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- TrackBall by Dr. Gandalf
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- (Interlaced Overscan HAM)
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- Copyright 1988 By Eric J Fleischer, MD
- 2213 Solmar Drive
- Silver Spring, MD 20904
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- All Rights, Except Those Granted Herein, Reserved
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- 1. Terms Of Distribution
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- Permission for the non-commercial distribution of TrackBall by Dr. Gandalf
- is hereby granted. Non-commercial distribution is defined as distribution
- by user groups, individuals, bulletin boards, and not for profit, public
- service public domain disk distributors.
- Any manufacturer of hardware or software is specifically enjoined from the
- public distribution of any part of TrackBall by Dr. Gandalf, except
- if written arrangements are made with the author (not that I wouldn't be
- willing to make such arrangements).
-
- ***Specific permission is granted to AMIGO TIMES to distribute this
- animation if it is a winner in their animation contest.
-
- TrackBall by Dr. Gandalf is specifically NOT in the public domain.
-
- Now that we have finished with that silliness,
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- 2. How it was made:
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- The original images were generated in Interlaced Overscan HAM mode using
- Turbo Silver V3.0, a commercial ray-tracing program from Impulse Software.
- There are 147 images total, which is over 16.8 megabytes of information in
- the uncompressed form. The images were touched up with PrismPlus, also from
- Impulse. After compression and assembly with Byte-by-Byte's public domain
- sequencer, MOVIE, the finished animation file is 658956 bytes long, which
- represents a 96% compression. This animation will run in a 1 meg Amiga.
- The sounds were digitized with Perfect Sound fron SunRize.
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- 3. How to view it:
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- To play it from a CLI:
- - Put TrackBall, TBall.AUD, the nine .SND files, and a copy of
- MOVIE (version 1.2 or higher) in the same directory or
- on the same disk
- - CD to that disk or directory
- - Type
- 1> Movie TrackBall TBall.AUD
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- To play it from Workbench:
- - Put TrackBall, TrackBall.info, TBall.AUD, the nine .SND files, and
- a copy of MOVIE (version 1.2 or higher) on the same disk
- - Open the disk icon, and double-click the TrackBall icon.
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- I hope you enjoy TrackBall. If you do, you can pay me back by
- coming up with some interesting animation and graphics of your own and
- distibuting them.
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- Dr. Gandalf, AKA Eric J Fleischer, MD
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