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- Copyright Philip Holden. Please do not alter these files. I
- would be very grateful if you could redistribute these files as
- much and as fast as you possibly can.
-
- If you enjoy or find any of the following programs useful then
- I ask this favour. If the date is before the 14 February 1996
- (Valentines Day) Please, please, please could you send an
- anonymous Valentines card to:
-
- Vivien Ballantyne
- Goldney Hall
- Lower Clifton Hill
- University of Bristol
- Bristol
- BS8 1BH
- ENGLAND
-
- Card should be clean and timed to arrive no earlier than the
- 14th of February (please do not post any cards after this
- date).
-
- If you receive these files after that date then please E-mail
- or write to me incase I ever need a favour in the future. I
- have just up loaded a whole batch of files to aminet. Here is a
- list of the archive names I strongly recommend you down load
- them.
-
- Fireflies_B.lha - Large version of my game Fireflies this
- contains an animated intro. I Very strongly recommend you
- download this before you do anything else. Fireflies is a one -
- five player simultaneous game. It has real gravity, nice sound,
- gameplay is similar to Biplanes. (must be placed on a disk
- called "fireflies")
-
- Fireflies.lha - Same as above but with no graphic intro.
- archived it is only 65K and takes very little time to down load
- so you have got no excuse. Once you have it spread it about the
- world a much and a quickly as humanly possible. Give a copy to
- anyone you know with any Amiga. (it must be placed on a disk
- called "fireflies" to work) It can currently be down loaded
- from the game/2game directory of aminet.
-
- Manfred.lha - A joystick controllable character with 350 frames
- of animation. He will be appearing in many of my future games.
-
- Almost.lha - An animation featuring Manfred combining D-Paint
- animation and Imagine rendering. The animation is played
- through a compiled Blitz 2 program. (must be depacked to a disk
- called "anims")
-
- City.lha - Similar style to above but in the style of the
- Micro-chasm intro. (must be depacked to a disk called "anims")
-
- The_Chase - 370 frame 32 colour animation featuring Manfred.
-
- Manfred_Obj.lha - Imagine 3.0 object.
-
- Manfred_Pic.lha - 32 colour rendering
-
- Snow_Pic.lha - 24-Bit highres Imagine Render of Snowmen.
-
- Agent_Obj.lha - Imagine 3.0 object for a James Bond style
- character. Do not redistribute any files contain renderings of
- these two characters with out my expressed permission.
-
- Boulder_anim.lha - 254 frame D-Paint animation demonstrating an
- idea for a level of a future game.
-
- Pult.lha - 144 frame D-Paint animation demonstrating an idea
- for a level of a future game.
-
- TrouBall.lha - 335 frame D-Paint animation similar to above.
-
- Marbles_Blitz.lha - seven precompiled programs + source code.
- One of the programs is for real time ball movement in a 3D
- landscape with joystick control, real time shadow and real
- gravity. Other programs are for texture mapped towers. Real
- time fire works. Simulated universes and many others. (you must
- rename the disk these files are on as "marbles" before running
- programs).
-
- 3D_Snow.lha generates 10's of 1000's of snowflakes which fall
- in a 3D environment. You can alter things such a wind and
- gravity and the number of flakes. (this disk must be called
- "3DSnow" for it to work).
-
- All programs are by Philip Holden please E-mail me to let me
- know you have down loaded these files.
-
- E-Mail ph5885@bristol.ac.uk
-
- Write to me
-
- Philip Holden
- Goldney Hall
- Lower Clifton Hill
- University of Bristol
- Bristol
- BS8 1BH
- ENGLAND
-
- ************************************************
- * Another Fireflies Plug *
- ************************************************
-
-
- FIREFLIES
-
- As far as I know this game is totally original due to the
- obscure nature of its conception. The game is deliberately
- simple so I could get it finished working on my own.
-
- In this game you have to kill all your rival male Fireflies to
- further your chances of mating.
-
- On your first go I suggest you ignore the options just press
- return many times on the options screen.
-
- You should be on the game screen now, in fact if you are still
- reading this then you are probably dead. Press return to start
- the next round.
-
-
- CONTROLS:
-
- fly up /----\
- |Fire| dive down
- ^ \----/ on the
- I closest
- fly left <---+---> have a guess opponent
- I
- v
-
- fly down
-
-
- There should be two fireflies on the screen one computer
- controlled and the other controlled by you. You must kill the
- computers one to do this you must fly above him then dive down
- on him.
-
- When two Fireflies collide the one moving down fasted at the
- time of collision will knock the other unconscious. If a
- firefly flies to close to the water it may be eaten by the
- fish. The kingfisher on the branch indicates the position of
- the fish. The frog will also kill if you are not careful. Just
- see that you opponent comes to some serious harm. Keep playing
- until you can beat the computer.
