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Knight-Errant by Dr. Gandalf
(Non-Interlaced HAM version)
Copyright 1989 By Eric J Fleischer, MD
2213 Solmar Drive
Silver Spring, MD 20904
All Rights, Except Those Granted Herein, Reserved
1. Terms Of Distribution
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Permission for the non-commercial distribution of Knight-Errant by
Dr. Gandalf is hereby granted. Non-commercial distribution is defined as
distribution by user groups, individuals, bulletin boards, and not for
profit, public service public domain disk distributors.
Any manufacturer of hardware or software is specifically enjoined from the
public distribution of any part of Knight-Errant by Dr. Gandalf, except
if written arrangements are made with the author (not that I wouldn't be
willing to make such arrangements).
Knight-Errant by Dr. Gandalf is specifically NOT in the public domain.
Now that we have finished with that silliness,
2. How it was made:
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The original images were generated in Interlaced Overscan HAM mode using
Turbo Silver V3.0, a commercial ray-tracing program from Impulse Software.
There are 170 images total, which is about 8.5 megabytes of information in
the uncompressed form. The images were touched up with Diamond, also from
Impulse. After compression and assembly with Byte-by-Byte's public domain
sequencer, MOVIE, the finished animation file is 307026 bytes long, which
represents a 96% compression. This animation will run in a 512K Amiga, but
just barely. You must follow the special directions below to run it on a
512K machine.
The sounds were digitized with Perfect Sound fron SunRize.
3. How to view it:
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To play it from a CLI:
- Put Knight-Errant, Knight-Errant.AUD, the five .SND files, and a copy of
MOVIE (version 1.2 or higher) in the same directory or
on the same disk
- CD to that disk or directory
- Type
1> Movie Knight-Errant Knight-Errant.AUD
To play it from Workbench:
- Put Knight-Errant, Knight-Errant.info, Knighterrant.AUD, the
five .SND files, the Disk.info file, and a copy of
MOVIE (version 1.2 or higher) on the same disk
- Open the disk icon, and double-click the Knight-Errant icon.
To play it in a 512K Amiga:
- Put Knight-Errant, Knight-Errant.AUD, the five .SND files, and a copy of
MOVIE (version 1.2 or higher) on the same disk
- Name that disk Knight:
- Turn off your Amiga, and disconnect any external floppies or other
auto-configuring devices
- Turn on your Amiga, and hit Control-D as soon as the blue screen
appears. This will leave you in a CLI
- At the "1>" prompt, type STACK 8000
- Then type CD KNIGHT:
- The system will ask for volume KNIGHT:
- Type
1> Movie Knight-Errant Knight-Errant.AUD
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Knight-Errant is one of a pair of animations. Knight-Closeup is a closer
view of the Knight doing his thing. (Knight-Closeup requires >512K)
I hope you enjoy Knight-Errant. If you do, you can pay me back by
coming up with some interesting animation and graphics of your own and
distibuting them.
PLEASE, when distributing Knight-Errant, be sure to keep it intact, and
include all portions of the animation in the distibution, including the
main animation file, the sound control (.AUD) file, the five sound (.SND)
files, this documentation and the associated icons.
There is a catalog of my animations in the Animation-Catalog drawer on this
distribution disk.
Dr. Gandalf, AKA Eric J Fleischer, MD
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