joe@dayton.UUCP (Joseph P. Larson) (09/16/88)
Pict1 is ready for the world. It's almost fully available from workbench as noted in the "Readme" file from the disk listed below. I feel this is a very strong first disk. The two animations are incredible. The disk, just like Fred Fish's disks, is freely copyable. However, one request: if you make a lot of copies for your friends, drop me a note and let me know. If there doesn't seem to be a lot of interest in this, I probably won't keep it up. You can order disks from me for $5, which covers everything. Please be careful to write very legibly when ordering disks. See the information at the end of the included file. Also -- I still am looking for material. Pict2 should be out shortly, as I have about 3 or 4 disks of pictures and such but have to bundle them together. But PLEASE send me any DMCS music, music program hacks, pictures or animations you have to include in future disks. Also note I have a few questions to the world in the readme. If you can answer any of these, please drop me a note. -Joe ------ Welcome to Pict1, Joe Larson's first disk of Freely Redistributable Pictures and Music. The contents of this disk are as follows: Animations: There are 2 very good animations on this disk, given to me by the people at Specialists In in Hopkins, Minnesota. I am told they were produced with Sculpt-3D and Animate-3D. The authors names are unknown. Please contact me if you know who created these! The first animation will bring back happy memories of Juggler. It's called "BoingMachine". The other animation is called "Birds". Both include some interesting sounds and great video. To see them, just pick their icon. Directions will follow. Hit a space to keep going. Hit the ESC key on your keyboard to exit. Music: I have included 4 Deluxe Music Construction Set songs on this disk. All of these were keyed in by myself. I am sure there are better DMCS keyers out there, so please understand if something doesn't seem quite perfect. You'll have to load DMCS in order to listen to these songs. If someone has a PD program to play DMCS-format songs, I'd really like a copy. "Allegro" by Henri Louis Charles Duvernoy. "Fur Elise" which I believe is a Beethoven piece. I could easily be mistaken, however. "The Murmuring of the Brook" by Eduard Poldini. This is a nice piece, but I seem to lose a few of the higher notes. DMCS tries to play them but nothing comes out. If anyone can fix this problem, please contact me. "Presbyterian Guitar". I was taught this song by an old friend of mine named Steve Tarr. He told me the song was written by John Hartford, but I have yet to find a Hartford album containing a song by this name. In any case, Steve is now working at Tektronix in Beaverton. If anyone knows him, say "Hi" from Joe, will you? This arrangement has a flute added in with it for interest. It really adds something. But I'm afraid the DMCS guitar sample I have doesn't do this song justice. Pictures: I'm afraid I ran out of space for any normal pictures -- those two animations are pretty big. But if people send me some, I'll include them in later disks. Ray Tracings: I only had room for 2 ray tracings on this disk. They were sent to me by Pat White, the co-moderator of comp.sources.amiga and comp.binaries.amiga on the USENET. The tracings were generated by Dave Wecker with the VAX version of his DBW_Render, a shareware ray tracing program. (I think it was originally distributed as copywritten freeware, but rumor has it that Dave Wecker has turned it over to a friend of his, who has made lotsa updates and turned it into shareware.) I wasn't able to load the DISPLAY program from the workbench, I'm afraid. These pictures are in HAM (Hold And Modify) mode, so Deluxe Paint and such probably won't do a very good job of displaying them. So do the following: 1. Start the CLI from your workbench. 2. type: "cd df1:RayTracings" 3. type: "df1:display brick.iff" or "df1:display checker.iff" Click in the upper lefthand corner of the screen (where the close gadget would be if you could see if) to exit the display program. If you can get them displayed from workbench somehow, please contact me. I'll be putting more RayTracings on my future disks and would like non-CLI users to easily display them. I've included the .DOC file for the brick display in the RayTracings directory. I don't have the one for checker. If there is enough demand (say: I get a few letters asking for it), I'll include Dave Wecker's DBW_Render binaries on a future disk. Programs: This disk has three programs on it: MORE -- the program you're probably using to display this file DISPLAY -- Dave Wecker's HAM mode display program MOVIE -- A movie animator. Future Disks: I was recently given four disks chock-full of animations. However, all I've got is the Deluxe Paint originals -- no animation files themselves. Does anyone have a program out there that can take a series of DP files and produce an animation file? As soon as I manage to get these guys animated, expect to see another bunch of animations. I'm also quickly trying to key in more DMCS music. This stuff doesn't take much space on the disk, so I have room for a LOT of songs. Hint hint. I still have 6 or 8 ray tracings from Dave Wecker and have heard rumors that I'll be receiving some others from local sources. Who knows -- maybe I'll even get some of my own attempts ready to show the world. In any case, please feel free to send me material. I'm collecting any audio/visual toys for the Amiga that I can get. Make sure you tell me how it was created, who created it, and that I can redistribute it. My address is: Joe Larson 6121 St. Croix Ave. N. Golden Valley, Minnesota 55422 (612) 591-1037 (Home) (612) 375-3537 (Work) Copies of this disk are available from me for $5 or send me a disk and SASE with enough postage to send a disk back to you. The $5 covers my cost for disks, postage and gasoline to get to computer store and post office to obtain same. If you send me material to redistribute, I'll return your disks overwritten with my most recent disk(s) unless you request otherwise. -- 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