C503719@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Baird McIntosh) (12/22/89)
For those of you lacking PAL video, it is probably impossible to read the
message that the Wild Copper People put into their demo. On my 2000, half of
the text appears on the top of the screen and a little bit appears at the
bottom (it all is supposed to be at the bottom). However, by using the type
command, like so:
type rvb hex
where 'rvb' is the name that the program has from the wildcopper.zoo file at
xanth, I was able to see what the text message says. I will let those of you
who have the file experiment for yourself, but to summarize the text (it is
very long), it basically announces that this is the most incredible demo, it
says who is responsible, it dedicates the demo 'TO' a lot of things (this part
is rather weird and kinda funny), there is a message for Wild Copper's enemies
(spelled ENNEMIES, but these guys *are* French, so SO what), then finally there
are instructions on how to control the wire-frame graphics. Also, throughout
the text, there are places where there is a word missing and just a few
characters like '..' or others; this is a place where a small graphic is used
in the scroll text instead of a word. Ok, here is what they say are the
controls:
F10 -- does nothing but the author of the demo-text likes it
cursor up -- cycles to next 3-D wire frame image (there are several)
cursor down -- cycles backward to previous image
keypad 0 -- stops an image from rotating
'' 1,2 -- rotation about one axis
'' 4,5 -- rotation about another axis
'' 7,8 -- rotation about a third axis
'' 3,6,9 -- movement in the 4th dimension (no effect detected by me)
'' ENTER -- used to move into HYPERSPACE ('' '' '' '' '')
some other key is used for a 'secret scroll message'
Anyway, the guys are from France...there is a French address or two in the
text; also, one of the 3-D objects is a wireframe of France. The actual demo
has cool music (featuring the Amiga's voice!), scrolling star field, and the
rotating w/shadows wireframes. It exits on a left mouse button click.
Oh, one other thing...this demo was not 'packed' on the disk, and that's the
reason I was able to read the text. Also, the only other readable English in
the file is the word 'Audiomaster' and the names of the instruments in the
song. Hope this is informative and helpful to non-PAL pipples. :-)
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