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- HOW TO USE FILL EFFECT
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-
- Fill Effect loads an IFF picture and displays it with a "fill
- effect" so that it floods the screen. This has been seen many
- times in games such as Total Recall and Humans, but has never
- been accessible to the average user without machine code
- knowledge.
- This program loads an IFF file called "Picture.IFF" which it
- finds in the same directory as Effect itself.
- This picture is then displayed after pressing the mouse, and
- a further mouse press is needed to return to DOS.
- You can use any picture as long as it is IFF and 5 or less
- planes. You must call your picture "Picture.IFF" and it must
- be present in the same directory/disk as the file Effect is.
- If either of these is disobeyed, Effect will not find your
- picture and not display it.
-
- The Devpac II written source code is contained on this disk's
- root directory. You can use it any way you like and is freely
- distributable. Don't pester me on how it works though as it
- is quite well commented and should be OK to understand.
- A. Ives.
-
- PS. For some unknown reason, Effect gives an error code on DOS
- re-entry, which you can ignore. But it also doesn't seem to want
- to powerpack, although the unpacked version works. If you get it
- to powerpack, it should reduce from 150K down to about 9K. I think
- it's because my Powerpacker is a bit crashy on A1200s, but it might
- work OK on your A500/A2000/A3000 etc.
-
- Greetings go to:-
- Ensignia for writing Mayhem which is one of the best PD games,
- I`ve ever played. Wild Copper for their old RV demo (?) with the red
- vectors which made me want an Amiga in the first place. Rombo for
- building the best digitiser. Dave Jones & Jolyon Ralph for their
- 68000 magazine articles. Alpha Flight for writing Seven Tiles. Teijo
- Kinnunen for writing Med. Dionysus for writing Puggs In Space which
- is one of the best demos I've seen. Shame it doesn't work on an A1200.
-
- The Unknown authors - sorry I can`t remember all your names, but this
- is a list of their much appreciated work. Whoever wrote:-
- HamLab +, the demo version which converts pictures between resolutions,
- If you write an AGA version and distribute it in England, I
- would buy it. Distribute it the same way OctaMed is.
- Killing Game Show, the bloke who did the in-game music which I still
- think is the best module yet written on the Amiga. Honest.
- Atoms, The game on the AF coverdisk which is really original and
- more fun than most of their coverdisks.
- Interlock- the writers of this coverdisk game which looks boring but
- is really absorbing and addictive. About my fave Amos game.
- The Power- the authors of The power for inspiring me to write my next
- take-the-world-by-storm game. I know Atomix was first though.
- Textra- The small word-processor which I always use instead of Ed.
- MuchMore- The writer of Muchmore which scrolls the text up nicely.
- Very easy on the eyes.
-