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- This little graphics "Thingy" has been provided by "IMPULSE"
- (formerly Genesys Technologies). The author is in the process
- of completing "Sky Chase" a real time air combat game using
- his fast 3D drawing routines. Ralph Russell initially wrote the
- game for the now defunct "MindSet" computer. We think the game
- will be a REAL KILLER! We expect to begin shipping "Sky Chase"
- in early summer of 87. In the meantime, I will periodically
- upload various routines and demos related to the game.
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- To really appreciate this demo you should have 2 Joysticks connected
- to your Amiga. Joystick 1 controls the actual view window, and
- Joystick 2 controls the Logo. There is no gravity but the
- Joytick buttons do accelerate each function with proper inertia
- claculated properly, so you can "fly" around, over, and through
- the LOGO in realtime. These demos as well as the actualgame
- are written in Amiga Assembly. This particular demo was
- written using proprietary routines, which are actually 1 fps
- faster than the Amiga Blitter can do!
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- Stan Kalisher -- Impulse
- Minneapolis, Mn.
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- SKYCHASE by RALPH RUSSELL 01/87
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- This program will display the logo for a game I am developing in
- 3D space in front of the viewer. Two joysticks should be used to
- experience this program properly. One joystick controls the position
- of the logo and the other will control the position of the viewer.
- The joystick buttons are used to accelerate the logo and viewpoint.
- You can fly right through the logo if desired. All rotation, scaling,
- translation, and line drawing is done in real time. Maximum speed
- is attained by using certain advanced features of the AMIGA plus
- highly optimized code written in assembly language.
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- This program takes complete control of the AMIGA and the system must be
- booted to terminate the program. Therefore, it should not be run when
- a ram disk is active. Also, even though the program is small, it uses
- a lot of memory (191K plus 96K for a tripple buffered display). The
- program was written and tested on a 512K machine and I don't know if
- it will run on a machine with more memory.
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- This is a public domain program and is not to be sold for profit.
- You may make copies of this program to be given away for free. It is
- my wish that anyone receiving a copy of this program should also receive
- a copy of this file you are reading.
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