-
- You can have up to five players. As you play you might find
- it fun to punch your opponent if he kills you. For more than
- three players you will need a four player adaptor in your
- parallel port. I have not tested this option yet because I do
- not own an adaptor or four working joysticks (so it may
- not work). The fire button will allow you to swoop towards
- the nearest attackable firefly.
-
-
- I have included the source code also.
-
- About the author:
-
- Interests
- Mental:
-
- 1) Computing - animation, programming, AI, 3D rendering and
- just generally replicating and bending physics.
- 2) Cutting edge science - The future of mass storage, nano
- technology, holograms, pseudo 3D, super dense atoms,
- fundamental particles and the workings of the brain.
- 3) Wildlife - Flying squirrels, ants slow worms & pond life.
- 4) French bangers - what haven't we done with them.
- 5) Performing - Although sometimes quite shy I do enjoy
- performing on stage. I have got through to the finals of the
- school spoken English twice and won it once. I would enjoy
- pushing products and ideas publicly.
- 6) Advertising - I have an instinctive desire to impress, would
- love influencing people. I would like to bring advertising to
- the games industry in a way that the product placement just
- adds atmosphere or the ads are so good they just enhance the
- product. I firmly believe total sponsorship to be the only
- sensible way of funding link up game with hundreds of players.
- It also turns Piracy into a good thing rather than it being
- bad.
- 8) Space the moon and quantum physics.
- 9) The paranormal - magnetic resinance, spoon bending & UFO's
- 10) Dreaming.
-
- Physical:
-
- 1) Skiing - I just love it (specially black runs).
- 2) Climbing - very good fun.
- 3) Badminton and Squash - good convenient fun.
- 4) Generally hanging from things - I'd love to do my own motion
- capture stunts. I can hang from my arms (only) continuously for
- five minuets. I can also hang from one arm and juggle with two
- balls in the other hand.
- 5) Building and being the first to test a 24 foot high death
- slide made from a length of rope and a plastic water pipe.
- Also 5 people on a rope swing over a stream was fun.
- 6) Cycling - we live in the bottom of a valley so where ever
- you go is up hill I can now cycle up Kit Hill (two miles of
- solid steep up hill) with out stopping.
- 7) Cycling down Kit Hill.
- 8) Snorkelling - sea cucumbers, squid, eels and crabs.
-
-
- I respect:
-
- Animation
- 1) Aardman Animation - Loves Me, Loves Me Not
- 2) Nick park - A Grand Day Out, Archy's Concrete Nightmare,
- Creature Comforts, The Wrong Trousers & A Close Shave.
- 3) The Sandman - A scary animation this to horror what a Grand
- Day out is to comedy.
- 4) Blindscape - This depicts a blind man stumbling through a
- forest, puts its point across very well.
- 5) Manipulation - Good Oscar winning stuff.
- 6) The Cat Came Back - Funny.
-
-
- MUSIC
-
- [Sleeper]: (Louise Wener), I should be going to see them live
- at Bristol Anson Rooms.
-
- Crowded House: Private Universe is prehaps the best song ever
- written.
-
- Pulp: Very good a performing.
-
- Britpop in general.
-
-
- Comedy
- 1) Jeremy Hardy - A public speaker just breaking into TV (a
- good friend of Jack Dee). His first book "When did you last see
- your father" is incredibly funny. So was the first Radio 1 &
- Radio 4 series Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation.
- 2) Black Adder - This did for sarcasm what Monty Python did for
- the surreal.
- 3) Monty Python - You probably know them.
- 4) Faulty Towers - Genius
- 4) Whose Line Is It Anyway - Ryan Styles is very funny.
- 5) Have I Got News For You - Getting a bit old now.
- 6) Alan Partridge, The Day Today and The Saturday Night
- Armistice - all these have the same people in and behind them
- these people should now make a film.
- 7) Fist Of Fun - The last few episodes of the first radio
- series was brilliant. Then came the new controller of Radio One
- and the next two radio series were not very good. The TV
- series was OK but tended to repeat radio material. They are
- also good friends with people behind 6).
- 8) The Young Ones - and Bottom.
- 9) Red Dwarf - nice.
-
- Film
-
- 1) The Dark Crystal - very strong story line and just so many
- nice touches. A very well conceived world, brilliant characters
- (none of the mutant humanoid rubbish which has become so common
- now).
- 2) Monty Python Films - You must have seen them.
- 3) Jason and The Argonauts & Clash of The Titans - very strong
- stories, told well.
- 4) Time Bandits - Brilliant observational humour superb
- escapist plot.
- 5) Dead Poets Society - Sad.
- 6) Box of Delights - very good BBC drama.
-
- TV Stations
- Channel 4 & BBC 2: Good stuff.
-
- Books
- Disk World Novels
- Roald Dahl