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- UC3D - Version 1.0, March 1989, Written by Itzhak Lif, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
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- Documentation
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- WHAT? : UC3D is a graphic program that displays in 3 dimensional (3D) animation
- a text that YOU choose to display. For example if your name is 'david',
- you might type at the DOS prompt: "uc3d david<Enter>". What the program
- will do is to create 3D pictures of the text 'DAVID', store them in
- memory and then re-display them on the screen at a much faster speed.
- BTW - UC3D means "you see 3D".
-
- HOW? : For quick help type "uc3d<enter>" at the DOS prompt.
- The syntax is: "uc3d text_to_see" or
- "uc3d n,text_to see" or
- "uc3d n text_to_see" all followed by "<Enter>",
- n is a positive integer smaller than 9 and it determines the size of
- the letters of text_to_see on the screen. After n you must type a
- comma or a space and then the text. The text is any text composed from
- the english letters a to z and spaces (spaces are significant), however
- you can't have text_to_see to be made of just spaces. If you omit the
- number then UC3D will try to find the optimal one.
- Examples: "uc3d r", "uc3d israel", "uc3d israel ", "uc3d israel",
- "uc3d 2,israel", "uc3d 5,xyz", "uc3d 6,abc", "uc3d 1,small text".
- After the pictures are stored in memory, you can use the keys shown at
- the bottom of the screen to control the movement.
-
- WHERE?: For the program to run you need to have a CGA card on your system and
- big memory (more than 256K).
-
- WHY? : I developed my idea of 3D animation for a computer 2 years ago,
- on a different computer and i wanted to see how it works on the PC,
- this time adding new ideas. The program was written in the first
- stages in 2 languages: C and 8088 assembly, then the C part (routines
- for the mathematical calculations) was translated to assembly using
- the "-S" option of the C compiler and then that code was improved
- for speed. UC3D was assembled and linked using Microsoft (C) MASM,
- version 4.0 and LINK verion 3.05 - so the program doesn't contain any
- C run-time routines at all.
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- WHEN? : UC3D Version 1.0 is released to the public domain on March '89. Future
- versions (1.1 and maybe 2.0) will include HEBREW letters and other
- symbols (1.1) and/or a possibility that YOU will decide upon the
- movement of the objects (2.0). Bugs: the animation is not 100% o.k.,
- also the memory menagement can be improved, hopefully this and other
- bugs will be fixed in the next version(s).
-
- WHO? : Any comments on the program are welcomed, please send me an echo mail
- message on any Tel-Aviv BBS or call me at home: (03) 541-2854.
- Hope you'll enjoy it.
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