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Charon
Text by Lord Dunsany (1915); illustrated and animated
by Bradley W. Schenck
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"Charon" is my entry for the 1988 BADGE Killer Demo
Contest. To run it from the Workbench, just double-click its
icon. From the CLI, just type "Charon". Do NOT type "pro-
jector Charon.film", as you normally would for a Director
presentation.
This story is a good example of one of the great
strengths of fantasy literature: it makes us look at an
everyday idea from such an unusual vantage that we are
forced to see it afresh; the idea here is one that many of
us have grown up with and learned to ignore, but one that
I think we need to remember.
The music file is a traditional Scottish tune called
"The Arran Boat".
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I wrote this demo on an Amiga 500 with one megabyte of
RAM, then tested it on a 1000 and on a 2000, from floppy disks
and a Seagate hard disk. After loading the demo will inquire
whether it's running from a hard disk or from floppy. This is
to adjust the timing of the piece to compensate for the faster
loading time from hard disks.
There are many variables in system speeds, and in the
speed of hard disks. I've tried to ensure that "Charon" will
run pretty much the same way on ANY system, but there will be
some variation. This usually shows up in the synchronisation
of the graphics and music, which are running as separate tasks.
The fewer background tasks you're running, the better
the synchronisation should be. I've found a big difference on
my system while having GOMF in the background - for reference,
I have a 2 floppy system with usually either my hard drive or
VD0: mounted, and a couple of utilities like Conman and Popcli.
The demo will run from RAM: but are you really going to
copy this entire disk there? Well, then tell it (when it asks)
that it's running from a hard drive and it will roughly act
like itself. I don't really recommend that.
Hope you enjoy Charon. I'll be quiet now.
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Bradley W. Schenck September 13, 1988
ONLY AMIGA MADE THIS POSSIBLE
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