Chad_The-Walrus_Netzer@cup.portal.com (12/20/89)
[Whatever Garbage Goes In, Must Come Out] I discovered a neat 'feature' of ShowAnim 5.40-02 (the latest?). When running an animation, try hitting the '0' or '1' key on the keypad... Some really BIZARRE things happen, especially on anims with many bitplanes. A brief discription is that the screen fills with a strange pattern that changes wildly as the animation plays (depending mostly on the animation). This DOESN'T cause a crash or any other kind of 'damage' to the system, and I suspect it is a hidden debugging mode. Hitting '0' seems to graphically display the cumulative changes throughout the anim (ie. those area's that don't change during play remain filled w/ the pattern). The '1' key seems to do the same thing on a non-cumulative frame-by-frame basis... In any case it looks AWESOME! I don't have the docs for the latest version, but does anyone know if this is mentioned, and if so, what the information exactly means? Try it out if you can (Leo's recent TNGFly animation is a good candidate). BTW. My setup is an A1000, w/2.5 megs, 68010, interlaced-morerowed workbench... In case it only works for me. :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Internet: chad@ucscb.ucsc.edu Chad 'The_Walrus' Netzer->AmigaManiac++ Home (when school's out): chad@cup.portal.com OBsig: "Better to lie in wait, than die in wait."