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- From: chris@fuchal.demon.co.uk (Chris Appleton)
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- Subject: Re: Looking for a `nice' AGA demo...
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 21:25:53 GMT
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- Hey, Andy, you mumbled somthing about Re: Looking for a `nice' AGA demo... on
- 20-Feb-96 16:35:55?
- A> Chris Appleton (chris@fuchal.demon.co.uk) spoo'd this forth:
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- A>: action. Trudge Aminet I suppose.
-
- A> Working on it...
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- A>: If one ever gets picked, there are a couple of Escom
- A>: shops locally where I can
- A>: ask. If not I'll just put a disk in on my way out :)
-
- A> What I've done is made a self-booting disk which loads HoisAGA. Off the
- A> top of my head its aminet path is demo/aga/HoisAGA.lha It does some nice
- A> effects and has reasonable music with it, and it runs in Acts which is
- A> good. The final section, unfortunately, reverts to scrolling text,
- A> although two screens get moved round above it, fading in and out with one
- A> another, which is OK but repetitive. That section lasts a good few
- A> minutes and I can't skip it. The nice thing is that although it doesn't
- A> loop, it does reboot when it's finished, so as long as the disk is there,
- A> there's no problem and it'll just keep going. I'm still fishing round for
- A> other suitable ones, the problem is that the some of the older demos, I
- A> suspect the dms compacted ones, won't take kindly to the disk drive not
- A> sending out a ready signal. I suspect that was the problem with the Point
- A> of Sale demo which failed to do anything whatsoever...
-
- I've d/l ed about 10 demos, ranging from the average to the, frankly, crap.
- I think that the ones that hit the Amiga *Really* hard don't care about
- DSKRDY, cos they just lock up if the disk is removed (No "Please put the disk
- back in" msg's). The ones that just do fancy graphics will care about DSKRDY
- and the very few that are legally-programmed won't care.
-
- Flying 3D-objects are what Escom uses to flog PC's, if we could find one with
- these on it would make it look cool, eg Man on the Moon by, erm, someone.
- Unfotunately it's 3mb lha'ed and HD-only :(
-
- Of course, the other way is to just have an animation and module running at
- the same time. One Escom employee made his own demo with Scala, with smart
- scrollies and a lovely background.
-
- Chris
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