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- THE WORLD RULING ALPHA FLIGHT 1970
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- INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PROFESSIONAL DEMO CREATOR V 1.1
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- I. PREPARATIONS
- If you want to print this instructions type " COPY intructions to prt: ".
- First copy the demo-creator-disk on a blank disk. If you already have
- the smart-diskmon delete him to save memory. But don't delete the
- fonteditor! You will need it later.
- You should know what you want to do. Paint your picture, select a music
- and a font and write a scrolltext. Then go on as follows.
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- II. THE PICTURE
- You may use any IFF-LoRes picture with 5 bitplanes. It need not be
- unpacked, so you may use DPaint pics directly. Save the graphic
- under the name " afl/pic " !
- The picture may have any size. 220 pixels can by shown but you may
- use PAL pics or normal pics which are 200 pixels high or smaller one.
- You may also toggle the high of the picture, but more about that later.
- The professional demo creator allows to make splitscreens! Therefore he
- uses the first and the second color. The first color is used for color-
- effects moving up, the second for other effects moving up.
- For changing this colors, there is a special file on the disk. He will
- be explained later. You may also change the speed.
- Two more colors are used for flashes. You can program 64 colors which
- will continuesly change the selected pic-color.
- There is also a build in cycle routine. If you activate the cycling with
- DPaint 2 by pressing the TAB key and then saving the pic, the creator
- will do the same and you will get super effects. You may also combine the
- flashing routine with the cycle routine to cycle with 64 colours as I did
- it in the intro you saw before. But therefore the cycle speed must match
- exactly to the flashing speed. To show you the right one I set in my
- demo-pic the exact speed for the flashing speeds 3, 4, 6 and 8!
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- III. THE TEXT
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- The text is very simple to change. Take any texteditor you want ( there
- is a good one on the disk ) and write your message. Remember that the
- current font and many other fonts have no capital letters! Then save the
- text under the name " afl/txt " .
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- IV. THE MUSIC
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- You can use every IFF-music-file. The length will be set automatically.
- You also may use musics which start not at the beginning of the file
- ( for example detonator-music ). The preset music-speed is 280. How to
- change the speed, the volume and the offset will be explaned later. Save
- the music under the name " afl/snd " .
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- V. THE FONT
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- To change the font is difficult. The name of the used font is " fnt ".
- It's the omega font. First you must delete it by simply writing
- " e del ". If there are no errors, the font will be deleted. Don't try
- to run the intro now!
- On the disk there is a simple fonteditor. To select a good font use
- the SETFONT command. To use a font on another disk you must use the
- ASSIGN command ( " ASSIGN fonts: df1:fonts " tells the computer to load
- the fonts from df1: . You have no second drive?? Then you better hang
- yourself! ). But the best way is to copy the font onto the
- demo-creator-disk. The command sequence for two drives is:
- COPY df1:fonts/fontname TO df0:fonts/fontname
- COPY df1:fonts/fontname.fonts TO df0:fonts
- With one drive:
- COPY diskname:fonts/fontname TO workbench:fonts/fontname
- COPY diskname:fonts/fontname.font TO workbench:fonts
- Replace the name of the source disk and the fontname in the sequence.
- Now you should have the font you want on the demo-creator-disk. If you
- don't get it , don't cry, the current font is a nice font too, isn't it??
- And if you made a backup you lost nothing exept a few hours!
- Now load the fonteditor. Select the font you want, and save it under the
- name " fnt ". Don't try to rename the font, it won't work!! A little test
- will show you that you now have another font. It's important that you
- deleted the old font or you will see this one again!!
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- VI. THE PREFERENCES
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- Starting the intro loads a special file called " afl/par ", which
- contains every thing you want to change in the intro: colors, speeds and
- so on. To edit it, load the smart-disk-monitor from this disk.
- Select the directory-editor and get the two blocks of the file with the
- follow function. Write the blocks down and go to sector-editor. Load the
- first block and set the display on hex-display and wordlong numbers. Now
- you see all parameters at the same time. Select hex-edit-on and change the
- parameters which are explained below. Remember that all numbers are
- hex-numbers!
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- 000: xxxx xxxx ....
- 010: xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx 001F 0017
- -a-- -b--
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- a / b - Numbers of the flashing colors ( must be from 0 to 31 ! )
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- 020: 0000 0010 0000 0003 0000 001a 0000 0000
- -c-- -d-- -e-- -f-------
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- c - Height of the scrolltext
- d - Speed of the scrollmessage
- e - Distace of the chars
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- f - Music offset, if music starts not at the beginning of the file
- g - Music speed
- h - Volume ( Max )
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- 030: 0168 0040 0004 0004 0003 0000 0008 0022
- -g-- -h-- -i-- -j-- -k-- -l-- -m-- -n--
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- i - m - Speeds of: scrolltextcolors, colors of the Splitscreens moving down
- and up, flashing colors one and two.
- n - Hight of the screen
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- Now the colors. The first '0' of each number is unimportant. Then follows
- the red, green and the blue colour.
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- 040: 0ff0 0fe0 0fd0 ....
- 0f0: .... 0ef0 0ff0
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- Colors of the scrolltext
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- 100: 0f3f 0f2f 0d4d ....
- 130: .... 0d4d 0f2f
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- Colors of the splitscreens moving down
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- 140: 022f 011f 000f ....
- 170: .... 044f 033f
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- Colors moving up
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- 180: 0000 0100 0200
- 1f0: .... 0100 0000
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- First flashes
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- Now the second sector!!!!!!
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- 000: xxxx xxxx ....
- 010: xxxx xxxx ....
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- 020: 0fff 0fee 0fcc ....
- 090: .... 0ddc 0eed
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- Second flashes
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- VII. THE FINISH
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- If you did everything correct, your intro should work. Make some tests with
- several intros. Knowing the functions well, you will be able to make demos
- you cannot identify as a demo-creator-intro any more.
- Now delete the utilities you don't need any more and change the startup-
- equence!!
- You also may use those intros on one disk with demos from other intro-makers.
- If you want to have several profi-creator-intros on one disk, put the
- directory " afl " into another directory and make it with the CD command
- to the actual directory. Then simply run the demo creator main program again.
- But with this method you have to take the same font for each demo.
- AND NOTICE, WHEN YOU HAVE A VIRUS IN YOUR COMPUTER THE PROGRAM WILL NOT
- WORK!!!!
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- Have a lot of fun with the professional-demo-creator!
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- Doctor Mabuse ( Alpha Flight )
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