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- ***CALVIN & HOBBES "REVENGE OF THE BLOB" README FILE***
-
- An animated interpretation by David Wiles of the original cartoon strip
- by Bill Watterson.
-
- Description:
- A short animated MovieSetter creation telling the story of Calvin's
- encounter with his mother's food, and how the dreaded tapioca monster
- gets its own back on Calvin for turning his nose up at it.
-
- Creation date: December 1994 to January 1995
-
- Version: 1.0 (the one and only!)
-
- Author: David Wiles with humble apologies to Bill Watterson, Eric Schwartz,
- Walt Disney and so on, for the inspiration they gave for this project.
-
- Copyright: This is public domain completely and utterly! The character
- is the original creation of Bill Watterson as is the basic concept, but
- the animation is 100% my doing!
- Distribute as you want, but the credit for doing all the hard work will
- always be mine.
-
- Running the animation:
-
- The freely distributable player program from Gold Disk Inc., MoviePlayer
- is included on this disk, and can be used to run the animation from the
- Workbench.
-
- How to do it:
-
- All the animation files fit onto two disks namely C&H01: and C&H02:.
-
- I have only a single disk drive on the Amiga 2000 that I used to create
- this animation. But I did have enough memory (5Mb) to create a recoverable
- RAM drive which I renamed as "C&H02". I copied my second master disk onto
- that and worked off of that, with the first master disk, "C&H01", in DF0:
-
- It worked without a hitch. I also tested it on another older Amiga which
- had only 3Mb. It was purely a playback test but no problems there also.
-
- If you have 2 disk drives (lucky sod!) and 3Mb then it should run alright.
-
- I have created an IconX-run script file "Make-Assignments" to allow you
- to run it of a hard drive. A little bit of tweaking should get it to run
- of of Fred Fish's Library disks.
-
- To get it running off of your hard drive, copy all the directories and
- their contents from your master disks to a drawer on your hard drive called
- "DEMOS" or whatever you want. Assign the logical devices C&H01: and C&H02:
- to you special directory on the hard drive. Double-clicking on the
- "C&H01.prod" icon will load and run the animation. The animation is set to
- run in a continuous loop - hitting the space bar on the keyboard will quit
- the animation, and the p key acts as a toggle to pause and unpause the
- animation.
-
- History:
-
- Well, now comes my life story - I doubt it this part will ever be read.
- I skip the README files usually, and only resort to reading them if the
- programs don't work immediately. I have a saying which applies here, and
- which I use quite often when giving my seminars on Amiga computers.
-
- "IF ALL ELSE FAILS...READ THE MANUAL!"
-
- I became the proud owner of a CD-TV last year (cost me an arm and a leg).
- I also bought the Fred Fish Collection on CD-ROM and have spent many
- happy hours wandering through the abundance of software. I was
- particularily immpressed by Eric Schwartz's animations and decided to
- attempt my own creation. I borrowed one of my work's Amigas, (that's what
- I do for a living - medical illustration - using the Amiga) and over the
- Christmas holidays created this little gem. The following programs were
- used:
-
- Some kind of well-known paint program now in version IV (Har! Har! I
- wonder what that can be?)
-
- Gold Disk's MovieSetter (good for any beginner to attempt such a project)
-
- HP-ScanJet Plus and Scannery 1.0 software (borrowed from my work to scan
- in my pencil roughs)
-
- AudioMaster II, with a borrowed sound digitiser (for capturing various
- sounds that I couldn't source elsewhere - Some of these included me
- having a bad attack of flatulence, wearing underwear that was too small-
- for a high-pitched squeaky voice and blowing bubbles in a bucket of water.)
-
- (Note: All the above mentioned software I have purchased and registered
- myself, which is a trend that can be a little unusual amongst a lot of
- Amiga users - I loathe software pirates.)
-
- Enough said, I think!
-
- If you want to contact me for the delivery of Oscars, Letterbombs, praise
- or just for a chinwag, I can be contacted at the following adress:
-
- David Wiles
- B.M.D.E.
- Medical Faculty
- University of Stellenbosch
- P.O. Box 19063
- TYGERBERG 7505
- South Africa
-
- (Yes, there are civilised people with Amigas in Southern Africa)
-
- Regards
-
- David Wiles and his 3 favourite ladies, Paula, Agnes and Denise.
- (I hear that there are three other damsels that are new in town)
-