Short: Cool non-aga boot anim&snd Author: unreal@fly.cc.fer.hr (Goran 'UnreaL' Krajnovic) Uploader: unreal fly cc fer hr (Goran 'UnreaL' Krajnovic) Type: pix/wb Architecture: generic Date: 24th March 1996. Hello. This is an animation I made to be played back every time I boot my Amiga. Tech info about the animation: Frames: 151 Size: 561,182 bytes Resolution: 640x256, 16 colours (med-res, non-aga) Playing time: ~6 secs, at 25 fps Software used: Real 3D 1.4, ADPro (for the motion blur), DPaint 4 (to make sure it's not aga) In the animation, the text 'Welcome to Amiga' smoothly glides into the center of the screen, and then fades out, leaving only the red dot on the letter I and then the dot disappears. I won't bore you with the details on how I did it, but if anyone wishes, I'll email him the R3D animation file. The motion blur is actually just a mix with the previous few frames, but it looks kinda cool. OK. To install, I guess you'll need a hard drive, since 500k gets slow to load off a floppy. Anyway, just put the anim and the sample into your favourite drawer (I have them in S:) and add something like this to your startup-sequence (as close to the beginning, right after IPrefs). runback >NIL: dh1:graphics/vt s:bootanim loop 1 fps 25 runback >NIL: c:play16 s:bootsample.2 filter off wait 4 The 'wait' is here to pause just enough for VT to load and start playing the anim, and then the booting continues. Executive's Timer reports that VT needs ~9 seconds to load and play the whole anim, so time your boot sequence to finish just after that. You can use other anim and sound players, I won't mind. :) The sample was shamelessly ripped from the module 'Little fen-fire' by Scorpik. Unfortunately, he didn't leave an email address, so I couldn't reach him, but I hope he won't mind. Here's what he has to say in the mod info: "maly bledny ognik" by scorpik/absolute! and surprise! date:11.07.95 this little dedicated to> --camel/s!p-- btw>all guitars by my good friend: ----picador----- all seqences by me! jako posiadacz cztero-kanalowego komputera, jestem zmuszony do wykonywan seqwencji samplowanyh wszystkich wrogow tego sposobu przepraszam!!!! The sample is ~16 kHz and lasts about 8 secs, just enough for the anim. Well, that is about it. Please, don't modify the animation, just spread it and use it. If you really, really like it, send a postcard to: Jelena Peterlic, Bartolici 19, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia and write 'Courtesy of Goran Krajnovic' (she's a neighbour of mine who collects postcards). DISCLAIMER: No warranty of any kind is expressed or implied. Use at your own risk. FOR GOD'S SAKE, IT'S AN ANIMATION, NOT WINDOWS 95! And now, some suggestions about some high quality Amiga shareware: Executive by Petri Nordlund petrin@megabaud.fi Your Amiga will multitask even better, plus you get such neat stuff as load averages, top, task accounting, nice etc. EXCELLENT STUFF! PowerSnap by Nico Francois nico@augfl.be Allows you to copy and paste from ANYWHERE (WB titlebars, MultiView, PPMore, ...) and to ANYWHERE (Execute command..., shells, utilities...), with history, multi-line snap and lots of other features. Both are available on Aminet, and both are worth registering (PowerSnap is freeware). AUTHOR: Goran 'UnreaL' Krajnovic unreal@fly.cc.fer.hr UnreaL @IRC (#croatia, #amiga) http://fly.cc.fer.hr/~unreal Phone: ELiTE ONlY! :) SnailMail: Goran Krajnovic, Bartolici 19, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia Age: 19 Occupation: Student, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Croatia FER: http://www.zvne.fer.hr/ferinfo.html Croatia: http://tjev.tel.fer.hr/