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- From: ewhac@ntg.com (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
- Subject: Re: Music and Code from Demos
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.215357.15277@ntg.com>
- Organization: Politically Incorrect Software, Ltd.
- References: <1992Nov4.064022.13680@ntg.com> <MKNIP.92Nov5110420@silver-surfer.hut.fi> <1992Nov6.004942.20842@colorado.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:53:57 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov6.004942.20842@colorado.edu> judd@wilkinson.cs.colorado.edu (Stephen Judd) writes:
- >You are talking to Leo Schwab! He is THE original Amiga hacker! He wrote
- >a whole bunch of hacks you might have seen (like !esuom).
- ^^^^^^
- Um, I don't think I wrote that one. The only mouse hack I can
- recall doing was Robotroff. Still works, too, though it could use some
- cleaning up...
-
- >He wrote one of the
- >earliest Amiga demos I saw, a very funny thing called Marketroid. I still
- >have it, and it still makes me laugh.
-
- For real laughs, take a look at the C source code. It's a *mess*.
- There are one or two clever tricks in there, like the Robotron-style
- explosions and implosions. I was rather proud of them at the time. There
- are also a couple of egregious mistakes in it too, like calling LoadRGB4()
- from inside a VBLANK interrupt. Ack!
-
- >Finally, he is the one who wrote
- >the Disney Animation Studio.
-
- Oh yes, that thing. I did that while working for Silent Software,
- Inc. Looking back, there are many things I would do differently today.
-
- I also can't take all the credit for it. I have to gratefully
- acknowledge the help of William Arthur Ware (author of the game
- "Firepower"), who wrote the exposure sheet command parser, and also wrote
- the routines that render the conics (circle, ellipse). I would have been
- nowhere if I needed to write those.
-
- Will and I also collaborated on the CDTV ROM project. You know the
- boot screen? The preferences screen? The CD-audio control screen? The
- screen blanker? Those are ours (artwork by Jim Sachs). Ask me nice and
- I'll tell you how to bring up the secret messages... :-)
-
- >He is one of my heros, along with Jim Butterfield.
- >
- Aw, shucks. :-)
-
- >judd@colorado.edu // FORTRAN is God's Language.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Are you feeling all right? :-) :-) :-)
-
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- \_ -_ Recumbent Bikes: ..or.. ewhac@well.sf.ca.us
- O----^o The Only Way To Fly. (pronounced "EH-wack")
- "In desperation, the government sent for Bullwinkle J. Moose."
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