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- The Blob V1.0
- (C) by Guido Wegener 2.Feb.1990
- Eisenacher Str. 2
- 5300 Bonn 1
- West Germany
-
- This program is Freeware and may be copied as long as this .doc-file is
- included and no profit is made by distribution.
- You may use parts of this program if you mention the author.
-
- This program is just a joke (the normal boing, scat!, wavebench,
- drunkenmouse .... stuff), so if you like real usefull progs, then
- don't load it, it will make you sick.
-
- The Blob will open a small window with depth and close gadgets.
- Klicking the close gadget will close the window and stop Blob.
- While the window is open, slimy red drops will start running down your
- screen.
- You can run more than one Blob at any time by calling it again.
- Due to the small number of hardware-sprites on the Amiga, you will
- not be able to run more then seven Blobs (each Blob uses one sprite (255
- lines) + mousepointer = 8). You should not even run more than two Blobs,
- because it will slooww ddooowwnn your Amiga quite a bit (it will simulate
- Atari ST - speed).
- Sorry for the rectangle-shaped patterns, appearing when many drops unite,
- but a sprite is only 16 pixels wide and I am not able to change THAT.
- Maybe I will make the drops a bit smaller, enabling at least three of them
- to overlap (it depends on what other CLUSTER members think about it).
- This program should run with every other normal program and on any machine
- (except ST, it is tooo slow for doing it), if it does not, please write a
- letter to me (see bottom for the address).
- The Blob can be started in one (or more) of the following ways :
- - Typing 'Blob' in the CLI, will start Blob, but CLI will stop and wait
- until you exit Blob, then it will reawaken.
- - Typing 'run Blob' in CLI, will start Blob while keeping CLI running.
- - Klicking the Blob icon on the WorkBench will start Blob in the same
- way as using 'run Blob'.
-
- P.S.: Today (20.3.1990) I received Fish Disk 295 and started Mandel-
- Mountain. It is sooo boring ! To get some fun I started looking at my
- self-made disk and ran Blob from WB. What did my sharp eyes see ?
- The mouse-pointer was gone ! And when I moved the mouse, the pointer
- came back, but my cute Blob disapeared. Both used the same sprite !
- MandelMountain seems to kill the mouse-pointer in a very cruel way !
- So if you want to run it with Blob, please start Blob first.
- (Or don't run both of them like everybody else does, why should you want
- to run the nice Mandel-proggy with a crazy Blob ?? Stupid dummy !)
- P.P.S.: OK,Ok, the Atari ST is faster than the Amiga, but it isn't as
- nice !
-
- CLUSTER is a legal programming formation mainly working on Amiga, coding
- Freeware (and perhaps some commercial programs later).
- CLUSTER was founded on January 1989 with the following members:
- André Wichmann, Guido Wegener, Martin Rosenkranz, Martin Baumann, Philipp
- Witkop, Stefan Kaspari, Stefan Lietzow and Giang Nguyen.
- Then we reduced our members to the best and got a new programmer.
- Now, on 2.Feb.1990, we have the following members:
- André Wichmann Coding
- Guido Wegener Coding
- Martin Mohr Coding
- Martin Rosenkranz Graphics
- Philipp Witkop Digitizing
- If you want to contact any member of CLUSTER (legal !!!) then write to
- our address:
- André Wichmann
- Posener Weg 4
- 5300 Bonn 1
- West Germany
- André will give the letter to the addressed member.
-
- Send errors, corrections, supporting ideas, criticism, enthusiastic fan-
- letters and money to the author: Guido Wegener
- Eisenacher Str. 2
- 5300 Bonn 1
- West Germany
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