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!Projector Version 1.08 (FOR NOTES ON LATEST VERSION SEE END)
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This projector is for playing Ace film format
films, produced with either:-
Euclid+Mogul (3D)
Paint+Splice (2D pixel based)
Draw+Tween (2D object based)
This is a Multidocument/Multiwindow version.
You can pop up a menu in the film window.
Most operations are obvious (try them!).
In Freeze mode you can single step the film
by using Select/Adjust on the window.
The New View option (under Misc) plays another
instance of the film, but uses the same copy in
memory, so is different from actually loading a
film twice.
Using an Obey file you can load a set of films, and
optionally set them to play immediately in a rolling
demo. The syntax is either:
[<Projector$Dir>] Film Film Film ... [-Cn] [-Fn] [-R[n]]
E.g:
Films.Humans Films.LitLogos Films.Chess -C2 -R
The -C and -F flags control the count for repeating
each film and the flyback count per frame respectively.
Or:
<Projector$Dir> -L {[-Cn -Fn] Film}...
E.g.
WimpSlot -min 800k
<Projector$Dir> -L -C1 -F8 Films.Chess -C2 -F2 Films.Flag
Note that the usual controls over each film are available.
Pressing S will skip to the next film irrespective of the
repeat count.
The -L flag forces the films to be loaded one at a time
rather than all in one go for the -R flag, and allows a
longer rolling demo from a Hard disk.
Please send examples of good films together with
permission (or not) for distribution to:
Ace Computing, 27 Victoria Road, CAMBRIDGE, CB4 3BW.
Details about Euclid, ArcLight, Mogul, Splice and
Tween can be also be obtained from the same address.
Tony Cheal Jan-Feb 1990
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1.07 (Jul? 1990) The projector now intelligently
plays films in new modes which match the film's
mode in bits-per-pixel and aspect ratio.
1.08 (Aug 1990) New key - Ctrl-B in full screen
mode puts the keyboard into a mode which will
always single step the film forward one frame.
Another Ctrl-B will get it out of this mode.
Now includes a new EuclidX to play Lempel-Ziv
compressed films. Note that if a Euclid module
is already running which does not have Lempel-Ziv
decompression (i.e. prior to 2.12) then Lempel-Ziv
films will still cause errors.