as videotape,
- print, or another computer format other than Amiga
- Characters that I have created, such as Amy the Squirrel, Clarisse
- Cat, and Flip the Frog are Copyright © 1992 Eric W. Schwartz as well. Do
- not use these characters in your own works unless you are willing to
- accept the consequences. I might not sue you for creating a work using my
- characters, but then again I might, especially if I consider the work
- particularly vulgar (Back from the Beach) or insulting to myself or my
- characters. At the very least, if your mind is made up to use my
- characters despite my pleas, for GOD'S SAKE TRY DRAWING THEM YOURSELF!
- I'm more impressed by people that show skill rather than cut-and-paste
- abilities.
-
- This animation can be considered as shareware. Send five bucks or whatever
- you feel its worth to help me through college.
-
- I hope you enjoy this animation as much as I went through HELL making it.
-
- As Always,
-
- Eric W. Schwartz
-
- Quality Time: A Flip the Frog Cartoon ©1993 Eric W. Schwartz
-
- E.S. Productions
- P.O. Box 292684
- Kettering, OH 45429-0684
- U.S.A.
-