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- Charon
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- Text by Lord Dunsany (1915); illustrated and animated
- by Bradley W. Schenck
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- "Charon" is my entry for the 1988 BADGE Killer Demo
- Contest. To run it from the Workbench, just double-click its
- icon. From the CLI, just type "Charon". Do NOT type "pro-
- jector Charon.film", as you normally would for a Director
- presentation.
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- This story is a good example of one of the great
- strengths of fantasy literature: it makes us look at an
- everyday idea from such an unusual vantage that we are
- forced to see it afresh; the idea here is one that many of
- us have grown up with and learned to ignore, but one that
- I think we need to remember.
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- The music file is a traditional Scottish tune called
- "The Arran Boat".
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- I wrote this demo on an Amiga 500 with one megabyte of
- RAM, then tested it on a 1000 and on a 2000, from floppy disks
- and a Seagate hard disk. After loading the demo will inquire
- whether it's running from a hard disk or from floppy. This is
- to adjust the timing of the piece to compensate for the faster
- loading time from hard disks.
- There are many variables in system speeds, and in the
- speed of hard disks. I've tried to ensure that "Charon" will
- run pretty much the same way on ANY system, but there will be
- some variation. This usually shows up in the synchronisation
- of the graphics and music, which are running as separate tasks.
- The fewer background tasks you're running, the better
- the synchronisation should be. I've found a big difference on
- my system while having GOMF in the background - for reference,
- I have a 2 floppy system with usually either my hard drive or
- VD0: mounted, and a couple of utilities like Conman and Popcli.
- The demo will run from RAM: but are you really going to
- copy this entire disk there? Well, then tell it (when it asks)
- that it's running from a hard drive and it will roughly act
- like itself. I don't really recommend that.
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- Hope you enjoy Charon. I'll be quiet now.
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- Bradley W. Schenck September 13, 1988
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- ONLY AMIGA MADE THIS POSSIBLE
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