joe@dayton.UUCP (Joseph P. Larson) (10/31/88)
Pict2, my second picture/music/demo/neat stuff disk is ready for distribution. This one doesn't have any big animations like Pict1 did, but there are just shitloads of nifty icons on it, a neat mouse pointer animator, as well as the pictures and music I originally set out to collect. This disk is *full*. The pointer animator and all the icons count for about 1/2 the disk. Music, pictures and ray-traces make up the other half. Pict1 is still available, too. Both disks can be obtained from me by: 1. Sending me $5 per disk 2. Sending me a disk with stuff on it and an SASE 3. Sending me a blank disk and an SASE, but surely you have SOMETHING you could put on the disk! My address: Joe Larson 6121 St. Croix Ave. N. Golden Valley, Minnesota 55422 Pict3 should be ready as soon as I take the time to build it up. (It takes me nearly a full day or so to pull everything together, make the readmes, make sure everything works okay from workbench, etc.) The rest of this posting is the "readme" at the root of my Pict2 disk. There are also a few other readmes distributed around the disk, but this tells you what's there.... ========== Pict2:ReadMe ============= I. Introduction Welcome to Pict2, Joe Larson's second disk of pictures, music and such. The contents of this disk are freely redistributable. They were all found on the USENET, given to me with the knowledge I would be distributing them, or produced by myself. Please read the contents of this "ReadMe" carefully. Be aware that the contents of Pictures, RayTracings and Music are not available from workbench. You will need to use a paint program, CLI and Deluxe Music, respectively, to utilize the contents of these directories. II. Contents The contents of this disk are broken down into various drawers as follows: Music: More Deluxe Music Construction Set music scores. Both these were entered by me. "Gavotte" - a piece by J. S. Bach. "Mississippi Blues" - This is a traditional blues guitar song. Actually, it's a DIFFICULT blues guitar piece I've never been able to play real well. If you like it, Stefan Grossman has a nice version on his "Live ... In Concert" album with John Renbourn available on Shanachie records. I've also been entering some Fresh Aire music. Does anyone know what the legal ramifations would be if I distributed these? Pictures: The 5 pictures contained in this drawer were sent to me by John Rydell, the editor of "Amy Today" disk magazine. They come off HIS second picture swap disk. I used Deluxe Paint to display the pictures, but I suspect a much better method exists. Can someone send me a display program of some sort I can use on future disks? I'd like to be able to click on an icon and have the picture displayed OR call the program from the workbench. RayTracings: More RayTracings produced by DBW_Render, Dave Wecker's ray tracing package. The tracings were given to me by Pat White. To view them, you'll have to enter the CLI and type: Pict2:display <picture.iff> Click in the upper left corner of the screen to exit. The DISPLAY program isn't accessable from WorkBench. If someone could send me either a HAM-mode display program accessable from workbench or a program to call non-workbench programs from workbench, I'd appreciate it. The 4 tracings contained here are called: dec.iff focus.iff island.iff marble.iff I have also included the .DAT input file to DWB_Render for island. (I don't have the other .DAT files.) Pointers: The contents of this drawer and the Icons drawer were sent to me in trade by John Vig. The entire disk was great! (Thanks, John!) The pointers directory contains a pointer animator program and several data files. The program itself, written by Tim Kemp, appears to be shareware (I guess I'll have to send the guy my 10 bucks). From workbench, just go try it out. If you want to use the Pointer Animator from the CLI, see the "ReadMeFirst" document in the Pointers directory. If you wish to make your own animated mouse pointers, read the "ReadMeSecond" file. Icons: John sent me enough icon examples to last me for a long time. I'm going to dole them out to you in bits and pieces, maybe only 20 or 30 icons at a time. (Well, they wouldn't last THAT long at that rate, but you get the idea.) It looks like the ones I have were produced by a variety of people including Dave Turnock, Greg Tsadilas, Tom White and Whit Haydn. Some of these icons are pretty neat. None of them (except the drawer-types and maybe an occassional "ReadMe") will do much for you -- I have the icons but not the programs and such they were designed for. But just play around, selecting them and such. For all it's worth, the Pict2 disk Icon I'm using came off of John's disk as a drawer icon. You wouldn't believe what I went through to turn it into a disk icon. Does someone know an easier way than writting my own C program? (Anyone want a copy of the program I used?) III. Next Disk Pict3 will contain more pointers (they won't be animated, though) from the disk John Vig sent me, as well as more of the icons from that disk. There will also be another 2 or 3 Ray Tracings from the collection Pat White provided as well some more of my DMCS music. Also, it looks like I'll be getting access to a digitizer Real Soon Now. So maybe I'll have a digitized picture or two ready for you. IV. Ordering Disks and Such People can order Pict1 and Pict2 disks from me at: Joe Larson 6121 St. Croix Ave. N. Golden Valley, Minnesota 55422 (612) 591-1037 For now, I'm asking that you either send me a check for $5 per disk or else send me a disk with some stuff on it and an SASE. You can send me blank disks (and an SASE) if you want, but I encourage you to dig up SOMETHING to put on it. You can also pre-order disks, if you're willing to wait a while and take a risk. I ride a motorcycle and take part in a few other activities of varying safeness, so who knows what can happen? Also, I'm currently using a soft, bubble-packed envelope for mailing disks but realize floppy mailers may be better. If anyone can give me a good, reasonably-priced source for mailers I'd appreciate it. (Saint Paul Book and Stationary is charging well over a dollar per mailer, so I don't want to use them unless people really think I should.) Please allow about 2 weeks for your disk to get back to you. If more than 3 goes by, send me a nasty letter. Also, I try to include a little note with each disk, but if you don't get a note, don't be offended -- it just means I'm on my way to work and want to mail your disk immediately so you don't have to wait any longer than necessary. -- UUCP: rutgers!dayton!joe (Feed my Dayton Hudson Department Store Company ATT : (612) 375-3537 picture Joe Larson/MIS 1060 (standard disclaimer...) collection) 700 on the Mall Mpls, Mn. 55402
jms@antares.UUCP (joe smith) (11/05/88)
In article <6254@dayton.UUCP> Joe Larson writes: > I used Deluxe Paint to display the pictures, but I suspect > a much better method exists. Can someone send me a display > program of some sort I can use on future disks? I'd like to > be able to click on an icon and have the picture displayed > OR call the program from the workbench. > The DISPLAY program isn't accessable from WorkBench. If > someone could send me either a HAM-mode display program > accessable from workbench or a program to call non-workbench > programs from workbench, I'd appreciate it. Use AmigaLibDisk112/Bully/Display. This program, on Fred Fish disk #112 is a version of ViewILBM that properly displays IFF pictures that have color cycling. Like ViewILBM, this program handles HAM pictures and can be invoked from the workbench by giving the picture file a "project" icon and setting its "default tool" to be "c:DISPLAY". Note: DISPLAY doesn't have to have an icon of its own; only the picture file needs an icon. This DISPLAY program was included as part of the BADGE "Killer Demo" contest winners; it is responsible for making the picture of Zippy the Pinhead flash via color cycling. By the way, there are several IFF pictures on Fish Disk #11 that look a lot better with cycling enabled. They are: CopperState, Ignition1, The_Fan, XmasPic, EnterSpinTab, and Warp1PressTab. The latter two are Star Trek pictures; the names are a clue to press the TAB key in Dpaint to toggle color cycling on and off. (The DISPLAY program mentioned above also responds to the TAB key.) As for executing CLI programs from the WorkBench, check out Xicon found on most Fish Disks after #100. But you don't need it for IFF pictures. > For all it's worth, the Pict2 disk Icon I'm using came off of > John's disk as a drawer icon. You wouldn't believe what I went > through to turn it into a disk icon. Does someone know an > easier way than writting my own C program? The program AmigaLibDisk137:SIT on Fred Fish disk #137 was written to Set Icon Types. This newer version can change any type of icon to any other type, including converting Tool and Project icons into Disk, Drawer, or Trashcan icons. The former types lack the additional information that the latter types have; WorkBench gets upset if the window information isn't there when a Disk, Drawer, or Trashcan icon is double-clicked. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | TYMNET:JMS@F29 CA:"POPJ P," UUCP:{ames|pyramid}oliveb!tymix!antares!jms | | INTERNET: (Office-1.ARPA is no more) PHONE:Joe Smith @ (408)922-6220 | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+